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  1. Re:Gravitational Waves on Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Well yes, that too...

    I was speaking to things contemporary to the Nobel Prize itself (which i didn't clarify, sorry). The idea of atoms dates back to the Greeks BC, and even the resurgence of the idea of atoms was around by ~1600-1700. Darwin died 19 years before the first Nobels, but what solidified Natural Selection was the resurgence of Mendel's idea of genes (and the mathematical foundation Fisher showed).

  2. I put in my time stationed at Fort Sill. The common saying was: Fort Sill isn't Hell, but you can see Hell from the front gate.... and they weren't shitting.

  3. Re:Gravitational Waves on Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. The most basic, profound, and substantiated discoveries in science have been Einstein's Relativity and Darwin's Natural Selection... but guess what two scientists have not received Nobel prizes for such (Einstein's Nobel was for the photoelectric effect). Judging the productivity of science by Nobel prizes is just really stupid.

  4. Re:Is science what's broken? on Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If i had mod point you'd have them. I made the same point below before i read yours (posting AC usually screws up people trying to find good ideas).

  5. Ain't everything. on Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The most obvious thing that it doesn't seem anyone has mentioned in this is: the Nobel prize isn't the entire sum of science. They hand out a few awards a year, which at best barely scrapes some insanely small fraction of the research going on. It's a pretty miserable test of the volume of productive research.

  6. Re: Dinosaurs had feathers on A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland's Ice Sheet (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they are eerily similar in appearance from the outside observer if the outside observer is a fucking idiot.

    Fixed that for you. Science doesn't twist evidence to fit the hypothesis. If you find evidence that disagrees with the hypothesis, science says the hypothesis has to change... not the evidence. That's exactly opposite for religion. ANYONE with a remote understanding of the scientific process understands that.

  7. Sorry but you're sounding like one of those deranged nutcases on youtube making up shit to fill up their days. You're throwing a bunch of shit together and trying to make it all mean something.

    There's a number of ideas as to why a "global" flood myth shows up IN CULTURES NEAR LARGE BODIES OF WATER, one of which being the collapse of the containment of Lake Agassiz. Others point to the eruption of Thera, or even a particularly bad annual flood of the Mesopotamian flood plane. The common point of all of these is that it affected LOCAL areas with catastrophic floods.

    Flood myths are not planet wide, they're typically localized to cultures that are near bodies of water. It stands to reason that if something happens which causes a tsunami, a non-advanced culture still believing their god/goddess/gods are real are going to turn it into a myth. Just ask Pat Robertson how his myth creation of "everything bad happens because of gays" is going. There's way too many complete fucking idiots who believe his bullshit, and then give him more money.

  8. "All" was obviously a bit of an exaggeration, but anyone in in the industry knows the best backbone is right there in McLean.

  9. Re:Preferential treatment? Corruption? on Amazon Is Getting More Than $2 Billion For NYC, Virginia Expansions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    IF states didn't compete against each other for these things, then businesses would start putting themselves in places where they could best use the resources already there.... like people needing work. Ultimately, it's the taxpayers who get fucked, while the businesses do the fucking with the help of the bought-and-paid-for local politicians. Unfortunately this country has a lot of worthless little shits who have forgotten that we're stronger when working together.

  10. Re:Scott Walker all the way! on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Still a fucking idiot i see. Seriously, pull your head out of your ass and take a breath of reality for once in your miserable excuse of a life.

  11. And... you're still a worthless fucking cunt.

  12. Re:Stuff that matters on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because you're still sucking mama's teat doesn't mean all of us are, pup.

  13. Re:Just magic answers on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're still a fucking cunt, no matter how much snark you try to use. Quit being such a fucking idiot.

  14. Another anon coward dipshit. Oh wait, is that you Eric? Guess that whole"he's a fucking idiot" thing people say about you is true.

  15. Re:And I thought Obamacare FIXED healthcare?!?!? on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Cunts like you are nothing more than anti-social pieces of shit. I would much rather have the government working on making sure people get the health care they need than murdering people in a foreign land. When the day finally comes when worthless piece of shit sociopaths like you die out, the world will be a far better place.

  16. Re:Obamacare was a good start but the GOP stopped on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither does your brain. No other industrialized country has such a costly health system. If ours provided vastly superior results, that might be something... but it doesn't; those systems more "socialist" than ours typically do far better... for LESS cost. Fucking idiots just can't seem to understand that (and by "that," i mean reality).

  17. Re: And I thought Obamacare FIXED healthcare?!?!? on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then good fucking riddance. What if they went into a different line of work and still didn't OBEY THE LAW? Seriously... are you a fucking idiot?

  18. Re:You're a retarded lying faggot "El Cubitcho" on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 0

    And you're a racist piece of shit neo-nazi. SCOTUS said it wasn't unconstitutional, so your inbred neo-nazi cunt is both stupid and a fucking worthless waste of skin.

  19. Re:And I thought Obamacare FIXED healthcare?!?!? on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Got it... you're a partisan piece of shit that can't be bothered to live in reality. Quit fucking lying. Are there any conservatives anymore who have a shred of integrity?

  20. Re:Premiums did go down on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I cannot tell if you're fucking stupid, or just a fucking liar. Rates rose SLOWER with the ACA than they had before it, and they're getting higher now that the worthless piece of shit republicans are undermining it even more than they were. Seriously... are you just a fucking idiot, or a fucking liar?

  21. Re:Sure, the GOP sabotaged the law on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1
    https://www.investopedia.com/a...

    A separate source, the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform, revealed a somewhat larger jump from 2014 to 2015. It concluded that gross premiums (those before subsidies) climbed by an average of 6% for the least-expensive plans on the exchange.

    While a 6% uptick may sound significant, it actually looks pretty attractive in comparison to pricing trends before the healthcare law. The Commonwealth Fund, another nonpartisan research organization, studied the three-year period prior to the passage of the ACA – from 2008 to 2010 – and found that premiums on the individual market were rising by 10% or more per year nationwide.

    Prices didn't skyrocket. You're either too stupid, too partisan, or too much of a fucking liar... to get that. It is clear, however, you don't have a fucking clue how insurance works in general.

  22. Re: OR they have been in the military or camping on People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds (rd.com) · · Score: 1

    And as long as you don't get the dehydrated beef or pork patties, they're not near as bad as people make them out to be.Mind you, those may no longer be an option.... they were a bane in my day.

  23. A sadist and a masochist passed each other on the sidewalk. The masochist said "hurt me." The sadist said "no."

    I'm not entirely sure of the relevance of that in this discussion, but what the hell.

  24. Re:Maybe this video helps? on CERN Begins New Antimatter Gravity Experiments (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Currently I'm going back through high school physics with this model, and finding some real oddities.

    You'll get even more out of it when you stop dropping acid so much.

  25. Re:Black holes are modern-day Epicycles on About That Monstrous Black Hole We're All Orbiting (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    And for the third time you've posted the same thing ON THIS THREAD ALONE: you are a fucking cultist. Electric universe bullshit is nothing more than a worthless con job by idiots, for idiots.