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Today was apparantly the day that the GOP decided it did not need women's votes. by alcaray February 16, 2012 7:36 pm

And then they doubled down by alcaray 2012-02-22 18:02:19
- If these women want an abortion, then they need to get over this *intrusion*....the vacuum pump sucking action of the ... by Jody 2012-02-22 21:22:28
  - I see I misunderstood the reasoning behind the law. n/t by alcaray 2012-02-22 23:43:18

Now it is Santorum's turn. by alcaray February 21, 2012 10:06 pm

Initially I don't like him alcaray. He stated that 90% of all abortions are because the fetus has been diagnosed ... by Jody 2012-02-22 12:37:58
- The actual statistic is that over 90 percent of all fetuses diagnosed with Down's Syndrome are aborted. by TB 2012-02-22 13:05:33
  - Thanks Tom n/t by Jody 2012-02-22 20:02:19
Santorum is rather a loose cannon. He's loose with inflamatory rhetoric, refuses to back down, and has a lot ... by bowser 2012-02-22 09:41:06

The Monster Breaking NASA's Back by TB February 21, 2012 12:23 pm

Pretty depressing... by BuckGalaxy 2012-02-21 17:24:01

The roots of primate... mammalian moral outrage. by alcaray February 20, 2012 8:07 pm

That's fascinating, really. It can be applied to economic systems and other relationships, too. (I especially admired the ... by bowser 2012-02-20 21:43:49

Sigh! The latest US Fed cutbacks mean the end of NASA's unmanned deepspace dominance. by Jeff-Wash February 16, 2012 12:37 am

Hmmmm...... Could a company develop that exists almost solely for the purpose of scientific missions? I imagine it'd be a ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-16 13:23:18
- If there were such an entity, they would go broke in years like this. n/t by alcaray 2012-02-16 16:53:51
  - Yes, but I'm wondering if there was ANY way such a company could survive by catering a little more to ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-18 20:45:25
    - Well, someone (who is curious - hint, hint) should do a study, like you do prior to starting a new business. by alcaray 2012-02-20 17:20:29
- I'm thinking that ESA, China and a more confident and restored JAXA are a more likely source of future deep-space robotic ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-16 13:42:15

Armageddon super virus by RobVG February 20, 2012 11:05 am

A guess would be that mutation is coming down the pike anyway. If it hit without epidemiologists being ready ... by bowser 2012-02-20 15:52:06

Godspeed, John Glenn! by Jeff-Wash February 20, 2012 10:59 am

Fossil water by RobVG February 6, 2012 5:59 pm

"Pressure solution" Ice this thick weighs enough to depress the continental crust below it. However the interface between bedrock and glacier ... by podrock 2012-02-18 21:29:38
- What about insulation? by RobVG 2012-02-19 12:18:27
I wonder why it's liquid? Is there some source of heat down there, or is there some other reason ... by ER 2012-02-06 18:15:01
- Well, Antarctica does have an active volcano, so I wouldn't be surprised if geothermal heating is involved in 'warming' that lake's ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-10 01:38:14
- Well, there's always radioactive isotopes. by alcaray 2012-02-07 22:26:10
- Exothermic microbial action? n/t by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:35:03
  - Now that would be scary. A lot of bugs down there generating enough heat over thousands of years to ... by ER 2012-02-07 21:04:05
- Maybe it has something do do with the lake sediment? Just a random guess. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-07 15:15:55
- Looks like the lake might have existed before the glaciers by RobVG 2012-02-06 19:08:46
  - That's true, but you still think it would have frozen solid by now, unless there was some source of heat. ... by ER 2012-02-06 19:22:53
    - Another thought. Doesn't water need impurities to freeze, the way steam needs small dust particles to form drops? by bowser 2012-02-06 20:14:27
      - At STP, even the purest water will freeze. However, adding a solute, such as a salt (or a water soluble ... by ER 2012-02-06 21:17:52
    - The Earth's core heat comes to the surface in a lot of places - volcanoes, hot springs, geysers. There's ... by bowser 2012-02-06 19:40:46

6 trillion dollars of counterfeit treasury bonds seized. by Jody February 17, 2012 7:02 pm

How much money are all existing actual bonds worth anyway? I heard China owns over a third of all ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-18 13:29:41

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