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Actually, my point was that one of those guys may have something on the back burner that really works, but most of us will never know it because we stop looking when he starts howling his protests to the 2nd law of thermodynamics. I am also guilty of turning a deaf ear to magnet / free...

Isaac Newton was a crackpot, but it was not the only thing he was, and what lay in the balance of his character has been of tremendous value to the rest of us. If you exclude all crackpots, you may miss the chance to inspire by your example in one of them the brilliant observation that hides...

Then maintain the standards as you are doing, but create one specific forum for those ideas that fall way outside your standards. Incorporate one loony standard and then define what and where it is by example. Where it belongs through a process of inclusion rather than exclusion. If there is...

Okay, then to cull the kooks, why not start a forum specifically for 'anything that pops into my head', but give it definite topic threads that must be addressed to and cannot be deviated from without creative rationalization(or if you will, a storyline), no matter how kooky that storyline is...

Scrolling; not looking at the dates.

Read the book, it's all made more or less clear. Plus they go all the way to Saturn, indicating in the story that the rings were an accidental side affect of the construction of the giant monolith. The whole LSD thing is a wormhole of sorts, meant to represent that a human could not comprehend...

Also remember that the Earth's crust is 46% by weight composed of oxygen. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/tables/elabund.html Guess it's bound up in the rocks, water volume in aquifers, etc, I think that the total volume of the Earth is composed of 30% oxygen... Good topic for...