The old axiom is, "there's a missing link" so Christianity is dead, But this is just another in a long line of 'definitive proofs' that wind up proving nothing of the kind. But there are so many other reasons this doesn't matter.
A key one is, "Why must the Bible mention dinosaurs?". The oldest book in my home is a '73 VW Chilton's manual, but why should I expect *IT* to detail every step of evolution, DNA, and the singularity? The same applies to the Bible; it has it's own context. And what would the Bible say about dinosaurs, anyway? Try not to get eaten by them? Don't step in the poop? They'd been gone for millions of years by the time man was here.
Some misguided-but-well-meaning people, the young-earthers just can't put this in their heads, but I have no problem with an ape, evolving into man-like proportions, and then using the design of one of those, creating an "Adam" of the mix. The result is homonovus; a new creature. (The genes are notably different, and 2&3 are bonded, right? Apes don't have that.)
When did science, a study predicated on the simple question of "why?" become almost *only* an effort to obscure the truth about God?
Meta-evolution's idea is that cells bumped into each other until we got invertebrates, then vertebrates, then stock brokers. But the fossil record conflicts. The oldest fossil is the trilobite: a vertebrate. The "tree of life" for which Darwin was well-known is more like a "lawn of life" according to the fossil record, showing most species happening, then showing only small changes from the same general time. (generally speaking, here)
As science romps into space, it assumes "billions and billions" of inhabitable planets with people to talk to, wars to fight and tons of exploration. Plenty of spandex for everyone. But those are just TV shows. 90% of the stars have *NOTHING* but gas and particles around them, no planets. The remaining 10%'s nothing like Earth; 15g gravity, temperatures in scientific notation, storms of acid, etc.
Sure, I prefer the idea of a future "Star Trek" world with things for mankind to do, there just aren't any. It's just a nice dream. We have to consider the very real possibility that we might be all the (walking, talking, pondering) life forms in the universe. Or if there is anyone else we'll never know/see-them.
Look how Jupiter and Saturn with all their gravity- attract the larger meteors their way, defending us from them. Look at oxygen at a level where we can breathe, but fires don't start at the snap of your fingers. Gravity is an even more precise, highly-precise value. Look at the place of Earth, cleared away so we might SEE the rest of the universe. Isn't there anything you consider to be ordered in all this? The chances of all these things being random is, well, stick to Vegas.
Can anyone really say that "the debate is over" by finding yet another fossil? The Bible's been so right for so many centuries about the singularity, about the Earth "Suspended from nothing", the continental split, and the aspect ratio for sea-going vessels. These aren't metaphors or literary constructs; the meaning of these lines in the book are clear, and all translations come from the originals documents. People literally spend their lives cross-checking everything, trying to learn more. They're scientists, too. They wouldn't be doing it for a lie.
Nope: the jury's still out. You have still have to decide which to believe. And that's been the case for 2,000 years.
Did you know that for something like 700 years the speed of light was 34 mph? That's the speed at which a junebug, tied with a string to one's hand, would start to blur. "Must be the speed of light!"
The point is, man is putting all the clues together from ideas and testing. Sometimes BOTH are wrong, but the attitude needs to be one of skeptical application of the known information, not blocking out entire works because of genre.
Case in point: one ancient book specifies the Earth as "suspended from nothing". Same book talks about being one land mass, then splitting (plate tectonics). Same book talks about the singularity that started this reality. Oh, and there's much, much more that it got right, but NO SCIENTIST would consider reading the Bible, would they?
It's not just bull; science and religion agree. And when they don't, it's bad theology or bad science. And there's a lot of both.
Key Point: why "must" dinosaurs be mentioned in the Bible? No one alive would see one, learn from one, get sat upon by one....why must there be a mention in the Bible?
This is the same bunch that complained how (paraphrasing) "George Bush is such an asshole; he's having them DRIVE yellowcake uranium through the streets of Baghdad without concern for the safety of the inhabitants".
Where do I start?
- They'd been in contact with the uranium for some time. - Maybe they'd teleport, Scotty? - Isn't this the "Weapon of Mass Destruction" they were hoping not to find?
Of course it was; there was 8 TONS of the stuff, and nearly a ton was close to weapons-grade. But the article was quickly whisked off to the archive so you'd have to PAY to get a copy just days after printing.
