hehe:D

How much money do you need, Max?
And what are you doing to get it?

Got any pics of the RC Car?

i made my first batch of black powder, from scratch, when i was 12. just saying. really.

LOL! there is some truth to that, actually!

again, rick, it was really cool talking to you on the phone. we need to meet up.

Yes, that Rick is a fine chap. :)

That sounds like fun D, I am going to make sure my tool boxes are locked first. :)

oh, i get in enough trouble with my own limited set of automotive tools.

I rest my case. :)

maybe, with your automotive tools and mine, this wouldn't have happened. there would have been so many possibilities that it would have gone full circle.....

Dude, I use REAL shop rags

don't make this an epistemological discussion! :D

No worries about that, I can't even spell epistemological

how does wikipedia.org know what epistemology is?

How does anyone know what it is? How can it be defined for certain in a way that removes all preconceived notions and biases?

that's the spirit!!!

And furthermore, does anyone really know what time it is? :D

Really, I mean is there "absolute time"? One clock says this, another says that, but who is right?

Does time really exist or is it just an illusion?

Does the universe divide time into discrete steps, like fundamental particles, that cannot be divided further? Is that why the derivative and integral in calculus work?

And how are space and time linked? Why is the speed of light so special, and what set that speed limit?

And most importantly, how can we ever know if a posited answer is correct if we are always observing through some sort of "lens" be it figurative or literal?

you left the reservation, when you started in on 'time'. here is why:

time is, in whole, a construct of the human mind. our mind only uses time to make sense of our experiences.

time really has nothing to do with epistemology.

and, no, time is not divided into discrete 'steps'. that is a famous paradox (based on a fallacy):

Zeno's Paradox of the Arrow

as for light.... it just is. no entity set the limit. it just is what it is.

with that thought, i am off the bed. good night.

Yes, instantaneous velocity. A vector that cannot exist without either a before or an after in addition to the now. And with both the vector can be two different things thanks to acceleration, a vector requiring both a before, now, and after but existing only at a now. So time is a continuum?

Those astrophysicists have their Plank times as the smallest step. But that is defined by the finite mind of mankind. The finite fails to comprehend the infinite. But the infinite hath born the finite.