Recent content by Homunclus

Seems reasonable enough. On all sides really. The school's initial position itself was reasonable, though I certainly can understand the parents position about the kid feeling like he is being punished.

Re: Violation of Newton's third law with a new space propell

Thanks everyone. This idea seemed perfectly logical and intuitive to me when I more or less spontaneously came up with it, which is why I strongly suspected it wasn't true ;) That example of the moon and how it affect tides without really affecting us is particularly enlightening. Why didn't...

Re: Real medicine of which we know that it works but not how It is probably worth mentioning that this is not entirely accurate. When you consider the dilution ratios of "proper" homeophatic medicine, if you dissolved Bin Laden on the ocean the resulting solution would be way to concentrated...

I was thinking about the way gravity affect us. Now we all know that gravity is the force that keeps us grounded. That is the most obvious effect gravity has on us. But isn't it true that it isn't the only one nor even greatest? We, all of us, are currently being affected by the gravity of the...

Well, asides the fact parthenogenesis doesn't happen on mammals. Parthenogenesis is a means of asexual reproduction, in which the egg develops without sperm. This is very different from hermaphrodites who have both female and male genitalia. I mean, your essentially saying Marry had a penis...

Honestly, I don't really think such subjective (not to mention fake-able) factors should be given much consideration in the first place, anyways. So perhaps, a better question would be: "Should all witnesses be required to wear a burqa in court?" :lol:

There are two types of weather in england: Fog and rainy Either way the sky is gonna look gray

Presuming there is a god, an afterlife and a requirement to get in...how do we know atheists would not meet the requirement? Considering we know nothing of god, then we don't know the requirement. Maybe only atheists can get in. Or maybe only people who own rings. Who knows?

It's amazing the fuss people make about baby names. The only reasoning needed to name a kid is whether or not it sounds good. Though if you wanna put in the effort, something that is both out of ordinary and not ridiculous is always the best.

Re: ‘Piracy Is Theft, Clean and Simple’ US Vice President Sa Ignorant? Doubtful. It's just that I imagine it's generally hard to get people to get pumped up against something as comparatively harmless as software piracy. So mixing it up with unrelated and yet quite dangerous and...

Apparently... http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2010/02/video-jscs-proj.html Though you would think, that if you are going to build a exploration robot, there would be more efficient designs than bipedal locomotion, which is pretty unstable. Come to think of it, weren't they developing some...

I think your decision to designate saving the adult the logic choice and saving the baby the emotional choice flawed. The way I see it, saving the adult is both the logic and the emotional choice. Surely you are correct in stating that people get more emotionally attached to babies, but saving...

Re: What good reason is there for atheism? There are plenty of reasons: It's just that they are too vast to number and too complex to grasp. ;)

Oh really? I dunno about that. I mean sure, we know the surface is heated, but how do we really know the heat comes from the yellow ball on the sky? The "man" tells us that the sun heats the earth, but it also tells us that "heat" is nothing more than particle excitement. Well here is the...