Recent content by mindphuk

Pale Blue Dot was great but Cosmos is legendary. I think they fucked up on that one. Cosmos, the book and the PBS series is what made me consider majoring in cosmology and physics in the first place. It came out just a few years before I went to college.

I guess the OP went AWOL.

I'm not thinking in any special way except by using basic epistomological methods, or as Carl Sagan says, Baloney detection kit. http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/baloney.html You don't need a scholarly level if you can demonstrate veracity by other methods but problems arise when you make...

The problem is then that your source material is no better than any random musings of someone that may or may not have any real credentials. My own sources are often my personal experience gained from courses at a respected university, and although I cannot replicate lectures or my notes, I am...

Things learned by induction are never facts. any claims about the natural world as learned through science or any other method are not facts. We only have levels of confidence about those things. Some of them reach the point when they are considered factual by the mere weight of the evidence...

First worthwhile post I've seen from you in a long time.

You must have fallen asleep during the sections on epistemology.

I was going to MA the post for his incessant spamming but then I figure it wouldn't do any good.

I agree and it should be extremely easy since you're is a contraction. If "you are" does not fit then you must use your. Same with they're and their and there. Seems like it should be the most simple basic, easy to understand grammatical issues. Much easier IMO than who vs. whom and whoever...

Equivocation fTL! Facts are not subjective opinions or beliefs about things, known or unknown. Just because someone somewhere claims something is a fact does not make it one. Something that is a fact now does not mean it is fiction later if circumstances change. Facts can be temporally...

I always provide links the first time I mention something. I usually don't provide links if the information can be verified by a simple google search since a lot of what I know isn't directly from a link. Here you go, give me a copy and paste yet hide the source of the material. That's...

It's definitely not urine.

Please note my ;) and do not take my admonishment seriously as I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Not exactly sure what you're asking. Do you understand what magnetism is? How about electricity? Well, some people started realizing that magnetic fields induced current in wires as well as the opposite that flowing current generated magnetic fields. Some very smart people figured out that...

He doesn't think he's Jesus, he thinks he's christ. Please pay attention, he's repeated that part about 200 times already...;)