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Post by Ginnie on Jan 2, 2011 13:58:18 GMT -4
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 26, 2010 19:58:38 GMT -4
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 26, 2010 12:03:49 GMT -4
Maybe single columns next time?
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 19, 2010 14:59:36 GMT -4
Funny, with all the CGI today, that the dust still billowed when the astronauts foot hit the ground.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 13, 2010 18:45:19 GMT -4
When men provide dinner for the family, it is either by barbecuing or by ordering pizza. Not all men! I do 80% of the cooking in my home and most of the cleaning too. My wife does do the laundry though - she doesn't like the way I do it. She also does all the financial stuff thank goodness. Oh, and I don't bake - she does.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 9, 2010 17:57:05 GMT -4
Ive had years of experience with Hagbardceline and can say he will just throw out one claim after another and when the claim gets a bit sticky he just changes the subject. He uses stock responces like "its round my dads house" and "ive already covered that". Ah, here's somebody I've met before methinks. Actually JD I do make every attempt to respond to your points when we cross swords elsewhere. If I say that some piece of evidence is round my dad's then it's because it is. i used to live there. As I said to Laurel above, some of my old childrens' books give an interesting spin on the subject matter of Apollo eh? So, if you're using old children's books from the eighties - will you accept information from the book I have, "The Encyclopedia of Space" from 1970?
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 6, 2010 20:39:55 GMT -4
The only parts of the news we really want to watch are the weather and maybe sports, but we watch most of the rest anyway. Watching the weather reports creates anxiety for me too - I don't like hearing that the there is a big snowstorm coming or freezing rain. I kid you not.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 6, 2010 19:31:56 GMT -4
I keep up with the news (and I absolutely love The Daily Show), but I also have to limit my exposure to it sometimes because I'm an anxious and sensitive person. For example, hearing too much detail about certain notorious violent criminals (I don't want to name names) really upsets me, so I change the channel if they are being discussed on TV and I don't read articles about them online. Gillianren, if it's not too personal a question, did your friend decide on the news moratorium herself or did a mental health professional tell her not to watch the news? For me, it's a form of self-censorship: "I think this is bad for my mental health, so I won't watch it." I, too have anxiety issues, along with panic attacks. I stopped watching the news for a few years because they kept mentioning mortgage and interest rate hikes. I kid you not!
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 2, 2010 14:50:23 GMT -4
Finally proof that California is populated by aliens. That explains a lot. ;D I happen to know as a fact that intelligent life has existed in California for decades - Neil Young moved there in the late sixties.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 2, 2010 13:35:40 GMT -4
NASA is holding an astrobiology conference at 2 pm EST today. There is speculation and rumours about "alien life" being discovered : "At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today,slatest.slate.com/id/2276561/Oh, here's the link to the conference at 2 pm: www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 18, 2010 22:36:50 GMT -4
I like the concept that 25000 mph is so fast that no one can spot it. In terms of speed, while fast, it's still a tortoise in the grand scheme of things. It was worse than that. It was a 25,000 MPH Polar Orbit. His definition of a Polar Orbit? One describing a tight circle around the North Pole, over, say, 80 degrees north. He needed this kind of orbit so that the CSM stack could remain in the perpetual sunshine of the northern polar summer and unobserved from the ground. Another example of how a HB will make up his own physics to prop up the idea that Apollo was hoaxed. Huh? Is this not impossible? Or, would it be possible if you had a vast amount - and I mean a lot- of fuel?
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 18, 2010 17:06:54 GMT -4
Wow. Thats all I can say...
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 17, 2010 21:52:20 GMT -4
The funny thing is, if Jarrah claimed that a manned Apollo could, from low Earth Orbit, be boosted to 25,000 mph, then according to orbital dynamics, he is admitting that a manned Apollo can be flow out to lunar distances. He essentially agrued that Apollo lunar missions were, in fact, done! I like the concept that 25000 mph is so fast that no one can spot it. In terms of speed, while fast, it's still a tortoise in the grand scheme of things. I would depend on how close it was too ya...
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 15, 2010 18:51:08 GMT -4
Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould had different views on evolution, but were good friends. Different views on evolution? I'm pretty sure that Gould agreed with Dawkins that evolution is still a perfectly good scientific theory. Did you perhaps mean that they had different views on religion? I had the pleasure of sitting next to Gould on an airplane flight from San Diego to Minneapolis a few years before he died. As we flew over the Grand Canyon he had his nose pressed to the window. I couldn't help but say, in a rather exaggerated tone of voice, "You know, all that was created in just 40 days by the Great Flood!" We had a good laugh followed by a very interesting conversation. I was very sorry to later read that he had died; I hadn't even realized he was sick. In a set of controversies over the mechanisms and interpretation of evolution (the so-called 'Darwin Wars'),[40][41] one faction was often named after Dawkins and its rival after the American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, reflecting the pre-eminence of each as a populariser of pertinent ideas.[42][43] In particular, Dawkins and Gould have been prominent commentators in the controversy over sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, with Dawkins generally approving and Gould generally being critical.[44] A typical example of Dawkins' position was his scathing review of Not in Our Genes by Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin and Richard C. Lewontin.[45] Two other thinkers on the subject often considered to be allied to Dawkins are Steven Pinker and Daniel Dennett; Dennett has promoted a gene-centred view of evolution and defended reductionism in biology.[46] Despite their academic disagreements, Dawkins and Gould did not have a hostile personal relationship, and Dawkins dedicated a large portion of his 2003 book A Devil's Chaplain posthumously to Gould, who had died the previous year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 10, 2010 20:00:05 GMT -4
How about Richard Dawkins: "The God Delusion"? That's the 2nd time I've heard that book mentioned, this week. My waitress talked about it while we were discussing Stephen Jay Gould's "Wonderful Life" (which goes a long way to explain why I'm a regular at that particular burger joint). Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould had different views on evolution, but were good friends. I believe Dawkins did publish a short eulogy for Gould when he passed away.
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