Park Life

How can one not doubt it?

I don't mind contemplating a Deist God who may have created the universe - though I doubt he exists - but that concept does not relate in anyway to man made Gods like Yahweh. How can you doubt something exists if you have no data to go on? Surely that is as much a belief systim? Yes? As you were.

I'm sure this has been justified by saying there must have been more water in the past which has evaporated into space. I think some physicists have claculated the excess water would have severely affected the Earths tilt and orbit though (apart from the evaporation bit being bollocks). I saw a calculation based on the volume required to cover the earth to any kind of depth (never mind to cover Everest) which came up with a ludicrous amount of water which would have needed millions of years to fall as rain. Of course the writers thought the world was a tad smaller than it actually is. In general it's the old argument - if you want to believe in the God you say you do than he could have just clicked his fingers to drown the planet without rain so don't try and mix science in with your total bollocks. Would you need that much water for a meteor strike and a possible resultant tsunami rushing across lowland Europe? Indeed. I thought 2012 explained all this?

Europe being nowhere near where the story is set. The story it was stolen from (Gilgamesh) supposedly was based on the inundation that formed the black seas but that was way before 4000 BC. Are you discounting the existence of god based on your knowledge of a tiny little planet in a dinky silly little solar sytem on the edge of a minute wheel galaxy?

Chavez is going on Twittah apparently.

I'm sure this has been justified by saying there must have been more water in the past which has evaporated into space. I think some physicists have claculated the excess water would have severely affected the Earths tilt and orbit though (apart from the evaporation bit being bollocks). I saw a calculation based on the volume required to cover the earth to any kind of depth (never mind to cover Everest) which came up with a ludicrous amount of water which would have needed millions of years to fall as rain. Of course the writers thought the world was a tad smaller than it actually is. In general it's the old argument - if you want to believe in the God you say you do than he could have just clicked his fingers to drown the planet without rain so don't try and mix science in with your total bollocks. Would you need that much water for a meteor strike and a possible resultant tsunami rushing across lowland Europe?

In think The Inspiration is sometimes willing to debate but he's at the more sensible end of the spectrum and not a creationist. We probably need Parky to lend his unique viewpoint. People are overlooking the fact that 'God' can create as much water as he likes, whenever he likes. FACT. But can he create so much water he cannot drink it all? He drinks Special Brew and hangs around in the local library iirc.

In think The Inspiration is sometimes willing to debate but he's at the more sensible end of the spectrum and not a creationist. We probably need Parky to lend his unique viewpoint. People are overlooking the fact that 'God' can create as much water as he likes, whenever he likes. FACT.

Beer will be cheaper.

Think I said somewhere in here portugal would be next... By Sarah Turner LONDON (Dow Jones)--European shares tumbled on Tuesday, with Greek stocks plunging as the specter of debt restructuring continues to hang over the Hellenic Republic with Standard & Poor's cutting their ratings on both Portugal and Greece. After Monday's rise of 1%, the Stoxx Europe 600 index tumbled 3.1% to 261.65 as Standard & Poor's cut Greece's debt rating to junk territory, and also cut Portugal's debt rating two notches. S&P threatened to cut both ratings further. "The downgrade of both Greek a.... Goldman Sachs had something to do with Greece as well, but I can't find it.

I nominate Stevie.

Bloody frogs...clueless. How much money have I now lost on this tie and how much do I hate Bayern.

The assets of that whole ugly thing should be confiscated and it should be dissolved with all the key players jailed for life.

Predictive programming.

I'll ask em.

