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Hubble Operations Control Room
In answer to bigbikeman's question... I think the answer is rather straight forward. Profits. War/Oil-mongers in the government want profits. They pursue those profits at the expense of the taxpayer. We as taxpayers foot the bill for their profiteering. Is it cool? No. Is it productive? No, not for humanity. But it sure has heck profits.
The powermongers which run governments, not only the US government, seek short term gains at the expense on long term benefits to humanity.
Same old crap as seen throughout history.
Occasionally we get lucky and something good comes out of it. If only we could be more consistent about it.
Bill Maher Explains the Debate: Evolution vs Creationism
MAGIC IS REAL.
Joe Biden VP Acceptance Speech @ DNCC '08
-Georgia invaded Ossetia first, with the support/assistance of the US. Russia then overreacted and kicked their ass. It is a conflict over oil and control over oil pipline pathways. That simple. It has nothing to do with Georgia's Democracy.
-Stop claiming that you will wipe out our dependency on foreign oil. Impossible... unless we wipe out half the Earth's population and completely switch to an alterate source. Fusion power maybe?
-God Bless America and protect our troops.. because God prefers 'us' over them. 'He' surely recognizes national borders, and takes preferences to us over 'those infidels' Yeah.. good logical thinking.
Dennis Kucinich at DNC: Wake Up America
Parents Plead Not Guilty In Faith-Healing Death
Chuck Norris THE VIDEO GAME!
Don't Be Gay
Oh. Also snakes can talk.
A whale swallowed a man whole, then he survived.
The Earth was COMPLETELY inundated by water during the floods. Then the water just receded. Where the water receded to... I have NO IDEA. Magic I guess. Conservation of matter simply does not apply. It up and vanished. I wonder if the additional mass affected the Earth's rotation (slowed it down), and increased the gravitation field. Adding matter in such a large scale would without a doubt have such effects. Did the Earth Day get ever so slightly longer as a result? I wonder.
Robert Anton Wilson explains Quantum Physics
> OUR RESTRICTED FRAME OF REFERENCE
As imposed by universal law. When our technology gets close to breaking those laws, we'll become aware of where the legal limits are posted.
Interesting point for sure. However, when/if we reached those limits, how would we truly know that those are in fact the limits. What defines what a limit is? We are yet again stuck within the bounds imposed by our frame of reference. The problem is, we can never see beyond our current point of reference.. though over time, without a doubt, our capability and reference frame will change. Whether it be through social or biological evolution.
Quite interesting, and confusing
U.S.A. to disappear in 50 years, predicts Paul Saffo
Lets also make this clear. The US of today is not a Democracy as aspired by the founders. It is a Demopublican Plutocratic Kleptocracy. Run by corporate interests, for corporate interests.
Babylon 5 - Earths dominant religion
LOL
DNC's protestor prison camps in Denver
This is the 'freedom(tm)' that our soldiers are supposedly fighting for.
Robert Anton Wilson explains Quantum Physics
I 'believe' the core of the human condition is to find comfort in knowing what we wish to know. At what point do we really 'know'? We believe we truly know when we are in a state of comfort with the knowledge we hold... even when totally absent of actual knowing. Whatever 'actual knowing' is.
Those perceptions which makes us uncomfortable is as a result, quite undesirable. The atheistic vs the religeous. The scientific vs the superstitious. The borderline between these states of mind rests on the threshold/border at which we consider ourselves 'in the know'.
The superstitious likely live along the boundaries of emotional knowing to reach comfort. The scientific mind desires statistics to reach their state of knowing, and thus comfort.
Some require constant validation, review, and redefinition of what they know to maintain comfort. Some thrive on a non-changing perception of their reality, such as with many religions, desiring to be told what to know to maintain comfort. There can be comfort found in a simpler perspective of reality.
Who is right? The question should be. 'What perspective is right?'. I think neither truly are. Each sees the universe within their own parameters. Neither party sees existence as it 'truly' is. Nor can 'we'. We live as prisoners of our own minds. Only capable of thought and understanding within our own perceptions, and NOT beyond them.
What is physics? It is the HUMAN interpretation/representation of the world through mathematics WITHIN THE BOUNDS of our perception and understanding. Do 10+ dimensions exist as string theory might suggest? According to our mathematics, yes. Is that how the 'true' Universe actually is? Likely not.
By no means does this mean we should just roll over and give up. As long as we understand that our perceptions are our own and within the bounds of our own minds and the scope of our ability to grasp existence, then by all means we should strive to learn as much as we can.
The key is to understand that we, ourselves, are the only limitation to our understanding of 'everything'. We won't ever be able to grow beyond our own perceptions until we come to understand the limitations of OUR RESTRICTED FRAME OF REFERENCE in perceiving the Universe.
I suspect it is impossible for us, humans as we are today, to break beyond our own inherent limitations.
Stealing America: Vote by Vote
The difference? One is deals with money. The other deals with your vote.
You figure that one out.
Olympic Fart
McCain Locks Up Dippy, Self-Loathing Female Demographic.