Do You Have a Pet Theory?

A probable pet theory can be drawn like this.

1]Man started engaging animals' service, started taming wild animals to his personal needs like: a cat to catch rats,a dog to alert on enemies/predators,cow for milk,bulls for heavy works,a horse to travel,a donkey to carry and so on.On the process useful animals started becoming permanent pets in man's service.Few people took up fiercive animals for threatening others.Some mams ands papas made household zoos to entertain their kids,posing to be bird lovers literally slaving them under cage.

2]Where human care takers are scarce, some people seek the company of own possessed pets to get love in return.Many people even won't tolerate their dog waving tail to others.Strong possessions and dominations that pets can be easily groomed to.

3]One more craze is ownership of rare speicies, a sense of unique ownwership than others.

4]Last but not the least is the lucerative business on selling pups

MAN THE BEST EXPLOITER OF RESOURCES TO HIS WIFS AND FANCIES.

That is all to my pet theory.

I think if you PET a woman

Like you PET a cat

If its not your wife

You might get slapped

Stroking ANY Pussy, without the full permission of the owner, was always a dangerous Hobby.....

Oh how true it is!

Two pet theories actually:

1. Any DIY project at home is destined to fail - unless you bleed on it somewhere along the line.

2. Were all living in a huge Dyson sphere and NASA knows it. They just don't want to panic us! Just kidding, NASA doesn't know yet either!

From my pal Alpep of Pennsylvania:

A guitar amp sounds best just before it burns up .

My pet therory is the oppisite of Andy Germany's. Whatever the project, take the Tradesmans fee and multiply by 2.5 and you have the DIY cost. The only thing is that the job, when finally complete (about 1000% longer than Tradesman time) is done right, or at least to your satisfaction.

I don't build to save money, I build to enjoy the process.

Love the slogan. If more people felt like this, we wouldn't have any problem with the economy. Our work would be in demand around the world!

You are right, it takes longer and its at least 1000% better.....but I have saved money, I certainly cannot remember a job that was more expensive when I did it......I even did things that "Professionals" refused to do as it was "too difficult", they were the easiest of all......

I have a certain sympathy with the professionals

It is hard enough to get "regular" projects clearly defined and done within schedule, budget, etc.

If one strays too far from the beaten path (e.g. unconventional solutions) one is into "experiments" and they never recover their costs.

So I do experiments myself!

The light in the refrigerator never goes out.

I am just wondering if it is STILL true that "no two zebras have the same stripes" AND what department is in charge of this dynamic analysis....

Well...I'm a borderline case anyway...

so I'll be different and tell about the one that I've had to give up.

I became obsessed back in 1990 about disks rotating really fast, where the tip would move in excess of orbital velocity...I figured this would make it hover..

and I talked to physicists, mathematicians, professors, genii,etc.. even Jorrie, Roger, etc., and no one could make a dent in my conviction...

until July 2007, I met a man who was a consulting engineer specializing in FEA from edmonton.. and as I explained my issue, which normally took 1 hour to detail my hypothesis to anyone... he understood instantly, and told me in 30 seconds why it wouldn't work.. Of course most people I ever told about said it wouldn't work.. but couldn't explain to my satisfactorily the WHY it wouldn't work. (sorry jorrie)

but this guy nailed it. and now it seems so obvious.. I'm amazed at how long it took me to get it.

but, on the bright side, all those years visualizing, has given me other benefits. and understandings of things pertaining to rotating systems.. I did a lot of research on it over the years.. (only to have it violated in 30 seconds.. I was dumbfounded really)

anyway.. now I'm on to other bigger and more exciting obsessions!

Chris

so why doesn't it work?

now as I try to explain it I get confused again..

but basically the object evaluates to a point, and if the object as a whole isn't moving horizontally, then there only vector is straight down, which will make it act as though there is no motion at all horizontally..

but maybe there is no help for it but to do the experiments.. I heard years ago that someone had spun a diamond up to 2 million rpm.. and I have been curious ever since to know if it might have exhibited a change in change in weight.

don't get me started again.. lol

Chris.

I know centrifugal force doesn't exist but its the best way to visualise what's going on.

All the centrifugal forces are at right angles to a line drawn through the centre of the disc and the centre of the earth. The gravitational force is parallel to (straight down)that line.

