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Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf
rrohbeck writes "The Independent reports brand-new results of high concentrations of methane — 100x normal — above the sea surface over the Siberian continental shelf. A large number of methane plumes have been discovered bubbling up from the sea floor. This is probably due to methane clathrate, buried under the sea floor before the last ice age, breaking up as higher water temperatures melt the permafrost that had contained it."
Okay, this was stupid, but it does touch on a point I've wondered about: religion seems to be the foundation of much of our societal moral code. Without the framework of religion, why is it "wrong" to kill someone?
Okay, this was stupid, but it does touch on a point I've wondered about: religion seems to be the foundation of much of our societal moral code. Without the framework of religion, why is it "wrong" to kill someone?
Answer: It isn't.
But all the folks wishing there was no religion don't seem to get that. They've got this crazy fantasy that without religion everyone lives in peace and harmony with their fellow man. Of course they're fucking idiots so they're dead wrong about that.
Society would be a lot more barbaric. In fact I don't even know if there would be anything that could be called a society.
To elaborate on your question "Without the framework of religion, why is it "wrong" to kill someone?" a bit more, I'll say the only thing that would make it "wrong" would be if someone took exception to a killing.
Of course, having taken exception to a killing, they'd have to actually be able to do something about it, and by "able to do something about it" I mean they'd have to be capable of either killing the person who performed the killing they took exception to or to do something even worse to that person.
If they were not capable of doing either of these then they'd really be best off just shutting up and minding their own business. They could of course try their luck by having a protest or a sit-in, building giant puppets or something like that. But I really don't think they'd have much success. Someone would probably just laugh at them and then kill them for shits and giggles.
Man, you just don't know shit about how statistics work, do you? You just get your opinions pre-packaged on the internet, and parrot them as if you came up with them yourself.
Nice summary, unfortunately you come of as a raving lunatic claiming that epicycles IS the only explanation mankind need and that it's BLASPHEMOUS to claim that there is some other kind of explanation!
I still like facts, and thus I'll happily wait for the CLOUD experiment at CERN with regards to Svensmark's hypothesis.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/3124
http://cloud.web.cern.ch/cloud/
it's in my head