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Huge Star Quake Rocks Milky Way
SJrX writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists have detected "the biggest explosion observed by humans within [the past 400 years]". The explosion luckily occured about 50,000 light years away form us, on the far side of the Milky Way, as the article goes on to say that had the explosion been within 10 light years of us, it "would possibly have triggered a mass extinction.""
I blame Oprah.
i farted :) sorry about that
as the article goes on to say that had the explosion been within 10 light years of us, it "would possibly have triggered a mass extinction."
Instead we've had the "republican" effect.
I don't recall either the creationists or evolutionists mentioning cheese. I'm sure they both will soon enough. One camp will use something called science and the other faith and schoolbook stickers.
So 1 is qualification that this is an unconfirmed opinion ("we figure...probably"), 2 denotes that it is the superlative explosion of it's kind in terms of magnitude, and 3-5 classifies its kind as explosions "observed by humans...within our galaxy...since...1604." The most logical parse is that we are talking about explosions within the galaxy which were observed by humans since 1604, and not explosions since 1604 which were observed by humans within the galaxy, YOU STUPID FUCK.
EAT A BAG OF HELL.
You're all morans.
No, I live in New Jersey. The Morans live in Kansas, Missouri, Texas, and Wyoming.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moran
Then we should stop giving it a title like "equation." That word means something in a hard science.
...Then something appeared...
Appeared from where and how? We know that in our experience, something man-made, such as a car does not just appear, but is the product of intelligent design and purposeful construction, all arising out of a thing we call mind. Does information just arise out of nowhere? Nobody will postulate that even a pencil just appeared, yet why is it BELIEVED that even a singe cell 'appeared' out of seemingly nowhere? Microbiology has shown that a "simple" cell is more complicated by far than anything ever designed by humans. The astounding design and information content of even the simplest living things is at attributed to all sorts of mechanisms and causes, except one: That a superior MIND is the originator of us and all life. Indeed, as you say, life could be common in the universe, but why can it not be attributed to a mind that has made it happen in many places.
Why is it so hard to admit that the order and information content of the "natural" world is the product of a mind just as the products of our modern technological world are conceived in the minds of their creators? All of science would still be just as fascinating and useful if that BELIEF were accepted as the cause for the origin of the order, design and laws that scientists seek to explore.
All theory is gray