The only reason you're learning about it, is that I read the original and posted it here.
THE POINT:
Newspapers, and for that matter news agencies, have a template to fulfill. It's no longer _news_, it's part of a story they tell. They spend all their time printing a paper no one wants, then complain how their customer base is 'un-hip' and "Joe Sixpack" and doesn't get the literary genius packed within. It's nuts!
It's interesting to see these newspaper people work. When they sell a story and the population is angered with it, they just complain that 'Joe Sixpack' isn't clever enough to understand. They just never really got the point that, Joe Sixpack is their customer: without him, they are nothing.
Journalism...that's what it's called now days when you take a story, read it through a prism, apply it to a template, and if you post it at all, it becomes read by 500-1000 people, has a problem. It' not the internet.
Ever since Watergate, when reporters were seen to 'take down' a president, journalism students have clamored to undertaken the role 'to change things'. Just ask them- they're proud to tell you.
The problem is, it's not their job to _change_ things, it's their job to find the truth, wherever it leads, and _report_ it. Even if it makes them look bad, even if it makes their president look bad, if it's true and someone might care, it's in there. But that's when "journalism" had integrity.
And it's been that way so long now, the lone dissenting news source on TV, Fox News, is looked at as a problem, because it's the only news channel that isn't covering every story the way reporters want it told. It IS, however, telling the truth, and the news most Americans want to know.
Think I'm full of it? Notice how, on a good day, CNN (though never Headline News) sometimes gets more ratings than Colbert or the Daily Show...two FAKE news shows. Meanwhile the ratings on Fox are sometimes FOUR TIMES LARGER. There is a reason for this; people know lies when they hear it.
There's now Congressional interest in bailing out their hometown newspapers. John Kerry (who, you'll recall served in Vietnam) wants to fund the losses at the Boston Globe. Others want to save the New York Times.
But does anyone see these trends reversing? I sure don't.
Who cares? All the damage has been done; for nearly 20 years they've driven off legitimate improvements to the IT industry because no one wants to fund a project that Microsoft could steal.
And Linux/*BSD are all more than competent at the task, when Gates' replacement drops the ball.
They're about to have all that money as they 'stick it to the rich'!
(Except the rich, like many others in Liberal-run cities, are leaving.)
Soon it'll be so over-taxed that no one will be there, and nothing will get done. This kind of environment suggests projects that get started, and then get the axe...right about the time the election comes around: be cautious.
I watched Appllo 13. No, not the movie, the event. Nasa like journalism and scientists has been _bought_ and is no longer worth my time.
There's noplace to go; we can't bend time nor exceed the speed of light, so all POSSIBLE destination is lifetimes-away...so it's now just another bloated, wasteful, example of government incompetence.
Today people not agreeing with the idea of the Fed being all-powerful (i.e., Conservatives, Christians) are to be considered suspicious by the Homeland Security Dept.
No, I'm not making this up.
(But, since this is a godless crowd who blindly believes whatever science says without thinking, you'll never see this message.)
*Every* release of Windows from about 3.1, forward have done this. Before it's release, several stories come out saying how people don't want it.
Later, stories will say people are PAYING to stay with the older version.
It's Microsoft. Cooling the sales-anticipation means no matter how bad it is, investors won't be ticked- "After all, people were running away from it." and it's just smart PR.
Personally, I could care less; I run Linux, and have ran ONLY that since 1999. The other folks, folks still running Windows now will gladly 'download' a moldy ham sandwich from Microsoft and pay for that, too. (While buying more antivirus software for it, and complaining about it from start to finish).
The point: people will buy it, anyway. No change in the status quo. What's on TV?
GoodOnYa, man. There's always capital interest in things that show promise. These are great feats of engineering, but so is a $250,000 Testerosa. These are millionaire toys; not many will sell- that's just the nature of it.
And all of this overlooks the concept that there's NO alternative to Oil; nothing is cheaper. Hell, nothing's CLOSE unless there's only a single bucket of it.:) (Did ya see the 500,000 coconuts used to create the oil for Branson's SINGLE engine on a SINGLE trip in a 747? He thought it was a wonderful thing, but where's all the people planting coconuts?
Anyway, GoodOnYa; I'm Christian and Conservative, so my posts don't get read. Thanks for saying what I wanted to.
