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My father bowed to an altar in church. My father, confirmed atheist, never dragged me or my sister to church once in our entire lives that I can remember, bowed to an altar. I mean, I get it, he's friends with the minister, he goes curling with them and he sings in the church choir and that's...

I don't really know if this is more politics or philosophy, but I'll put it in here anyway. Why don't we see any Apollo projects anymore? Or massive irrigation projects or any kind of project on that kind of scale, designed to solve a really really colossal objective of some kind and damning...

Ok, so I've made a bunch of threads about this topic because I have a massive hardon for space elevators. Trouble is, they're so incredibly impossible at the moment right? WRONG! Maybe.... There's this idea for a floating sort of space elevator, basically a really big sky scrapper that's...

This thought occurred to me today when I was trying to be a good informed voter for the upcoming Canadian election and actually go out and see what the hell the major political parties are bickering about this time. It's pretty much the usual stuff really, everybody accuses the incumbents of...

I'm just questioning if people who say this know what it means. Totally off topic of a response to another thread but it got me thinking, because I hear it all the time 'If we do X, we're letting the terrorists win' About 95% of the time, that's bull. The terrorists don't want to make you...

Ok, mostly I'm looking for the engineers and theoretical physicists views on why this is impossible and therefore why I have never heard this particular design for an intermediary space elevator ever proposed before. Floating elevator segments held aloft by hydrogen gas bags all in a chain...

I'm going to use canada as a historical example here. Around the turn of the century, Canada, as an incentive to promote immigration literally gave away to anyone who cared to take it plots of land in the prairie regions. As a result, infrastructure and commerce rapidly grew as people settled...

This is one I've come across in apologists that baffles me a little, generally because it comes from otherwise quite intelligent people. 'I can't understand how the universe could exist in it's current state without some kind of guiding hand in the mix' is a good way of summing it up, therefore...

We have this romantic view of nature. The word natural is used all the time to add value to otherwise worthless products but let's ignore for the moment that the word 'natural' is inherently meaningless in the broader context of life the universe and everything and just refer to the word as it...

Here's my position. The art of war, first of all is just a good read and while is explicitly about war has got an awful lot to say about why war is not a very good idea most of the time. Sun Tzu says that a lot, that wars are of grave importance to the state and it's not something you should...