What if all the worlds wisest scientists were put together in a "think tank". \n\n(Not a "tank" like this.)http://www.therawfeed.com/2006/02/army-tests-robotic-self-driving-tanks.html\n\nNo a "think tank" like this,\nhttp://www.kehilla.org.il/images/dinner5762/men's%20table%20(Medium).jpg\n\nWill will give the wise scientists a mission. \n          \n            !!!!!SAVE MANKIND!!!!!\n\n(many will have long beards, it makes them look wiser)\n\nlike this guy.\nhttp://www.zoraskingdom.freeserve.co.uk/endpain2.htm\n\nThe mission will be to devise a way to throw eveybody up in the air at the same time.\n\nLike this ball.\nhttp://www.juggling.org/fame/fbrunn/Pics/ball_on_foot.jpg\n\n\nThink about it. Like this guy.\n\nhttp://www.eatonhand.com/clp/THINKER.JPG\n\nHe's thinking about it.\n\nI think I just might be on to something.\n\n\nDo you concur?\n(I am not clear what that word means."Concur?")
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I'm so glad I took time out of my life to click on those links.\n\nSo very glad.
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I am the I.D. disciple, it is my sacred mission here to spread the glorious (and scientific) word of Intelligent Design (or I.D.).\n\nOnly through true harmonious integration of theology and science can our world be completely understood (and logically explained).  The key Principle of I.D. is Science Harmoniously Integrating Theology (or S.H.I.T.)  Please join me on our wonderful journey through the world of S.H.I.T.\n\nIntelligent Design - coming soon to a school district near you! \n\nGlory be ID
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Firstly, when did Yahoo! Answers ever claim to be "a think tank for intellectuals ... creating solutions to the problems of the world"? I'm not sure what you expect from Yahoo! Answers, but you should either lower your expectations a little, or join a Miss Universe pageant (these people always dream of changing the world, so you’ll be right at home with them).\n\nSecondly, what you consider to be a trivial question may not necessarily be so for another. For example, I considered this previous question of yours to be fairly inane:  “Are you worried about 06/06/06? Say it in German and you'll be happy!?”. Of course, this is simply my opinion, and this question may be considered perceptive and enlightening to somebody else.\n\nThirdly, it is foolish to imply that those of a younger age group have no capacity for serious thought. Further, it does not immediately follow that those of a more senior age have a monopoly on thought provoking discussion. There have been countless times where I have read an incredibly vapid question asked by a supposedly mature adult. Example: refer to the quoted question in my second point.\n\nFourthly, while you despair of the quality of questions asked in this service, perhaps you should review how you might have contributed to these apparently low standards. Example: refer to the quoted question in my second point.
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Science is about opportunism. Dwarves standing on the shoulders of midgets. \n\nPersonally, I have no problem with advancement via Universities or specialist institutes. However, the influence of the benefactors is all too apparent in the world of academia. Multinational corporations have far too much say in where science is going. Of course scientists are not without integrity. Indeed, to use the Human Genome project as an example, not-for-profit altruism has come into direct conflict with the profit margin - known as the "let's patent this just in case it does something that benefits humanity, so we can make some quick bucks from it" approach. \n\nI begin to suspect the meek will not inherit the earth until the rich and powerful have destroyed it.
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You know this is a GREAT question as it will surely draw the true Ethics out of your answerers... Personally I think it takes A LOT of fortitude to do what he is doing...he isn't laying there like a 'speed bump' and mock turtle crying. he is being terrifically proactive in his challenge...and I see dignity in this. I can say he was never one of my favourites before, in fact I didn't like the show...but what has emerge, in my opinion only, as a man who is thoughtful, strong, witty, and REFUSING to let the (metaphoric) ship go down....NOW i am absolutely a ...well if not a fan,....then definitely in his cheering section....He did his job so well that he has been taken as rather stupid....funny isn't it? The truth comes out and the best of us seems to be shown in a crisis....for this, he is proof positive. \nI want to see him make this happen! Innovative and through it all, regardless of the out come...he stand steady fast and tall....\nWell I bypassed your initial request which I shall now give...\n"The man has Guts!"
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Ahhh the anti spock_darwin surfaces.....\n\nNice to see a question that does not attack......
