It seems the postal analogy is better than the car analogy.

At one time (19th century?) when you mailed an international letter, you might have to affix postage for all the countries the letter went through. Not any more.

In effect, AT&T is trying to make Netflix pay for "stamps" to send "letters" into their system, even though most other "letter-senders" don't have to. (Of course, AT&T already charges its customers to receive the "letters" so whatup.)

But really I think AT&T is trying to set up its own cyber-fiefdom, and charge "import duties" to competing content-providers like Netflix.

The point is, since time started at the Big Bang, it's meaningless to talk about "before."

Yes, I know that sounds like a dodge. It's unsatisfying to me as well. The best I can do is consider that we need some other word than "before" to describe it.

Another one: "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy."

This is known as a Mondegreen.

[I see what you did there. :-)]

Music is an artistic expression rendered in sound. It doesn't matter how the sound is generated. What matters is intent.

So I would say yes, this is music. But whether it's good music is an entirely different question.

I hear ya bro. When I get a pizza, I have them cut it in six pieces. Eight would fill me up.

Be careful what you wish for. Hook one up to Watson ... and we're all doomed.

Whoops, meant to reply to a different post...

Be careful what you wish for. Hook one up to Watson ... and we're all doomed.

The Roman Catholic Church (and many mainstream denominations of Christianity) conceded that Darwinism was correct a long time ago. (Ditto for denominations of many other non-Christian religions.) John Paul II himself said that Darwinism was "more than a theory."

No, creation "science" is not science at all. It claims biblical authority and therefore does not recognize any scientific attempt to falsify it. Yet it has been falsified, and has no place in a discussion of "mainstream" science.

IIRC, the "hundreds and hundreds" was an obvious and sloppy voice-over (of the original "billions and billions") to drive home the fact that it was edited.

Let me just say...that if God was a city planner, he would not put a playground next to a sewage system.
- from the motion picture Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Nitpick: the new Cosmos is on the Fox Network, not the "Fair and Balanced" [sic] Fox News Channel. But I agree the irony is delicious.

Well, hold on. "The word of God" and "inspired by God" mean two very different things, the former being "fundie" and the latter decidedly not. I think it's important to keep that in mind when considering the 75% statistic. And I'd be curious to know how it splits on the "word" vs. "inspired" opinion, especially how it splits geographically.

And that's definitely a Good Thing (TM). I don't recall the theologian who said this, but the Bible is not a book, it's a library.

Fair enough. But I don't think anyone would disagree that our modern secular humanistic moralities have been at least shaped in part by the bible and other religious texts.

More to the point, Newton's law of gravity assumed that gravity acted instantaneously across space.

Einstein didn't have a "first" theory of gravity. His 1905 paper on special relativity had nothing to do with gravity, but it did postulate that no physical effect (including gravity) can propagate faster than light. Ten years later, he finished his general theory, which was indeed about gravity.

In Einstein's general theory, gravity acts at the speed of light, but that doesn't "satisfy" Newton's assumption of instantaneous action. Einstein's general theory does approach Newton's law for the case of smaller masses and shorter distances. And Newton's law can be "patched" to accommodate the speed-of-light propagation of gravity, but not the other effects in Einstein's general theory, such as large-mass corrections, space-time effects, bending of light by gravity, and so on.

I think you might want to watch the show again. BTW, this thread is about radio waves not gravity.