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The problem is I came to this site to learn, then I had to start to teach because of the inaccuracies being posted, Now it is "Dumbed Down" so much by those who don't want to learn, don't know what they are talking about and who should instead be arguing if Superman could beat-up the Hulk....

Sorry Harry, I can't sit idle and watch bad science being propagated. The fundamentals I'm referring to is you misuse of terminology, stating speculation as fact, supporting one speculation with another, ignoring good science, and so on. It has nothing to do with me agreeing or disagreeing with your...

Harry: I can tell you are reading a lot and have made great progress, but I'm not sure if you are reading what you need to be reading. The fundamentals need to be well understood before valid judgments can be made on the speculative side of science. Snooping around web page after web page looking fo...

Black holes do give up energy and mass; they expel gravitons, magnetic fields... The event horizon contains part or possibly all of the mass of a black hole, it is theoretically possible that the all the matter is at the event horizon and evaporates becoming smaller and smaller until its no long is ...

I am fully aware of what is known and assumed about black hole and neutron stars and know the difference. When there is a finite amount of mass loosing a finite % of its total, at some point the mass left will equal zero. There is no 100% efficient reaction in the universe. Entropy = net loss - alwa...

So there are clusters of dense matter (any matter of our universe), sending out matter/energy to less dense areas over an infinite amount of time. After some amount of time, a very, very long time, our universe would have recycled itself over and over becoming smaller/less dense each time because of...

OK, so you theoretical universe is infinitely old.

Stars give off light, gravity, neutrinos that travel out from the source, am I correct in that assumption?

Your ideas are very limited. Go read more My ideas are limited to the laws of physics, observations and logic. Reading other peoples speculations can be interesting, but if one truly understands the science, the flaws in some of these speculative theories automatically negates their validity. Let m...

Let's say you had a balloon that could become infinity large, how long would it take to fill it at 1 mole/hour? Then how long would it take at infinite moles/hour? Photons, gravitons, neutrinos, etc. are all spreading out across the universe from dense areas to less dense areas, that is the basis of...

I can guarantee that the light portion is not H2O or CO2, neither one would last more than a few hours, but the dark portion is definitely basaltic. The light portion must be either the bedrock salts or a volcanic ash, it depends on where the rock originated from - how and how far did it travel to f...

My question is now; are we going to find out if the light tone is basaltic or a precipitate?

Kovil stated: First let me appologise to Mr Bilderback, as I was angry and condescending in my last post. I must have read some of your posts that were written in haste as you did not explain things to my liking. Since then I have read several of your posts that are good. I was hasty in my judgement...

The time duration is measured by the collection of particles and energy in the detectors that are meters in length, reverse engineering the collision can reveal what happened and when. Black Hole? I don't think so. It is speculation that the particles they expected to see were re-absorbed and given ...

Look at this link, What's the silver flower like thing?

That is the residual marks from multiple attacks from the rover's abrasion tool.

If this rock was on Earth I would say that it was incased in calcium carbonate by a slow evaporating sea or a stalagmite or tite in a cave, that doesn't work here. How about a deposit of volcanic ash eroding away?

[edited by makc - please, people, make smaller pics! originally posted pic here]

Does anyone want to state their interpretation on the makeup of the large two-toned gray in the center right hand side of this picture?

There has been talks of engineering it to cleanup nuclear spills/leaks, I don't know how tha's going. Also for cleaning the cooling systems at atomic power plants,

It's so amazing you forgot to read the information caption.

The intensity and spectrum of the light being reflected can have a substantial determination on its perceived color. Color correction filters are used in most photography situations - a subjective artistic decision. The amazing human brain does this correction automatically (within limitations). Usi...

l3p3r wrote:

Who cares if it’s art or not?

hear hear!

An artist would.

The expansion and acceleration of the universe theory is a derivative of the red shift, age, temperature, % hydrogen, and location of galaxies and galactic clusters. Light emitted from sources closer to the point of vector conjunction are red shifted, light sources farthest from the vector conjuncti...

Most of the science of the "Greater Universe" is still in the speculative stage, there just is not definitive evidence for any or all theories in place. Black Holes may not be a singularity or even a small object, they could be the product of a space/time/gravity lens distorting what we ca...

The first time I saw it, I thought someone lost a shoe.

Hey, the whole credo for tenure has always been 'publish, publish, publish'. And if you don't have anything to contribute within the 'mainstream', and you can't write fiction effectively, you need an outlet for something you can shoot out in a short time with little effort. Excellently stated my go...

It would be the opposite; it will most likely be false color unless it says true color. Many of the pictures are taken in wavelengths of energy not visible to the human eye, and/or many times a composite of everything from infrared to gamma rays. Many times the false-colors are exaggerated to show d...