Re: [OT News] Laser Could Rip a Hole in Space & Time

[The Doctor]

In article <636160ae-b2a2-4510...@c16g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
solar penguin <solar....@gmail.com> wrote:
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>The Doctor wrote:
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>> In article <289sc8h1emhicfj9s...@4ax.com>,
>> John Fleming <nos...@sprynet.com> wrote:
>> >[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:45:58 -0800 (PST), while chained to a
>> >desk in the scriptorium solar penguin <solar....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> $The Doctor wrote:
>> >> $> In article <c61288b8-8aa7-4225...@w3g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
>> >> $> solar penguin <solar....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> $> >The Doctor wrote:
>> >> $> >> In article <1896285434377311926....@free.teranews.com>,
>> >> $> >> Brian <bcl...@es.co.nz> wrote:
>> >> $> >> >The Doctor <doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>> >> $> >> >> In article <dvv2c81osll4h32eq...@4ax.com>,
>> >> $> >> >> John Fleming <nos...@sprynet.com> wrote:
>> >> $> >> >>> [Default] On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 17:54:05 -0000, while chained to a desk
>> >> $> >> >>> in the scriptorium "Stephen Wilson"
>> >> $> >> >>> <stephen.wils...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> >> $> >> >>>> $"Brian" <bcl...@es.co.nz> wrote in message
>> >> $> >> >>>> $news:1193592277376480872....@free.teranews.com...
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>>>
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>>> They say that Man evolved from Apes but I don't see any half and and
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>>> half
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>>> man in the world.
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>>
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>> There were some, but it was millions of years ago. If you want to see
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>> some
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>> now, just watch WWE* "wrestling". ;-)
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>>
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>>
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>> * Or whatever they've yet again changed it to.
>> >> $> >> >>>> $>
>> >> $> >> >>>> $> But if all the apes changed into men then there would be no apes in the
>> >> $> >> >>>> $> world.
>> >> $> >> >>>> $
>> >> $> >> >>>> $You still haven't really grasped the concept.
>> >> $> >> >>>> $
>> >> $> >> >>>> $Apes didn't change into men. Apes and men are more like cousins. We share a
>> >> $> >> >>>> $common ancestor.
>> >> $> >> >>>
>> >> $> >> >>> For our closest cousins, the chimpanzees, evidence suggests the last
>> >> $> >> >>> common ancestor existed about 5 million to 7 million years
>> >> $> >> >>> ago.Allowing about 20 years between generations, that is 250,000 to
>> >> $> >> >>> 350,000 generations ago.
>> >> $> >> >>>
>> >> $> >> >>> Our common ancestor with bonobos is probably just as far back, and our
>> >> $> >> >>> common ancestor with gorillas is further back still.
>> >> $> >> >>>
>> >> $> >> >>>> $Even then, evolution does not propose that all members of one group evolve
>> >> $> >> >>>> $into another. If a mutation provides a good outcome, that gene is propagated
>> >> $> >> >>>> $to the next generation. So a small group carries the mutation, but the rest
>> >> $> >> >>>> $of the group does not. Evolution is an on-going process of trial and error.
>> >> $> >> >>>> $Apes remain a part of it, as do we and all other life on earth.
>> >> $> >> >>
>> >> $> >> >>
>> >> $> >> >> Primate and human might be comparable but it is doubtful
>> >> $> >> >> that humans evolved from apes.
>> >> $> >> >
>> >> $> >> >I agree that we don't come from apes. Someone thinks to himself as apes
>> >> $> >> >look similar to humans then maybe we evolved from apes. Apes are apes and
>> >> $> >> >humans are humans just as fish and birds are different.
>> >> $> >> >
>> >> $> >> >>
>> >> $> >> >>> --
>> >> $> >> >
>> >> $> >>
>> >> $> >> The most absurd argument for evolution: birds are now the remnant of
>> >> $> >> dinosaurs.
>> >> $> >> --
>> >> $> >
>> >> $> >Why is that absurd? Give just one good reason why birds couldn't be
>> >> $> >the descendants of dinosaurs. (Hint: your explanation should take
>> >> $> >Archaeopteryx into account.)
>> >> $> >
>> >> $>
>> >> $> crows descended from dinosaurs? Robins? Magpies?
>> >> $> --
>> >> $
>> >> $Yes, that's right.
>> >> $
>> >> $Have you got _any_ evidence that they didn't?
>> >
>> >Of course he doesn't.
>> >
>> >The closest he probably gets was a trip to the Royal Alberta Museum,
>> >where they have a T. Rex and a Stegasaurus on display.
>> >
>> >Of course, those are at the larger end of the dinosaur spectrum of
>> >sizes, and it doesn't cross his mind there are some really small
>> >dinosaurs as well.
>> >
>> >Oh, and while he is trying to explain Archaeopteryx, he'll also have
>> >to explain the quill knobs on a velociraptor skeleton found in
>> >Mongolia.
>> >--
>> >
>>
>> How about a Pterodatyl turning into a bird?
>>
>> A T.Rex into a bird? LOL!!
>> --
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>No, of course not a T. Rex into a bird. That would be silly. The T.
>Rex didn't evolve until near the end of the dinosaurs' era, after the
>first birds had _already_ evolved.
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>Maybe you really _do_ think time goes backwards...?
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Forwards and the statement of dinosaurs evolving into birds
is high absurdity that Red Dwarf does a gooes job of it!
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[The Doctor]

