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Is complexity an argument against design?

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02-02-2006 10:33 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by macaroniandcheese
02-02-2006 10:21 PM

no, salt forms PILLARS. read your bible, silly.
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02-02-2006 10:54 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by smokeyvw
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Re: signs of (intelligent) life
it has been formally suggest before that the an appropriate message signifying intelligent origin is an equilateral triangle. something about the unity of mathematical beauty, and the fact that it does not occur in any precise form in nature. i'm not sure that latter bit is true, but the argument wasn't made by me.
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probably not coincidentally, one of the original planned shapes for the iconic monoliths of 2001: a space odyssey was a tetrahedron (a perfect equilateral triangular solid). in the end, they went with a 1:4:9 rectangular sold -- the proportions representing the first three perfect squares.
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i'm not sure either is definitive proof of intelligent origin, but it's certainly better than anything id has to offer.
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04-16-2006 11:00 AM 		Reply to: Message 12 by DominionSeraph
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Re: signs of (intelligent) life
If I remember correctly, there's something about Lagrange points that forms an equilateral triangle.
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i thought there were only two lagrange points per orbit? i might be wrong...
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04-18-2006 3:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 17 by jar
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Re: signs of (intelligent) life
Yup, wrong. Here is a map for the Lagrange Points for a two body system.
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are the three on the actual orbit still equilateral with real-world elliptical orbits?
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What you were likely think of was that two are stable while three are unstable.
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probably. i think i only remember the two stable ones...
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