My pet theory is that when the Sahara briefly became a savannah (around 6000-8000 BC), humans were lured into the fertile grasslands. As the Sahara gradually a became desert again from 6000 BC to 3000 BC, people who inhabited the previously fertile grasslands were pushed gradually east towards the Nile valley. Finally by 3000 BC, the Nile Valley was the only inhabitable region left in North Africa and it was overflowing with people. With all this manpower confined to a relitively small space, the Egyptian Culture exploded, culminating in the construction of the Great Pyramid in 2560.

An Anthropologist told me that humans have only been writing for about three thousand years. I recently had reasons to visit in the archives of a library. Supposedly though Chinese does not have an alphabet, the fact that it has been little altered since invented means no translation is particularly required.

A pet desire of mine is to be able to write on any email service, or any program, without needing to know, or have thrown up in my face ignorance about the "new and improved."

I am ashamed I am monolingual.

It is interesting that a group of people in one time could build the Great Pyramid, and not leave understandable instructions.

My pet theory is driven by a desire to communicate with others who where like me, but have become Big Time Species.

It is one thing to put up rocks in such an unnaturally perfect manner as to make clear, We Were Here, and another to make clear, We Are Here.

The cats I live with say little.

They say "I'm here."

They talk to my wife about food.

I expect that music and imagery in digital form might convey enough information to eyebrained handed sorts.

I suspect somewhere this sort of stuff is floating around.

-entangled?

Transcendian,

It's hard to pinpoint the moment that writing began (though it's an interesting question). Hieroglyphic writing has been around for 5000 years at least. It's interesting that writing evolved from record keeping for commerce in the major early civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. First as symbolic representation of numbers and common trade goods like wheat or fish or tin or copper and then later evolved into phonetic languages like we have today around 4000 years ago.

I'm ashamed I'm monolingual too. If I'm allowed to live long enough, I hope to someday learn Italian or French or something.

The Great Pyramid, although impressive, really is just a pile of rocks. I'm sure instructions were left to the following generations (there were later pyramids after all) but after 4500 years, you could understand how those instructions could be lost. I can't find my DVD player instructions and I've only had it for a year.

You kind of went all "stream of consciousness" at the end of your post there so I don't know how to respond except in the same way, so here it goes:

I have a yellow ball on my desk. It's been with me a long time now, though I'm not sure it's the same yellow ball as before. I pretend it is because the thought gives me comfort.

The problem with ants is they don't do hieroglyphics, otherwise we would, no doubt, marvel at their pyramids.

I don't understand why I can't get a periodic table with the information I need, there ought to be a website that allows you to design your own periodic table. Then I could put the information on it that is actually useful to me and never use it.

At what point did the police become tax collectors? You can't go 30 feet now without passing a speed trap or an inspection roadblock. I feel like I would be willing to just pay the government an extra $50 dollars a month if it meant they'd call off their police fund raisers.

I appreciate your desire to establish communincation with space based big time species, but it seems to me we are not really ready for that leap yet. We have enormous difficulty in communicating with the small time species on our own planet, species that we have quite a lot in common with. We often have disastrous problems communicating within our own species. I think humans didn't consciously invent communication - it is the result of an evolutionary process that is largely beyond our control, like opposable thumbs. We use it every day, and from time to time some brilliant wordsmith will make an incremental improvement, but it is essentially a gift to us, a birthright that we enjoy but over which we really have little control. Until we truly master the underlying logic, imperatives, and structure of communication we will all be just a bit like Paris Hilton; we possess and use a great inheritance which we haven't earned.

We have made some progress over the millenia in 'communicating' with the animals on the planet, but it seems to me that it is much easier for them to understand us than for us to understand them. We can train orcas to leap out of the water through a ring of fire with some human clinging to their backs. We can train dogs to do amazing and complex tasks with voice commands and hand signals. But when my dog comes up to me and rubs against my elbow for attention, I struggle to decipher the message - does he need outside for a leak? Is he hungry? Does he want to go for a walk? Is he just saying hi? Sometimes I think it is the efficiency and complexity of our own language-based communication that gets in the way. Maybe the Zen Masters are correct: if you really want to communicate you need to learn to shut up first.

