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...the reputation of their church was obviously more important than the little girl.

That's shocking: it is a criminal act and MUST be dealt with by law. Dealing with this in-house is no better than sweeping the matter under the carpet.

Thankfully, the vast majority of pastors would never do such a thing. The 'bad eggs' completely mar the good name of the church.

Have you got any examples of these power companies we could look at?

I know a guy that worked on the team that made a whole nation a solar powered regime. This involved installing many batteries (and PV panels of course). Renewable energy in Tuvalu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . It was an incredible project but they are now planning the next stage of expansion to cope with the increased consumption triggered by the ready available of relatively cheap electricity. This PV expansion will occur in 2017.

Well said.

We must remember a huge amount of our electricty bill is the distribution cost of sending the power huge distances over expensive and now so called "gold plated" infrastructure. It is incredibly inefficient and expensive. The more they spent on poles and wires the more the regulator allowed them to charge- so they invested on it for no actual gain except the ability to charge a hell of a lot more.

 

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One way to stave off having to increase the power grid capacity is to have as many possible roofs in Australia fitted with PV panels.

Solar and wind cannot replace base load power with any known technology for our current grid system. If we retain our grid then we need a majority of base load power with high spinning inertia which can only come from hydro or steam power stations. As hydro is limited we are stuck with coal or nuclear. Of course it would be great to dump the grid and have local solar and wind energy with consumption varied to suit available power, but the consumers have not shown much inclination for that and it doesn't provide for industrial supply which has to be steady and reliable. So we will still be majority coal fired in 2050 unless we switch to nuclear.

When the lunar cell is fully developed, at least there will be a base load on cloudless, full moon nights.

I actually have four very heavy volumes of English law written at the turn of last century and even it is not real supportive of the power of god.

The turn of the century was only 16 years ago, i.e., a century after Australia became an "indissoluble union" of six colonies. The Constitution was written in the 1800s, a long time before your heavy volumes of English law.

We eradicated killer diseases like smallpox from our planet and came very near to getting rid of perhaps the cruellest of all: polio...and religious nutters stopped it!

That'd be the Taliban.

There's also a bunch of nutters known as "anti-vaxxers", but their religious status probably varies wildly.

I have known anti-vaxxers who voted Green Party and were avowed atheists. Not sure about the religion claim.

The background to vaccination is that Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who had developed cowpox rarely contracted smallpox. From this idea vaccination was born. Edward Jenner was a son of a minister and was a Christian. Yet, through the introduction of vaccination. A BBC documentary about eight years ago made the claim that Edward Jenner saved more lives than the work of any other human. Quite a claim for a Christian.

FOR SALE,Only selling because the missus doesn't like it, I'm not sure why, it's VERY comfortable....

 

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Is the material on this couch vulvat or leather?

Sounds like the old Valiant AP6

That's the one. Push button operated automatic gearboxes were considered a revolutionary leap in technology back then.

Why is this so hard for people to understand? I perform an expermeint and observe a results. I do it another 20 times and I see the same result. Someone else does the same experiemnt, gets the same result..

Its like the old electricity argument. Cant see it, but I can assure you that my indirect observations of the buttons I press on my keyboard and the letters that appear on the screen that its a fairly repeatable indirect observations. Its the same indirect observations that allows me as an electrical engineer to design the stuff that the modern day creationists use to shun guys like me!

Michael Faraday, the "Father of Electricity" firmly believed that God created everything so I am not sure where you are coming from Pearo. See: About us | The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

'sokay Nev, if we don't survive, something else will.

Vertebrate fish first appeared about 530 million years ago. Dinosaurs lived and evolved from 250 million years ago and lasted until about 63 million years ago - that's 187 MILLION years they lasted for.

 

When they bit the dust it allowed mammals, including our ancestors, to evolve. They didn't come down from the trees until 2 million years ago, and our own particular species has only been around for about 200,000 years.

