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ditchwalker,




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Sometimes folks will end out in what they call the middle of now where but I call home. The look around and see all the space I find a comfort and they get a mite nervous because of the lack of other people and city things. Most will ask me what I do to keep from going crazy. I generally tell them I laugh a lot. Then they leave and I relax and start laughing again. There is a lot in this world that is funny. You just have to stop and laugh.

Ever think of breeding Lil' Miss Twelve Step ?

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Best, Pat

The dumbest thing I ever heard:

Several years ago I had a mailroom job and worked with a girl named Wendy. Apologies in advance for the stereotype, but Wendy was blonde and had been a cheerleader in high school. One day several people were discussing the merits of donating organs upon our deaths when Wendy says "I could never do that." "Why not?" I asked. "Well, this might sound dumb, (oooh boy, if Wendy thinks it might sound dumb, you better brace yourself!) but I'm afraid that, like, if I donated my eyes then when I got to heaven, I wouldn't be able to see."

I had to leave the room...

She is carrying her third. She gets this summer off from cow work so that she can be a mom. Her first two have been keepers. One went to a neighbor boy. He was in need of a good cow horse to help him grow up right.

OK, I think I have the winner.....
Pulled this off a board today.. the guy was touting his HK 91 as the best round beacuse....


ya know when ever I am feeling down I just get on the net and find something that makes me laugh all day

lewis

lewis,

Dat's funny!

I knew they made rubber projectiles for shotguns, had no idea they made them for the .375 and other medium and big bore cartridges! (grin)

Please splain gravity. I have always wondered about it. I understand magnetic flux fields since I was a navy electrician and how they create electricity. I thought gravity was somehow related to that.

So what is the technical explanation? Molecular forces of attraction on a macro level? I have studied carbon filtration and the tiniest pieces of crap are kept attached to the filter medium by some molecular attraction force I forge the name of... Is it that stuff? And how could rotation create that? Relative motion between a conductor and a flux field creates electricity, but how is gravity created by motion. What is the physics underlying it? heck..... what IS gravity anyhow?

In due time Dixie...

I sense that you are not quite ready for the enlightenment.
Patience.

That is what the engineering supervisory staff at work says then they have no cogent answer for us grub mechanics! LOL

DF, I don't think anybody really understands the exact mechanism behind gravity. If they do, that has come about since I studied physics.

It definitely does not come from the rotation of the universe or the galaxy.

All matter and energy have the property of mutual gravitational attraction. Every object in the universe is attracted to every other object, and that attraction is equal to g*M1*M2/(r^2). The effect of the force seems to propagate at the speed of light.

Gravity is also indistinguishable from acceleration. If you're in a phone booth, being accelerated through space, you can't distinguish what you experience in the way of downward force from that of gravity.

denton,

As I sat on the toilet while ago I pondered the idea that the laws of physics did not come into being until after the big bang. If that is the case then why did the particles continue away form the origin under the force of momentum. Inertia says the big bang would not happen because it would require something acting on it. If momentum existed because the laws are now instantly extant so is gravity. Thus the big bang would still colapse on itself.

It is all a phylosofical escape mechinisim to atempt to get away from the proven scientific principal of cause and effect. There has to be an Infinite First Cause to bring into existance the universe which appears to be infinite to us finites.

There was a very short period of time after the big bang when Resnick and Halliday (THE undergrad general physics text) simply did not work. Since the event was once in a universe, we will probably never untangle exactly what happened... nothing there we can relate to very well.

When I studied physics, Kip Thorne had just recently said that there might be such a thing as a black hole. They had not yet been observed. So our knowledge may have advanced considerably in the past few decades. The prevailing theory then was that if you could ever somehow get inside a black hole, and survive, you'd find yourself in what appeared to be a separate universe. So our universe could be a black hole in someone else's universe, which could in turn be a black hole in yet another universe, and so on.

When the Big Bang happened, there was a lot of matter and energy dumped into our universe. That gave all the matter an outward "kick". The question is whether that kick was great enough for escape velocity, so the universe continues to expand outward forever, or whether the kick was not enough for that, and the universe will eventually collapse back into itself.

Either way, we get a free ride.

denton,

Perhaps, maybe, could be, they think, hope so, might be, posibly, etc., etc., <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Or it could be there is a God Who created.

Both proposals require faith. Why? Because no man was there to observe and science, if it is anything, is observable.

How do you step outside of the universe?