Finding out that redshift can be an inherent part of a galaxy and not only existing from extremely fast movement, or that redshift occurs naturally as light travels extremely great distances in space. The big bang is based on redshift, without it the theory has no base at all.
I suspect it will be closer to eternal and ever changing.
The idea of the big bang always wreaked of religion to me anyway. It just seems like a way to reconcile our inability to conceive the universe as being eternal. We look at all things as having a beginning and an end. To accept that the universe has neither can be mind shattering. It is so much easier to interpret the data in a way which shows a beginning and insinuates an end.
Keep in mind that for thousands of years it was settled science that the world was flat and the sun revolved around it. Just because something is considered settled science does not mean that it has any bearing on reality.
Religious thinking has always, and will always plague science. When people have invested a great portion of their lives researching something using a single model for the base of the research the idea of throwing out that model is terrifying. Making small changes to that model isn't so hard as long as the accumulating changes do not alter the base of the model. Religious thinking creeps in, and before you know it the model cannot be wrong. Any inconsistencies observed are haphazardly explained away as not yet fully understanding the model. At that point the scientific theory becomes a religion, and is just as hard to get rid of.
A match will go out quickly at 13% O2. A human can survive in this environment, albeit with a headache and very lethargic. I know, I spent two months on a submarine with the O2 hovering between 13%-15%. By the way, no matter how much sleep you get under these conditions you still feel like you haven't slept for days.
This does not surprise me at all since I have been passively watching our schools plummet since the mid 90's(when I started high school).
That does not however, mean that it is not still terrifying. This lack of education is intentional, especially where our rights and how government is supposed to work are concerned.
I would assume that they are talking about printing them with fiber reinforced plastic, not the plastic you would use in a RepRap. Fiber reinforced plastic can be extremely strong. If they have figured out a way to insert the fibers as the plastic is printed that would open up a lot of possibilities for creating crumple zones in the plastic.
Simple, it should be facing both ways. If the police cannot prove they are not holding a gun to the head of the defendant it should be assumed that they were holding one.
There is one overarching constant in this world and that is authority should never be trusted.
Are you kidding? Have you never heard of someone going to jail for rape decades after it happened? There is never any evidence other than the testimony of the accuser, and there is usually a guilty verdict. Evidence has very little to do with our justice system.
Let's not forget that shortening the yellow lights was itself a crime. A crime for which nobody was prosecuted, but caused hundreds of thousands of people to be prosecuted and fined for crimes they did not commit.
True, and there are literally too many laws for one person to know. You could do nothing but read law books your entire life and you would never finish all the laws currently on the books. By the time you died there would likely be twice as many as when you started as well, but for some reason ignorance of the law is no excuse, unless you are a police officer of course!
They also use extremely trumped up charges to coerce people into a plea bargain by telling them they will spend the rest of their life in prison for charges which do not even relate to the crime they are accused of. The police are also happy to help them out by almost always including charges of resisting arrest and assault on an officer, which will be magically dropped if they take the plea bargain.
I fully agree. The jury should be completely aware of the psychological torture which the defendant was subjected to. Neither the police or the prosecution cares anything at all about justice. All they care about is a conviction, even if they know for certain that the defendant is innocent.
At least you didn't have to wipe the boot sector like you had to do with some of the older versions of Norton. When I was young, and very dumb, I got Norton utilities and installed all of it. It may have been the worst thing I have ever done on a computer! One of the programs was called GoBack which installed itself to the boot sector. It took me years before I could completely remove it.
"All you did was argue that all religion and superstitious is a problem, which I suspect was not your intention."
I don't know if it was their intention, but it damn sure is mine. All religions need to go they way of Zeus and be remembered as nothing more than a fanciful myth.
Bureaucracy is one of the military's most powerful tools it uses against its own people.
Creativity however, is one of the things our military hates the most. Everything has a set procedure, and deviating from that procedure in the slightest will bring the brunt of the higher ups directly upon you. You are also not allowed to suggest changes to that procedure, no matter how stupid it is.
There is no creativity, only memorizing countless procedures you will follow like a robot.
I was in the U.S. Navy, I'm assuming you mean that there was an additional part of your humanity the military tried to crush in your branch, or it was a complete success in your case.
The navy used to sandblast the platters, I don't know what they do with them now. The DOE has them sent through what acts like a wood chipper, or if it is to be used again, a five pass write over with zeros and random bits.
You're on the right track, but the military is about crushing hope, individuality, creativity, independent thought, and most importantly all sense of morality.
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Finding out that redshift can be an inherent part of a galaxy and not only existing from extremely fast movement, or that redshift occurs naturally as light travels extremely great distances in space. The big bang is based on redshift, without it the theory has no base at all.