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I thought this was an interesting article:\n\n\nRFID "the next thing you can't live without" \n\nI was laughed at a month ago when I suggested a little-known federal government program known as the National Animal Identification System was akin to modernizing Nazi holocaust practices.\n\nAfter all, who should care if some chickens or other farm animals will be required to have radio frequency identity tags implanted into them by 2009? And who should care if farmers will be required to report all movements of the animals to the government? \n\nThe Nazis used tattoos and paper cards and carried out the holocaust because they were crrr-rrrazy. We're using the Global Positioning System and radio chips and are doing it to track the spread of bovine diseases and avian flu — not to mention injecting chips into pets so they don't get lost. Microchipping babies is unthinkable, right? \n\nNot in Mexico, where a company called Solusat markets the rice-sized VeriChip to parents who fear their children will be abducted. Other uses include using the chip as a credit card or a storage device for medical information. \n\nProponents of chip-tracking technology like columnist Kirby Snell at the University of Evansville Crescent argue we have nothing to fear from chip technology and that there is nothing inherently wrong with implants that allow people to be tracked anywhere and everywhere at any time. Chips are good, they say. \n\nYeah, chips are good like a metal shackle around the throat. \n\nFirst, the tags will be voluntary. The rich and the privileged will get the chips to make it fashionable and acceptable. Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson already has volunteered to get the chip implant. \n\nEmployers like surveillance company CityWatcher.com already have jumped to implement the technology. Some City Watcher.com employees already had chips injected into their arms. \n\nNext the chip will be incorporated into everyday activities such as going to a theme park or shopping. Wannado City theme park in Florida has patrons wear wristbands that allow them to be tracked. Wal-Mart has been tracking consumer habits using radio frequency identity tags implanted into packaging of products like Gillette razors. General Motors' OnStar system has been tracking drivers' every moves for a decade. \n\nAfter chipping people becomes normal, expect the crackdowns on people who refuse to submit. Laws will start being implemented requiring everyone to be chipped by de facto mandate. A chip will be needed to get a driver's license or passport. Insurance companies can celebrate once again because without a chip, doctors won't treat you, and insurance won't cover you. Some aspiring politician will push for laws to require the lowlifes of society, pedophiles and child rapists, to be chipped for, we are told, "our own safety." \n\nChips will be marketed as the next thing you can't live without. For many people, as was the case with cell phones and iPods, the glitz, social pressure and promotions will outweigh the negatives like the loss of privacy and loss of unabated brain waves. \n\nI thought it was bad enough my beloved First Avenue music club has started requiring workers to use their fingerprints as IDs. \n\nIt's for your own good, we're told. Without money, the world would fall into degenerative chaos, we're told. Without war, there would be no peace. Without medication, we have no true emotions. And without radio frequency identity tags, our sense of personal freedom could never exist. The people and corporations in power tell us a lot of things to make it seem not so bad. \n\nI know better. It's bad enough to make one fade into the anonymous hillsides of Ireland or secretly travel the United States in a van that runs on vegetable oil. In this fight between savages and the tech-savvy world state, I'd rather be a savage.
