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  • detritus17

    Wow. I mean - Wow.

    It's only a second long, but here's video from the surface of a comet, from the Rosetta mission.

    https://video.twimg.com/tweet_vi…

    https://twitter.com/landru79/sta…

  • utopian17

    • yes!renderedred
    • +1Morning_star
    • +2MrT
    • No, you got to believe Trump colluded and Republicans are going to frack or that "Libtards" are insane and want to kill your unborn children at a gay wedding.freedom
    • communism ftwshapesalad
    • "I'm alright Jack"fadein11
    • pink haired libtards vs redneck nazis ftw.inteliboy
    • Conservatives don’t really promote equality or scientific advancement in general though.monospaced
    • Yes good luck getting everyone to agree on the actual details.yuekit
    • “Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”deathboy
    • there will always be wealth inequality regardless of political system. your mad to think otherwise.hotroddy
    • so why are you rooting against the dictator in venezuela hotroddy?uan
    • if you truly think you can't change anything and try to 'educate' us on your insight...why don't you apply your ideology to your own country?uan
    • the dictator impoverished the middle class as a form of political control. that way everyone is dependent on gov't handouts.hotroddy
    • my ideology is to remove any barriers so that people move up or down the social class spectrum depending on their talents and work ethic.hotroddy
    • any political system that praises equality only ends up being 'some are more equal than others'hotroddy
    • we need to remember the reach of "equality" when it's preached ... it's not about everyone having equal, but instead having equal opportunity and rightsmonospaced
    • this isn't a discussion about social welfare at all, not even close ... this is about the kind of equality that gives even the poorest people a voicemonospaced
    • Did you just quote Jordan Peterson, Mono?! ;-) Totally agree with you though. Equality is something that's always affected us though? So why do we think...Ianbolton
    • we have the capacity to deal with it, to solve the issue, especially politically? It's a way deeper problem than anyone can understandIanbolton
    • Nope; I don't even know who Jordan Peterson is. I simply posted my thoughts on the matter.monospaced
    • Nobody is trying to solve equality through politics. But there are politics out there trying to make things unequal, and those are worth fighting against.monospaced
  • kingsteven12

    • lolsrhadden
    • All articles are free if you ask the author directly, or:
      http://people.soc.co…
      drgs
    • ^ aye, i have access to most journals through work, but it's still a pain in the ass esp. as you say the papers are never intended to be paid for...kingsteven
    • for stuff like nature or most news paywalls http://archive.is will do the job.kingsteven
    • No, thanks. Netflix is cheaper.palimpsest
    • Science is the new religionBeeswax
    • Except it isn’t like religion at all and is not a belief system.monospaced
    • https://scienceandth…jtb26
    • its a verbjaylarson
    • Btw, the article is from 1992. Id bet science was even less accessable before internetdrgs
    • no @mono it's exactly like that and its not new It has its own zealots, it's used for money and power, it even caused wars. It helped some but also killed manyBeeswax
    • and you are a believer. You believe that science will save the world. No?Beeswax
    • No, it's not. Science is a system of figuring things out, and is founded on the premise of questioning itself continuously. Nothing like religion.monospaced
    • We KNOW that science produces results. Religion neither produces results, or claims to. It cannot, as it is a belief system. Science is a figuring out system.monospaced
    • Science is a practice, a method, nothing more. It isn't dogma, it only verifies and refines truths about the natural world.monospaced
    • IF anything is going to make progress, it will be science. There is nothing else at our disposal, and you know it. Why? Because it's nothing like religion.monospaced
    • After all this time Mono you’re still wrong. Science is a method. Religion is a category. The absence if the scientific method is NOT religion. Religion can...Morning_star
    • ..and does use the scientific method. Science and religion are NOT comparable because they are not the same thing.Morning_star
    • * The absence of..Morning_star
    • I think we're saying the same thing. I said repeatedly science is a method. I agree with you 100% that religion isn't filling in gaps in science.monospaced
    • The only disagreement I have is that religion uses the scientific method for any of its doctrine.monospaced
  • Gnash8

