JelloChex

iTrader: (6)

"You know what? It doesn't matter. Because in your heart you know, that the juice is worth the squeeze. That's what moral fiber's all about. "

saqwarrior

Imhotep would be a better choice for that:

"As one of the officials of the Pharaoh, Djosèr, he designed the Pyramid of Djoser (the Step Pyramid) at Saqqara in Egypt in 2630–2611 BC[9]. He may have been responsible for the first known use of columns in architecture. As an instigator of Egyptian culture, Imhotep's idealized image lasted well into the Ptolemaic period. The Egyptian historian Manetho credited him with inventing the method of a stone-dressed building during Djoser's reign, though he was not the first to actually build with stone. Stone walling, flooring, lintels, and jambs had appeared sporadically during the Archaic Period, though it is true that a building of the Step Pyramid's size and made entirely out of stone had never before been constructed. Before Djoser, pharaohs were buried in mastaba tombs."

Superglue WRX

^^^^

This is why my license to bring people back from the dead has been revoked.

Irish_car_B0mb

iTrader: (3)

I would liek to bring that dead hooker back i have buried out in the backyard... she was pretty good

Irish_car_B0mb

iTrader: (3)

you are such a d-bag, just stfu iloqin, you are so ****ing one sided. if someone told you the sky was really green and everyone else thought the sky was green and we had 10000000 facts proving the sky is green , you would still say its blue because someone told you that they found facts they heard from someone, that the sky might be blue.

everytime you post something that you say is fact and no one has proven otherwise, someone is always able to post somethign against yoru argument, we are all sick of watchign you kill threads.

you have no idea if jesus existed, all you know is you have read what someone didnt believe in that no records from historians of the time cited him at all. there si al whole group of peopel that can argue otherwise. god dammit just shut up!!

brucelee

iTrader: (6)

iLoqin, you seriously need to stop with your anti-religious stuff... We got it the first time, and the 45th time, we don't want to hear it the 563rd time.

And I'm not even religious!

c32c7

iTrader: (1)

I would bring back Steve Irwin and go on a crocodile hunt.

Pactin

iTrader: (12)

+1 for Nostradamus, I'd like to ask him what he meant in his predictions, and possibly ask him to predict future events

vodka

Albert Einstein, no question about it.

Superglue WRX

He gets way too much credit. No doubt he was brilliant, but he stood on the shoulders of mathematical giants to do what he did.

brucelee

iTrader: (6)

That's true, and Da Vinci was faaaar more brilliant than Einstein could ever wish to be.

I can't imagine what Da Vinci would be capable of if he was alive in our time. Imagine if he was the head engineer for Subaru and was in charge of designing the Impreza, making it powerful and efficient as possible, we'd have a car that has 600hp, weighs 2500lbs, and gets 56mpg.

saqwarrior

Way too much credit? I think you underestimate the paradigm-shattering nature of relativity. We would not know a vast majority of what we do know were it not for Einstein's revelations. You can thank Einstein for our understanding of modern physics. Without him, we wouldn't understand the true nature of mass and energy (E = mc2), he explained that electromagnetism was a single force (special relativity), he explained what gravity is (general relativity), the very nature of reality (space-time in general relativity), how light functions (photons and wave-particle duality), set the foundation for quantum physics, and so on, and so on.

Also, diminishing his contribution by saying that he relied on prior work is a logical fallacy. All of science is built upon previous layers of the works of geniuses.

This strikes me as a very subjective statement which can't be substantiated; Da Vinci was an inventor and an artist, Einstein was a physicist and a humanitarian. Comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges.

And didn't you study physics of some kind for a while? I seem to recall you having more than a passing interest in it -- I'd expect this kind of comment from someone who doesn't really have any knowledge of physics.

If anything, Einstein is under-appreciated by the world at large, as evidenced by these posts.

We'd have that now if the auto industry weren't in collusion with the oil industry.

Superglue WRX

Thanks for the E=MC^2 since I've never heard of it before.

The concept of relativity already existed. Nearly all the pieces of the puzzle for this theory were already in place before Einstein. He just happened to find that the speed of light was constant which also happened to be the final piece of the puzzle.

He made key contributions to existing theories and commonly gets credited for the entire theory themselves. Again, brilliant man, but gets too much credit.

saqwarrior

Sources and proof, please. If what you say is true, then the entire scientific community is living a lie. Which "existing theories" are you referring to? And "happened to find .. speed of light was constant"? He came up with the idea of the cosmological constant and mathematically proved it in a time when there was no ability to conduct physical experiments on such things -- yet you make it sound like he just stumbled across that info in a Reader's Digest one day.

Since you're so sure, it should be no problem for you to provide names and examples of the scientists and theories you keep referring to.

I get the distinct feeling that you just heard about all this from some random source one day and took it as truth. From your usage above, it doesn't even sound like you understand what relativity is in the context of physics -- which I don't mean as an insult, there's no reason you would know unless you studied it.

Superglue WRX

Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology
By Max Jammer

This book touches on the subject, however it is intertwined with the philosophical side of his work. Einstein found the constant that tied previous theories together and proving them.

I don't have time at the moment, but the theory of relativity does have a timeline of the work of other physicists. Technically the basic concept dates back to Newton, Einstein's addition of a constant ironed out the flaws to make it near perfect.