This thread is for the more intelligent, any intelligent thoughts can be posted here by the more intelligent amongst us.
The thread is dedicated to bosley (bos) who only wants the more intelligent thoughts posted here.

Imagination is more important than knowledge; Einstein

If you were to leave the earth on a ship going near the speed of light, time would go slower for you. Meanwhile, much more time would have passed on earth, and by the time you got back, perhaps everyone you knew when you left would be dead.

Q 1. According to the Theory of Relativity, wouldn't it be impossible to designate which was going fast, the earth or the ship? In that case wouldn't both people on the planet and those on the ship be able to claim they were the ones travelling fast and the other would be stationary?

Q 2. And, in a similar way, couldn't you assume the ship has stayed stationary and it was the earth that sped away at the speed of light and eventually came back to the ship?

Q 3. If you make it sorta kinda 50/50 and each leave the other a the speed of light, wouldn't these things cancel each other out and neither would age?

jimmy
No comment on the pic then?

It looks just like me !

jimmy
Thats good I thought you might be offended.

Boss, second job.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. oops.

Nam

Offended, by you driver ,,never

driver, re post 104. that's a little too close. has someone been whispering in your ear?

bos
My spies are everywhere.

There may be a lot of life in the universe. If so, its a safe bet that most of it will score lower on the SATs than you.
Just consider the situation on one planet: ours. There are millions of species on Earth. Millions. Among this protoplasmic plentitude, how many species are smart enough to be interesting on the telephone or able to help you with Sundays crossword? Well, theres Homo sapiens, and then theres nobody.

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There you go driver, he looks intelligent

But he was dyxlexic. What if, when he wrote E=MC2, what he really meant was MC=E2. Modern physics would be knackered!!! Oh yes. Now thats my idea of a fun time!!!!

But he was dyxlexic. What if, when he wrote E=MC2, what he really meant was MC=E2. Modern physics would be knackered!!! Oh yes. Now thats my idea of a fun time!!!!

OOps. Bloody computers on the fritz again. Must be the wrong equation after all, and thats what causes my computer to go wrong.

Nothnig rong wiht biegn dislexxic alen..

There may be a lot of life in the universe. Part 2

Is this a momentous fact or not? Is the circumstance that we can look around and find were the brainiest boffins on the planet merely a trivial result of being the first species able to notice? Or is there some reason to think that intelligence is actually a rare and unlikely evolutionary development, and Homo sapiens has lucked out?

This is more than just another good question to bandy about after dinner, between the cigars and the port. It goes right to the heart of our place in the universe. And its also of obvious and critical importance to SETI researchers. After all, were on a fools mission deploying our SETI telescopes if theres no intelligent life out there.

why would there be any intelligent life out there? there's none in here.

Namreh
sorry for late reply....I HAVE A LIFE...LOL.

a vacuum cannot exist because everything has a vapour pressure ( a few atoms escape from ANY matter all the time ) . neutrinos travel at ( or very close to ) the speed of light so weigh nothing or as close to nothing as makes no odds. every day of your life a billion billion billion neutrinos pass through the average body. the chance of just ONE hitting a body particle in your lifetime is about evens.

and if it did you wouldnt even feel it