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[BrightShinyGirl]

The religious teachings are wrong about the origin of the universe.

Hydrogen atoms fuse when they’re smashed together fast enough. Too slow and electrostatic repulsion makes them bounce off each other.

Fusion bombs use inertial confinement. Their fission bomb primary heats up the lithium secondary so fast the lithium atoms don’t have time to ricochet away.

In a star, gravitational confinement keeps the hydrogen atoms tightly packed, when they bounce off each other they can’t go very far without hitting another tightly packed atom. With trillions of collisions per second, a few will succeed in triggering a fusion reaction, releasing energy.

More energy means faster-moving atoms in the star’s core which are more likely to fuse with neighboring atoms — a chain reaction.

Eventually the star settles into a steady state with a continuous fusion reaction at its core. (This is happening in our sun right now).

After millions of years the waste products of fusion, heavy elements, like carbon, oxygen, iron, and gold build up in the core.

Ultimately this triggers a supernova, destroying the star and dispersing these heavy elements, which billions of years later will coalesce through gravity into solid planets and living creatures like you and me.

More about the mechanism behind supernovas

When a star is burning normally, the fusion reaction at it's core inflates it, driving much of the remaining hydrogen fuel into its outer shell. This is the state our sun is in currently.

But eventually the fuel runs out. When all the lighter elements have been fused into iron the fusion reaction stops. The resulting drop in pressure causes the outside shell to fall inward, creating a shockwave as it bounces off the iron core. This shockwave disperses the outer shell.

What remain afterward depends on how big the star was to start. A medium-sized star leaves behind a neutron star--a superdense sphere of pure neutrons. (Since they don't have a static charge they can be packed more densely than normal atoms).

Bigger stars collapse into black holes. We don't know exactly what's inside a black hole. Their gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. It might just be a big neutron star, or some form of exotic matter like a quark-gluon plasma.

The real universe is so much cooler than fantasizing about fairies and dragons.

 

[TastySuckToy]

The religious teachings are wrong about the origin of the universe.

No religion or religious belief has even proposed a logical reason for invoking some god, never mind producing convincing evidence.

 

[HisArpy]

More about the mechanism behind supernovas

When a star is burning normally, the fusion reaction at it's core inflates it, driving much of the remaining hydrogen fuel into its outer shell. This is the state our sun is in currently.

But eventually the fuel runs out. When all the lighter elements have been fused into iron the fusion reaction stops. The resulting drop in pressure causes the outside shell to fall inward, creating a shockwave as it bounces off the iron core. This shockwave disperses the outer shell.

What remain afterward depends on how big the star was to start. A medium-sized star leaves behind a neutron star--a superdense sphere of pure neutrons. (Since they don't have a static charge they can be packed more densely than normal atoms).

Bigger stars collapse into black holes. We don't know exactly what's inside a black hole. Their gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. It might just be a big neutron star, or some form of exotic matter like a quark-gluon plasma.

The real universe is so much cooler than fantasizing about fairies and dragons.

Except for you all your google fu, you STILL haven't said what initially started the whole cycle...

Is it because you don't know and can't figure out how to word the question correctly so AI can feed you the information?

Or is it because you hate dragons as much as you hate yourself?

 

[Saint_Ann]

No religion or religious belief has even proposed a logical reason for invoking some god, never mind producing convincing evidence.

Genesis kinda talks about it.

 

[ll74]

Genesis kinda talks about it.

The old testament has some strange shit. Most christians need it because of the gay parts

 

[TastySuckToy]

Genesis kinda talks about it.

Stories can say and claim anything.

My point was, I've never heard a single claim or proposal for any god that doesn't refute its own claim.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Except for you all your google fu, you STILL haven't said what initially started the whole cycle...

Is it because you don't know and can't figure out how to word the question correctly so AI can feed you the information?

Or is it because you hate dragons as much as you hate yourself?

We don't know what existed before the Big Bang. Attributing creation to a god doesn't help, because that just raises the question: "What created the god?"

Where did your Christian God come from?

 

[HisArpy]

By that standard, you should be convinced Anakin Skywalker and his galaxy far far away are 'real'.

I'm a huge fan of that fictional universe. I'm just not gullible, which is what you're trying to argue for.

Star Wars has never been touted as ANYTHING other than fiction.

Dragons, however, have been listed on maps, are part of historical stories, and exist as icons in multiple religions and geographical areas.

Trying to equate the 2 is a false dichotomy.

Get back to me when there's actual evidence.

As I said, there are historical accounts which ARE evidence. That you personally choose to disbelieve those accounts is on YOU, not the evidence.

Basically you're refusing to believe your own lying eyes.