 

We are literally a flash in the pan on geological timescales. We may continue to evolve and eventually leave the planet, we may disappear in an extinction event of our own making in the near future. Either way the Earth will survive and life with it, and when an ecological vacuum appears, something WILL evolve to fill it. Eventually, in 4 or 5 billion years, our sun will use all its fuel and become a red giant before collapsing into a white dwarf, effectively ending life on Earth.

"To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry is commonly based on empirical or measurable evidence subject to "scientific method", ("scientific method", Oxford Dictionaries: British and World English, 2016).

Marty you have just made statements that are not based on empirical (verified by observation) or measurable evidence.

Vertebrate fish first appeared about 530 million years ago. Dinosaurs lived and evolved from 250 million years ago (where is the observable or measurable evidence for 250 million years?) and lasted until about 63 million years ago (who observed this?) - that's 187 MILLION years they lasted for.

When they bit the dust it allowed mammals, including our ancestors, to evolve. They didn't come down from the trees until 2 million years ago (where is the observable or measurable evidence for 2 million years?), and our own particular species has only been around for about 200,000 years (where is the observable or measurable evidence for 0.2 million years?).

We are literally a flash in the pan on geological timescales. We may continue to evolve and eventually leave the planet, we may disappear in an extinction event of our own making in the near future. Either way the Earth will survive and life with it, and when an ecological vacuum appears, something WILL evolve to fill it. Eventually, in 4 or 5 billion years, our sun will use all its fuel and become a red giant before collapsing into a white dwarf, effectively ending life on Earth.

We can only conclude that this is your belief system.

Meals on wheels anyone?

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Does it? Better check those regs....

Regulatory signs | Transport and motoring | Queensland Government

Thanks for that M61A1, these regulations show (see screenshot above) that both Keep Left and Keep Right signs are used in Queensland:

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This is helpful.

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Built by an Aussie too. First Noah, then Ken Ham (from Queensland).

I wonder if she really does?? ...

Someone had a one-track mind when they were naming that street.

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This is what I saw in Coober Pedy.

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Is this referring to an aircraft?

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One of the girls I work with used to be a graduate astrophysicist (not much call for them in Australia any more). We had an interesting water-cooler discussion today about studying black holes, time dilation near the event horizon, and how you'd be "spaghettified" (her word not mine) if you got sucked in. But yes my brain turns to mush too when I consider this stuff... wish I'd gone to uni when I was younger. Maybe I'll do a science degree when the kids grow up and bugger off.

There isn't much to see when studying black holes.

How about, "the fool has said in his heart: There is no God" Psalm 14 verse 1?

Hickam AFB in Hawaii has "Kuntz Ave"

Imagine what the reaction is every time says to you: "name and address please"? Who would take you seriously if you said "I live at? Kuntz Avenue". It would frequently by misspelled too, I would imagine.

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I am sure the pilot is reading that sign on the approach!

Turbs, at a distance of 50 metres, ONE minute of arc gives about 14mm along the wall.I reckon you could mark where a star rose to an accuracy of 2mm , maybe less if you had many nights to do it.

 

You would use a bit of clay to attach a vertical pin and then wait to see if this eclipsed the rising star, looking through your fixed pinhole.

 

The potential accuracy of this is way better than 1 min of arc.

 

One min of arc is not impressive, the theodolites I learned on in engineering school in the 1960's went to 10 seconds of arc. A star visibly moved when sighted through the telescope and you hit a stopwatch when it eclipsed behind the crosshairs. You could then calculate your position to about 100m accuracy. I wonder where those theodolites are now, all useless antiques these days. [/QUOTE]

 

They won't be useless if they're looked after. Hopefully good examples of these theodolites are kept in a safe place along with a very good explanation how to use them. The reason why there is so much speculation about the construction of the pyramids is that whatever the Egyptians' instruments were have been discarded (or lost) which keeps everyone wondering. In a few centuries time, people can look back and explain former surveying techniques by the use of these (stored) theodolites.

Thanks 80kts - next time they knock on the door I'll ask why they put in the effort, given there's no room left.

The explanation I heard is that, now the 144,000 places are taken, they're starting an overflow heaven on earth, or words to that effect. That is what I was told by them.