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8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives
Jamie found a New Scientist story about 8 million year old bacteria that scientists thawed out, and now it's alive. Also somehow they are sure that this is safe. The interesting bit is that since these samples came from ancient ice, it seems that the world will naturally be filled with these guys soon.
Not if this global cooling theory comes to pass...oh no, wait, we're pushing global warming now, is it?
Tough to keep straight...
The opposite of progress is congress
*sigh* Not this again. First of all, there never was a global cooling theory. It's all made up that someone proposed that. Go checkout realclimate.org. No reputable scientist ever said "The earth is cooling and we're going to have a catastrophic ice age." Yes, the media reported this and stirred up a bunch of FUD. No, that's not the same as legitimate science.
Second of all, "global warming" is sort of a misleading term, that's why people are going more toward "global climate change" as the proper terminology (or as the Japanese say, "grober crimate change"). If we keep spewing out CO2 (because of e.g. incandescents) and that makes France ice over, that is, oddly enough, technically compatible with global warming.
I hope you get modded down.
"Landing on the Moon"..... nice... that was a good one.... keep me laughing for a while!!! Oh yeah.... maybe the "Moon germs" stole all the video documents from NASA....
You forgot the part where its all Chimpy-McHitler-Burton's fault.
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
Some people refuse to believe that something can be right, without being literally and absolutely true. Usually these are known as lawyers, and they do it because they get paid (I'm not sure about the believing part, but they argue it). Preachers do it as well, and many of them get compensated nicely (again not so sure about the believing). My question is why there are people who espouse this point of view when it costs them so much personally? Perhaps because they cannot grasp the cost?
To these people, anything that contradicts their document (never mind that it's a translation in the first place, which introduces all sorts of weirdness) must be proven false, lest their entire worldview vanish in a puff of smoke. There is nothing wrong with sometimes being wrong, if you are willing to accept, correct, and adapt.
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How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.