Born Hunter
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That's not really a fair statement. Possibility? Of course he acknowledges the possibility, as far as I'm aware he always has. As far as I'm aware even the hated Dawkins acknowledges the possibility. They can both still be atheists. Ahh, fair play mate......I get it. It seems strange then that someone like Dawkins entertains the possibility but spends his life ridiculing that same possibility......that's a bit silly don't you think? If he is truly how he is painted by many then I think he's a little silly full stop. I don't think it's fair to ridicule anybody unprovoked, especi
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No Hawkins did a bit of a u turn on the creator thing a while ago saying that it was plausible lol Believing it's implausible is not the same as believing it's impossible.
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That's not really a fair statement. Possibility? Of course he acknowledges the possibility, as far as I'm aware he always has. As far as I'm aware even the hated Dawkins acknowledges the possibility. They can both still be atheists.
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im no rocket scientist but the maths dosnt look right for keplar452b if it 1400 light years away how come they went 16 years into space to see it an 4 years of watching it, is that like driving 20 mile down the road to get closer to the moon You've lost me there mate? The Planet they discovered is, give or take, 1400 lightyears away. The observatory that discovered it was launched in 2009.....
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Okay, I can understand that. My next question would be, do you not think that taking such a bold left wing stance will cause more centered voters to leave the party in preference of something less extreme? It's an age old rule that elections are won from the center, and quite clear the fracturing effect he is having. Votes from the left may be won, but at what expense? It should also not be forgotten the 4 million votes sitting on the Torys right....
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Conservative percentage was 36.7, but otherwise I agree with your final point..... Percentage of the vote, not percentage of eligible voters The runaway winner in the last election was the "Stay at Home and Don't Bother" party, maybe Corbyn offering a real left-wing option can motivate some of them to get out and vote? Do you think that the hard leftys are generally inactive then? Imo they are one of the most active groups there is politically.
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I know what you mean Max. But I still feel like I belong here, I still feel like we have a common interest and desire to see my British family do well. Many of my friends have said I should emigrate to Canada or Oz, but they're not my people.
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I'm quite happy to pay for a centralised government, a state based around a sense of belonging and common interest. Like you though, not at the expense of my liberties or ultimately at the expense of those common interests that are the reason for the existence of the state. I've said it before and I'll sound like a deep south septic and say it again. When we gave up our right to bear arms, we gave up our right to freedom. Freedom became a privilege and privileges are not of our control.
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But Wilf, does it really matter how we portray tax? The crux of it is this, no tax = no state. So, the logical question is; do you want to live in a stateless system? Not liking the details of the current system is different, but just flatly painting tax as evil and wrong can only lead us to the above, no?
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LOL, thanks, fixed it now.
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I agree, in most instances. However, there is a story of an RAF interceptor that was scrambled back in the cold war to a UFO in British airspace. The pilot reported how the aircraft manoeuvred like nothing even conceivable by human technological standards. Plenty of potential rational explanations, but still, occasionally there are quite incredible reports... Edited; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakenheath-Bentwaters_incident
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yeah this gets me and surely something cannot expnd in to nothing? someone said the universe is like a bubble expanding but the bubble is expanding in to the atmosphere what can the universe be expanding into? It's difficult to conceptualise. Try not to think of it as a geometric expansion like a cloud swelling into the space around it. Cosmic expansion is a stretching of the dimensions of space itself. Can you conceptualise time stretching? Slowing down or speeding up relative to others? Well imagine the same but for the space dimensions. If they are stretching, causing an expansion o
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I don't think that's true. My pension contributions are untaxed. When I draw my pension it will then be taxed as income.
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It's entirely likely that we will encounter new phenomena though which require modifications to existing theories in light of experimentation carried out under previously untested conditions. But to say what we have tested here, under the same conditions in another point in space and or time, might be different, I find highly unlikely.
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This is all assuming the travellers in question are subject to the same laws of physics as we know them. It's highly likely they will be. Gravity didn't suddenly change when we went to the moon, or sent probes across the solar system etc etc. Despite what everyone seems to think, we are capable of experimentation through observation of natural events on the galactic level.
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This Kepler 452b, or Earth 2.0 as it's being called, is 1400 lightyears away. So it takes light 1400 years to travel from there to here. According to Special Relativity, nothing can break the speed light (approximately 300'000 km/s), so assuming a space ship can travel at very close to the speed of light, for us on Earth it would take that space ship just over 1400 years to get there! Which is obviously of little use to us sat at home waiting for 'contact'... However, special relativity also teaches us that time dilates (slows down) as you travel faster.... to the point where it effectivel
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Mackay, I don't have a second job so don't have first hand experience of this but my understanding is that you are correct that you will pay the higher rate of tax on the second income, even if combined you know that it will not exceed the threshold for the higher tax rate. But you are then eligible for a rebate at the end of the tax year. So it plays out fairly in the end.
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I believe I'm right in saying that the top percentile of the world population based on wealth owns over 50% of world assets. Personally I'm fine with that. Look at the wealthiest people in the world and look at the jobs they have created. Jmo. I'm not saying anybody is wrong to think otherwise.
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It's possible we can never know. We can't leave our universe to experiment on that level. Okay okay "yet" i hear you say. Lol However we may be able to make reasonable deductions based on our universes behaviour.
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Our theories that we developed on earth have been used to make predictions on stuff we should find 'out there', like black holes and stuff. We test the meat of these theories by making these predictions and looking for them. It's possible, of course, we are wrong.
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If we live in a closed universe, ie our spacial dimensions are loops. That theory makes a lot of sense to me, I like it but don't think it's currently accepted as most likely.
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Let's just clear something up about cosmic expansion. The universe isn't said to be expanding 'into' anything. It's not like a cloud growing bigger into the space that surrounds it, that's a false interpretation. What is expanding is the dimensions of space itself. Imagine just one dimensional space, backwards and forward, now imagine two points in that universe that represent a fixed distance. If that single dimensional space stretches then the distance between those point gets greater. The universe isn't expanding into space, it's the dimensions of space expanding themselves. They're no
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Only as we know it at the moment. Tomorrow could bring a huge leap forward with an unexpected discovery that would transform space travel.I'm not holding my breath. Maybe CERN will find a superluminous tachyon and special rel can go f**k itself. Or maybe we'll figure out wormhole technology.As a footnote, I watched Interstellar the other week. EPIC.... just EPIC! Both theoretical to one degree or another so yes, the theoretical super particle could be found (harnessing it would be another problem) and relativity has always been, well, relative The speed of light isn't relative, that's the po
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Yes mate, gravity bends 'spacetime'. Extreme gravity may bend the dimensions of space to such an extent that it effectively turns It inside out, causing a discontinuity in space which links two points potentially lightyears away in the conventional sense. That would be a wormhole.
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All guess work an assumptions born. They've guessed all those measurements have they... lol