In article <7bqtc8lg754bji48n...@4ax.com>,
John Fleming <nos...@sprynet.com> wrote:
>[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:54:02 -0800 (PST), while chained to a

>desk in the scriptorium solar penguin <solar....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> $The Doctor wrote:

>> $> In article <289sc8h1emhicfj9s...@4ax.com>,

>> $> John Fleming <nos...@sprynet.com> wrote:

>> $> >[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:45:58 -0800 (PST), while chained to a
>> $> >desk in the scriptorium solar penguin <solar....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> $> >> $The Doctor wrote:
>> $> >> $> In article <c61288b8-8aa7-4225...@w3g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
>> $> >> $> solar penguin <solar....@gmail.com> wrote:

>> $> >> $> >The Doctor wrote:
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>> $> >> $> crows descended from dinosaurs? Robins? Magpies?

>> $> >> $> --
>> $> >> $

>> $> >> $Yes, that's right.

>> $> >> $
>> $> >> $Have you got _any_ evidence that they didn't?

>> $> >
>> $> >Of course he doesn't.
>> $> >
>> $> >The closest he probably gets was a trip to the Royal Alberta Museum,
>> $> >where they have a T. Rex and a Stegasaurus on display.
>> $> >
>> $> >Of course, those are at the larger end of the dinosaur spectrum of
>> $> >sizes, and it doesn't cross his mind there are some really small
>> $> >dinosaurs as well.
>> $> >
>> $> >Oh, and while he is trying to explain Archaeopteryx, he'll also have
>> $> >to explain the quill knobs on a velociraptor skeleton found in
>> $> >Mongolia.
>> $>
>> $> How about a Pterodatyl turning into a bird?
>> $>
>> $> A T.Rex into a bird? LOL!!
>> $
>> $No, of course not a T. Rex into a bird. That would be silly. The T.
>> $Rex didn't evolve until near the end of the dinosaurs' era, after the
>> $first birds had _already_ evolved.
>> $
>> $Maybe you really _do_ think time goes backwards...?
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>Plus he jupmps onto a single example, quietly ignoring the fact
>dinosaurs were a highly diverse group of animals--probably just as
>diverse as modern mammals. (BTW, doctor, pterodactyls are not
>dinosaurs, dinosaurs being limitied to saurischia and ornithischia,
>whereas pterodactyls belong to the pterosaurs.)
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>And let's face it, modern mammals are a pretty diverse lot. Everything
>from whales to hippopotami to mice to humans to wombats.
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>Pointing at T. Rex and saying there is no link between dinosaurs and
>birds is like pointing at a polar bear and saying there is no way
>mammals could evolve flight--ignoring the fact that an estimated one
>fifth of mammal species are bats.
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>John Fleming
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