Integrated circuits are just black plastic with legs... they only work because they have the right number printed on them and you believe they will work .

Once you have doubt...smoke generator.....

I have one other really mad theory, that on day I'll write some software that works first time.... sorry, being silly now.
Del

Cold air sinks.

No, it's not a type of appliance, but I have no idea how to punctuate that statement. Anyway, the common assertion, "hot air rises", is misguided poppycock. In itself, my offering isn't a theory, so I shall add the speculation that it's something to do with mass.

Junk kept in the garden shed/garage will only become useful the day after you get rid of it. Sorry - that one's a fact.

The question, "does my bum look big in this ?", has no answer that wont get you in trouble. "Yes" and you're dead meat, "No" and you're creeping for some reason.

If I set the alarm for something important, I always wake before the alarm goes off. If I don't set the alarm this doesn't happen. My brain can learn more without me thinking consciously.

The question, "does my bum look big in this ?", has no answer that wont get you in trouble. "Yes" and you're dead meat, "No" and you're creeping for some reason.

Not if you are Sir Mixalot then yes is a good answer "baby's got back"

Nice one - I had to look it up ! ()

This video (purported to turn on at least half of the male population if the truth be known) explains it better I feel:-

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/61965/Baby_got_back_uncensored

"I always wake before the alarm goes off"

Don't you mean before the alarm goes on?

I've always wondered about that expression.

LOL - You got me there. Glad I said 'wake' rather than 'wake up' ! Maybe horse can 'wake up' and bats can 'wake down', but I'm usually horizontal when it happens.

pet theory 1

Radio waves have anti gravity properties we have yet to discover or measure

there is no dark matter

Dark matter discrepancy's exist not in uniform dispositions

The discrepancy's increase in metallic systems

these systems exhibits extreme radio wave output, never correlated to this problem, simply a side note to the blind

metallic systems that create these extreme radio wave outputs (we all know how) are generating an bifurcated Field (as all magnetic Fields about a sphere) that has an anti gravity effect on other bodies

this explains the liner disposition of the solar system the gravity/orbital planes is in the groove of the subduction

any small particles caught in the groove between the subductions will be flattened out like a pancake , this explains the rings on gas giants (who have spinning metal cores )

in fact our own asteroid belt is the ring of our sun like the rings of Saturn

this explains why gas giants do not exist inside the asteroid belt

once we relize and harness these forces a mass lighttenting device could create a "warp feild" and a faster than light travel will be possible!

it wasnt zephrem cocrin it was kenny b

you can mail my Nobel prize to spotsart@yahoo.com

aa) I am glad the "off topic" switch is broken in this thread.

bb) I now understand what the phrase "herding cats" means.

cc) Pet theory #1 is the reason planes fly: it is not the low pressure of the faster moving air above the wing sucking it up (relatively) but rather the high pressure air impacting the lower wing surface pushing it upward (relatively).

My pet theory is that there are Two Parallel Universes. I don't claim (as others usually do) that they are absolutely independent. There is in fact an easily provable interchange of particles between them. These particles are not gluons, photons or gravitons: They are just socks. This accounts for everyone's socks becoming rapidly unpaired.

The few attempts to justify that fact through the "Sock Exclusion Principle" (allegedly prohibiting any two socks sharing the same set of quantum numbers) have failed so far, leaving the TPU theory the only able to explain observational phenomena.

Some supporters of this theory go a little beyond and conjecture as well the interchange of other things like key rings, sunglasses, and remote controls.

Depending on the quality, screws nuts and washer. Nails are usually deposited on the sides of roads for tires to accumulate.

There is apparently something more than the Bernulli? Berniulli? effect going on according to Ira Flato? of Science Friday. Certainly the two primary examples are the uncambered wing of some acrobatic planes, and blimbs that fly way out of ballast. As far as Parallel Universes are concerned, once you accept the possibility of two, more is not that far off as possible, as if the universe is actually infinite.

We get to 9.99999 then aye?

P.S. is the great void evidence of universes separated by different speeds for light? If all light is composed of the same things, what would justify a universe where it had a different constant speed? That is just the way it is here? You would think that light is made one way, and therefore would never ever be different. What if no constant is ever really constant? What if Physics, has a virus?

