• Welcome to the Internet Infidels Discussion Board.

Search results for query: *

  • Users: bilby
  • Order by date
  1. bilby

    2026 Midterm Elections

    No shit; That's obvious on my original graph too. They must have a lot more datacentres in the UK and Germany. :rolleyesa: The recent rise has little to do with datacentres, and a lot to do with intermittent renewables.
  2. bilby

    Climate Change(d)?

    The other half wants to go to equilibrium with the Sun's photosphere; I am not sure that either circumstance would be hugely desirable for humans, but at least at 5,700 Kelvins we won't have to scrape Nitrogen crystals off our windscreens before driving to work.
  3. bilby

    Famous Classic Movies You've Never Watched

    Well, back in the early 1500s, the Aztecs were found to have developed an entirely new method for calculating the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter, that was radically different from anything used by European mathematicians. Sadly, the pope declared it heretical, and the...
  4. bilby

    Famous Classic Movies You've Never Watched

    David Teie?
  5. bilby

    Famous Classic Movies You've Never Watched

    Me either. I know of it, but frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
  6. bilby

    Famous Classic Movies You've Never Watched

    Yeah, that's the sign of a great work of descriptive art. I recall reading Alistair McLean's novel Night Without End, which is set on the Greenland ice-cap during winter; The writing was so compelling that I could feel the cold seeping into my bones.
  7. bilby

    Sudan Massacre

    It's (as usual) not that simple. The start is hard to pin down and depends on your preconceptions, biases, and definitions; The Marco Polo Bridge incident of 1937 is the beginning of the contiguous hostilities that ended with the Imperial Japanese surrender in 1945, and so is the start of the...
  8. bilby

    The Big Beautiful Ballroom

    Temu Hitler needs his grand project. (wikipedia) "No part of the building was ever constructed".
  9. bilby

    How should west respond to potential (likely) U.S. invasion of Venezuela?

    If I felt my ship was threatened by a hostile military force, I too would give serious consideration to "spoofing" my position as a defensive measure. It turned out not to work, but I can't fault the captain for trying.
  10. bilby

    Sudan Massacre

    My point being that you can present a case for the two World Wars as Christian, but it's not a strong case - it depends on a lot of assumptions, preconditions and biases, and cases equally strong (or stronger) can be made for the contrary position, simply by selecting different assumptions...
  11. bilby

    Sudan Massacre

    I concur No. Imperial Japan (not a Christian nation) started WWII, by invading Manchuria and China (also not Christian). Germany and Italy started the European bit, but that was a couple of years later. Majority, sure. But not vast - and these are ranked lists, so the ones at the top should...
  12. bilby

    Famous Movie Lines for The Wrong Movie

    Thank you! What line goes here:
  13. bilby

    Sudan Massacre

    That's a stretch. According to wikipedia, the top ten belligerents were:- By total deaths: World War 1: Russia - Christian (Orthodox) Ottoman Empire - Muslim Germany - Christian (Protestant/Catholic) Persia - Muslim Austria-Hungary - Christian (Catholic/Orthodox), Muslim France - Christian...
  14. bilby

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Really? Then how do we come to describe ourselves as "we"? Obviously we are part of the wider universe; But equally obviously we are observably separate from it - you don't have any problem distinguishing which parts of "a person sitting on a chair" are "chair", and which parts are "person"...
  15. bilby

    Climate Change(d)?

    And that is already happening. See all that cold water around Greenland? The ice sheet is melting, and the fresh water sits on top of the denser salt water of the Atlantic, floating in an area where cold salt water used to sink. The effect on the Gulf Stream is visible as a pale arc...
  16. bilby

    'Follow On' Word Game

    account balance
  17. bilby

    'Follow On' Word Game

    right bank
  18. bilby

    'Follow On' Word Game

    west bank
Back
Top Bottom