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  1. Re:So Google is now working on: on Google Enters Race For Nuclear Fusion Technology (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe.

    A funnier answer than most will give credit for.

  2. Sure he does. on Apple Pledges $1 Billion Toward Creating Manufacturing Jobs In US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Apple announced today plans to create a $1 billion fund to promote creation of advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S. "

    And I have plans to create a fund to promote creation of a plan to believe them, too.

  3. Re:Slow them with real traffic on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    Once it backs up from the other direction, and they can't back up either, it will create a lovely snarl that people will learn to avoid.

    Apparently your suggestion to this "foreign" traffic causing congestion in your sainted neighborhoods is to create congestion in your neighborhoods.

  4. Re:Bleaching has happened before on 'Huge Wake Up Call': Third of Central, Northern Great Barrier Reef Corals Dead (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile the corals adjust their symbiotic alga.

    I would be very interested in a cite to show that corals can do this, and the mechanism by which you claim corals perform this adjustment.

  5. Re: VoiceOfDoom, *FUCK YOU*!! on Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women (rewire.news) · · Score: 1

    You know, abortion has very little to do with the woman's body. She's just the gateway. She's not actually doing anything to her body.

    OK - you can make decisions in all pregnancies that exist independent of women's bodies.

  6. Re: Please help me understand on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Likewise, it's not racist to have no attraction to somebody of the opposite race, just as it's not sexist for homosexuals to have no attraction to the opposite sex.

    There is an opposite race?

  7. Re:Whoa! Consider the Law on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 1

    The number who agree on human causes and extent is nowhere near that high, though.

    OK then, try the number of Scientific Organizations That Hold the Position That Climate Change Has Been Caused by Human Action. Try to find one that doesn't.

    http://opr.ca.gov/s_listoforga...

  8. Re:Whoa! Consider the Law on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 1

    That 95% figure that gets thrown around is from an *extremely* small sample size. Worth some googling to see the entire truth behind that.

    NASA say 97%. And cite multiple sources.

    http://climate.nasa.gov/scient...

  9. Re: Science! on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 1

    Frankly there is a famous Time cover in the 70s talking about Iceball earth where the fear was we were going to enter into a new ice age. Guess that one didn't pan out.

    Frankly there isn't, and you have admirably demonstrated one of the problems - you have believed an utter fabrication by the denialists. There was no such Time cover. Read Time about it here:

    http://science.time.com/2013/0...

    Getting the idea?

  10. Re:Great. Let's sit here and wait for the next wav on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    It only takes an honest man to say what everyone can see.

    So off you go to IPCC and see what honest scientists are saying.

    http://www.ipcc.ch/

  11. Re:Great. Let's sit here and wait for the next wav on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    The latest IPCC report has backed away from the doom and gloom.

    [Citation needed]

    You are also starting from a premise that the IPCC report was ever about "doom and gloom", which it wasn't.

  12. Re:That's revolutionary on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    I knew that my babie one day saves the world, but I never guessed it was so early in my little sunshine's life.

    The technical term is babby.

  13. Re:Not Christ's Birthday on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 2

    I think many people are forgetting that Newton and Christ do not share the same birthday...

    Forgetting also that only one of them actually existed. Protip - it was Newton.

  14. Re:How about a straight answer? on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    I love the way the denialists have shifted from "you can't prove it's happening" to "well you can't say we did it," and the Just Asking Questions guys are following along.

    All part of the "Four Dog Defence". http://acronymrequired.com/201...

  15. Re:Glad you asked on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere isn't enough to raise the temperature a measurable amount, see the last 18 years for proof of that.

    Spare us. Please. http://www.skepticalscience.co...

  16. Re:How about a straight answer? on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    Piers Corbyn / weatheraction.com

    John L. Casey / spaceandscience.net

    2 more non-scientists whose newsletters I am looking forward to subscribing to.

    Not really.

  17. Re:How about a straight answer? on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    I say ONLY because it goes from 2% to 4%. WOOO! A WHOLE 2% INCREASE..

    Hang on, I haven't had a chance to check your sources yet.... Oh wait. Yes I have.

  18. Re:Justice on CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's the same elsewhere -- the old boys network makes sure the people who can do the most damage are shielded from consequences.

    See Global Financial Crisis.

  19. Re:There is some place for secrecy on Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest? · · Score: 1

    There is some place for secrecy in negotiation. If our negotiators are trying to get the best deal for us, they don't want to reveal what concessions they are willing to make until they have a sense of the concessions other parties are willing to make.

    I am sure that is nice for you, but as the other participant in these agreements, your deal will be at our expense. The secrecy hurts us.

  20. Re:as the birds go on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Turbines kill an insignificant number of birds by comparison with Windows. We need to get rid of Windows. Who knew? https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...

  21. Re:Thought crime on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 0
    I have documentation at home of intent to kill Australian police and government officials. I had better get rid of it.

    Which is something of a shame, because The Wild Colonial Boy was a good song.

  22. Re:Look, over there! on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 0
    Last week in Brisbane - 12 month police operation, 180 police, 9 search warrants executed, 2 arrests.

    "Among the items authorities seized were electronic data and one firearm, which Mr Gaughan said prompted Wednesday's raids due to the "public safety concerns".

    "We really had no option but to proceed today," he said.

    Mr Gaughan said neither man had recently been in Syria.

    There was no evidence to suggest the two men were involved in domestic terrorism attack planning, Mr Gaughan said.

    Mr Gaughan said it was unclear whether holes in the wall at the iQraa Islamic Centre were caused by bullets.

    "The forensic process needs to take its course and it's too early to speculate they are bullet holes," he said. "

    Not a huge result.

  23. Re:Fallacy on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 0

    As far as I know many top scientists proclaim to believe in god

    “I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.” Neil deGrasse Tyson

  24. Re:No, no. Let's not go there. Please. on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 0

    It's pretty much impossible to have a meaningful conversation unless we can agree on our terms somehow.

    Atheists lack belief in deities. Definitions other than that are for discussions that aren't about atheism.

  25. Re:Keep adjusting until it looks right on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 0

    I was wondering how they modeled the beard.