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#83591
Topic
Info Wanted: a Pre-ANH edit of Ep IV?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83591/action/topic#83591
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And one last thing, when I saw Hero at the theatres, I really enjoyed the movie. But there was one thing about it that kept annoying me - the placement of the subtitles. They were WAY too low. They should have been higher. I find this the case a lot of the time when watching foreign movies that put subtitles in the black boarder. I know they're just trying to preserve the picture, but I wish at least they'd give you a second English subtitle track displayed higher. Because you have to move your eyes right away from the picture to read the subtitles, it's better to have the subtitles over the picture that way your eyes are still on the picture. IMHO. End of today's rant.
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#83590
Topic
Info Wanted: a Pre-ANH edit of Ep IV?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83590/action/topic#83590
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Well then that's okay. I know that a lot of publishers are very lazy with their releases. Artisan's Stargate SE had far too much sharpening, and then for their UE release they release the theatrical and special editions on separate discs. Fox did it well with the Alien movies and ID4. MGM's branching can hardly be called seamless because for most players it pauses. Now I haven't heard of any players having trouble with Artisan's discs, or Fox's that I've mentioned. You could be right though, that some cheap players will pause during general playback - can you clarify if this is the case, or are they seamless on any standard DVD player?

I'm 99% sure that the R4 robocop is exactly the same as the R2. Also in your opinion should 1.66:1 movies be anamorphic? My answer is a solid no. I know that you do get more resolution with the anamorphic, however it crops part of the frame! You are locked into viewing it at 16:9 (1.78:1) if you use the full resolution, and on PC's there's no way to get it to show you the full frame (because the software just assumes that because it's anamorphic the area outside the 16:9 anamorphic is useless, and discards that picture information). Which means if you want to watch it in 1.66:1 - like it is supposed to be presented, you have to set your DVD player to 4x3 output and then it looks awful because it's throwing away every fifth line!

It would be tempting to remaster my anamorphic 1.66:1 DVD's onto non-anamorphic DVD-R's. Which is illegal, but at least then I could sit back and watch them in the correct frame without that jagged look of watching anamorphic titles non-anamorphically.
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#83197
Topic
Info Wanted: a Pre-ANH edit of Ep IV?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83197/action/topic#83197
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MGM Robocop is not seamless when played on my PC! Let alone DVD players. It's just branching and it isn't seamless and if you think that passes for seamless branching then i suggest you seek a new definition. My question isn't can you do what MGM did - my question is can you do what artisan did with Stargate and then T2:UE? Seamless. That works for me first hand on all players as well as PC's.
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#83193
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83193/action/topic#83193
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Nintendo do produce high-quality entertainment systems, the SNES is undoubtedly a fantastic unit - even today. GameCube is definatly a better system than the PS2 hands down. The advantages the PS2 has is that it is a DVD player and is backwards-compatible with the PS1. The advantages the GC has over it: better graphics, gameplay, faster loading times, longer durability - top loading rather than tray-loading, 4 controller ports. The PS2 can barely out-do the Dreamcast.

I never liked the idea of a HDD in a console. I have a friend who's xbox died just after the HDD died too. I saw it as a huge drain on resources, that HDDs today sometimes don't last 3 months before you need a replacement, and something that really wasn't needed. It also makes the console more expensive, but aside from that X-Box has other problems. The main one is the size of the unit. It's 4 or 5 times as heavy as a gamecube, and while technically more powerful the in game graphics are no better. The original controller design was also far too big, and in many people's opinion has too many buttons on it. It did have a good idea that the cord snaps apart when yanked, rather than yanking the xbox.

Aside from those things the X-Box is as good as the gamecube, it has comparable loading times, comparable graphics and equal sound. It also plays DVDs - but not straight out of the box. With that said, just as the PS2 unlike any normal DVD player you'd buy in-store, the consoles are not region-free. The fact that you can buy a stand-alone DVD player of at least equal quality to the x-box for $50 which is region free far outweighs the costs involved in making the x-box a DVD player in the first place (buying the remote) and then buying a chip to mod it with - which voids your warranty, on the other hand you can buy a cheap $50 player that's region-free out of the box and keep it's 12 month warranty.

