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‘Yes, it’s going to crack’ - a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly BuckGalaxy January 23, 2026 10:42 am (Flame)

Trump’s Greenland Gambit Has Broken Brains Across Washington BuckGalaxy January 21, 2026 8:38 pm (Flame)

This is so strange, on so many levels. ER January 21, 2026 5:13 pm (Off-Topic)

What's in your wallet? ER January 19, 2026 8:10 pm (CurrentEvents)

Anne Applebaum: Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw BuckGalaxy January 19, 2026 7:18 pm (Flame)

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Trump's irrational fixation on Greenland could lead to widespread conflict. BuckGalaxy January 14, 2026 10:48 pm (Flame)

Germany, Sweden, France and Norway announce joint military exercises with Denmark in Greenland BuckGalaxy January 14, 2026 10:12 pm (CurrentEvents)

Erich von Däniken, 1935 – 2026 podrock January 13, 2026 9:05 am (CurrentEvents)

It is the cowardice that has doomed us.... RL January 11, 2026 1:07 pm (CurrentEvents)

An opinion from our neighbors up north, eh... podrock January 11, 2026 9:14 am (CurrentEvents)

Murdering moms in mini-vans in Minneapolis Minnesota RL January 10, 2026 2:01 pm (CurrentEvents)

Official recovery is two years old this month. by TB June 3, 2011 7:55 pm

Piggies (J Lennon P McCartney) Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt? And for all the little piggies Life is getting ... by ER 2011-06-04 05:52:59
- Do we all remember that Lennon and McCartney are (or were) richer than Croesus? McCartney's wealth has been lovingly detailed in ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:28:11
  - That really steams you doesn't it? Isn't that what U Peeple call "Class traitors"? Or is it just that rich or ... by ER 2011-06-04 09:44:31
    - Nah. Nothing that profound. Just pointing out people who live in mansions who make money singing about those ... by TB 2011-06-04 10:47:14
      - I agree with you TB...hypocrisy on such a basic level. by Jody 2011-06-04 12:16:14
Funny.... I thought we had just started our economic return a couple of months ago. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-03 23:58:22
- The National Bureau of Economic Research, which seems to be the go-to place for deciding when recessions start and end, ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:40:20
  - I've often wondered about that. I guess the official definition of recession does not take unemployment into account. by ER 2011-06-04 09:09:47
    - I don't know what their exact methodology is. They discuss it a little here. by TB 2011-06-04 10:50:03

54,000 new jobs. Half of them hamburger flippers? by TB June 3, 2011 2:46 pm

Ten bucks says these same people lose their jobs before the year is out. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-03 18:26:32
- McDonalds does have a very high turnover rate, but not from losing jobs. It's from people finding better ones. ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:31:08
  - The traditional entry-level job for young men when I was in my late teens and early twenties was construction (if ... by ER 2011-06-04 09:18:04
    - Out in the midwest, at least in the small town where I lived, entry-level was agricultural grunt work. I ... by TB 2011-06-04 09:30:15
      - Bingo. Government policies may play some role, especially in the short term, but in general, our economic problems are ... by ER 2011-06-04 10:04:38
        
        I still have a lot of confidence in people's ability to create new industries and jobs. While a lot ... by TB 2011-06-04 10:20:04
        
        Yes, as soon as us old farts hurry up and die off so all the young dudes can take over. ... by ER 2011-06-04 11:19:08
        
        U.S. fertility peaked in 1957. A lot of what we're seeing now may be due to immigration and descendants ... by TB 2011-06-04 11:52:45
- The carbon units are interchangeable, replaceable and disposable. Welcome to the Machine. by ER 2011-06-04 05:48:23

The coming Age of Fossil Fuels? by TB June 3, 2011 2:23 pm

My thought for the day... by Jody June 3, 2011 7:55 am

Friday's Follies by Jody June 3, 2011 7:16 am

...can you tell an author's sex? by Jody June 3, 2011 6:10 am

Sure, after a couple of drinks. by ER 2011-06-03 20:37:07
- ER!!!!!!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! by Jody 2011-06-04 07:42:28
I got them all, although I dithered on a couple before finally choosing. I write from a male POV ... by Eri 2011-06-03 17:03:10
7 out of 10 but I don't feel that I would do better than break even in a hundred trys by FrankC 2011-06-03 12:31:58
4 out of 10. About what one might expect for random picks. I do know that writing from a woman's ... by ER 2011-06-03 07:01:22

