Actually the last sentence is completely true in that it accurately depicts my view of things. Your results may vary. Consult your physician before posting under influence.
Technically there is no upper limit established here.
They could have sold anywhere from 500,000 to infinity units by that grammar.
I come about at those numbers by inferring that since "millions" is plural it must mean more than one million so 500,000 is 25% of two million, and that once you reach 999,000,000 you do not necessarily have to begin counting in billions. You could have one million millions just as easily as you could have a trillion.
Not only is it not surprising that a scientist can be religious. It surprises me that someone can be a scientist and deny religion when faced by the fact that the universe follows various immutable laws. Science is the study of the laws by which the universe works. The fact that the laws exist would seem to suggest something to set those laws.
I look at things and see googolplexes of unlikely events happening every second to keep matter from collapsing in on itself. The universe is a vast bubbling ocean of energy that seems solid to us only because the waves of particles that make up the fundamental energies of quarks, that that make up the fundamental parts of atoms, that form into molecules, that then follow exacting rules to arrange themselves into fiendishly complex patterns of amino acids who are capable of taking raw materials in the world around them, copying themselves, and then combining with the copies of themselves to produce more complex structures that make up our fingers and nerves that relay information to our brains that interprets the data, and sends it back out in a form that makes the vast ranks of chained cells lock against each other to give us movement.
I see all of that locking together like clockwork with all the grace of poetry, and you say that somehow a knowledge that religion is just a human institution should make me not be religious.
Please.
A huge fallacy I've seen the atheistic lobby using is that since a religious person says that God did something that somehow by showing that it happens according to logically determined laws instead obviously God had nothing to do with it.
Science and Religion agree on more things then people want to give them credit for.
I use the gestures extension more than keyboard shortcuts myself. Mostly because my desk is suckily designed, and the keyboard tray is both too high, and too small.
You assume that causality exists beyond the bounds of the universe. If causality and therefore perception of time is only one of our universe's traits then how would we know?
Of course this is all conjecture and is pulled straight out of my ass. If I really had the answer to that question I wouldn't be posting on/.; I would be making millions on my many book deals.
ID could be a valid theory if the people who currently advocate ID had never heard about it.
These people know little about the workings of science, and merely took up ID as another weapon for their own agenda. In doing so they discredited both ID and the agenda they were trying to support.
As both a Christian and a scientifically minded person that makes me rather sad and a bit angry.
Man. Posting reasoned philosophical arguments on a slashdot discussion. You must have a death wish.
Lets hope your karma can withstand the inevitable +1 Funny and -1 Overrated mods.
I don't think that evolution is even an opposite view from ID. The opposite view would be the creation of the universe from purely chaotic interactions.
The very basic axioms of science assumes that there are set laws to the way the universe works.
Science focuses on finding out what these laws are, and manipulating them to our advantage.
ID in its truest sense could only address whether or not an intelligence set those laws, and therefore could never be considered a science.
The same could be said about a fully random formation of the laws due to probabilty.
Evolution is a science because it just takes observations of the world, and models ways that those observations could be true.
Creationism does the same thing. Even though most evidence discredits the current model of creationism. Another more workable model could be formed to replace it.
My personal view of things is that the universe seems arranged in such a way as to make life possible. Despite the tendancy of matter towards entrophy complex patterns can form from simpler ones. That smacks of something designed in my eyes.
Nah that added to it, but its destruction was caused by the evil overlord effect. When an evil overlord dies then his base is destroyed, and all of his minions lose what little effectiveness they might have had before.
Depends on what method you use. The semi conducting plates that most people think of as solar power cost a good bit of energy to make and are large pollution sources.
However methods that use stirling engine methods require a lot less energy to make, but tend to produce less energy, and they have to have a cold area nearby to serve as a heatsink.
In space you only lose heat through radiation which is much slower than the other methods. Unless you have a leak or something that acts as an evaporation point to leach the heat away.
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fusion and medical research
If they can find a good way to locate large amounts of deuterium they will be one step closer to making nuclear fusion a viable source of energy.
Deuterium reacts well with Tritium in fusion to produce a large amount of energy.
Actually the last sentence is completely true in that it accurately depicts my view of things. Your results may vary. Consult your physician before posting under influence.
And every other day on each of those weeks... twice.
Technically there is no upper limit established here.
They could have sold anywhere from 500,000 to infinity units by that grammar.
I come about at those numbers by inferring that since "millions" is plural it must mean more than one million so 500,000 is 25% of two million, and that once you reach 999,000,000 you do not necessarily have to begin counting in billions. You could have one million millions just as easily as you could have a trillion.