I suspect it will be closer to eternal and ever changing.
The idea of the big bang always wreaked of religion to me anyway. It just seems like a way to reconcile our inability to conceive the universe as being eternal. We look at all things as having a beginning and an end. To accept that the universe has neither can be mind shattering. It is so much easier to interpret the data in a way which shows a beginning and insinuates an end.
Keep in mind that for thousands of years it was settled science that the world was flat and the sun revolved around it. Just because something is considered settled science does not mean that it has any bearing on reality.
Religious thinking has always, and will always plague science. When people have invested a great portion of their lives researching something using a single model for the base of the research the idea of throwing out that model is terrifying. Making small changes to that model isn't so hard as long as the accumulating changes do not alter the base of the model. Religious thinking creeps in, and before you know it the model cannot be wrong. Any inconsistencies observed are haphazardly explained away as not yet fully understanding the model. At that point the scientific theory becomes a religion, and is just as hard to get rid of.
A match will go out quickly at 13% O2. A human can survive in this environment, albeit with a headache and very lethargic. I know, I spent two months on a submarine with the O2 hovering between 13%-15%. By the way, no matter how much sleep you get under these conditions you still feel like you haven't slept for days.
The newest version will automatically take a picture of your fecal matter as you press the flush button on your iPhone!
Why not both?
This does not surprise me at all since I have been passively watching our schools plummet since the mid 90's(when I started high school).
That does not however, mean that it is not still terrifying. This lack of education is intentional, especially where our rights and how government is supposed to work are concerned.
I would assume that they are talking about printing them with fiber reinforced plastic, not the plastic you would use in a RepRap. Fiber reinforced plastic can be extremely strong. If they have figured out a way to insert the fibers as the plastic is printed that would open up a lot of possibilities for creating crumple zones in the plastic.
Simple, it should be facing both ways. If the police cannot prove they are not holding a gun to the head of the defendant it should be assumed that they were holding one.
There is one overarching constant in this world and that is authority should never be trusted.
Are you kidding? Have you never heard of someone going to jail for rape decades after it happened? There is never any evidence other than the testimony of the accuser, and there is usually a guilty verdict. Evidence has very little to do with our justice system.
I'd like to know if he used the old adage "ignorance is no excuse of the law" against them on this.
Let's not forget that shortening the yellow lights was itself a crime. A crime for which nobody was prosecuted, but caused hundreds of thousands of people to be prosecuted and fined for crimes they did not commit.
True, and there are literally too many laws for one person to know. You could do nothing but read law books your entire life and you would never finish all the laws currently on the books. By the time you died there would likely be twice as many as when you started as well, but for some reason ignorance of the law is no excuse, unless you are a police officer of course!
They also use extremely trumped up charges to coerce people into a plea bargain by telling them they will spend the rest of their life in prison for charges which do not even relate to the crime they are accused of. The police are also happy to help them out by almost always including charges of resisting arrest and assault on an officer, which will be magically dropped if they take the plea bargain.
I fully agree. The jury should be completely aware of the psychological torture which the defendant was subjected to. Neither the police or the prosecution cares anything at all about justice. All they care about is a conviction, even if they know for certain that the defendant is innocent.
I cannot agree more.
At least you didn't have to wipe the boot sector like you had to do with some of the older versions of Norton. When I was young, and very dumb, I got Norton utilities and installed all of it. It may have been the worst thing I have ever done on a computer! One of the programs was called GoBack which installed itself to the boot sector. It took me years before I could completely remove it.
But if you are using the supplied compiler then it could still be compromised. The compiler could be programmed to inject the malicious code.
"All you did was argue that all religion and superstitious is a problem, which I suspect was not your intention."
I don't know if it was their intention, but it damn sure is mine. All religions need to go they way of Zeus and be remembered as nothing more than a fanciful myth.
Bureaucracy is one of the military's most powerful tools it uses against its own people.
Creativity however, is one of the things our military hates the most. Everything has a set procedure, and deviating from that procedure in the slightest will bring the brunt of the higher ups directly upon you. You are also not allowed to suggest changes to that procedure, no matter how stupid it is.
There is no creativity, only memorizing countless procedures you will follow like a robot.
I was in the U.S. Navy, I'm assuming you mean that there was an additional part of your humanity the military tried to crush in your branch, or it was a complete success in your case.
The navy used to sandblast the platters, I don't know what they do with them now. The DOE has them sent through what acts like a wood chipper, or if it is to be used again, a five pass write over with zeros and random bits.
There is a reason that Dick Cheney had the wireless capability disabled on his souped up pacemaker.
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You're on the right track, but the military is about crushing hope, individuality, creativity, independent thought, and most importantly all sense of morality.
Can you not read, or are you incapable of following the logic?