Perhaps a more important differentiation to an arboreal animal would be snakes and branches. One represents safety, the other danger (and possibly lunch).
There was a politician in Peru who used to call out the military for its excesses in the battle against the Sendero Luminoso. He abruptly retired when he received a photo in the mail of his daughter leaving her grade school, taken through a rifle scope. Keep in mind that corporations like Blackwater (whatever its name is today) knowingly hire international war criminals guilty of massacres of peasants, and then tell me how much chance you think there is that Congress will "grow a pair of balls".
Rense? Free Republic? I didn't realize that anyone even went to FR any more, the last time I visited it there were about 30 hard core birthers in an echo chamber left.
ICBM = Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile. Apparently you didn't know that. The only way that Iran's missiles could be considered to be ICBMs is if they were launching it across the Behring Straight. They have a SRBM, a Short-Range Ballistic Missile, and have tested a prototype of a Medium-Range Ballistic Missile, but you don't have to worry about them launching Korans into Iowa yet.
There are a lot of things that can/need to be worked out on the ground before creating permanent settlements in space, possibly the biggest being radiation protection outside of the Van Allen belts. But there is one thing which absolutely cannot be done on the ground, and that's figuring out what happens to mammals (and other critters, but that's going to be our highest priority) in microgravity. The type of person approved for space missions will not want to go on a trip that may leave them unable to return safely to Earth, so for now our few-month-long missions to the ISS are all we have. I do rather wish NASA would send up a permanent resident of some kind, maybe a guinea pig or other common lab animal with a well-studied biology (rats are probably too dangerous to let loose in a place with so much conduit). I think the PR flacks are too worried about what the PETA fanatics will say.
Dawkins quotes are particularly useful for young people wavering on the edge of disbelief. Someone who says, "The good reverend is mistaken in his interpretation of the science" is much less likely to attract their attention than someone who says, "The reverend a fucking idiot, and the science conclusively shows how wrong he really is." The reasons are much the same as the reasons that slasher flicks are much more popular among teens than romances.
I'd like to add that sometimes (IIRC, this was the case of La Brea bones) a later generation of paleontologists can go back and re-examine earlier finds with improved technologies and techniques to encounter butchering marks or identify the tooth marks of specific types of predators and scavengers.
a couple of steps up from dragon's teeth on the rarity scale.
Had a friend tell me straight-faced that the reason we haven't found dragon bones is because they were so rare, and that because they flew their bones would have been very delicate.
Maybe not, but when the one being 'wronged' is a scumbag like Hayden it comes a lot closer to being right than pretending you didn't hear the conversation in the first place.
They've been doing that since 2003. The difference is that now the press thinks it's a bad thing so people remember, when it was still a good thing the president got a pass and people forgot about it.
A local electrician had a restraining order against him, keeping him away from his ex-wife. A cop arrested him one day for having "plastic handcuffs", for conspiracy to kidnap her. The "plastic handcuffs" turned out to be the zip-ties that every electrician on the planet uses. The police were not apologetic.
I remember a number of years ago a prisoner in Michigan made a gun of paper mache, match heads, aluminum foil, and the metal eraser clasp from a pencil. When it was found the guard staff fired it into a telephone book, and it penetrated over an inch.
I grew up in northern Michigan in the 1960s and '70s. Almost everyone in our town had guns at home, even if they didn't use them they had their grandpa's guns laying around. And not just "a gun", but multiple. We had six shotguns of various sizes and ages and two rifles and multiple boxes of ammunition for all of them, and were in no way unusual. The only gun safe that I knew of in the city was at Hampel's Gun Shop, where they locked up stuff brought in for repair (mostly so that it wouldn't get sold by accident). You could buy any kind of gun at Ace Hardware, and ammunition was available at gas station mini-marts and supermarkets.
The problem isn't the presence of guns, the country with the highest percentage of gun-possessing households is Switzerland. The issue is cultural. The only solution for gun violence is to fix our culture.
You've utterly missed the country with the highest percentage of households with guns: Switzerland. Not only in Europe, but also has an exceedingly low rate of gun crime.
The problem is cultural. Get in line at the Windsor Tunnel on the Detroit side of the Saint Claire River and check out the hookers and crack dealers. Come out of the Tunnel a few minutes later on the Canadian side and you're in a different world. (Haven't been there in a number of years, but I'd be surprised if it has changed much.)
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Perhaps a more important differentiation to an arboreal animal would be snakes and branches. One represents safety, the other danger (and possibly lunch).
Well, as the third or forth mention of the same joke in the first couple of minutes I think that Redundant was rather just.
Jealosy?
OMG! Your big spikey cone from space killed Papa Smurf.
We can only hope.
How about making the bottom of the craft an inverted cone? Then it can settle nicely in between the spikes.
