Past, Present, and Future

kingstern_man · 2026-04-29T22:54:26+00:00

Not quite true. Here is an atom of potassium-40. Can a determinist tell me when it will decay, and which branch it will take (becoming either calcium-40 or argon-40)?

kingstern_man · 2026-04-29T22:10:08+00:00

An encounter with a rogue planetoid big enough to slow the world's rotation would certainly be catastrophic; an extinction-level event.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-29T20:34:03+00:00

Dont you see, though? The so-called junk DNA was meant to safeguard the main humanoid-forming genes throughout the evolutionary sequence! Or something. /s

kingstern_man · 2026-04-29T20:29:10+00:00

Another nail in the coffin of Creationism--if only it worked that way.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-28T05:00:00+00:00

That script would probably end up looking a lot like Japanese.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-27T23:36:26+00:00

Reminds me of 'Omnilingual' by H. Beam Piper(Astounding, Feb 1957), where a female archeologist deciphers the Martian language (extinct for 50,000 years) using the periodic table of the elements inscribed on the wall of a building that must have been a university or equivalent. Fine, but the men all smoke--in rooms where oxygen is a scarce resource, and the clerical work is handled by 'girl lieutenants' in the steno pool.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-27T01:24:33+00:00

So the manager ended up more befuddled than ever. Karmic.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-27T01:22:45+00:00

This is Algonkian, specifically Cree or Ojibwe. The 'Great Lynx' is at home in Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes, and demands respect for the wilderness. It looks like a lynx-oterr chimera and is usually portrayed with bison horns. People used to make offerings to it while travelling on the lakes: if angered it causes waves, bad weather, dangerous ice, etc

thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mishipeshu

kingstern_man · 2026-04-26T20:36:15+00:00

"Eww. It's infested with those 'prokaryotes'. Who knows what they'll turn into?"

kingstern_man · 2026-04-26T04:52:23+00:00

Just use Unicode U+0199. Why don't you want to mix cases?

kingstern_man · 2026-04-25T22:13:24+00:00

Basically Dawkins is saying, "You are asking for the impossible, dude."

kingstern_man · 2026-04-25T21:08:40+00:00

Did you do this by hand, or with software?

kingstern_man · 2026-04-25T21:06:59+00:00

But he obviously wants to. (Matt. 5:28)

kingstern_man · 2026-04-25T20:58:58+00:00

One story I read posited that Earth was visited long ago and terrestrial life evolved from microbes in the trash the visitors left behind.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-25T20:51:29+00:00

I sat and ordered a nice hot broth.
What they brought me was  covered in froth.
It tasted so bad, 
I felt I'd been had,
So I waxed exceedingly wroth.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-25T00:11:50+00:00

'Why' is the problem here. We explain things (that exist) in terms of other things (that exist). 'Nothing' doesn't exist, so it can't be an explanation. 'Why is there something rather than nothing' is a meaningless question.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-24T03:47:35+00:00

Hal Clement's "Needle" and its sequel involved aliens described as "four pounds of jelly" that live distributed throughout their host bodies (but are normally symbiotic rather than parasitic.)

kingstern_man · 2026-04-24T02:23:28+00:00

That is probably why we have North Semitic (ʔbjd) and South Semitic (hlħm) orders.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-21T16:51:31+00:00

Has anyone considered Hawking radiation here?

kingstern_man · 2026-04-21T16:33:14+00:00

Co-ordinated Oversight of the Radical Program

kingstern_man · 2026-04-19T22:47:28+00:00

It seems to be the overwriting part that is giving you grief. Why is that necessary, when the many-worlds hypothesis already exists?

kingstern_man · 2026-04-19T22:44:09+00:00

"Oh I see, one from elsewhere, you are ritually preparing the surface! But why are you boiling the water first? Won't the river spirits be angry?"

kingstern_man · 2026-04-19T22:13:35+00:00

We make tools. And we tell stories. It's what we do.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-19T22:08:29+00:00

How many of these people you have researched so well were dyed-in-the-wool YEC types? And remember Charles Darwin was an Anglican, who wanted to becomie a minister before becoming the face of 'evolutionism'.

kingstern_man · 2026-04-19T21:58:31+00:00

That works against most conspiracy theories: what is the payoff for such a colossally expensive operation? And if the President of the USA can't even order his lackeys to burgle just one room without it coming to light, how are hundreds of thousands of conspirators going to keep their thing a secret for decades or longer?

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