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they are like ants, if one comes in your house you wil never notice. If a thousand come in your house 1 at a time and spread out you will never notice. After you get 11 million in your house it's too late to stop them and suddenly you are over run with ants eating your food, and generally messing up your whole way of life. Now your choice is either move or clean house and use drastic measures to eliminate the problem. They want our country and the only way to invade the USA is one at a time. If they came all at once we would see it and do something right then, but if they slip in one at a time who cares or notices untill it's too late. You cant be mad at them for doing it, but you can be mad at those letting it happen. I think we should be allowed to line up at the borders as volunteers and have a defined kill zone, if people come into it they must want to be killed. This would be a free service to the American Govt. as you know there would be plenty of volunteers with their own guns and their own ammo bought at their own expense.

HELLDRIVER!!! those were some funny ass pictures!!! I like the kid with the jesus doll on the cross, that is the shit!!!!!!!! :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao:

If your gonna race get a twist!! end of story!!

87 pages and you fruitcakes are still arguing about god!!!You need to start a new topic, this was supposed to be abot a stupid book and the reaction of all the bible thumpers freaking out cause it says jesus was married and had a kid. I wouldnt be suprised if this thing makes 100 pages!!!!!

What do you think of this set up? IRS Rear I would like to do it, but $3400 is a bit steep!!

HOLY SHIT!!!! 60 pages!!!!! I missed a shit load of stuff, but dont need to read it since I already know what it says. I cant belive this thread lasted this long. Oh well just shows how far religous folks will go to try and prove what they belive despite all the shit that will be talked and lack of concrete proof. Got to respect their resolve no matter how rediculos the subject.

castrol GTX 20W50 will work like a champ, and he can sve on the oil filter too by using a bosch3300 or fram TG6607

once again I say as long as your riding it's all good, it's not what type of racing you do it's that you show some sportsmanship and not cry and whine and bitch and moan like babies. That is what the main thing I am getting at is, if it's all old farts dragracing why do we see so many acting like little kids?? Good natured ribbing is one thing but out right crying and bitching is stupid!! And for the record old farts can do other things besides drag, I'm 34 and there are older people desert racing that I cant catch!!

not putting down dragging, just all the crying and whinning that goes along with it. And if you think it takes a huge amout of skill to drag race try getting off flat ground for a while and your banshee will show you where you are lacking in skill when it throws you off. I said ALMOST no skill to drag, there is skill involved for sure but 95% of the sport is what the machine can do.

yeah I guess so :beer:

Who really gives a sh!t?????? It's fun for about 3 min then it gets old and boring. I have beat people and people have beat me. What does it really say about anything?? It takes ALMOST no skill to do and can be learned very quickly, and if you got a lot of money you can be the fastest around. So what if you have a bunch of money, that dont say sh!t about your skill as a rider. what does drag racing prove if you do all your own work? 1) do you really know how to put your bike together? 2) do you know how to tune you bike right? 3) do you know how to match up performance mods to work together? thats about it, all of which can be learned with enough pratice. So it still doesnt mean much other than you have more time into it than someone else. Anyone can get good at doing all that is required to drag race given enough time and money. I just find it funny how much trash talking and feelings get hurt over drag racing when it dont mean sh!t!! And for those who will say sounds like someones been getting spanked, your wrong, but who cares anyway if I was, I dont. If you want to drag race me thats fine I will take on anybody, but my "drag race" track is 75 miles long and takes about an hour and half to get to the other end so be ready to ride a little more than 5 sec!!!!

Wide-Open Racing got a new forum for desert racing, and what ever else, mainly focused on NMDRC events and people but free to who ever!!

You all should take this more seriously!!! Dont forget what happened back in 47, when Mack Brazel found a weather ballon!! The govt will go to extremes to cover up anything!!!

welcome back Brooke!!!! NOW SHOW US YOUR TITS!!! :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao: I couldnt resist, I know a fellow smartass such as you can respect that!!