There have been several releases for the Mac since the last Linux/PC version, and release notice after release notice has gone out, with postings only for Mac.
This would be OK, if the cost of running Boxee wasn't a reboot so as to kill the motorboating-noise it makes my soundcard do, even after the process is ended. I mean, the app is SO alpha, it makes my machine like a Windows box.
This is not to say it has *no* merit: it's aggregation of data about my downloaded media is superb. But I'm not waiting several years until they get around to the next release.
Wanna make a multiplatform project fail? Ignore large sections of the computing public; they'll stop whining and eventually go away.:>
I'll be re-visiting the project in the same timeframe as they gather their wits: "Real Soon Now".
It's his call; it's his network. If it's not to be ruled by him, who?
Fox News takes a lot of crap for not copying the same stories and taking the same party line, but isn't that a _good_ thing? Don't we _want_ something other than Provda? Why is everyone so willing to hate whoever the media tells us?
SIX TIMES NOW, reducing taxes has brought the economy back from financial ruin put there by Liberals. Only the third time it was done, was it called "Reganomics".
In city after city, Liberal cities surge on crime because no one has a gun, and the criminals are free to do as they please.
It's just maddening to see the stupidity not only unfold, but rolled out failure-after-failure-after-failure.
I've opposed GlobalWarming(TM) for some time...it's one of the reasons I'm banned on here. That, and having a belief in Jesus Christ. And because I don't agree with the 'herd', each message I post takes me further and further into obscurity.
But GlobalWarming(TM) is just *another* attempt to lock down the last remaining of the personal freedoms, starting at the every-single-company level. That way they can decide who can, and who cannot be in business. (Causing to fail, then buying-up the mortgage industry while blaming capitalism is the same hoax.)
CO2 doesn't heat the planet- it cools it. The fossil record is painfully clear. When the planet gets 'hot' for 800 years, the oceans dump massive quantities of it, more than mankind could make in 100 lifetimes. This is all laid out by *real* scientists (i.e., those not being PAID to boost Global Warming(TM) in a show called "The Great Global Warming Swindle".)
I suggest you watch it; Margret Thatcher was the first to use the hoax, politically.
But what do I know? No one agrees with me, so I have no voice.
Sure, there are "billions and billions" of planets out there. But 90% of them have no 'terra firma', even if they're close enough to reach in a single lifetime. And planets with 15G gravity just don't count as a twin.
Carl Sagan said it before his death: "[paraphrased]Either such worlds as ours are completely common, or there's something very special about our planet."
This isn't a new concept; a very old book talked about the singularity that started off this reality, the eventual separation of the continents, and how the Earth was "suspended by nothing". It talked about Hittites when scientists thought it's authors were smoking crack, and matches very well to modern science most of the time. This book is the Bible.
But nothing important could be in a religious book, says the scientist. Ignore at your own peril. Just stop treating me like a 15th class citizen 'cause you don't agree with me, will ya?
Linux for nearly 2 decades has been the OS that elimintated the *need* to reboot through most of the day, since it's the one mainstream operating system (desktop) that requires no third-party software to make it through the day.
So how will merely shortening the reboot (which I saw maybe 3 times last year) be the magic bullet?
I appreciate the work; don't get me wrong...I just question the premise.
If someone is unaware of the wolf, the ram, and the hart, or the including the perpetuity clause of the developers, please send mail to: 1481 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Phone (213) 555-0162. Fax (213) 555-0163 Ask for Angel, Cordy, or Lorne.
On Wall Street a lot of decisions are made by people who ACTUALLY READ THE NEWS...who have ACTUALLY TAKEN CIVICS AND BUSINESS CLASSES. Sure there's a time or two they get strayed by panic, but when a man makes it to president without any vetting, then says he wants to bankrupt the coal industry (which makes 60% of the electrcity we use) and then talks about taxing each and every company based on CO2, as well as taking 12 TRILLION DOLLARS from the taxpayers, they tend to freak.
This entire mess is of Democrat-party origin. Recall it started when Fanny-n-Freddy were made to make loans to anyone based on skin color, not business-sense. (The CPA, under Clinton.) Surprise! Banks can't work by throwing money away, so the Congress comes in to pretend to "oversight" while nationalizing banks.
WERE IN A TAKEOVER OF THE COUNTRY. And Wall Street knows it.
