Sun 27 Jul, 2008 02:38 pm - "[i]History [of free will]. Early in history it seems to have generally been assumed that everything about humans must ultimately be determined by unchangeable fate - which it was sometimes... (view)
Thu 24 Jul, 2008 01:28 pm - Re: Noah's Ark
[quote="Chai"]If one was to gather up 2 specimens of every species of land creature, how many would there be, and how big an ark would you need to contain them for 40... (view)
Mon 14 Jul, 2008 11:48 am - [quote="spendius"]What goes on in you guy's heads?
Evolution didn't prepare us for that stuff surely?[/quote]
Yes it did, and don't call me Shirley. (view)
Sun 13 Jul, 2008 11:27 pm - [quote="raprap"]You can use the same technique with any repeating decimal (it's a sign of a rational number)
Try
x=1/7=0.142857142857142857..........
multiply this by 1,000,000... (view)
Sun 13 Jul, 2008 09:23 pm - Consider a zero followed a decimal point and an infinitely long string of nines: 0.999999 . . . .
What is the value of that unending series? The answer, strangely enough, is that it equals 1.... (view)
Sat 12 Jul, 2008 02:30 pm - [quote="spendius"]Less of the flattery Huff.
Tell us something interesting. Something scientific ideally. Like what to invest in or what's going to win a big race.
[b]With... (view)
Fri 11 Jul, 2008 10:11 pm - [quote="raprap"]Dr Huff--
Only if there was some method of losing energy. Degrasse covered that in his assumptions---no air resistance and no rotational losses (banging off of the... (view)
Fri 11 Jul, 2008 02:57 pm - [quote="raprap"][URL=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/dispatches/080624.html] Novas Neil deGrasse Tyson has an explanation video[/URL] Just click on the blue text.
Rap[/quote]... (view)