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A)  NO not even for a Billion thanks\n\nB)  IF right safety equipment then sure because I've got a head for heights but I like my life too, so safety first! :-)\n\nC)  HECK NO not even for 100 Billion! Not for all the money in the world!\n\nD)  I'd do this for FREE! Always wished I could have been an astronaut. Getting back? Well that's the risk you take isn't it. There's a risk to anything worth while.\n\nE)  I would definately do this one for charity, the money I'd make i.e. the million dollars, for fasting for one week I would give to charities so that those people that do not eat for a week in this world because they have no choice, can eat - grow their own crops - sustain their families and not have to die of diseases and starvation!\n\nLoved your question, made me laugh for most part - very whacky - and also gave 'food for thought' as they say.\n\n:-)\n\nHannah
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I recommend you begin your studies by seeing the IMAX presentation "Wired to Win."  It's a brief look at the competitors in the 2005 Tour de France and relates their incredible performances to our own earliest learning.  The big message is that so long as we're willing to continue to challenge ourselves, there is no end to our potential no matter what our ages.  However, the really sensational news comes from Philadelphia, PA, USA.\n\nIn my not so humble opinion, the greatest expert on learning, and he'll get a Nobel Prize for it some day, is Philadelphia's Glen Doman founder of the (7) Institutes for the achievement of human potential.  He started out dealing with brain injured babies and children and also with mongoloids.  \n\nDoman created a series of 'patterning' drills that parents could perform moving the children's legs and arms in rhythmic fashions;  and was the instigator of a lot of exercises such as creeping, crawling, the prime, etc. which are now used in visual therapy and to help slow readers, etc.  \n\nPerhaps his greatest breakthrough was the discovery that the 'stupidity' traditionally associated with mongoloidism is not a primary symptom but rather just a bi-product of the mongoloid's typically poor respiratory system.  Once he began teaching parents to pattern; then to use behavior modification techniques to encourage huge amounts of crawling and creeping -- the mongoloid children gained intelligence rapidly.  \n\nThen he ran into a huge stumbling block . . . walking typically came far, far later in life and he knew it was vital to these children's brain development as well as their continued physical improvement but he couldn't seem to make things better until he began using swimming lessons and brachiation (monkey bar swinging like apes in trees).  Soon the mongoloids were walking, running etc.  The strange thing was that the cardio-vascular debilities never fully go away and since the brain is the body's biggest user of oxygen, IQ's never fully fall into the normal range.  Nevertheless, some Doman mongoloids with modest 105-110 IQs have become Valedictorians and Salutatorians because they've learned all their lives the value of hard work, patience and persistence.\n\nHis next big leap was to ask if people with half their brains in a vat; or those born mongoloid can do so well, then what's wrong with 'normal' children.  Several of his institutes are concerned with early childhood education and physical development.  He calls his programs for achieving excellence at an early age:  "the gentle revolution."
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hallelujah .\nI suggested to yahoo a special category ,\nHuman sexuality ,\nso that beings from out of space who know nothing about humans and who are apparently checking up on us ,judging by the questions\n,and those humans who  have lived in total isolation of other humans  ,\n could check up on all these forever asked questions and find out what they want to know ,with out having to loose points and annoy those who are tired of the same questions ,\n\nespecially masturbation, if there is anything on this planet we all  instinctively know how to do ,it must be  this one.\n\nAnd i don't agree with kids having a age category ,that is as bad as racism,some kids are a lot wiser than a lot of adults i know ,and you cannot hide the world from them ,that would be a lie, and only drive them INTO the wrong direction ,not AWAY from it .\n\nSome people forget what they were like at eleven
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Hmm, this one is interesting. I mean you could have left this one off with the science, but you added the philosophical point. But thats ok because it makes it so much more subjective. But, let's start with what science can prove, and move on from there. This should be interesting. Ok. Would the sun go supernova? No, because our nice little star is not massive enough, it needs A LOT more mass to go super nova. But what it will do is many years from now (hopefully) it will enter the Red Giant phase, where the Sun will expand outwards to about where Mars is. As it is doing that, yes it will burn concrete, it will flashboil the oceans, and turn our lush eden into a barren world shortly before being consumed by the sun. After that it will explode to create a planetary nebula and the suns inner core will remain and cool to a white dwarf. Now, the philosophical question. Mother nature would probably not step in because this is just another cycle, this happens to many other stars/ suns in our night sky. But, God probably would. In fact, he could come before our little star goes boom. Because remember that when he spoke to Noah, he said that he would destroy the world again, only with fire this time. So the sun destroying itself could have some part to play. But, he may not come till after it destroys itself. Now, that is if you believe the Bible. Im not sure what the Kuran or any other religious works have to say about their god or gods. Because remember, it took him from the big bang to about 35 A.D. to return, about 20 billion years. So, he may not come for another 20 billion years! Remember, his timescale is not like ours is. And thats the beauty of all this! He gave us a universe to explore, and a holy work commanding us to go forth unto the world and multiply! What better excuse to use for space exploration! I mean we have so much time that its almost insane. I feel that we have barely scratched the surface on our understanding of the universe, and that we should take steps to understand it.\n\n(Please note: Though I am a Christian, I respect other religions because last I looked, we lived in a country that allows freedom of religion, and actually, I would love to see some one from another religion answer this to see what they have to say about this)
