The Strange and Interesting Thread

[Alpha]

Also a side note, if the big bang theory is true, why does venus spin backwards?

Scientist can't explain it http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-venus-spins-the-wrong/

[|iR|Focalor]

why does venus spin backwards?

A person who honestly believes in talking snakes, women made from ribs, the living dead, ghosts, precipitation consisting of amphibians rather than water, the antichrist, burning shrubbery that speaks, and messiahs with extremely buoyant feet is asking for a "logical" explanation of why one particular planet spins in a different direction from the one he lives on... Yeah, okay.

Since you think all the aforementioned stuff is entirely possible, then I guess you'll no have problem believing it happened something like this:

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[quadz]

Sigh, no i'm not. show me one test ever performed to prove beyond all reasonable doubt

Don't try to move the goalposts, you disingenuous charlatan.

You stated, and I quote, that the big bang and evolution rest on "non testable assumptions."

This is an objectively false statement about reality, and you are WRONG.

Fix your shit, Tubby.

[quadz]

only if you are really are open to the possibility of there being a creator however you have been arguing so doggedly to disprove it i have my doubts.

Ran across this handy visual aid:

^ (I'm southeast quadrant.)

[|iR|Focalor]

For so long, I've been trying to convince myself that there was no God. Last night the preacher from the church I went to growing up came over for a visit. Long story short, I GOT SAVED LAST NIGHT! PRAISE JESUS! If he can save a poor lost sinner like me, he can save you too! You're gonna be seeing a new improved kinder gentler Focalor from now on. HALLELUJAH, I'M BOUND FOR HEAVEN!
 

[|iR|Focalor]

Yeah, about that last post... check the date.



 

And this is one of the many many reasons why if there actually is a Hell, me and Hitler gonna be neighbors.

[-=[AZ]=-]

Also a side note, if the big bang theory is true, why does venus spin backwards?

Scientist can't explain it http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-venus-spins-the-wrong/

I don't usually just but into conversations like this but,

Scientists basically explained why Venus spins opposite in that article you posted...

What the hell does that have to do with the big bang theory? Makes zero sense my friend.

[|iR|Focalor]

Nevermind the fact that one planet out of a dozen in any solar system spinning the other direction does NOTHING to disprove or prove the big bang theory. It's like saying, "If it's true that the Boston Red Sox are a baseball team, then why do I have a box of condoms in my dresser drawer?" Baseball players might use condoms, and I might bring a condom to a baseball game, but if frogs have turbans then I'm gonna slice up a banana and bury the pieces in the garden for Thanksgiving. What? Exactly.

No matter what the actual reason is for one particular planet being such a rebellious asshole that it refuses to spin the same direction as everyone else, you can be assured that the answer is not going to be, "Because God liked it that way." Furthermore, the fact that one planet doesn't rotate conventionally goes to exemplify what I said earlier:

Furthermore, no one reputable in the realm of science would dare call the universe "orderly". They pretty unanimously agree that the universe is downright fucking chaotic. There are certain laws of physics that govern how things act, but shit in the great beyond of outer space is far from "order". Planets get consumed by their parent stars, black holes consume everything around them including light, asteroids and meteors pummel into one another to sometimes destroy planets and sometimes coalesce to form planets. It's a god damn free-for-all in this universe.

[quadz]

On a related note:

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And the rebuttal:

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"If you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means god did it? [...] If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for god, then god is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance -- that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on. So, just be ready for that to happen if that's how you want to come at the problem: That's just simply the God of the Gaps argument. It's been around forever. [...] I don't even care if someone wants to say, 'you don't understand that, God did it' -- that doesn't even bother me. What would bother me is if you were so content in that answer, that you no longer had curiosity to learn how it happened. The day you stop looking because you're content 'God did it', I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world."

[QwazyWabbit]

Just as a gyroscope topples on Earth as it loses its angular momentum, so to do planets under the influence of the Sun's gravity. Mercury is gravitationally locked to the sun and Venus is nearly locked as both have spun down due to asymmetrical gravitational forces. They are, after all, very lumpy rocks.  Earth is taking a bit longer due to the Moon but it will spin down and wobble eventually. Earths axis precesses just like a gyro, the North Pole pointing at Polaris currently but it will point at Vega in 13000 years. As Earth's rotation slows and the moon moves further away in its orbit the stability of the axis of rotation will decrease and the potential to flip will increase. All of this is explained by Newtonian Gravity and Einstein's General Theory. Nothing unexplained here, move along.

[|iR|Focalor]

Earths axis precesses just like a gyro

[QwazyWabbit]

 

 

LMFAO

[|iR|Focalor]

Switching gears...

http://www.today.com/klgandhoda/nudie-patooties-klg-hoda-bare-it-all-2D80580870

Kathie Lee Gifford: "Now we're without clothes! Imagine that!"

Me: "Imagine you? Naked? Just how much of a sick fuck do you think I am? Now my monitor has to be boiled in Clorox and turpentine. Thanks, bitch."

[Sgt. Dick]

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/4/4/orlando_hit_and_run_.html

 

[Sgt. Dick]

Bobcat goes into the surf and grabs a shark 
http://mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/4/8/caught_on_camera_bob.html