Anybody know who makes a better frame for the raptor? I used to see them back in the day in the mags, but now all you see is the 450 stuff. I tried looking around the web but only found a few subframes, so what gives? I have already had to weld my frame in 5 places so I want to go to a chromoly frame and not worry about it anymore. Any help would be appericated.

They wont be dissapointed, they will just be dead, it wont suck or they wont feel like they wasted their time, they just wont exisit anymore. Thats why I live how I want now, cause when your time is done thats it, so better enjoy it while it lasts!!!

I translated your post into redneck just incase: I've been reckonin' about th' comment made earlier about an eye bein' too complex t'have evolved, cuss it all t' tarnation. It is an interestin' thunk but fo' thet matter how did all of our senso'y systems develop? How did bats develop their sonar systems? ah find it hard t'believe thet this hyar stuff c'd haf developed fum a trimenjus bang, purdy amazin' eff'n it did, cuss it all t' tarnation. And into moron: I'be been dinkigg bou' the, errr, commin made earlieh bou' an eye beigg too c'plex t' habe ebolbed. It is an innerestigg dought but f' dat matteh duh, how did all of our sensory syssems debelop, duh...uh...? Duh, how did bats debelop deir sonar syssems, duh...uh...? I find it hard t' beliebe dat dis stuff cudd habe debelopid from a big bang, uh uh, pretty amazigg if it did. And Jive: I've been dinkin' about da damn comment made earlia' about an eye bein' too complex t'have evolved. It be an interestin' dought but fo' dat matta' how dun did all uh our senso'y systems develop? How dun did bats develop deir sonar systems? ah' find it hard t'recon' dat dis stuff could gots developed fum some big bang, fine amazin' if it dun did. Oh what fun it is to mess with this website!! check it out replys are gonn be changed for ever!! the link

Ok so here is the deal, 2002 Raptor 660 +4 rear axle and +1.5 swinger, works great. The front is bone stock with the exception of the shocks being YFZ shocks. So when I put on the shocks the front sit's a little lower and it spreads out the arms so the width is close to the rear, probally only a 1.5 to 2 inch differance in total width. It seems to handle great and track very good, but the stock ball joints and arms in general are getting close to the end of their life. So I have heard the the front should be a little more narrow than the rear for optimal handling? Is this true? If so then the set up I have is good as far as width, but I would like an adjustable front end with heim joints for strength. I am gonna have the YFZ revalved when I get around to it, but I was wondering if it would really be worth go to +2 on the arms or not. I cant afford to get different shock nor do I want to since these work very well. Any suggestions on what to get or what to do???

It directly contrdicts some forms of Creationism, and fits in a little with others. which one do you refer to as your belief? CREATION Flat Earthers Geocentrists Young Earth Creationists (Omphalos) Old Earth Creationists (Gap Creationism) (Day-Age Creationism) (Progressive Creationism) (Intelligent Design Creationism) Evolutionary Creationists Theistic Evolutionists Methodological Materialistic Evolutionists Philosophical Materialistic Evolutionists

from what it's made of atoms. You are the one who keeps making the worm analogy, we didnt come from worms. We have our own path of evolution that ultimatley will end in atoms coming together to form molecules. Inteligent design is riduclus. If god is an intelligent something, it's made of something, so where did that something come from? If god exists it consists of something, and it did not manifest it's self from nothing. If it consists of nothing then It does not exist.

if you take a sperm cell and burn it you kill life, but more important you are re-arrangeing the atoms it is composed of. Now given enough time, why couldnt those atoms come back together to re-form the sperm cell. very simple to understand how it works. It doesnt take much for life to create it's self, mostly just time. Again I reiterate. An Open Letter Concerning Religion and Science We've reached our goal of gathering 10,000 clergy signatures. The next step in our campaign is outlined here. See below to endorse the following letter Click here to learn more about the "Clergy Letter Project" Within the community of Christian believers there are areas of dispute and disagreement, including the proper way to interpret Holy Scripture. While virtually all Christians take the Bible seriously and hold it to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice, the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook. Many of the beloved stories found in the Bible

