This formula, with FTL replaced with the impossibility of the day, was used for thousands of years to stamp out the undesirable thoughts.
Playing the victim card is not going to get you much credibility in the scientific world. No ones ideas are being suppressed because they are undesirable, this is about ideas being disregarded because they have no grounding in what we know of how the universe works.
If you come up with a theory about how FTL travel is possible which doesn't contradict what is already known to be true then congratulations, you just won yourself a noble prize. On the other hand, just saying it may one day be possible without offering any plausible suggestion about how it could be possible is just fantasy.
Yeah history is full of ideas that are found to fail upon closer look. Guess what? Faster than light travel is one of those ideas.
The event horizon for a black hole with the pass of a coffee cup would be so small i would think it would have no noticeable effect on the air in the room.
I suspect that the GP resists this, perhaps assuming that a more natural exposure to e.g. the flu will result in a better immune system, as it will have to do all the fighting on its own against a real opponent, not a crippled on.
That sounds like awful reasoning. Getting a flu shot doesn't prevent you from also getting natural exposure to the flu.
He's not assuming the geek experience is the only one, he's assuming his experience is the only one. I'm as geeky as any of us here and I listen to FM radio all the time in my car. I don't know anyone who doesn't listen to it still.
Football has two meanings, but only one in America. "Football field" only has one meaning however, outside of America a soccer field is called a football pitch.
Reasonable does however have to be reasonable, and the lowest common denominator are anything but reasonable. These are the people who seriously think the world will end in Dec 2012. It would be a mistake to give consideration to their opinions for anything.
That's right. A lot of it got sent to Iraq on pallets that disappeared, or went to the executives of companies like Halliburton who get to charge whatever they like for faulty wiring that electrocutes our soldiers because of the no-bid contracts.
Next to burning piles of money to make smores, the war in Iraq has probably been the least effective use of our money that one could conceive of.
Amtrak costs as much as air or more because air travel is subsidized heavily by the federal government. We spend tonnes of federal money on highway projects and bailing out airlines but trains are somehow held to a higher standard and expected to pay for themselves.
Ok, so the exceptions are the two Linux companies that frequently are used by corporations thus completely invalidating the rest of your post. Nice work.
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Playing the victim card is not going to get you much credibility in the scientific world. No ones ideas are being suppressed because they are undesirable, this is about ideas being disregarded because they have no grounding in what we know of how the universe works.
If you come up with a theory about how FTL travel is possible which doesn't contradict what is already known to be true then congratulations, you just won yourself a noble prize. On the other hand, just saying it may one day be possible without offering any plausible suggestion about how it could be possible is just fantasy.
Yeah history is full of ideas that are found to fail upon closer look. Guess what? Faster than light travel is one of those ideas.
Who ever said that? Birds have been flying for all of human history so there's always been strong evidence that flight is possible.
There is no evidence that faster than light travel is possible. To the contrary in fact, all the evidence we have says it is not possible.
Hell, even too much water can poison you.
Ever see a klein bottle? You have no idea the nasty tangles an extra dimension can get you into.
Real gods don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
The event horizon for a black hole with the pass of a coffee cup would be so small i would think it would have no noticeable effect on the air in the room.
What do you mean recorded music isn't sold or produced in China? I've got a handful of recent CDs from China sitting in front of me right now.
That sounds like awful reasoning. Getting a flu shot doesn't prevent you from also getting natural exposure to the flu.
What left-wing lunacy has the Obama administration been responsible for? Believe me, I wish he was a liberal. He's not.
How many innocent Iraqis have been killed due to our actions over the course of the war? It's a whole lot more than 3000, I can tell you that.
Because they were incredibly shortsighted about it?
He's not assuming the geek experience is the only one, he's assuming his experience is the only one. I'm as geeky as any of us here and I listen to FM radio all the time in my car. I don't know anyone who doesn't listen to it still.
If you have cable the NASA channel will also have a live feed.
So by your standards I guess nothing is real time.
It's not plagiarizing if everyone gets the reference, which I'm sure pretty much everyone did.
They would have said the same thing. Onion references are always funny.
Only for individuals. Worldwide the odds of the lottery being won are excellent.
Football has two meanings, but only one in America. "Football field" only has one meaning however, outside of America a soccer field is called a football pitch.
They both describe the exact same thing. I think that section in the Heat Death article saying it is slightly different from the Big Freeze is wrong.
The "Timeframe for Heat Death" section even links right to the Big Freeze article as the main article on the topic.
Reasonable does however have to be reasonable, and the lowest common denominator are anything but reasonable. These are the people who seriously think the world will end in Dec 2012. It would be a mistake to give consideration to their opinions for anything.
The Democratic majority is irrelevant as long as Republicans have enough votes to obstruct the budget all by themselves, which they do.
How could you forget about Prob 13 when it comes up every time CA has trouble passing a balanced budget, in other words it's in the news every year.
That's right. A lot of it got sent to Iraq on pallets that disappeared, or went to the executives of companies like Halliburton who get to charge whatever they like for faulty wiring that electrocutes our soldiers because of the no-bid contracts.
Next to burning piles of money to make smores, the war in Iraq has probably been the least effective use of our money that one could conceive of.
Amtrak costs as much as air or more because air travel is subsidized heavily by the federal government. We spend tonnes of federal money on highway projects and bailing out airlines but trains are somehow held to a higher standard and expected to pay for themselves.
Ok, so the exceptions are the two Linux companies that frequently are used by corporations thus completely invalidating the rest of your post. Nice work.