    Terminal cancer patients in complete remission after one gene therapy treatment

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scien…

    • fake news?Ianbolton
    • i don't know, i didn't research past the articleGnash
    • Earth is suffering from overpopulation, cancer helps regulate it. Do "they" really want to cure cancer in the end?Bennn
    • like people who invented electric cars years ago were assassinated in a dark alleyBennn
    • cancer should regulate you, bennndoesnotexist
    • do you have brain cancer bennn?
      this is fantastic news!
      chrisRG
    • @benfal please pull your foot out of your mouth, dude. How can you say that?? heartless.chukkaphob
    • Benn, we peaked in the 1960s. Birth rates are slowing, even in developing countries. https://ourworldinda…monoboy
    • This is huge.maquito
    • woha i was misunderstood here...IAM FOR THIS 10000%Bennn
    • Given that's such an impossible percentage, I'm not sure I believe you.detritus
    • bennn... fuck off.PonyBoy
    • If you're going to make a comment about 'Earth suffering' cuz of humans... then why not do the loving thing, bennn and off yourself? <3PonyBoy
    • 1st I'm in for a cure for cancer, as much as you. My father died of complications post-cancer when I was 17 after a degenerative disease that lasted 10 years.Bennn
    • I was talking about big corporations that makes billionz of dollars on cancer drugs. They dont want a cancer cure.Bennn
    • Like the petrol people didn't want electric cars years ago.Bennn
    • So i was wondering do the World Leaders really want to cure cancer. That was my question. Badly writin.Bennn
    • Oh benn...pango
    • BANNN BENNN
      EVIL FASCIST THAT HE IS
      detritus
    • What you dont understnandBennn
    • Benn the new Yuri?inteliboy
    • Nahhhh just badly worded comment.pango
    • I totally get what Benn meansdopepope
    • thanks dopepope. english is my 2nd language, sometimes i build weird thinking while writingBennn
    • You didn't say shit about big corpos... your initial post was about "Earth suffering from overpopulation"... nice try flipping to that corpo bullshit, benny. ;)PonyBoy
    • Again... if you think man is such a hindrance then why don't folks like you just off yourselves out of love for earth? :) I know it's harsh...PonyBoy
    • And for the record, ben... I don't want you to commit suicide. I'm merely illustrating how ridiculous your initial comment was by being equally ridiculous. <3PonyBoy
    • I know what you mean Ben. This is still a private treatment isn't it? So, as always, if you're rich you can bathe in eternal life while the poor die.Ianbolton
    • Haha OVERPOPULATED. The entire global population could live in Texas, in a house with a yard/garden.robthelad
    • We'd also all fit in loch ness and have room left over for bubbles.robthelad
  • moldero14

  • Beeswax8
    • both parts of this are well worth a watch, was a bit sceptical after the first one myself...kingsteven
    • A professor of physics, Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson all proven wrong...bunch of arrogant, know-it-all, attention whores.utopian
    • The great thing is though that the scientist who made the bet admitted he was wrong and coughed up the $10K! Science is a process, not an authority.sarahfailin
    • yeah so cool, loved the mike drop moment at the end with the wheeled cart and piece of wood._niko
    • @sarah, exactly. And acting like three individuals are “science” is ridiculous. They aren’t even the ones actively sciencing!monospaced
    • "disagreements are not problems"sted
    • science denier veritasium spreading harmful missinformationmonNom
    • Well put @sarahfailin :clap:dorfsman
  • scarabin8

    some people are so desperate to believe they know something others don't, or that they're somehow ahead of the game, that they leap to believing certain ideas just because they're controversial. it's an ego jerkoff for them, calling people sheep when they're just as guilty of putting themselves in a mental box as the folks they're trying to shit on.

    it's so funny watching yuri call people sheep when all he wants is to be appreciated by the herd. yes yuri, you're such a good boy. you're a handsome little man, you're precious. we love you.

