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  1. The launch tower has a concealed gigantic fly swatter the swats your rocket into you VAB doing 100% damage. I launch a tiny space probe form a factory around kerbin thar sends out a signal playing the stars and stripes
  2. Granted, but the probe comes back and tells you that you are screwed but then self destructs before he tells you why, the last image is of rod serling laughing. I wish ISS had an attached space factory that could build stuff, like green houses, and small earth orbiting satellites, the cannae drive.
  3. Not press button, got fed upnwith steam and removed it from my computer. Button.. You get a brand new car or truck but its in a color you cannot stand.
  4. Banned for overcrowding sigline.
  5. Shouldn't this go in games? @Vanamonde Anyway why not the Argos If it cost the taxpayers too much we coukd call it "The Golden Fleece".
  6. Very little survives the late heavy bombardment; however, there is some hope with the thinning of the permafrost and the peat bogs in central canada you can have some old life layers but only along the littoral stand, not on the exposed surface. But the brecca and neogenic chert within other formation might inform on the actual RNA potency, but not RNA or DNA themselves. There is a saying about DNA, dry and cold, lots of reducing agents, unless you have trapped gas layers in the older formations, RNA does not survive. This is relativley independent of the sugar moeity. The nucleotides are susceptible to oxygen free radicals. Cytosine undergoes deamination, the prcense of any kind of microbes, even at a distance will result in degradation. Even at the top and bottom of oil formations you have the enzymes capable of degrading RNA. There is DNA inside your bone and teeth that survive the lifetime of the bone or tooth that resultred from apoptosis in the ontology of every complex eucaryote, be that as it may the ambient fluids in a wet environement, even slighlty moist and the presence of microbes connected to that environment, even long dead microbes suffice to degrade polynucleotides after a few 100,000 years.
  7. points down into the bottom of the dead sea. This ground based state-of-the-art space science lab . . . . . . . .
  8. I cheated the aliens out of their navigation system, replaced it with a system with a cheap naviagtion-like display plastic sheet, they fly strait into kerbol, cursing you to their homeworld revenge seeking mother ship as they cried out in agony. I now wish the previous player to attack the next player (make a wish and have it horribly corrupted).
  9. In game theory, the D stategy completely turns the war into one of stealth attacks, subtrifuge. Of course when the opposing sides behaves like mob rule, its an effective strategy. You have to have a mindset to do it from the start. I should point out another game theory stategy is to have UTC loaded next to the game, and to figure out which UTC second most closely corresponds to the minute timestamp break point and then only submit changes on the time stamp so that no matter what the opponent posts your post will always be the last one in the time bracket. Its kind of like card counting in Vegas.
  10. Banned for being latinophobic
  11. There is a huge section of rock that extends from the rocky mountains up into new foundland and northern canada that is as old as life itself. There are a number of geoloigc formations in the northern US wher yoiu can basicall y travel down for the GEO into basically primordial earth. For example it has the owiyukuts, Red creek quartzite, Jesse ewing formation, uinta mtn formation, Farmington canyon complex, all of which are precambian and some are preprot. You get alot of this stuff on the wyoming utah border, its an interesting drive to say the least, the rock goes from yellow to ,' blood red' The difference is that in Canada alot of this stuuf is buried under ages of silt and highly stabilizing peat formation, as you get close to yellwstone you get both uplift and surface compression. The phosphoria firmation old itself is phosphorous rich sedimentary rock that was dislodged and separated from other components and resedimented, along with permian fish bone and other components. In areas its 420 meters thick, so that represents a pretty large area of preferential phophate deposition and recollection. According to the local posting close to UTah some of the embedded basalt and was as old as the plate itself, so it had a breccia composition, the originating formation is long gone. But larger amounts are early shalestone, the type that they are producing shale gas from in parts of the us. Obviously this is not neogenic methane, so its much older than cellular life. It helps in see this stuff to be old, and take it slow, i can sit for about an hour driving and need to stop and the best places are the state run info rest stops. The scenery in this region is spsctacular particularly in a evening sun you get these fantasic reds and alternating red/green layers.
