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Post by Jm419 on Mar 29, 2010 21:38:19 GMT -5
Right. We should be back to normal in a year or two...hopefully.
Lol. You guys are into that? I thought that was domestic...but the health care system does need to be fixed. However, I believe that this bill is not the way to do it; the answer to health care is not foisting higher taxes on a small percentage of the population. I really don't like Obama - he's making all the wrong choices.
That's the way to go. Lol.
Yeah, it's a pretty good book. I never knew it came in contact with anti-matter...that's very interesting.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Mar 30, 2010 16:28:21 GMT -5
Yeah. We didn't slip into a depression like everybody was screaming awhile ago.
Lol. We have really high sales taxes here to pay for it - it fluctuates rom 14 to 15% depending on whom the Prime Minister is. You seem to know a lot more about the issue than I do. I've heard that a lot of people don't like what President Obama's doing.
Yeah.
The Death Star II's reactor was powered by hypermatter reactions of some sort, not antimatter (my mistake). When the Death Star II exploded, everything within a vast radius would have come into contact with a hypermatter explosion. Whether it actually came into contact with hypermatter isn't specified (that I know of), but it is very likely that it did, as the glove fell down the reactor shaft in the tower on the station's northern pole (when Luke severed Vader's arm).
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Post by Jm419 on Mar 30, 2010 17:49:16 GMT -5
No, but they're already calling it the Great Recession....
That's exactly how it should be here. I don't know if you're familiar with the line of American Presidents, but Ronald Reagan was President from 1980-1988. When he took office, the "rich" were paying some 70-90% of their income, while the poor paid none. That's a huge problem, considering the fact that everyone considers anyone wealthier than themselves "rich." What Reagan did was to level out taxes a bit - so the rich paid like 50% and the poor paid 10%. That's what liberal Americans refer to as "Reaganomics" and they criticize it. What the politicians need to understand is that Reganomics works; everyone should pay the same percentage of their income. Just because the rich have more money doesn't mean their money is worth less. There should be a flat tax that includes everything like Health Care and Gas Taxes. That tax might be as high as 40%, but if everyone's paying equal percentages of their income, no one can argue with it.
As for Obama, he did try to make some changes, and his popularity was huge for a while. But then all his campaign promises never happened...(ending Iraq conflicts, closing Guantanamo Bay, etc), and his popularity has been in freefall for a few months now. People are getting sick of it...and I'm in Minnesota, a traditionally liberal state. I can't imagine what the more conservative states are up to right now, but Texas voted to start using more conservative textbooks in schools, because the publishers have become much more liberal over the past decade or so.
Ah. Got it. Hypermatter...heh. That's probably even worse for your health than antimatter.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Mar 30, 2010 19:05:22 GMT -5
True. They're exaggerating, of course, but I wonder by how much.
Yeah. Really, that's what makes the most sense to do. Im my biased opinion.
Interesting. American politics is much more interesting than Canadian politics.
Yeah. It's tachyonic matter from hyperspace that, when brought into "realspace", is annihilated as the particles accelerate to infinite speed within a reactor. A hyperdrive system adjusts the faster-than-light (FTL) particles to allow a ship to jump to light-speed without altering its complex mass and energy. I wonder if instant annihilation would be preferrable to being subjected to these conditions. It would also be interesting to observe a large piece of hypermatter, as it would conflict with how we see by travelling faster than light. So we would never be able to see a piece of hypermatter approaching, but rather see it coming and leaving simultaneously as the hypermatter passes nearby. If we could somehow slow it down to comprehend, but the theoretical FTL particles cannot be slowed down to subliminal velocity because they are confined to the space-like portion of the energy-momentum graph.
Fascinating Fysics indeed ("Fysics" intentionally mispelled to emphasize the alliteration. After all, I gotta sounds smart for a the consistency of a post...oh, failure with the colloquialism "gotta" ;D ).
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 2, 2010 20:34:32 GMT -5
Lol. It has been the longest lasting since the 70s.
Well, it makes the most sense, because it's fair.
Lol. Not when you get to discuss them every single day with people who are very interested in telling you you're wrong.
Wow. That's very cool. FTL is always fun to look at; even though it isn't technically possible, but it's fun to theorize.
Heh heh heh. Oh well.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 2, 2010 23:12:26 GMT -5
Eh, I don't find it to be that special. These things happen all the time. Thankfully, the world learned from its previous mistakes, so it won't be as bad as it has been in the past, bar something unforeseen.
Yeah.
Lol. I could see that. It can be fun to discuss things with people aiming to tell you that you're wrong, because they're so predictable.
Yeah. Physics is usually pretty interesting.
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 3, 2010 19:15:56 GMT -5
Yeah, that's true. There's a good reason we haven't had another Depression.
Right. It's fun to pull out statistics against them.
I'm going to be a mechanical engineer, so I'd hope so.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 3, 2010 22:52:19 GMT -5
Yeah.
Yeah. There are times when you can almost control what they say because they're so predictable.
Lol. Good for you. I still don't know what I'll do for sure, but it'll probably be something in the Sciences. Chemistry, Physics, Biology, it doesn't matter to me; they're all really interesting. Recently, I've taken a particular interest in quantum physics. I've only looked into the simpler stuff, as everything I've learned is from the Internet, but I may look into taking a course when I reach university.
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 4, 2010 11:59:35 GMT -5
Right.
Quantum Physics are really fascinating stuff. They're all theoretical, of course, but they're fun to study.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 4, 2010 20:20:49 GMT -5
Yeah. It's really interesting. As is astronomy. Phenomena such as black holes and dark energy are fascinating too.
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 19, 2010 17:52:27 GMT -5
Right; things we know next to nothing about. Lol.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 19, 2010 21:05:57 GMT -5
Yeah. It's fun to speculate about possible impossibilities and impossible possibilties.
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 28, 2010 17:34:46 GMT -5
Lol. That's a good phrase.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 28, 2010 18:57:07 GMT -5
Yeah. I wonder if Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking ever said something like that.
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Post by Jm419 on Jun 22, 2010 19:13:17 GMT -5
Einstein, Hawking, and Hunter9. Lol. That really does sound like something from Hawking, that's a good point. Have you ever read any of his stuff? He's really a brilliant guy, I mean, really really brilliant.
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