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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)

Problems at Nebraska Nuclear Plant? by podrock June 15, 2011 11:32 am

Reports here. Doesn't sound serious. by TB 2011-06-15 12:42:50

Kissinger: China poses 'big challenge' for U.S. by mcfly June 15, 2011 10:46 am

Next "unofficial" war, here we come >_ by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-15 18:47:12

Intelligence Test by Eri June 14, 2011 10:54 pm

my dog ate the test. by Jody 2011-06-15 20:40:27
- So which questions did your dog miss? by Eri 2011-06-15 22:16:03
Grrr.... Got 6 on my first try. Personally, I think this game is rigged. Rigged like a shell game. Many questions ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-15 18:26:14
- My dear nephew. What that little test should teach you is that when you make assumptions, you become very ... by Eri 2011-06-15 22:20:12
They got me on no. 10. I thought sex was the trap and never noticed Moses vs Noah. by FrankC 2011-06-15 10:46:29
Sigh. I missed 2 & 3. This will, I realize, make me the village idiot. by mcfly 2011-06-15 10:22:43
I got number 7 wrong. In the word problems, "take away" means "remove." What's left is what you ... by TB 2011-06-15 09:44:56

The Fix by Eri June 14, 2011 10:39 pm

I assume it is intended as a joke since we are talking about 40 trillion bucks. I totally agree with the ... by FrankC 2011-06-15 12:48:23
- Of course it's a joke, but it reflects the fundamental theory of "stimulus" economics. Give people a shitload of ... by TB 2011-06-15 12:54:43
Does anyone who gets this e-mail ever sit down and multiply 40 million people by a million dollars? Our entire GDP ... by TB 2011-06-15 09:38:57

After the flares are over, the Big Chill? by Eri June 14, 2011 9:45 pm

Speculation and facts. There are measurements indicating that the Earth’s water and surface temperature have increased. Some information here: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20050428/ “Earth's Energy ... by johannes 2011-06-19 16:48:32
Warming is always better than cooling. Believe me, you'd much rather have the temperature go up a few degrees ... by TB 2011-06-15 09:50:27
- Call me crazy, but I prefer the Snowball Earth option. Or at least the one where we become Planet ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-15 18:16:35
  - Snowball Earth is death. We can live and raise food in a more tropical climate. by TB 2011-06-15 20:03:40
    - Hence, my "Planet Sierra" approach - cold, but livable for tundra climates. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-29 12:44:42
      - Which brings up a thought experiment of mine. How many species would it take to create a bare bones ... by Lee 2011-06-29 13:49:27

Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstates collective bargaining law by TB June 14, 2011 7:47 pm

Jon Stewart gets it right. by Lee June 14, 2011 2:30 pm

A long time ago the Left arrived at the point where what's inside their heads became far more important than ... by TB 2011-06-14 15:22:52
- Fiasco? Sorry, it's not ringing a bell... by mcfly 2011-06-14 17:30:04
  - How long have you been in this country, Fly? Or more specifically, how long have you been studying our ... by ER 2011-06-14 19:06:37
    - Yeah, I guess that's the story behind politics everywhere, except of course in the US we're talking real money and ... by mcfly 2011-06-14 20:18:46
      - Well, for definitions of politics, there's "the art of the possible." But that's how politicians define politics. The question is, ... by mcfly 2011-06-14 20:56:48
        
        Politicians would like us to believe politics is groups of dedicated statesmen wrangling over lofty ideals and noble philosophies as ... by ER 2011-06-15 03:59:31
        
        Conclusion: We really need to give these people more power and more of our money. by TB 2011-06-15 09:31:25
  - LOL! by TB 2011-06-14 18:32:07

Space policy debate question by TB June 14, 2011 9:47 am

Question of the day by TB June 14, 2011 9:36 am

I have visions of Weiner doing all his hot shit communications with a 55 year old fat bald man who ... by Eri 2011-06-14 22:51:02
- LOL. 'Course now I gotta work on getting that picture outa my head... by mcfly 2011-06-15 10:15:11

Bees by Lee June 14, 2011 8:00 am

Lot's o' bees here. by podrock 2011-06-14 10:41:40
- Bee good. by Eri 2011-06-14 22:53:04
Depends on the flowers. I see some bushes that get clouds of bees. Some attract honeybees, others the ... by TB 2011-06-14 08:45:36

What a Lousy Disorder by Eri June 14, 2011 5:49 am

When I was in elementary school, I was terrible with math. Easily my poorest subject. Having an interest in science, ... by mcfly 2011-06-14 11:13:25
- I wanted to be an astronomer, and I knew that required lots of math. So I took all the math ... by ER 2011-06-14 19:41:23
  - I did okay in algebra and aced trig and geometry in high school. My downfall in college was calculus. ... by TB 2011-06-14 19:53:01
    - I remember a sentence in the intro to Dr Goodman's calc text, it went something like this..."Developing a taste for ... by ER 2011-06-14 20:35:42
Now wait just a darn minute. Count backwards from 100 by 7s as a test? I'd have to do each ... by TB 2011-06-14 08:31:28
- Counting backwards by 7's is easy. I did it pretty fast. It's all in numerical relationships. I'm ... by Eri 2011-06-14 22:49:40
I don't know if this is a disorder or not....but I actually have a hard time telling my left from ... by Jody 2011-06-14 08:21:25
- My wife can't tell her left from her right either, but she has an uncanny sense of direction, she always ... by ER 2011-06-14 19:43:14
- Oprah can't tell your left from your right? :-) by mcfly 2011-06-14 10:36:43
  - RIGHT!!!!! :) by Jody 2011-06-14 10:50:58
    - Easy. The left is your other right. by Eri 2011-06-14 22:48:13

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