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Brilliant!

Where utter simplicity and EXTREME reliability are paramount (think spacecraft half a billion miles from home), thermo-electric generators are almost a must. But in other cases, efficiency has its benefits! Yes, but depending on how much small the difference due to this nanomaterial is, it might af...

I believe the lowest performing group in the American economy - blacks - now have an average income equal to the average Swede. On a purchasing power parity basis. Hmm, not so sure, which one of these you are basing your assumption on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)...

Bad thinking. Well, not to different from the socialists here. Is it. Same problem, differnt color. I must say though that the ID folks have done much less harm than the Socialists. That I am not entirely too sure about, but you might have a point here. Still (and TallDave completely and entirely m...

Because the efficiencies are abysmally low. Exactly! Now the question is how much better that Nanomaterial is (if it says it somewhere in that article, I cant read it anymore...grrrr). And then the question is how much lower an efficiency pays off when you consider the increased simplicity of the r...

Msimon wrote:Where did all the Euro Socialists come from?

Where did all the US Intelligent Design believers come from?

You are of course correct. During the time I was doing 3D programing it became so commonplace for me to regard a vector as a Direction I mostly ignored it's scalar value. There were only a few cases where a vector was used exactly the way it was created. More often than not, I had to unitize it and...

Have you ever seen a movie called "Quigly Down under" ? yes, I think I did. IIRC, think the English got away to well in it. Anyway it is one movie, versus how many Nazi movies? You were talking to Texans? Oh, that explains it. Help me real quick, where was your last president from again? ;) Serious...

That was Babylon 5...

Really I just saw the evil "Space Nazis" again with the nightwatch or whatever it was called and the symbols on the armbands...

Just wanted to wish all Christians here a merry Christmas. For all the others a politicaly correct "Happy Holidays" ;) For Simon (and the other jewish here): Happy Hanukkah! Light the candle... (Ok, maybe it is a little late for that, I am not sure about the exact date for this, since that is not a ...

The Nazis scared the h*ell out of people, and in some ways they have over reacted. People had all right to be scared. It wa a horrible time. There is no excuse for it. But, I do consider it rather unfair, that the Germans are made the symbols of evill, when pretty much everybody else had some dirt ...

Seriously, there was never any real discussion of any serious retaliation against France. Boycotts and criticism Yes. War ? Absolutely not! Of course not among politicians, at least none that I know of. But I personally talked to a bunch of texans that were serious about it. Doctors here must also ...

The problem with any religion (including ideologies like communism) is that they are ultimately very conservative. They have to be. Their principles are based on something that someone made up with the knowledge standard at that point in time (or less than that). So any new scientific discovery thre...

Today we call it Zitterbewegung and file it under Quantum Mechanics...

God does not throw dice... neither does Allah
Just messing with you guys.
I think that this comparison is a bit far fetched Alex.

I should add, that any religion or ideology, will always try to ban science that could question its dogmas. If it cant ban it, then it will try to demonize it. Demonization of certain branches of science is always a good indicator for how "open" a society, or a political direction really is. In this...