Recent content by Spacetime Inhabitant

I think we can. Firstly, it has a flat top of a certain width that seems greater than the door width. But an even better reason is that the object is longer than the car is wide, so the doors would not be able to close even if possible to get the item into the car.

I heard on the news that when it comes to sentencing Trump the judge will have to take into account that he is a first time offender (no prior criminal record). I would think that the judge would have to take into consideration that when Trump committed his crimes he had a top official position...

But without politicians authorizing the money for the scientists and engineers to build the bombs they would not be able to do so, and in turn those politicians get their authority from the populace, so everyone is responsible, as certain philosophers and songs have pointed out.

Technically speaking it is not science that produces weapons, it creates the blueprint, it is industry that actually produces them. But regardless of that, it is religion that provides the motivation for using the weapons being used in Gaza and many other locations/times.

The problem with NOMA is that hypothetically it is possible but in practice much religion is opposed to science - on many topics - evolution, abortion, creation, etcetera.

I can see a tree, and also an ostrich, and yeah even a pair of boobs, but not two people holding hands, though I can vaguely see some partial hands. I see neither; I see King Kong.

With the Earth one also has to take into account the axial tilt, as this affects whether majority of Antarctica facing the sun. Whatever the case the melting of large parts of the Arctic and Antarctic ice will mean high sea level rise, so that is an additional bigger problem (this is if it...

Biden will almost certainly win the next election, and by a bigger margin than the 2020 one in popular votes, and also in Electoral College points. In the extremely unlikely case that Trump wins (and that is also dependent on if he is already in prison prior to the election) then one would hope...

Amusingly, I thought up the other day common situations where 2 + 2 =4 can be a misleading or ambiguous claim. Incidentally, I thought a similar thing last year that would have applied to a certain thread but I never posted it then. It is to do with objects, not pure mathematical numbers. 2 pies...

It is interesting that twice you mention that a person would do the moral thing because it would benefit them. Does that mean that if it doesn't benefit them they wouldn't do the moral thing? Is that typical of Christian biblical morality?

Most southerners didn't have slaves because there was a limited amount of slaves available, and also because not everyone wanted a slave even if they supported the institution of slavery. Pood says the USA is a republic, not a democracy. This is a viewpoint among fans of Ayn Rand and other...

Mathematically, the problem of extended life and new humans being born being a problem, is a "start-up" dilemma. Imagine if humans naturally had a lifespan of 300 years for the past hundred thousand years (we probably would still be a pre-industrial society in this scenario), then with normal...

These people may gather in Washington, but they come from the states, so that is where their corrupt nature initially arises. However, it is probably magnified by being in Washington, associating with fellow corrupt politicians. You are correct that the solution needs to start in Washington (but...

I find it amusing when Americans complain about the price of gas (petrol in Australia) as our regular prices are similar to your peak prices, whilst our max price is much higher. There are a lot of taxes on Australian petrol.

I chose the last option - keep arguing. There are some branches of maths where 2 +2 doesn't equal four. The earth is not a perfect sphere but classed as an oblate spheroid. Supply and demand doesn't always function as the economic theories suggest. While there may have been a person that is...