That is the most riduclus explination I have ever heard What is Evolution? Copyright

how come if you drop a handfull of coins, some land heads up and some tails up?

the random mergence of atoms over time forming molecules , and those merging to form more and more complex things. That is the simple answer. Here is a more complex answer. The first replicating molecules were most likely RNA. RNA is a nucleic acid similar to DNA. In laboratory studies it has been shown that some RNA sequences have catalytic capabilities. Most importantly, certain RNA sequences act as polymerases -- enzymes that form strands of RNA from its monomers. This process of self replication is the crucial step in the formation of life. This is called the RNA world hypothesis. The common ancestor of all life probably used RNA as its genetic material. This ancestor gave rise to three major lineages of life. These are: the prokaryotes ("ordinary" bacteria), archaebacteria (thermophilic, methanogenic and halophilic bacteria) and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes include protists (single celled organisms like amoebas and diatoms and a few multicellular forms such as kelp), fungi (including mushrooms and yeast), plants and animals. Eukaryotes and archaebacteria are the two most closely related of the three. The process of translation (making protein from the instructions on a messenger RNA template) is similar in these lineages, but the organization of the genome and transcription (making messenger RNA from a DNA template) is very different in prokaryotes than in eukaryotes and archaebacteria. Scientists interpret this to mean that the common ancestor was RNA based; it gave rise to two lineages that independently formed a DNA genome and hence independently evolved mechanisms to transcribe DNA into RNA. The first cells must have been anaerobic because there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. In addition, they were probably thermophilic ("heat-loving") and fermentative. Rocks as old as 3.5 billion years old have yielded prokaryotic fossils. Specifically, some rocks from Australia called the Warrawoona series give evidence of bacterial communities organized into structures called stromatolites. Fossils like these have subsequently been found all over the world. These mats of bacteria still form today in a few locales (for example, Shark Bay Australia). Bacteria are the only life forms found in the rocks for a long, long time --eukaryotes (protists) appear about 1.5 billion years ago and fungi-like things appear about 900 million years ago (0.9 billion years ago). Photosynthesis evolved around 3.4 billion years ago. Photosynthesis is a process that allows organisms to harness sunlight to manufacture sugar from simpler precursors. The first photosystem to evolve, PSI, uses light to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) to glucose. This process releases sulfur as a waste product. About a billion years later, a second photosystem (PS) evolved, probably from a duplication of the first photosystem. Organisms with PSII use both photosystems in conjunction to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) into glucose. This process releases oxygen as a waste product. Anoxygenic (or H2S) photosynthesis, using PSI, is seen in living purple and green bacteria. Oxygenic (or H2O) photosynthesis, using PSI and PSII, takes place in cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria are closely related to and hence probably evolved from purple bacterial ancestors. Green bacteria are an outgroup. Since oxygenic bacteria are a lineage within a cluster of anoxygenic lineages, scientists infer that PSI evolved first. This also corroborates with geological evidence. Green plants and algae also use both photosystems. In these organisms, photosynthesis occurs in organelles (membrane bound structures within the cell) called chloroplasts. These organelles originated as free living bacteria related to the cyanobacteria that were engulfed by ur-eukaryotes and eventually entered into an endosymbiotic relationship. This endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic organelles was championed by Lynn Margulis. Originally controversial, this theory is now accepted. One key line of evidence in support of this idea came when the DNA inside chloroplasts was sequenced -- the gene sequences were more similar to free-living cyanobacteria sequences than to sequences from the plants the chloroplasts resided in. After the advent of photosystem II, oxygen levels increased. Dissolved oxygen in the oceans increased as well as atmospheric oxygen. This is sometimes called the oxygen holocaust. Oxygen is a very good electron acceptor and can be very damaging to living organisms. Many bacteria are anaerobic and die almost immediately in the presence of oxygen. Other organisms, like animals, have special ways to avoid cellular damage due to this element (and in fact require it to live.) Initially, when oxygen began building up in the