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I provided you with a link to the information, but apparently clicking a link and educating yourself was much tougher than repeating the same questions. So here it is pasted directly from the link: It's not enough to just know that there is a little bit of ice on the moon. If we're going to...

From what I gather the ability to have Reputation display the sender is part of the Elite permissions. Is this correct? I would suggest changing that one item from Elite to default, as it would probably lessen the trolling done through anonymous reps. I just received a nonsense post to my rep...

Think of all those people waiting for "The Rapture". Supposedly 40% of the US population believe Jesus is coming to bring them up to heaven in the next couple of decades. But what if they've mixed up Rapture and Raptor. We've all seen the picture. Jesus riding his velociraptor. Maybe he's coming...

I haven't picked up Dawkins' latest book, but I've been reading The Selfish Gene and there's some amazing stuff in there. The explanation of evolution in base molecules to achieve complex molecules and eventually simple life is elegant and easy to grasp. I'd never really thought about...

Thanks Stoney :) It's good to be loved. Especially for an opinion that a lot of people would happily murder me for having :) CrackerJax: Dawkins refers to it in The God Delusion. I have the audio book, rather than the print version. Is it excerpted from something else?

The only bubble you live in is the one you create for yourself.

I didn't associate the name with other posts either. I just thought it was high Xian ramblings. I shall holster my weapon! Funny thing about these arguments, is I haven't seen any call each other names yet. We can rip each others beliefs to shreds but there's no name calling against each...

HAARP is used to study the ionosphere. It's potential as a weapon lies in its ability to charge up a section of the ionosphere and disable enemy air vehicles using high frequency RF. But it doesn't put out enough energy to do anything more than localized effects on the atmosphere.

And no. There will not be a shockwave. Look up "vacuum" on wikipedia.

Just think how surprised he'll be to find out that 90 million miles from us there's nuclear explosion in action. It's going to kill us all! Or give us women with tan lines.

Because most impacts are the far side, out of view of us. There's not as many craters on the side facing us because the earth blocks that trajectory. Also, you want to know in advance where the impact is going to be, as the tools to analyze the impact will need to be focused in on a relatively...

How about a missile up Uranus? :twisted: Um, not my missile. I take that back. :neutral:

Because we have these people called scientists. And they understand some basic physics. :P And some advanced ones as well. The moon has been hit by hundreds of thousands of objects larger than LCROSS. Have you ever been hit by a grain of sand? LCROSS would be smaller than that on this scale.

Oh for fuck's sake. You've been reading the Huffington Post. Did they mention that Bigfoot was piloting it too?

Because it's completely wrong. Here's some info from a NASA scientist on what they're doing: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/14/lcross-impact-site-picked/ Note that if they actually had a bomb on board LCROSS, some foreign powers with very big nuclear bombs would be...

Yes, go back to school. It's worth it. And if you're thinking about going on to College, you can look up stuff that your interested in, find out what courses are required and bring your marks up in them if you already have them. They will take that into account as you being someone who is...

They are not BOMBING the moon. The LCROSS orbiter is being crashed into the moon. This would be similar to crashing a semi-trailer into the earth. It will not destroy the moon. It will not perturb it's orbit. It will kick up debris that can be monitored with a spectroscope to see what molecules...

No, no. He makes perfect sense. He has some previously unknown information which invalidates it. The thousands of geologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists that have tested, and refined it are simply lacking the key bit of information that he has yet to reveal. Once it becomes available...

Holy. That's a new one for me. You can induce mutation that easily in these plants? Not through cross-breeding but from short term stress? Damn! edit: Okay, I re-read that a couple of more times, and it sounds like it's not a matter of the genes themselves changing, but the stresses are...

The clone is simply an extension of the original plant. The genes which express the traits remain consistent. So if you look at traits which can be effected by external influences, it's much more probable that it was those external influences which had a hand in it, rather than a spontaneous...