To believe we're the only ones in the universe is the most arrogant (and naive) belief we can have.
There is a good chance there's intelligent life out there, since there are billions and billions of stars.
Problem is that nearly all of those stars are really far away. Only a few hundred thousand are within 250 light years, and there's a good chance we're alone in that sphere. And beyond that, it would be unlikely they could detect us, and even more unlikely they'd be able to travel to us.
humans posses lengthy digestive tracts that are clearly optimized for fruits, shoots and roots.
Chimps eat a lot of fruit and shoots. Their colon (where they ferment plant matter) is about twice our size, and their long intestine is about half our size (where we digest meat).
fructose has been shown to be far more efficient of a fuel source for the human metabolism than fat or protein.
Most cells in your body cannot metabolize fructose. Instead, it goes to the liver first, and excess amounts of fructose (typical for a highly refined junk western diet) lead to hypertriglyceridemia, and fat deposits inside the liver tissue itself (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease).
In order to get all the amino acids from beans and rice, you'll have to eat a ton of carbs. Plus you're still deficient in a bunch of other nutrients. Especially white rice contains very little vitamins.
It's not just the amino acids. There's a whole bunch of stuff in animal products that are lacking in plants. Vitamin B12 is the major example, but also vitamin D and EHA/DHA oils.
people sit around complacent and never trying things
I didn't say that. But if you're going to try things, it's better to try things with higher chance of success, like solar panels that don't have cars driving on them. Let's try putting them on a roof instead.
The point is that some things that people call stupid are just stupid. The solar roadway is one of them. And just because someone in China is pursuing it, doesn't mean it can't be stupid.
Justifying an accident when such an irrelevant frivolity is involved would be quite difficult.
I don't see why justifying an accident with a block of concrete would be any easier. In both cases, it's a setback, and you lose the rocket. The value of the car is peanuts.
And by chance if the thing makes it, a large quantity of water floating around mars would be an incredibly valuable and useful commodity
First of all, it's not going into a Mars orbit. Secondly, it would be virtually useless anyway. There's plenty of water on Mars, much easier to reach than from orbit.
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Explain why do they have a longer small intestine than chimps, if they eat similar diets.
At no point did he ever imply that they were aliens poking around
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they're probably figured out the cultural problems that are destroying us; we'd look like a particularly poor, insane, and violent slum
Violence is a consequence of evolution. If there are any aliens, they are probably equally violent and insane.
To believe we're the only ones in the universe is the most arrogant (and naive) belief we can have.
There is a good chance there's intelligent life out there, since there are billions and billions of stars.
Problem is that nearly all of those stars are really far away. Only a few hundred thousand are within 250 light years, and there's a good chance we're alone in that sphere. And beyond that, it would be unlikely they could detect us, and even more unlikely they'd be able to travel to us.
Or am I totally misunderstanding how quantum entanglement works?
Probably, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
humans posses lengthy digestive tracts that are clearly optimized for fruits, shoots and roots.
Chimps eat a lot of fruit and shoots. Their colon (where they ferment plant matter) is about twice our size, and their long intestine is about half our size (where we digest meat).
4) Numerous scientific studies prove that a properly managed vegan diet is, at least, adequate, if not superior.
Superior to a standard junk diet. Not superior to a properly managed diet that includes meat, dairy, and eggs.
birth rates are dropping in pretty much every first world nation
Yes, until they go back up again. Nature ... ehm... finds a way.
fructose has been shown to be far more efficient of a fuel source for the human metabolism than fat or protein.
Most cells in your body cannot metabolize fructose. Instead, it goes to the liver first, and excess amounts of fructose (typical for a highly refined junk western diet) lead to hypertriglyceridemia, and fat deposits inside the liver tissue itself (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease).
A laser beam would spread too wide to be useful to a microsatellite.
I will dance on your grave and there isn't a damn thing your bitch ass can do about it.
He can get cremated and have his ashes dumped in the ocean.
Agriculture is only responsible for 10-15% of GHG emissions, and meat is only a portion of that.
In order to get all the amino acids from beans and rice, you'll have to eat a ton of carbs. Plus you're still deficient in a bunch of other nutrients. Especially white rice contains very little vitamins.
Eat less meat, more plants. You will feel better, look better, and cut your cancer risk.
Show us one good study that meat causes cancer.
Do you really trust the big food industry to make stuff that's actually healthy, instead of food that mostly feeds their bottom line ?
Dogs can probably tear open the udders.
It's not just the amino acids. There's a whole bunch of stuff in animal products that are lacking in plants. Vitamin B12 is the major example, but also vitamin D and EHA/DHA oils.
people sit around complacent and never trying things
I didn't say that. But if you're going to try things, it's better to try things with higher chance of success, like solar panels that don't have cars driving on them. Let's try putting them on a roof instead.
The point is that some things that people call stupid are just stupid. The solar roadway is one of them. And just because someone in China is pursuing it, doesn't mean it can't be stupid.
Apparently, they were doing an experimental water landing. Go through the motions of a landing, but without the boat.
Justifying an accident when such an irrelevant frivolity is involved would be quite difficult.
I don't see why justifying an accident with a block of concrete would be any easier. In both cases, it's a setback, and you lose the rocket. The value of the car is peanuts.
If they can find a way to reuse the 2nd stage, the FH may end up cheaper than F9.
And by chance if the thing makes it, a large quantity of water floating around mars would be an incredibly valuable and useful commodity
First of all, it's not going into a Mars orbit. Secondly, it would be virtually useless anyway. There's plenty of water on Mars, much easier to reach than from orbit.
It won't go into Mars orbit, though. It will end up (if everything goes right) in an elliptical solar orbit that goes as far out as the orbit of Mars.
Remember the elevated bus ?
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