Not only is it not surprising that a scientist can be religious. It surprises me that someone can be a scientist and deny religion when faced by the fact that the universe follows various immutable laws. Science is the study of the laws by which the universe works. The fact that the laws exist would seem to suggest something to set those laws.
I look at things and see googolplexes of unlikely events happening every second to keep matter from collapsing in on itself. The universe is a vast bubbling ocean of energy that seems solid to us only because the waves of particles that make up the fundamental energies of quarks, that that make up the fundamental parts of atoms, that form into molecules, that then follow exacting rules to arrange themselves into fiendishly complex patterns of amino acids who are capable of taking raw materials in the world around them, copying themselves, and then combining with the copies of themselves to produce more complex structures that make up our fingers and nerves that relay information to our brains that interprets the data, and sends it back out in a form that makes the vast ranks of chained cells lock against each other to give us movement.
I see all of that locking together like clockwork with all the grace of poetry, and you say that somehow a knowledge that religion is just a human institution should make me not be religious.
Please.
A huge fallacy I've seen the atheistic lobby using is that since a religious person says that God did something that somehow by showing that it happens according to logically determined laws instead obviously God had nothing to do with it.
Science and Religion agree on more things then people want to give them credit for.
I once had a usb stick go bad just due to me plugging it in the socket.
To this day my computer thinks I have four usb mass storage devices plugged in. I think it burned its signature into the usb bus.
Yeah if the animals regenerate it will make it harder for PETA to kill them.
Libel. Not Slander.
/pedantic
Slander is speech.
Libel is printed.
Additional code.
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I use the gestures extension more than keyboard shortcuts myself. Mostly because my desk is suckily designed, and the keyboard tray is both too high, and too small.
Of course by "get the benefits" you mean "pay the extortion".
You assume that causality exists beyond the bounds of the universe. If causality and therefore perception of time is only one of our universe's traits then how would we know?
/.; I would be making millions on my many book deals.
Of course this is all conjecture and is pulled straight out of my ass. If I really had the answer to that question I wouldn't be posting on
ID could be a valid theory if the people who currently advocate ID had never heard about it.
These people know little about the workings of science, and merely took up ID as another weapon for their own agenda. In doing so they discredited both ID and the agenda they were trying to support.
As both a Christian and a scientifically minded person that makes me rather sad and a bit angry.
Make a business plan.
1.View sunrise.
2.???
3.Profit!
Man. Posting reasoned philosophical arguments on a slashdot discussion. You must have a death wish.
Lets hope your karma can withstand the inevitable +1 Funny and -1 Overrated mods.
I don't think that evolution is even an opposite view from ID. The opposite view would be the creation of the universe from purely chaotic interactions.
The very basic axioms of science assumes that there are set laws to the way the universe works.
Science focuses on finding out what these laws are, and manipulating them to our advantage.
ID in its truest sense could only address whether or not an intelligence set those laws, and therefore could never be considered a science.
The same could be said about a fully random formation of the laws due to probabilty.
Evolution is a science because it just takes observations of the world, and models ways that those observations could be true.
Creationism does the same thing. Even though most evidence discredits the current model of creationism. Another more workable model could be formed to replace it.
My personal view of things is that the universe seems arranged in such a way as to make life possible. Despite the tendancy of matter towards entrophy complex patterns can form from simpler ones. That smacks of something designed in my eyes.
Yeah he should try putting a cherry on top.
Everyone loves cherries!
Nah that added to it, but its destruction was caused by the evil overlord effect. When an evil overlord dies then his base is destroyed, and all of his minions lose what little effectiveness they might have had before.
The question is did you read their definition of interest. The link you gave is their definition of usury.
Except that all that energy has to come from somewhere. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
The energy that windmills pull out of the wind can alter the local weather system if there are enough of them.
Check out the various articles
Everthing I know I learned here
Depends on what method you use. The semi conducting plates that most people think of as solar power cost a good bit of energy to make and are large pollution sources.
However methods that use stirling engine methods require a lot less energy to make, but tend to produce less energy, and they have to have a cold area nearby to serve as a heatsink.
Generally a torpedo down the exhaust port works.
If that fails try throwing an old man shooting lightning from his fingers into a conveniently placed pit to the energy core.
Vacuum is an insulator.
In space you only lose heat through radiation which is much slower than the other methods. Unless you have a leak or something that acts as an evaporation point to leach the heat away.
Actually the article lists heat as a problem that they are working on.
Currently they are worried about the ship bursting into flames when exposed to direct sunlight and oxygen.
The man who is patenting this is working on making it more heat resistant.