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New Scientist: Venus' Atmosphere Implies Life
WolfWithoutAClause writes "This New Scientist article says that the atmosphere of Venus has features that may only be explaineable by the existence of life in its upper atmosphere. In particular it has cartain chemicals which are extremely difficult to make inorganically. At the altitude where life is suspected the temperature is about 70C and about 1 atmosphere. There are gases there which are not naturally found together. The article suggests something is actively producing them, quite possibly, life."
That explains all the e-mail I get from routers on Mars.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
I mean, it always feel impressive to say "our CPU runs at a tenth of the room temperature", doesn't it? :-)
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
That'd finally put a full stop to all those religious morons that are so full of "we're the centre of the universe". Just by showing that there's _a_ life form outside earth would remove a huge barrier from all those debates and we could concentrate on more interesting topics.
No it wouldn't. Faith is by definition a belief that exists without any supporting evidence, or contrary to evidence.
Let's break it down:
a - prefix meaning lack of.
theism - belief in a god or gods.
atheism - lack of belief in a god or gods.
Atheists do not necessarily claim that there are no gods, only that they have no belief in them.
-- Give me ambiguity or give me something else!
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Which reminds me of...
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The old ones...
Question: How many Internet mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: 1374.
1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mailing list that the light bulb has been changed, 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently, 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs, 27 to point out spelling errors in posts about changing light bulbs, 53 to flame the spell checkers, 41 to correct spelling in the spelling flames, 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mailing list, 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this e-mail exchange to another list, 203 to demand that cross posting to other lists about changing light bulbs be stopped, 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts _are_ relevant to this mailing list, 309 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are not so good, 27 to post web addresses where one can see examples of different light bulbs, 14 to post that the web addresses were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected ones, 33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add 'Me Too!', 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy, 19 to quote the 'Me Toos' to say, 'Me Three!', 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ, 48 to propose new <change.lite.bulb> newsgroup, 47 to say there is already an <alt.light.bulb> newsgroup, 143 to ask if anyone ever did change the light bulb. Friday, May 31. Back in June!
Okay, I had to Karma Whore just for the sake of it (sad when we define the nature of the reposter).
"Face it, a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
Watch for spaces in the URLs.
Rather than add this stupid disclaimer, why not just make them links so this doesn't happen?