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- PonyBoy2
PREHISTORIC, DINOSAUR-ERA SHARK WITH INSANE TEETH FOUND SWIMMING OFF COAST OF PORTUGAL
http://www.newsweek.com/dinosaur…
"The rare frilled shark is considered a “living fossil,” because evidence of its existence dates back to at least 80 million years ago. This summer, researchers found one alive and thriving off the coast of Portugal, adding yet more clues about the resilience of this ancient sea creature."
- Gnash4
- yeah not sure i'm with her :) but I do think that determinism and reductionism have killed romance and in some ways it was nicer before...sofas
- lol, as if anyone is stopping scientists from scientifically exploring the science behind black magic! it isn't happening because that's stupid AFmonospaced
- Morning_star0
Because after all Mono, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- That is true. There are mounds of scientific evidence about the nature of our universe.monospaced
- and evidence is ONLY coming from science, as religion has offered not a single piece in ... evermonospaced
- detritus0
Ingestion of c60, 'buckminsterfullerene' doubles lives of rats?!
http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci…
tl;dr — a study aimed at figuring out toxicity of buckyballs in mammals not only implies they're not toxic, but actually increase lifespan.
- its a soccer balldrgs
- with the fuck are you supposed swallow one of those thing?
https://images.vat19…Gnash
- reanimate0
- I think Sam gets a little bit sensationalist about the whole debate. However, all his points are valid, just not the whole picture.Morning_star
- drgs1
We dont live in a simulation
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physi…
- yuekit0
Why Hasn’t Evolution Made Another Platypus?
The debate over whether evolution is predictable or haphazard.
- isn't it because the platypus was a stopgap in the development of live-birth mammals? it has only a tenuous grasp on the niche it still has.sarahfailin
- Or at all (runs and hides under the table!)mugwart
- utopian1
Evaporating Water Could Power Almost 70% of The US Electrical Grid
- detritus2
Ah shit, I meant to look heavenward an hour or so ago, about when our noble and loyal friend Cassini dropped into Saturn — it'll be gone now, obliterated into dust under so much pressure.
Earth should receive its final message in about half an hour or so.
So long — thanks for all the pics!
x
- Laterally, our lobbing a radioactive kinetic projectile at the Saturnians might well kick off our first inter-planetary war.detritus
- BusterBoy3
- When will all the "#Winning" stop?utopian
- That guys face says "Kick me as hard as you can".section_014
- detritus1
Join Helen Foster/Jodie Hunt in her enthusiasm for a solar storm which could fuck us all (probably won't).
- but no Jodie Foster?monospaced
- I was thinking of her in Contact.
I often do.detritus - Jodie Foster and Helen Hunt, together at last.Continuity
- haha, Helen Hunt ... how did I miss that!?monospaced
- _niko1
Theses are cool
- PonyBoy3
Scientists Discover A Scorched Planet With A Comet-Like Tail
http://www.npr.org/sections/thet…
"Scientists have found a shockingly hot, massive, Jupiter-like planet that has a tail like a comet... One side of the planet is locked in perpetual night. The other side always faces the searing heat of its host star and has a surface temperature of around 7,820 degrees Fahrenheit."
- Gnash5
Netflix Censors Bill Nye Episode to Remove Segment About Biological Basis for Gender
When uploaded to Netflix, an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" cut out a segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender.
- I think zhese peepol need to choose another word other than 'gender'.detritus
- Hold on - isn't this tantamount to admitting that non binary genders are a choice, not genetics?detritus
- There are lots of factors that affect gender, both physically and mentally, and chromosomes are only 1 of many. It's not a binary issue by any means.monospaced
- So if I will it, I can grow boobs? Yaay!
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No.detritus - Gender should be the descriptor for the base physical layout, regardless of sexuality or identity etc.
If not, then what other word?detritus - Ummmm..."Sex". To be fair, Gender isn't specifically biological.Morning_star
- Mm, I suppose. hadn't thought to be so basic. Well, that gives us a decade before that's challenged too...detritus
- how old are you detritus? you sound more and more like a Daily Mail reader lately :)fadein11
- Because I think that denying genetic dictation of sex/gender is retarded? I'm not the one denying freedom of thought here, Netflix is.detritus
- Either it's natural and genetic, or it's a choice and the Christians are right. I know which side I'm on...detritus
- I love how disagreement with some ill-founded nonsense therefore makes me a conservative hard-liner. Which is the more blinkered stance?detritus
- I willed myself to grow a pair of tits once. Didn't like them though so I willed them to shrink, harden and lodge inside fadein's brain. Explains everything.set
- I'm now conflating sex and sexuality.
