... If there is a problem, and I'm inclined to think there is not, it will be greater for the US system, which is essentially retributive, than the British,...
Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing. People got very excited in 2004 when NASA's rover Opportunity discovered ...
*Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions* *"A large body of scientific evidence now exists that...
It's probably worth commenting on what of this is new, and what old. The article makes it sound like there is a lot of new information here, but most of it has...
I'm not sure that the article really comes up with new information so much as confirming what had been proposed before. The asteroid/meteorite/comet theory...
No matter how quiet we try to be now it's too late to prevent alien invaders. So says Alexander Zaitsev of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics...
An interesting claim, but the referenced article is rather unimpressive as a scientific document. http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2754v1 The original article is only...
If any alien invaders were to be attracted, they'd better hurry up and get here if they hope to find anything worth invading. If they can make it in the next...
* More than a quarter of Americans suffer daily pain, a condition that costs the U.S. about $60 billion a year in lost productivity. And how often you're in...
... snippage of reams of wild speculation, incoherent analysis, and batty conclusions ... In a health system that requires people to pay full price for ...
... about? ... I'd say some the exclusive advantages of the richest shouldn't be an exclusive control of the political decision making apparatus, an exclusive ...
* In a health system that requires people to pay full price for medication, poorer people have inadequate access to both pharmacological and alternative...
... Though I think the likelihood of alien invaders showing up just as we achieve enough technological advancement to annoy them is pretty much nil, I think...
Sure, iron is one of those substances that is available in massive enough amounts that it can be retrieved even from dumps without too much effort, but it's...
... Don't worry. Extraterrestrial visitors that could navigate deep space would be at such a high tech level and so intellectually advanced as to make taking...
Ha. LOL. thats funny James. I was going to add to the list of things we have to offer them. like: a hundred religions to use for material for their sitcoms. ...
One thing that any intelligent group would be wary of is the possibility of picking up new diseases that might kill them all off, as described in scenarios in...
... BTW, what is your country? ... I don't get how in comparing morphine's and heroin's 'effectiveness' in pain killing is measured. Pain killed per...
* None of the advantages listed are actually 'exclusive'; they are just a lot harder to obtain by the less rich and maybe unattainable by the poorest. COMMENT:...
Well. I thought I'd toss that one in. Anyway, if we traveled back in time then we'd be appalled at how bad humans smelled back then, too. It kind of takes...
... All good things. We probably should get admonished for being OT. But I'l risk a few small comments. ... China has been communist in name only for the last...
* He [a retired CIA official] combed the public record on Obama. He used a couple of allies and informants - half-jokingly dubbing his group "The Crusaders"...
Illegal Immigrants without doctors fear hospitals and so are suckers for cheaper folk and spiritual healers http://www.nytimes.com/?excamp=GGGNnewyorktimes ...
* The quality of Cruise's German accent was widely commented on. The film has also had to have reshoots after footage was damaged in labs. [1] * One critic in...
A good deal of criticism of Tom Cruise regards his Scientology religion. Scientology is not a crazier religion than any other. All religions require a...
... Scientology is not a crazier religion than any other. All religions require a suspension of the intellect. COMMENT: No kidding. However, Scientology is a...
Even Scientology didn't consider itself a religion until they figured out they could quit paying taxes by declaring themselves one. That said, I agree, of...
Far Future Calling: The New Time Lords Is time travel possible? And if it were what will this reveal to us about the fundamental nature of reality? Will our...
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