Shell to begin construction of Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility by TB June 2, 2011 8:08 pm

How to handle natural gas from offshore rigs has alway been a huge problem. Look at a picture of ... by podrock 2011-06-03 17:50:06
- I think rising worldwide demand for energy is a more important driver right now than scarcity of the resources themselves. ... by TB 2011-06-03 18:30:17
Lets just hope they "invest" a little more in safety procedures and emergency planning than BP did in Macondo. ... by ER 2011-06-03 06:44:16
- "Only an adversarial system of government regulation can strike the right balance." We had a system exactly like that when the ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:15:15
  - Royal Dutch Shell is not an American company, that device will not be anchored in American waters, I doubt if ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:01:28
    - I've been tracking these things, although someone like Podrock probably has his finger closer to the pulse than I do. You ... by TB 2011-06-03 13:04:11
      - Normally, I'd be tempted to just take your word for it, but you seem so breathlessly desperate to bring this ... by ER 2011-06-03 13:30:01
Look at all that beautiful blue water. Does it belong to Shell too? by mcfly 2011-06-02 20:37:27
- Ignore that reply. I'd have deleted it but that option isn't presenting itself. by mcfly 2011-06-03 04:38:12
  - Don't delete but if you ever do need to delete, click on Edit and then at the right hand side ... by Eri 2011-06-03 06:03:17
    - I don't have an "edit" to click on, or a window to throw it out of. ARRGGGHHH! by ER 2011-06-03 06:46:07
      - Refresh once or twice after publishing a post or comment. I find my "edit" doesn't appear until I've done ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:16:09
        
        I only get edit capability when I initiate the thread. And then I get it on all posts in the thread. ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:05:14
        
        ER, TB is right. After you post a reply 0comment), go up and click on the forum heading (Current ... by Eri 2011-06-03 10:32:49
        
        OK, i'll try it right now. by ER 2011-06-03 12:26:42
        
        OK, I did just what you said and nothing happened. All I have is a [Reply] button, but no [Edit] button. However, ... by ER 2011-06-03 12:33:34
        
        ER's observations are exactly what our testuser Rita experiences with permission settings at the author level. by podrock 2011-06-03 12:44:26
        
        ARRGGGHHHH! by ER 2011-06-03 13:46:05
        
        Poor ER. :( If you smile real pretty at Pod and/or Robert, maybe they can give you the ... by Eri 2011-06-03 16:38:29
        
        I completely agree by podrock 2011-06-03 17:29:46
        
        THE RIGHT TO EDIT. Man, does that sound ponderous, or what? Actually, it's not worth a great big ... by ER 2011-06-03 18:24:42
        
        Piece O'Cake. So simple I can do it. And I agree, it sounds ponderous. The survivors of the ... by podrock 2011-06-03 18:47:49
        
        If you need something major moved or corrected, or a link done, I can help. I'm not going to ... by TB 2011-06-03 18:31:35

Arab spring, huh? by mcfly June 2, 2011 4:01 pm

Please don't take this as an endorsement, or criticism, of any religion, because I think they are all equally screwy. ... by ER 2011-06-02 18:08:44
- I get what you're saying, but in retrospect my initial post is far to self-satisfied, and terribly unfair to those ... by mcfly 2011-06-02 20:32:58
- You're just now figuring that out? :-) by Eri 2011-06-02 19:21:53

Adventures of the Rabbit Police by TB June 2, 2011 2:35 pm

Fracking jerks! (The USDA) Hell, they're so incompetent, they can't even keep grocery stores from serving half raw ... by Eri 2011-06-02 19:28:59
- If we had real freedom, with no meddling gov regulation, businesses that sold deadly products would suffer in the free ... by ER 2011-06-03 04:57:39
  - Infinite regulation and control produces perfect safety. Look at how safe and clean those places are in this world ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:24:00
    - You say I want "infinite" regulation, I say you want "no" regulation. The truth is clearly somewhere in between, but ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:12:21
      - I think one thing is fairly certain: a quarter-inch size discrepancy in a rabbit cage has jack shit to ... by TB 2011-06-03 13:16:53
        
        The reason all those regulations are so chicken-shit (to borrow a time-honored military term for a pointless and overly detailed ... by ER 2011-06-03 13:41:29
        
        Yeah, these rabbit sellers were obviously out to take their customers to the cleaners. Like all farmers and businessmen ... by TB 2011-06-03 14:24:41
        