Trascendian,

I devote only Thursdays to science.

Had we the need of wearing three or more socks at a time, I would consider the idea of three or more parallel universes. Having need of an infinite number of socks seems to me a great inconvenience, especially in the morning. (Mine is an anthropic standpoint).

Just in case you are still hesitant, I have to tell you that my pet theory about socks and parallel universes has already been pair reviewed.

Since socks run away, along with tennis shoes we have to face the facts. Socks and tennis shoes have needs and desires beyond our understanding.

You must accept that the socks that run away do not care about your needs.

Of course I may be forced to accept that my other perfect me in the other universe, needs a sock, and the sock conspiracy is not to be trifled with.

As according to the laws of CR4, I am becoming a cat.

Cats do not have days by any title, and all days are the same to a cat.

Possibly some cats, like Bernard do want Sunday to be special, but that is only because atheists sleep when they are supposed to be in Church.

Bernard started eating my wifes dinner the night before last.

Now we are down to three cats. When I met and married we were up to seven, and two cats were on my mind.

Actually there may have been 11 cats in my life. Cats that I knew, who loved me and I loved, and like to hang out with me.

So now because Del the Cat shoots arrows and makes bows, he and his cats, shall set the number of universes that there are. In fact the limit to the number of universes is the number of cats that Del has, skewed by how many cats Del and his wife, channel and communicate with.

Therefore the universe and universes are semi permanent, and semi numbered, and the perfect bow is the thing cats want, that they love, and can't operate.

It is only because Del the Cat can make a bow from the twigs the birds sit on beyond the reach of the cats, that the cats stick around to study him and what he is doing.

Torture files indicate that if you keep a cat from sleeping, it will reveal to you how many universes there are. According to cats there are 11 universes, and then three that they live in, for a total that is either 14, or 9.999. Now then. I have had the need of wearing 4 socks.

Obviously this is why socks run away, for three legs is better if there is a predominate foot.

Since the socks discover that they have pledged to cover a weaker foot, and discovered that birds don't want socks, the sock is duty bound to run behind the dryer, or go off like a sick cat and die. I feel that if we ask the cats how many universes there actually are, they will tell us.

I have strong doubt that any useful information will come from socks.

Tennis shoes are a bit different: they often end up next to main roads in an area where you can't imagine anyone would have stopped. On this side of the pond they quite often end up on the top of bus shelters: I don't know if that's common throughout the world.

I keep getting "invalid reply from server" when I click on the spell checker: do you think it's trying to tell me something?

In the U.S. cities and suburbs, tennis shoes and sneakers will commit suicide by hanging themselves from telephone and power lines. This usually occurs when people don't wash their feet and they can stand it no longer!

I have always believed in the sock monster. Although I have never seen it, I think it lives in the clean clothes basket. All the socks went into the washing machine. I have the mounting pile of odd socks to prove it. ( Maybe I should just wear odd socks to confuse and annoy it. (and the wife. She hate odd socks with a passion.)

I have seen the light and found that the flying spaghetti monster is the one true god!

were did i leave my pirate costume?

New theory: the CR in CR4 stands for Crazy Respondents. Prove me wrong.

I thought it was Closet retards

HOW CAN I???

You just proved that you are right!!!

"CR" stands for Croydon, although "CR4" is more specifically Mitcham. If you want to phone, the UK prefix is 02086.

CR4 is also, supposedly, a file extension.

None of that disproves your theory, but I'm too chicken to go further and blog a blog on CR4.

If your nose runs, and your feet smell, you are probably upside down.

All legend and myth is based in some way in truth.

If it is to be believed that there were many Gods in the past and now there is only one "true" God, then my theory is that thousands of years ago beings from other planets or possibly from an earlier civilization on this planet seeded this Earth with lesser beings as an experiment. Maybe to find their own origins by watching our growth or in an effort to "redo" their beginnings and avoid the mistakes made earlier. Perhaps it was just a bar bet that got out of hand.

In the beginning there were many more powerful beings who roamed the Earth among our ancestors and aided our development, some also were likely to have taken advantage of us by showing off their "superior" abilities. Thus the Gods were born.

