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Author Topic: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)  (Read 11719 times)

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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #45 on: March 04, 2012, 10:57:40 pm »

TBH the "are viruses alive" debate is kind of pointless to begin with. It's based on how life is defined, not on unknown absolutes about viruses that would either qualify them as alive or not.  IMO it's purely a matter of semantics, and doesn't really affect the current baggage of knowledge about viruses one way or the other.
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #46 on: March 04, 2012, 10:58:16 pm »

@Valid - Okay, now you're confusing me... Is that sarcasm again, or are you really meaning it? And if you say yes to this post, are you still in sarcasm mode or is it genuine? (brain implode)
I'm a non native speaker by the way...


As for the reverse photosynthesis thing, theoretically it seems that way, but it's has a lot of difference. For one, photosynthesis has the Calvin cycle at the end, while metabolism uses the Krebs cycle.

@Valid Ninja - Please stop quoting my old post D: I have a new one up yonder. And yes,it isn't alive AS WE KNOW IT, but of course we should change! Science is not about rigid frames that never change.

Analogy - You only know how to add and subtract. You think those are the only things called Math. Lo, you discover the marvel called multiplication! You then edit your stance to include multiplying into your definition of Math.

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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #47 on: March 04, 2012, 11:01:25 pm »

Nothing we say on this forum has any helpful impact on the sciences, why should our conversation about the nature of life and viruses be any different?
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #48 on: March 04, 2012, 11:21:22 pm »

How would one perceive higher dimensions from a 1st person perspective?


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Also, looking through all that, I think in one iteration, I BECAME Kamina.

Oh yeah, and if you ever get such a dream, make sure your head has some protection, because it will get mindfucked like a psychic honeymoon. It was the trippiest/coolest dream I ever had. I'm surprised I didn't Go Mad From the Revelation after having that dream.
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #49 on: March 04, 2012, 11:47:25 pm »

If you buy soup from a can, what causes the soup to taste like metal?  Does it make the metal taste like soup?
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #50 on: March 04, 2012, 11:49:34 pm »

The taste is from tiny particles of metal that are in the soup.
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #51 on: March 04, 2012, 11:55:02 pm »

ok, so are soup particles displaced into the can?

I want to know if my can will taste of soup before I simply eat it.
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #52 on: March 04, 2012, 11:55:57 pm »

The can is solid, and the soup is a liquid solution. So, no.
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #53 on: March 05, 2012, 12:02:37 am »

In an alternate universe, the metal is the skin of the fruit in which the contents within is the soup, and the contents within the contents (let's say the vegetables in that can of vegetable soup) are seeds to make more vegetable soup cans full of vegetable soup in which could be eaten like fruit.

The trees that they grow out of, could be an aluminum mushroom, which bears the fruit like spores.
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« Reply #54 on: March 05, 2012, 12:04:42 am »

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Are these really the same people? or just a result from 90's tv show mandatory diversity.
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« Reply #55 on: March 05, 2012, 01:34:15 am »

Mandatory '1 of each' deal.  Alot of cartoons have something similar, as long as you ignore the 50 ethnicities that arent there, it isnt racist.

Can anybody remember the non-lies to children reason for the sky being blue?
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #56 on: March 05, 2012, 01:38:53 am »

The sun is shining through the atmosphere. There is water vapor in the atmosphere. When light is reflected by water vapor, it looks blue.
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #57 on: March 05, 2012, 01:43:04 am »

Short version: The sky is opalescent. Same reason it's yellow-red at dusk.

EDIT: Redundant answer is redundant >______>
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #58 on: March 05, 2012, 01:52:55 am »

Huh, I thought that was the lies to children reason tbh, but some research has netted me exactly 0 other explanations, so I guess thats it.

Okay then, if we start burning the hydrogen from water as a fuel, will we eventually run out of water?  Or, if I burn hydrogen gas, do the atoms change into something else/get destroyed?  :o
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Re: Things to ponder / discuss (The Questions Thread)
« Reply #59 on: March 05, 2012, 01:55:11 am »

You cannot destroy matter. You also cannot destroy energy. Both can change, even radically so, but they cannot cease to be.
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