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I actually recall seeing that. I don't rememeber what game, but I remember seeing two or three special teams guys blowing on a rolling ball to try and get it as close the goal line as possible. I remember thinking, I wonder if the rules specify that you can't utilize an electric fan. :)
That's right... I seem to remember this too. :D
 
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Okay. This is a question I'm asking on behalf of a friend.

You know how when you're outside on a cold night and you can see your breath in the air?

Well my friend wants to know if you can see the same type of "butt breath" when farting on such a cold night.

Sorry for the question weirdness. :)
 
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Okay. This is a question I'm asking on behalf of a friend.

You know how when you're outside on a cold night and you can see your breath in the air?

Well my friend wants to know if you can see the same type of "butt breath" when farting on such a cold night.

Sorry for the question weirdness. :)

for a friend... Right ;)
 
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Hold on a second... With infrared cameras brighter is hotter, but the gaseous cloud is the darkest thing in the clip, which suggest either the man had just had a liquid nitrogen enema... or we are seeing a worrying demonstration of the green house effect. The carbon dioxide and methane completely block infrared from passing through the cloud.
 
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Hold on a second... With infrared cameras brighter is hotter, but the gaseous cloud is the darkest thing in the clip, which suggest either the man had just had a liquid nitrogen enema... or we are seeing a worrying demonstration of the green house effect. The carbon dioxide and methane completely block infrared from passing through the cloud.
It's probably neither a real IR camera nor a real fart :p But it looks cool. By which I mean gross.
 
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Are/were you a student of the School of Wicca, and are you a practicing Wiccan?

And are you a follower of Gavin Frost?
I used to be a practising Wiccan, and it still has a place in my heart, but I was never part of the Frost's Church and School of Wicca. I remember reading that he was instrumental in getting Wicca recognised as a real religion, so kudos to him, but I never had any truck with his particular flavour of Wicca.
 
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I used to be a practising Wiccan, and it still has a place in my heart, but I was never part of the Frost's Church and School of Wicca. I remember reading that he was instrumental in getting Wicca recognised as a real religion, so kudos to him, but I never had any truck with his particular flavour of Wicca.
Okay -- thank you -- just being no-z.
 
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Well, any alleged contradiction can, by the caveat of your question, be disregarded as a miracle. That said:
Well, I was speaking of the obvious miracles such as the things Jesus did (multiplying the loaves and fish, etc)... BTW; sorry it took so long to respond... I've been w/out internet access lately :sigh:

  • The Earth was neither formed out of, nor by, water (2 Peter 3:5).
This is speaking of the original creation (where "earth" takes on a much broader meaning than just our planet), and since we do not know much, if anything, on what stands outside of spacetime, I think this is nothing that contradicts physics, but just stands outside of what we can know. Even the singularity at the beginning must have been surrounded by something; and what that was physics has no direct knowledge of... for all we know the universe could have been formed out of water and in water ;)


  • The sky is not the vault of heaven - a solid dome, aka the 'firmament' (Genesis 1:6-9, 14-17, 20, 7:11, 8:2, 11:4, Job 37:18, 38:22, Ezekiel 1:22, etc).
Funny, I think this verse gives us an indication of the Author of the bible being far advanced in understanding of our universe. Spacetime is more than just emptiness, it is actually has certain attributes... like a "fabric" as some physicists have stated. The Hebrew word for "expanse" in Genesis 1 is:
*raqia (956a); from H7554; an extended surface, expanse: - expanse

*from New American Standard Exaustive Concordance
Only after naming it thus is the word Heavens given to it, indicating a move from a natural to a spiritual description IMO. I think an "extended surface" is quite accurate for spacetime, don't you? An extended surface which has been "stretched forth" as the Bible says (Isaiah 45:12, and elsewhere)... The word Heavens, as is used in Genesis 1 and in Isaiah 45 literally means lofty, or high, which is a spiritual meaning as well as physical. Anyways, I find it interesting that you would use this as something that contradicts physics since it is only the historic understanding of this word that is physically inaccurate, not the meaning of the Hebrew word.