Every time a company is hit with a tax, that tax is passed onto the consumer. Always. The company only gets income from it's clients; the money can come from nowhere else. Even if the company has a 'rich uncle' it can't go on indefinately.
This was the part the "news media" was supposed to be asking questions of our dark-skinned candidate. They didn't. They just repeated "hope and change" from the dull, stark, and let's not forget BOGUS news stories they were giving us under Bush. Inflation was tiny; unemployment was tiny. We *actually* wanted to change that?!?!?
So for those who want to look ahead at the future from this candidate-the-media-picked, consider this:
He's said he'll tax everyone making > $250.000. This means he'll tax 96% of the businesses, and that means you'll be paying more on every product made in America. Smart idea, in a recession, isn't it?
LISTEN PEOPLE: civics is life. You must ask questions of the candidates- democrat and republican. You can't just say "Oh, this one's black- that'll be different" and pull the lever like Homer Simpson. Be a part of the process before it's too late.
It's about to get very, very cloudy if the article is true. (And not suffering from a 'faulty sensor', aye?)
Gamma rays, as well as atmospheric conditions cause clouds. Not opinion, not 'consensus', but scientific fact...and that means GlobalWarming((TM) folks are about to look even more stupid.
A process by which even more of our rights can be violated. It's bull. The science doesn't hold up. Computer models can show anything...especially when you have money to say that it does!
There are so many chnaces to find "unimportant" planets like our own, that they should be scattered all over the place. and easily found. Or, there's just something miraculously special about Earth.
Guys, having 15x gravity != similar. We require special tools to go waitless- the Earth 2.0 has to be a lot of things, one of which is that it has to be NEAR.
How many decades have we been looking? This is another "flying car" thing. Prepare for disappointment. 90% of the star systems out there don't even have a ball of dirt to stand on.
Maybe it's time to settle for doing things better...right here?
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The old axiom is, "there's a missing link" so Christianity is dead, But this is just another in a long line of 'definitive proofs' that wind up proving nothing of the kind. But there are so many other reasons this doesn't matter.
A key one is, "Why must the Bible mention dinosaurs?". The oldest book in my home is a '73 VW Chilton's manual, but why should I expect *IT* to detail every step of evolution, DNA, and the singularity? The same applies to the Bible; it has it's own context. And what would the Bible say about dinosaurs, anyway? Try not to get eaten by them? Don't step in the poop? They'd been gone for millions of years by the time man was here.
Some misguided-but-well-meaning people, the young-earthers just can't put this in their heads, but I have no problem with an ape, evolving into man-like proportions, and then using the design of one of those, creating an "Adam" of the mix. The result is homonovus; a new creature. (The genes are notably different, and 2&3 are bonded, right? Apes don't have that.)
When did science, a study predicated on the simple question of "why?" become almost *only* an effort to obscure the truth about God?
Meta-evolution's idea is that cells bumped into each other until we got invertebrates, then vertebrates, then stock brokers. But the fossil record conflicts. The oldest fossil is the trilobite: a vertebrate. The "tree of life" for which Darwin was well-known is more like a "lawn of life" according to the fossil record, showing most species happening, then showing only small changes from the same general time. (generally speaking, here)
As science romps into space, it assumes "billions and billions" of inhabitable planets with people to talk to, wars to fight and tons of exploration. Plenty of spandex for everyone. But those are just TV shows. 90% of the stars have *NOTHING* but gas and particles around them, no planets. The remaining 10%'s nothing like Earth; 15g gravity, temperatures in scientific notation, storms of acid, etc.
Sure, I prefer the idea of a future "Star Trek" world with things for mankind to do, there just aren't any. It's just a nice dream. We have to consider the very real possibility that we might be all the (walking, talking, pondering) life forms in the universe. Or if there is anyone else we'll never know/see-them.
Look how Jupiter and Saturn with all their gravity- attract the larger meteors their way, defending us from them. Look at oxygen at a level where we can breathe, but fires don't start at the snap of your fingers. Gravity is an even more precise, highly-precise value. Look at the place of Earth, cleared away so we might SEE the rest of the universe. Isn't there anything you consider to be ordered in all this? The chances of all these things being random is, well, stick to Vegas.
