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ShadowTemplar

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Posted in: Space Shuttle Explosion
  ShadowTemplar
06-15-2004, 6:14 PM
#63
The main problem with creating redundant systems is that it takes up weight, and every kg you want to send into orbit costs valuable fuel. Personally, I think that they should scrap the shuttles and use more specialized craft instead. The shuttle is...  [Read More]
Posted in: Space Shuttle Explosion
  ShadowTemplar
06-05-2004, 2:13 PM
#59
'Not a whole lot' in absolute numbers. Even if we could improve our means of refining, there'd still be a fairly low upper cap to how much we could produce in total. I don't have the exact figure, but it's a noble gas, and it is fairly light, so one...  [Read More]
Posted in: Space Shuttle Explosion
  ShadowTemplar
05-26-2004, 11:31 AM
#57
Well, it's a combination, really: There's not a lot of it in the atmosphere, it's hard to extract, and it's hard to store and transport. As for your other question, then yes, theoretically we can make it, but not in any significant quantities. Besid...  [Read More]
Posted in: Space Shuttle Explosion
  ShadowTemplar
05-16-2004, 5:01 PM
#55
Originally posted by razorace What a sec, is He-3 just processed helium? There's loads of helium on the planet. Nope. It's a helium isotope (like U-235 is a uranium isotope). And it's an isotope that we don't have in plenty. Secondly, you're not t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Space Shuttle Explosion
  ShadowTemplar
05-13-2004, 11:41 AM
#53
Just to rack up more bad stuff against NASA, I've been told a conference where some NASA guy proposed cooling a space probe with liquid He-3 Now, recycling He-3 in a zero-g environment is impossible, so they proposed simply allowing it to evaporate i...  [Read More]
Posted in: The White House is blowin it...
  ShadowTemplar
06-15-2004, 7:21 PM
#14
Nice little flamewar... And for once one that I didn't start... And for the record I'd thank you all very much to remember that there are several steps on the ladder between 'liberal' and 'commie'. Some people (none named, none forgotten) seem to th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ethnic Cleansing: A decent reason to send in the troops?
  ShadowTemplar
06-15-2004, 7:30 PM
#20
The discussion was not, as I understood it, based around suggestions for concrete courses of action, but rather a comment on the screwed-up priorities of the West in dealing with humanitarian disasters. Thus it makes perfect sense to debate what-if...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ethnic Cleansing: A decent reason to send in the troops?
  ShadowTemplar
06-15-2004, 6:04 PM
#18
Sudan? What about Nigeria? That needs cleaning up. Oh and MH: No country would be stupid enough to aid Hussein in launching so much as a SCUD. Even assuming that Hussein would allow his WMD to leav Iraq, which I seriously doubt, no-one would be aid...  [Read More]
Posted in: Iran tricked the US into war in iraq?
  ShadowTemplar
06-05-2004, 2:17 PM
#2
They probably did feed the US false information. But the penta'gun' didn't need much encouragement. Besides, it's no excuse. The Commies pulled countless maskirovkas during the Cold war, and before them Britan's Operation Double Cross during the war...  [Read More]
Posted in: Five Geek Social Fallacies
  ShadowTemplar
06-15-2004, 6:28 PM
#2
He forgot 'chronic perfectionism', the notion that if a job is done less than perfectly, it's some kind of personal failure. Apart from the chance of leading to reduced self esteem it usually irritates co-workers. In the non-pathological variant, th...  [Read More]
Posted in: The UK opens first embryotic stem cell bank
  ShadowTemplar
05-26-2004, 11:56 AM
#5
"Experiments using adult stem cells, that is, stem cells taken from various sources in the patient's own body, and cells taken from discarded umbilical cords, have already proved remarkably effective." Sorry to say so, but that's bull****....  [Read More]
Posted in: A mercenary's tale.
