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I could say the same with the governments assignment of FEMA and NIST to research the september 11th attacks. That the investigation into the most bizarre collapse in recorded history was assigned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (which is a government institution), and not to ...

The plane impacts did nothing to dislodge the thermal insulation, its a proven mathematical impossibility, this was confirmed by NIST who, again, did the research and provided all the numbers but left the answer blank. But given how ignorant you've already proved to be on all the other aspects of 9...

You know, just as a kick (though you know they'll never do it), the engineers should, just once, turn this thing on to stick refrigerators to it. 8) Unfortunately that kind of magnet is designed to provide a pulse (less than a second long), not a continuous magnetic field. But I am sure that commer...

It's pretty funny they'd say that after a reactor leaked some coolant and ... didn't go into meltdown. Especially because already last night the news reports were saying that the reactor was being shutdown. I bet he doesn't even know what a meltdown IS, and just thinks it means 'reactor explodes'. ...

From BBC : Slovenia sparks EU nuclear alert A leak of coolant prompted Slovenia to completely shut down the reactor at its only nuclear power plant. The European Commission said parts were still cooling after the shutdown, but the situation was under control. It said there appears to have been no d...

example this higher evolved person could think that murder is ok or that stealing from the lesser evolved people is ok and technically we should not attempt to stop this person because he has evolved higher than us and to try and stop him would be to impede his progress and then he would have the r...

isn't she stuck in another dimension or something? To be fair, there's a way I'd really like to see her come back. If someone or something built whatever artifice the Time Lords used to allow people to undertake dimensional travel with ease, then she should be the Doctor's first and immediate desti...

Being Italian, I was raised in my family as a Catholic, although none of my relatives was particularly devout. In my teenage years I was busy playing the altar boy, more for social reasons than actual belief (though somebody saw me on the way to priesthood...). During my undergraduate years I lived ...

Here is the entropy rate balance for a control volume: dScv/dt = Sum(Qj/Tj) + Sum(mi*si) - Sum(me*se) + sigma_cv This equation applies to open systems! So evolutionists are dishonest when they say the Second Law of Thermodynamics does not apply to open systems! Yes, we know that creationists are pr...

In the movie Duncan was killed by a special bullet: when it got stuck in the shield, it started drilling its way through it until it hit Duncan in the forehead. That...is quite possibly the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Bringing a gun to a knife-fight is not really dumb. I believe that's a hunter-s...

The shiled it solid when hit by an object travelling at "high" speed. Therefore if you throw something at someone that is designed to latch on and then has an appendage to stab slowly through the shield, as now that the relative velocity issue is fixed that can be done. In the movie Dunca...

So, Torres tries talking with Dreadnought while Chakotay stands there glaring at her (she sent the thing off in the first place without his permission, see). It turns out that it decided she was trying to deceive it, so it played along until she was off. It's weighed the possibility of being someho...

The Norwegians reworked their education system just a few years ago to get in line with the rest of europe; before then you only had a 5 year masters program. They've now added an option of only doing a 3 years bachelors degree, but from what I've experienced, it's looked down upon. They did the sa...

Science is a discipline where you want the best the top 0.1% working, because it's better to dump all the money and resources into the geniuses than on a large number of lesser grunts, unfortunately. Most researchers are not geniuses. If you want research to be done, you need grunts. Highly qualifi...

"This is not war. This is pest control."


(Yes, you can beat me for me-tooing if you want, but this quote seems to be appropriate.)

Oh, that Neal Adams!

He showed up in the "Bad Astronomy and Universe Today" forum: link to thread.
He did not stay long, probably because the members were not impressed.

The joint American-Canadian International Border Enforcement Team has now asked officials in Derby Line and Stanstead to come up with proposals for blocking vehicle traffic.

How about building a wall, just like in Berlin?

Aren't many rail lines in Europe elevated at areas where the tracks cross a road, just to prevent this sort of thing? I thought so. I've never seen a single European crossing that's like ours. There are plenty of crossings between railways and roads in Italy and England, as far as I have seen (in G...

Zixinus wrote: Can someone point me to a good source regarding nuclear power (yes, I've checked Wikipedia)?

Have a look at the Freedom For Fission website.

Yes, France generates nearly 80% of their electricity from nuclear power and is the largest electricity exporter in Europe. One of their notable customers is Italy,... And we get the gas from Russia. ... who shut down all their nuclear plants years ago and are now the world's largest net importer o...

The plasma universe folk get involved in regular debates on the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forums . There is not much point in debating them, since as they see it the facts are quite clear, but still, many people continue to make the attempt. You should see how some of the Plasma Cosmology/Electr...

I think the conspiracy theorists severely underestimate the difficulty of a controlled demolition, not to mention arbitrarily ignoring the obvious destructive force of huge chunks of building smashing into another building. That's because the conspiracy theorists have almost no real-world experienc...

The Yosemite Bear wrote:I don't know Kane does chase someone down to the ends of the earth over a 12 year old girl, that kane didn't even know....

Yes, but he is basically a fundie.

Is it really so hard to come out and say that science, while it lacks the heavily developed ethics codes of medicine or engineering, still has some ethics, and one of them is that you can't graduate scientists who are willing to publish papers that they don't actually believe to be accurate? The qu...

Apart from advanced teaching lab (and, of course, my work), the most interesting experiments I saw were demonstrations in Physics class for non-physicists.
I was most impressed seeing a second-order transition from gas to liquid (usually one gets to see these as first-order transition).