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Another awesome Nutwatch, QoS!:notworthy

And I see exactly what you mean about the Ferengi...

Gawdawful

Now that would be cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional.

Warren in Oklahoma

Writer@Large

Objection!

Let the record show that, while Final Fronteir sucked, it did not suck as bad as the Search for Spock. And possibly Insurrection.

--W@L

Silent Dave

Search for Spock was good. Insurrection was good. Nemesis, on the other hand . . .


Dave

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I'd like to submit a piece of evidence, exhibit A: A copy of Star Trek III: the Search For Spock. Let the record show that it does indeed suck.
As further evidence, I would like to submit another piece of evidence, exhibit S: A copy of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. The 'S' stands for suck, because this is self-evident, and I felt like ripping on what is easily the worst Star Trek movie yet made (though if whatever comes next is as much worse than Nemesis as Nemesis was than Insurrection, then TFF *may* have some competition for that title, other than the Director's Cut of The Motion Picture.)

anakata

God will increase your store of speed? God - the almighty drugdealer!

markfiend

:notworthy

lpetrich

Thanx, QoS. It's almost too easy for me to take apart creationist astrophysics.

Evolutionists believe that the entire solar system was formed from clouds of gas and dust._ If so, the Sun, planets, and the moon should be made of similar elements.

The Sun is 98% Hydrogen or Helium

The Earth, the moon, Venus , Mercury � all contain less than 1% Hydrogen or Helium!

E-Z. The planets condensed from the leftover solar nebula; as the Sun formed, some of this nebula was left a bit behind, forming a disk that orbited the Sun. This disk was heated by the Sun, something which drove away much of its H and He, especially from the inner Solar System. Which is why the inner Solar System is rocky and metallic, and the outer Solar System icy.

If solar system evolved, all planets should be spinning in the same direction._
In fact:

Pluto and Venus rotate backwards

Uranus is tipped on its side.

Large collisions.
Chaotic precession.
Tidal dissipation (had slowed down Venus).

If the Solar system evolved, all the moons should orbit their planets in the same direction._
In fact:

At least 6 planets have backward rotating moons.

Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter have moons orbiting in both directions!

Many of those planets' outer moons, and possibly all of them, had been captured as those planets were forming. They had some leftover nebula orbiting them, which dragged wayward object enough to keep them from re-escaping.

Large gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn

Scientists cannot explain why their gases have not dissipated into the vacuum of space in 4 billion years!

They're just plain BIG, which drives their escape velocity way up, making them able to hold even hydrogen atoms.

The Moon has quite different elements to Earth. If the Earth and the Moon evolved from a big bang, it would be expected that they would have identical composition.

Actually, the Earth formed from the solar nebula, not directly from the Big Bang. And the Moon most likely formed as a result of a giant collision early in the Solar System's history. This explains why:

It is mostly rocky with a much smaller iron core than the Earth does
It is short on volatile elements as if it had been baked to a few thousand degrees

The Moon is getting farther from the Earth by 2 inches every year.

It used to be closer!

So what?

The Moon controls the tides. The closer the Moon, the higher the tides (Inverse Square Law)

Actually, to lowest order, tides follow an inverse-cube law, since they are the result of differences in gravitational force.

If the Moon were 2 million years old the tides would be so high that they would drown everyone twice a day!

Actually, it's as old as the Earth ~ 4.5 billion years old. And 5 cm/yr over 2 million years is only 100 km.

(space dust...)

An argument that some creationists have warned against using.

Comets have a life expectancy of less than 10,000 years, because they burn out.

That's only when they enter the inner Solar System. As long as they stay beyond Neptune's orbit, they are safe.

(Earth's magnetic field...)

The Earth slows down by 1/1000 second per day.

It's more like 1.5 to 2 milliseconds per day per century, which is about right for 4.5 billion years of spinning down -- and for such measurements as the growth rings of long-ago corals. Devonian ones, about 400 million years ago, saw a day of 22 hours instead of 24.

(lots of specious geological arguments, like the Earth's helium...)

1. The exact distance of the Earth from the Sun.

If 5% closer, the water would all boil off.

If 1% further away, all the oceans would freeze.

Charles Darwin would have a chuckle at that -- the Earth seems precisely positioned because it is the only planet in the Solar System that can allow us to exist.

2. The speed of rotation of planet Earth

Faster, and we all fly into space.

Slower, and we cannot stand upright!

Except that the "faster" scenario would cause the Earth to disintegrate and that the "slower" one is difficult to distinguish from the present-day case, where the Earth's rotation produces a centrifugal force only about 0.5% that of gravity.

All observed explosions are destructive!

Explosions cause spontaneous degeneration � not Spontaneous Generation!

All explosions decrease order and structure.

If you blow up a car factory � you do not end up with a Jumbo Jet!

However, cooling produces structure, and explosions cool as they expand, making them produce some structure. Not a Jumbo Jet, but still some structure. And the Big Bang is no exception.

(stuff about the Big Bang meaning the origin of space and time...)

My own belief is that such speculations depend on quantum gravity, which is not very well-understood.

And my patience has ended here.

Taffer

I say we give him this to play with and start educating him from there.

Shpongle

Communists?