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  1. Probably a capture. But it's the density of the host planet - ten times Jupiter's - that is really interesting and being largely ignored.

  2. Why?

    Are you assuming some specific definition of planet? Because it's not going to be one planetary scientists recognize. If it were, you'd not be so sure.

  3. Well, I'm sure some fans of Freddy would be asking that.

  4. Re: wtf /. on The EPA's Bold New Idea Has Massive Implications For Public Health (motherjones.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's true or it's false. Neither option is liberal.

  5. Re: I've no problems with this on Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    It was Virginia law until early this year.

    If a child was raped but forced to marry the perp, it wasn't rape under Virginia law.

  6. Re: How does a 'vaccine' work? on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Many ways to make vaccines.

    The oldest was blood taken from people with related diseases.

    Current methods use animals with similar immune systems, or deactivated pathogens.

  7. Re: You're just trading risk for risk. on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody has died from the vaccine.

    Thousands have died from anti-vaxxer propaganda.

    I want those responsible in court. Since they knew the effect and knew there was no risk from vaccines, second degree murder seems appropriate.

  8. Re: lol on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The data shows otherwise.

    Ultimately, if you stay otherwise healthy, you will die from either cancer or exhaustion of stem cells.

    The latter occurs at age 120.

    So eliminating cancer raises the average life expectancy to 100.

  9. Re: Anti-vax on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They're generally right-wing Christian, the anti-vaxxers.

  10. Re: It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Any Buddhist who objects isn't much of a Buddhist. They're certainly not Enlightened.

    I tend not to worry about fictional people.

    Except for The Doctor and Gandalf. Both of whom would be in favour.

  11. Re: It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally, evangelical Buddhists aren't much of an issue. Evangelical atheists tend not to care. Evangelical heathens will sacrifice a chicken to Woden before reading the entrails and declaring they don't give a damn.

    Doesn't leave a whole lot of others.

  12. Re: It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If they did, they'd have adopted kids already.

    Those kids waiting... And waiting... And waiting... And ending up serially abused when they're 18, penniless and vulnerable suggests your list of adopters may be very short or seriously unethical.

  13. Re: There's not a lot of those on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I can guarantee you'll die young and stupid. It is also not socialism. But one out of three ain't bad.

  14. Re: They are killing off all women ? on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Doubt it happens much, if at all.

    Hyperactive autoimmune disorders do, and they're mostly caused by ultra-sterile conditions, unhealthy foods and unhealthy environments.

    Fix those and vaccine "safety" will reach new levels.

  15. I've no problems with this on Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as that involves a direct order banning illegal bulk collection of data and weakening of any encryption.

  16. Re: So is this the current scientific stance on HP on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yip. Total fabrication. And scientists have studied this, too.

    You can make up your own mind, but you don't get to make up your own facts.

  17. Re: So is this the current scientific stance on HP on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    There's no evidence of dire side effects from vaccines, hyperactive immune systems can cause problems

    HPV does cause cancer, that's the latest from science.

  18. Re: It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 3

    We might disagree on theology, but I respect your philosophy and your right to believe. I wish more were as tolerant as you.

  19. Re: It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should I fear the possible existence of God?

    The worst I face is purgatory for a thousand years, according to the Bible, although early Christian texts on which Matthew was based say Hell no longer exists.

    If God does exist, it will be the Christian right who will be asked to explain themselves.

  20. Re: It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Vaccines aren't about your body, they're about everybody.

    And in most of the US, abortion is becoming de facto illegal, so your complaint isn't valid anyway.

  21. Re: Vaccine for everyone on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    He does benefit. HPV can kill men, and men can spread the virus to women (I assume a living significant other is still regarded as a benefit).

  22. Re: All theories were fringe theories at one point on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way the next gen could be less prejudiced would be if they treated science as a religion of the week. Would that be useful to anyone?

  23. Re: All theories were fringe theories at one point on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not prejudiced to new theories, I would have been one of those 50 years ahead of you prior to relativity, after all, and I'm still that far ahead now.

    I just don't pick up the first theory I encounter. What you pick up could leave you with a rash.

    I've made it clear QI is interesting and should be tested, not shunned or treated like a religion.

    I've also made it clear dark matter and MOND have problems, that I'm not ok with theories only valid with a rail card, but that experiments should decide and experiments alone. Prediction and falsification are acceptable, correlation after the fact is bad science.

  24. Re: Wait, so there are actual experiments? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm referring to specific predictions made by string theorists in 1986 at the 300 Years of Gravity symposium, specific predictions regarding supersymmetry, specific predictions regarding leptons and specific predictions regarding supergravity.

    Why should I care about string excitation when the falsification of any of the above would falsify string theory?

    You're also looking at magnets at the time of the SSC. Those at the LHC are superior. Upgrade your numbers to where the supercollider would be now not then.

  25. Re: It's like string theory, but with extra tulips on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Opinions are not evidence.

    String theory requires certain testable things to be true, so if any are false then string theory is false.

    String theory makes some direct predictions regarding the nature of leptons and the effects around strings. These are also testable. If false, string theory is false.

    These are matters of fact. Opinions, even by scientists, are just opinions.