Then there are the games themselves. Nintendo brings exclusive titles such as Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart Double Dash. Nintendo also received the best version of Soul Calibre II. Now this comes as a surprise since the arcade machine it was original designed on is closest to the PS2. Despite this Nintendo's version sees better loading times, better graphics, better gameplay as well as the better of the exclusive characters (Link). I've played the game on PS2, X-Box and GC and in my opinion it is certainly best on the GC.
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#83157
Topic
I want everyone to look at this.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83157/action/topic#83157
Time
157 Which doesn't surprise me as it's been my lucky number for a long long time. I will even provide a direct link to my results:

http://www.iqtest.com/report.html?uid=61726163747573406d736e2e636f6d-231-1104804566&score=true

-edit-

It should be noted I did the right thing and didn't listen to any music while taking the test, but I got impatient on account that I wanted to listen Shannon Noll's version of C'mon Aussie C'mon. It's good to see that song have a comeback. That could account for the error I made while taking the test. I have scored an IQ score of either 176 or 178 (hey I don't remember exactly, OK?) on an online test that "went up to 180". As with any IQ test you have to realise that their upper limits are always extremely inaccurate - that is to say that my real IQ may very well be in the 170's - which is unmeasurable anyway, or it may be in the 180's or higher. Or it may be as small as 157. It doesn't bother me really since I don't actually believe in the concept anyway.

Sure I'll take the tests, but they don't measure everything - in fact they don't measure anything, they're simple question and answer based tests. In year 11 I scored a high distinction in the maths comp. I did the best out of the entire school. In year 6 on the first maths test of the year I scored 100% and was the only one to achieve that score. In year 12 I was sick, I still took the maths comp but didn't even attain a credit! Yeah you heard me, I flunked it after getting a high distinction in the previous year (the year 11 and year 12 maths comp is the same paper). I took it on a bad day and the consequence was huge. On any regular day I would have attained a distinction at least.

So remember that there are so many unmeasurable factors that effect your IQ score. And that any IQ score doesn't really prove anything anyway. It should be noted I have never answered any of the questions used in this test in other tests (I was half-expecting some questions I've seen before).
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#83125
Topic
Myths
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83125/action/topic#83125
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Yes I find some things fascinating too. For instance, since 1856 over 186 different people, on 17 independent expeditions saw and could positively identify Noah's ark on Mount Ararat. Some saw the full ark, some even entered the ark and saw that in it were hundreds of rooms. Today it remains encased in ice, that partly melts in summer, where it has been preserved for thousands of years. The ice never all melts. The presence of wood there - which has been conclusively historically documented, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that a wooden structure exists on top of ice. No one would have built it there, so it must have been an Ark.

It still exists today and has been seen in satellite photos. There is a drawing of it at http://arksearch.com/naexped.htm and it looks exactly how you'd expect it to. It's like a giant block, with lots of windows at the top for air flow. It wasn't designed to go anywhere specific, it's purpose was to stay afloat, not to reach a specific destination. Which is why the front and back are flat, why there are no sails or holes for oars, and disproves any possibility of the vessel having any other purpose other than to stay afloat. It will be seen again, when enough ice melts and enough people are allowed to enter the area (which is not available to even the local public, let alone international visitors).

It's amazing how today, even with all the hard reliable evidence available, people will not believe it until they can actually see it with their own eyes.
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#83038
Topic
Info Wanted: a Pre-ANH edit of Ep IV?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83038/action/topic#83038
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LaserMan will tell you that just 5 years you couldn't even remove the NTSC pulldown on a home computer. Yes there have been developments, but the software for branching is not in the public domain, heck even MGM doesn't have and can't produce high quality branched DVD's. what you have to understand here is you need more than just an encoder - you need a tool that actually exploits the DVD specification. That can write MPEG files that branch onto different ones. This isn't software that freeware developers are going to have an easy time writing.

