Religious fundamentalists will have no trouble with this one. The will be, something along the lines of...
"See? We TOLD you life had to be created! How else can you explain something that you can't even do in a laboratory appearing in TWO different places! All this time you've been saying life is rare, and shuckey-durn, we were right all along when we said GOD could make it when, where, and how he pleased."
The ones having trouble will likely be the biologists and biochemists... who will now be likely to have yet another chemistry that resulted in life to attempt to explain. The inability to explain the formation of life is the greatest failure of science today... and life on Mars likely will only make that more obvious.
Tropico and Tropico 2 both have variable speed settings and are highly adictive. Single player only on Tropico. Tropico 2, especially, is a blast... it has monkeys that make fun of people and pirates saying 'ARRRR!' and is the only game I know of in which booze and sex can stop a revolution.
Diablo and Diablo 2 can both be played online. Being paralized from the neck down, you should be immune to the bane of all Diablo players... carpel tunnel. I'd suggest trying the barbarian in D2. Easily playable and a blast, even with one mouse button... I should know, I've played it on a Mac!
Perhaps you should get someone smart to tell you that the EU is in an economic recession and hog-tied by high unemployment. While you're at it, you might have that 'someone smart' explain that Europe also has a significantly larger population than the US, and that in a test of economic strength per population size, Japan wins hands down. And that does not even begin to consider things such as relative sizes of the service sector, the effect of inter-EU trade on the EU economy numbers, the European wage disparity issue, or any of the other literally hundreds of things that 'smart' people use when determing the strength of an economy.
But if you insist on keeping the nice, simple "my cock is bigger, so i'm a better person" mentality, then yes, the US has been beaten into the ground by the vastly greater EU. 'Smart people' gave up that mentality in the third grade.
1930s The sun has set on the US. Germany has sent them into their long, slow decline.
1940s The sun has set on the US. The USSR has sent them into their long, slow decline.
1950s The sun has set on the US. The USSR has sent them into their long, slow decline, and the UN has rendered them irrelevant.
1960s The sun has set on the US. Vietnam will ruin their country and the USSR has sent them into their long slow decline.
1970s The sun has set on the US. The USSR really will send them into a long slow decline, any day now. We promise
1980s The sun has set on the US. The Japanese economy will surpass them and send them into a long, slow decline. Japan is where the power will be.
1990s The sun has set on the US. The USSR, whoops, just vanished... the Japaese, whoops, decade long recession... the New World Order has sent them into a long, slow decline.
2000s The sun has set on the US. The EU has sent them into a long, slow decline, and China will make them irrelevant. And anything that's left over will be roasted by global warming, blown up by terrorist, and sent into the ideological stone age by rabid rightwingers.
2010s The sun has set on the US. The _____ has sent them nto a long, slow decline...
Competition is always welcome and only improves the global market for us all. But isn't getting a little old to pronounce the decline of the US everytime some new appears on the world stage? I mean, the US has been declared to be on life support for one reason or another sincefor 60 years, and last I checked, the US was still around and thriving. No large recessions (hear that Japan?), no high unemployment (that'd be you, EU), increasing popular participation in elections (EU fell behind the US in the last EU elections in voter turnout)... all in all, not to bad, even with the problems.
The US has issues. The US has always had issues. The US always will have issues. But that is a very different thing from being in a long, slow decline.
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Religious fundamentalists will have no trouble with this one. The will be, something along the lines of... "See? We TOLD you life had to be created! How else can you explain something that you can't even do in a laboratory appearing in TWO different places! All this time you've been saying life is rare, and shuckey-durn, we were right all along when we said GOD could make it when, where, and how he pleased." The ones having trouble will likely be the biologists and biochemists... who will now be likely to have yet another chemistry that resulted in life to attempt to explain. The inability to explain the formation of life is the greatest failure of science today... and life on Mars likely will only make that more obvious.
Tropico and Tropico 2 both have variable speed settings and are highly adictive. Single player only on Tropico. Tropico 2, especially, is a blast... it has monkeys that make fun of people and pirates saying 'ARRRR!' and is the only game I know of in which booze and sex can stop a revolution.
Diablo and Diablo 2 can both be played online. Being paralized from the neck down, you should be immune to the bane of all Diablo players... carpel tunnel. I'd suggest trying the barbarian in D2. Easily playable and a blast, even with one mouse button... I should know, I've played it on a Mac!
Perhaps you should get someone smart to tell you that the EU is in an economic recession and hog-tied by high unemployment. While you're at it, you might have that 'someone smart' explain that Europe also has a significantly larger population than the US, and that in a test of economic strength per population size, Japan wins hands down. And that does not even begin to consider things such as relative sizes of the service sector, the effect of inter-EU trade on the EU economy numbers, the European wage disparity issue, or any of the other literally hundreds of things that 'smart' people use when determing the strength of an economy. But if you insist on keeping the nice, simple "my cock is bigger, so i'm a better person" mentality, then yes, the US has been beaten into the ground by the vastly greater EU. 'Smart people' gave up that mentality in the third grade.
1930s The sun has set on the US. Germany has sent them into their long, slow decline.
1940s The sun has set on the US. The USSR has sent them into their long, slow decline.
1950s The sun has set on the US. The USSR has sent them into their long, slow decline, and the UN has rendered them irrelevant.
1960s The sun has set on the US. Vietnam will ruin their country and the USSR has sent them into their long slow decline.
1970s The sun has set on the US. The USSR really will send them into a long slow decline, any day now. We promise
1980s The sun has set on the US. The Japanese economy will surpass them and send them into a long, slow decline. Japan is where the power will be.
1990s The sun has set on the US. The USSR, whoops, just vanished... the Japaese, whoops, decade long recession... the New World Order has sent them into a long, slow decline.
2000s The sun has set on the US. The EU has sent them into a long, slow decline, and China will make them irrelevant. And anything that's left over will be roasted by global warming, blown up by terrorist, and sent into the ideological stone age by rabid rightwingers.
2010s The sun has set on the US. The _____ has sent them nto a long, slow decline...
Competition is always welcome and only improves the global market for us all. But isn't getting a little old to pronounce the decline of the US everytime some new appears on the world stage? I mean, the US has been declared to be on life support for one reason or another sincefor 60 years, and last I checked, the US was still around and thriving. No large recessions (hear that Japan?), no high unemployment (that'd be you, EU), increasing popular participation in elections (EU fell behind the US in the last EU elections in voter turnout)... all in all, not to bad, even with the problems.
The US has issues. The US has always had issues. The US always will have issues. But that is a very different thing from being in a long, slow decline.
NASA looked into similar materials some time ago. In fact, I think this guy is using old NASA technology.