    • see also http://www.qbn.com/t…scarabin
    • I'm on some next level shit.ORAZAL
    • astute critiquesarahfailin
    • Dude, you are so talking about yourselfyurimon
    • do you get all your replies from pee-wee herman?scarabin
    • i don't tell everyone they're sheep or closed-minded or unenlightened every. single. day. multiple times a day.scarabin
    • that shit's for preteens and insecure people.scarabin
    • if you have to go around telling everyone you're smart, chances are you're not.scarabin
    • http://i.ytimg.com/v…moldero
    • I dont post out of ego broh. its def looks like you are projecting, but i understand nobody is perfect.yurimon
    • lol @ fredogilgamush
    • but it is true. the human condition is that we are free yet not free as far as the big picture is concerned. yet to see productive conversation from the 5 peoplyurimon
    • who are registered on this website.yurimon
    • If I wanted to be appreciated I'd stay out of political discussion. this strictly learning and discourse bruh! sometimes you guys act like dicksyurimon
    • You just made the same argument against yourself. The truth is you can't handle the difference in opinion. Right??? Baaaaahhhh. So easy to see.Hayoth
    • Yurimon just redefined the human condition.monospaced
    • its not an argument against myself. this whole current argument started from mockery, which usually comes from the same people. has nothing to do with opinion.yurimon
    • the only reason you get an overwhelmingly negative response to your conspiracy posts is because you're calling us all names while you do itscarabin
    • if it weren't for your constant ego trips the most you'd get is a few weird looks.scarabin
    • just chill the fuck out and enjoy yourself, bruh.scarabin
    • Not really, if you notice the mockery posts before i go off.yurimon
    • its as if most of you have no memory or reference capability to anything else. however also this type of discourse is giving me ideas into qbns failuresyurimon
    • as an interface. so contemplating deeper layouts for certain types of interactionyurimon
    • People are also so desperate not to admit there is stuff they don't know about...set
    • Actually the kind of shit yuri posts is not just factually wrong, it's boring and predictable. Always coming from the same point of view.yuekit
    • And there are thousands on the internet posting the same tired conspiracy/libertari... BS. Thinking that it's new or original is the real fallacy here.yuekit
    • Putting aside his ideas, doesn't anybody else have a problem even making sense of what he writes? See comments above for examples.ORAZAL
    • some things you call fallacies that come true.
      it doesnt matter were the post is from if it makes you think or is true. if not then its ok. you learn
      yurimon
    • I'm guessing when people get tired of hearing certain things its because there is nothing they want to act on, which is a real tragedy in the cycle of civ decayyurimon
    • ExactlyORAZAL
    • but i will not give up on you sheeple. i will not. lolyurimon
    • Please give up.monospaced
    • no my persian friend. I'll fight for you buddy.yurimon
    • Where did you get this Persian bullshit idea from? LOL you fuckin weirdo.monospaced
  • uan7

    Science breakthroughs of the Year, 2016

    Gravitational waves,
    Designer Proteins,
    AI beats GO champion,
    Artificial Eggs,
    Exoplanet Next Door,
    One Migration,
    Nanopore Sequencers,
    Super lenses,
    Purging cells,
    Great apes read minds.

