Now, that we’ve aired our differences, or different ovbserver points of view (perspectives) on human events, perhaps we can discuss our shared interests and find common on cosmic events, other than just the ground or earth we are walking on and trying to grow prize tomatoes in.

What do you want your contribution to ’21st C society’ or humanity in spacecitime to be. To have discovered, to have revealed, to have unveiled …
with what applications, benefits – other than the making you and I happy or wealthy or famous or reknowned???
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The fact that someone believes in A God, does not make them a good (righteous or even lefteous) person, nor does the fact that someone does not believe in A God or Prime Mover make them right (or good) or leftist.

You can be a fascist atheist. Most Roman Emperor’s thought they were god, and most States with nuclear weapons think they are gods, the more missiles the bigger gods they think they are. But I ask what does a GOD need nuclear weapons, or any weapons or armies for??? unless of course he is a false perishable god with feet of clay that can be brought tumbling down.

As for civil war…well, it’s kindda like if Ross Perot would try to conquer USA. Sure he has some followers, but people is not crazy enough to follow him to those extremes.

Where does the time go?

Time translation is just a unitary transformation, right?

I disagree with your statement that the Iraq war has nothing to do with science. I will concede that physicists opinions are not better than others but the Iraq war consumes significant resources that could be otherwise used for scientific research in a variety of areas. It also, under this administration, encourages government and non-government investment in the tools of war as a by-product.

I also wouldn’t put Michael Moore and Ann Coulter in the same sentence. He is a thoughtful provacateur. She is a raving lunatic.

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1) the Creationist mumbo jumbo
2) Stem cell research
3) Various obstruction to research involving points 1-2.

I’d put global warming in there, but Im skeptical about the extent of certainty climatologists have, and im far from the only one in physics departments.

Other than that, he has shown positive sides as well. Pro nuclear, decent NSA budgets, Mars exploration (ok this one irratates some scientists, b/c they feel its misallocatement of resources, which is probably true.. Otoh its like pure welfare for engineers)

A lot of the disagreement with Republicans comes from an age old battle between science and religion, which for whatever reason, still persists in the United States. Its unfortunate that some in the republican party cater to this fringe squad, it just as easily as far as im concerned could have been associated with the democrats. (In Europe there are xtian groups that are notoriously liberal) -shrug- Special interests and politics.

I am also from Mexico and I agree with Guillermo. There will be no civil war in Mexico. Obrador is not fighting for ideals, social change or anything even close to what revolutions are about (at least in theory).
What he would love to do, though, is to stage a coup. However, the hard-core support needed to do this kind of thing is simply not there. As time passes, more and more of his followers are realizing that he wont be president, nor dictator, emperor or king. At most, he would just be the village idiot.

I for one do not blindly agree with the president but I have to admit he is right in some issues that I and many other strongly believe in.

About the passage of time, I am relived that am not the only one whos is absolutely alarmed. “someone check the size of that hole in the hourglass”

There’s no way he can push a civil war, mostly because he’s a blue-collar-acting-as-left politician and the fact that he only has power in Mexico City. The army and the rest of the country isn’t really in the mood to follow that guy. We have work to do, like the Transparency Law reform.

I think the rest of the world should look him, as our Norton I. He did pressed for second floors on some roads, something that sounds to me a lot like the SF bridge.

In your absence, I have decorated the blog with equations and graphs about the expanding universe and other fun things. The equations would fit on a frisbee.

Tomato Festival? Beware the Were-Rabbit!

Civil War in Mexico? is that the script for the next hollywood wannabe blockbuster turned flop.

Entering the third cosmic epoch of accelerated expansion??? makes any human concerns about climate change on earth, sound positively like small potatoes.