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  1. better off knowing? by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 1 · on RHIC Finds Symmetry Transformations In Quark Soup

    That depends. Finding out why we need air to breathe didn't entail the possibility of ripping a hole in the space time continuum, with dire consequences for the solar system, the galaxy, and possibly the local universe. My money is on a certain percentage of Gamma Ray Bursters being the signature of an advancing civilization snuffing out its first really high energy particle accelerator, and its planet, and that the effects are localized to the vaporization of the planet or solar system. Since we're conducting our experiments on Earth, it's unlikely that I'll be able to collect, should any of you take up this bet.

  2. Information doesn't want to be free . . . by quixote9 · · Score: 1 · on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing

    . . . it has to be. You heard it here long ago. As well as from about fifty other sources. Blanket licensing is the only logical solution.

    (Why, yes. I am a Vulcan. Why do you ask?)

  3. Re:Bearing in mind... by rabiddeity · · Score: 1 · on Smallest Planet Outside Our Solar System Found

    Don't assume that intelligent life could only develop on a planet exactly like ours. Even just considering carbon-based life as we know it, life could still survive just fine in a higher or lower gravity version of Earth. Lower gravity would likely mean a thinner atmosphere but oceans would still be habitable. Higher gravity would mean life forms couldn't grow as large on land. I don't think either of those would prohibit intelligent life from developing. And that's also assuming intelligent life just stays at home on one planet, which is highly unlikely. Any species competitive enough to climb its way to intelligence will probably keep flourishing and expanding.

    In short, we shouldn't just focus all our SETI efforts on a few star systems just because they're similar to Sol.

  4. biologist on biology of aliens by quixote9 · · Score: 1 · on The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

    Isaac, as the commenter says, did lots of good stuff, not just on aliens, but also on weird chemistries and strange physics. For a look at a how-to on coming up with aliens that make biological sense, They came from outer space: Real Aliens, published in 1997. The whole business of imagining aliens is a great topic. Until we've found a few thousand other civilizations and get hemmed in by reality, there's not much in the way of limits, either.