Encoding DVD material is all very well and good until you have to encode a continuous stream that branches. It has to be able to remove a chunk AND have the MPEG stream follow seamlessly. Yes you might think "keyframe, doh" - but it's not that simple. As I've said, you can re-encode branched titles and painstakingly re-build the branching. That would be impossible if it was the stream itself that had to remain intact. Anyhow I'm way out of my league here, I'll let someone more qualified explain it if they choose to.
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#83037
Topic
Myths
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83037/action/topic#83037
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I've added two more myths to the slate. Marijuana is a no-brainer.

The debate over ADD and ADHD does continue, however it is a list of known symptoms from several possible causes. The drugs all treat the symptoms, not the "disease" (which doesn't actually exist). OK got that?

Treating symptoms is all very well and good, until it comes to diagnosing the mind of a child as a disease, and then permanently altering it with (mind-controlling) drugs. Caffeine and Alcohol are mind-controlling drugs ... when abused they completely remove you from your natural state of mind. This is exactly what the drugs for ADD and ADHD do... but wait is that all bad? Well it's common practice in some areas to give a child alcohol to numb pain. If a child regularly drank alcohol then they would suffer from many problems because their bodies are still developing. Their liver and kidneys would be put under more intense stress. OK, well it's still alright to give a child alcohol when they're in a lot of pain right? Sure why not - the effects on the body are not going to be any worse than paracetamol (which has permanent negative effects on your body, even if you are an adult).

Even for an adult a beer is healthier than a standard intake of paracetamol.

But they're all drugs. All legal drugs, yes that's all very well and good. Then we get to Ritalin, often called "kiddy speed". The name couldn't be more appropriate, or less appropriate. It doesn't fit what the drug is either - yes it is a class A drug, but no it's not safe for kids as the name might imply.

Nevertheless as any other drug, deaths are caused by it. We could talk about all the ADD/ADHD drugs and pick them apart one by one. Dexedrine, Adderall, Gradumet, Desoxyn... but they all have one thing in common. They are designed to change the state of your mind. You know, the same thing that happens after you've had one too many beers - but wait they claim that it does it in a positive way. Don't ask me what this world has come to when we don't want children to be able to use their natural state of mind, and wish to control even their minds with drugs, but even if we grant this we still run into the big gaping problem.

And that is that the drug has negative physical effects. Permanent, irreversible effects. Yes it's been said one beer a day is good for you, however alcoholism claims more deaths than all illegal drugs combined (in Aus, the UK and the USA). With that said, Alcohol needs to be abused before it becomes a dangerous drug, whereas nicotine (for instance) has a negative effect all the time (which is why tobacco use kills many more people than alcohol use does).

Back on track, children do die from the drugs they are prescribed on for ADHD treatment. Those that don't suffer other growth problems, the full extent of which will probably never be known, because such things are not exactly measurable. What do you expect when you take away someone's mind and replace it with a drug anyway? A drug that does the opposite to this is Aripiprazole, it is an anti-psychotic drug used to treat schizophrenics - as the name suggests, it is designed to ensure that the person who suffers from Schizophrenia keeps their natural state of mind. Now wait a second, that's a drug that's being used to treat the symptom rather than the disease, correct? YES! But in this case it's a symptom caused by a real disease, one that is not curable... well not with drugs. In Australia if a Schizophrenic was to commit a felony in a schizophrenic state of mind, then in a court of law if it would be accepted that it occurred involuntarily due to a disease that effects one's mind to the point where they can no longer control their own actions. Or in legal jargon "non-insane automatism".

See they would not be considered insane because it's not their normal or natural state of mind... anyhow, conversely if a person who suffered from ADD or ADHD committed a felony in lack of using their mind-controlling drugs they would be prosecuted under Australian law. Australian law would hold that they were in their normal, natural state of mind (insane or not). Why?

Because ADD does not exist. ADHD does not exist. Why does it not exist?

