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Oct 11 2013 07:34pm
Maybe this will work. Instead of creating all these topics regarding pseduoscience and "theories" from youtube and the conversation you had while stoned, post those questions here so we can refer people to this thread when someone makes a ridiculous post.

And feel free to ask anything about science in general. I might not have the answer, but there are plenty of people with a solid education here that things can get a decent answer.
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Oct 11 2013 07:41pm
oh oh oh what does a black hole look like from the side?

seems like a good place to start.
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Oct 11 2013 07:43pm
are you saying theories and science shouldn't be discussed together?

hmm

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Oct 11 2013 07:44pm
maybe one explanation for the preponderance of ridiculous posts can be gained from the articles quoted in http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=68968721&f=119
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Oct 11 2013 07:44pm
For example, here are some cool articles:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/vancouver-aquarium-alarmed-at-mass-die-off-of-starfish-on-ocean-floor-1.1486434

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Last month, a diver alerted Vancouver Aquarium staff that he had found a number of dead and decaying sunflower sea stars in the cold Pacific waters of a popular dive spot just off the shore of West Vancouver.
Within weeks, the tentacled orange sea stars had all but disappeared in Howe Sound and Vancouver Harbour, disintegrating where they sat on the ocean floor.


http://phys.org/news/2013-10-evidence-nuclear-magic.html

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Researchers have come one step closer to understanding unstable atomic nuclei. A team of researchers from RIKEN, the University of Tokyo and other institutions in Japan and Italy has provided evidence for a new nuclear magic number in the unstable, radioactive calcium isotope 54Ca. In a study published today in the journal Nature, they show that 54Ca is the first known nucleus with 34 neutrons (N) where N = 34 is a magic number.


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are you saying theories and science shouldn't be discussed together?

hmm


I wouldnt call the incoherent ramblings of a teenager who thinks they discovered how life works a theory...

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Oct 11 2013 07:48pm
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I wouldnt call the incoherent ramblings of a teenager who thinks they discovered how life works a theory...


By mentioning the fact that I think its plausible that the moon isn't natural, means I have discovered how life works?

I think you're ignorant and close-minded

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Oct 11 2013 07:50pm
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By mentioning the fact that I think its plausible that the moon isn't natural, means I have discovered how life works?

I think you're ignorant and close-minded


What kind of experimental evidence is there for your supposed theory? Sorry dude... I dont think there is any.

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maybe one explanation for the preponderance of ridiculous posts can be gained from the articles quoted in http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=68968721&f=119


I stay away from that section because unlike the science forum, there is nothing that can dispell falsehoods or strengthen truth. Its a scary place :cry:

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Oct 11 2013 07:56pm
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What kind of experimental evidence is there for your supposed theory? Sorry dude... I dont think there is any.



I stay away from that section because unlike the science forum, there is nothing that can dispell falsehoods or strengthen truth. Its a scary place  :cry:


if you listened to part of the video I cited, or did ANY research of your own, before jocking your keyboard

sorry dude... i dont think so
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Oct 11 2013 08:00pm
Quote (known954 @ Oct 11 2013 06:56pm)
if you listened to part of the video I cited, or did ANY research of your own, before jocking your keyboard

sorry dude... i dont think so


So paraphrase it because I dont really want to watch an hour long video that has a title "Was the Moon Intelligently & Deliberately Created ?"

Because how can you prove anything like that? Doesnt it seem less plausible that some unknown entity created it, rather than the hypothesis' accepted by the scientific community?

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Oct 11 2013 08:03pm
Quote (Subwoofer @ Oct 11 2013 09:41pm)
oh oh oh what does a black hole look like from the side?

seems like a good place to start.


It doesn't look like anything. To "look," requires light. A black hole is absolved from all light, as it's gravity is stronger than light is fast; thus light cannot escape a black hole.

A black hole; technically doesn't look like anything from any angle. Any visualization given to a blackhole is merely a pure concept designed to give speculative clarity to how it works, rather than what state it exists in.


/e

With that said, this is what it looks like.


This post was edited by Immortal0 on Oct 11 2013 08:05pm
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