    • not a belief system ...monospaced
    • +1monospaced
    • ignoramousterry_cloth
    • science is a method of investigationscarabin
    • yes it ismonospaced
    • dumb_cloth strikes again!utopian
    • terrence_von_shithim...fadein11
    • he's our special guy on QBNutopian
    • They don't make em' as slow as they used to. I would NOT trade him in for any ole hood, noose or Trump bump sticker. He's our guy!utopian
    • science is a verbjaylarson
    • http://2.bp.blogspot…jaylarson
    • lol @ utop. There are a few on here now unfort. Lifelong bigots now given an excuse to spew their bile over this site.fadein11
    • "Special people have a special place in my heart" - Trumputopian
    • No worries...he will be trolling the right rail anytime now, that is what my special guy does so well.utopian
    • happy new year - keep fighting the good fight :)fadein11
    • 0–argument in 4.6 QBNs
      New World Record!
      detritus
    • Lol fadein calling me biggoted. Cool virtue signaling circle jerk you boys haveterry_cloth
    • maybe I missed it, but I've never seen anything terry has said that is racist -- if that's what is suggested by bigoted.Gnash
    • If by bigoted you mean 'having or revealing an obstinate belief in the superiority of one's own opinions' then perhaps you're correctGnash
    • but that's ok, isn't it?Gnash
    • (i really don't want to derail the thread, though)Gnash
    • you've just been lucky, gnashscarabin
    • i've had to call the helmet out on making "ching chong" racist comments at pangoscarabin
    • joking around is one thing but using race to insult someone is unacceptable. he also commonly uses sexual orientation as an insult. the guy is a dirtbagscarabin
    • See, I like omg, good to have someone here that keeps this place from being a circle jerk. But Terry and his cohorts are just assholes most of the time.inteliboy
    • Call people names all you want, it won't change the fact that science is not a belief system.monospaced
    • lol, dirtbag, ok. you are just a crybaby who dishes it out and can't take itterry_cloth
    • as far as you jumping to pango's defnence and "sexual orientation as an insult" where were you when pango w following me around calling me a faggot and talkingterry_cloth
    • i don't "dish out" anything related to race or sexual orientation. the point is you're a bigotscarabin
    • about dildos in asses and dick sucking. stop hiding behind your fake indigence, you just have a little vendetta because i hurt your feelings a year ago when i cterry_cloth
    • -alled you out for being a fake fuck, and here you are, still behaving like a fake fuckterry_cloth
    • *defenceterry_cloth
    • pango can kill babies in his spare time. you're still a bigot, bigotscarabin
    • and you are spineless and fake as fuckterry_cloth
    • you just proved my point, pango can go around calling people faggots and that doesn't bother you, i call you a twink and you are beside yourself lolterry_cloth
    • And science is still not a belief system.monospaced
    • yes it is, you are ignorant as fuck mono, lean forward and choke yourself lard assterry_cloth
    • Nope. And please calm the fuck down okay?monospaced
    • http://lmgtfy.com/?q… stupid mother fucker, google is your freindterry_cloth
    • lol and the conclusion there is still that it's not a belief system ... your point failedmonospaced
    • You seem overly triggered by the very notion to the point of flipping out, calling names and making superficial insults. Check your rage, beta puss.monospaced
    • This entire thread is about this. If you want to make a counter argument, then do that. Being an asshole does nothing for your case.monospaced
    • having fun ganging up on me with your fake fuck internet freinds? oh i'm glad. see you at the qbn ny drinks meetup pussy boyterry_cloth
    • Excuse me? Take a look at how you've acted in this thread here and give yourself a time out, little guy. Your tough guy act doesn't make science a belief systemmonospaced
    • And stop with the threats. Everyone here knows you're completely full of shit so you can drop the act.monospaced
    • That's nice, I guess you will find out soon enough won't youterry_cloth
    • Can't wait! Lolpango
    • I do miss the old days of ignoring users. That was such a nice feature of ntjaylarson
    • http://i2.kym-cdn.co…fadein11
    • @gnash - loads of racist remarks over many months/years. Where you been? I know it's trendy for some to defend these mofos right nowfadein11
    • but where you been? - you seem reasonably intelligent.fadein11
    • haha, pango is down for action. bandwagon_fadein, if i've made loads of racist remarks then you should have no problem supplying links. get to workterry_cloth
    • http://i.imgur.com/q…utopian
    • bandwagon_fadein lol - you got me. nope sorry I lied - you are not a bigot. you love your fellow manfadein11
    • lol of course i'm down. cuz everyone know you're all talk.pango
    • and how could "everyone" possibly know that pango, you don't know me. last time i tried to meet up and squash this shit he was too scared and got me bannedterry_cloth
    • you really think you're worth the time and effort? getting you banned was enough to get you butt hurt. see you're still talking about it. booohooooooopango
    • go tell the warden you downsy little bitchterry_cloth
    • you're the one complaining people ganging up on you for being a piece of shit. and whine like a bitch.pango
    • keep whine like a bitch. bitch.pango
    • haha, nice. sorry for making fun of how retarded and ugly you are man, you are ok by me, have a healthy and happy new year pangoterry_cloth
    • it's ok. your oppressed misguided mind don't know nothing :) I hope i've helped you see why you were miserable over the years.pango
    • happy new year!pango
    • http://i.imgur.com/Q…utopian
    • please stay the fuck away from me, terry ... you are starting to scare me with your threats and your doxxing of me, which is fucking psychotic dudemonospaced
  • yuekit5


    New biotech startup founded by geneticist George Church will try to reverse engineer woolly mammoths from elephant embryos using CRISPR. Discuss...