Can anyone really say that "the debate is over" by finding yet another fossil? The Bible's been so right for so many centuries about the singularity, about the Earth "Suspended from nothing", the continental split, and the aspect ratio for sea-going vessels. These aren't metaphors or literary constructs; the meaning of these lines in the book are clear, and all translations come from the originals documents. People literally spend their lives cross-checking everything, trying to learn more. They're scientists, too. They wouldn't be doing it for a lie.
Nope: the jury's still out. You have still have to decide which to believe. And that's been the case for 2,000 years.
Did you know that for something like 700 years the speed of light was 34 mph? That's the speed at which a junebug, tied with a string to one's hand, would start to blur. "Must be the speed of light!"
The point is, man is putting all the clues together from ideas and testing. Sometimes BOTH are wrong, but the attitude needs to be one of skeptical application of the known information, not blocking out entire works because of genre.
Case in point: one ancient book specifies the Earth as "suspended from nothing". Same book talks about being one land mass, then splitting (plate tectonics). Same book talks about the singularity that started this reality. Oh, and there's much, much more that it got right, but NO SCIENTIST would consider reading the Bible, would they?
It's not just bull; science and religion agree. And when they don't, it's bad theology or bad science. And there's a lot of both.
Key Point: why "must" dinosaurs be mentioned in the Bible? No one alive would see one, learn from one, get sat upon by one....why must there be a mention in the Bible?
This is the same bunch that complained how (paraphrasing) "George Bush is such an asshole; he's having them DRIVE yellowcake uranium through the streets of Baghdad without concern for the safety of the inhabitants".
Where do I start?
- They'd been in contact with the uranium for some time.
- Maybe they'd teleport, Scotty?
- Isn't this the "Weapon of Mass Destruction" they were hoping not to find?
Of course it was; there was 8 TONS of the stuff, and nearly a ton was close to weapons-grade. But the article was quickly whisked off to the archive so you'd have to PAY to get a copy just days after printing.
The only reason you're learning about it, is that I read the original and posted it here.
THE POINT:
Newspapers, and for that matter news agencies, have a template to fulfill. It's no longer _news_, it's part of a story they tell. They spend all their time printing a paper no one wants, then complain how their customer base is 'un-hip' and "Joe Sixpack" and doesn't get the literary genius packed within. It's nuts!
Let's let them collapse.
It's interesting to see these newspaper people work. When they sell a story and the population is angered with it, they just complain that 'Joe Sixpack' isn't clever enough to understand. They just never really got the point that, Joe Sixpack is their customer: without him, they are nothing.
Journalism...that's what it's called now days when you take a story, read it through a prism, apply it to a template, and if you post it at all, it becomes read by 500-1000 people, has a problem. It' not the internet.
Ever since Watergate, when reporters were seen to 'take down' a president, journalism students have clamored to undertaken the role 'to change things'. Just ask them- they're proud to tell you.
The problem is, it's not their job to _change_ things, it's their job to find the truth, wherever it leads, and _report_ it. Even if it makes them look bad, even if it makes their president look bad, if it's true and someone might care, it's in there. But that's when "journalism" had integrity.
And it's been that way so long now, the lone dissenting news source on TV, Fox News, is looked at as a problem, because it's the only news channel that isn't covering every story the way reporters want it told. It IS, however, telling the truth, and the news most Americans want to know.
Think I'm full of it? Notice how, on a good day, CNN (though never Headline News) sometimes gets more ratings than Colbert or the Daily Show...two FAKE news shows. Meanwhile the ratings on Fox are sometimes FOUR TIMES LARGER. There is a reason for this; people know lies when they hear it.
There's now Congressional interest in bailing out their hometown newspapers. John Kerry (who, you'll recall served in Vietnam) wants to fund the losses at the Boston Globe. Others want to save the New York Times.
But does anyone see these trends reversing? I sure don't.
Who cares? All the damage has been done; for nearly 20 years they've driven off legitimate improvements to the IT industry because no one wants to fund a project that Microsoft could steal.
And Linux/*BSD are all more than competent at the task, when Gates' replacement drops the ball.
Don't waste the money.
They're about to have all that money as they 'stick it to the rich'!
(Except the rich, like many others in Liberal-run cities, are leaving.)
Soon it'll be so over-taxed that no one will be there, and nothing will get done. This kind of environment suggests projects that get started, and then get the axe...right about the time the election comes around: be cautious.
