[Newfie]

I hear Bush bought over 100,000 acres in Paraguay.

Ever wonder what he knows?

http://www.trufax.org/general/bush_fami ... ay_up.html

[Aging gypsy]

Yep, fresh water.
It`s going to be the new oil.

[Pretorian]

well I dont know, just a few years ago any yokel could buy himself land there for about $5-6 an acre. But yeah, there wont be shortage of water or electricity anytime soon.

[Newfie]

The point is not the water or the price.

The point is, he appears to be thinking about it.

Maybe he just has enough money to buy this the way you or I would buy a silver dollar. Kinda interesting thing to have around. Maybe not.

It bears watching.

[Jenab]

Special relativity tidbits.

v = tanh(at/c)

The speed of an object (as a fraction of the speed of light) under constant acceleration with respect to the frame in which it is initially at rest is equal to the hyperbolic tangent of the following: the magnitude of the acceleration, multiplied by the time under acceleration, divided by the speed of light.

t = (c/a) tanh⁻¹(v)

The amount of time needed to reach a speed (v) is equal to the speed of light divided by the constant acceleration (a), and multiplied by the arc-hyperbolic tangent of the speed as a fraction of the speed of light.

v[n,1] = tanh { Σ[i=2,n] tanh⁻¹( v[i,i−1] ) }

The accumulated velocity of n co-linear velocities (each expressed as a fraction of the speed of light) is equal to the hyperbolic tangent of the sum of the arc-hyperbolic tangents of each next velocity with respect to the previous accumulated velocity.

[SeaGypsy]

and the likelyhood of collision parallels exponential acceleration.

[Carlhole]

HuffPo

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ONDON -- Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking finds no room for heaven in his vision of the cosmos.

In an interview published Monday in The Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old says the human brain is a like a computer that will stop working when its components fail.

He says: "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

[scas]

He also says that global warming will raise the earths temperature to 250 degrees Celcius and the skies will rain sulfuric acid. But we all know glubba wubba is a hoax therefore heaven exists.

[SeaGypsy]

American culture is a myth.

[gollum]

I'm no bible thumper, but what a dim and sad view of the universe.

[AgentR11]

He's drunk to much of the coolaid if he believes that he knows whether there is a spiritual existence outside the physical. There simply are no rational tools available that can test the truth or falsity of such a hypothesis.

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'H')e's drunk to much of the coolaid if he believes that he knows whether there is a spiritual existence outside the physical. There simply are no rational tools available that can test the truth or falsity of such a hypothesis.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'T')here simply are no rational tools available that can test the truth or falsity of such a hypothesis.

[sparky]

.
soon enough , I'll be able to give you the answers

if you don't receive it , either there is no afterlife , there is no internet link
or I have other things to occupies me

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'S')ure there are rational tools to verify the hypothesis.

[scas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m no bible thumper, but what a dim and sad view of the universe.

[scas]

My idea of heaven is jetting through space to distant galaxies, visiting distant planets that have evolved life. Stopping next to a nebula or binary star and just take in the view. Visiting the past, future, even other universes.

Instead, Allah tells me I get rivers of honey and milk. If I kill myself in his name, I may get 72 virgins or possibly some white raisins if he was speaking in Aramaic rather than Arabic. Boring.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('scas', 'M')y idea of heaven is jetting through space to distant galaxies, visiting distant planets that have evolved life. Stopping next to a nebula or binary star and just take in the view. Visiting the past, future, even other universes.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/stephen-hawking-heaven-is-a-myth_n_862394.html]HuffPo[/url]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ONDON -- Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking finds no room for heaven in his vision of the cosmos.

In an interview published Monday in The Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old says the human brain is a like a computer that will stop working when its components fail.

He says: "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."