environment, it was neutralized by materials already present. Iron, which existed in high concentrations in the sea was oxidized and precipitated. Evidence of this can be seen in banded iron formations from this time, layers of iron deposited on the sea floor. As one geologist put it, "the world rusted." Eventually, it grew to high enough concentrations to be dangerous to living things. In response, many species went extinct, some continued (and still continue) to thrive in anaerobic microenvironments and several lineages independently evolved oxygen respiration. The purple bacteria evolved oxygen respiration by reversing the flow of molecules through their carbon fixing pathways and modifying their electron transport chains. Purple bacteria also enabled the eukaryotic lineage to become aerobic. Eukaryotic cells have membrane bound organelles called mitochondria that take care of respiration for the cell. These are endosymbionts like chloroplasts. Mitochondria formed this symbiotic relationship very early in eukaryotic history, all but a few groups of eukaryotic cells have mitochondria. Later, a few lineages picked up chloroplasts. Chloroplasts have multiple origins. Red algae picked up ur-chloroplasts from the cyanobacterial lineage. Green algae, the group plants evolved from, picked up different urchloroplasts from a prochlorophyte, a lineage closely related to cyanobacteria. Animals start appearing prior to the Cambrian, about 600 million years ago. The first animals dating from just before the Cambrian were found in rocks near Adelaide, Australia. They are called the Ediacarian fauna and have subsequently been found in other locales as well. It is unclear if these forms have any surviving descendants. Some look a bit like Cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and the like); others resemble annelids (earthworms). All the phyla (the second highest taxonomic category) of animals appeared around the Cambrian. The Cambrian 'explosion' may have been a result of higher oxygen concentrations enabling larger organisms with higher metabolisms to evolve. Or it might be due to the spreading of shallow seas at that time providing a variety of new niches. In any case, the radiation produced a wide variety of animals. Some paleontologists think more animal phyla were present then than now. The animals of the Burgess shale are an example of Cambrian animal fossils. These fossils, from Canada, show a bizarre array of creatures, some which appear to have unique body plans unlike those seen in any living animals. The extent of the Cambrian explosion is often overstated. Although quick, the Cambrian explosion is not instantaneous in geologic time. Also, there is evidence of animal life prior to the Cambrian. In addition, although all the phyla of animals came into being, these were not the modern forms we see today. Our own phylum (which we share with other mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and fish) was represented by a small, sliver-like thing called Pikaia. Plants were not yet present. Photosynthetic protists and algae were the bottom of the food chain. Following the Cambrian, the number of marine families leveled off at a little less than 200. The Ordovician explosion, around 500 million years ago, followed. This 'explosion', larger than the Cambrian, introduced numerous families of the Paleozoic fauna (including crinoids, articulate brachiopods, cephalopods and corals). The Cambrian fauna, (trilobites, inarticulate brachiopods, etc.) declined slowly during this time. By the end of the Ordovician, the Cambrian fauna had mostly given way to the Paleozoic fauna and the number of marine families was just over 400. It stayed at this level until the end of the Permian period. Plants evolved from ancient green algae over 400 million years ago. Both groups use chlorophyll a and b as photosynthetic pigments. In addition, plants and green algae are the only groups to store starch in their chloroplasts. Plants and fungi (in symbiosis) invaded the land about 400 million years ago. The first plants were moss-like and required moist environments to survive. Later, evolutionary developments such as a waxy cuticle allowed some plants to exploit more inland environments. Still mosses lack true vascular tissue to transport fluids and nutrients. This limits their size since these must diffuse through the plant. Vascular plants evolved from mosses. The first vascular land plant known is Cooksonia, a spiky, branching, leafless structure. At the same time, or shortly thereafter, arthropods followed plants onto the land. The first land animals known are myriapods -- centipedes and millipedes. Vertebrates moved onto the land by the Devonian period, about 380 million years ago. Ichthyostega, an amphibian, is the among the first known land vertebrates. It was found in Greenland and was derived from lobe-finned fishes called Rhipidistians. Amphibians gave rise to reptiles. Reptiles had evolved scales to decrease water loss and a shelled