Previous | Next » General , Phobos Fly-By 2010 , Science 22 March, 2010 15:16 First look at the MARSIS radar data for Phobos I have just received the following information from Andrea Cicchetti of the MARSIS radar team. Congratulations to all of those involved; I look forward to the full analysis. -- Stuart MARSIS, the radar aboard the Mars Express orbiter, has successfully observed Phobos again. MARSIS is a multi-frequency, synthetic aperture, orbital sounding radar that operates in the range 1.3-5.5 MHz with a 1 MHz bandwidth. The closest flyby in which MARSIS operated during this fruitful Phobos season took place on March 7th 2010, during the 7915th orbit of Mars Express, when the orbiter reached a minimum distance from the surface of Phobos of about 112 km. For instrument safety reasons, the radar software blocks operations when the target is closer than 240 km. Therefore the team had to devise a new set-up of the main navigation parameters, allowing them to reduce the minimum operational distance down to 175 km, while maintaining a high level of safety for the instrument’s hardware. During this flyby, MARSIS successfully collected 6478 echoes from Phobos in just 72 seconds. The carrier frequency was centred at 4.0 MHz with a 1 MHz bandwidth. Taking advantage of the instrument’s internal mass-memory facility, it was possible to store and then downlink the raw unprocessed echoes. Credit: ESA and MARSIS team. After the ground-processing of science data, it was found that the radar worked successfully during the flyby. The figure above shows echoes reflected by Phobos as the highest peak in the signal, clearly above the noise level. Scientific analysis of the results is still ongoing. The main quest is the determination of the origin of detected echoes: are they reflections from various surface features of Phobos, or have they been produced by the internal structure of the moon? The MARSIS radar was originally designed solely for the observation of Mars. However, thanks to the Italian operations team, working in collaboration with the international instrument science team, it was possible to re-configure it to allow the observation of Mars’ moon Phobos, a unique target, thereby expanding the scientific capabilities of the mission. In the first phase of the data analysis, the main goal was to validate a new operative configuration of the onboard software and hardware. The scientific analysis of existing and future data will provide us with new and unique insights on the nature of Phobos’ interior. Andrea Cicchetti For the MARSIS Team

If they wanted to attack us they would have done it thousands of years ago.

Good post. Identity is freedom, freedom is love, love is ALL.

They did mate. How observant and synchronous of you Cheggers.

Search on for Death Star that throws out deadly comets Nasa scientists are searching for an invisible 'Death Star' that circles the Sun, which catapults potentially catastrophic comets at the Earth. By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent Published: 8:00AM GMT 13 Mar 2010 A brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass star and the sun. This diagram shows a brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass star and the sun. Photo: NASA The star, also known as Nemesis, is five times the size of Jupiter and could be to blame for the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The bombardment of icy missiles is being blamed by some scientists for mass extinctions of life that they say happen every 26 million years. Nemesis is predicted to lie at a distance equal to 25,000 times that of the Earth from the Sun, or a third of a light-year. Astronomers believe it is of a type called a red or brown dwarf – a "failed star" that has not managed to generate enough energy to burn like the Sun. But it should be detectable by a heat-sensitive space telescope called WISE, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer. Launched last year, WISE began surveying the skies in January. It is expected to discover a 1000 brown dwarfs within 25 light-years of the Sun – right on our cosmic doorstep – before its coolant runs out in October. The nearest normal star to us is around 4.5 light-year away. Our solar system is thought to be surrounded by a vast sphere of icy bodies, twice as far away as Nemesis, called the Oort Cloud. Some get kicked in towards the planets as comets – giant snowballs of ice, dust and rock – and the suggestion is that the Death Star's gravitational influence is to blame. The paleontologists David Raup and Jack Sepkoski discovered that, over the last 250 million years, life on Earth has been devastated on a 26-million-year cycle. Comet impacts are suggested as a likely cause for these catastrophes. A similar impact by an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a major inquest by scientists concluded last week, though that is not being blamed on Nemesis. Most stars have one or more companion stars orbiting around each other, which would make the sun's single status unusual. A major clue to Nemesis's existence is a mysterious dwarf planet called Sedna that was spotted on an elongated 12,000-year-long orbit around the sun. Mike Brown, who discovered Sedna in 2003, said: "Sedna is a very odd object – it shouldn't be there! It never comes anywhere close to any of the giant planets or the sun. It's way, way out there on this incredibly eccentric orbit. The only way to get on an eccentric orbit is to have some giant body kick you – so what is out there?" Professor John Matese, of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, says most comets in the inner solar system seem to come from the same region of the Oort Cloud – launched by the pull of a companion star to the sun that scatters comets in its wake. He suggests it is up to five times the size of Jupiter or 7,000 times the size of Earth. He said: "There is statistically significant evidence that this concentration of comets could be caused by a companion to the Sun."

Really loving this.

The right wing Christians are off their rockers basically. But by some strange coincidence might be part of the core groups that stand upto the madness of the Federal dictatorship. Swings and roundabouts ain't it.