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A Taste of Armageddon RobVG July 2, 2025 8:00 am (CurrentEvents)

We've got company ER July 2, 2025 7:50 am (Space/Science)

All Along the Watchtower ER July 1, 2025 9:13 pm (CurrentEvents)

Birthright Citizenship RobVG June 29, 2025 3:34 pm (CurrentEvents)

To be blunt, NASA is now dead RL June 27, 2025 11:56 am (Space/Science)

Musk trashes his own AI after it chose a liberal worldview. RobVG June 23, 2025 9:56 am (CurrentEvents)

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 5:21 pm (Space/Science)

Just for the record... ER June 22, 2025 8:59 am (CurrentEvents)

The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:58 am (CurrentEvents)

There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:29 am (Flame)

Not ready for prime time BuckGalaxy June 19, 2025 12:18 pm (Space/Science)

hypocrisy ER June 15, 2025 2:30 pm (Flame)

What are these clowns up to? by bowser April 24, 2012 2:35 pm

My problem with all this "strategy" crap is that the end goal is always more power for the US. ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-24 16:14:13
- The problem is, the choice "nobody controls the seas" isn't available. by TB 2012-04-24 16:40:58
  - Would anyone here support a UN option? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 09:41:41
    - The goal of the US would be to create as much of a puppet government as possible. A very ... by bowser 2012-04-25 11:21:57
    - Answering for myself: No. by TB 2012-04-25 09:54:56
      - The US lost it's leadership position on Human Rights during the Bush Administration. The US tortured routinely and just ... by bowser 2012-04-25 11:28:06
        
        Then why doesn't a good "progressive" treat the U.N. like it treats Bush? by TB 2012-04-25 11:39:49
        
        "these would be the same “progressives” that spent the entire Cold War worshiping the ground the Soviet Union and its ... by bowser 2012-04-25 12:25:35
        
        Paranoia? by TB 2012-04-25 13:06:09
        
        Rabid paranoia. You'd do well to listen. To call all who protest Bush's abuses of human rights people ... by bowser 2012-04-25 13:34:31
        
        I note the "crimes" don't get much press nowadays. by TB 2012-04-25 16:05:42
        
        Oh, my. I call BS. I call it loud, and long. BS. You're too young to remember Joseph ... by bowser 2012-04-26 00:35:39
        
        By the way, McCarthy did his bit in 1950. How old are you? by TB 2012-04-26 16:55:07
        
        71. And I read the local newspapers from cover to cover from the time I was 9. At ... by bowser 2012-04-26 18:48:24
        
        I know how the Left uses McCarthy, Bowser. by TB 2012-04-26 16:49:13
        
        "Stalinism". Mean anything? "McCarthyism" does too. For a long time it's seemed as if some people stick ... by bowser 2012-04-26 18:41:47
        
        Repeatedly insulting me doesn't change anything. by TB 2012-04-26 19:43:07
        
        P.S. by TB 2012-04-26 19:45:01
Yemen doesn't have any oil, does it? by ER 2012-04-24 15:24:14
- They control one of the transportation choke points into the Red Sea. by TB 2012-04-24 15:39:04
  - They also border the Saudis. by ER 2012-04-24 16:47:37
Good point. When did the FBI suddenly become globetrotters? by TB 2012-04-24 15:17:40

Secrets of Vesta by TB April 26, 2012 6:19 pm

I wonder what the gravitational acceleration is at the surface. Is it enough to allow a spacecraft to land, ... by ER 2012-04-26 19:00:06
- Vesta and Ceres are pretty big for asteroids (Ceres is the largest). by TB 2012-04-26 19:23:09

Breathing Earth by Vitruvius April 24, 2012 1:43 am

What amazes me is how some people are more concerned about the growth of the budget deficit than they are ... by ER 2012-04-24 09:54:54
- In the Cambrian Period, the CO2 level was about twenty times what it is right now. by TB 2012-04-24 11:40:59
  - No, but corn didn't grow in Iowa, either. by ER 2012-04-24 12:45:13
    - You mentioned Venus. I didn't. by TB 2012-04-24 12:52:23
      - Did you actually read my last sentence, or did you just shoot from the hip again? by ER 2012-04-24 13:22:25
        
        "We have every reason to believe it won’t be as high as Venus." I read snark and hyperbole. But you can explain ... by TB 2012-04-24 13:43:50
        
        You know perfectly well I have always rejected the idea of a runaway greenhouse effect on earth as untenable due ... by ER 2012-04-24 13:51:23
        
        Then why bring up Venus at all? by TB 2012-04-24 14:17:46
        
        We have every reason to believe it won’t be as high as Venus. by ER 2012-04-24 14:33:04
    - Now, now, TB might just be joking. Right, TB? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-24 12:47:45
      - TB knows exactly what I was saying, but for ideological reasons, he must reflexively ridicule any mention or discussion of global ... by ER 2012-04-24 13:26:33
        