    https://colossal.com/

    • Spared no expense.palimpsest
    • Like trying to reverse engineer a wolf from a poodlegrafician
    • Well people have definitely shown that you can sort of get back to a wild dog (wolf like) through breeding. Can’t get to wolf exactly though, not how it works.monospaced
    • With focused intent and some crispr I don’t see why this would be impossible.monospaced
    • Elephants and mammoths seem closer than poodles and wolves from my perspective. Fascinating stuff.monospaced
    • You can breed a poodle with a wolf and you already have half a wolf. They share 99.9% of DNA.palimpsest
    • While mammoths and African elephants share a common ancestor dogs are direct descendants of wolves.
      Up to each one to decide what's closer.
      palimpsest
    • I gave that example exactly because even with very similar DNA you can't do it.
      But sure, let them try. We'll need mammoths for the next ice age anyway
      grafician
    • The mammuthus and modern day elephant are both closely related, they are both from the same Elephantidae family.utopian
    • I thought they had been doing this for like 60 years nowscarabin
    • There are some projects ongoing to try to reverse engineer chickens into dinosaurs.
      https://www.inverse.…
      yuekit
    • Obviously this is much harder than the mammoth but apparently they got as far as generating a dinosaur snout and feet on a chicken embryo.yuekit
    • A graphic design forum, that's where i go for the truth about genetic engineering.jagara
    • Yes. Glad to see we have genetic engineering experts here as well! Do your own research.inteliboy
    • Did my own research...checks outs!utopian
    • Wasn’t there a film about this in the 90s? I’m sure it will all work out fine.Chimp
    • Lol @jagaraOBBTKN
  • 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!
      .
      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
  • kingsteven7

  • yuekit4

    You may have thought you were progressive but are you really compared to this?

    "The Radical Plan To Phase Out Earth's Predatory Species"

    The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.

    https://gizmodo.com/the-radical-…

    • Would it be easier to use genetic engineering on ourselves to engineer away empathy/mirror neuronsdrgs
    • Lol, that's funny...shapesalad
    • David Pearce is an Alien plant.Nairn
    • This sounds like a plot out of the original star trek seriesscarabin
    • In the end we’ve made animals and ourselves docile, then lizzid peeple take over while we’re having orgies and feeding each other grapesscarabin
    • fucking humans....ApeRobot
    • We are the predatory speciesutopian
    • Wow, sounds like a bunch of speciesists up in here who aren't in favor of predation abolition, SMH.yuekit
    • progressive is another word for regression.hotroddy
  • PonyBoy4

    Biologists say half of all species could be extinct by end of century

    https://www.theguardian.com/envi…

    "One in five species on Earth now faces extinction, and that will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless urgent action is taken. That is the stark view of the world’s leading biologists, ecologists and economists who will gather on Monday to determine the social and economic changes needed to save the planet’s biosphere."

    • Hopefully humans are on the list.utopian
    • Why is this a problem? Haven't something like 99.5% of all species that have ever existed become extinct. Life finds a way, no?Morning_star
    • http://www.popularme…pablo28
    • there are 8.7 million species on earth. most likely won't lose the rhino but some tiny bugs that no one's ever heard of._niko
    • survival of the fittest, no place for weak ass animalsdrgs
    • humans aren't animals, we are a virusmoldero
    • "We won"yuekit
    • Wow, I actually agree with utopian.BH26
    • fake news, reversed, earth is flat.ApeRobot
  • utopian5

    Scientists detected ripples in space and time from a potentially new class of collision in the universe. Their observatory cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/scien…

    • Flat Earther's, Climate Deniers and Republican's Rejoice!utopian
    • it's nice you promote science. good for you buddydeathboy
    • Never let the facts get in way of good story buddy....Fox New, Trump and Capitalism for Life!utopian
    • Science IS progress. Anyone who doesn’t promote it is against progress and is probably a fucking idiot too.monospaced
    • And it’s not a belief system either. Only ignorant religious sheep call it that.monospaced
    • Einstein also didn't kill himselfsrhadden
    • Epstein didn't kill himself either.utopian
    • I'm sleep dep'd and still a bit hungover ... I read "detected nipples" and thought for the sake of little boys growing up they could've called it something elseBustySaintClaire
    • "ignorant religious sheep" - care to name names or just group everyone together like a bigot?robthelad
    • That ark guy comes to mindfuturefood
    • Im just wondering utopian about ripple in space and time on us or our climate. solar flare and gamma radiation outside. Few models, if any adjust for such thingdeathboy
    • being a big science fella im surprised you come to conclusions based on such rudimentary data sets that ignore so many larger factors.deathboy
    • You think human science can predict climate and with 100% collusion can control it. While taking in solar radiation and gamma rays and everything in space?deathboy
    • Or are you more scientifically inclined as myself, based on empirical data, and knowing when to call models shits as paid studies. Realize we are just heredeathboy
    • And some day we won;t be regardless of how we try. We have seen climate decimate cultures. Mayans. Retarded not to think NY will be underwater in time.deathboy
    • Continetal drift and larger seasons controlled by .. the heavens or cosmos..deathboy
    • I find it hard to believe you support science and the climate change narrative being sold. Make me think you are a merely a fanboy of sciencedeathboy
    • "science" and maybe helps your personal identity involving climate change. mental olympics ppl make...deathboy
    • such a dunceutopian
    • robthelad, I very specifically indicated that it was people who call science a belief system. It proposes nothing, it is simply a method.monospaced
    • That label only seems to come from religious people who, ironically, use the basis of religion as a reason to discredit something. It’s actually really stupid.monospaced
    • Go to the first post of this thread and remind yourself that this is the topic being discussed. And science isn’t a belief system.monospaced
    • Because seriously, if someone doesn't understand that science is a method, they are likely ignorant. And religion seems to be the source of science denial, no?monospaced
  • pablo289

