Consider the sentence:

Is there a technical term for that use of "why"? I've googled 'declarative why' on a hunch but no dice. Anyone know?

Don't think so because if A then B is a statement not an argument. It's not like A is the premise and B is the conclusion.

Edit: However, A is a premise and B the conclusion of the valid argument A, if A then B |- B, and if A and B are both false then this argument is unsound.

I'd go with Discourse marker but would not argue with anyone who wanted to just call it an Interjection.

And now that I bother to look it up, Merriam-Webster says it's an interjection. Cheers.

One chapter in space exploration have come to an end

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Yah sure.

anyone have a taper off measuring stick: 1 beer equals one day of sadness/happiness kind of thing minus cardiac arrest???

you ever feel like you are going to breathe yourself into nabakov's nightmare? short barely legal breaths.

Why is August hotter than June when June gets more sunlight?

It takes time for the climate system to heat up. Snow melts, the land dries out, the rocks heat up to a depth of a few meters, the ocean and lake surfaces take weeks to warm (and coversely, to cool down).

Basically the same reason that both the air temperatures and roads/rock walls are hottest in the early to late afternoon, well after the sun has peaked. Just on a seasonal scale.

Screw you ping. I wanted to answer that question.

Everyone in grad school/finished grad school, check out student life for my pole. poll.

Here you go: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/67...-week-1076876/

stfu zoltan

What is an anagram of Banach-Tarski?

Ransack Habit

A Brackish Ant

Ashcan Bra Kit

Why do you ask?

this link will help you understand the spoiler AIF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%...Tarski_paradox

Ah, I see. .ees I ,hA

Hypothetical situation

A giant comet is observed moving rapidly through the oort cloud along the outer edges of the solar system. It is catalouged with a number along with any other asteriod or comet. It continues to get closer and 5 years later it is on a collision course with neptune. Even more shocking is the irregular movement of the object and that it appears to be a giant fish. It is assumed that it is of course not biological in nature but a wave of curiousity causes its collision to be the number one topic in astronomy circles. The object appears to be larger than neptune!
Instead of colliding with neptune, neptune is "consumed" by this object.
a wave of panic sets in. amatuer astronomers can now easily see the fish like features of this supossed comet. Hubble even detects something that appears to be gills which is ridculous because this giant "Fish" is traveling through space and came outside the heliosheath. still thats what it appears to be, a giant fish monster. The fish then eats saturn and it's moons like they are leftover crumbs from a satisfying meal. Now the news begins to focus on this and widespread panic spreads throuhgout the world. It cannot be scientifically explained(as of yet) what the **** this thing is or how and why it would consume these planets and how it could possibly be converting planets into energy in it's theoretical digestive system. It then eats jupiter. what appears to be eyes are visible. It continues to come closer to the sun. there are visible scars all over it's apparent body that resemble meteor impacts and sunburn. It is now visible clearly as a giant fish with the naked eye and eats anything in comes into contact with. It is heading deeper into the inner solar system.

Whats humankinds play?

What % chance would you assign to Aliens building or at least assisting in the building of the pyramids in Egypt?

~350%

What would be the aliens' motivation for interfering with earth civilization like that, then leaving?

Who said they have left......dooo do dooo do

Great quote by a great mathematician

Israel Gelfand

subconscious categorization skill acquisition

Albert Einstein

Who's buying is of much greater interest

'Everything is light'

This is my philosophical explanation of everything. It is apparent. What is apparent is only apparent through the existence of information transproting somehwere through the medium of light, wether it is an infra red sensor, a taste, a thought, a sight, everything is observation on some level, of energy. Observation includes something being relative to something else. Such as a place containing energy being relative to a void where there is no energy- however then this disutes time because what if there was energy in this place 10 seconds ago? What is 10 seconds ago relative to?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aWB...eature=related

anyway this fFeynman dude was asked a question on this, and this was his answer, basically mocked the question. But I wonder what you guys think?

Also mod would it have been ok to make this a thread?