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04-19-2009, 06:46 PM
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#51 | I bringith the lowerballerith
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anyone ever watch the movie "contact"? relevant to this post, one of my favourite sci-fi movies of all time too
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04-19-2009, 06:56 PM
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#52 | I don't get it
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There probably is an alternate universe, or galaxy even to ours. Just goes to show that anything is possible, and we're all just a tiny speck (even smaller) than anything else in the universe.
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04-19-2009, 06:57 PM
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The other stars that we see today might have died already at this point in time. It's just depressing until we can find a way to travel faster than light or bend space and time.
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04-19-2009, 09:16 PM
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#54 | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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^ quick..jump into a black hole!
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04-19-2009, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by !SG makes you wonder, in this universe, there has to be an exact twin of yourself... | Right now I'm fapping to Megan Fox but in another universe at the same time I'm fapping to Gal Gadot! WHOA that's Mind Blasting! |
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04-19-2009, 10:16 PM
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#56 | The "You'd Know" Moderator
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Originally Posted by skyxx Right now I'm fapping to Megan Fox but in another universe at the same time Megan Fox is fapping to me! WHOA that's Mind Blasting!  | Fixed.
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04-19-2009, 10:24 PM
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#57 | I don't get it
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And i quote from what my bf said today,
"See, this is why I question the existence of God.."
This makes me feel so much smaller and less significant than i already thought i was |
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04-19-2009, 10:28 PM
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#58 | I don't get it
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Can anyone recommend good books on this sort of thing?
And by good, I mean something an idiot can understand.
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04-19-2009, 10:51 PM
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#59 | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Originally Posted by ZhangFei how does that "prove the existence of Alien life"?
it is plausible that there are aliens, but i don't think there is any hardcore evidence that aliens exist. it would put aliens and ufos on the same level as religion | Do these pics and numbers mean anything to you? Our existence means nothing...we're a spec on the beach...who the fock would visit us? Quote:
Originally Posted by Presto There is no solid proof, for or against, of an afterlife. What you state is not fact. |
Safe to say...there is no afterlife...religion is a scam...only tool it serves is for it's moral values. Quote:
Originally Posted by sf666@BNR32 great post, but... still i want more money. | LOL aint that the truff...
after we finish reading this thread...we all go back to the daily grind for the paper....this is how the universe actually runs. |
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04-20-2009, 12:06 AM
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#60 | SardaukarMod
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Originally Posted by ShanghaiKid anyone ever watch the movie "contact"? relevant to this post, one of my favourite sci-fi movies of all time too | it was just on the family channel. watched it again just for kicks. on a side note, mmm... jodie foster.
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04-20-2009, 12:10 AM
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#61 | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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^uh...not in that movie, they couldn't have made her more of a lesbian if they tried. I know she slept with McConaughey, but she was pretty dyked out throughout the movie.
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04-20-2009, 12:34 AM
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#62 | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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anyone else notice that the pic is watermarked from jj.am :O you sure you were doing "work" and not taking a break from killing kittens? |
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04-20-2009, 02:22 AM
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#63 | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by for the nguyen! Can anyone recommend good books on this sort of thing?
And by good, I mean something an idiot can understand. |
Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene
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04-20-2009, 07:55 AM
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#64 | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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04-20-2009, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Ludepower Do these pics and numbers mean anything to you? Our existence means nothing...we're a spec on the beach...who the fock would visit us?
Safe to say...there is no afterlife...religion is a scam...only tool it serves is for it's moral values.
LOL aint that the truff...
after we finish reading this thread...we all go back to the daily grind for the paper....this is how the universe actually runs.  | couldn't be more right. everyone that isn't tied up to 420 style philosophy and making up stuff with their imagination knows that there's an end to a life just like there's a beginning. once you're dead, that's it. your life doesnt matter, as much as we'd like to think it does. religion is basically psychological police that kept us sane from the beginning
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04-20-2009, 10:47 AM
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#66 | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe couldn't be more right. everyone that isn't tied up to 420 style philosophy and making up stuff with their imagination knows that there's an end to a life just like there's a beginning. once you're dead, that's it. your life doesnt matter, as much as we'd like to think it does. religion is basically psychological police that kept us sane from the beginning |
I'm not completely positive on that. I don't know what happens and neither do you.
