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Originally Posted by whackadoodle1

The expansion of the universe, however, will not continue indefinitely. There is more than enough evidence from doppler scans that the outward movement of all matter is, in fact, slowing down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

According to redshift measurements made about ten years ago, the expansion of the universe has been SPEEDING UP for about the last five billion years. It is this increase in speed which led to the notion of the existence of some kind of large-scale diffuse anti-gravity which we currently call Dark Energy.

Originally Posted by Always the Quiet One

1) We are a lost colony of the colonizing species. Perhaps there was a great galactic empire that has since broken down, maybe our ancestors were exiled and given one use ships that dissolved and seeped into the earth as crude oil.

They'd have to have brought all of the ancestors of modern animals and plants with them as well, and these animals and plants would have had to replace ALL of the previously existing species, because all of the life that we can currently identify is clearly genetically related to us and to each other--unless you want to invoke the idea that by some incredible coincidence our extra-terrestrial ancestors were 99% genetically and biochemically identical to the life that was already here.

Originally Posted by Prof_Sai

I like the shuffle because you can use it without looking at it, or even taking it out of your pocket. You won't realize how nice this is until you've used one for a while.

I prefer my Nano. My problem with the Shuffle is that you have to remember in your head what tracks you have put on it, and what order they are in, since there is no display to tell you what's on it. Your only alternative to remembering is to scan through all of the tracks one by one, if you care about finding a specific track.