Bah... I was tricked by the thumbnail. Looked like someone was nearly cut in half by a tire-tread.

Who can watch this horribly, obviously fake bullshit?

Your video, Lamborghini Aventador gets cut in half during accident, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Sigh. Orbiting earth is also hard, and there are hundreds of problems with it, which is why mankind went thousands of years without doing it. But long before we actually managed to do it, we knew that it should be possible, because we knew the earth was a sphere. I can imagine there was lots of heated discussions on how to do it, that would be little comfort to a flat-earther. "See! You cant put things in orbit, earth must be flat!" Like thats how stupid you sound when you go "Horizon problem! The universe must be 6000 years old!"

Why do you even bother reading about things like the Horizon problem? Are you seriously suggesting that this makes your case?

What I am suggesting is that both Creationists and secular scientists have an imperfect understanding of the problem, but Creationists do have a plausible explanation with evidence to back it up.

Whether the universe is six thousand or 13.72 billion years old is not in scientific dispute, ok? we might have to finetune it give or take a few million years, but there is no doubt about the general size of the number. If everybody has fucked up completely the last 100 years, then perhaps one could imagine the number needs to be trippled or cut in half or whatever (I really doubt it because we now have correlating data from so many fields) but 6000 years? Thats a JOKE. Its complete and utter nonsense, It's balls-out-clownshoes-and-two-fucking-trouts-on-your-head-barking-wackaloony-insane-babble-from-crazyland-wrong to the nth degree.

The correlating data you are looking at is a hall of mirrors. Radiometric data is based on uniformitarian assumptions. The light travel time is based on similar assumptions. Embedded in all of the estimations of an old age are unprovable assumptions that have no empirical evidence to prove they are true. They are in fact unknowable.

It's really not important to me to prove to you how old the Earth is. It's your worldview that the Earth is very old and it's intrinsic to how you view reality, and to try to excise that from your mind would be like trying to separate conjoined twins. All I really want you to know is that there is a God out there who loves you, and His name is Jesus Christ.

me: The earth is definately NOT ten thousand years young.

@shinyblurry Have you ever heard of the horizon problem?

Sigh. Orbiting earth is also hard, and there are hundreds of problems with it, which is why mankind went thousands of years without doing it. But long before we actually managed to do it, we knew that it should be possible, because we knew the earth was a sphere. I can imagine there was lots of heated discussions on how to do it, that would be little comfort to a flat-earther. "See! You cant put things in orbit, earth must be flat!" Like thats how stupid you sound when you go "Horizon problem! The universe must be 6000 years old!"

Why do you even bother reading about things like the Horizon problem? Are you seriously suggesting that this makes your case?

Whether the universe is six thousand or 13.72 billion years old is not in scientific dispute, ok? we might have to finetune it give or take a few million years, but there is no doubt about the general size of the number. If everybody has fucked up completely the last 100 years, then perhaps one could imagine the number needs to be trippled or cut in half or whatever (I really doubt it because we now have correlating data from so many fields) but 6000 years? Thats a JOKE. Its complete and utter nonsense, It's balls-out-clownshoes-and-two-fucking-trouts-on-your-head-barking-wackaloony-insane-babble-from-crazyland-wrong to the nth degree.

There is one woman with her body entirely cut in half.

Yep. I was all prepared to laugh at him, but by the end I was pretty impressed. I wonder if he got better as the filming went on. There were more clean cuts with half the bottle left standing. Pretty cool.

>> ^ant:

>> ^PalmliX:
>> ^ant:
I hope it's better than season 3!

That's a tall order...

Argh, I meant season 3 better be better than season 2.


hehe yah, was just messing with you! Sorry haha. And yah I agree, season 2 felt like it could of been cut by half...

A second or so later and it looks like he'd have been cut in half by the platform

Lockheed is the main contractor. They sub out some of the wings and tail section to Boeing. Pratt & Whitney make the engines. While the original order for the planes was over 200, I believe that has been cut in half (or more) since that. They usually have 3 engines per plane to make it easier to keep the plane going if an engine needs repair (there's 2 engines in the F/A 22, ones similar to the 1 engine in the Joint Strike Fighter). The F/A 22 project was the project before the Joint Strike Fighter, so a lot of the technology was shared between the projects.
>> ^Yogi:

>> ^radx:
Ria Novosti had an article about it the other day. Didn't expect the US press to pick up up so soon, to be honest.