    Spain Has First Case Of Diphtheria In 28 Years Thanks To Anti-Vaxxers
    http://www.iflscience.com/health…

    • shit is dev countries has the means to cure some cases, poor country they just die in thousands, millions.

      we can get rid of them once we have solved poverty
      uan
    • if it was only so simple.yurimon
    • Fuck yeah diphtheria!!!!ORAZAL
    • ^ haha. Spread it thick you tight bastards!Ianbolton
  • palimpsest2

    More evolution facts insipired by shapesalad.

    Herbivorous animals actually need twice as much sleep as carnivores, because they have to spend half of their sleeping time keeping watch with one eye open. That's why you'll often see cows and other herbivores napping during the day - they're catching up on all the sleep they missed while keeping an eye out for danger at night!
    They need extra time to dream up new ways to outsmart carnivores who are always trying to catch them for dinner.

    • It's also why their mating lasts mere seconds as it's a vulnerable time when a predator could potentially get a 2 for 1 lunch option.shapesalad
    • The "my mom could have walked in on us" argument.palimpsest
    • Science isn’t a belief system.monospaced
    • That's why I don't believe in science.palimpsest
    • Science doesn't require your belief. It progresses regardless of what you believe in. Do try to keep up ;)monospaced
    • That's why I don't believe in science.
      Do get hooked on phonics :-*
      palimpsest
    • I would also love to hear more of your theories on evolution, monospaced.palimpsest
    • They’re just tired from all the chewing.scarabin
    • Joke all you want, "external chewing" is the next stepdrgs
    • In the future we’ll all be buff and have no chin like andrew tate. Or a proboscis for slurping nutrient slurryscarabin
    • There is a single theory of evolution and all scientific data supports it. I don’t propose any other theory or theories of my own.monospaced
    • "It’s a very strong theory that cooking was one of the direct causes of our punctuated evolution as a species."palimpsest
    • yawn, I know you’re just baiting me, but I’ll bite. There are different meanings to the word theory and we are using both. You know this.monospaced
    • And our species evolving into modern humans isn’t THE theory of evolution. Don’t conflate them.monospaced
    • I hope someone as scientifically literate as yourself sees why claiming that any behaviour in a species is a by-product of evolution is unnecessary and stupid.palimpsest
    • And the use of punctuated as an adjective in our evolution just went over my head. Please educate me.palimpsest
    • Daddy.palimpsest
    • Since we're being petty. There is a single theory OF evolution. But one can propose multiple theories ON evolution.palimpsest
    • Lamark has entered the chatGnash
    • : )palimpsest
    • Yes you’ve been quite petty from the onset. Carry on.monospaced
    • Play the tape back...
      Me and shape were having fun until you came in with your dumb "Science isn’t a belief system." out of nowhere comment.
      palimpsest
    • Now the light's on you.
      So go on and educate us.
      palimpsest
    • Plays on words, double-entendres, and banter all just sail right over your head, don't they, mono? I've never seen anyone take things so literally as you.Continuity
    • I don't know what your problem is but I would help you if I could.palimpsest
    • https://www.critterb…garbage
    • If anyone here is familar with city rabbits, you've probably seen one just sitting in the middle of the street and thought "fucking dumbass".garbage
    • Turns out those dumb bunnies in the middle of the street have actually evolved this behavior. The bunny in the street is the mama..garbage
    • ..and she is willfully sitting out on nightwatch as an obvious distraction from any predators, because she's got a burrow nearby.garbage
    • My comment wasn’t out of nowhere. This thread started with the statement that science isn’t a belief system. I’m just staying on track. Keep up.monospaced
    • And of course punctuated evolution is a thing. I didn’t make it up.monospaced
    • bruh you good?doesnotexist
    • Lol, why is this old thread back. And also can we talk about street bunnies? Mother's Day is coming up.garbage
  • detritus7

    We cannot guarantee trust in ET messages.

