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  1. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    If I didn't know people like that, I'd believe you were bullshitting me. That seriously disturbs me that someone can be so off their rocker that they sound like a bad skit from SNL and yet have millions of followers. In another note, the blowing up 747s was actually from FOX, though from season 1 of 24...

  2. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    The blowing up 747s was actually from FOX, though from season 1 of 24...

  3. Re:Bull on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that however the universe began, it did not include evolution, and it was a "patch" 4 billion years ago that allowed abiogenesis?

  4. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt he is referring to chemical evolution, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, evolutionary algorithms, the evolution of rock music, or anything other than biological evolution.

  5. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    Evolution basically say a population of organisms changes over time to adapt to the environment. We know from geology and the fossil record that conditions have been very different in the past, and that there were organisms then that aren't around today, however this is evidence for evolution, not the theory itself. It doesn't say there there must have been a single first organism, we've inferred that from the evidence. Abiogenesis deals with how life began, and to my knowledge is pretty unsubstantiated.

  6. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    I don't know about natural disasters, but I learned from FOX that lesbians are the primary cause for 747s to blow up over the Mojave desert...

  7. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh, too bad evolution is about how life is changing, and completely unrelated to how life started, but keep on with your small minded worldview and ignorance, you're sure to make the history books (as a laughingstock).

  8. Re:Bad behavior = disease... why not?? on Is Internet Addiction a Medical Condition? · · Score: 1

    Since I usually get bashed for using wiki as a source, here's a shitload of links

  9. Re:Fearmongering is not the way to do this. on Mass Extinctions from Global Warming? · · Score: 1

    Except that H2O is also a greenhouse gas...

  10. Re:Fearmongering is not the way to do this. on Mass Extinctions from Global Warming? · · Score: 1

    Volcanos also release a quite a lot of ash that has a signifigant cooling effect, see Year_Without_a_Summer

  11. Re:NASA Alzheimers on Computer Analysis Sets NASA History Straight · · Score: 1

    Too late, remember Pluto?

  12. Re:'bout damn time I get my flying cars on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1

    A rocket works the same way you in a rowboat throwing stones behind you moves you, only it does this in a slightly faster and more complicated fashion.

  13. Re:Aditional Features on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1

    Well, all canned soup has been heated to cook and sterilize it, and I've only made soup on the stove.

  14. Re:Why dont you require a hardware key? on Googling for ATM Master Passwords · · Score: 1

    Baskin Robbins cash register (the touchscreen ones), at least where I worked only require a 4 digit password, which is routinely given out to employees because they need to use to to close when the manager isn't there, which was pretty much every night where I worked.

  15. Re:Fishing? on Fish Work as Anti-terror Agents · · Score: 1

    I think you might get your point across clearer by referring to pure capitalism as anarcho-capitalism, if that's what you mean.

  16. Re:In-store pickup on Judge Rules Sites Can Be Sued Over Design · · Score: 1

    If they're gonna ask a family member to pick it up for them, why not just have them order it as well? It's not like you're proving yourself independent by just ordering it yourself and have someone else do the heavy lifting.

  17. Re:Darwin All Over Again on Single-Celled Species' Genome As Complex As Ours? · · Score: 1

    Hey, at least we didn't screw up as badly as birds, reptiles, and amphibians and make the pipe dump *into* the playground.

  18. Re:Correction on The Light Bulb That Can Change the World · · Score: 1

    Fossil fuels typically have an energy content of 30-50MJ/Kg, which translates to 8.3 to 13.8 KWh/Kg

  19. Re:Heroin on Morphine Relief Without Addiction? · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Heroin on Morphine Relief Without Addiction? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ever come into close contact with nicotine? It's deadly at ~40mg, and horribly corrosive, whilst morphine is a nice bitter powder that's safe up to 100mg for first time users.

    As for morphines side effects, is being constipated considered that "nasty", or would the euphoria be considered bad?

    Furthermore, the"soldier's disease" is a myth, which should be rather obvious considering the DEA was formed 100 years after the civil war.

    As other people have said, the stigma assoicated with drugs is far more due to puritanical ideas about suffering and politics than any real problems.

  21. Re:A new rule of logic. LWATCDR razor. on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 1

    H2O2 from the drugstore is around 3%, hair bleaching kits have about 6%, and wood bleaching kits at places like home depot have 2 containers, 1 with NaOH soln, and 1 with 30% H2O2 soln, which will oxidize dirt and should be good enough for any explosives making. As for distilling it being dangerous, as long as you've taken 5 seconds on google to learn about stabilizers to prevent autocatalytic decomposition, it's no more dangerous than crossing the street.

    As for thermite being easily detectable, ever carry a laptop on a plan, that's got a lot of hiding spots for something metallic.

  22. Re:squished? on Lithium-Ion Batteries Linked to Airplane Fires · · Score: 1

    None of the alkali metals explode. They will release hydrogen and lots of heat on contact with water, but that's a hydrogen fuel air bomb exploding, not the metal.

  23. Re:I think he has it backwards ... on First Look at Sony's Tiny Vaio UX180p · · Score: 1

    You've missed the reviewer's point. Imagine printing 6pt text on a 600 DPI printer versus 12pt text on a 300 DPI printer. Both pages will use the same number of pixels, yet the 6pt is harder to read because it's smaller, as the XBRITE display is (suprisingly) easily readable, despite the small screen (with a higher DPI than most screens).

  24. Re:ok .... on Making Science Machine Readable · · Score: 1

    You should probably remove that Bar association logo too...

  25. Re:I don't mean to sound like a conspiricy theoris on Making Science Machine Readable · · Score: 1

    A collection a facts is no more science than a pile of stones is a house, paraphrased from Poincaré.