More fool me. Either/or, both are dictated, not chosen, and if they're chosen, then no need to re-write language.detritus - lol @ set
Detset - the Brexit doubleact.fadein11 - erm, what? So I express justifiable reservations about the EU, state we're better in it, DON'T vote Brexit .. yet I'm now a pro-Brexit DM reader?detritus
- You do realise how absolutely retarded the "either you agree with me 110% or you're a nazi" stance is? No wonder middle-everywhere 'hates liberals'.detritus
- It's like free-thought and expression died.detritus
- You know my family lives in Europe, that my partner's from Europe, fadein? You know I'm possibly facing having to leave my own country because of Brexit?detritus
- (...I mean, probably not — i hope — but very possibly.)detritus
- It hasn't died, really hasn't. But think that if it makes you feel better. And perhaps lighten up a little.fadein11
- Sorry you misunderstood the difference between gender and sex matefadein11
- that was resolved before you even blundered in and accused me of being a Daily Mail reader, 'mate'.detritus
- I'm sorry to hear that Detritus but are you not a UK citizen? I am sure partner will be safe before any trade deal is done - I have friends in similar situationfadein11
- Didn't see your latest comments before replying by the way.fadein11
- Ignore me - I am a classic remoaner still bemused at how people thought handing over extra powers to the tories could possibly ever be a good thing.fadein11
- but of course, I'm wrong here. i am. not you and your presupposition and willful lack of comprehension. me, with my stupid facts.detritus
- Jesus lol.fadein11
- My comment didn't come from nowhere by the way - I will flag up as I see in future so you are aware.fadein11
- With a simple DM :)fadein11
- Weigh in with bizarre exaggerated opinions, throw some insults in, then tell the recipient to calm down once they respond. Hahaha, classic fadein.set
- Says the man who calls anyone a simpleton when rational people show your rabbithole theories may be nonsense. Classic Set. Who asked you anyway?fadein11
- My initial Daily Mail comment was actually a lighthearted comment - but it clearly flew right over the Brexit Brothers heads :)fadein11
- You really are blissfully ignorant to how fucking retarded you sound aren't youset
- And there hegoes again. Get back to your fake scientific papers lolfadein11
- we really are a typtych of twats.detritus
- ffs, +Rdetritus
- Is that what you tell yourself? Haha. Love it. Get back to your cognitive dissonance.set
- a 'twatych', if you will.
you won't, because we can't but disagree with each other. suffice to say - you're wrong. i'm not though.detritus - set... I think you'd look great with titsPonyBoy
- ...on his back.detritus
- Set is on the blob again throwing his non brainwashed organic Brighton artisan middle class toys out the pram again.fadein11
- 2 agains goddamit!! Lolfadein11
- I will be flagging my point and standing up for the good retards of the worldfadein11
- @det i know you are a decent fella or seem so anyway. My Daily Mail comment really shouldn't have offended you so much thoughfadein11
- QBN BRM/BRN DRINKS!detritus
- FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!detritus
- BRM?fadein11
- BRN?fadein11
- I'm confused again (sorry my small brain acting up)fadein11
- Birmingham – Brighton, thru LDN.detritus
- Ah sorry - well I go to Brighton a fair bit funnily enough and often visiting clients in London so it could be arranged. But I dont live in Birminghamfadein11
- Oh! Sorry, I thought you were based up there. My bad! Well.. I dunno.
WALES QBN DRINKS!detritus - not far from Brum - in that vicinity ;)fadein11
- I'd happily have a beer with you and Set and I am sure it would be really nice - Im not a violent chap. And you both seem like interesting people.fadein11
- but Set and I have been too horrible to each other too many times I think - the wounds run too deep lol.fadein11
- WTF is going on here?i_monk
- ^ in the end it was decided that gender is determined biologicallyGnash
- it's not decided actually, certainly not by Nye or Netflix's producersmonospaced
- Oh we should all totally go for a beer, I reckon it'd be great. Honestly. I reckon we'd all get on pretty well in't real worldset
- Thing is we don't drink beer here in Brighton though, it's full of glyphosate, the carcinogen they spray on wheat. Oh and gluten.set
- Not to mention they use frog's japseyes to filter it.set
- Only joking, let's all have a beer.set
- People that claim choices affect gender are delusional...that is psychotic talk. Anti science denier.Hayoth
- I wanna have beers with you guys.monospaced
- I'm up for a drink! I'm t total if that isn't too much a bore!mugwart
- Gnash3
Three new discoveries in a month rock our African origins
The evolutionary story of modern humans just got more complicated- fascinating, but it always bugged me that they make these grand assumptions based on a few fossils. there could be older human ancestral remains elsewhere_niko
- given how vast this planet is. We are discovering new species of dinosaurs all the time, full intact specimens, imagine how many more partial human like skeleto_niko
- remain to be discovered in this massive planet._niko
- ^ totally true. next week humanity will have sprung from HobokenGnash
- to be fair, It's really just the media that goes all crazy. the scientists just keep chipping away, minding their own businessGnash
- They are hardly grand assumptions, they are just our best guess based on lifetimes of mounting evidence, forever being refined and updatedmonospaced
- Then don't say humans started here, just say the earliest recorded human remains so far were found here. They've been saying it started from one soecific_niko
- Location and spread to the rest of the planet which we now know is false._niko
- They did say that. They said it's "more complicated," and the world is adjusting its story based on the evidence.monospaced
- *didn'tmonospaced
- uan1
After all, no contact. 40-Year old mystery of the “Wow!” signal was just solved.
Professor Antonio Paris, of St Petersburg College, has now discovered the explanation: A pair of comets.
- yup. just read that, i was so disappointed. should've stayed a mystery.renderedred
- awe, so many hopeful dreams smashed by the hammer of rational realitymonospaced
- Rational reality? There is undoubtedly other life in the universe, what's so irrational about thinking it could possibly be an artefact from other worlds.Morning_star
- relax, I was just fuckin around, I agree with you :)monospaced
- I was talking about the people who considered this PROOF of aliens, that's all. Just nice to see a much simpler, verifiable cause put that to rest.monospaced
- Fair enough. I agree.Morning_star
- who here draws teeny circles to dot their exclamation points?Gnash
- People named after cartoon mice.detritus
- that ends that?since1979
- Gnash2
Baby bird discovered in 99-million-year-old amber with feathers, colour intact
- Ahh so that's where he went. Served him rught, I fucking hated 'your gorgeous'.Morning_star
- *right, *you're (i'm drunk, what the fuck do you want from me)Morning_star