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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 02:15:08 AM »

How do you know it only a result of human perception?  Other animals appear to respond to our notion of space in the exact same fashion.  Is there some rationale you can provide to demonstrate that it might be an abstract concept?

Animals are people, too, you heathen.

Can you tell me what definition of mass you are using? Where I am from a strong gravitational field increases weight, not mass.

Weight is a function of mass.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:59:43 AM »

I hope that solves the DNS unresolved name error that I've been receiving. The base uses its own DNS server that does not like routing the name of this site.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:57:00 AM »

Crossbows are just as effective

No crossbow holds 30 arrows that can be fired in less than ten seconds.

, far more silent, and if I want to kill people, I'm gonna use explosives. 

Then why do you even give a shit about silence?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:55:20 AM »

Wat?

Space is a result of human perception, not an actual "thing" in the universe. I suppose you could say it exists abstractly.

Mass is one of the contributors to the stress energy tensor, so it is not the cause of gravity but definitely makes gravitational fields stronger.

On the contrary, a stronger gravitational field increases mass.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:52:09 AM »

I was under the impression CloudFlare's main benefit was denial of service protection, is that not their primary product or is that just a result of what they offer?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: The Lounge

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:45:07 AM »

There are more admin posts in this thread than any other type of member. Just thought I'd point that out.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Set up New Relic server monitoring

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:44:09 AM »

Whats new relic?

https://newrelic.com/

That looks like something you have to pay money for.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:39:37 AM »

What if I don't happen to have random gun parts around the house? Can this still be done?

I assume you could go the distance and turn numerous other household parts into gun accessories. The shovel was really more of a example than anything.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:37:44 AM »

Had a thought on my bike ride in to work. How would you define space in terms of gravity and time only?

There is no such thing as space.

Mass creates an indent on space-time, which is gravity. Anything that enters this indent must follow the curvature created and accelerate accordingly. The direction of this acceleration is always towards the source of the curvature, which would be the mass.

As you can see, mass causes gravity.

No, gravity creates a hole in the universe that forces mass into existence. Even in accepted scientific theorems, mass doesn't cause gravity. That's just some bullshit they give Elementary schoolers because none of them are really going to care what actually causes gravity.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 03, 2013, 02:18:11 AM »

Just to prove a point this guy bought a shovel (and with some spare parts lying around) manufactured an AK-ish rifle, that looks like complete garbage but it, per his pictures, bullseye accurate with normal ammunition.

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DIY-Shovel-AK-photo-tsunami-warning!

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: "newbie", "jr. member"

« on: December 03, 2013, 01:52:45 AM »

The title "newbie" can't be all that bad on a forum where the administrator is a "jr. member."

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Unresolved DNS server name

« on: December 03, 2013, 01:51:21 AM »

Well since they have disabled all of my admin rights, including command prompts, I would have to just ask the communications office directly, and I'm totally not going to do that. I'll figure something out, I guess.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Unresolved DNS server name

« on: December 03, 2013, 01:34:02 AM »

My work computer can not access this site due to that. I know the base uses their own DNS server, so is it something with that? Or do you computer peoples have a different idea of what the problem is?

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Technology & Information / Re: Amazon PrimeAir

« on: December 02, 2013, 04:15:21 AM »

I feel like Amazon revealed this a long time ago. Like, when I read the news on Reddit, I wondered "why is this a top story?" I really thought Amazon had come out with an article about this already. Weird.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Trolls

« on: December 02, 2013, 03:40:01 AM »

There is no such thing as trolling in CN and AR.

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Technology & Information / Re: Amazon PrimeAir

« on: December 02, 2013, 03:39:23 AM »

aghgghgh I literally came here just now to post this you jerk. >:[

I would love if this happened, though. Not even just for the concept, but packages within 30 minutes! I could be like "hmm i want this new cd", order it, and have it less than an hour later and listen to it! Or the same with games! This would be incredible ;___;

Yes, it would usher it a whole new generation of lazy shoppers. Also, haha.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 02, 2013, 03:17:28 AM »

Small amounts of mass can be converted to large amounts of energy and large amounts of energy can be converted to small amounts of mass.

No. This is a common misconception. Only relative mass can be converted to energy, and relative mass was never really mass in the first place.

From what I know, mass/energy causes empty fields of space to curve thus creating gravity.

How would you be sure the gravity doesn't cause the mass?

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: December 02, 2013, 02:58:59 AM »

I got it to work on mIRC by using the direct URL. It wouldn't let me connect to either irc.relic.net or tauri.relic.net on any ports.

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Technology & Information / Re: Amazon PrimeAir

« on: December 02, 2013, 02:46:16 AM »

It will take more than 30 minutes to fly across the pacific. Just about anywhere will take longer than 30 minutes.

They have more than one distribution center.

Yeah... I can see the FAA having issues with that.

I can never see this happening at all, honestly. Drones getting destroyed by dogs, running into cars, exploding, hitting people in the face, stolen. Dropping the package off on your roof for no apparent reason. Not to mention the airborne danger they pose to birds and emergency helicopters.

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Technology & Information / Amazon PrimeAir

« on: December 02, 2013, 02:03:20 AM »

Amazon.com wants to deliver packages to you, by air, in 30 minutes or less, using helicopter drones.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/EVKb8xVjuajoiyHOiF0_BCg94I9PYEpQ/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-delivery-by-drone/

Might want to skip about two minutes in if you want to go straight to the actual information.