I think my experiences with different states of consciousness have made me aware that nothing is quite as it seems, things really are ambiguous and your senses and brain together only paint a very small picture of reality.
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04-20-2009, 11:03 AM
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#67 | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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04-20-2009, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe couldn't be more right. everyone that isn't tied up to 420 style philosophy and making up stuff with their imagination knows that there's an end to a life just like there's a beginning. once you're dead, that's it. your life doesnt matter, as much as we'd like to think it does. religion is basically psychological police that kept us sane from the beginning | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason00S2000 I'm not completely positive on that. I don't know what happens and neither do you. | +1
There is no proof as to what happens when we die. If you want to subscribe that we become nothing but worm food, that's good for you.
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04-20-2009, 01:21 PM
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I think we shouldnt limit ourselves to the "Laws of Physics". It is a set of theories that are developed on Earth and how things behave in the other end of the universe may be vastly different. We should continually modify the laws and accept that physics as we understand is not complete.
And in theory, if we can travel at the speed of light, time will stand still. If we can travel FASTER than the speed of light, time goes backward. SO, it may be interesting if say a planet A is 10 lightyears away, the image we see is from 10 years ago. If we can travel faster than the speed of light, time goes backward and we can reach planet A without discrepency in time, we'll be there "now"
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04-20-2009, 01:40 PM
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^great first point. the laws of physics on earth dont change, but outside of earth? same rules do not apply
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04-20-2009, 05:06 PM
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#71 | I don't get it
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Originally Posted by Jason00S2000 Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene |
Thanks, dude. I'll check it out.
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04-20-2009, 08:30 PM
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#72 | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by q0192837465 I think we shouldnt limit ourselves to the "Laws of Physics". It is a set of theories that are developed on Earth and how things behave in the other end of the universe may be vastly different. We should continually modify the laws and accept that physics as we understand is not complete.
And in theory, if we can travel at the speed of light, time will stand still. If we can travel FASTER than the speed of light, time goes backward. SO, it may be interesting if say a planet A is 10 lightyears away, the image we see is from 10 years ago. If we can travel faster than the speed of light, time goes backward and we can reach planet A without discrepency in time, we'll be there "now" |
Yes, Newton long pondered what a bucket on a rope, filled with water, and set to spin, how it would react in a universe with no other matter in it.
Fabric of the Cosmos goes in depth on some of the theories and we really don't know what things are like on the other side of the universe.
Read up on dark matter and dark energy. Also, the universe is actually speeding away from itself at a faster and faster rate, leading some to believe in billions and billions more years, the universe will become dark and a complete blank slate again.
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04-20-2009, 08:31 PM
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#73 | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by for the nguyen! Thanks, dude. I'll check it out. |
It is an awesome books.
The next book I read after was Schrodinger's Kittens, then a couple other books. My other favorite book is Origins of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
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04-21-2009, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by q0192837465 I think we shouldnt limit ourselves to the "Laws of Physics". It is a set of theories that are developed on Earth and how things behave in the other end of the universe may be vastly different. We should continually modify the laws and accept that physics as we understand is not complete.
And in theory, if we can travel at the speed of light, time will stand still. If we can travel FASTER than the speed of light, time goes backward. SO, it may be interesting if say a planet A is 10 lightyears away, the image we see is from 10 years ago. If we can travel faster than the speed of light, time goes backward and we can reach planet A without discrepency in time, we'll be there "now" | great second point, laws of physics aren't broken by any means.
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04-21-2009, 08:18 AM
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And people still beleive there is no life in outer space!
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