The Electronics Universe

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
    28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God\'s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

NEWS FLASH!  (using the same logic) The Parthenon in Greece was built by SPACEMEN!  (obviously – since historians don’t know their methods)

How did the Athenians construct their mighty temple, an icon of Western civilization, in less than a decade—apparently without an overall building plan? How did they manage to incorporate subtle visual elements into the Parthenon\'s layout and achieve such faultless proportions and balance? And how were the Parthenon\'s builders able to work at a level of precision (in some cases accurate to within a fraction of a millimeter) without the benefit of modern tools? "We\'re not as good as they were," Lena Lambrinou, an architect on the restoration project, observes with a sigh.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/parthenon.html

Who knows what other things the spacemen might have built?  Maybe the magician Houdini was one of them because he did things that are unexplained today.  If WE (who represent the most intelligent beings the world has ever produced) cannot explain it, then these things were obviously done by supernatural powers or by an outer-cosmos, incredibly advanced race of space travelers!   :music334:

First of all, intelligence is not evolving.  If you will look at the typical high school textbooks of around 1820 – 1860 you would discover that today’s student with a bachelor’s degree in science would have a difficult time with much of the material.  Let’s face it folks… the average man in previous centuries was significantly more intelligent than most people today.  Do not confuse technology with intelligence.  Just because you cannot understand something, let’s not assume that people in earlier centuries were intellectually challenged too.  We are DE-volving.

We were created by God.  We have not continued to improve through time.  We are not evolving into more intelligent and healthier beings.  Quite the opposite is true.  We are now suffering from an increasing number of “hereditary” diseases that Adam, Eve, Seth and Daniel never dreamed of.  AND we are not getting any smarter either.

1) This article is by a scientist looking at intelligent life from the standpoint of evolution.  (improbable)

http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/services/units/mac/comm/media/press/2008/apr/homepagenews/Is%2Bthere%2Banybody%2Bout%2Bthere%253F

2) The other considration is that life was created here by God and that He may have created life elsewhere.  (improbable or at least irrelevent)  If He did, He has not chosen to tell us anything about it.

Here\'s the rest of the story of Sputnik I, mankind\'s first artificial satellite:

http://thebeatmuseum.org/sputnik.htm

Were there nefarious characters in the Air Force that worked with KDAY radio to plan a ruse to acquire the remains of Sputnik?  Can you trust a beatnik?  Ask Maynard G. Krebs or Gerald Lloyd Kookson, III if beatniks are on the level.  You may not understand their answer.  Forever an unknown, like the Kennedy Assasination, Mary Jo Kopechne’s death and the Sam Sheppard incident of the one-armed man.  Who knows what evil lurks?  But we have the remains of Sputnik as evidence.  Truth is stranger than fiction!  :eyepop:

As we graduated from Go-Karts to 348 tri-power Chevies, we all had to have a cool set of wheels.  I remember a friend of mine had "Hell on Wheels" painted on the side of his \'56 Ford.  It got away from him one night and he took out about 600 feet of board fence.  The car was \'totalled.\'
 
Some of us guys were hanging out at the old Super 98 station when he came walking into town one evening and Eddie yelled out at him, "Well, I guess you\'re hell on shoes now!"  :icon_lol:

Check it out:

http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

Video of a dispute on a wire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxwz-BUWZBs

I have recently loaded CentOS onto my other computer and am running it as a Gnome Workstation.   The installation went smoothly but I have a learning curve ahead of me mastering the UNIX based file system and command line operations.

If you are beginning LINUX as I am, I’d like to offer my condolences to you along with this tutorial link:

http://lowfatlinux.com/

Also, here is a glossary of terms that will help you to find a place to begin your educational journey:

http://kb.iu.edu/data/glos.html

Come learn with me and I’ll cheer you on (for those lightbulb experiences) and maybe you can show me some pointers.  Right now, I’d be happy if I could just learn enough LINUX to back up my hard drive.

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