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I'm passionate about

Reforming things from useless to useful. Cosmology. Understanding of physical actualities. Becoming knowledgeable of pretty much everything applicable to anything that i have a small interest in.

Talk to me about

Whatever you want as long as it is presented objectively to a point that you wish to make (and without blatantly saying because you're wrong and I'm right, sans-explanation)

People don't know that I'm good at

Putting accents with my voice

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• A comment on Conversation: Do you feel comfortable talking to someone of a different race about racial issues and stereotypes?

  Oct 12 2012: Racism comes about from religions that are based on the ideology that the people that believe them are in some way special. For if those people did not believe that they were special, then there would be no need to have a person to belittle in order to prove that they are more special than that person.

• A reply on Talk: Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system

  Oct 11 2012: The Moons actual name is in fact the Moon. Other moon like objects are called planetary satellites and have their respective names (the Moon is also a planetary satellite). We actually call things by the name moon/s so as to give an understanding in the difference between artificial satellites (orbital man made electronic stuff), planets, asteroids, planetoids (all of which are also satellites). As for that idiot who obtusely feels as though there are no other solar systems, I mean wow really the term basically means a star with celestial bodies in orbit around it. And lastly yeah there is no name, or at least not that I know of, for the solar system we live in (other than the "Our" that we commonly put in front of it).

• A reply on Talk: Kary Mullis celebrates the experiment

  Oct 11 2012: I also use adblock and though it messes with lots of stuff, it doesn't seem to mess with this. For me it only jumped about 30s which was easily fixed with selecting a time a bit before so good luck.

• A comment on Talk: Kary Mullis celebrates the experiment

  Oct 11 2012: Ah so he seems to be suggesting that 5.5 W/m2 is greater than 1 W/cm2 however, 5.5 W/m2 / 1000 (there's 1000 cm2 per m2) = 0.00055 W/cm2 so in comparison with 1 W/cm2 that's 1,818 times less energy input than required to do what he's saying. Therefore he doesn't seem to understand metric values. And with these values it would be easy to say that it is happening but is severely over exaggerated rather than his out-take of it isn't happening at all.

• A comment on Talk: Jay Walker on the world's English mania

  Aug 3 2012: It's funny how he says "not because America is pushing it" as though English is from the U.S. and as though the U.S. is all of america

• A reply on Talk: Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future

  Aug 2 2012: There are some interesting facts about Coca-cola in this episode of secrets of the super-brands
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDOI6RsaS4
  
  Also note that they do in fact sell water through one of their companies

• A reply on Talk: Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology

  Aug 2 2012: http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_announces_singularity_university.html
  here is his new video and without the vast overstatement

• A comment on Talk: Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology

  Aug 1 2012: the two main reasons that they aren't similar or near similar to what he was saying are:
  1: The computers are able to be smaller and faster but we can't cool them fast enough and with out being to do so we have a predicament of either make them faster and watch them melt, or leave them as they are until we find a solution (and we are getting better at cooling them down).
  2: A recession hit and many computer technology companies put their research on the back burner in favour of selling product for profit.

• A comment on Talk: Aubrey de Grey: A roadmap to end aging

  Apr 29 2012: He seems to forget that for evolution to occur death also needs to. This is best said with the old saying "Out with the old, in with the new"

• A comment on Talk: Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives

  Apr 29 2012: It would be better to look at modifying the FOXO genes to make them more active instead of looking at things that activate it in the first place.