show a little respect General...if gunit wants to refer to my estimate...based on evidence....as guesswork then I need to put her in her place. I knew she wouldnt want to answer the question because by doing so she would prove herself wrong.
Could be. But how important is it in the context of an infinite, swirling, expanding Cosmos?
Even if dear G-Unit, she of the incongruous username, who is perhaps the least Gangsta of us all, conceded all points unequivocally, what's gained? A hollow, almost meaningless victory over a faceless, (polite and well-informed) internet foe?
If we consider the aggregate intellectual power at our disposal on this simple forum, then cast that against the impact that collective has....it's by no means meaningless or frivolous, as meaning takes many forms and humans take and use meaning disparately and frivolity is similarly nebulous and subjective; but consider a potential impact wider reaching and more profound than we dare to conceive - a single beam of pure light concentrated through the lens of reason and enlightenment, aimed at the darkest corners, searching out injustice, cutting a swathe through the veil of cynicism. There are no bounds. There are no rules. We are the playing field. We are the consciousness. The negative polarity will be irresistibly and irrevocably reversed, swept up and sucked in to the benevolent vortex and carried along with its own momentum. Religion? Meaningless. god? We are god; sentient and omnipotent; a force so overwhelmingly and incalculably compelling that mere mortal devices are rendered meaningless, resonating through every molecule and every mote that has ever existed or ever will.
......here's Tom with the weather.