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benwan

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    Comment #4093272

    To enforce the obviously right ones, sure. A la Rosa Parks.

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    Comment #4090215

    Nice! Looks great.

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    Comment #4089878

    Fascinating. The site looks really polished, even the favicon. Good work.

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    Comment #4056870

    But the people who'd review the idea would care about that, so they might refuse to review it as "too nutty". Plate tectonics might have fit into that category, although of course …

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    Comment #4056831

    An "almost black hole" also predicted by Einstein's theory predicts the same observation, as an effect of gravitational time dilation. The non-black-hole theory that fits the evide…

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    Comment #4056824

    There's no resolution in that link. It's still an open issue. All the proposed solutions raise other serious problems, as the link info notes.

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    Comment #4056819

    No, if it was an "almost black hole" as predicted by general relativity, they wouldn't see EM radiation, due to gravitational time dilation. The "almost black hole" might emit a si…

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    Comment #4046463

    Don't forget dark energy, also (like dark matter) invented to fit the observations. How many hundreds of $millions of taxpayer money will be spent searching for it? These invention…

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    Comment #4046452

    That makes the point you're replying to. "The most straightforward explanation for our observations is that these objects have event horizons and, therefore, are black holes." No, …

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    Comment #4046441

    Black holes are not the only theory which fits the evidence we have. Simply add 2M to the first 2 r's in the Schwarzschild metric (the equation used to confirm black holes), and yo…

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    Comment #4046419

    We have logical evidence that contradicts current models, namely the black hole information loss paradox, a real paradox.

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    Comment #4046379

    Here's what really happened: Wells Fargo checked out your income and determined that you'd likely keep paying them 6+% if they said no. Yes you should check out lots of other banks…

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    Comment #4036308

    A decent hypnotherapist can kick-start one. You can visit past lives, future lives, and in-between lives too.

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    Comment #4036291

    Lucid dreaming and related out of body experiences have made me realize that the universe we're in is likely an elaborate illusion. That's because the dreams/OBEs are just as real …