  12. I think that there were many parallel prebiotics. But first. . . . . . . RNA stability in a testube with no minerals,mgeneral in a treated DPHC water source, in a lab, where you can plop it in a minus twenty degree freezer is not like being in a world with all kinds of chelatable ions, clays, sticky thing stabilize RNA sometimes and many times it makes the polymer bond less stable, certain structures more likely to be cleaved. Highly durable RNAses are not just produce by one species here and there, species produce many kinds of RNases and a great many produce highly stable RNAses. Some of the most 'ancient' are combinations of RNA and small polypeptides. There is one particular critter that is going to be a real problem with RNA. The logic here is that free phosphate has a problem, we can see the problem olong the coast of Florida, in natures it exist at very low concentration of sea water, not just any sea water, but sea water that has abundant plant life. Very quickly phosphate goes down, but not by bioaccumulation. During a primative sea there would have been alot of partially reduced metals . . . . . copper I, iron I and II. The only metals that become fully oxidized are sodium, magnesium, etc. Sulfite/sulfate/sulfide was also not so oxized.. But the moment the cyanobacterium start fixing CO2, redox rises, then local phosphate concentration starts to drop, sulfate concentrations rise. Phosphate is a trivalent ion, heat it up to about 60'c and it pretty much precipitates on anything except the monovalent cations. So that free soluble phosphate drops around photosynthetic redox potentials, and where the worlds greatest phophate reserves, such as in UTah, are found before the GOE. These cyanobacterium can fix nitrogen if it disaapears, but not phosphate, they require phosphate in the ppb range to fix nitrogen, this is probably and evolved efficiency, in ancient survival required recycling linked phophate. and as you see large outbreaks of cyanobacterial nitogen fixation are wholey not good for other life forms, their nitrogen forming cysts are filled with some of the most toxic organic known to eucaryotes. When they went through the local sensitive biotypes, of course they are going to chew up RNA from the dead organisms for phosphate. So right within one phyla you have a virtually perfect sustained block for any new RNA based life from ever developing, RNA nor phosphate is stably available at the concentratins required for life to form up until humans arrive and produce sustained agriculture. Yeah,msure volcanoes belch it out from time to time, huge dieoffs can create conditions were its stable, but not long enough for life to evolve. There is a scenario whereby cyanobacterium killed off all life, and blocked eucaryotes from evolving. But fortunately for us archaean were very diverse, and the predator can become the prey, Eucaryotes split the role of phototrophs and quelled the big cycles. Not only ridding the world of RNA based nonvirals but both DNA bearing alternatives. As we know however archae can live in very bizarre circumstances including places where those poisons are not stable. So once archean communities get established with stable DNA inheritance, the cyanobacterium cannot kill them off, and you see the rise of obligate commensal communities. But that actually defines the problem. When we talk about evolution and when we specifically talk about a transition between a probable bioneogenesis and evolution that can be monitored via paleontologicalnand molecular cladistics, we are talking about the natural history of the Earth and not the natural history of any other world, maybe without a comparable in the universe. Using our particularly flaw observations of that process, including my own errors, does not ultimately dissolve the critical problem, we dont know well our early natural history. When we combine that and an observation of one, not just sentient, but complex living world, and only one, which we, the one, are trying to create a statistic, we begin either ignoring our existence in the universe, or biasing like hades the argument. I am not an advocate of my knowledge, I have presented many links i disagree with. I revert to Socrates, we don't know what we think we do . Everything else is a pretext to speculation. Science is about the process.
  13. I did not know that god ate spam, I know now, great oricle of the green man's star, dres is god poop!
  14. Nope you cheated, cheater @cubinator is this what you originally wanted?
  15. Actually it was posted before the end of the first round, and actually if you read between the two post you will find the i mention the problem directly once and indirectly another time. The basic problem is that i got worn down after a time by all the impulsive, don't look back posting, certainly I should have been more documentative. I only considered the issue that the game should be default once the first revert resulted immediately into, as a real time observer, a trashed game. My metric then was the positives collectively (but not individually) did not deserve to win the round as they cared little about the rules. I want to play, not be a third grade English teacher. It is somewhat unfair to ask one person on the opposing team to keep up to try to neutralize 6 or 7 players on the opposing team and keep up with all their faults simultaneously. I mean one could take the strategy of the snitch, and just let them run up the score and at the last post basically start throwing out faults, but us negs also put forth some decent runs at night, being respectful of the rules. I you run a fault throwing strategy, the the runs you have with allies will be all for not, so there is that psychological barrier. The other problem is that notification tagging on the ipad is strainedbecause one cannot scrool down the listing, so for instance it took me about 10 minutes a while ago to get a hyoerlinked notification tag for The White Guardian, if the post came with a static time stamp on all OS then its alot easier, but if you are in the middle of a run-up, by the time you get three tags, write the message you are going to be many posts away from where you noted and the 2 minutes ago, will now be like 12 minutes ago. I get it, no le hace, because the fault trumps everything that was done, but it is an immediate change in strategy.
  16. The most important thing that you forgot is, unsurprisingly, that @The White Guardian forgot my LIKE! _______ Pandering, as _____________ the first Tues of November will approach ______ ___________.
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