No one said any of it was true. The AC pretended that no one was ever saying miracles happen since the bible was written which somehow makes science better or something. That was false which was the entire point of bringing that up.

It's sort of pointless now that rpstrong showed me the error of my thinking.
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You see, all you need to do is set the riffle to it's highest point in the trajectory arc and the laser to the center of the scope. At any distance now, the riffle is no longer being aimed except in a general direction. So once the laser kicks in, the bullet will guide itself to the target. All you have to do is get close and aim the laser right when the trigger is pulled.

I was originally thinking the gun had to be aimed before firing so the laser would have to be in the field of view at the same time. According to this site a .50 cal sighted in a 1000 yards or 915 meters will be roughly 45 inches high at 200 yards and 300 inches low at 1500 yards or 1371 meters. Now most scopes and military sights will have adjustments that can be tuned for the differences in distance. But as you can see, with almost a difference of 350 inches (29 feet or 8.8 meters) between 200 yards and 1500 yards, a laser centered at 1000 yards will have to be adjusted the same or be out of the field of view. So if you had to aim the riffle before shooting, you would also have to adjust both the laser and scope. But because the bullet is guided, you just need to make sure the bullet is high enough in the trajectory arc in order to follow the laser to the target. The laser can be centered at this sighting reference and remain on target.

So basically, I was over thinking it without paying attention to the correct details.

My premise is nothing of the sort. It has nothing to do with individual reality but how reality is presented and accepted. No one said anything about anything being true or not, that is beyond anything I was conveying. The point is that it all boils down to someone claiming to have authority saying something and people either accepting it as true or not. This is because just like those people (who happen to be the vast majority) who cannot do the science for whatever reason, most will never talk to god or be presented with any significant evidence of a God.

Now, you coming out and saying trust me, I can do all this to prove it is still someone saying trust me, trust this that proves it. You say but all these other people say it to, but look at all the churches saying the same things too. People listening will still have no option but to trust you or not just like with religion or science fiction.

Note, I put science fiction out there not because science is fiction but because I wanted to show that people will believe science fiction just the same as real science and/or religion.

This entire religion verses science is a bunch of bullshit anyways. They are tools and used for different things. Less than 99 percent of either will ever conflict with each other and of what will, it has so little of an impact on most people it is insignificant.

"People that do stupid things with dangerous objects often die."

Liquid water does not form permanent chains of that sort. If its doing that, its called ice, and has transitioned to a solid form.

If you're convinced that I require education, you could perhaps link to an educational source mentioning something about this. When I google "water dipolar chain", however, I get nothing but articles on other substances forming chains, and nothing whatsoever on these chains.

You're telling me to google; I did that before posting, and I've done it again, and found absolutely nothing of the sort. What terms should I be searching for?

Its a little depressing how many people on slashdot know so little about any particular topic, but feel compelled to express an ill-informed opinion.

I dont think thats how EEGs work, but its good to see that Slashdot can still elicit a hysterical response at will with their stories.

Sorry no, seems completely pointless and total waste of money.

Im pretty sure the water molecule is 3 atoms "long", and it doesnt form anything unless its chilled to 0C @ 1atm.

This is why I have a tendency to dislike "skeptics".. from my experience they too often tend to commit same errors in reasoning as their opposition. Only by virtue of operating from a safer default position do they end up being on the right side of objective reality.

How does one ramble on about lack of data driving a position and concurrently while admitting ignorance and having no data yourself go on to commit the very same error?

If you want to point out news articles on the effectiveness of Iron dome are misleading public by invoking implicit assumptions not actually made...this would have been great if only you just stopped there.

Almost like this plan except now with more bacony goodness!

Dupe.

The FAA is concerned with you accidentally flying it into a restricted area like way up there (evidently 1000 feet) or near an airport or the White House.

It is not concerned with whether some idiot crashes it into someone's window or head. That's the concern of local police and states.

Hmmm. You're right! Let's begin the debate.

This is a troubling development in an ongoing saga over the FAA's rules which punish the safe commercial use of drones.

There is some towns in california already doing this since the 90s.

Maybe not exactly this way but they are treating their sewage for potable water