rocks

Many times you will run into, or use, an argument similar to: "Could God create a rock so heavy even he could not lift it?" The argument is meant to show how omnipotence entails logical contradictions. The problem with the argument is it muddles up your point by involving infinities. This gives...

Attention savvy JREF Forumites. Even if you're not a geologist you are invited to identify this odd rock. (The "Ironwoman" at MIT could do it in a flash I think, but she's busy with e-mail problems lately.) This was found in a streambed in Bucks County, PA many years ago. I first thought...

My parents asked me what I wanted for my graduation gift, and I decided on this beauty: . I ordered the black one and it just came in the mail today. It fits in the palm of my hand! It takes 6 megapixel stills and 640x480 60fps video straight onto SD memory cards. It can even take stills while...

I wish I could have seen that. From a safe distance, of course. Which, come to think of it, is why it would be so cool if Remote Viewing was real. Imagine zipping through the Universe, witnessing all kinds of fantastic things...

Hubble sees stars as they're born. Sweeeeeet. Thoughts?

It's been awhile since we've heard from the Israeli apologists so I thought I might mention the fact that protests regarding the relocated settlers in Israel turned extremely violent recently. The settlers themselves were filmed dousing Israeli troops with acid which looked very uncomfortable...

In Randi's latest commentary at http://www.randi.org/jr/081205another.html#6, he quotes a section from the University of Virginia's physics department dealing with why Free Energy claims can't work, then later writes: While petreous projectiles are definitely a thing worthy of avoidance...

some of u may have seen recent movies, such as mr. & mrs. smith, the longest yard. in mr./mrs. smith, mr. smith (brad pitt) reveals to his wife that he did not graduate from mit, but instead graduated from notre dame. mrs. smith (angelina jolie) reveals to her husband that she is a jew. as a...

According tho the Australian

From time to time I hear about someone claiming that they have a rock (or other object) which NASA scientists have allegedly examined and declared to be "not of this world." My question is: what would NASA do if someone actually brought them a rock and asked them to check it out? Do they...

Death Valley has rocks that move, leaving grooves. It has huge boulders that disappear. Some people have thought it might be due to ETs. They would come to Earth to move some rocks around in a murderously hot place like Death Valley? Probably right after they built the Pyramids and...

John Stossel kicked woo-woo butt again

I don't know if Randi was aware of this when he put the email in this week's commentary, which contained this link: http://www.optillusions.com/dp/1-46.htm A quick search found this image, apparently taken before the one above: and this one, taken after (compare the damage of the foreground...

I was sitting here on this thread, pondering the topics started about the universe. And I was marveling at how the universe supposedly sprang from nothing. And then there was this hydrogen gas that got formed. One can't get too giddy over some gas, can they? But one has to wonder where the gas...

US spies monitor whisky plant Will someone please tell the DTRA that it's haggis which the Scots are planning to use as a WMD, not whisky?

A new hobby? Who collects radioactive rocks? http://www.atomicrocks.com/index3.htm