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  1. Re:Three quarks for Muster Mark! on First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered · · Score: 1

    It’s “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” That’s the allusion I referenced; wasn’t trying to exclude mesons or any other quark combinations, including pentaquarks.

  2. Three quarks for Muster Mark! on First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered · · Score: 2

    "Three quarks for Muster Mark!
    Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
    And sure any he has it's all beside the mark."


    -- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

    Four quarks screw up Murray Gell-Mann’s perfect “allusion”.

  3. Re:Love me two times, I'm goin' away on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    Population size determined who disappeared. 40,000 years ago Homo sapien sapiens outnumbered Homo sapien neanderthalensis by a least ten to one.

    A glass of water can disappear into the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean can’t disappear into a glass of water.

    Think about it.

  4. Love me two times, I'm goin' away on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) didn’t go extinct because they were outcompeted. They weren’t a separate species. They were a subspecies of Homo sapiens. Our superior numbers drove them into extinction, not our ostensibly superior technology, intellect or planning.

    Our Paleolithic ancestors said, “Me love you long time,” and they simply disappeared into our gene pool.

  5. ephemeral on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 1

    Casey Anthony, thou art ephemeral.

  6. Two girls for every boy on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    A 100 year interstellar journey with an ensured population survival strategy, reminds me of a Dr. Stranglove quote:

    General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

    Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

    Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

  7. I’ll be seeing you on What Happens To Google Employees When They Die? · · Score: 1

    'This might sound ridiculous,' but suppose the marriage/domestic partnership is in trouble. Suppose the Google employee intends to leave the significant other. Given the decade 50% salary death benefit, isn’t the significant other incentivized to expedite the Google employee’s death?

  8. She Electrified Me... on US Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn · · Score: 1

    And obliterated Manhattan when the 20 Megaton ICBM hit New York City.

  9. Sputnik on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Sputnik invented the Internet.

  10. Desert world on Asteroid Crashes Likely Gave Earth Its Water · · Score: 1

    We call Earth a water planet. It seems preposterous that a bunch of rocks could bring in enough water to fill Earth’s lakes, rivers and oceans.

    Yet Earth, in terms of its overall mass, is 0.06% water. With about 70% of its surface covered in water, Earth is considerably drier than it appears.

  11. Texas? Texas! on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 1

    With regard to Texas, consider Gunny Sergeant Hartman.

    Were the Higgs discovered in Texas, Perry would want its secession from the Standard Model.

  12. Where to live? on Is There a Subsurface Water Ocean On Titan? · · Score: 1

    On Titan, where surface temperature hovers at 94 K, or on Earth, where Octomom makes masturbation porn videos.

  13. So what on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 1

    It’s difficult to be logical about something that’s so illogical.

    Suppose Nessie was real.

    Then either she’s an entirely new species of unknown lineage, or she’s an evolved plesiosaur. Her existence would enthrall paleontologists. However it doesn’t disprove Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Evolution is scientific fact. It’s been scientific fact for about 150 years. That boat sailed a long time ago.

    The Free Exercise Clause ensures creationists can argue their beliefs. The Establishment Clause ensures they can’t masquerade their religious beliefs as pseudoscience in publicly funded schools.

    Louisiana seceded once. She lost. If she secedes from science, she’ll lose again.

  14. Re:We’re not alone on Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art? · · Score: 1

    Congo’s plopped semi random fashioned paint stokes sold for $30,000 in the mid-1950s. That’s indubitable financial success. As to whether Congo’s art constitutes ‘genuine’ art, that’s a matter of idiosyncrasy, usually left to art critics, not /. posters. Human hubris is seductive. We overestimate our own talents, while underestimating the talents of other species.

  15. We’re not alone on Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art? · · Score: 1

    In the mid-1950s abstract expressionism was the rage. Congo was a successful artist. Here are some of his paintings. Some sold for about $30,000. Most impressive, given Congo was a chimpanzee. It’s not surprising if Neanderthals did early cave art, cave art surpassing its contemporary human art. After all Congo has already established, artistic talent isn’t restricted to Homo sapiens sapiens.

  16. No monopoly on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 2

    It’s reassuring to know that the United States of America doesn’t have a monopoly on nut cases.

  17. No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 1

    Wonder if they’re saying the same thing about us?

  18. Not amused on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 1

    Her Majesty, Grace Hopper, is not amused.

  19. Euphemisms on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    “Nearly as good,” analogous to almost a virgin and a little bit pregnant.

  20. Versus on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    A placebo versus LSD, double-blind versus cleansing the doors of perception, delirium tremens versus psychedelic consciousness; thinking is the best way to travel.

  21. Oops on Museum of Engineered Organisms Opens In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    Thought you meant Museum of Engineered Orgasms.

  22. Re:Stop it. on Santorum Defends Robocalls To Democrats · · Score: 1

    Politics is like crabs: easy to catch, difficult to remove.

  23. Here we go again on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 2

    History isn’t encouraging, given heroin’s original use was as a safe cure for morphine addiction.

  24. Vista's dead Jim on Internet Explorer 10 Drops Vista Support · · Score: 1

    Vista was pronounced dead in 2009. It's official now. Microsoft concurs.

  25. That's all folks! on Meth Dealer Faces Loss of His Comic Book Collection · · Score: 1