Well who makes the F-22 Raptor? It's Lockheed Martin right? Built in conjunction with Boeing too huh...hmmm I wonder if the two largest receivers of government military contracts will get a pass in the media.
That is until the horde because too loud to ignore.

There is a series based on Darth Maul lived through being cut in half anyway.

You blame this on liberals for some reason when it's the almost exclusively registered republican owners of companies that pay these low wage workers who come here for the shitty jobs, right?

Oh, and your budies over at Enron and so many others like them are the ones who nearly bankrupted this state.


>> ^chilaxe:

@Stormsinger
Right, the education level of California being cut in half at exactly the same time that 15 million people without high school educations happened to enter the state is actually due to what... that California's schools are better funded than other states' schools?
We have to stand up for the most likely explanations for phenomena even if others don't like it.
I don't think there was ever an argument that importing 80 million low education workers into the country wasn't going to decrease measures of societal well-being. The new information here is that immigrants don't on average improve academically in later generations, regardless of many public spending efforts designed for that goal.

@Stormsinger

Right, the education level of California being cut in half at exactly the same time that 15 million people without high school educations happened to enter the state is actually due to what... that California's schools are better funded than other states' schools?

We have to stand up for the most likely explanations for phenomena even if others don't like it.

I don't think there was ever an argument that importing 80 million low education workers into the country wasn't going to decrease measures of societal well-being. The new information here is that immigrants don't on average improve academically in later generations, regardless of many public spending efforts designed for that goal.

Tolkein to me is the Stanley Kubrik of fiction books - to fans he's untouchable; to the few of us who aren't into it, he's long-winded and self-indulgent. People are going to throw things at me for saying this, but he could have written a much better story in two books than three

No one is going to throw things at you. Reading is a very individual experience. Not everyone is going to or has to like the same stuff any more than they have to like the same clothes or food. Your tastes in literature are just different. Nothing wrong with that.

I personally felt that every Harry Potter book (after Azkaban) could be cut in half and it would have made a far better reading experience. But to some people that would be blasphemy. I got sick of JK "The Exposition" Rowling pulling the Scooby-Doo revelation of the "Old Man Jenkins du jour" mystery at the end of every book. She took chapters and chapters to do it - sometimes hundreds of pages - and she's so addicted to exposition that she invented entire plot devices just so she could do more of them (Pensieve, I'm lookin' at you). But to some readers that was good stuff. Me - I skimmed right past it. If Tolkien's descriptions of terrain, histories, and such bog you down then just skim 'em.

Sometimes I feel bad that some folks don't get the same soul-rush I get from LOTR's language though. But there it is. You either appreciate that aspect of a text or you don't. To some people JRR's perfect craftsmanship, literary power, and brightness of theme/setting have no value - just as Rowling's redundant expositions mean nothing to me.

When I walked out of my first showing of the Fellowship of the Ring movie, I was pretty jazzed. I felt the movie (while having flaws) still managed to capture the essence of the story which was loyalty, honor, and sacrifice in the face of temptation and darkness. I heard some gal talking to her friend walking out of the movie saying how boring it was, how stupid parts were, and how the whole thing dragged out way longer than it should. Two different people with totally different opinions about the same thing. One person saw value, depth, and goodness. The other was just bored. Same logic applies to the book.

sorry guys, we had to cut the half an hour of advertisements before your movie starts. Counterfeiters took our jerbs.

I need an X-ray of your intact kidney or I'm calling fake. >> ^jimnms:

I actually had a similar experience on the highway years ago. I was behind a couple of cars passing some 18-wheelers when long piece of metal about 4ft long fell off a flatbed truck. I saw the car in front of me swerve left. I saw a black blur coming up at me, and I swerved left too. I thought it was a piece of rubber, but it was a huge chunk of metal. It smashed through my windshield and impaled itself horizontally in my center console and across the passenger seat. A foot to the left and I'd be missing a kidney. If I didn't swerve, I probably would have been cut in half.
Edit:
Pic 1
Pic 2