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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:48 pm
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What time is it now, where you are? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:18 pm
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| Early evening out in the desert. What a wonderful evening it is. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 7 x headed serpent + Man bags |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:11 pm
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cyberdora wrote: they never wanted to explain how a 200 tonne statue could be moved around when archaeologists couldn't barely move a 1 tonne stone with palm fronds and twine 
200 tons? When I did a web search this morning, the results said that the heaviest was something like 86 tons. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Life Possibly Discovered |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:05 pm
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| We don't know much about the exact details of how life developed on Earth. It seems to me that the idea of panspermia is entirely one of "since we don't know how it developed, it must be something outside of Earth no matter how preposterous". It is nothing more than an appeal to a supernat... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:50 pm
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Windows Recall malware reintroduced |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:44 pm
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| For my servers, it is OpenBSD although I have toyed with the idea of using FreeBSD. As somebody daily-driving FreeBSD I'd say unless your hardware is unsupported by other BSDs (or ye want bhyve VM so badly), there's IMO no reason to prefer it over Open / NetBSD. It feels a bit messy compared to the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Physically weaker |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:53 am
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| You should do strenght training if you don't want to get weaker. There's no way around that. Exactly. And the older we get, the harder it is to maintain strength. A friend of mine in his mid 70's had some minor surgery four of months ago and was not allowed to work out the month before and the two ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 7 x headed serpent + Man bags |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:45 am
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| Cultures tend to be conservative though. or example Most of east Asia as once Hindu prior to Buddhism. Sharing ideas is on thing, but wholesale cultural change is something nobody can explain. I think of Conservatism as being more about preserving the great institutions of your culture in order to ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Windows Recall malware reintroduced |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:11 am
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Garthilium wrote: kokopelli wrote: Ubuntu and Mint. I would say try mint 
My top choice for workstations for the last 25 years has been SuSE Linux, but that's probably not the best for people trying Linux out. For my servers, it is OpenBSD although I have toyed with the idea of using FreeBSD. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Life Possibly Discovered |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:30 am
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| It's an alternative explanation that makes no sense at all. I don't believe in magic. It's not magic. Something shaped like a pancake comes spinning on it's axis from outside the solar system. It showed no sign of being a comet or a meteor. It accelerates at speeds that seem to indicate an artifici... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Life Possibly Discovered |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:18 am
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cyberdora wrote: kokopelli wrote: Do you really want to replace science with speculation? It's not speculation. It's an alternative explanation that remains scientifically plausible as no conventional explanation currently makes sense.
It's an alternative explanation that makes no sense at all.
I don't believe in magic. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Winter and Electric Vehicles |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:16 am
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0F6fucC1wg Here's a more modern version. Apparently it is to detect something called "hydraulic lock" on radial engines so that you can take corrective action to avoid damaging the cylinders. From https://www.avweb.com/features/the-pilots-lounge-27radial-e... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Life Possibly Discovered |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:59 am
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| Remember the "oumamua" interstellar visitor? It is going very fast -- something like 50 to 60 miles per second. At that rate, it would take many thousands of years to arrive from another planet with life and for that to happen, the "spores" would have to be accelerated to very h... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Life Possibly Discovered |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:55 am
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| I don't buy into the "panspermia" conjecture at all. Even more, we don't need it. It is enormously more likely that the organic molecules that are the building blocks of life formed naturally in Earth's atmosphere that that some "spores" from outer space made it here and started... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:52 am
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| According to Wikipedia, some of the heads were found by the side of the road where hey fell. If it was some kind of advanced civilization doing it, they presumably would have been able to lift them and finish transporting them to the destination. If it were humans moving them and one toppled, then i... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Winter and Electric Vehicles |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:49 am
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| Another thing they used to do on some really big engines was to have a short line of soldiers who would push a blade through and then get back in line. This was to distribute oil in the engine before starting. |
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