RE: Science Porn
October 10, 2014 at 1:11 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2014 at 1:17 am by Anomalocaris.)
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All these peeps acting like they loved the internet pic so much, just admit you wanted to thumbs up the big bird costume !
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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I think i've found my new favourite thread, so much awesome.
(October 10, 2014 at 1:11 am)Chuck Wrote: On that gif, it looks like as night comes, the red goes to yellow goes to green goes to blue. Looks like a bandwidth usage scale maybe?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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That's quite enthralling. Good one ^_^
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite. Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment. Quote:Some people deserve hell. I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong. ![[Image: tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/5fb74c6d16622fb3dbb358509c9aec03/tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif)
  RE: Science Porn
October 11, 2014 at 10:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2014 at 11:08 pm by Anomalocaris.)
the latex cast of the respiratory system of a chicken:
![[Image: bird_airsacs.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=courses.washington.edu%2Fchordate%2F453photos%2Fgut_photos%2Fbird_airsacs.jpg) Notice there is hardly a lung like shape visible in this whole thing. This is because unlike in mammals, where the lungs are pretty much all there is of the respiratory system, and most of the breathing action is confined to the chest cavity, in birds the lungs are but a small part of a much more elaborate respiratory system that penetrates into the major bones and extends throughout the body. Where as in mammals, the breathing action resembles the action of a bellow, with air drawn in to inflate the lungs, and then gets pushed out through the same wind pipe, in birds the breathing action is one way only. Air gets drawn into the lungs, and from the lungs it gets pushed into a system of air sacs distributed throughout the body and limbs of the bird. Finally the waste air is pushed out through an entirely different set of ducts and passages. As a result, in mammals the breathing is inefficient because air move in and out along the same passage, and waste air on the way out mixes with fresh air coming in, so one never gets all the waste air out, and incoming air is never quite fresh. Furthermore because the lungs can't completely deflate during bellow action, there is always a body of dead air in the lungs which breathing action can't move. But in birds fresh air in drawn in in a separate loop, and is never contaminated by mixing with waste air. So every bird breath is completely fresh. Since the movement of air in bird respiration is one way only, all of the air is moved with each breath, there is never any stagnant dead air in the respiratory system. The fundamentals difference between the respiratory system of birds and mammals is why birds dominates the high metabolic lifestyle of flying in the modern atmosphere, and why bird's ancester the dinosaurs could outcompete mammals during the Mesozoic.  (October 11, 2014 at 10:43 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(October 10, 2014 at 11:11 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Bandwidth usage. The legend is in the bottom left corner. One and the same.
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