Recent content by steve_bank

I see, The Fellatio Heaven Hypothesis. Sounds male Chauvinist, is there no Cunnilingus Heaven Hypothesis?

An example of local weather affecting local weather a long ways away. We just got hammered with the Pineapple Express a stream of water originating around the Hawaiian islands, Record river creating and flooding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_river Warmer water around Hawaii...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e Origin of our climate crisis?

In thermodynamics it all depends on where you draw the system boundary. If you make the system the Earth and Sun then the system still sees the universe as a sink You can call a kitchen a system. The stove and refrigerator want to go to equilibrium with each other, but the room wants to go to...

Bsilv There is thought. We categorize because it is difficult to deal with complexity without it. There is thought. Philosophy and science are categories of thought. The problem I have with pood's assertion is it implies a kind of active agency with 'philosophy'. The assertion that...

Scientism? Call it fubissst6anuism or whatever you like. Philosophy and science are general broad categories of human occupations. Philosophers in part deliver -isms, descriptions and speciation of what is and what is done. In business parlance professional philosophers and professional...

A blast from the past. Great movie scene. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=et+scene+music+communcation&sei=d908aZXED8eB0PEP_IzXgQU#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:64b7fb9c,vid:nkykqyMEarA,st:0

There is scifi fictional plot devices that are not likely, yes. But, that does lead into communications. Our music does have mathematical structure. If we knew nothing about music and had a library of ET music we would find the math behind it and conclude an intelligence. In western music...

Locally we can see things tend to go to equilibrium. A basic overview. Put a pot of hot water on the counter and mass of the room and the pot of water come to an equilibrium temperature. Assuming mass of room and all its contents are much greater than the pot of water and the room is well...

When upper ocean warms and lower ocean stays cool that affects convection currents. Currents affect marine life and weather. In heat transfer water and air are both consider fluids. Instead of water imagine the oceans as air. It might give you a better picture. The ocean water and atmosphere...

You win. I surrender. :bow:

Pood, pood, pood whatever am I going to do with you? Science reduces to quantifiable measurements, mathematical theories, and tests of theories. Philosophy does not, the boundary between areas of philosophy and science. That someone with science credentials philosophizes does not add credence...

I am not anti anybody in general. Ancient Jews were no better or worse than any others. Early Christians co opted Jewish scripture and a Jewish Jesus as their own. Paul got rid of some of the Jewish requirements. Evangelical Christians today pick and choose. In Leviticus they ignore the...

Valenzuela does sound like a criminal state. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cpwkvpr7n55o

Ancient Jewish beliefs harmless? Gaza today in large part is based in Jewish Zionism. The belief that Jews today based in the bible have a right to the land because over 2000 years ago a god gave it to them. Ancient Jews had the harsh punishments of Leviticus. They were not much differ than...