You've got to be joking. Consider this: The air initially exists free of smoke, and cigarettes are not natural, this is the most basic state. I have the right to not be forced to breathe cancer inducing air
I guess you don't drive cars nor buy anything online that would come to your home by truck, nor travel by airplane.
People are either not powerful enough or too old to care.
A - We'll do something about this when, and only when, the end will be close enough to hurt those old enough to be powerful enough. B - The only way to fail is not to have powerful enough terraformation tools by the time that moment comes.
Therefore, the two possible solutions are: 1 - Extend life expectancy so that we (humans) react with a larger margin. 2 - Elaborate more powerful climate change tools to be able to solve the problem even with a short margin.
Did you really just cut a sentence in half and quoted the first part to ask a question about the second?
Holy dear mary mother of jeebus allmighty spaguetti unicorn! You must truly be so dumb they're using you as model for the perfect silicon sphere to be used as new kilogram definition.
"Lalala, I can't hear you, lalalalalala, I can't hear you!"
People who can't defend their positions usually try to shut you up, and when that doesn't work they stick their fingers in their ears. You know, like a 5-year old would do.
So, in the real world, if a drunk hobo starts talking to you about being Jesus Christ Reborn, you feel it's your responsibility, as an adult, to hear him out and respond with clear and well constructed counter arguments until, under the accumulated evidence you've presented, he understands the wrongness in his assertion?
Why can't this be explained by time dilation from the gravity of the black hole? The center is only rotating slower to an outside observer, but could in fact be going the same number of Km/h (to pick a completely off-scale unit).
It just doesn't. Time dilation is not arbitrary, it has to work in a very specific manner for all the math and the experimental results (and internet) to work.
The gravitational effect of the accounted for mass in each galaxy doesn't explain their movement.
We don't know for certain that what we are calling Matter is matter at all. Matter is a term used to explain our observations and our models. We have some guesses as to what it might be and we've ruled out most other possibilities.
Calling it matter is among the more reasonable hypothesis but we can't confirm or deny that idea at this time. It also could be some sort of error in our model of how energy works. Not quite as likely but not conclusively ruled out either. It's possible that it is something else altogether. We just don't really know.
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Smokers are so self centered that they think they have the right to pollute the air in more quantity than non-smokers.
Car drivers are so self centered that they think they have the right to pollute the air in more quantity than bike-drivers.
You've got to be joking. Consider this: The air initially exists free of smoke, and cigarettes are not natural, this is the most basic state. I have the right to not be forced to breathe cancer inducing air
I guess you don't drive cars nor buy anything online that would come to your home by truck, nor travel by airplane.
And not only Porn! Also:
- Videogames
- Role playing games
- Rock
- Divorces
- Sodomy
- Being black
- Heresy
- Witchcraft
- Barbarian..ism?
What do you think gun control is all about?
Getting the votes of those who thing gun control is a good idea.
Just as gun liberalization is about getting the votes of those who think that's a good idea.
Decades have passed since any political stance was about anything else than staying in power.
People are either not powerful enough or too old to care.
A - We'll do something about this when, and only when, the end will be close enough to hurt those old enough to be powerful enough.
B - The only way to fail is not to have powerful enough terraformation tools by the time that moment comes.
Therefore, the two possible solutions are:
1 - Extend life expectancy so that we (humans) react with a larger margin.
2 - Elaborate more powerful climate change tools to be able to solve the problem even with a short margin.
Did you really just cut a sentence in half and quoted the first part to ask a question about the second?
Holy dear mary mother of jeebus allmighty spaguetti unicorn! You must truly be so dumb they're using you as model for the perfect silicon sphere to be used as new kilogram definition.
I called my option "realistic" because I don't usually count on living 100 years.
But I envy your optimism.
VR Streaming will bring back the home broadband.
There is a delicate balance between "Most convenient connection..." and "...which allows the best porn commonly available."
When VZ and the FCC both declare your area "100% broadband", whats to be done?
Moving seems to be the only realistic option.
A similar answer to the one for "I live in a floodplain and get flooded every year." or "I live next to an airport and airplanes wake me up."
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This is a conversation for adults. But feel free to scream and cry in the background like an annoying baby.
Only your parents give a fuck and only because they have to take you home to change your diapers after the conversation is over.
You are wrong. The fact that we don't know what dark matter is, doesn't imply we don't know whether it's matter.
One of the few things we know is that it is matter.
The other thing we are certain about is that it does not interact as easily as other matter with "accounted for" matter.
"Direct observation" stopped being required proof over a century ago.
By June, I'm expecting full featured commercials, with videos of people unable to operate a milk carton, in Slashdot frontpage.
you ignorate racist cis scum.
HA! You showed your true colors! A True Feminist would know that raCISt already implies CIS!
1. Stand still
2. Remain calm
3. Scream
Paradox? This looks like standard operational meeting procedure.
"You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you..."
Just wait for one to fail and have to land on LSD (the road)
You're not supposed to land on LSD, you're expected to take off it.
"Lalala, I can't hear you, lalalalalala, I can't hear you!"
People who can't defend their positions usually try to shut you up, and when that doesn't work they stick their fingers in their ears. You know, like a 5-year old would do.
So, in the real world, if a drunk hobo starts talking to you about being Jesus Christ Reborn, you feel it's your responsibility, as an adult, to hear him out and respond with clear and well constructed counter arguments until, under the accumulated evidence you've presented, he understands the wrongness in his assertion?
Why can't this be explained by time dilation from the gravity of the black hole? The center is only rotating slower to an outside observer, but could in fact be going the same number of Km/h (to pick a completely off-scale unit).
It just doesn't. Time dilation is not arbitrary, it has to work in a very specific manner for all the math and the experimental results (and internet) to work.
The gravitational effect of the accounted for mass in each galaxy doesn't explain their movement.
*The "we can't be sure" argument*
We don't know for certain that what we are calling Matter is matter at all. Matter is a term used to explain our observations and our models. We have some guesses as to what it might be and we've ruled out most other possibilities.
Calling it matter is among the more reasonable hypothesis but we can't confirm or deny that idea at this time. It also could be some sort of error in our model of how energy works. Not quite as likely but not conclusively ruled out either. It's possible that it is something else altogether. We just don't really know.
Nope. That which cannot interact with us is not observable, and thus beyond the observable universe boundary, by definition.
Disregard that. I was answering the previous post. Sorry for the moment of dumbness.
There is 0 evidence that what we call a "black hole" is an actual real class of objects that really exist.
Black holes is a prediction of our theory which matches observations so far.
So... Like anything deeper than a few km in our own Earth. Or Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Thank you, but I think I'll continue to take as real that which "is a prediction of our theories which matches observations so far".
I can verify. There is a giant one in my wallet. I put money in... aaaaaand it's gone.
If it's thong-shaped and on a stripper, it's not your wallet.
close enough to affect us
Everything in the observable universe is close enough to affect us.