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Powerful Blast Confuses Astronomers
eldavojohn writes "Astronomers are still speculating as to what could have caused an abnormally strong five millisecond burst to be detected six years ago when it completely saturated their recording equipment. From the article: 'The burst was so bright that at the time it was first recorded it was dismissed as man-made radio interference. It put out a huge amount of power (10exp33 Joules), equivalent to a large (2000MW) power station running for two billion billion years.'"
when Balmer and Gates came up with the idea for Longhorn.
The explanation is simple -- it was our evil alien overlords sending the order to launch the 9/11 attacks. The evidence of the true extraterrestrial origins of the attacks, including the "767s" that hit the towers, are hidden away in area 51.
No, Bush had nothing to do with the attacks -- OPEC and Bush are working together to suppress the alien cold fusion technology which would of course devastate both their respective interests. As for Bush's sudden interest in space exploration, that's the true War on Terror; the Iraq invasion is just to trick the aliens into thinking we think Saddam ordered the attacks. In fact, Saddam was hanged for wanting to get back at Saudi Arabia by releasing the aliens' cold fusion technology.
Also, most "9/11 conspiracy sites" on the internet are put there by the government to suppress all discussion of the extraterrestrials and train the american consumer to think of anyone who doesn't accept the official version of the attacks as bush hating liberal whacko sheeple.
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http://www.bigear.org/6equj5.htm The weakness of the Mod system.....
and yet another proof that you can't determine relativity by mob rule.... (yep, that last was a joke....)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
When you ask a Jew or a Christian or a Wiccan what an Atheist is, they won't say "someone who doesn't believe." They will say "someone who believes God doesn't exist." It's a fundamental difference.
Science can neither prove nor disprove the Christian God, nor any tenable modern deity. This means that the default answer is "I don't know", not "that's a fairy tale!" And most believers have come to terms with this, as have a good deal of non-believers.
It's only those few anti-believers that most everyone hates -- "theists" because they're so obnoxious about it, and "not-knowers" because they make them look bad.
(If you believe that God doesn't exist -- not that it's beyond knowledge, or that you simply don't believe -- then you're a capital-A Atheist, and you have a religion.)