No time to finish the rest of your references right now, but I'll be back.

God bless
 
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Not really a physicist question but I thought to ask here anyway since you guys are so good with numbers and know way too much about most of everything.

Does $47,000 in yearly interest from a 31 million dollar trust fund sound about currently right to you?
 
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Not really a physicist question but I thought to ask here anyway since you guys are so good with numbers and know way too much about most of everything.

Does $47,000 in yearly interest from a 31 million dollar trust fund sound about currently right to you?

1.5% interest in today's economy?
what sort of plan is it (Savings, invested, or what? )
 
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It's a trust fund from a grandmother who passed away last year in December.

Her dad oversees the terms on this account. All I know besides this is that she won't have fulll access to this for 20 more years.

At least this is all I've been told.

Does this add up to you?
 
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Okay -- thank you -- just being no-z.
Hey, it says ask a physicist anything :p

Does a placebo still work if you know its a placebo?
A prisoner is told on Friday that he will a) die within the next seven days, and b) be surprised when he found out he would die on that day.
He reasons that, come Friday, he hasn't been killed in the preceeding six days, and could then conclude that he must therefore be executed on that Friday. However, this would mean he wouldn't be surprised, so he can't die on Friday.
By induction, he can't die on the Thursday either: come Thursday, he'd know he'd die on Thursday, and thus wouldn't be surprised.
By further induction, he concludes he can't die on any day - he would never be surprised on any of the seven days.

So he's quite surprised when he dies on the Tuesday.

The moral of the story? A high-brow intellectual knowingly taking a placebo is so confident in himself he completely forgets it's a placebo, and just knows he took a pill, and thus gets better anyway.

The mind is awfully sneaky like that :p

Also, bonus points for spotting the criminal's flaw (and now, it's not that he got caught doing the crime!).

Well, I was speaking of the obvious miracles such as the things Jesus did (multiplying the loaves and fish, etc)...
Well, true, but the 'miracle' is rather vague to evaluate :p

BTW; sorry it took so long to respond... I've been w/out internet access lately :sigh:
No worries, I've had protracted discussions that span months per reply :p

This is speaking of the original creation (where "earth" takes on a much broader meaning than just our planet), and since we do not know much, if anything, on what stands outside of spacetime, I think this is nothing that contradicts physics, but just stands outside of what we can know. Even the singularity at the beginning must have been surrounded by something; and what that was physics has no direct knowledge of... for all we know the universe could have been formed out of water and in water ;)
It could well have been, but it seems rather strained to squeeze a literal interpretation of Genesis around the gaps of human knowledge - such as, for instance, reinterpreting 'Earth' to "take on a much broader meaning than just our planet" :p. Why not reinterpret 'water' to mean 'empty spacetime'?

Funny, I think this verse gives us an indication of the Author of the bible being far advanced in understanding of our universe. Spacetime is more than just emptiness, it is actually has certain attributes... like a "fabric" as some physicists have stated. The Hebrew word for "expanse" in Genesis 1 is:
*raqia (956a); from H7554; an extended surface, expanse: - expanse

*from New American Standard Exaustive Concordance
Only after naming it thus is the word Heavens given to it, indicating a move from a natural to a spiritual description IMO. I think an "extended surface" is quite accurate for spacetime, don't you?
Not really - not only are you cherry-picking and grabbing at straws, spacetime isn't a 'surface' onto which something goes.

An extended surface which has been "stretched forth" as the Bible says (Isaiah 45:12, and elsewhere)... The word Heavens, as is used in Genesis 1 and in Isaiah 45 literally means lofty, or high, which is a spiritual meaning as well as physical. Anyways, I find it interesting that you would use this as something that contradicts physics since it is only the historic understanding of this word that is physically inaccurate, not the meaning of the Hebrew word.
The Hebrew word may have many meanings, but Hebrew cosmology is quite clear; the firmament in the sky was believed to be a crystalline dome, regardless of the other ambiguities in Hebrew. It was a very common belief at the time, and, to be fair, not that unbelievable.
 
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