Because a disease is not a list of symptoms.
Because treating symptoms does nothing to remove the disease.
Because a child's mind is not a disease, nor is it the symptom of a disease.
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#82960
Topic
Info Wanted: a Pre-ANH edit of Ep IV?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82960/action/topic#82960
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"LAST I heard and discussed with MagnoliaFan he was planning a DUAL-LAYER seemless branched version..." (Rik)

Just to remind everyone of old news, seamless branching is not something that can be easily done at home. In fact there doubt as to whether it can be done at all. Yes it's not so complicated that you can't back-up DVD-9 seamless branching discs onto DVD-R, but from what I've heard it's so complicated and difficult to do that it is simply not worth the effort. The 3.5" floppy disks today has not changed in more than a decade. Despite this Microsoft's format has not changed. Yes you can format it in Fat-16 as apposed to Fat-12 which was possible some years past, however Microsoft simply does not do the best it can with its format. There were various other formatting tools available for DOS which would actually allow you to format your disc so that the end of each track aligned better with the start of the next one, meaning that when it spun and was read, the read-rate was the same but the idle-time was significantly shortened, which then in-turn created a disc that would appear to read more than 50% faster than a standard floppy.

I believe some people confused this old concept with the idea the same thing would have to apply to branching (that at the end of the "track" should be logically aligned to the next possible branching places) - however I don't think that is the case. The problem doesn't seem to be accessing the next information fast enough, the problem seems to be in the MPEG format which was never originally designed for branching. Yes it can be done, but no the DVD format wasn't specifically designed to allow for it. The floppy disk wasn't specifically designed to simply "slide" to the next track efficiently, yet under the right formatting parameters it is possible (just not with Microsoft's format). And it may not make much difference today, but you think about all the software that used to come on half a dozen, or more, floppy disks - that they ALL could have loaded more than 50% faster if IBM had designed the floppy disk to take advantage of known hardware capabilities, and the position of the head when it reaches the end of a track. See the problem was the standard thing to do was to start the next track the same way as the previous one:

1_2_3_4_5_6_7_8...18 (first track)
1_2_3_4_5_6_7_8...18 (second track)

Now the first track ends pretty much where it started, the head then moves down to the second track. But hold on, the second track already started. Because the disk is already spinning it's missed some sectors, let's say it misses the first 3 sectors and starts at 4 - that means it has to make a complete rotation back to 1 to begin reading the second track. Alternatively it could have been formatted to take full advantage of the hardware by starting with the last 3 sectors... and number 1 where number 4 would have been. That way when the head moves across to the next sector it's on number 1 right away and doesn't need to waste time rotating.

Such:
1__2__3__4_5_6_7_8...18
16_17_18_1_2_3_4_5...15

Yes this does not cover the full scope of how a disk is physically made up, but in simple terms that's how it works. Like I said the format ALLOWS for it, but it wasn't DESIGNED to cater for it.
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#82379
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82379/action/topic#82379
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Yes you were right. I can't work it out. If it helps anyone you can have my letter lists (I made them as a visual aid for a project I was working on a while ago). Presumably the answer must be in there somewhere:

Starting with A:
ab, ac, ad, ae, af, ag, ah, ai, aj, ak, al, am, an, ao, ap, aq, ar, as, at, au, av, aw, ax, ay, az.

Starting with E:
ea, eb, ec, ed, ef, eg, eh, ei, ej, ek, el, em, en, eo, ep, eq, er, es, et, eu, ev, ew, ex, ey, ez.

Starting with I:
ia, ib, ic, id, ie, if, ig, ih, ij, ik, il, im, in, io, ip, iq, ir, is, it, iu, iv, iw, ix, iy, iz.

Starting with O:
oa, ob, oc, od, oe, of, og, oh, oi, oj, ok, ol, om, on, op, oq, or, os, ot, ou, ov, ow, ox, oy, oz.

Starting with U:
ua, ub, uc, ud, ue, uf, ug, uh, ui, uj, uk, ul, um, un, uo, up, uq, ur, us, ut, uv, uw, ux, uy, uz.

Starting with Y:
ya, yb, yc, yd, ye, yf, yg, yh, yi, yj, yk, yl, ym, yn, yo, yp, yq, yr, ys, yt, yu, yv, yw, yx, yz.



