Rational Thinking 101

Making sense of it all - I haven't a clue, though.

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So it's cold in the Midwest. Does that mean global warming is not real?

So it’s cold in the Midwest. Does that mean global warming is not real?

No. It does not.

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Happy New year

Well by the time you read this it will probably be 2019. Happy New year to all of you! From my family to yours, May the New year bring prosperity and happiness!

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What if it rained money?

https://rationalthinking101.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Snapchat-1605923673-1.mp4

Then would we be happy?

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A New Year

Christmas is over and we’re staring down at the nineteenth year in the century about to begin.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Gnome versus KDE Plasma

Gnome versus KDE Plasma

First a pronunciation lecture. Gnome is not pronounced like the garden decoration pronounced “Nome.”

I know. I know. Linux is weird. The Linux/BSD Gnome is pronounced…. wait for it…. wait for it…. Ga-Nome. If you don’t believe me, look it up. Despite many YouTube videos posted by amateurs, it’s not Nome, it’s Ga-Nome.

So this is a comparison between two desktop environments in both Linux…

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Tongue Twisters

From the pen of Wayne Boyd comes three family tongue twisters that I wrote just for you! Read them as slowly as you like, preferably out loud with your friends and family!

1: Fairly Pleasant

A fairly pleasant feathered pheasant flew to Fort Pierce swamps in Florida, which form the ferns that fairly pleasant feathered pheasants find to feed on fish and flies until the pretty…

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Bits and Pieces

Fedora​​

It’s what Linus Torvalds uses. He invented Linux. Rumor has it that he also has used OpenSUSE. He’s put in a good word to Ubuntu for making Debian accessible.

Rude Crude Dude

I sued the rude crude dude with the messed up attitude for being lewd and stealing food. He even did it in the nude! He was in the mood to be booed, that rude lewd crude dude with a messed up attitude!

Walk…

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What direction does the moon move around the Earth?

What direction does the moon move around the Earth?

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but the moon rises approximately an hour later each night. Once every 27.3 days or 29.5 days (depending on your definition of the orbit), the moon completely goes around the earth.

So since the moon rises in our East and sets in our West, but just over an hour later each day, we can deduce that the moon is orbiting Earth from West to East and takes about 28…

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What if we’re just brains in a Jar? One can go on and on wondering about such topics. Kinda reminds me of the Matrix!

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Is the Earth Flat?

Is the Earth Flat?

You can find many conspiracy theories on the Internet.

One such theory is that NASA has been lying to us all along. They are hiding the most shocking truth from all of us: the earth is really flat.

In this video, the late Stephen Hawking sets some people to investigate whether the earth is flat or not. Here’s what they found.

In case you ever wondered.

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What are humanity's chances of making it beyond our universe?

What are humanity’s chances of making it beyond our universe?

I suspect your question is beyond our solar system, but it could also mean beyond our Milky Way Galaxy… however, when you ask “beyond our universe,” it’s a whole different story.

So let’s take it one by one.

Beyond our universe.   Not very likely unless you believe in multiverses and reincarnation. Beyond our galaxy   Also not very likely due to distances. We can’t even reach our nearest stars.

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What makes you stay with an Operating System example (Windows, Mac, Linux)?

What makes you stay with an Operating System example (Windows, Mac, Linux)?

I’ve stayed with Linux for over 20 years. I don’t do Windows because I just do not like the threat of virus infection and the inability to customize the desktop like I can in Linux. I also don’t like having to go to various websites to download software that I have to trust. We never download software from other sites on a Linux system. I don’t do Mac because of all the proprietary software.

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Has science and the scientific method eliminated the possibility of any God as the master designer of our collective existence?

Has science and the scientific method eliminated the possibility of any God as the master designer of our collective existence?

Some would say yes was the correct answer to this question. I would say science still leaves plenty of room for mystery. Perhaps God and the spiritual plane exist outside the material universe as we know it. Perhaps the multiverse theory entertained by astrophysicists could include a God beyond the realm of our one universe.

In Hinduism and offshoots of Hinduism, for example, there is a…

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If a nuclear bomb were detonated in space, what would happen to the radiation?

If a nuclear bomb were detonated in space, what would happen to the radiation?

It happened already. Several detonations in space were tested by both the United States and the Soviet Union between 1958 and 1962.

The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that resulted damaged electronics in Hawaii and New Zealand and, according to Wikipedia, “fused 300 street lights on Oahu (Hawaii), [and] set off about 100 burglar alarms…” It also cut off the telephone system on other Hawaiian…

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Where are space aliens most likely to live on Earth? Washington, D.C., without question, next to NYC, of course.

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Is it true that the Oumuamua is an alien spaceship or is it a conspiracy theory?

Is it true that the Oumuamua is an alien spaceship or is it a conspiracy theory?

It’s not a conspiracy theory, although it is probably not an alien spaceship.

The idea that it might be an alien spaceshipdid, however, come up in scientific circles when it was observed to be moving slightly differently than expected after its slingshot around the sun. Scientists did listen for any kind of radio wave emissions that might be coming from it, although other plausible…

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What are the best tools to use to conceive of a fictional world?

What are the best tools to use to conceive of a fictional world?

By Earl Wajenberg, worker at Siemens Extrapolation and the stew-pot.

Use extrapolation to take some real fact or situation, or someone else’s fiction, and extend it in some direction until it looks interestingly different. This is how a lot of science fiction works.

Even more important is the stew-pot. The stew-pot is the vast and randomized collection of ideas we all inherit from our…

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