Maybe I am alone, but I would pay this and much more.
You can already pretty much do this, though I think it's a lot more than $300. I don't want to directly advertise what I consider to be a kind of shady company, but just google "cremated remains in space."
I really don't think religion creation stories are necessarily vague at all.
I'm pretty literal in my interpretation of the Bible. I think it was six literal days, and I can even say that I think Eve was created from Adam's rib without bending my posture into any unnatural positions.
You can write it off as myth and superstition, and you can call me a fool, though I question the validity of that statement, but I really question the scientific basis for that whole chain of thought.
I have no problem with science, but I don't think it will ever yield a clear picture of our past, and I don't say that out of ignorance of the subject. We can't accurately date artifacts and remains within the last couple hundred years, and paleoanthropologists and paleantologists fight over homo at three million and the age of some basalt layers and pigs' teeth. We can't observe, accurately measure, or repeat any of the stuff about which we're arguing, and putting aside religious arguments even the secular scientists disagree over a huge amount of stuff.
Here I'm going to be all repetitive and preachy, but how can one say that science is doing a better job of explaining our world than the Biblical creation story when just in the realm of science there are multiple competing explanations of our origins? They can't all be right!
How can someone blame religion for holding science back by hindering our acceptance of the big bang and evolution when there isn't even a common secular acceptance of these ideas? You can't say one idea is better than another because it doesn't involve a god to control it.
People get mad at the religious right for not wanting the big bang taught as fact in schools. Why not get mad at Steinhardt and Turok for questioning the validity of this ever-changing theory?
OK, before this turns into a total rant, I'd better cut out by just saying that you can't say that origin theories that deny God do a better job than those that do until you at least come up with a theory that will stop changing and being challenged by others in secular science.
What I don't get about all of this is, why put a remake of a classic anime on the sci-fi channel? I would say a large chunk of their viewing audience willing to sit through their "sci-fi original" movies are already willing to watch an original, Japanese anime.
Have they brought back their Saturday anime yet?
Here's what I'm doing. It's cheap, sappy, and it would make Martha Stewart proud.
I've compiled a bunch of pictures of my girlfriend and me into a divx movie, set to background of one of her favorite love songs. OK, I admit it, it was "I've Got You, Babe." Go ahead, laugh, I can't hear you!
Boy, if this thing ever gets out on the internet...
But if anybody's actually interested, I used FadeToBlack to the main work, and then I fine-tuned it with audio and encoded it using VirtualDub. It took awhile, but that was mainly looking for decent tools.
Well, that's it. I don't know if she'll actually like it. She'll probably decide she looks fat in all the pictures. That's why I got chocolate and a bear, too.
Thank goodness she's an English major and has no interest in/. at all.
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Maybe I am alone, but I would pay this and much more.
You can already pretty much do this, though I think it's a lot more than $300. I don't want to directly advertise what I consider to be a kind of shady company, but just google "cremated remains in space."
That's a fallacious argument. Something does not have to be a human right for a ban on it to be unconstitutional.
Except that in the Iowa caucus it is not binary at all. It's not a winner-takes-all state.
I'm pretty literal in my interpretation of the Bible. I think it was six literal days, and I can even say that I think Eve was created from Adam's rib without bending my posture into any unnatural positions.
You can write it off as myth and superstition, and you can call me a fool, though I question the validity of that statement, but I really question the scientific basis for that whole chain of thought.
I have no problem with science, but I don't think it will ever yield a clear picture of our past, and I don't say that out of ignorance of the subject. We can't accurately date artifacts and remains within the last couple hundred years, and paleoanthropologists and paleantologists fight over homo at three million and the age of some basalt layers and pigs' teeth. We can't observe, accurately measure, or repeat any of the stuff about which we're arguing, and putting aside religious arguments even the secular scientists disagree over a huge amount of stuff.
Here I'm going to be all repetitive and preachy, but how can one say that science is doing a better job of explaining our world than the Biblical creation story when just in the realm of science there are multiple competing explanations of our origins? They can't all be right!
How can someone blame religion for holding science back by hindering our acceptance of the big bang and evolution when there isn't even a common secular acceptance of these ideas? You can't say one idea is better than another because it doesn't involve a god to control it.
People get mad at the religious right for not wanting the big bang taught as fact in schools. Why not get mad at Steinhardt and Turok for questioning the validity of this ever-changing theory?
OK, before this turns into a total rant, I'd better cut out by just saying that you can't say that origin theories that deny God do a better job than those that do until you at least come up with a theory that will stop changing and being challenged by others in secular science.
What I don't get about all of this is, why put a remake of a classic anime on the sci-fi channel? I would say a large chunk of their viewing audience willing to sit through their "sci-fi original" movies are already willing to watch an original, Japanese anime. Have they brought back their Saturday anime yet?
I've compiled a bunch of pictures of my girlfriend and me into a divx movie, set to background of one of her favorite love songs. OK, I admit it, it was "I've Got You, Babe." Go ahead, laugh, I can't hear you!
Boy, if this thing ever gets out on the internet...
But if anybody's actually interested, I used FadeToBlack to the main work, and then I fine-tuned it with audio and encoded it using VirtualDub. It took awhile, but that was mainly looking for decent tools.
Well, that's it. I don't know if she'll actually like it. She'll probably decide she looks fat in all the pictures. That's why I got chocolate and a bear, too.
Thank goodness she's an English major and has no interest in /. at all.