Just sayin'.

Um, the frame of reference is obviously earth. So the statements about how long something took to occur are actually meaningful, in "laymen" terms or otherwise. While the article you link to is an interesting introduction to time, relativity, and frame of references, it has very little bearing on the thread.

Someone was heard to utter:

"Gravity is actually just a theory too, the whole law thing is just a name. So should consider non-gravity as a equal theory? How about the theory the earth is round, it's onyl a theory after all. Perfectly valid explanations of how it's "flat but all the evidence to the contrary is faked" also exist, should we consider both of the equally?"

Pick up a ball and drop it. Now do it again. Now, once more for good measure. Nope, I can't see the difference between theories. Oh WAIT! Experiments based on gravity are REPEATABLE! *gasp* But please, continue with your solid "fact" of evolution and the big bang. I'll be waiting to see video of the repeatability of your experiments. I'm sure they aren't solely based on observations. Of things supposedly 14 billion years in the past. Because I'm sure someone had a camcorder rolling.

Isn't it great that those hundreds of drivers are inconvenienced daily so that you can jaywalk safely? What a great win for society!

Hey.. who says that all the jocks and preppies and yuppies get to have all the fun with this idea? Let's stop taking the role of the victims just 'cause we're used to it.. Wouldn't it be funny if all the geeks and nerds and people who get picked on in those schools in North Carolina were the first ones to pick up the phones, dial their little hot-line numbers, and rat out all the tormentors? I think it would pretty damn amusing.. especially if the preps and the jocks were doing the same thing.. Everyone rats everyone else out.. Eventually, they might even have to suspend the whole school. Can't you imagine the headlines? "Entire School Disctrict Goes in For Counselling!" But seriously.. Think on it. It could work to geeks' advantages.