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Comment #19692738
Made me think of the movie eXistenZ.
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Comment #19667494
To be sure, always wait for proof before acting. But pattern recognition is a thing. Although there was no evidence of a connection, France has seen a number of attacks on Catholic…
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Comment #19667435
How about this one? https://www.intoleranceagainstchristians.eu/
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Comment #19574521
Welch says, "but [can also] find cancers that were never going to matter." That's because some cancers grow slowly and never become dangerous, he says. This exact same phenomenon i…
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Comment #19458495
At 0.1c, that 40 years will just whip by for the travelers themselves. To them, it will only seem like ... 39.8 years (doh!) No help there.
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Comment #19176087
Attacks on free speech in USA and Europe have nothing to do with offensive language and everything to do with control. Be careful what precedents you set and what things you celebr…
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Comment #19175497
I used to travel with a Chromecast so I could cast in my hotel room. I finally gave up, since it never worked in any hotel I stayed in.
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Comment #19175325
Censorship seems to be coming from the left. I think it makes sense for everybody to maintain as much privacy from .gov as possible.
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Comment #19050615
Radio Shack used to always want a bunch of information from you for their database, whenever you would buy anything, cash or not. It was good training in refusing to participate in…
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Comment #18986336
Most people in the west have no idea the holodomor genocide of millions by the Bolsheviks (much of whose leadership and financing was from New York) ever occurred. His downplaying …
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Comment #18827487
The original income tax was also promised to be only a tax on the rich. These things have a way of finding the non-rich eventually. Also, remember in 1970, the bank secrecy act put…
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Comment #18810376
In the vastness of a universe as large as ours, polka dotted unicorns are probably very likely. But it's still unlikely to actually encounter one ... you know, because they're polk…
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Comment #18810311
If they're all like this one, that would be puzzling indeed! Well done Mr. Spock!
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Comment #18810225
So, two masses were close enough in relative velocity and vector, that one of them didn't careen off the other one, and instead, allowed the weakest of all known forces to bond the…
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Comment #18666462
I fear the Goog, even when they bear gifts.
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Comment #18631837
This is new. Coauthored by a NASA scientist. Check it out, I think you'll be interested. ;-) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02692.pdf 4 Conclusion We have shown a strong correlation be…
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Comment #18624606
Even if we were to stipulate his 10% number, that's 4.3% of cloud formation based on cosmic rays. Not insignificant. Your repeated contention that pollution aerosols are of equal m…
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Comment #18623800
I'm not certain how to respond to such a non-argument in such a biased forum as this one. I would respectfully just point out that on this subject, you are in a filter bubble, whic…
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Comment #18623785
From your quoted article. This work offers a new understanding of global particle formation as based almost entirely on ternary rather than binary nucleation, with ions playing a m…
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Comment #18622565
There are many scientists that believe solar forcing is responsible for temperature increases on Earth, Mars, Triton, Jupiter, and Pluto. While CO2 promoters point out the fact tha…
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Comment #18580211
I agree. It has to be obvious to those in charge that this debt bubble that every single country is blowing cannot continue to grow forever, yet no country has succeeded in halting…
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Comment #18571976
Systems that depend on infinite population growth seem like a bad idea. Mayors of cities who constantly need to grow their population base to prop up housing prices, all the way up…
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Comment #18563293
I am pleased that you sound like you feel that would be a bad thing. Communism is being sold as a cool thing by Bernie Sander, Ocasio-Cortez, Antifa, and others. If that view becom…
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