Recent content by Cygnus

You're using weighted words to imply value judgments that weren't there. I never called anyone uneducated. I never claimed superiority over anyone, implicitly or otherwise. What I did say, perhaps not clearly enough, is that certain events trigger people to reexamine their lifestyle and make...

I suppose you're assuming an underlying value judgment was present, when I was simply trying to point out a possible cause for the demographics. For the record, I don't give a rats ass how much you make, whether you eat meat or not, whether you attended a big name university or dropped out of...

The reason you'll see fewer poor vegans/vegetarians, despite it's likely benefits to specifically those people, is because lower class individuals may not be prone to investing time and money into a cause like veganism, or simply reexamining their ethical systems. In the case of the latter, we...

You're quite simply wrong. We do not need meat to survive. Does sex involve the slaughter of sentient beings? This matters because? Yes. We all feel the need to go out and slaughter things. Yes really. Waste disposal is a non-issue compared to the environmental problems brought on by the...

You may disagree with someone, but unless they're disrespectful bigots, then you shouldn't dislike people based solely on their beliefs. We're all in this together, and should use our disagreements to work towards beneficial solutions to all parties. Where are you coming up with this notion...

From what I read, it's basically a giant appeal to the personal beliefs of Newton(the result of lacking modern science), with lots of weighted words thrown in to sway people into accepting the author as an authority figure. Oh, and Newton was wrong. A little known German-American physicist did...

Your english is quite good. Are Americans the only people that speak only one language?

First time I've heard of Carnegie, but if his wiki page is to be believed, that is precisely the course to take. 30 people is a lot for a productive discussion, but I would still try to have an active dialog with them, rather than just giving a speech. Feel more than free to use that. I...

How many individuals would you be talking with? It's usually better to be with a smaller group of people, so that you can treat it as a conversation, rather than you 'preaching' to them. That's really the key thing. If they feel, at any level, that you're trying to convert them, things won't go...

So I was debating a creationist, and after much back and forth, this was his response: "(Insert Pleasantries Here)...but you still haven't proven anything. Man has a science that states this is that old and that is this old, there is no proof whatsoever that its correct because we have nothing...

Wow... wow.... woh.... uh... sure? :?: :roll: Gotta love that... Where is this from...?

One of the more interesting aspects of Europa that wasn't mentioned is that measurements of it's magnetic field indicate that it's liquid oceans contain salt, perhaps a requirement for the development of Earth-like life.

To my knowledge, the process that forms contrails is similar to that which naturally forms clouds. Consequently, the difference in residence time would seem to vary with atmospheric conditions. I've lived along the approach for a major airport for close to two decades, the 'long lasting'...

Pretty much, yeah. And people tend to believe anything they're told. So when the nice fundamentalist liar spews utter nonsense, people listen. It's truly sad.

As Ozymandyus correctly points out, photons are massless and as such do not require an infinite amount of energy to 'travel' at c. According to Einstein, the mass of an object increases as it approaches the speed of light by M=m/[(1-v^2/c^2)^1/2]. If one takes this into account, allowing for...