There was a politician in Peru who used to call out the military for its excesses in the battle against the Sendero Luminoso. He abruptly retired when he received a photo in the mail of his daughter leaving her grade school, taken through a rifle scope. Keep in mind that corporations like Blackwater (whatever its name is today) knowingly hire international war criminals guilty of massacres of peasants, and then tell me how much chance you think there is that Congress will "grow a pair of balls".
Rense? Free Republic? I didn't realize that anyone even went to FR any more, the last time I visited it there were about 30 hard core birthers in an echo chamber left.
ICBM = Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile. Apparently you didn't know that. The only way that Iran's missiles could be considered to be ICBMs is if they were launching it across the Behring Straight. They have a SRBM, a Short-Range Ballistic Missile, and have tested a prototype of a Medium-Range Ballistic Missile, but you don't have to worry about them launching Korans into Iowa yet.
There are a lot of things that can/need to be worked out on the ground before creating permanent settlements in space, possibly the biggest being radiation protection outside of the Van Allen belts. But there is one thing which absolutely cannot be done on the ground, and that's figuring out what happens to mammals (and other critters, but that's going to be our highest priority) in microgravity. The type of person approved for space missions will not want to go on a trip that may leave them unable to return safely to Earth, so for now our few-month-long missions to the ISS are all we have. I do rather wish NASA would send up a permanent resident of some kind, maybe a guinea pig or other common lab animal with a well-studied biology (rats are probably too dangerous to let loose in a place with so much conduit). I think the PR flacks are too worried about what the PETA fanatics will say.
That's the most disturbing thing I've read yet this week.
Dawkins quotes are particularly useful for young people wavering on the edge of disbelief. Someone who says, "The good reverend is mistaken in his interpretation of the science" is much less likely to attract their attention than someone who says, "The reverend a fucking idiot, and the science conclusively shows how wrong he really is." The reasons are much the same as the reasons that slasher flicks are much more popular among teens than romances.
I'd like to add that sometimes (IIRC, this was the case of La Brea bones) a later generation of paleontologists can go back and re-examine earlier finds with improved technologies and techniques to encounter butchering marks or identify the tooth marks of specific types of predators and scavengers.
a couple of steps up from dragon's teeth on the rarity scale.
Had a friend tell me straight-faced that the reason we haven't found dragon bones is because they were so rare, and that because they flew their bones would have been very delicate.
If you think the rare earth mines in China are environmentally bad, just imagine how bad that operation would be run in North Carolina.
The rare earths and the uranium occur together. No reason to not extract both. Red herrings aren't necessary.
Not everything goes up into the atmosphere, don't forget the enormous mountains of fly ash and clinkers that have to be disposed of as well.
The US does as well. We call them submarines . . .
True enough.
Maybe not, but when the one being 'wronged' is a scumbag like Hayden it comes a lot closer to being right than pretending you didn't hear the conversation in the first place.
They've been doing that since 2003. The difference is that now the press thinks it's a bad thing so people remember, when it was still a good thing the president got a pass and people forgot about it.
We've got a long way to go before we ever get a president as bad as Bush Jr.
That's what I used to think about Ronnie Raygun.
So did Bush. The only difference is that the press complains when Obama does it, so people remember.
A local electrician had a restraining order against him, keeping him away from his ex-wife. A cop arrested him one day for having "plastic handcuffs", for conspiracy to kidnap her. The "plastic handcuffs" turned out to be the zip-ties that every electrician on the planet uses. The police were not apologetic.
I remember a number of years ago a prisoner in Michigan made a gun of paper mache, match heads, aluminum foil, and the metal eraser clasp from a pencil. When it was found the guard staff fired it into a telephone book, and it penetrated over an inch.
I grew up in northern Michigan in the 1960s and '70s. Almost everyone in our town had guns at home, even if they didn't use them they had their grandpa's guns laying around. And not just "a gun", but multiple. We had six shotguns of various sizes and ages and two rifles and multiple boxes of ammunition for all of them, and were in no way unusual. The only gun safe that I knew of in the city was at Hampel's Gun Shop, where they locked up stuff brought in for repair (mostly so that it wouldn't get sold by accident). You could buy any kind of gun at Ace Hardware, and ammunition was available at gas station mini-marts and supermarkets.
The problem isn't the presence of guns, the country with the highest percentage of gun-possessing households is Switzerland. The issue is cultural. The only solution for gun violence is to fix our culture.
You've utterly missed the country with the highest percentage of households with guns: Switzerland. Not only in Europe, but also has an exceedingly low rate of gun crime.
The problem is cultural. Get in line at the Windsor Tunnel on the Detroit side of the Saint Claire River and check out the hookers and crack dealers. Come out of the Tunnel a few minutes later on the Canadian side and you're in a different world. (Haven't been there in a number of years, but I'd be surprised if it has changed much.)