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[quote=""ex-idaho""] An inflammatory op with no background information and no substantiation. '... I gleaned these helpful tips from a nice old man at a saloon ..' Laughable as any sort of journalism. Borderline hate mongering against 'hunters'. Even using the word saloon indicat...

[quote=""joedad""] Plus there is no debris at all in the region of the pings. Why is this important? Yes, if I stall at 30,000 feet I'm gonna become pieces when I hit the water. But what if I did a water landing like on the Hudson? The plane floats for a while and then sinks inta...

After listening to a review last night it it all does not add up. Physics says the pings are technically possible a few hundred miles away, but highly unlikely. The length of one of the contacts as the ship moved is questionable. Plus there is no debris at all in the region of the pings. The alleged...

Why things are as they are is an unanswerable question.

Science models how things appear work.

Started a thread on the new forumphilosophy\metaphysics\Paradigms of reality: Metaphysics vs Science


https://iidb.infidels.org/showthread.p ... 6#post2746

Be there or be square.

[quote=""paradigm""] It must be tough when nobody goes to your site and you have to try and trick people into opening your stuff. I believe TOU requires an intro. no links without some description of content. There is no trick involved. The title of the essay is the introduction....

[quote=""paradigm""] It must be tough when nobody goes to your site and you have to try and trick people into opening your stuff. I believe TOU requires an intro. no links without some description of content. There is no trick involved. The title of the essay is the introduction....

[quote=""TNorthover""] We learned the order of operations as PEMDAS in grade school. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. Now, Polish notation is completely new to me! It seems like another interesting thing th...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation

The distinction is postfix vs infix.

In C increment operator ++i vs i++

I was flying into Seattle during bad weather. Close to the ground sudden wind started pushing the jet around. You could sense from the motions the pilots were working hard to get control. There were a couple of extreme wing dips. Failures occur. Engines fail, it is not all that rare. Just after the ...