  ShadowTemplar
04-26-2004, 10:23 AM
#5
You'll want to make a new paragraph when a new guy starts speaking. Makes the dialouges easier to follow. More detailed descriptions of the environs wouldn't hurt either. - ST...  [Read More]
Posted in: StarWars Questions
  ShadowTemplar
08-08-2003, 6:13 AM
#2
As for the Storm Troopers, I find it hard to tell. Probably clones, since they'll all fit in the same armour pattern, though. Of course they'll have been genetically modified and indoctrinated, and the former is rather easier to do when you clone. N...  [Read More]
Posted in: Jediism?
  ShadowTemplar
08-14-2003, 5:46 AM
#57
Originally posted by Thrackan Solo WHY DOES EVERY FREAKING DANG POST IN THIS FORUM TURN INTO A CHRISTIAN BASHING THREAD?:mad: Because someone *coughskywalkercough* keeps using the Bible in the manner of a blunt instrument. Let me stress, again, th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Jediism?
  ShadowTemplar
08-08-2003, 5:56 AM
#32
Originally posted by joetheeskimo5 The reason it's so best selling is because it has witchcraft and magic, which the world loves. Not relevant. J.K. Rowling plainly expresses her anti-Christ attitude. Not once in over 1500 pages does any one anti...  [Read More]
Posted in: Jediism?
  ShadowTemplar
08-07-2003, 1:53 PM
#24
Originally posted by wildjedi OK, I'm a Christian and for some reason, that conversation just completely freaked me out. I'm beginning to feel the same way about this as I did about my family wanting to watch Harry Potter movies. I feel sorry that p...  [Read More]
Posted in: What will it take for World Peace?
  ShadowTemplar
08-07-2003, 2:23 PM
#14
a) Armaggeddon. or b) Unlimited ressources and lebensraum. a) being rather counterproductive, and b) being rather unachieveable. Oh, and on the topic of every human's self-centeredness: Actually you are the centre of the universe. And the Sun do...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-18-2003, 10:51 AM
#165
First on the list: A warm welcome to CloseTheBlastDo(ors). Second on the daily order: Skywalker б la carte: I cant prove its wrong, but ill say this, even if you believe in evolution, its wrong. If the evolution process ment for man to be with man...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-08-2003, 6:37 AM
#151
What about the Old Testament? Until 1947 the Old Testament was considered to be no more reliable than other books of antiquity. There was no scholarly basis to believe that the documents were essentially the same as those which were originally writte...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-07-2003, 1:09 PM
#145
Originally posted by joetheeskimo5 And, Paul did start the church, but it wasn't catholic. Back then, there as no such thing as protestants and catholics being seperate groups. There were either believers, or non-believers. The modern world has torn...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-06-2003, 8:21 AM
#132
I dont understand exactly how this affects humanity as a whole. It seems like it would help a lot, because this prevents people from completely despairing and killing themselves. Help? Hah! Exactly how did the confinement of Gallilei help Humanity?...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-06-2003, 8:06 AM
#130
Heh. Put your trust in SkinWalker to dig up the facts that you are too lazy to check... Nice work. Actually they write a lot of general things about the rules of science and logic as well... One of them being that it is a fundamental rule of logic th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-06-2003, 5:39 AM
#128
Originally posted by ET Warrior We have no proof of God. But we have no proof of NO God either. Therefore, your opinion is JUST as valid as ours. Recommended reading: Intellectual Impostures (written by a guy named Sokal)....  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-06-2003, 4:58 AM
#126
Originally posted by lukeskywalker1 READ YOUR BIBLE! there cheap, maybe 5 dollars, you know the best selling book of all time! According to the Herald Tribune, the Harry Potter Series has sold more books than the King James Bible. Read and compare....  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is it OK to criticize religion (i.e. Christianity)?
  ShadowTemplar
08-05-2003, 5:25 AM
#121
Why is it OK to bash Nazism? Good. I'm against those cults that take their show on the road... witnessing to needy peasants by offering food/shelter/clothing in exchange for devotion to the cult in question. They call it "missionary" work....  [Read More]
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