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"Mind-boggling" speed of quantum entanglement is measured for the first time BuckGalaxy April 1, 2025 2:58 pm (Space/Science)

♫ And all your money won't another minute buy ♫ BuckGalaxy April 3, 2025 11:00 am (CurrentEvents)

"What do you hear, Starbuck?" "Nothing but the rain, sir." BuckGalaxy April 1, 2025 4:05 pm (Space/Science)

SEVERANCE. Questions comments and spoilers RobVG March 30, 2025 2:08 pm (Science Fiction)

Fram 2 launched. First ever crewed polar orbit spaceflight BuckGalaxy March 31, 2025 7:43 pm (Space/Science)

Time travel in 1933 ER March 9, 2025 6:51 pm (Off-Topic)

What's the frequency, Kenneth? ER March 28, 2025 10:05 am (CurrentEvents)

Poll of scientists shows large majority weighing leaving US BuckGalaxy March 27, 2025 3:51 pm (CurrentEvents)

World War III. It's a trade war, but a war nonetheless RobVG March 27, 2025 9:45 am (CurrentEvents)

Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025 ER March 27, 2025 11:22 am (Space/Science)

The Death of Loran Alpha. ER March 26, 2025 6:36 pm (Off-Topic)

Administration shares war plans with Jounalist RobVG March 24, 2025 11:17 am (CurrentEvents)

One of your better soccer saves by TB January 5, 2012 1:01 pm

Wow. And one of the worst, too. by bowser 2012-01-06 17:16:50

Hell hath no fury, dept. by ER January 6, 2012 5:05 am

Good Lord! by bowser 2012-01-06 17:15:47

Lost DaVinci sketch to be tested in Milan. by Jody January 5, 2012 7:57 am

Tiz True by RobVG January 3, 2012 7:18 pm

"15 faith-based predictions for 2012" by bowser January 1, 2012 2:53 pm

I get the impression America is a highly religious country. In most western nations, religion plays a much smaller ... by ER 2012-01-01 22:56:59
- I've become aware of an interesting aspect of religion. I assume this is more or less universal. In the hospice ... by bowser 2012-01-02 18:59:17
- Noam Chomsky calls it "religiosity". by bowser 2012-01-02 02:26:40
  - Maybe this explains the strong negative correlation between church attendance and welfare spending. by ER 2012-01-02 07:54:30
    - "Welfare spending" and "charity" are not synonyms. P.S. Here's the source of the chart. by TB 2012-01-02 10:12:00
      - That's right. by ER 2012-01-02 10:21:16

"Gunsmoke", and some memories. by bowser December 27, 2011 11:22 pm

I found myself in a lot of fights early in my life. In my mind I never started them but ... by FrankC 2011-12-28 18:49:29
- That puts you in my class, or a bit better. I didn't have the killer instinct. After the ... by bowser 2011-12-29 01:21:51

Answers by johannes December 26, 2011 3:38 pm

Ahh... ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-27 01:12:26
- Thingamabobs I think that if there are “thingamabob” (Higgs bosons) they still must be composed of “something” and I suppose that ... by johannes 2011-12-27 15:24:47
That question is used as the ultimate proof of God by evangelicals. How that leads to the Old Testament ... by bowser 2011-12-26 20:45:40
- Quantum Electro Dynamics, yes Bowser that leads directly to the Old Testament, if the following translation is used as a ... by johannes 2012-01-01 21:32:15
- "Nonetheless, the greatest carnages this world has seen have been in the name of religion. And oil, or oil and ... by TB 2011-12-26 21:53:26
  - Cause of war: I suspect that there are many reasons that people will start a fight with each other. Some reasons ... by johannes 2011-12-27 15:27:34
  - Well, TB, I'd say they were. Here's a little factoid about WWII in the Pacific, which I'll bet you ... by bowser 2011-12-27 01:59:23
    - Plus, y'know, Pearl Harbor was a major strategic naval base in the Pacific. They probably thought that by taking ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-28 12:34:38
    - One data point hardly makes your argument for you, particularly if you're tallying "carnage." by TB 2011-12-27 10:10:39
      - One data point serves very well as an example of my point, which is all I was trying to do. ... by bowser 2011-12-27 12:23:58
        
        You made a broad statement that was patently false, by any method of counting. by TB 2011-12-27 12:38:36
        
        "Patently false", eh. "Patently"! "Any method of counting". "Any". Well, last I looked there was no demonstration I ... by bowser 2011-12-27 18:22:23
        
        Yeah, I made a pretty broad statement myself. by TB 2011-12-27 18:55:06
    - So what you're saying is that Japan was determned to promote her commercial interests by securing her sources of raw ... by ER 2011-12-27 08:05:06
      - Well done. Exactly. I would only add that Japan regarded the Asian colonies of the Nazi occupied countries ... by bowser 2011-12-27 11:56:29

If you spend Christmas with the British Queen, here is where to go. by bowser December 24, 2011 8:14 am

"The Hobbit" Trailer... by podrock December 20, 2011 9:07 pm

Merry Christmas, Canadians! by TB December 19, 2011 10:54 pm

Merry Christmas McFly, wherever you are...n/t by RobVG 2011-12-22 18:28:35
- Lindy too. by podrock 2011-12-22 18:55:01
  - You're right. I'll let her know. n/t by RobVG 2011-12-22 19:27:14
    - Please tack me on. And "Hi", McFly. by bowser 2011-12-22 20:11:31
      - Done. n/t by RobVG 2011-12-22 21:56:54
Thanks TB. Merry CHRISTMAS to you and yours and to everyone on the HZ. I have been surfing the net ... by johannes 2011-12-22 13:12:01
Thank you. I have been too busy to pause at this topic page lately. All the best to you and your ... by Jeff-Wash 2011-12-21 18:22:21
Hey, they left out the butter tarts. by ER 2011-12-20 05:20:20

Fifty things I've learned about the literary life by TB December 19, 2011 10:45 pm

"15. You don't have to read every book you buy, and you certainly don't have to finish the book you've ... by bowser 2011-12-20 18:06:06
- Not finish your books? Blasphemy!!! When I buy a book I intend to finish it. Granted, ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-20 18:34:17
  - There is a huge gulf between "like to read that book" and" like to have read" that book. Applies to a ... by bowser 2011-12-21 07:29:25
    - So, climb there mountain, read the book, get the girl, save the day. Am I right? by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-21 13:35:14
      - Oh, wrong. Buy the mountain climbers book, read it while he's climbing the next mountain, meet his GF in ... by bowser 2011-12-22 20:14:28

Photos from the Battle of the Bulge by TB December 18, 2011 9:24 pm

I've known a few people who were there, more or less well. Even with time not one of them ... by bowser 2011-12-18 21:55:10
- Most of the people who were there were probably nice guys. Even the Germans. by ER 2011-12-19 03:33:00
  - The longest conversation I've had with someone who was in the Winter campaign of '44 - '45 was with a ... by bowser 2011-12-19 15:29:53
    - Yikes..... 350%? That sounds hellish. ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-19 18:02:23
      - American ground strategies since the Civil War have been willing to take massive casualties. Infantrymen are sacrificed rather than ... by bowser 2011-12-19 20:07:02

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