Over the next few thousand years these "Gods" began to be seen less and less, as they left the Earth possibly to explore other worlds. Eventually there was only one God remaining. He/she/it parented children within many cultures to carry on the belief of a more powerful "system" being in place for us to follow. It was believed that without a leader and a faith we would perish or follow too closely in their footsteps and make the same mistakes.

Sadly each of these cultures interpreted their God's wishes differently.

And this is why we are as screwed up today as we are!

There is a great deal more to this theory but it would take hours and many pages to get to where my mind is.

Somebody is tweaking the gods, they tweak us, we tweak goo in petri dishes....It goes on and on, until we will eventually find that the sub-goo is tweaking the gods. One big long snake with it's tail in it's mouth, the kleinality of being. The day that somebody dips a finger in their yogurt could be the exact day that the mighty fire-ball arrives. Might not be yogurt, night not be fire-ball, and maybe nobody will notice the connection, but it will happen. Most people understand this at some level, and it's the reason (to avoid blame), that nobody likes to be caught picking their nose. Just like Newton, we all have our heads up our ar**.

If there was (or wasn't) a god, we would have invented him/her.

If the religion wasn't completely FUBAR when it started, it would have been when we finished with it.

And one day every SOB who has incited a war (or just stolen some little old ladies savings) in "his"/her" name has a reckoning coming.

Just my thoughts

"If there was (or wasn't) a god, we would have invented him/her."

Oh no, that brings us full circle.

We invented the ones who made us.

§∏¦↑ are we in trouble?

What happens now that we know that none of us really exists?

What a conundrum.

Do we now "POOF" out of existence and wait for this whole thing to start over?

Will we remember?

Have we done this all before?

Hold me, I'm scared! (and very cuddly)

Well if this is your theory, you are going to love Zecharia Sitchin...

you are kinda close in certain areas to what the clay tablets show, but there is a reasonable probability that they will return. They created us, not monitored us. They combined their DNA (image) with that of the "Man of the Field" (neanderthal et al) and created an Adamus (worker) to mine gold.

They created the zodiac, and the rulership of the earth is based on the house that is current. my personal theory is that the current rulership decided on a laissez-faire policy for this particular term, and forced all the other gods to get off earth for this term.. next term (aquarius), its a whole new ball game.

Chris

Cool, just read up on it. I need to get those books. Nice to know I am not alone in my special insanity.

Thanks Chris

My pet theory is that Murphy is alive and well and has recently been joined by his cousin, O'Leary.

O'Leary's comment on Murphy's law: "Murphy is an optimist".

As a mechanic I am well aquainted with Murphy. I know, for instance, that if you drop something it will usually roll or bounce to the most inaccessable spot in the shop. I know many more but thought you guys could probably add your experience in here.

When you bring all the tools you need to do a project, the one tool you never thought you would ever need is the one that you do need and left behind.

I am a multi level Murphy recipient as I am an inhouse maintenance mechanic and I live by the rules of others that do not apply to real world logic.

That is if there really is a real world?!?!

Try this one:

While driving and talking on your HANDS FREE cell phone, ask a question that requires you to wright the answer. Notice that you will not hit a red light until you reach your destination. But if you pull over to wright it down you will be plagued by every red light imaginable, including those special ones that they put up for construction projects.

I have been blessed to at least have been in some very fine hangars or garages. I was impressed with Richard Pettys' garage.

Aircraft Mechanic I knew never engraved his initials or marked any of his tools.

He was the Chief Mechanic.

Told me: "If one of my tools ends up going through an engine, I don't want my name on it."

My signature line is a bit of hubris really, for I have asked for help, and had that be a wise move on my part.

One time my assignment was to drive a "Deuce" from Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore and GSO with a R2800 engine and a Convair Tailplane.

To save money on fuel I was to carry two 55 gallon drums of gas strapped to the bulkhead, and siphon those into the tank for the truck.

I was allowed to ask for a companion, for the trip, and asked for a mechanic to accompany me.

Outside of Yemmassee South Carolina in a torrential rain I asked my companion, mechanic, if didn't things not smell right.

He agreed.

I pulled the truck over into this little town and got us a motel room.

Next morning, I asked for the closest mechanic, who could check the truck out.

Truly now a beautiful day and truly the place I went to with the truck was a Shadetree sort of place.

