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Re: Von Braun and Suzanne.

xanth...@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:55:35 UT

>>>> [link]
>>> The ONLY thing that this links to is your post.
>> If you think about it, that would be physically
>> impossible, as the posting would have to exist
>> somewhere in a news spool and have a URI before a
>> tinyURL pointer to it could be constructed, and

Re: did man walk on the moon...and creationism.

use...@mcsuk.net (Ye Old One) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:53:50 UT

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:33:15 -0800 (PST), Suzanne
[snip]
Please. Do yourself a favour. Get those remedial reading lessons you
so urgently need.

Re: did man walk on the moon...and creationism.

use...@mcsuk.net (Ye Old One) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:52:20 UT

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:11:01 -0800 (PST), Suzanne
Honest, it does.
No, it means that there as modern archaeologists who have set aside
the bias of their predecessors and now look at the actual evidence.
Who, in the end, concluded that the evidence of Jericho (and other
sites) did not support the biblical account.

Re: "Survival of the Sickest"

ap...@email.com (All-seeing-I) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:45:22 UT

I read some interesting information on Vitamin D and darked skeined
people in relation to disease. To put it simply, they need more
Vitamin D (mostly made from sunlight contacting the skin) because
their dark skin absorbs less. The problem is compounded with age. The
reason their skin absorbed less is two fold. 1)they generally lived in

Re: Cats brain is a Go. at IBM.

b.scha...@ed.ac.uk (Burkhard) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:45:18 UT

I'm totally with spin on this, there are just too many things we are
told that just don't add up.
Just think about it: Usain Bolt allegedly runs 100m in 9:58s, and they
call this a world record. And Noah Ngeny runs the 1000m in 2:11:49,
and they call_that_ a world record too. When _obviously_, the 100m

Re: What did the first talking monkey's mom look like?

b.scha...@ed.ac.uk (Burkhard) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:29:47 UT

Correct analogy. It is to some extend arbitrary where you draw the
line between "French" and the language from which French gradually
evolved. Similarly, it is to some extend arbitrary where you draw the
line between the type of sound based communication in grunts and
shouts that you observe in monkeys and football fans, and "proper"

Re: It's hard being green

mankyg...@yahoo.co.uk (Devils Advocaat) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:24:53 UT

This may shed some light (or fur) on the subject:
[link]

Re: palin, naipul and creationism

xanth...@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:33 UT

[massove snip]
> [...] what's equally disturbing is how many people
> think palin is the saviour of the nation
In these hard times, she could win just by running
on the "a moose in every pot" platform, promising to
shoot each moose personally herself until they are
extinct.
She could then work her way down the rest of the

Re: I have a new job!

nos...@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:55:37 UT

Over here it is a formality in the sense
that the 'promovendus' cannot fail.
He'll get his doctor's 'bul' anyway.
However, the impression he/she makes while defending
may influence his/her chances of getting a postdoc position.
It's a small world after all.
In the long ago past there have been cases of people

Re: OT: elephant drawing

ap...@email.com (All-seeing-I) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:46:42 UT

That is pretty amazing. I followed one of the links to some still pics
that were pretty good too.
Elephants are pretty cool.

Re: What did the first talking monkey's mom look like?

stephan...@gmail.com (backspace) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:17:06 UT

Evolution or natural selection?
Lets extend the question back to Latin, Sirian until the very first
language, lets call it "Fanagalo."
What did the first speaker of Fanagalo mom look like? By definition
having a first language means somebody had to speak it, now what did
his mom look like? It implies that the first language was simply given

Re: Keeping up with creationist claims

richardalanforr...@googlemail.com (richardalanforrest@googlemail.com) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:06:23 UT

Even if the slip surface offers no resistance whatsoever, the problem
of kinetic energy still remains. If the plates were moving a million
times faster than they are now, they need to be slowed down by
something, and that means that the kinetic energy of the plate - which
is mass times the *square* of the velocity - has to be dissipated as

Re: What did the first talking monkey's mom look like?

stephan...@gmail.com (backspace) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:58:35 UT

False analogy because the mother of the first French speaker could at
least speak a language - any language. But since there was a time when
monkeys couldn't talk at some point we had to have the first talking
monkey: What did its mother look like to an observer back then ?

Re: My nans not well.

j...@wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:56:42 UT

In article
<a5adbd7b-302a-4cbd-88f4-8c458 db2f...@e4g2000prn.googlegroup s.com>,
I will:
Oh Great Satan, Father of All, bestow thy gifts upon this woman and
bring her a quick and painless death.
... Is that not what was wanted?

Re: My nans not well.

christopher.den...@gmail.com (Christopher Denney) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:23:29 UT

Sorry, well wishes are the best I can do.