Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130415204132/@comment-6078851-20130509153505

i wholeheartedly agree that well constructed differences of opinion are vital to the intellectual progress of our species, and as your opinions are well contructed, even though i may disagree with one or two, i am more than happy to listen and respond because they are well thought out and well expressed. as you say there's plenty still to discuss, but in regards to the meaning of life, as i said earlier i don't think there is any meaning but if you wish to say what you think i'll listen and respond.

i do know about the sun's increasing solar output but i was unaware of an increase in people willing to watch documentaries which is essentially an increase in people willing to learn (which i find surprising but also heartening). i also know about the relation between a full moon and an increase in crime and have 2 theories - 1) the moon exerts a significant gravitational influence on the earths oceans (the tides of the oceans are directly affected by the pull of the moon), and as humans are over 70% (80%?) water then logic dictates that the moon must affect us too. statistically speaking crime increases during full moons but it also increases when the moon is closest to earth in its orbit, and the cycles can be measured. the thing is though that so far there is only data on the cycles of moon activity in relation to statistical crime and no-one actually knows in what way the moon affects the psyche - if it affects the psyche at all or is just coincidental because my 2nd theory is - 2) the majority of crime is nocturnal and it's a lot easier to see with a full moon.

i'm afraid i have to correct you again - while every body in the galaxy does indeed rotate around something, moons around planets, asteroids,comets and planets around suns, suns around the galactic centre (hypothetically a supermassive black hole), the known galaxies do not rotate around anything. all the date that's been garnered about deep space (which is infintesimal) has shown that most known galaxies are moving away from each other at ever increasing velocities. as for the centre of the universe - in my opinion there is no such thing in current science - most 'experts' think that the centre of the universe is defined by not being able to see past a certain point, the 'centre', but very few seem to think it's simply more likely that we can't see further because we don't have the technological capability to see further (that's what i think, because i reckon the universe is unimaginably bigger than anyone yet realizes). for the sake of argument though lets assume it is the centre, that doesn't actually change the fact that most known galaxies are hurtling away from it and speeding up. the exceptions are those that were close enough to a neighbour to exert a gravitational pull. the best instance here is our own milky way - there is a 'micro-galaxy' on the the other side of our galaxy which is about to be, or has already started to be, 'consumed' by our galaxy because our gravitational pull has hauled it in. on the other hand though andromeda, which is our nearest big neighbour, isn't micro, and we are heading towards it because it's way bigger than our poor old milky way and in few billion years the milky way won't exist but will have added to the bulk of andromeda. so if the human race wants to survive not only do we need to vacate our system we need to vacate our galaxy.

i can assure you that i have no compunction, whatsoever, about defending myself. that incident wasn't regular, but an example of how far my 'fair' mentality goes. rest assuredthat i am very capable of defending myself and when it comes to self defence i fully believe in defending to such an extreme that the message "don f*ck with that dude" is recieved, and i have defended myself in such a way. while i do have pacifist views that i wish so many others shared, in terms of physical capability i know that i am dangerous. i also have never hit anyone with my full strength because i know how to throw a punch and i've had 4 instances of ending trouble with 1 punch, plus i've never lost my temper, for which i can't express how thankful i am, because i know that i have the physical capability to kill a person and i genuinely believe if i ever do loose my temper i will come-to over a corpse.

i find extremophiles fascinating. first of because they live in such extreme environs, but also because while they survive and thrive in conditions that are extreme for us, they also die, quickly, in conditions that we consider normal. our extreme environ is their home and their extreme environ is our home, from an extremophile's point of view we are the extremophiles, and as such we are all fragile in the wrong environment. that's a point i forgot to mention earlier, all life that we know of exists on earth, a place with conditions that so far are unique to scientific knowledge. if other life is found (which it will be) then these conditions will change from unique to rare, but consider the volume of conditions that are inimical to life - most of the universe. all i'm saying is that it's far far harder for life to find a foothold than it is to adapt to a new foothold. life can adapt to most conditions, but those conditions are unique (rare - pending), and while there are bacteria that can survive the cold and airlessness of space they can't survive very much solar exposure. strengths are always balanced by weakness, but considering how much of the universe there is (so far) the strengths only apply to very limited conditions.

i think america is a good example of how to go about implementing rfid chips. the governments and corporations, either through design or just plain idiocy, manufacture events across the whole world that has lead to the current situation of u.s. citizens having to give up personal freedoms in the name of 'safety'. now pretty much all governments do this but it really disheartens me to see how many u.s. are willing to give up their civil liberties, and where the u.s. government leads the u.k. government follows.

as for the china situation, that sounds about right. but isn't china currently the (technically) richest country in the world? technically because while they don't really have that much money they actually owe less to other nations, and in return more nations owe china more than anywhere else. america itself owes china trillions that it can't afford.

there are plenty of people against rfid's, for now. but what events are we going to have to go through, besides china's, for their popularity to rise enough to implement them? because as much as 'the people' may not want them we all know just how much the people actually matter when it comes to passing bills that greatly benefit the ruling classes.

what 4 countries do you think are decent places to live? i can only think of one or two and it's not the u.k. or the u.s.