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This is a selfless act, and one that goes against the common narrative that Muslims are intolerant. Way to go people! Egypt Muslims to act as "human shields" at Coptic Christmas Eve mass http://english.ahram.org.eg/Media/News/2011/1/5/2011-634298460253213155-321.jpg http://english.ahram.org.eg/News...

Nik wrote:Uh, if they can get controlled fusion working, building even a modest power station --Or replacing / supplementing the fossil-fuel stages-- would pay for their space project...

mmmmmm hmm.

We eat like crap, and sit on our butts. We don't move like our bodies are designed to move, we sit in chairs all day, etc... We eat a highly grain-based, corn-based diet, we don't eat fat, and we're told red meat is the devil. There's a billion things I could point out here, but suffice it to say th...

DHe3 has been popularly credited as aneutronic for decades. Only purists insist it isn't. D-³He is not a-neutronic due to the D-D side (actually dominant at the lower energies) reaction. Yes, I know. Note the qualifying adverb popularly . Regardless, DHe3 is 1/16th as neutronic/"toxic" as the "pref...

My recollection is that "Usury" is excessive interests. If I remember correctly, it is any interest rate in excess of 10%. i.e. "loan sharking." That is the current distinction. But the KJ Bible uses the term "usury" throughout the ir Bible while the New International Version uses "interest". And t...

So, in my book, Barry Goldwater was dead wrong in 1964. Extremism is not only a terrible vice, it is the most pernicious evil humanity has ever faced, all through the millennia. I see way too much of it in public discourse here in the states, including some of these conversations here in this forum...

Left wing extremism (socialism) is just as bad as right-wing extremism (fascism). Fascism isn't right-wing extremism. Fascism is a cousin to socialism. It simply says "You can own it, but we're going to tell you what to do with it." For example: You have to pay your workers X amount per hour. You h...

I never understood why Christians could jump on the Socialist bandwagon... Socialism relates to Christianity not by the consideration of money, but by the consideration of welfare for others. Christians are concerned with the welfare of others in that THEY personally are responsible for taking care...

Problem is that private charity is benefiting from the tax incentives associated with it. If you lower the taxes as you suggest, there is no incentive left. So there will be a lot less charity. People are by nature greedy. You think people give to charity because they get a tax deduction? Honestly?...

Don't think the Lord is all that happy with Capitalism either. The Old Testament contains prohibitions against charging interest. OTOH, the New Testament has parables about wisely using interest... Anyone for the years of Jubilee every seven and forty-nine years? Usury. not interest. Aka excessive ...

The problem with socialism is that there is a christian desire in the western world to do right by all people. This makes socialism and the politics of the left very appealing to many people. Usually, it is the young who have not had real life experience that support the left. I never understood wh...

Look, I am all for private industry where it makes sense. Certain things dont make sense though. Education should be there for everyone, not just for the privileged. Education always will be there for everyone. When you return 90% of someone's money back to them that you previously were taking from...

A superconductor which goes critical at 0C or even -10C can be maintained by your regular household freezer (or a simple glycol loop cooling) or any similar system on board a vehicle or even spacecraft. If you're creative enough, you would probably even be able to do it with a TEC for mobile applic...

Stoney3K wrote:What can I say, I watched a lot of Stargate Atlantis...

Was it Stargate, or some other show, where the intro & promos said "Imagine being transported 30,000 light years into the future..." I remember that from over a decade ago and still think it was the most stupid thing I've ever heard.

That poses another question: How are you supposed to calculate the energy stored in a superconducting loop, when it has effectively zero resistance? Inductance. Or equivalently the energy of the magnetic field produced by the current. That's the question I have... the energy of the magnetic field i...