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Indeed. By the way, I, like many Americans, did not realize the British regarded it as swearing until I had thoroughly embarassed myself, since the word lacks that connotation in the US. And thus in that manner I was chagrinned. Also, this is why many American writers cannot competently...

John Wesley included the Apostles’ Creed in all services in the Sunday Service Book for the Methodists in North America, and the Nicene Creed and other creeds are present in the 1964 and 1989 UMC Book of Worship. Also, there is the fact that John Wesley was an Anglican priest, and therefore...

To British people, it is considered swearing.

As an amusing aside, the 1951 SF film When Worlds Collide happens to be on YouTube at the moment.

Indeed, I am aware of why nuclear weapons work, and that mass is energy. I did not say “substantially.” I think some fission is inevitable if two planetary masses collide, because it is likely that, among other things, this might cause critical masses to form if fissile elements in each...

A large number of left wing Methodist elders are actively advocating for them to remove the creeds officially, with Rev. Jeremy Smith, owner of the aptly named blog “Hacking Christianity” falsely claiming that John Wesley thought creeds were “weaksauce.”

Indeed. It’s a fantastically bad idea to stand in front of an RF or microwave transmitter.

That said, in the ensuing collision, it seems likely some matter would get converted into energy relativistically, just like with a nuclear weapon. Indeed, if one of the two planets was made of antimatter, you might get a near 100% conversion into gamma rays.* *I have a nagging suspicion...

I would think in rare cases you could potentially have, for a time at least, a binary gas giant with two gas giants of similar mass orbiting each other. Additionally, a small, extremely heavy moon might be able to attract a great deal of atmosphere. At one time, it was thought the gas...

I can’t answer that question as posed without potentially violating site rules on flaming and goading and bashing entire denominations, which I support. Perhaps if you asked a different question, such as what churches, in your opinion, are worldly, I could answer.

RMS Titanic did not have RADAR, which was developed much later, so we can rule that out (and also wireless transmissions were normal). In fact, this is underrated as a conspiracy in terms of its stupidity; I think an argument could be made that this is the single stupidest conspiracy theory on...

CRAB PEOPLE!

The problem here is you are accusing astronauts of lying without sure knowledge. Another elephant in the room is the cosmonauts. If anyone had a vested interest in disproving our space program, it would have been the Soviets. But they have corroborated our accomplishments.

The idea, if you read the article, isn’t to use a maglev, however, but rather a movable track with linear induction motors (which maglevs also use, so it was drawing a comparison). Either way, it is a good idea, since trains in general do not stir up dust the way other vehicle types would...

I see what you did there. Very funny. By the way, there is a local folklore in Southern Calfiornia, which I have heard is also present in some regions of Mexico, about a woman from what one might call a barrio or colonia who lived in a shack built next to a wash, or ravine, or arroyo, who was...

That article is behind a paywall. I only saw the first one, and the one concerning the assassination of JFK. Could you enumerate the other 28 for us?

So actually its not a Maglev as @Apple Sky ‘s post seemed to suggest, rather, it is a design for flexible, movable track using linear induction motors, much like the Peoplemover at Walt Disney World and related Wedway Peoplemovers, which use linear induction motors in series, for example, the...

The instrument unit had the awesome IBM-built computers that controlled the Saturn V rocket during launch, which are separate from the equally awesome Apollo Guidance Computers which were used for navigation to the moon on the CM, and in the LM on descent to the surface. By the way my friend...

There is nothing sinister about this. Some NASA employees work with the USAF, for example at Dryden Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, which I visited once…amazing, but hot! Even for the desert. But Edwards is a paradise for test pilots, since the entire lakebed can be used as a runway, so...

Well that was a humiliating mistake on my part considering I am a systems programmer by trade. But it is good to be humbled on occasion, for this enables wisdom.