How star blasts forged mankind

observer ^ | 18 Feb 02 | Robin McKie

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I like your analysis and agree with you. But I think the author was trying to explain how the Hulk was created.

[Consort]

Our universe, like all other universes, came out of a large Black Hole from another universe. It happens all the time and will keep on happening. Send a probe into a Black Hole to verify it. It's called Cosmic Recycling.

[P-Marlowe]

I just love the way the author of this article writes everything down as if he were an eyewitness to all this evolution stuff. And they accuse creationists of inventing myths.

[RightWhale]

way back when I was in college

And that was a mighty long time ago. Did they have the gender-neutral translation then?

[RightWhale]

Send a probe into a Black Hole to verify it

How about if we send a grad student? Cheaper, probably not as reliable as a NASA Mars lander, but available now.

[RightWhale]

Do you understand these coded writings?

How about the 5 loaves and the 5000 with remainder 7, or 7 loaves and the 4000 with remainder 12? [I may have these mixed up.]

[RightWhale]

qualities were possessed by bi-pedal hunting apes on the African savannas

They lived at the forest edge, staying in the shade most of the time. They would go out into the tall grass only if they saw dinner hopping by.

[MissAmericanPie]

ROFLOL, oh, this is priceless. This evolution thing is getting pretty desperate to promote an idea like this.

[RightWhale]

these hazardous, radioactive times

Supernovas create heavy atoms such as iron. Since it was freshly created material, any radioactive isotopes would still be hot compared to now, 2 million years later.

I guess. It's probably a little hyperbole. Iron-60, if it were highly radioactive, would have decayed to something else by now. Actually iron is about as stable an element as there is. The end result of the universe reaction when it goes to completion will be iron. Everything will be iron.

[RightWhale]

This evolution thing is getting pretty desperate to promote an idea like this.

Yes, the author would benefit from a couple weeks at FR, refining those logical skills.

[MissAmericanPie]

This is the best case I have heard made for ladies to insist on being wrapped in mink. Gotta print this out for my hubby, he claims Texas is to hot for a mink coat.

[razorbak]

In the early '70s and before, the uniformitarianism that dominated the community of evolutioniary scientists caused them to scoff at the catastrophism of the Bible. Now evolutionists are wedded to catastrophism as closely as are Biblical creationists. There is still much disagreement, but at least the evos are moving in the right direction.

[f.Christian]

But supernovae may also play constructive roles in the cosmos - recent scientific research has revealed that these stellar annihilations had a crucial impact on human evolution...

you can explain this too me---perpetual spontaneous life--matter---evolution?

[Elsie]

How about the 5 loaves and the 5000 with remainder 7, or 7 loaves and the 4000 with remainder 12? [I may have these mixed up.]

Nope; no, I don't. Most people ignore what is PLAINLY written, let alone anything supposedly hidden.

Folks, Christ died for your sins!

There IS a way out!

[crystalk]

Those are just translations, and are not the Bible. The Bible is only the original language works, which have not altered in some 1625 yrs (New Testament) or 2161 years (OT) and in most parts were even then different by mere characters, not in meaning, ...from works centuries older still...

I agree with you that it is utterly laughable that somebody writes some new PC thing and then still claims it is a 'bible.' Why don't they just translate Portnoy's Complaint into Arabic, or something worth while like that?

[Lagrange Point]

Re: #49:

I suspect the time required for this to occur is quite long. The other "stable" isotopes (excluding iron) seem to exist in an extremely long lived metastable state. Maybe longer than the proton decay time?

L.P.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Iron 56 is the stable isotope. Iron 60 has a half-life of 1.5 million years. If this event occured 2 million years ago there would still be a lot of it around. For comparison the half-life of Carbon 14 is 5730 years (yes, its that carbon 14).

[Lagrange Point]

Just a question...What is the half life of carbon 12? If all elements will eventually decay to iron 56, how long will that be? I have heard of the universe eventually becoming "cold iron" (assuming that there is insufficient mass to stop expansion).

L.P.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I think I read the same thing quite a few years ago. Carbon 12 is technically stable, but through quantum mechanical tunneling it will eventually decay. I remember doing the calculations, but due to senility, I'm unable to repeat them. Iron was supposed to be the most stable. The other elements would decay faster.

I think we were using the shell model of the nucleus as the basis for our calculations. I'm not sure though. Time for ice cream.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 2/18/2002.

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