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Response to: The funniest NG Flash. Posted October 30th, 2008 in General

watch them both in order all the way through

Response to: Best Fbf Sequence On Newgrounds? Posted October 30th, 2008 in General

good FBF:

impressive fbf fight choreography:

just throwing this one out there as well:

Response to: To the citizens of the USA. Posted October 27th, 2008 in General

this exact thread has already been posted

Response to: Doom or Duke Nukem Posted October 26th, 2008 in Video Games

Duke Nukem, cause it had babes

Response to: Facebook offends Democrats Posted October 26th, 2008 in General

makes sense because Obama is a commie

Response to: test of wits Posted October 26th, 2008 in General

don't have an ex

so yeah that'd be pretty strange

Response to: Sean Hannity's History of Radicals Posted October 26th, 2008 in Politics

Yeah, the whole Ayers controversy is really pathetic. I've lost a lot of respect for quite a few conservative commentators over it.

At most, Obama is guilty of trying to diminish his connection with Ayers, but all politicians try to downplay issues like that. He never lied about it. And, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the connection itself; they're trying to pull guilty by association.

Response to: Biological matter created in exper. Posted October 26th, 2008 in Politics

At 10/26/08 03:11 AM, Elfer wrote: What, my observation that there's more than ten liters of water on the Earth?

Aren't we talking about "primordial soup" conditions? The ocean would be a pretty huge primordial soup. I've always felt its size would make the solution too dilute for anything to happen.

If these amino acids are forming inside volcanic pools, then that's probably where the first self-replicating substance formed. If they enter the ocean, they are never reacting with each other to form anything higher. I think that's obvious (though I suppose I could be wrong).

It's a hundred thousand light years in diameter.

Well, some civilizations would obviously precede ours by many years, giving time for their signals to reach us. 50,000 years or whatever is a small amount of time, and so it's unlikely we're the first within that time period to obtain maturity, especially since the Sun isn't even that old compared to a lot of stars. Anyway, I just don't think the great silence is expected considering how plausible the proponents of abiogenesis like to make it seem. One would expect life to be everywhere, including intelligent life--but where the heck are they? It basically seems to confirm what the skeptics here are saying, that even with lots of time, it's still extremely, incredibly unlikely.

Response to: Everybody's Mind Works The Same? Posted October 26th, 2008 in General

i believe researchers have done studies on identical twins separated at birth and have determined a correlation between genetics and intelligence

Response to: Biological matter created in exper. Posted October 26th, 2008 in Politics

At 10/26/08 12:37 AM, Elfer wrote: Yeah, those people are crazy though.

eh, didn't seem more flawed than your observation about the amount of water on Earth

As far as I know, for the MU experiment to apply, you have to have volcanic lightning striking pools that volcanic emissions have seeded with the right mixture of compounds or something.

As for the lack of radio signals, I'd be tempted to explain that by the fact that space is really, really, incredibly, unfathomably big.

our Milky Way with 200,000,000,000 stars isn't that large though.

Response to: Is Palin the next Dan Quayle? Posted October 26th, 2008 in Politics

Dan Quayle's flubs weren't a big deal, and neither was Palin's comment about the veep's role

Response to: Why are you americans so patriotic? Posted October 26th, 2008 in Politics

I'm not patriotic. America is a crappy country full of dumb shits. :P

Response to: Biological matter created in exper. Posted October 25th, 2008 in Politics

At 10/25/08 11:01 PM, Elfer wrote: people would dismiss it as a cleverly disguised feat of synthetic chemistry.

also, you do realize a lot of people already make those claims about the MU experiment, right?

for instance read this, and there are people out there crying foul too

Response to: Biological matter created in exper. Posted October 25th, 2008 in Politics

At 10/25/08 11:41 PM, flyingtiger wrote: Though you might accuse me of being premature, I do think the lack of evidence bodes well for the idea of abiogenesis

or rather does not bode well

Response to: Biological matter created in exper. Posted October 25th, 2008 in Politics

At 10/25/08 11:01 PM, Elfer wrote: So, can you at least see the difficulty in demonstrating this concept in the laboratory?

well I think the big test will be visiting other planets that are similar to Earth to see if life has developed there. If we visit hundreds of other worlds just like Earth with no signs of life, then that may suggest something special happened here after all. Such findings would seem to counter your "amino acids + heat + time = basic self-replicators" equation, since all of those, particularly the time component, should be present in those others places too.

Personally, I am interested in the fact that no indications of extraterrestrial life have been found, through direct exploration, listening for radio signals, and so forth. Though you might accuse me of being premature, I do think the lack of evidence bodes well for the idea of abiogenesis. If it happened here, it MUST happen elsewhere, because there are too many other planets for life to be a one-time occurrence.