Ending with A:
ba, ca, da, fa, ga, ha, ja, ka, la, ma, na, pa, qa, ra, sa, ta, va, wa, xa, za.

Ending with E:
be, ce, de, fe, ge, he, je, ke, le, me, ne, pe, qe, re, se, te, ve, we, xe, ze.

Ending with I:
bi, ci, di, fi, gi, hi, ji, ki, li, mi, ni, pi, qi, ri, si, ti, vi, wi, xi, zi.

Ending with O:
bo, co, do, fo, go, ho, jo, ko, lo, mo, no, po, qo, ro, so, to, vo, wo, xo, zo.

Ending with U:
bu, cu, du, fu, gu, hu, ju, ku, lu, mu, nu, pu, qu, ru, su, tu, vu, wu, xu, zu.

Ending with Y:
by, cy, dy, fy, gy, hy, jy, ky, ly, my, ny, py, qy, ry, sy, ty, vy, wy, xy, zy.
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#82316
Topic
Riddles
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82316/action/topic#82316
Time
There are 5 hats. Three blue, two red. They are placed in a box and mixed up. Three people are blind folded and standing in a line one behind the other facing forward. Each person reaches into the box, one at a time and withdraws a hat which is then placed on their head. Their blind folds are then removed. The last of the persons in line (who sees the other two) says "I don't know the colour of my hat". After this the second says "I don't know the colour of my hat". The first person in the line then works out the colour of their hat, how?
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#82257
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82257/action/topic#82257
Time
I've worked it out. There is a prize behind only one door, so initially your chances of choosing the right door is 1 in 3. However an incorrect door will be removed, and you'll have a choice to swap doors. This means that there is a 2 in 3 chance you will choose the correct door if you swap after a door has been removed.

To put it simply:

1xGood Door, 2xBad Door

Chance of choosing good door is 1 in 3, chance of choosing bad door is 2 in 3.

You are given the option to swap, if you do you push the odds into your favour because there is a 2 in 3 chance you will swap to the good door.

Possible outcomes not swapping (X is bad, Y is good):

1.
X X Y
^

(Loose)

2.
X X Y
   ^

(Loose)

3.

X X Y
     ^

(Win)

= 1 in 3 chance of winning.

If you swap:

1.
x X Y
^
to
x Y
   ^

(WIN)

2.
x X Y
   ^
to
X Y
   ^

(WIN)

3.
X X Y
      ^
to
X Y
^

(Loose)

= 2 in 3 chance of winning. I'll post back when I have a riddle, that was a rather tricky one.
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#82122
Topic
Myths
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82122/action/topic#82122
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: Starboy
It's a great travesty when the bible is read verse by verse rather than as a whole because it gets misquoted, misused, misunderstood, and then you get comments about "contradicitons in the bible" from people who have never read it and so forth.
Yes that's true, which is why I refuse to believe in verse-by-verse evangelising, like "the Romans Road" which is (I think) 3:23, 6:23a - 5:8 and 9:11 (reality of sin, result of sin, Christ our substitute and salvation by faith). Yes, I remember that - however it's a useless piece of information because it's picking and choosing between verses, taking them out of context - as if they are somehow more important than the rest of Romans, or the rest of the Bible.

But for the purposes I was using, which is to show why quoting "It is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God" is conjecture. If you can change one word per verse, imagine the implications it could have on what you are reading. You may as well pick any 4 other verses:

Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Matthew 5:20 (Jesus Says)
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 14:21 (Jesus Says)
For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

Heck using the method of verse-by-verse rubbish you can misrepresent it thus:

Matthew 5:20 (Jesus Says)
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:11
But he [Jesus] said to them, "Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.

Matthew 19:25-26a
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible

Starboy it is important, because misquoting yields so much nonsense. For instance:

1 Timothy 6:10a
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.

Have you ever heard someone:
a. Claim Jesus said it?
b. Misquote it "money is the root of all evil"?

Misquoting changes the meaning. It's not THE root of all evil, and it isn't money it's the love of money. And everything aside, Jesus never said it (that we know of). The closest he ever came to saying it is when he talked about the rich young man in the verse previously quoted (Mark 10:25).

