Then we have many things in common. My enemy though is not stupidity, but the evil that dominates the world today, which actually is stupid and at the same time very powerful and cunning. I also think that many problems in life are very important and science cannot provide adequate answers to them, which narrows its domain of applicability.
I assume you mean the flying spaghetti monster by FSM in the following.
The Old and New Testament are generally accepted as historically accurate in the scientific community. There do exist facts described there about which we don't have alternative sources, but that's not much of a problem. What Jesus says is that anyone who follows His word will be able to reproduce the effects He mentions on his life and existence. That cannot be claimed by the believers of the FSM or any other religion around the world, except, of course, for nourishment when consuming the spaghetti the FSM is made of, if you'll ever be able to capture it. I'm talking about empirical verification of what Jesus said. That's why it's the only and true belief.
Then why don't you accept what Jesus did and said 2000+ years before these things become well-known human capabilities or the equivalent technology is invented?
How do you know that the reason God doesn't exist is that the notion has been invented by humans? If you're in a cave and see no sun for the duration of your life, would you try to convince all of us outside the cave that the sun doesn't exist? Would there exist any reason for us to believe you?
"Mostly it's not worth even denying, usually I just laugh." Funny thing that S. Hawking doesn't laugh in the "History of Time" book he wrote. What makes you think you know more than him about this issue?
"I don't have faith god doesn't exist" Where's your evidence then?
"cultures exterminated for the purpose of spreading these idiotic belief systems." You're probably not aware that the 3rd Reich ideology was based on Neitzsche's superhuman, which is the basis for atheism for some people even today. Many also claim that Nietzsche's work is the ideological basis of communism. We're talking about regimes that caused the vast majority of deaths throughout history. What's your argument again?
The existence of Jesus is a fact since at least 5 people (His students) wrote about Him, which also did the Jewish historian Josephus. His existence is accepted by the historians around the world as far as I know.
You're saying that people that were known to be blind since birth, were actually not? People who are missing a limb can be healed by modern magicians? A man who dies because of sickness and is in the grave for 4 days and begins to decompose can actually be alive? Can you seriously support this claim?
As far as I'm aware, nothing about physical phenomena that appear in ordinary life on earth is missing an explanation, if you exclude the open questions of science. What I mean is that there is no scientist that could possibly claim with any degree of certainty that people can do today what Jesus did 2000 years ago. In trying to refute this truth, you reach irrational conclusions via irrational (and wrong) assumptions.
As for the historical evidence about the existence of Jesus, someone would think that we have at least 6 accounts for that by His students and one more by Josephus, a jewish historian. I'm really curious about who says otherwise and whether his claims are accepted by the scientific community.
People accept Jesus as God himself, because everything He said and did is true. Nothing more, nothing less.
All the confusion stems from the fact that Spazmania misappropriately used the term "efficiency" when talking about a heat pump, as efficiency is the amount of energy that was consumed by the pump to operate to the amount of heat that was emitted to the environment. It is always, according to the laws of thermodynamics, less than 1 (entropy always increases); a typical value for a fridge is 0.2. He meant the coefficient of performance (COP), which is defined in a different way.
There exists a document format that is better suited for the task you describe in my opinion. Djvu files contain the image and the OCR text so as to be able to search them, while they compress a typical 500 page book (without images, black and white) in about 5 MB. All the tools are open source and djvu files are already supported in KDE. I have been using them with excellent results (I reduced a 100 MB PDF book with images into 20 MB djvu file without any noticeable loss in quality; actually they look much better when printed).
You are mistaken; my assumptions, calculations and result are indeed correct, as can be evidenced by any reference on astrophysics and thermodynamics. The 100W value you give is clearly incorrect, as this value is the energy difference that is emitted *on earth* with an atmosphere temperature of ~300K. Do the calculation yourself, if you don't believe me. It is funny, though, that the link you give points to a PDF file, which on page 12 verifies my claim (TMG reflective garment to avoid radiation cooling). If the energy due to radiation is restrained in the suit, as the article suggests, and the man eats nothing in the mean time, the suit will slowly start radiating as its temperature rises, and after quite some time (I don't know how long a human can last in these conditions), the human will have certainly died and frozen, until he has come into thermal equilibrium with the space, which (the cosmic background radiation) has a temperature of about 2.7K.
Maybe the problem is that the freezing won't happen instantly, as some have suggested, but will take a large amount of time, just as you mention in the initial post.
By the way, a man takes 2000 kcal per day from food, which is 8000 kj, which further supports my results (1 W = 1 j/s).
I hope this helps.
The matter is very simple: according to the Stefan-Boltzmann law, power of radiation per area emitted by a black body (only depends on its temperature, nothing else) is \sigma \times T^4 (\sigma being the Stefan-Boltzmann constant). If the body isn't illuminated by a star or some form of radiation: A simple calculation yields 459 W/m^2, the area of a human body being circa 2 m^2, this gives about one kW of energy emitted per second, which is about 14 kcals per minute. The energy one person gains from food is about 2000 kcals in one day, so subjecting your body in space may make you feel cool for a while and, as the body temperature lowers, you will be feeling warmer, all the time losing energy though. The cloth you may wear is irrelevant, unless it traps most of the radiation from your body and that until it is heated up, at which point it will be radiating your energy away, just like without it (actually a bit more). Sweating will make you cold faster, though not freeze.
I hope this helps.
