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UFO / Re: The Communication Problem With Contacting An Alien Race

« on: April 10, 2016, 06:45:57 AM »

There are other indications besides the one you mention about the dinosaurs being closer to chickens. Chickens have a different path through the skull for the optic nerve. That same path is present in the dinosaur skulls. Only birds have hollow bones that I know of. Those that flew such as the Pterosaur also had hollow bones. The pterosaurs was sort of a cross between bat and bird.

Something else interesting I find is that China is one of the best sources for finding these early creatures of the bygone ages of dinosaurs. There are places around the globe that are singularly far better places for finding such fossilized bones than others. China being one of the prime places. It's not the only one by far, there is some prime places in South America, North America, Russia, to name a few. But it seems that China has a gold mine in the sense of finding better quality bones and often turning up species we didn't know existed.

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Food / Re: Easy Fruit Cobbler

« on: April 10, 2016, 06:35:02 AM »

I've made that last recipe many a time. My better half saw me typing it up and first thing she said was, "Can we make another one"? Probably all the ingredients are in the pantry to make it. It's some good eating.

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Social network | SEO - Social network / Re: Researchers find that ribose could form naturally in space

« on: April 10, 2016, 06:32:12 AM »

To me the interesting thing is exactly when did it change from chemicals to life. Conditions were not right at the start when the Earth was going through it's cometary bombardment as the solar system cleaned itself up. As you mention there was no oxygen. It took a long time for the reactions and one celled creatures to create enough oxygen to start the plant life. Even then plant life was not as we know it today.

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Social network | SEO - Social network / Re: Metal foam obliterates bullets – and that's just the beginning

« on: April 10, 2016, 06:28:44 AM »

I'll give you a signature on that tomorrow.

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Other topics / Re: Romantic places

« on: April 09, 2016, 11:24:30 PM »

Absolutely a beautiful picture. Thank you for sharing it.

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Other topics / Re: Art

« on: April 09, 2016, 11:22:28 PM »

Construction or deconstruction? That's the question.

This reminds me of some nonsense my mother always used to say which goes like this:

TB or not to be, that is the conception. Can consumption be done about it?

Of cough, of cough.

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Social network | SEO - Social network / Metal foam obliterates bullets – and that's just the beginning

« on: April 09, 2016, 11:17:57 PM »

Metal foam obliterates bullets – and that's just the beginning

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Social network | SEO - Social network / Re: Researchers find that ribose could form naturally in space

« on: April 09, 2016, 11:12:44 PM »

This pushes the idea of Panspermia. Which is to say that creationism believes god did it. Science says there is a possibility that life started from the basic building blocks provided by comets as well as the water on Earth or that the other possibility was some alien life form seeded the galaxy with life.

I tend to think it was the comets. Even there, life has a hard time finding a place to take root. But once it does, it does so with a vengeance. The Earth is permeated with life. From the air, to the lowest points in the ocean, to inside rocks, life is found.

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Food / Re: Easy Fruit Cobbler

« on: April 09, 2016, 10:55:45 PM »

Cobbler is something I never tried before, as far as I remember. Good that there are easy recipes for it.

Then I will give you another recipe I learned many years ago. It's so simple even I can remember it. This is a very old recipe hand-me-down.

Fruit Cobbler

Ingredients

1 stick of butter
1 egg
1 c flour
1 c sugar
1 can pie filling (preferably with fruit such as apple)
1 c milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Melt butter ( I usually use the microwave and just put it in a cup). In a bowl, mix butter, egg, sugar, milk, and flour. Add flour a little at a time so that it all gets mixed in.

Grease a baking pan. Pour mixture into baking pan. Open can of pie filling, and slowly dribble it out as you pass it over the pan in different areas.

Put in oven for 1 hour. Take out, cool, cut into squares for servings.

Note: Most any pie filling with fruit will work but some work a little better than others.

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Food / Re: Baked Eggs

« on: April 09, 2016, 10:42:12 PM »

difference between ham and bacon

Both are different cuts of meat off a hog. Here is a picture diagram which will explain it.

For the rest, I very much respect your multilingual abilities. It's one I don't have. I never could pick up languages. Just something about it I can't wrap my brain around. There are other things I am good at but languages just isn't one of them. I've tried Spanish and German and neither was I successful in getting far enough to be understood.

I feel sort of like Mark Twain, which I will leave as the signature for the day.

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Other topics / Re: Art

« on: April 09, 2016, 08:01:04 AM »

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Food / Re: Baked Eggs

« on: April 09, 2016, 07:12:00 AM »

Ham that isn't called cooked ham is basic raw ham like you would get from the butcher. Cooked ham is normally found in commercial products such as ham steaks where in the process of producing the ham it is precooked to eliminate the liability of the company from law suits where trichinosis is a distinct possibility from raw ham.

It does not have to be processed ham. It can be any ham, even one you have cooked yourself. It's usually the way the recipe says that it's method of preparation will not be sufficient to kill any encysted larval that might be contained in raw ham.

As I have mentioned before much of my recipes come from a wide variety of sources. Sometimes I miss what someone else wrote as a short hand instead of writing it all out. So all-flour is someone's shortcut instead of typing it all out to say all-purpose flour.

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Food / Baked Eggs

« on: April 09, 2016, 03:09:59 AM »

Baked Eggs

Ingredients

3 c (12 oz) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
12 oz fresh mushrooms, sliced
1/2 c medium onion, chopped
1/4 c sweet red pepper, thinly sliced
1/4 c butter, melted
8 oz cooked ham, cut into julienne strips
3 c (12oz) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
8 beaten eggs
1 3/4 c milk
1/2 c all- flour
2 Tbsp snipped fresh chives, basil, tarragon, thyme or oregano
1 Tbsp snipped parsley

Directions

Sprinkle 3 cups cheese in the bottom of a 13x9x2-inch bakeing dish. In a saucepan, cook the mushrooms, onion and red pepper in the butter until vegetables are tender but not brown; drain well. Place vegetables atop cheese. Arrange ham strips atop vegetables. Sprinkle remaining 3 cups cheese atop ham. Cover and chill in the refrigerator overnight.

To serve, combine eggs, milk, flour, chives, and parsley. Pour over cheese layer. Bake in a 350°F oven for about 45 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes.

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Philosophy / Re: Words of wisdom, wise quotes, inspiring words...

« on: April 07, 2016, 09:21:13 PM »

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” ~  Stephen Covey

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. ~ Groucho Marx

"If you're going to go down with the ship, make it a submarine." ~ Wayne Shorter

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' ~ Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. ~ Will Rogers

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.  ~ Author Unknown

Murphy was an optimist. ~ O'Toole's Commentary

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Internet / Re: FUN

« on: April 07, 2016, 07:43:53 AM »

Here are chess and card suit symbols in unicode.

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