I watched Appllo 13. No, not the movie, the event. Nasa like journalism and scientists has been _bought_ and is no longer worth my time.
There's noplace to go; we can't bend time nor exceed the speed of light, so all POSSIBLE destination is lifetimes-away...so it's now just another bloated, wasteful, example of government incompetence.
Today people not agreeing with the idea of the Fed being all-powerful (i.e., Conservatives, Christians) are to be considered suspicious by the Homeland Security Dept.
No, I'm not making this up.
(But, since this is a godless crowd who blindly believes whatever science says without thinking, you'll never see this message.)
*Every* release of Windows from about 3.1, forward have done this. Before it's release, several stories come out saying how people don't want it.
Later, stories will say people are PAYING to stay with the older version.
It's Microsoft. Cooling the sales-anticipation means no matter how bad it is, investors won't be ticked- "After all, people were running away from it." and it's just smart PR.
Personally, I could care less; I run Linux, and have ran ONLY that since 1999. The other folks, folks still running Windows now will gladly 'download' a moldy ham sandwich from Microsoft and pay for that, too. (While buying more antivirus software for it, and complaining about it from start to finish).
The point: people will buy it, anyway. No change in the status quo. What's on TV?
GoodOnYa, man. There's always capital interest in things that show promise. These are great feats of engineering, but so is a $250,000 Testerosa. These are millionaire toys; not many will sell- that's just the nature of it.
And all of this overlooks the concept that there's NO alternative to Oil; nothing is cheaper. Hell, nothing's CLOSE unless there's only a single bucket of it. :) (Did ya see the 500,000 coconuts used to create the oil for Branson's SINGLE engine on a SINGLE trip in a 747? He thought it was a wonderful thing, but where's all the people planting coconuts?
Anyway, GoodOnYa; I'm Christian and Conservative, so my posts don't get read. Thanks for saying what I wanted to.
So THAT's what they're doing with bots, other than spam. :>
I'm on the development list. They suck.
There have been several releases for the Mac since the last Linux/PC version, and release notice after release notice has gone out, with postings only for Mac.
This would be OK, if the cost of running Boxee wasn't a reboot so as to kill the motorboating-noise it makes my soundcard do, even after the process is ended. I mean, the app is SO alpha, it makes my machine like a Windows box.
This is not to say it has *no* merit: it's aggregation of data about my downloaded media is superb. But I'm not waiting several years until they get around to the next release.
Wanna make a multiplatform project fail? Ignore large sections of the computing public; they'll stop whining and eventually go away. :>
I'll be re-visiting the project in the same timeframe as they gather their wits: "Real Soon Now".
It's his call; it's his network. If it's not to be ruled by him, who?
Fox News takes a lot of crap for not copying the same stories and taking the same party line, but isn't that a _good_ thing? Don't we _want_ something other than Provda? Why is everyone so willing to hate whoever the media tells us?
SIX TIMES NOW, reducing taxes has brought the economy back from financial ruin put there by Liberals. Only the third time it was done, was it called "Reganomics".
In city after city, Liberal cities surge on crime because no one has a gun, and the criminals are free to do as they please.
It's just maddening to see the stupidity not only unfold, but rolled out failure-after-failure-after-failure.
I've opposed GlobalWarming(TM) for some time...it's one of the reasons I'm banned on here. That, and having a belief in Jesus Christ. And because I don't agree with the 'herd', each message I post takes me further and further into obscurity.
But GlobalWarming(TM) is just *another* attempt to lock down the last remaining of the personal freedoms, starting at the every-single-company level. That way they can decide who can, and who cannot be in business. (Causing to fail, then buying-up the mortgage industry while blaming capitalism is the same hoax.)
CO2 doesn't heat the planet- it cools it. The fossil record is painfully clear. When the planet gets 'hot' for 800 years, the oceans dump massive quantities of it, more than mankind could make in 100 lifetimes. This is all laid out by *real* scientists (i.e., those not being PAID to boost Global Warming(TM) in a show called "The Great Global Warming Swindle".)
I suggest you watch it; Margret Thatcher was the first to use the hoax, politically.
But what do I know? No one agrees with me, so I have no voice.
