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/eclipse/

Indeed. But the evidence for a Big Bang cosmology is pretty compelling.
There are very few die hard Steady Staters remaining these days.

Depending on what you mean by that. There are plenty who believe that
the universe is continuously expansing and then falling in on itself in
an unending cycle of big crunches ans big bangs.

Some of these ideas can be ruled out observationally. Unless you invoke
a perverse deity to tweak things around on an ad hoc basis. One nasty
world model invokes demons whose job it is to decide on surprising
answers to any new questions that experimentalists decide to ask.

Quite. I'm one of them.

The dark matter, BTW, is bound up with string.

It is just so much more appealing to have the laws of physics the same
for all observers in an inertial frame of reference.

You *DO* believe that Einstein was right, then?

Multiverse conjectures allow for spanning all possible universes but
with only the interesting ones really showing up. A bit like the way
wave propagation of light simplifies to geometrical optics when viewed
at the larger scale.

However, in that case, we demons can't exist.

There are also some who posit continuous creation/generation of matter
at the centre of the universe, and yet others who maintain that by means
of a contorted space/time continuum what goes out of the fringes appears
to be coming in through the centre...

Anyway, how come the universe doesn't rank a capital letter, and
Belgium does?

I would refer you to HHGG

That only explains why it is sometimes followed by an exclamation mark.

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Oh, Christina, you're being very polite but - this person does this sort of
thing all the time because it's the only way he can get attention. He
starts absolutely ridiculous threads on things of no importance or relevance
and he does that a lot. Any minute now he'll tell you about what happened
on his last cruise!
He has a 'thing' about newsgroups being 'led' by a select number of people.
It's been going on for years and years and it's infinitely boring. What he
really means is "nobody's paying me any attention". He's the Violet
Elizabeth Bott of urg and many unfortunate other groups, I'm afraid.

Hardly - Violet Elizabeth had to make herselth thick...

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:20:12 +0000, Jeff wrote:
Sacha wrote:

Oh, Christina, you're being very polite but - this person does this
sort of
thing all the time because it's the only way he can get attention. He
starts absolutely ridiculous threads on things of no importance or
relevance
and he does that a lot. Any minute now he'll tell you about what
happened
on his last cruise!

Ha! I was wondering why he hasn't bored us with that yet.

Some of us assumed he spent the cruise in the toilet suffering from
salmonella
poisoning.

Well, I think he's on one now, and suffering from the winter vomiting bug.

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from Sacha contains these words:

Oh, Christina, you're being very polite but - this person does this sort of
thing all the time because it's the only way he can get attention. He
starts absolutely ridiculous threads on things of no importance or relevance
and he does that a lot. Any minute now he'll tell you about what happened
on his last cruise!
He has a 'thing' about newsgroups being 'led' by a select number of people.
It's been going on for years and years and it's infinitely boring. What he
really means is "nobody's paying me any attention". He's the Violet
Elizabeth Bott of urg and many unfortunate other groups, I'm afraid.

Hardly - Violet Elizabeth had to make herselth thick...

Oooooh!
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South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

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from Martin contains these words:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:04:24 GMT, Rusty_Hinge

wrote:
The message
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:20:12 +0000, Jeff wrote:
Sacha wrote:

Oh, Christina, you're being very polite but - this person does this
sort of
thing all the time because it's the only way he can get
attention. He
starts absolutely ridiculous threads on things of no importance or
relevance
and he does that a lot. Any minute now he'll tell you about what
happened
on his last cruise!

Ha! I was wondering why he hasn't bored us with that yet.

Some of us assumed he spent the cruise in the toilet suffering from
salmonella
poisoning.

Well, I think he's on one now, and suffering from the winter vomiting bug.

Looking quite flushed in a small way.

Right round the bend, anyway.

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Doing an Ian Beale snorkel?

Who he?

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:26:19 GMT, Rusty_Hinge

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Doing an Ian Beale snorkel?

Who he?

Ease Tenders. Famous for having his head flushed in the Vic's toilets.

Oh. No telly here - and if there were, Eastern Derrrrrrrs wouldn't be on
- ever.

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That`s a big question.....my garden was mainly laid to waste by weedkiller, but I don`t think that will be the case for the whole planet! There are so many factors involved here, it could be a man made problem, climate change could be the end of all living things...although I expect the changes we are seeing to some degree are partly a natural occurence and not completely manmade. We could see a catastrophe on the scale of whatever wiped out the dinosaurs. We may even be wiped out by an alien with a death ray, thats kinda my favourite....but I don`t doubt that at some point the planet will die, everything dies. Look at our neighbour, Mars (the planet), that`s probably the future. Who knows. What`s your theory?

Who knows. What`s your theory?

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Plopstar

Hardly a 'theory', more a thought, and it's not mine but the one I have
heard which I favour.

The Sun will draw us in and we will become fuel.

Don't wait for warmer Summers ;-) It's a long wait.

Mike