You can’t live in fear, but some people will try to make you, and some seem to like it.
I wouldn’t have bothered posting about this, except for one throwaway line near the top: […] In the end, the nuclear apocalypse failed to appear – the scientific consensus is that absolutely no health effects due to the Fukushima radiation will ever be detectable […] So to sum it up: the worst nuclear disaster in …
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This is utter nonsense, as far as I can tell. There simply wouldn’t be enough volatile material to create something that would explode with any amount of force. At best it could turn someone into a walking fireball for a (very) short time, which is bad enough on an airplane, but would hardly bring it …
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It is with great sadness that I have to agree with this article. When I was growing up, we were taught that the US was the greatest nation on Earth. There was even some evidence that objectively supported it — the Manhattan project (and the fact that we were so collectively horrified at the fates …
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This is why I say that we should make no drastic changes until the science results are final. (They’re not, yet — the conclusions there could still be reversed by fresh evidence.)
Those of us who think about these things have been saying that for decades. I hope people listen soon enough for it to do humanity some good.
Article here. Posted without commentary, except this: :-p
There you go Ploni, a real-life disaster in the making: the first step in the trees’ revenge for all the logging our race has ever done. It’s a plan they put into action in the sixteenth century. In another several hundred years, they’re certain to have a full arsenal against us! We have to act …
Given the recent demise of so many juicy and useful pseudo-threats, politicians and other fearmongers are probably watching this with anticipation. After all, it’s never too early to start planning your strategy of terrifying people into giving you more money and power.
Oops, another perfectly good disaster scenario down the drain. Unless something like the metavirus from the novel Snow Crash appears, capable of infecting both humans and computers, I think we’re fairly safe on that front. At this rate, right-leaning politicians and other fear-mongers must be seeing a new disaster on the horizon: running out of …
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Apparently the historical size of horses is inversely proportional to the temperature — in other words, when temperatures were hotter, the ancestors of modern horses were smaller, and vice versa. It makes sense, since smaller bodies are easier to cool. Unfortunately it’s also well-known that reptiles have just the opposite response, getting larger as temperatures …
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