Response to: What do you think of Atheism Posted October 25th, 2008 in General

At 10/25/08 10:44 PM, killslasher wrote: I agree with both of these statments, the spelling was horrible, and that definately isn't my theory.
Most Christians (the intelligent ones, anyway) believe that Adam and Eve was a metaphor, from things ranging from the triggering of evolution to billions of people, male and then female being created at once by God.

actually the Bible never says Adam and Eve didn't have daughters; therefore, if you believe Genesis, then the logical conclusion would seem to be that brothers married sisters

the Church takes no official position in explaining Genesis in terms of an evolutionary origin of the human race. It does say that, regardless of how their bodies developed, God created their souls. Officially, the Church discourages interpretations that run against scientific fact.

What followers do interpret more metaphorically is the 6-day creation period, which appears to be told in a manner so to establish the Jewish week in which each day of creation corresponds to a day of the week. As far as I know, the 7-day week predated the Jewish 7-day week referred to in the Bible. This 7-day week was probably already a custom, and the story of Genesis was written in a manner to correlate the stages of creation with the days of the week; that is my theory anyway--it is by no means a consensus belief among Christians.

I personally do not feel that metaphors, such as Adam and Eve being a metaphorical representation of the two genders, are very satisfactory from a theological standpoint. The Bible clearly teaches these two individuals sinned, and their descendants were born under the consequences of that sin, requiring them to redeem themselves according to God's covenants. That is what Christianity is all about.

Response to: Ultimate most painless way to die Posted October 25th, 2008 in General

At 10/25/08 10:34 PM, Funfrog211 wrote: I would prefer to die while I sleep. Nothing bad would come from it. I would just die naturally, and no pain what so ever.

yeah but a morphine or heroine overdose might be kinda fun actually; imagine the high you'd get before fading away

ASSUMING it's painless..but I doubt anyone really knows what that would really be like at the very end

Response to: Ultimate most painless way to die Posted October 25th, 2008 in General

At 10/25/08 10:36 PM, JollySpace wrote: Drinking 100 beers then shooting yourself in the brain.

shooting yourself in the brain doesn't necessarily induce instant unconsciousness, and, if it didn't, I can't imagine alcohol would completely numb the pain

Response to: Ultimate most painless way to die Posted October 25th, 2008 in General

morphine overdose?

Response to: Stop arguing about Astrology. Posted October 25th, 2008 in General

At 10/25/08 07:07 PM, Earfetish wrote: I'm just anti-religious. OMG OMG WHAT A DOUCHEBAGGY PHILOSOPHY, you're going to HELL!

I didn't call you a douchebag because you're anti-religious. My uncle is an atheist and anti-religious, and I have a lot of respect for him. But, he's not a condescending intolerant prick.

Response to: Stop arguing about Astrology. Posted October 25th, 2008 in General

At 10/25/08 12:04 AM, Earfetish wrote:
At 10/24/08 11:53 PM, Bovineoverlord wrote: Wait a minute...are you saying that you've stopped being a militant douchebag atheist and become an intelligent, tolerant atheist?
Replace the 'astrology' with 'religion'.

The argument is still dumb.

in other words: he's still a douchebag

Response to: im worried about america Posted October 25th, 2008 in General

if an atheist ran for president, atheists would vote for him/her for that reason, and you know they would

Response to: Will Smith is on steroids Posted October 24th, 2008 in General

At 10/24/08 05:09 PM, Le-Froid wrote:
At 10/24/08 05:06 PM, weirdoo wrote: wait... Will Smith? Like, the guy actor guy????
This guy

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Response to: So . . .why . . . Posted October 24th, 2008 in Where is / How to?

because the designers of this website prefer aesthetics over functionality

Response to: No, seriously, Culture sucks Posted October 23rd, 2008 in Politics

Yeah, and I'm sure that people living in primitive tribes in Africa where everyone runs around naked would scoff at the arrest of a woman in the US because she took her top off at a beach.

Anyone who claims to have a universal set of rules that determines proper social norms is a fucktard and a pretentious asshole.

Response to: I lol'ed Posted October 23rd, 2008 in General

Your Grade: A-
92% You Passed with an Excellent Score!

Response to: how come your average joe? Posted October 23rd, 2008 in General

At 10/23/08 01:05 PM, Randy74 wrote: Cause they are famus, DUH!

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I mean, JohnnyUtah once uploaded a one frame flash with some scribbling on it as a joke and it got like a 2.8

Response to: Movies you'd like to see in 3D Posted October 23rd, 2008 in General

omfg guise I totally wanna see this in 3D!!

Movies you'd like to see in 3D

Response to: Stranded on Island for no reason. Posted October 23rd, 2008 in General

1. food
2. water
3. antonella barba (lol)

Response to: How many kids you have? Posted October 23rd, 2008 in General

I have ~3.14 kids