Hrmm I'm Catholic and have a degree in theology. And this is the first time I've ever heard that the star of Bethlehem is supposed to be Polaris - it's certainly not part of the general 'mythos' as you put it
General teaching is that the Star of Bethlehem only hung around until not long after the Wise men left. And from a more scientific viewpoint if it's true then it was likely a supernova
The Bombadil/Barrow-wight sub-plot was easily left out. It made for a good read but it's exclusion didn't detract from the overall story.
The Scouring of the Shire however is a major part of the story and ends the War of the Ring back in the Shire amongst Hobbits. Remember the LotR is a story about Hobbits. It says so in the prologue. And JRRT actually stated the TSofS was one of the earliest parts of the book to be written.
To my mind the movies focused too much on Aragorn/Arwin which was only a sub-story in the books.
I did enjoy the movies - however I feel PJ, et al missed the overall point.
As the antimatter is repulsed by the normal matter, wouldn't this require the introduction of another force (the "dark force"?) – that should be even stronger than the strong force – to explain how come we are not seeing flows of antimatter originating from the core of the galaxies?
I would suggest splitting Creationism into two parts 1) Initial creation 2) Flora, Fauna, etc created as they are today
The first part can fit nicely into the theory of Evolution - belief dependent of course
One of the early pioneers of the Big Bang theory was also a Catholic Priest. Georges_Lemaitre
And before someone else brings it up there is also 'Intelligent Design'. However I can't speak for that as I'm not overly familiar with the tenants of its proponents and am not in the mood for a flamewar:-)
Didn't they tally up the numbers in 1650. So it's at LEAST 6360 years old now.
Given all the monkeying around with the calendar over the years, taking into account leap second adjustments every-so-often and the uncertainty of when the year 0 was based on Jebus' actual DOB, etc
It's now roughly 6314.15926535897932384626433832795 years old
Lets hope the "Central Server" doesn't do something important in its spare time like run traffic signals or something. It could be quite a disaster is somebody feeds in all this information about the history of the East India Company.
As long as someone ensures that the manufacturers are first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Sir, if you would just look this way for a minute...
**flashythingy**
Now aliens do not exist. We do not, and never have had anti-gravity or free energy tech. Now go sell all your possessions and join a missionary group in inner Papua New Guinea. Have a nice life.
The first thing that popped into my head is the docking scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Granted the IIS isn't dual ringed, nor does it spin. But could it not be utilised for the same purpose... i.e. a trans-Moon transfer station? Or even trans-Mars?
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Hrmm I'm Catholic and have a degree in theology. And this is the first time I've ever heard that the star of Bethlehem is supposed to be Polaris - it's certainly not part of the general 'mythos' as you put it
General teaching is that the Star of Bethlehem only hung around until not long after the Wise men left. And from a more scientific viewpoint if it's true then it was likely a supernova
"The Matrix" on the other hand was a great standalone film. I'm glad they didn't ruin the mystique with any unnecessary sequels.
Damn I wish I had mod points right now...
But I can't decide whether the mod would be +1 Funny or +1 Insightful
I disagree...
The Bombadil/Barrow-wight sub-plot was easily left out. It made for a good read but it's exclusion didn't detract from the overall story.
The Scouring of the Shire however is a major part of the story and ends the War of the Ring back in the Shire amongst Hobbits. Remember the LotR is a story about Hobbits. It says so in the prologue. And JRRT actually stated the TSofS was one of the earliest parts of the book to be written.
To my mind the movies focused too much on Aragorn/Arwin which was only a sub-story in the books.
I did enjoy the movies - however I feel PJ, et al missed the overall point.
As the antimatter is repulsed by the normal matter, wouldn't this require the introduction of another force (the "dark force"?) – that should be even stronger than the strong force – to explain how come we are not seeing flows of antimatter originating from the core of the galaxies?
Do not underestimate the dark side of the Force.
They want their accoustic couplers back :)
It seems the media down under are more interested in the sideshow rather than the the riots themselves....
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/5156730/Vancouver-hockey-riots-kiss-mystery
For the record it is not particularly easy to use a printer to duplicate, say, 250,000 diplomatic cables and walk out with them under your arms.
True, however if said documents were already in deadtree format then all one needs is a camera.
And a microSD card is a lot less painfull than a roll of film... or so I would imagine ;-)
By that logic, Creationism = Big Bang Theory.
I would suggest splitting Creationism into two parts
1) Initial creation
2) Flora, Fauna, etc created as they are today
The first part can fit nicely into the theory of Evolution - belief dependent of course
One of the early pioneers of the Big Bang theory was also a Catholic Priest. Georges_Lemaitre
And before someone else brings it up there is also 'Intelligent Design'. However I can't speak for that as I'm not overly familiar with the tenants of its proponents and am not in the mood for a flamewar :-)
Didn't they tally up the numbers in 1650. So it's at LEAST 6360 years old now.
Given all the monkeying around with the calendar over the years, taking into account leap second adjustments every-so-often and the uncertainty of when the year 0 was based on Jebus' actual DOB, etc
It's now roughly 6314.15926535897932384626433832795 years old
Is it perchance piloted by Amazonian princesses? If so I'm in
Science fiction ? Star Wars is more like future fantasy
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"?
As long as someone ensures that the manufacturers are first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Believe me, they were.
Doctor? Is that you?
Lets hope the "Central Server" doesn't do something important in its spare time like run traffic signals or something. It could be quite a disaster is somebody feeds in all this information about the history of the East India Company.
As long as someone ensures that the manufacturers are first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Sir, if you would just look this way for a minute...
**flashythingy**
Now aliens do not exist. We do not, and never have had anti-gravity or free energy tech. Now go sell all your possessions and join a missionary group in inner Papua New Guinea. Have a nice life.
I'm imagining something like a cross between Mancini's Baby Elephant Walk and the Hamster Dance
Well yeah, that and the obvious question of "what the hell is a rabbit doing on the moon, and how did it get there?"
Obviously it should've taken that left turn at Albuquerque =)
or Meccano
but as a microsoftie friend of mine pointed out, "the vista betas worked really well too...."
From experience this has been the case since Windows 95 Beta 1.
From the site:
On 14th January 2009 the team will embark on an incredible maiden voyage from London to Tombouctou, across the Sahara desert.
Looking at that site I expected to see the name Phileas Fogg. Around the World in 80 Days.. anyone?
Aren't you be glad that you'd finally be able to create life without the services of a woman?
God is that you?
The first thing that popped into my head is the docking scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Granted the IIS isn't dual ringed, nor does it spin. But could it not be utilised for the same purpose... i.e. a trans-Moon transfer station? Or even trans-Mars?
open a command prompt and type:
type C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
Look for the last line
Does anyone know if Jerry Yang sent a reply? If so is there a copy floating around on the net somewhere?
It might be just be me, but Balmer came across as quite pompous and patronizing in his letter. It would be interesting to see how Jerry took it.
IIRC it's been standard advice for any Windows Service Pack since NT SP6.