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Lindsey Hilsum is a woman, fuckwits. She works for Channel 4 News which I'm sure you all really hate.

BTW, after the fall of Baghdad, when she wasn't imbedded, her team came across a group of US Soldiers who had been shooting at some cars that were approaching their positions. They wouldn't let the TV crews interpreter approach the vehicles, which were near a housing area. They argued, being liberal types and the translator ran over to the cars. He came back with a little girl, maybe 5 or 6 years old, who had been shot in the head.

The US soldiers, being human beings, then took the little girl away. Lindsey later tracked her down to Kuwait weeks later, where the US medical team had patched her up and she was alive, and with her father, who had also been missing.

Maybe she told some of the marines this, and that's why I saw them protecting her the other day when they were pinned down on a roof. I also imagine that if you tried to wish a horrible death upon her in front of one of those marines, you would be picking teeth out of your shit for the next two weeks.

Does the moon ever get closer to earth? Is earth's gravity sucking it in? Is the sun's gravity pulling it away?

The moon is slowly receding from Earth if I remember rightly. The Earths gravity does pull it in, which is why it orbits us. The Sun's gravity pulls it in the direction of the Sun.

Or perhaps radio waves don't travel at the speed of light forever. Maybe they slow down by 6 mph every 100 years

I think that would make the probe appear to accelerate away from us as the radio waves would take longer to reach us and would therefore suggest that the probe was further away than it actually was (assuming you used the 'old' speed of light in your calculations).

I'll take your bet. Safe in the knowledge you'll never know you lost.

I dug this up, just downloading the movie now. It appears that we are on a collision course with Andromeda. I also remember speculation that the Milky Way has 'eaten' before

http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/tflops/

Not to change the subject, but I didn't want to be accused of posting too many vanities. If the universe is expanding (like dots on a balloon being blown up), how can galaxies collide with each other? Thanks!

I think that Galaxies tend to be clumped together in groups. So they would be close enough for their gravity to pull them into a collision. I seem to remember reading about the milky way being on a collision course with a nearby galaxy but don't remember the details. I think I can dig them up.

Dales said - "Even if men do not understand fully the way things are, things are a particular way. The speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 m/s. Out of all the possibilities one could imagine, it is that. What are the odds of that? There are infinite possibilities as to what it could have been, but it is that. What are the odds then? One way, out of infinite possibilities. One over infinity. To me, that means that the odds that existance could have just happened are zero." My reply - "Hmmm, of course there can be an infinite number of that one possibility contained in an infinite set of differing possibilities. So your sum becomes Infinity divided by Infinity, which I guess by your logic would have to be 1. 1 over infinity isn't definitely zero anyway, so your logic is possibly flawed in other ways. Of course, I don't imagine that makes much difference to you, but perhaps I am wrong. I don't see why creationists feel the need to disprove evolution to justify their beliefs."