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A group of scientist placed five monkeys in a cage, in the centre of the cage they put stairs and, on it a cluster of bananas.\nWhen a monkey went up the stairs to grab the bananas, the scientists launched cold water in the ones that were in the soil. After certain time, when a monkey went up the stairs he would be beaten by the other monkeys.\nAfter sometime, no monkey tried to went up the stairs, despite the temptation for the bananas.\nThen the scientists substituted one of the 5 monkeys.\nThe first thing he did was go up the stairs, but he was quickly removed by the others that immediately start to beat him.\nAfter some beatings, he quit trying to go up the stairs.\nA second one was replaced and the same story occurred, having the first substitute participated, with enthusiasm, in the beating of the novice.\nOne third was substituted and the same fact happened.\nOne fourth and then the Last of the veterans was substituted.\nSo the scientists were now with a group of 5 monkeys that without ever having taken a cold bath, continued to beat the one that tried to go to the bananas.\nIf it was possible to ask to the monkeys why they beaten the one that tried to get up the stairs, the answer would probably be: "I don't know. Things were always like this around here..."\nSo sometimes we should ask ourselves why we do some things without thinking!\n\n" It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice!"\n(Albert Einstein)
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Um, no that's real... that's a serious video that was made for "Way of the Master," and there's a whole series of them. Scary, isn't it?\n\nHere's a user's list that has all kinds of entertaining tidbits, including some other way of the master stuff.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=zonkas\n\nAnd the site from which they spawn...\n\nhttp://www.wayofthemaster.com/\n\nThe funniest thing about this video? Bananas did NOT look like to begin with. People farmed them and bred them to get better and better results.\n\nIf anything, it's proof of intelligent design - so long as the "designer" is humans.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqQttJinjo
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Going to see the X-MEN!? YOU BLASPHEMOUS HAIRY BALD MAN! Yer goin' ta hell in a hand-basket. Its a cute one too! I originally purchased it for my daughter but she moved away and its gathering dust.\n\nThe plan is to force you into the basket, hook it to a cable that leads to the center of the Earth - and send you sailing down into da pits. When you hit bottom, yank three times on the cable so we'll know to fill in the hole. You're cooperation is much appreciated. Thank you.\n\n(And you said Creationalists are not polite! Shame on you)
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O.K. admiralbob! I'm glad your not in charge of everything. Everyone wants to prove how things work, but they can't answer the question as to who made it all happen.....Anyway I've got broadband but the download is taking a minute so based off of others speculation and the website that I observed, I would say SURE THING. God is intelligent so why wouldn't he use science he created it? But yeah! They should use it to teach if they have found that proof! It would really back up the bible too.
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It's true that the money could have been spent on trying to resolve any of the numerous problems in the world, but from a philosophical POV, science needs to have its boundaries pushed to create new and useful developments.\n\nIf you read the novel "Earth" by David Brynn (Brinn?) it speculates on the artificial creation of black holes. I'm no quantum physicist, but it makes a plausible argument that these artificial black holes need to be constantly fed with matter, otherwise they 'die'. More importantly, that the energy produced by these entities is so vast it would pretty much solve the global energy crisis.\n\nFrom a more balanced angle though, these scare stories put out by newspapers usually have very little basis in fact, and are usually written by journalists with little or no proper scientific background or knowledge of their subject matter.\n\nI strongly recommend you read the 'Bad Science' setion of the Guardian. Look through the newspapers site or the columnist has a dedicated site (i think www.badscience.net or something like that). It's amazing how much of the stuff we're told in the name of 'science' is actually complete guff!
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"...From my own intelligence work within the military, I can say WITH ALL CERTAINTY that one of the main reasons the public has been kept in total darkness about the reality of UFOs and 'aliens', is that the truth of the matter actually exists TOO CLOSE TO HOME TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT.  How could a spokesman for the Pentagon dare admit that five or ten thousand feet underground EXISTS AN ENTIRE WORLD THAT IS 'FOREIGN' TO A BELIEF STRUCTURE WE HAVE HAD FOR CENTURIES? How could, for example, our fastest bomber be any challenge to those aerial invaders when we can only guess about the routes they take to the surface; eluding radar as they fly so low, headed back to their underground lair?"\n\n"...the 'Greys' or the 'EBEs' have established a fortress, spreading out to other parts of the U.S. via means of a vast underground tunnel system THAT HAS VIRTUALLY EXISTED BEFORE RECORDED HISTORY..."\n\n--Milton (William) Cooper, ex-Naval Intelligence officer