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In the color Pentagon film of an object zooming into the building, there is this phosphorescent object on the Pentagon lawn. What is that supposed to be? You can see the nose of the plane/missile speeding towards the building at ground level for one frame. But what is that light on the lawn...

I was always under the impression that any past event has a probability of 1, since it has already occured. I am having a discussion on another forum about this, but the person I am chatting with continues to claim that probability is a constant, and that you can take a random event (such as a...

Today's story of parents who can't accept the fact that their kids are normal is about a kid who "was a fighter pilot" in WWII. He's a fighter pilot because he knew what a drop-tank is and because he knew US fought Japan. They even pulled out a crank psychiatrist and tried to stack his...

The Past Meets the Future Recently David Brooks wrote for the New York Times an article labeled “The Past Meets the Future”. This was an imaginary conversation between Mr. Past and Mr. Future. Mr. Past focused upon our failure to understand the past and in so doing we make egregious errors...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4729032.stm Can someone tell me why Brtish troops are still in Iraq? The Iraqis arent even talking to us anymore! Seriously, apart from providing some sport in the from of someone to snipe at, throw stones and petrol bombs at, and occaisonly...

What I'm asking is if by the end of Gorge Bush's reign of terror will America be completely ruled over by christian fundamentalists?

when jesus said this. i think he was trying to define an answer to "who am i?" question, for all individuals. more of a philosophical and phsychological discription, put in simple terms for the people of those days. perhaps it is enough for the minds of now days. who am i? 'I' am the Past...

I just recently came to the realization that death is exactly the same as the time before you were born. In essence, I've been dead before, and I'll be dead again. It will be exactly the same. My life is just a happy abberation. This has really eased my fear of death. I'm not really...

(Sorry I'm not posting very much, but I have issues of a personal nature that leave me very little time to post on JREF - I'm sure we'll come back to the things we talked about later) Does anyone know any valid reason why someone would change empirical data in order to improve a significance...

I'm listening to a lecture on dark energy right now and it reminded me of a question I've had in the back of my mind. We have theories that attempt to predict results of nucleosynthesis taking place at moments past the big bang's "start". My question is on how accurate we can be when the...

Does anyone know a valid LOGICAL (not scientific) argument that the universe must have existed infinitely into the past?

I remember not too long ago, Randi was discussing the mysterious rock spheres of Costa Rica. His claim was that they were natural volcanic formations. I saw a show on these spheres on The Discovery Channel last night where they were trying to prove that these were made by human hands. They...

As I have mentioned a time or two on this board, I am anosmic - I have no sense of smell. I have never had one to my recollection, so it is either due to something early in my life (high fevers, sinus infections and concussions have been known to cause anosmia), or I am congenitally anosmic. I...

Still can't believe there is a real medical hospital named after that quack. At least no one practices homeopathy there...

I saw a show last night on the Danish semipublic tv station TV2 called "På rejse med sjælen" (travelling with the soul). I still have a hard time accepting public money funding programs like those. It was completely one sided and without and ounce of skepticism. First a a psychotherapist...

Did anyone out there play this amazing game? It was a role-playing text Mud that was fantastic. It lasted from around the early to late 90's. Anyway, the reason for the thread is that evidently the designers of it are back. If games like this interest you, check out: www.undiscoveredworlds.com

Randi wrote: <blockquote> Adam and Eve, they said, were the original humans, plunked down in a garden to start our species going. But I didn't understand, and still don't, that they had only two children, both sons — and one of them killed the other — yet somehow they produced enough people to...

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