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Then we have many things in common. My enemy though is not stupidity, but the evil that dominates the world today, which actually is stupid and at the same time very powerful and cunning. I also think that many problems in life are very important and science cannot provide adequate answers to them, which narrows its domain of applicability.
I assume you mean the flying spaghetti monster by FSM in the following.
The Old and New Testament are generally accepted as historically accurate in the scientific community. There do exist facts described there about which we don't have alternative sources, but that's not much of a problem. What Jesus says is that anyone who follows His word will be able to reproduce the effects He mentions on his life and existence. That cannot be claimed by the believers of the FSM or any other religion around the world, except, of course, for nourishment when consuming the spaghetti the FSM is made of, if you'll ever be able to capture it. I'm talking about empirical verification of what Jesus said. That's why it's the only and true belief.
Then why don't you accept what Jesus did and said 2000+ years before these things become well-known human capabilities or the equivalent technology is invented?
How do you know that the reason God doesn't exist is that the notion has been invented by humans? If you're in a cave and see no sun for the duration of your life, would you try to convince all of us outside the cave that the sun doesn't exist? Would there exist any reason for us to believe you?
"Mostly it's not worth even denying, usually I just laugh." Funny thing that S. Hawking doesn't laugh in the "History of Time" book he wrote. What makes you think you know more than him about this issue?
"I don't have faith god doesn't exist" Where's your evidence then?
"cultures exterminated for the purpose of spreading these idiotic belief systems." You're probably not aware that the 3rd Reich ideology was based on Neitzsche's superhuman, which is the basis for atheism for some people even today. Many also claim that Nietzsche's work is the ideological basis of communism. We're talking about regimes that caused the vast majority of deaths throughout history. What's your argument again?
The existence of Jesus is a fact since at least 5 people (His students) wrote about Him, which also did the Jewish historian Josephus. His existence is accepted by the historians around the world as far as I know.
You're saying that people that were known to be blind since birth, were actually not? People who are missing a limb can be healed by modern magicians? A man who dies because of sickness and is in the grave for 4 days and begins to decompose can actually be alive? Can you seriously support this claim?
As far as I'm aware, nothing about physical phenomena that appear in ordinary life on earth is missing an explanation, if you exclude the open questions of science. What I mean is that there is no scientist that could possibly claim with any degree of certainty that people can do today what Jesus did 2000 years ago. In trying to refute this truth, you reach irrational conclusions via irrational (and wrong) assumptions.
As for the historical evidence about the existence of Jesus, someone would think that we have at least 6 accounts for that by His students and one more by Josephus, a jewish historian. I'm really curious about who says otherwise and whether his claims are accepted by the scientific community.
People accept Jesus as God himself, because everything He said and did is true. Nothing more, nothing less.
All the confusion stems from the fact that Spazmania misappropriately used the term "efficiency" when talking about a heat pump, as efficiency is the amount of energy that was consumed by the pump to operate to the amount of heat that was emitted to the environment. It is always, according to the laws of thermodynamics, less than 1 (entropy always increases); a typical value for a fridge is 0.2. He meant the coefficient of performance (COP), which is defined in a different way.
There exists a document format that is better suited for the task you describe in my opinion. Djvu files contain the image and the OCR text so as to be able to search them, while they compress a typical 500 page book (without images, black and white) in about 5 MB. All the tools are open source and djvu files are already supported in KDE. I have been using them with excellent results (I reduced a 100 MB PDF book with images into 20 MB djvu file without any noticeable loss in quality; actually they look much better when printed).
You are mistaken; my assumptions, calculations and result are indeed correct, as can be evidenced by any reference on astrophysics and thermodynamics. The 100W value you give is clearly incorrect, as this value is the energy difference that is emitted *on earth* with an atmosphere temperature of ~300K. Do the calculation yourself, if you don't believe me. It is funny, though, that the link you give points to a PDF file, which on page 12 verifies my claim (TMG reflective garment to avoid radiation cooling). If the energy due to radiation is restrained in the suit, as the article suggests, and the man eats nothing in the mean time, the suit will slowly start radiating as its temperature rises, and after quite some time (I don't know how long a human can last in these conditions), the human will have certainly died and frozen, until he has come into thermal equilibrium with the space, which (the cosmic background radiation) has a temperature of about 2.7K.
Maybe the problem is that the freezing won't happen instantly, as some have suggested, but will take a large amount of time, just as you mention in the initial post.
By the way, a man takes 2000 kcal per day from food, which is 8000 kj, which further supports my results (1 W = 1 j/s).
I hope this helps.
The matter is very simple: according to the Stefan-Boltzmann law, power of radiation per area emitted by a black body (only depends on its temperature, nothing else) is \sigma \times T^4 (\sigma being the Stefan-Boltzmann constant). If the body isn't illuminated by a star or some form of radiation: A simple calculation yields 459 W/m^2, the area of a human body being circa 2 m^2, this gives about one kW of energy emitted per second, which is about 14 kcals per minute. The energy one person gains from food is about 2000 kcals in one day, so subjecting your body in space may make you feel cool for a while and, as the body temperature lowers, you will be feeling warmer, all the time losing energy though. The cloth you may wear is irrelevant, unless it traps most of the radiation from your body and that until it is heated up, at which point it will be radiating your energy away, just like without it (actually a bit more). Sweating will make you cold faster, though not freeze. I hope this helps.