Well that was a long way of agreeing with you SB... carry on indeed...
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#81932
Topic
Myths
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/81932/action/topic#81932
Time
Again, you are misrepresenting the chaos theory if you think it explains how the universe became so scattered and clumped. The law of probabilities can be used to counter it, just for a start. Just because every atom COULD end up in a unique place, doesn't mean it will. If you are going to use chaos, use it properly. You may as well say "the big bang cannot be proven, because by the theory of chaos, you can't start from the result and work your way back - due to not knowing the cause (and only having a vague idea about the effect)". That would be a reasonable chaos-orientated theory. It is futile trying to reverse-step according to the theory of chaos, because the results came from unpredictable origins.

And even so, if you claim that according to Chaos it shouldn't be uniform - then neither should the cosmic background radiation, but it is isn't it? I don't subscribe to theories based on conjecture, I do believe the universe and everything in it was designed with a purpose, and is not the result of random (note that according to chaos randomness does not exist). I'll give you an example of conjecture:

Three Bible verses describe the same event, using it from the Gospel of Mark (10:25) it reads:

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

Biblical Scholars have reason to believe that Jesus was talking about the gate to Jerusalem. There isn't much evidence that gate actually existed, but if it did this is a good theory. While strictly speaking it isn't conjecture, it isn't a claim that can be conclusively proven either. Other people have pointed out that the Aramac word for camel also means rope. While this is also true, and entirely plausible - it is wrong to therefore assume a double meaning, because it is conjecture. In those times the Jews, the Romans - and everyone else - were all multilingual. Aramaic was hardly the only possible language he could have been talking in, and since the Gospels are all written in Greek (with some Aramaic quotes), there is really no way of knowing what language was actually in use at any given time.

Long-story-shot, if you see someone quote "It is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God" and claim Jesus said that, then it is merely conjecture - an unprovable statement, and they are mistaking. (On the other hand, something like saying Jesus given name was Yeshua, and this is most-likely what he was called on a day-to-day basis is very true, there is a lot of evidence for it, it isn't based on conjecture even though in some respects it is tracking a Hebrew name reversely translated from Greek).

Daniel
Post
#81763
Topic
Myths
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/81763/action/topic#81763
Time
I'm a big believer in starting at the beginning and moving your way up. For this reason I'll point out another huge problem with the big-bang theory:

The cosmic micro-wave background (called the remnants of the "Big Bang") is very uniform. This is (naturally) what you would expect from a big bang (if it ever occurred). However galaxies are not uniform. They are very large, are said to have developed early on after the big-bang, yet they're so "clumped". This contradicting fact all but completely sing-handedly disproves the big-bang theory.

The rate-of-expansion of the universe is also used to claim it is the result of the big-bang, however it hasn't been shown to be in the right ballpark for the expansion after a big bang. It is also expanding so much that it will never collapse on itself, which is what completely disproves the "big-crunch" theory. Funny how they'll let that disprove the big crunch, but won't let a little thing like non-uniform galaxies get in the way of their big-bang theory.

"it could be possible that at some point in the past there was a virus which would fuse itself with the cells DNA rather then take full control of the DNA it would would become a part of the cell and change it"

Shimraa, you're talking about things that don't exist, and there's no evidence of them existing either. You're right, the fundamental form of life is the cell. Even ignoring that, a virus does not perform the necessary functions of life. It is a non-living thing. It performs operations out of necessity only.

Anyhow, I’ll explain, if I must, to you why such a virus could not exist. Because it wouldn't be able to reproduce, end-of-story. If it fused with a cell, then it can't infect other cells, it can't spread. I find the idea of a single cell's DNA changing effecting the whole completely ludicrous.
Post
#81761
Topic
Myths
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/81761/action/topic#81761
Time
They make a good point, heat does not travel through a vacuum. But their claim about gravity - ughh, gravity even effects light (though *some* scientists will claim it doesn't, it just bends the fabric of space - which is stupid, because a void cannot bend!).