Well the Russians lacked imagination and thought that all that there was in space was nothing.
NASA saw the possibility that there could be whole other worlds with water. And that there was no gravity in space and so they would have to write upside down. And they wanted to have professional looking notes. Not cheap high schooler notes written with a pencil. And a terrorist could come in and easily erase all Russian space records.
Lots of reasons..
If sandwich bread is square, why is most lunch meat round?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Simple Answer
The answer to this question is rather simple, Taylor.
Neither proceeded the other. God created, at the same time, a male chicken (a rooster) and a female chick in an egg (a hen fetus). He did this so there would be no question that the male was to rule without question over the female, using his elder status as reason.
Unfortunately, something went wrong somewhere and now all the male does is crow at random and useless times during the day.
Why is it that NASA spent billions of dollars to develop a pen that could write underwater, upside down, and in space, while the Russians simply used a pencil? Not only that, but why did NASA care about writing underwater and upside down?
Neither proceeded the other. God created, at the same time, a male chicken (a rooster) and a female chick in an egg (a hen fetus). He did this so there would be no question that the male was to rule without question over the female, using his elder status as reason.
Unfortunately, something went wrong somewhere and now all the male does is crow at random and useless times during the day.
Why is it that NASA spent billions of dollars to develop a pen that could write underwater, upside down, and in space, while the Russians simply used a pencil? Not only that, but why did NASA care about writing underwater and upside down?
Thank You. And Answering the Impossible.
Thanks Matt.
Yes, it's true. Today I now go to big boy prison for any illegal activities.
That is simple. There is no law stating blind people are not allowed to drive.
If they can pass the written and practical portions of the Driving Exam, they get a license.
And in return..
The chicken or the Egg. Who preceded whom?
Yes, it's true. Today I now go to big boy prison for any illegal activities.
That is simple. There is no law stating blind people are not allowed to drive.
If they can pass the written and practical portions of the Driving Exam, they get a license.
And in return..
The chicken or the Egg. Who preceded whom?
Oh, and....
Happy Birthday to Taylor! Today, Taylor turns 18 years old. So wish him a happy birthday!
Unanswerables 1
Yes, I thought you might be afraid of that response. But on to something new. I will ask Taylor a question, a question most of us believe unanswerable. He will then answer and ask me one in return.
Why do drive-through ATMs have Braille?
Why do drive-through ATMs have Braille?
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Time Travel Part Four
Ah. Yes. I feared that response.
Hmm. The best way that I can argue what I'm really trying to say is with an example.
Tim is standing on the corner of 1st street and A street at 12:00 pm. Noon.
He has a time machine on the corner of 2nd and B street. He leaves at 1:00 pm. He hops in the time machine so that his space is always occupied on his return travel to Noon. But when he finally arrives back at Noon- time. He disappeared in the 1:00 time, creating a destruction of his matter, and a vacuum. and appears where air occupied on his corner of 2nd and B street. So even with the act of traveling through time, he still appears.
And with Matt's second idea, I found that fun to ponder and I encourage all to think on it for just a few minutes.
I also pose another question,
What would you do if your future self appeared to you and told you not to devise a way to travel through time?
Just think and then realize you had to have made a way to do it, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to warn yourself. :).
That's all for now.
Love, Taylor
Hmm. The best way that I can argue what I'm really trying to say is with an example.
Tim is standing on the corner of 1st street and A street at 12:00 pm. Noon.
He has a time machine on the corner of 2nd and B street. He leaves at 1:00 pm. He hops in the time machine so that his space is always occupied on his return travel to Noon. But when he finally arrives back at Noon- time. He disappeared in the 1:00 time, creating a destruction of his matter, and a vacuum. and appears where air occupied on his corner of 2nd and B street. So even with the act of traveling through time, he still appears.
And with Matt's second idea, I found that fun to ponder and I encourage all to think on it for just a few minutes.
I also pose another question,
What would you do if your future self appeared to you and told you not to devise a way to travel through time?
Just think and then realize you had to have made a way to do it, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to warn yourself. :).
That's all for now.
Love, Taylor
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Time Travel Part Three
Taylor obviously has a good point with his assumption that the law of conversation of matter would prevent any instantaneous transportation, including any which may be related to time travel. However, I'd like to point a few things out:
Time travel implies that such movement through time is not done instantaneously. Just as when we travel on a road trip, we have to move through space to get there, thereby avoiding the creation of any vacuums (space where there is no matter, not even air). If we make the same assumption about time travel, it would be easier to think that time travel is more like rewinding oneself backwards through time, with no physical changes made to oneself.
So in that sense, it might be possible to time travel without violating the conservation of matter.
But on the Superman point, I agree completely with Taylor.
I just want to add something onto my original assertion as to why time travel wouldn't be possible (the you from the past wouldn't have anything to go back and change if the current you changed it). I think the only way it would be possible to time travel without getting tangled into that paradox is to travel back through time with no intention of changing anything in particular. You go back, and you change something random. Or at least have that be your intention until you arrive at your destination time. Of course, this causes problems because in every repetition of this scenario, you random change is something else. So it becomes a loop. Have fun thinking about that.
Time travel implies that such movement through time is not done instantaneously. Just as when we travel on a road trip, we have to move through space to get there, thereby avoiding the creation of any vacuums (space where there is no matter, not even air). If we make the same assumption about time travel, it would be easier to think that time travel is more like rewinding oneself backwards through time, with no physical changes made to oneself.
So in that sense, it might be possible to time travel without violating the conservation of matter.
But on the Superman point, I agree completely with Taylor.
I just want to add something onto my original assertion as to why time travel wouldn't be possible (the you from the past wouldn't have anything to go back and change if the current you changed it). I think the only way it would be possible to time travel without getting tangled into that paradox is to travel back through time with no intention of changing anything in particular. You go back, and you change something random. Or at least have that be your intention until you arrive at your destination time. Of course, this causes problems because in every repetition of this scenario, you random change is something else. So it becomes a loop. Have fun thinking about that.
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