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It amazes me how we have devised tools to measure such incredibly small amounts of energy and particles that are released when two larger particles collide. Particle physics amazes me full stop :P

They could be of any religion, the true motives are socioeconomic. Those young people may have had their homes destroyed in a war. Their family, or some of the family, was murdered. They don't have money to get an education, and they can't get employed. On the other hand, a terrorist organisation will promise to pay $5,000 dollars for the "services" to the young man's family as a compensation in the name of "religion". They just happen to live in an area that was historically islamic. They could be any religion; There are krishna terrorists, hindu terrorists, buddhist terrorists... It has more to do with the society than the religion. You don't hear from christian suicide bombers much because the majority of christians live in stable societies untouched by crisis, hunger and wars. What motive would an average christian have to throw away his life for martyrdom? People don't "blow up stuff" for fun. Tens of thousands of 20 year olds who blew themselves up weren't doing it for "fun" or because they were "mad". Those young people were desperate, and possibly angry in the case of Iraq, towards the country who occupied their land and bombed their homes. You have no home, money, family, or a future. What do you have left to cry for, or live for? Why would you fear to martyr yourself when there is nothing left to lose in life? Don't you think those people are rather easily brainwashed by bloodthirsty preachers and rebel leaders? I would disagree. I think most Islamic suicide bombers today do it out of faith, a completely unshakeable, resounding faith in martyrdom. They are brought up in a fundamentalist society, preached to by radical clerics who tell them the same things again and again; to hate the West and to love Allah and be prepared to die for him. The 7/7 suicide bombers were not living in poverty, far from it. They were living in a developed, modern city (Bradford) that was far ahead from where they might have been born in the Middle East. They left behind children, wives, friends and good jobs. They had absolutely everything going for them, and in most cases they were good citizens except they were willing to die for Allah in his name because they were promised a glorious afterlife. Their life was pretty good, yes, but the promised 72 virgins in heaven would seem much more appealing, and they genuinely believed that what they were doing was God's work. Because of their faith, and not socio-economic reasons. Teaching that unquestionable, unshakeable faith is a virtue is the root of a lot of our problems today.

Very exciting project this one, can't wait to see what they'll find out. We know so much, and yet so much remains unknown. I can't believe they even bothered to mention any chance of destroying the earth. It's such a small chance we're much more likely to be pounded by hundreds of meteors simultaneously in some freak occurrence. It wouldn't be a black hole anyway, the primordial black holes that they might create would radiate mass so quickly that they would explode in a fraction of a second. And antimatter is harmless, so it couldn't really be that. I think the sum total of all energy particle colliders have generated over their history is just about enough to light a small light bulb for a few minutes, we're talking miniscule amounts. I think the physicists were maybe speculating that something unknown is discovered that turns out to be dangerous, but as I said, the possibility is pathetically slim.

I'm sure everyone (myself included) would like a little bit more than just your word for it that the Qu'ran says that. A surah reference would be nice, it's a big book to read through.

I've only visited both, but I think i'd prefer to live in NYC. LA might be fun in the summer for a week or two but I could see that I might get bored of it at some point, it's just a huge urban sprawl.

Fundamentalist Christians scare me as much as fundamentalist Muslims. Their actions may not be as spectacular as those of suicidal terrorists but they undermine society in general just as much.

Good, it's a cleverly revealing film. It was a brave move by the bishop.

Isn't the greater revelation not whether or not it actually happened, but that Christianity's "God" is one which practices ethnic cleansing on the huge scale, and we teach our children this?

All Along The Watchtower by Hendrix is a classic and Buckley's Hallelujah is just so heart wrenching for me. To add to those, Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy is a favourite of mine. Ryan Adams did a very good cover of Wonderwall by Oasis that Noel Gallagher used live a few times. The spanish guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela did a pretty good Stairway To Heaven cover, it reflected the song very well whilst still being suitably original. I also quite like the White Stripes' version of I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself.

Listened to the Klaxons a lot on holiday as well.

^^ Ditto 8-)

The third one. I go to an all boys grammar school in England though, and for those of you who don't know what they're like, there's a very macho, homophobic culture, so I know a lot of homophobes.

Yeah, I don't know about protestants, methodist or any other christian denominations, but the catholic church has acknowledged the factual accuracy of evolution a long time ago. Then again, I suppose most christians on tip.it aren't catholic then. The majority of Protestants believe in evolution as well, we simply see it as God's way of getting things done. Unfortunately the flamy flamers represent a small proportion of us, as with all things the smallest shout loudest. Except for those pesky evangelical protestants :P Except, evolution and the whole earth being several billion years old is the much more widely accepted and proven theory. The earth being 6000 years old is a very unpopular theory, so asking people to prove that isn't logical fallacy.

Ah yes, that reminds me how much I love Lamborghnini's as well.

That's it for today.

warri0r, you probably know that i'm with you on this one. :) Korla, you definitely make an interesting point, but I suppose we have to assume that science is the closest we can get to what really is the truth.

It's their life, but if my friends were playing those kind of hours a day i'd probably tell them that they needed to cut back a lot.

On each arm? :shock: guess again big guy its called the barbell curl Definately not each arm :D All the weights I do are weight machines except the stuff i do at home and none of that is over 20kg (only because my weights kit doesn't have anymore weights to put on it). I max out at about 30kg for one arm, haven't really tried for a while. Lol, fair enough then. :P

That bit was surprisingly touching, and they handled it very well.

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Oh, the irony. :roll: You really are ignorant aren't you? It's quite clear that you don't have an interest in science, or indeed any reasonable or logical thought process. There's so much I could say to you, but let me tell you this. I'm a critical, questioning guy. I don't accept things blindly, I don't just accept the facts as truth. That's why i'm not a christian, but nor am I an atheist. But I trust in science, because the facts that have been tested and tested time and time again really are the truth. As i've said before, there isn't much in science that we don't know now, especially about the Earth. If you want to talk about making sense, and loving your neighbour, try posting in a more reasonable style. Living your life and basing your moral decisions on the Bible is fine, but don't try and base facts on a book that's several thousand years old (or indeed all your moral decisions, what about situation ethics?).

Nicholas is Greek, and about the only thing I can remember from Ancient Greek is that my name means victory of the people. (Nik = victory (pronounced "nike") and olas = of the people).

Vice City is the coolest, San Andreas is the most fun. They're about the only games that i'd actually play on my PS2 now if I had to. That and Gran Turismo with mates.

It really does depend on the building and designer. Some modern buildings can look stunning, others look awful. Some old buildings look like they're about to fall down, others are beautiful. Generally though, I think I prefer newer architecture, although not necessarily ultra-modern. Sometimes a combination works well, like a property company in Yorkshire which is developing an old Bradford Mill into modern city centre flats, but still using some of the old features of the mill.

Makes you realise how backward some parts of the USA really are though.