Recent content by ShadowKraz

Again, you are misrepresenting my thoughts with your unfounded assumptions. I do not have faith that they are going to arrive some day. None. I do hope that we will receive indication of life elsewhere in this galaxy but I'm not so stupid as to think it MUST exist. As I will not engage with you...

Tit for tat, I suppose.

That sort of reasoning argues against spending ANY money/resources on ANY scientific research. And don't misrepresent me hoping I'll cave and give you a win; I am NOT suggesting a massive outlay with an infinitesimally smaller chance of winning simply because I'm not making a thin air assumption...

I agree that an intelligent extraterrestrial species would most likely be rejected, unless they were definitely much better at applying their technologies to mass violence than we are. But this is due to the fact that our species is not centered around its higher cognitive abilities but around...

You can't test, but you can design for it. We design skyscrapers to resist wind sheer and earthquakes, yes? We can't test for those but we can design for them. I worked for a time as a semi-skilled ironworker for a company in NYC. One customer in Da Bronx wanted a tree guard fabricated to his...

I fail to see the reasoning behind this statement; it seems to be based upon thin air assumptions. Could you expand on this, please?

I suspect that anyone who is silly enough to try will find that a) the cat is no longer in the box and b) their beds are full of cat feces. Seriously, though, I had had some difficulty with superposition until I read this article and the resultant thread, most of it stemming from the popsci...

Human hubris at work... we're assuming, with some valid reasons, that extra terrestrial life will be very similar to Earth's. Most are assuming that it will be similar enough to be able to communicate with. As someone pointed out (Vanadium50?), we're working with exactly one data point. This is...

I have never, even as a grade school student, understood asking "Will this be on the test?" Indeed, I've found the best of my teachers, instructors, and professors ALWAYS answered either 'yes' or 'take it and find out'. The only truly useless knowledge is the knowledge you don't have.

Thank you, Vanadium 50, phinds, and Ibix for your patience and explanations. Now I can stop thinking along the wrong lines.

That's because he is trying to explain physics to non-physicists who for the most part don't want to know the underlying physics, just the 'cool stuff'. I run up against that in History; people think it's funny that Czarina Catherine the Great died on a German throne ala Elvis Presley, but don't...

As for the Hawking Radiation, how certain are we that it is just ordinary thermal radiation? And... well, I understand that at any given time the amount of Hawking Radiation released is negligible, but its effects would add up over the long span of the Universe, yes? Thank you for your patience.

It's all relative... lol. From our perspective, a black hole is spinning, but... well, maybe it isn't. hmmm... ok, I think it may be analogous with how we viewed the cosmos many centuries ago; the Earth is stationary and everything, the Sun, Moon, planets, stars, etc., is revolving around it...

If this post should be in another forum, please advise so I can post there instead. I hope I got the right prefix. Thank you. 1) Is it possible for Hawking Radiation to be dark matter, at least in part? Do the equations rule out this possibility? 2) Are Black Holes actually spinning or is our...

The entire quote is, "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back." Finding this site brought you back...