13 things that do not make sense

[BYOBKenobi]

<p><a href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600">http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600</a></p><p>I think this article is old, but it's an amazing read.&nbsp; It's 13 things that scientists just can't figure out.</p>

[Team_Ramrod]

I can't figure out why my wife got pissed about my myspace account.... she seen I had some chicks as my friends and all of a sudden I'm a cheater.... Get the fuckin scientists on that mystery.

[KC2OSO]

<p>Of those that I could understand, #8 the Pioneer Anomlay was most intriguing. Bodies acting on bodies!</p><p>Mizzle?&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by KC2OSO on 11-29-06 @ 3:31 AM</span>

[Doctor Z]

Where the hell is AIDS on this list?

[booster11373]

<strong>BYOBKenobi</strong> wrote:<br /><p><a href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600">http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600</a></p><p>I think this article is old, but it's an amazing read.&nbsp; It's 13 things that scientists just can't figure out.</p><p>yet!</p><p>People against science sometimes use this kind of stuff as a proof of some kind of highwer power</p>

[lintpit]

<strong>booster11373</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>BYOBKenobi</strong> wrote:<br /><p><a href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600">http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600</a></p><p>I think this article is old, but it's an amazing read.&nbsp; It's 13 things that scientists just can't figure out.</p><p>yet!</p><p>People against science sometimes use this kind of stuff as a proof of some kind of higher power </p><p>No sir, no no no no no sir. The 'higher power' you speak of&nbsp; uses science and free thought and discussion,etc. to merely let us know that, although we are his most loved creation,we are a mere blip on the radar of his bigger scheme.&nbsp; Look at the progress we as humans have made in the last 100 years. Now why is it so hard to believe that there is a higher power pulling the strings when you look at the vast, incredible universe vs man made progress.Is there a god?Absolutely. Does MY god have a name? Yep you bet...JESUS.thanks</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[BYOBKenobi]

I wasn't using any religious angle.&nbsp; The thought never crossed my mind.&nbsp; I just find things like this interesting because you expect everything to work out as planned and then there are these strange, unexplainable things that remind you that we don't know everything yet.

[Furtherman]

<strong>KC2OSO</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Of those that I could understand, #8 the Pioneer Anomlay was most intriguing. Bodies acting on bodies!</p><p>I like that one too.&nbsp; </p><p>Personally, I think when the Pioneers finally do stop, we'll all find out that our galaxy in just in some alien's snowglobe sitting on a shelf.</p>

[Marc with a c]

#14: A Billy Staples Post.

[Mike Teacher]

<strong>BYOBKenobi</strong> wrote:<br />I wasn't using any religious angle.&nbsp; The thought never crossed my mind.&nbsp; I just find things like this interesting because you expect everything to work out as planned and then there are these strange, unexplainable things that remind you that we don't know everything yet. <p>We really do know next to nothing, and at the same time we know so much, at least so much more then a century ago.</p><p>In my opinion, God is a 'placeholder', if you will, for the unexplained parts of things out there, or in ourselves. I'm not an atheist, but not big on an anthropomorphic deity that concerns itself with our behaviours.</p><p>Um, damn what were the unknows?</p><p>Oh the Pioneer effect. Well at first guess, either:</p><p>-There is something wrong in the tracking, communications, or some unknown force/energy acting on the signal we get. The Pioneers have long outlived even the wildest of design expectations, and are so far out there we are getting a signal that, for all intents and purposes, is barely there at all. </p><p>-A while back the data for an accelerating universe started coming in, raising a lot of cosmological eyebrows. We know the universe is expanding but the debate was usually will it keep expanding into a haze of elementary particles or collapse back into maybe an osciallting U, or something else altogether, but if the expansion is accelerating that begs what force/energy/unknown is the cause</p><p>and the answer, my guess, will be something that, again, we either unaware of, or too clueless about, right now that is. </p><p>=</p><p>The placebo effect has been used in knee surgery trials to a point of success that the debate is now whether Placebo Surgeries are an ethical/viable alternative. For some reason, they seem to work, the patients are saying so. Go figure. Mind over Matter is much stronger then I think any of us have envisioned. </p>

[lleeder]

#15 East Side Daves Sayings: Shoot that shit to the sky

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by lleeder on 11-29-06 @ 7:32 PM</span>

[Fez4PrezN2008]

<p>#8 is easy... its the same space robot guys who captured &quot;vger&quot; in Star Trek to return it to the creator...</p><p><img src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n293/JBphotojunk/vger.jpg" border="0" width="480" height="360" /></p><p>I think the big mystery is if those space robots were so smart then why didn't they think to brush the dust off to see that it was voyager not vger... doih robots !</p>

[johnniewalker]

<strong>Mike Teacher</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>BYOBKenobi</strong> wrote:<br />I wasn't using any religious angle. The thought never crossed my mind. I just find things like this interesting because you expect everything to work out as planned and then there are these strange, unexplainable things that remind you that we don't know everything yet. <p>We really do know next to nothing, and at the same time we know so much, at least so much more then a century ago.</p><p>In my opinion, <strong>God is a 'placeholder'</strong>, if you will, for the unexplained parts of things out there, or in ourselves. I'm not an atheist, but not big on an anthropomorphic deity that concerns itself with our behaviours.</p><p>Um, damn what were the unknows?</p><p>Oh the Pioneer effect. Well at first guess, either:</p><p>-There is something wrong in the tracking, communications, or some unknown force/energy acting on the signal we get. The Pioneers have long outlived even the wildest of design expectations, and are so far out there we are getting a signal that, for all intents and purposes, is barely there at all. </p><p>-A while back the data for an accelerating universe started coming in, raising a lot of cosmological eyebrows. We know the universe is expanding but the debate was usually will it keep expanding into a haze of elementary particles or collapse back into maybe an osciallting U, or something else altogether, but if the expansion is accelerating that begs what force/energy/unknown is the cause</p><p>and the answer, my guess, will be something that, again, we either unaware of, or too clueless about, right now that is. </p><p>=</p><p>The placebo effect has been used in knee surgery trials to a point of success that the debate is now whether Placebo Surgeries are an ethical/viable alternative. For some reason, they seem to work, the patients are saying so. Go figure. Mind over Matter is much stronger then I think any of us have envisioned. </p><p>&nbsp;I think God is used quite a bit for unexplainable reasons, but reason is used a lot to try to explain the majority of unexplainable things.&nbsp; If you think about government, much of it is still based on old philosphies and reason.&nbsp; For example, our criminal justice system...we don't really kwow if it is the best way to control society.&nbsp; Is deterrance the best method...does it even work? &nbsp; What about rehabilitation?&nbsp; It's amazing when you think about how much our society is based on these philisophical ideas of what's right and what's wrong. &nbsp; </p>

[torker]

<p><img src="http://www.jerrylehane.com/img/Jerry-Snowman.jpg" border="0" width="304" height="342" /></p><p>He was beautiful.</p>

[Gaia]

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