        Not me. But my mother spent her whole life working her guts out for those bastards. by ER 2011-06-03 15:20:03
        
        Which bastards? Seriously, I don't get it. I've been unhappy now and then with dealings I've had in ... by TB 2011-06-03 15:49:15
        
        You have to blame somebody for why your life hasn't worked out the way you once fantasized. And I ... by ER 2011-06-03 19:15:46
        
        EDITED: (I think I misread your post, so I scrapped my first paragraphs.) You've never met a statist because you've ... by TB 2011-06-03 19:49:08
        
        Statists are your bogeymen, not mine. I deal with people I trade with all the time, and I deal with people ... by ER 2011-06-03 21:10:49
  - I wonder if I took a .22 and went in and shot all their roasted chickens, they'd get the idea? Probably ... by Eri 2011-06-03 06:05:10

...could you live here? by Jody June 2, 2011 12:23 pm

If it wasn't for my wife, I would gladly live on a 20' Flicka. By the way, thousands of ... by ER 2011-06-03 07:06:47
My house of 21 years is 2,200 square feet. It has served me well. As retirement edges closer, I ... by Jody 2011-06-03 06:24:49
Meh... put it underground, THEN I'll consider it. (Yeah, I'm a goddamn morlock) by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-02 21:51:39
- Underground you wouldn't need cooling, just a bit of heating. You'd live at a constant temperature which would probably ... by Eri 2011-06-03 06:15:18
I think it's quite cute. Could my family live there? Yeah, I think so. Our current house is on the ... by mcfly 2011-06-02 20:42:25
I'd need just a few more square feet in kitchen. Actually, that IS my kitchen. As far as room ... by Eri 2011-06-02 19:47:23
Actually, for a majority of the planet, this would be the height of luxury. The homes our church kids ... by TB 2011-06-02 12:50:22
- Very true TB. by Jody 2011-06-03 06:26:34

I can't decide which story to sub by Eri June 2, 2011 6:26 am

definitely Rings, It is quirky good and very well written. by FrankC 2011-06-03 12:17:47
- Thanks, Frank! by Eri 2011-06-03 16:15:52
The first one. It looks like it's going somewhere interesting. One small science note: If a species ... by TB 2011-06-02 12:42:07
- TB, I've been doing some research on vegetarianism, omnivorism and herbivorism. What I'm finding in the dictionary and in ... by Eri 2011-06-03 16:29:46
  - The terms can be applied either biologically or culturally. Humans can nicely digest either meat or most vegetables. ... by TB 2011-06-03 17:01:30
    - That's what I thought; however, you had indicated that vegetarianism meant you couldn't digest meat. by Eri 2011-06-06 16:53:34
- Thanks, TB. Actually, it's not a God or an apprentice. There are rings around the planet and my ... by Eri 2011-06-02 13:45:07
  - P.S. be careful of your science. Despite years of TV SF, it's not really possible to "float into a ... by TB 2011-06-02 13:54:01
    - Got it. Thanks! by Eri 2011-06-02 19:14:41
  - I was referring to the second piece in the "god-alien" comment, not the first one. by TB 2011-06-02 13:46:05
    - Misread. Yeah, this fella really screwed up. Wish he'd done it with someone else's planet. ;) by Eri 2011-06-02 19:17:23
THE RINGS - Removed by author by Eri 2011-06-02 06:30:02
- Well, this story seems to have a life of its own which means I'd better let it run with itself, ... by Eri 2011-06-06 04:54:21
DEATH THROES - Removed by Author by Eri 2011-06-02 06:29:19
- Nice. But you may have left a room un-explored. Gods incarnate as humans for many reasons. Many, like Zeus, did ... by podrock 2011-06-03 17:13:22
  - Interesting. It hadn't occurred to me to approach it from that direction. I'll play with this and see how ... by Eri 2011-06-03 22:03:47
Dance of Death - Removed by Author by Eri 2011-06-02 06:28:03
- Given TB's comments, what if this star was about to go nova, and that's why the protagonist was there in ... by podrock 2011-06-03 16:38:08
  - That sounds like a great possibility. I had originally envisioned his being caught in the Sun's gravity and being ... by Eri 2011-06-03 22:07:57
    - Tom is correct about the Delta V required to approach a stars surface. Unless his ship had attained the DV required, ... by FrankC 2011-06-04 12:51:31
      - Hmmm. Thanks. That will put me into a different direction on this, then. I'll have to think about ... by Eri 2011-06-04 18:51:47

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