I'm well aware humans can conjure up all kinds of fictional concepts, ideas and routinely interpret real evidence in absurd ways.

That's why it's the only rational response to demand evidence and reason for things.

Now you've got me wondering how you explain dialects, social mannerisms, differing religions, and all kinds of other things have ZERO rational basis other than "we've always done it that way."

I mean how fucking dum is it that Brits can't pronounce the letter H except as an individual letter spoke as "Haeche" for no rational reason at all.

Yet here you are demanding RATIONAL PROOF behind something supported by myth/lore/folk tales.

I wonder how Plato/Archemedies/DaVinci/Michelangelo/Newton/Einstein feel about that.

"This was written down in a lot of places" is not convincing evidence for anything. There is multi decades of lore for things like Star Wars that millions, possibly billions know about. That doesn't change the fact it is pure fiction, and I will generously presume you don't believe Anakin Skywalker and The Force are real because you could acquire stacks of multimedia about the lore.

There is no "lore" about Star Wars. Show me a legit star map which puts it somewhere in the actual universe.

Remember, the maps which include dragons ARE REAL MAPS, not something made up in Hollywood to sell to fools like you.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The old testament has some strange shit. Most christians need it because of the gay parts

Most Christians are over the gay stuff. That's mostly relegated to extremest Christians, Catholics and all Muslims.

 

[HisArpy]

Genesis kinda talks about it.

He's an idiot who has decided that his personal ego is bigger than reality.

AI runs on SOFTWARE platforms but HE says there's no software involved. It's like he doesn't understand what "machine code" is while telling everyone that he's a software engineer.

Maybe he needs to go back to computer school and retake basic binary coding.

 

[ll74]

Most Christians are over the gay stuff. That's mostly relegated to extremest Christians, Catholics and all Muslims.

Most tolerate it.
Most aren't over it.

 

[Saint_Ann]

We don't know what existed before the Big Bang. Attributing creation to a god doesn't help, because that just raises the question: "What created the god?"

Where did your Christian God come from?

She rode in on a dragon from another dimension.

 

[HisArpy]

Most Christians are over the gay stuff. That's mostly relegated to extremest Christians, Catholics and all Muslims.

And leftists.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Most tolerate it.
Most aren't over it.

Not everyone appreciates a good butt fucking. Lol.

 

[ll74]

Not everyone appreciates a good butt fucking. Lol.

That's why people insult others with gay jokes. It's a way of coping without admitting their bigotry fully.

 

[HisArpy]

Not everyone appreciates a good butt fucking. Lol.

I think elle elle does.

 

[ll74]

I think elle elle does.

Good example here

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Star Wars has never been touted as ANYTHING other than fiction.

Dragons, however, have been listed on maps, are part of historical stories, and exist as icons in multiple religions and geographical areas.

Trying to equate the 2 is a false dichotomy.



As I said, there are historical accounts which ARE evidence. That you personally choose to disbelieve those accounts is on YOU, not the evidence.

Basically you're refusing to believe your own lying eyes.



Now you've got me wondering how you explain dialects, social mannerisms, differing religions, and all kinds of other things have ZERO rational basis other than "we've always done it that way."

I mean how fucking dum is it that Brits can't pronounce the letter H except as an individual letter spoke as "Haeche" for no rational reason at all.

Yet here you are demanding RATIONAL PROOF behind something supported by myth/lore/folk tales.

I wonder how Plato/Archemedies/DaVinci/Michelangelo/Newton/Einstein feel about that.



There is no "lore" about Star Wars. Show me a legit star map which puts it somewhere in the actual universe.

Remember, the maps which include dragons ARE REAL MAPS, not something made up in Hollywood to sell to fools like you.

Here's a 1515 map that shows the New World being attached to Asia. No dragons though.

When did North and South American split off from China?

 

[Saint_Ann]

That's why people insult others with gay jokes. It's a way of coping without admitting their bigotry fully.

It's an acquired taste. You seem super sensitive to bigotry. Are you a gay, black, Muslim?

 

[Saint_Ann]

I think elle elle does.

Anything to not be labeled a bigot.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

She rode in on a dragon from another dimension.

Who created that dragon?

 

[ll74]

It's an acquired taste. You seem super sensitive to bigotry. Are you a gay, black, Muslim?

Are you drawn to bigotry? Is it your guilty pleasure?

 

[Saint_Ann]

Who created that dragon?

Mommy and Daddy dragon?

 

[HisArpy]

Here's a 1515 map that shows the New World being attached to Asia. No dragons though.

When did North and South American split off from China?

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I bet you don't believe Pangaea was real either.

 

[ll74]

Anything to not be labeled a bigot.

That guy right there needs Leviticus. Makes his jokes aligned with his god.