Sure, there are "billions and billions" of planets out there. But 90% of them have no 'terra firma', even if they're close enough to reach in a single lifetime. And planets with 15G gravity just don't count as a twin.
Carl Sagan said it before his death: "[paraphrased]Either such worlds as ours are completely common, or there's something very special about our planet."
This isn't a new concept; a very old book talked about the singularity that started off this reality, the eventual separation of the continents, and how the Earth was "suspended by nothing". It talked about Hittites when scientists thought it's authors were smoking crack, and matches very well to modern science most of the time. This book is the Bible.
But nothing important could be in a religious book, says the scientist. Ignore at your own peril. Just stop treating me like a 15th class citizen 'cause you don't agree with me, will ya?
Linux for nearly 2 decades has been the OS that elimintated the *need* to reboot through most of the day, since it's the one mainstream operating system (desktop) that requires no third-party software to make it through the day.
So how will merely shortening the reboot (which I saw maybe 3 times last year) be the magic bullet?
I appreciate the work; don't get me wrong...I just question the premise.
If someone is unaware of the wolf, the ram, and the hart, or the including the perpetuity clause of the developers, please send mail to:
1481 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Phone (213) 555-0162. Fax (213) 555-0163 Ask for Angel, Cordy, or Lorne.
HOW MANY of these will we see, until we hold one in our hands?
I'd swear I saw posts of these breakthroughs as far back as 1996 (for bendable displays, not so much touch screens).
When do these go on the market? When the web-printed, $10 laptops do? I'll be waiting in my flying car.
On Wall Street a lot of decisions are made by people who ACTUALLY READ THE NEWS...who have ACTUALLY TAKEN CIVICS AND BUSINESS CLASSES. Sure there's a time or two they get strayed by panic, but when a man makes it to president without any vetting, then says he wants to bankrupt the coal industry (which makes 60% of the electrcity we use) and then talks about taxing each and every company based on CO2, as well as taking 12 TRILLION DOLLARS from the taxpayers, they tend to freak.
This entire mess is of Democrat-party origin. Recall it started when Fanny-n-Freddy were made to make loans to anyone based on skin color, not business-sense. (The CPA, under Clinton.) Surprise! Banks can't work by throwing money away, so the Congress comes in to pretend to "oversight" while nationalizing banks.
WERE IN A TAKEOVER OF THE COUNTRY. And Wall Street knows it.
Every time a company is hit with a tax, that tax is passed onto the consumer. Always. The company only gets income from it's clients; the money can come from nowhere else. Even if the company has a 'rich uncle' it can't go on indefinately.
This was the part the "news media" was supposed to be asking questions of our dark-skinned candidate. They didn't. They just repeated "hope and change" from the dull, stark, and let's not forget BOGUS news stories they were giving us under Bush. Inflation was tiny; unemployment was tiny. We *actually* wanted to change that?!?!?
So for those who want to look ahead at the future from this candidate-the-media-picked, consider this:
He's said he'll tax everyone making > $250.000. This means he'll tax 96% of the businesses, and that means you'll be paying more on every product made in America. Smart idea, in a recession, isn't it?
LISTEN PEOPLE: civics is life. You must ask questions of the candidates- democrat and republican. You can't just say "Oh, this one's black- that'll be different" and pull the lever like Homer Simpson. Be a part of the process before it's too late.
Can't you get AM radio in your cubicle?
Could you make it where I don't have to listen to your narrative anymore? It's not like this is a news organization...
It's about to get very, very cloudy if the article is true. (And not suffering from a 'faulty sensor', aye?)
Gamma rays, as well as atmospheric conditions cause clouds. Not opinion, not 'consensus', but scientific fact...and that means GlobalWarming((TM) folks are about to look even more stupid.
A process by which even more of our rights can be violated. It's bull. The science doesn't hold up. Computer models can show anything...especially when you have money to say that it does!
There are so many chnaces to find "unimportant" planets like our own, that they should be scattered all over the place. and easily found. Or, there's just something miraculously special about Earth.
Guys, having 15x gravity != similar. We require special tools to go waitless- the Earth 2.0 has to be a lot of things, one of which is that it has to be NEAR.
How many decades have we been looking? This is another "flying car" thing. Prepare for disappointment. 90% of the star systems out there don't even have a ball of dirt to stand on.
Maybe it's time to settle for doing things better...right here?