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SR72 RobVG November 20, 2025 1:00 pm (Off-Topic)

Collapse of the service access platform at Site 31 in Baikonur? BuckGalaxy November 27, 2025 12:54 pm (Space/Science)

"Pluribus" RobVG November 10, 2025 9:06 am (Science Fiction)

I'm a California Man BuckGalaxy November 27, 2025 2:35 pm (CurrentEvents)

This is not a drill. NOT a drill. General Quarters, General Quarters. All hands man your battle stations. ER November 24, 2025 4:58 pm (CurrentEvents)

Why the reflections? ER November 27, 2025 8:16 am (GeekSpeak)

Xi called Trump RobVG November 24, 2025 10:26 am (CurrentEvents)

So you Millennials think the world has given you a raw deal? ER November 25, 2025 5:27 pm (Off-Topic)

I thought this was fake news when I first saw it online BuckGalaxy November 23, 2025 10:13 pm (Space/Science)

And the worms ate into his brain BuckGalaxy November 23, 2025 7:37 pm (CurrentEvents)

Cracks propagate podrock November 22, 2025 8:54 pm (CurrentEvents)

Carmakers want to build robot armies BuckGalaxy November 18, 2025 5:50 pm (Flame)

Another *what if* scenario... by Jody May 5, 2012 5:33 pm

It's not perfect, but it's brilliant thinking. by bowser May 4, 2012 9:21 am

The Kremlin's May Day: "waving boughs of artificial flowers" by bowser May 1, 2012 5:03 pm

On the bright side, it beats parades of nuclear missiles. by TB 2012-05-01 18:05:45
It's important to remember... by ER 2012-05-01 17:23:41
- You're going to have a tough time filing the serial numbers off this particular reference. by TB 2012-05-01 17:31:10
  - That's the same Wiki reference I used. by ER 2012-05-01 17:41:28
    - Yeah, and before that it was pagans dancing about fertility around poles. by TB 2012-05-01 17:52:53
      - I'm not covering up anything. by ER 2012-05-01 17:57:29
        
        Heh. by TB 2012-05-01 18:11:30
        
        As long as there are capitalists, there will always be communists. by ER 2012-05-01 18:18:41
        
        THAT is a truism, and there is another. by bowser 2012-05-01 19:00:41
        
        OTOH, May Day will no longer be a Red holiday. by ER 2012-05-01 19:29:10

Ten animals that use tools. by bowser April 30, 2012 10:15 am

For sale... by TB April 29, 2012 6:43 pm

That looks like the " Sleepless in Seattle" house of Tom Hanks character. by Jody 2012-04-29 19:36:37

Question. by Jody April 27, 2012 9:53 am

Judging from this, I think they do. Most creationists explain it away like this. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-27 19:05:17
- These are the people who are seeking to dominate American life and culture; and are being cultivated as allies by ... by ER 2012-04-28 06:52:03
There seems to be as many opinions/viewpoints on that subject as there are people. My personal viewpoint is that; since the ... by johannes 2012-04-27 11:53:33
- One thing I've never understood: by TB 2012-04-27 11:59:08
  - Although we have no evidence of what things were like prior to the Big Bang, our best science was that ... by ER 2012-04-27 15:06:20
    - When you realize that time started when the Big Bang did, "always" becomes an interesting concept. by TB 2012-04-27 15:42:32
      - Yeah, but a "beginning to time", the Big Bang idea, and the "creation of the universe" have more in common ... by ER 2012-04-27 16:56:01
        
        The way I see it... by TB 2012-04-27 17:27:17
        
        Yeah, but where we are going depends on where we came from, at whatever level of resolution you choose to ... by ER 2012-04-27 17:31:36
  - The reason why I believe in a vast, omnipotent intelligence of incredible complexity that has existed through all of time, ... by johannes 2012-04-27 14:50:15
    - Your argument for god's existence is an old one. It's called the First Cause argument. The universe has ... by BuckGalaxy 2012-04-27 18:09:31
      - Trash or not, it still gave me the insight into the reason why Einstein had to “square” the speed of ... by johannes 2012-04-27 20:23:30
        
        The unit of E (energy) is the Joule. A Joule is defined in units of kilogram times meters squared per seconds ... by ER 2012-04-28 06:27:09
        
        I did not say that there was anything magical about it. I agree that if you derive the formula from that ... by johannes 2012-04-28 13:25:45
        
        According to Aquinas (or was it Augustine ?), what god was doing during the eternity before he created the world, ... by ER 2012-04-28 06:13:10
Here's the poll again. by TB 2012-04-27 10:46:22
- Thanks Tom...Not a front burner question...but as an introvert...I think about these things. I create....;)....pun in cheek. by Jody 2012-04-27 11:03:28
- That poll is a perfect example. No matter how many people believe something it isn't necessarily true. by bowser 2012-04-27 10:58:40
  - I guess that would depend....on a lot of things....what is true to one..is not to another...c'mon Bowser...you knew I'd have ... by Jody 2012-04-27 15:42:50
They believe humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time. Dinosaurs went extinct, but humans continue. Creationists believe ... by ER 2012-04-27 10:15:21
- Thank you ER by Jody 2012-04-27 11:03:52

The power of Introverts by Jody April 27, 2012 7:53 am

I have often wondered why people who come on like freight trains always say, "I'm basically shy" or "I'm really ... by bowser 2012-04-27 10:26:56
- I always had jobs where someone was depending on me for *support* to be given to them because they were ... by Jody 2012-04-27 20:25:09

Drop Bear by TB April 27, 2012 11:32 am

Just another Boulderite, a week late for the big smoke out. by podrock 2012-04-27 13:24:04
- "No ranger can hold Super Bear!" by TB 2012-04-27 14:36:50
- (It's like the opening graphics to Mad Men) by podrock 2012-04-27 13:33:22
Awww...beary interesting. by Jody 2012-04-27 11:47:59

Friday odd links by TB April 27, 2012 8:44 am

The Trouble with Tolkein by ER April 27, 2012 5:53 am

Best product reviews ever. by TB April 26, 2012 8:27 pm

SO... MUCH... FUNNY! by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-27 02:39:32

Bored of the Rings by ER April 26, 2012 5:39 pm

Sooo... You're not reading The Silmarillion after this? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-26 20:37:33
Finish It. I can't remember if I got bored the first time I read LOTR, it was high school in ... by podrock 2012-04-26 18:37:20
More interesting stuff here. by TB 2012-04-26 18:11:13
- The Annotated Hobbit has extensive material on Tolkein's career as an expert on Northern European languages. I never realized he ... by ER 2012-04-26 18:39:34
  - The Trilogy is really an introduction to Tolkien's created world. He'd been creating a mythology his whole life, published the ... by podrock 2012-04-26 19:04:20
People who read the books after they've seen the movies are probably rare. by TB 2012-04-26 17:58:43
- I've seen a few films that I thought were superior to the books. "Moby Dick" is my favorite example. But what can ... by ER 2012-04-26 18:32:46
"Bored of the Rings" was a Harvard Lampoon parody in the '70s. by Robert 2012-04-26 17:52:51
- I've a copy, in a box, somewhere... by podrock 2012-04-26 18:48:33
- I read the Lampoon version when it first came out. It was hysterical. After that I never felt the ... by ER 2012-04-26 18:25:20

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