The Chainpull engine hoist was on a 6 by six between two trees for instance.

Still I could tell the guy knew what he was about.

The ball bearings had come out of their race on the left wheel spindle.

Had I gone on the spindle would have heated up and broken off.

The left front wheel would have flopped hard off and a R2800 engine would have fallen on the back of the cab, along with 2 hundred and 20 gallons of gas.

Later I was chastised by accounting for paying cash for the repair. P.S. R2800 hundred is an 18 cylinder DC 6 or Convair recip engine that probably weighs 18 hundred pounds. In this case I suppose a Pet Theory of mine, is take somebody with you who knows you're the nut, and when they agree something crazy or dangerous is up, come to consensus, and stop.

Why does a pet need a theory? My cats do not need to speculate on anything. They know my place in this grand universe is to feed them and change the litter box. For without them I am nothing. Occasionally they will permit me to stroke them so they will purr. Well it's time for their exercise program, now where is that red laser pointer?

Have you ever noticed that if you want to fish something out of a hole with a hook or some such on a piece of string it's virtually impossible, and yet if you pick up anything with a cord or lead attached, the lead always snags on something.

Del

Wow - totally missed this excellent observation!

It's why someone invented the cat harness

Hmmm, I've always wondered why a rodent and a cat got along...

......

If pets have pets, do not think that it is another animal.....Many times the "pets pet" is a human....

That shows good character too.....

That shows good character.....

Sounds like Murphy at work there. Maybe we could start a Murphy's Law thread. I'll bet a bunch of disgruntled engineers could fill it up pretty fast.

BTW, If you are disgruntled, does it mean you were previously gruntled?

I think most Science Fiction is actually Engineering Fiction, and should be classified under Eng-Fi !

Eng-Fi is English Fiction?

It should be called weird fiction, what looks futuristic now, when read again in 20 years is just backward weird

Another theory: if global warming is man-made, the SI swimsuit issue (and similar "literature") probably has more to do with it than the burning of fossil fuel.

I'm trying for a unified theory here, starting small and getting smaller. We all know that molecules are linked atoms, and that there is space between free atoms. Therefore nothing is really "solid" per se. That all the entities that make up an atom are vibrational aspects of energy (string/bubble theory). This is about all we can measure or theorize to fit the Unified Field Theory at present.

What is not known, and cannot be known is 'no thing', or 'The Void' as the Taoists would have it. That space between atoms, and the entities of an atom, where nothing exists. It is in those spaces (or no-space, no-time, no-thing), that I believe is where the theoretical 'worm hole', intimately connected throughout the universe 'exists'. It is here that 'Consciousness' resides, and that thought travels instantaneously through it. (Check paired, or entangled photons, and instantaneous behavior).

Here I must pause lest I begin to sound like some kind of religious nut. I am not, although the idea of a cosmic consciousness appeals to me, or that which animates (strings, bubbles, 'The Force'?)

I know that some of you comedians will start chewing on this, so I have donned my Kevlar underwear accordingly. Apologies to you religious nuts. I can't buy a 'Deity"

Nah, everything is just waves of energy. We don't really exist in a physical form at all, it's just an illusion in our illusory minds. Nothing but little ripples in the ether.

"Everything is just waves of energy" I just said that. But the idea that we are an illusion needs clarification. I will use the Alchemists terminology to expound:

Everything begins with an idea, which permeates the Void. The normal route is; Idea, Ideal, Concretion. The idea is made real by "The Laws of Fixation" wherein the ideal is passed on to each generation until the concretion becomes commonplace. A modern analogy is; Idea, Drawing board, Construction crew. This concretion is our "reality", albeit diaphanous as it is. The seed (idea) that grew into the tree, to shape the chair, that the physicist committed suicide on when he realized that the chair wasn't 'there' ..... Well, you get the drift. The tree exists because form follows function, which is the trees case is the exchange of energy between the earth and the ether. "That which is above is like unto that which is below. That which is below is like unto that which is above, to the acomplishment of all things" The first postulate of Hermes Trismegistos. Or as the Christians would have it; "....in Heaven as it is on earth."

Jeesh, I'm rambeling. There's more. What is your function?

What is your function

Tangent, but I do inverse and hyperbolic sometimes

Good for you!