        You may be wrong, you stated that: “As the earth heats up from the effects of the sun, there is only ... by johannes 2012-04-26 17:29:56
        
        "According to TB’s politics, we’re supposed to do nothing about it until it can be definitely proven. Unfortunately, there’s only ... by TB 2012-04-24 13:59:14
        
        You're not trying to avoid unnecessary surgery. Your posts on this thread prove you can't tolerate anyone even suggesting ... by ER 2012-04-24 14:16:38
        
        The only thing the doctor has been waving at me is a machete. When he puts it away, we'll talk. by TB 2012-04-24 14:19:02
        
        Go talk to your machete-waving doctor, then, if you even know who he is. It ain't me. I don't ... by ER 2012-04-24 14:24:11

North Korea parade missiles fake? by TB April 26, 2012 12:11 pm

They might very well be fakes, but that proves nothing, one way or the other. Fake missiles are used to ... by ER 2012-04-26 12:48:12
- PS. A close look at the launch/transport vehicles tells you a lot about a potential enemy's capabilities. How ... by ER 2012-04-26 12:59:44
  - Interesting. I wish I'd known that, I would have watched the May Day parades in the Kremlin with different ... by bowser 2012-04-26 14:53:19
  - Good info. Thanks! by TB 2012-04-26 14:24:03
Might be. Might well be. There's an ironic aspect to it, though. If at the moment the drums were ... by bowser 2012-04-26 12:27:37

Both Sides Now by ER April 25, 2012 7:42 pm

Water is so more efficient than air in transferring heat that very small changes in sea temperature could have profound ... by bowser 2012-04-26 12:14:33
- When water gets warm, it evaporates, and water vapor is even more efficient a greenhouse gas than CO2. The ... by ER 2012-04-26 13:37:44

Service to the Community by ER April 25, 2012 8:27 am

Why don't you invite him to the Zone? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 20:16:43
Fun. Great post, well written, interesting. by bowser 2012-04-25 16:23:34

What do you think; is this true? by johannes April 25, 2012 6:52 pm

I call bullshit on that story, and whoever wrote it by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 20:12:46

Question of the day! by Vitruvius April 25, 2012 3:07 pm

More on Prof. Deudney here. by TB 2012-04-25 15:43:29
- from your link... "So, once and for all -- what is a negarchy?" "...We didn't have a term that's abstract like ... by ER 2012-04-25 16:14:44
  - The guy does seem like a patriotic nutjob, but it's not his views I'm concerned with. Though his introduction ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 17:56:29
    - Well, according to Deudney... by TB 2012-04-25 18:20:42
      - Useful hint: I wouldn't spend the money if I were you. by TB 2012-04-25 18:43:09
        
        Silly TB.... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 19:31:52
    - I think I get what he said. And its not particularly outrageous. The rule may be of their own ... by ER 2012-04-25 18:12:34
I think that's the best we can hope for; a stable condition due to the exact balance of opposing ... by ER 2012-04-25 15:34:22

Does anyone have big ears? by bowser April 25, 2012 2:30 pm

I looked it up on Google Earth. Miles and miles of mountains. Frankly, I'm surprised the road is ... by TB 2012-04-25 16:51:48

Define insanity by Jody April 21, 2012 4:12 pm

We are all insane. And I'm not just making a rhetorical point, either. We all do stupid things we ... by ER 2012-04-22 08:30:02
- Don't confuse "irrational" with "insane." by TB 2012-04-22 11:04:47
  - In science, honest error is not generally the result of ignoring data, or manufacturing it. It comes from weighing ... by ER 2012-04-22 11:48:37
- Awesome ER!! by Jody 2012-04-22 08:43:27
Define anything that isn't. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-21 19:14:26
- Technically, yes. by TB 2012-04-21 19:36:24
  - Haven't read the book yet - could you describe it to me? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 09:52:39
    - I haven't read most of it either. Just excerpts on specific things I was interested in, and analytical articles. by TB 2012-04-25 10:58:48
      - Utopia does reek of totalitarianism, but I think we should read the Republic before judging it. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 15:17:26
When what's inside your head and what's outside are not compatible. by TB 2012-04-21 17:18:30
- "When it interferes with normal functions, or other people’s lives, it starts to become a problem." by ER 2012-04-22 08:35:25
For people like me it's drinking and/or using drugs. There can be more, and I could be insane without ... by bowser 2012-04-21 16:33:43

Well, jeepers. by TB April 24, 2012 7:38 pm

boot !== OS by Robert 2012-04-24 23:42:15
- Oh, I know how it works, and I know what the problem was. by TB 2012-04-25 09:41:38

But what have you done for me lately? by ER April 25, 2012 9:04 am

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