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This was your first paragraph. My response to that paragraph is above #119. Did I correctly paraphrase what you said?

The point was to confirm from you that I had correctly understood your first paragraph. I did this by paraphrasing what seemed to be conveyed in your first paragraph. I was simply waiting for that confirmation and/or an expansion of the points that you already made in that paragraph. Generally...

Thank you, JakeBrodskyPE, for what appears to me to be your honest thoughts on the conversation that I raised above. I can certainly see that "state of mind", despair, anger and a belief that things have not gotten better would be the background for the recent destruction in Baltimore. I've only...

Very good intro for a dialog on such a sensitive issue, Astronuc. My congratulations. Direct and honest dialog is very much needed in situations such as this. As lisab say's "This is bigger than the one isolated case of Freddie Gray". Of course, language communication has it’s own problems (as N...

This was described by Michael E. Mann,professor of meteorology at Penn State University. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/news/interviews.php Others have had readings that give similar results. "While scientists and environmentalists have used the daily milestone to...

Have you are anyone else seen "Who Killed the Electric Car?" at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5977085690337730430&q=Who+Killed+the+Electric+Car&total=338&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2 Any comments?

Destroying the moon would also have other devastating effects. A few to start with would be: 1. Major disruption of the oceanic tides 2. Change in the Earth's "wobble" 3. Probable change in the tilt of the Earth's axis and attending axle procession 4. Changes in the Earth's rotation...

For example, where did this "typical definition" come from? Who is the autority? Are we all in agreement with this definition?

I think that it would be a good idea that after every fifteen or twenty posts we should define our central term again. Why? (1) to make sure everyone participating in this dialog is still in agreement with a definition or would like to amend it. (2) to help maintain a kind of...

Quote from the wikipedia We have been speaking of terrorism as if we all have a common definition for the word. How are we defining it?

Sorry, perhaps I did not make myself clear by the word "attacked". Native Americans were wounded and killed if and when they were found in their villages. No change was desired in their self government. The American Colonial resistance fighters just wanted them eliminated. (By the way, these "...

When the conflict first started, the old history books tell us that the “colonial resistance” dressed as so called “Indians” and raided the British ships throwing precious commodities overboard. It took a while before the rich Colonial landed gentry could provide uniforms for the cause. In the...

Instead of the word "terrorism" substitute "war and violence". I think that the answers are the same.

Wow! 3.5 million times the mass of the sun is pretty great indeed! To take things a bit further, would it be theoretically possible for a black hole to swallow the entire universe? It seems that size of the black hole is irrelavant since even a small one (Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit) could...

As the black hole "feeds" on a nearby star does the black hole become more massive? Theoretically, how many stars could it devour?