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Fmoshermw

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Okay. Think I’ve had enough for the day
Might not be the fastest but it would actually work. Modern sailboats' sails are really more like airfoils. They produce a component of "lift" that can almost always be propulsive. Just a matter of putting it at the best Angle of Attack for the forward speed and wind speed conditions at the moment. Those giant "wings" sticking up on that artists' conception are likely computer controlled to always have them at the optimal AoA for propulsive force. Best guess on average speed in the open ocean would be like 10 KT. Compare with like 24 KT for a cargo or cruise ship.

An auxiliary power plant (not unlike on a sailboat) would be needed to maneuver in/around ports and docking. The long haul across the sea would all be an energy freebie and clean.

Sorry-Aero Engineering degree kicking in.
 
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Might not be the fastest but it would actually work. Modern sailboats' sails are really more like airfoils. They produce a component of "lift" that can almost always be propulsive. Just a matter of putting it at the best Angle of Attack for the forward speed and wind speed conditions at the moment. Those giant "wings" sticking up on that artists' conception are likely computer controlled to always have them at the optimal AoA for propulsive force. Best guess on average speed in the open ocean would be like 10 KT. Compare with like 24 KT for a cargo or cruise ship.

An auxiliary power plant (not unlike on a sailboat) would be needed to maneuver in/around ports and docking. The long haul across the sea would all be an energy freebie and clean.

Sorry-Aero Engineering degree kicking in.

Cool. But that isn’t what I rolled my eyes at.
 

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“Has anyone provided proof of God’s inexistence? Not even close. Has quantum cosmology explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here? Not even close. Have our sciences explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life? Not even close. Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it is not religious thought? Close enough. Has rationalism and moral thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and what is moral? Not close enough. Has secularism in the terrible 20th century been a force for good? Not even close, to being close. Is there a narrow and oppressive orthodoxy in the sciences? Close enough. Does anything in the sciences or their philosophy justify the claim that religious belief is irrational? Not even in the ball park. Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? Dead on.”
― David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
Why would anyone bother to try and prove the NONexistence of a character in a fairy tale? Have you ever tried to prove the nonexistence in a tooght fairy or an Easter bunny? Why would you even imagine that scientists would bother?

Proof is the burden that rests on the shoulders of the person who makes the assertion. Since religious people are making the wild assertion that a magic genie lives in the sky, the burden of proof rests on THEIR shoulders. After 1000s of years of such silly assertions, not one time has ANY proof been provided. I wonder why? Hmmm...
 

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Why would anyone bother to try and prove the NONexistence of a character in a fairy tale? Have you ever tried to prove the nonexistence in a tooght fairy or an Easter bunny? Why would you even imagine that scientists would bother?

Proof is the burden that rests on the shoulders of the person who makes the assertion. Since religious people are making the wild assertion that a magic genie lives in the sky, the burden of proof rests on THEIR shoulders. After 1000s of years of such silly assertions, not one time has ANY proof been provided. I wonder why? Hmmm...
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Why would anyone bother to try and prove the NONexistence of a character in a fairy tale? Have you ever tried to prove the nonexistence in a tooght fairy or an Easter bunny? Why would you even imagine that scientists would bother?

Proof is the burden that rests on the shoulders of the person who makes the assertion. Since religious people are making the wild assertion that a magic genie lives in the sky, the burden of proof rests on THEIR shoulders. After 1000s of years of such silly assertions, not one time has ANY proof been provided. I wonder why? Hmmm...
"There are false Gods so there must be no God"

Yikes

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Yah but the braindead sheep want it and vote for it.
Not realizing they are voting for a slow painful death by starvation. When you remove fossil fuels, and this has been graphed, (The population BOMB began with fossil fuels and Foreign Aid)
Fossil Fuels provide the energy for tractors, combines, trucks trains, ships etc to ship food locally and globally.
Fossil fuels propelled the Green Revolution in agriculture globally.
Fossil fuels are used to make, fertilizer, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.
With out fossil fuels the population will die back to approx 1840 levels globally approx 1B people or less.
Farming and transportation will be back to animal and human muscle power. That was all we had before 1840 approx. Oh and we did have wind and water power. But mainly used for sail boats and grinding grain etc.
 

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Why would anyone bother to try and prove the NONexistence of a character in a fairy tale? Have you ever tried to prove the nonexistence in a tooght fairy or an Easter bunny? Why would you even imagine that scientists would bother?

Proof is the burden that rests on the shoulders of the person who makes the assertion. Since religious people are making the wild assertion that a magic genie lives in the sky, the burden of proof rests on THEIR shoulders. After 1000s of years of such silly assertions, not one time has ANY proof been provided. I wonder why? Hmmm...
This always amazes me. I don’t need to prove anything to you. You just have to decide if you will do the research. It should be easy to pick apart Jesus and the resurrection if it were a fairytale.

I’m reminded of the folks that don’t believe in God but believed in the Higgs Boson long before it was proven at CERN - a Higgs Boson/the God Particle weighing approximately 126 GeV was observed. Before that event? Physicists believed in it because they could see glimpses of it in matter. But they could not prove it. And nobody questioned them and said - that’s a fairytale! Prove it to me!!! That’s how God is in our lives. Can I prove it 100%? No. But, I can see glimpses in my life.

Proof enough.
 
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