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http://phys.org/news/2015-12-discovery-large-outer-edges-solar.html "(Phys.org)—Two separate teams of researchers (one from Mexico, the other Sweden), have incited skepticism among the astronomy community by posting papers on the preprint server arXiv each describing a different large object...

Reminds me of the thing about quitting smoking lengthens your lifespan, "You don't live longer, it just feels longer." :) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-cream-ingredient-mimic-life-extending-effects.html " A commonly used skin care ingredient is one of several newly identified...

Same arguements can be made for Nazi experimentation on Holocaust victims. Sucks, but it's undeniable such atrocities layed groundwork for much of what we take for granted now.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-scientists-localize-christmas-spirit-brain.html "The Christmas spirit has been located in the human brain, reveals a study published in The BMJ's Christmas issue this week. The Christmas spirit has been a widespread phenomenon for centuries and is commonly...

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-nearby-star-hosts-closest-alien.html "UNSW Australia astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light years away. The planet, more than four times the mass of the Earth, is one...

"POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS: This week, sky watchers are reporting an outbreak of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) around the Arctic Circle. Unlike normal grey-white clouds, which hug Earth's surface at altitudes of only 5 to 10 km, PSCs float through the stratosphere (25 km) and they are...

I think it does pose a threat since anything created by Man will be flawed just as Man is flawed. Also, any AI looking at Man's flaws may well come to the same conclusion Man itself does and reason the world's better off without Man and its flaws.

Do we know what kind of dog or should we make a thread and speculate? :)

Just about every atheist began as some sort of theist. Kinda hard to have a disbelief in something if you have no earthly idea what the something is that you don't believe in it.

I hope not. :) Think the sort of person who frequents sites like this is actually a very small and insignificant percent of the population. We're all idealists in how we see problems to comment on and discuss yet delusional in the sense that the discussion of problems amongst ourselves isn't the...

Throw him in a 6x9 cell and tell him it's actually 600x900. ;)

See a lot of myself in the definitions. Maybe not the socially compassionate though. Think we'd do well to cull the herd a bit here and there actually. :)

I think our culture has every relationship begin with a clean slate, or at least the appearence of one. While the older we are the more likely we've been in relationships prior, there's an unspoken rule that you don't talk about it. Everyone's a virgin in effect. And I think that if you bring up...

Childhood's End mercifully ended. As an overall show it kinda sucked. Up until the very end you're left wondering wtf's going on? The fast-fowarding leaves you confused and detached from the characters, the allusions have you going one way, then the reality goes off another way. Maybe it was...

Good, fewer crazy religious people better the world becomes.