egg permitting young to be hatched on land. Among the earliest well preserved reptiles is Hylonomus, from rocks in Nova Scotia. The Permian extinction was the largest extinction in history. It happened about 250 million years ago. The last of the Cambrian Fauna went extinct. The Paleozoic fauna took a nose dive from about 300 families to about 50. It is estimated that 96% of all species (50% of all Families) met their end. Following this event, the Modern fauna, which had been slowly expanding since the Ordovician, took over. The Modern fauna includes fish, bivalves, gastropods and crabs. These were barely affected by the Permian extinction. The Modern fauna subsequently increased to over 600 marine families at present. The Paleozoic fauna held steady at about 100 families. A second extinction event shortly following the Permian kept animal diversity low for awhile. During the Carboniferous (the period just prior to the Permian) and in the Permian the landscape was dominated by ferns and their relatives. After the Permian extinction, gymnosperms (ex. pines) became more abundant. Gymnosperms had evolved seeds, from seedless fern ancestors, which helped their ability to disperse. Gymnosperms also evolved pollen, encased sperm which allowed for more outcrossing. Dinosaurs evolved from archosaur reptiles, their closest living relatives are crocodiles. One modification that may have been a key to their success was the evolution of an upright stance. Amphibians and reptiles have a splayed stance and walk with an undulating pattern because their limbs are modified from fins. Their gait is modified from the swimming movement of fish. Splay stanced animals cannot sustain continued locomotion because they cannot breathe while they move; their undulating movement compresses their chest cavity. Thus, they must stop every few steps and breath before continuing on their way. Dinosaurs evolved an upright stance similar to the upright stance mammals independently evolved. This allowed for continual locomotion. In addition, dinosaurs evolved to be warm-blooded. Warmbloodedness allows an increase in the vigor of movements in erect organisms. Splay stanced organisms would probably not benefit from warm- bloodedness. Birds evolved from sauriscian dinosaurs. Cladistically, birds are dinosaurs. The transitional fossil Archaeopteryx has a mixture of reptilian and avian features. Angiosperms evolved from gymnosperms, their closest relatives are Gnetae. Two key adaptations allowed them to displace gymnosperms as the dominant fauna -- fruits and flowers. Fruits (modified plant ovaries) allow for animal-based seed dispersal and deposition with plenty of fertilizer. Flowers evolved to facilitate animal, especially insect, based pollen dispersal. Petals are modified leaves. Angiosperms currently dominate the flora of the world -- over three fourths of all living plants are angiosperms. Insects evolved from primitive segmented arthropods. The mouth parts of insects are modified legs. Insects are closely related to annelids. Insects dominate the fauna of the world. Over half of all named species are insects. One third of this number are beetles. The end of the Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago, is marked by a minor mass extinction. This extinction marked the demise of all the lineages of dinosaurs save the birds. Up to this point mammals were confined to nocturnal, insectivorous niches. Once the dinosaurs were out of the picture, they diversified. Morgonucudon , a contemporary of dinosaurs, is an example of one of the first mammals. Mammals evolved from therapsid reptiles. The finback reptile Diametrodon is an example of a therapsid. One of the most successful lineages of mammals is, of course, humans. Humans are neotenous apes. Neoteny is a process which leads to an organism reaching reproductive capacity in its juvenile form. The primary line of evidence for this is the similarities between young apes and adult humans. Louis Bolk compiled a list of 25 features shared between adult humans and juvenile apes, including facial morphology, high relative brain weight, absence of brow ridges and cranial crests. The earth has been in a state of flux for 4 billion years. Across this time, the abundance of different lineages varies wildly. New lineages evolve and radiate out across the face of the planet, pushing older lineages to extinction, or relictual existence in protected refugia or suitable microhabitats. Organisms modify their environments. This can be disastrous, as in the case of the oxygen holocaust. However, environmental modification can be the impetus for further evolutionary change. Overall, diversity has increased since the beginning of life. This increase is, however, interrupted numerous times by mass extinctions. Diversity appears to have hit an all-time high just prior to the appearance of humans. As the human population has increased, biological diversity has decreased at an ever-increasing pace. The correlation is probably causal.