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02180…

    "Our main argument is that a message from ETI can-
    not be decontaminated with certainty. For anything
    more complex than easily printable images or plain text,
    the technical risks are impossible to assess beforehand.
    We may only choose to destroy such a message, or take
    the risk. The risk for humanity may be small, but not
    zero. The probability of encountering malicious ETI
    first might be very low. Perhaps it is much more likely
    to receive a message from positive ETI. Also, the poten-
    tial benefits from joining a galactic network might be
    considerable.

    It is always wise to understand the risks and chances
    beforehand, and make a conscious choice for, or against
    it, rather than blindly following a random path. Overall,
    we believe that the risk is very small (but not zero),
    and the potential benefit very large, so that we strongly
    encourage to read an incoming message."

    • Imagine throwing it away without reading it, out of fear. lol to that.set
    • That's not their actual conclusion, but you're pretty naive to simply assume ET = Good.
      If they even exist in any meaningful sense..
      detritus
    • I would never assume that..set
    • Not sure what would make you say that, either.set
    • You tend to deploy 'lol' sardonically so I assumed you were on your usual "Aliens Exist and are really great and if you don't accept this, you're a cretin"detritus
    • My bad if this wasn't the case this time.

      LOL
      detritus
    • Christ, you lot are odd.set
    • Strange assumptions, defensiveness, weird logic and completely made up accusations everywhere by the odd UK anti-set brigade.set
    • Yeah, must be everyone else who has problems communicating with you on this thing, set. God forbid it might just be you!detritus
    • I've never said they definitely exist, just that the vast evidence to suggest they do is pretty compelling, and I've also never said they'd definitely be good.set
    • Weirdo.set
    • there is literally no 'vast evidence' that supports anything, set - we only have one planet as a data point to reference in this debate in the entire universe.detritus
    • Perhaps if you didn't spend your time sneering at other's implied ignorance, people might interpret you differently? Of course, it's our fault though, right?detritus
    • LOLdetritus
    • lol, fuck me... get over yourself. You actually managed to take my comment as some sort of offence towards you, hahaha. So fucking defensive.set
    • If you're not aware of the wealth of evidence then you truly are ignorant.set
    • So both the defensiveness, the ignorance, the very odd assumptions and putting pretend things in my mouth that I never uttered, are of course your fault. Yes.set
    • Who's else would they be?set
    • offence towards me? not at all—willful misinterpretation of something that you decide perhaps not to believe in becuase it doesn't fit your narrative? perhaps.detritus
    • Clearly I am truly ignorant - perhaps enlighten me with your bounty of wisdom and link to something at least partially credible? go on.detritus
    • "You tend to deploy 'lol' sardonically so I assumed you were on your usual "Aliens Exist and are really great and if you don't accept this, you're a cretin""set
    • Yes, you mistook my comment as being arrogant, offensive etc. Now you're backtracking...set
    • I'll make some tea and wait raptly for this flood of knowledge that's about to whelm my consciousness and moisten my loins!detritus
    • Oh intellectual glee! Oh joy at the unburdening of these chains of compliant stupidity - I am soon to be free! to be free! Thank you set. Thank YOU!detritus
    • You're a grown man who obviously spends a large amount of his time on the internet. If you're world view is still impenetrable by all that's available...set
    • ...out there, then there's not much I can help you with.set
    • I did take your note as offensive arrogance - you've many times admitted that's how you are here. no question. I did not however take PERSONAL offence.detritus
    • Why on God's alien-probed Earth would i?detritus
    • You responded defensively. Use whatever words you wish to try and disagree with me. You called me naive based on something you imagined, lol.set
    • Go on - please link to some of this vast bounty of evidence that is at least tangentially credible. I'm brewing tea here, shaking with excited anticipation.detritus
    • Clearly you missed my post explaining that you're a grown man with access to the internet.set
    • As I said, I might've misinterpreted your note here - but as i added, that's due to too many years history of dealing with you otherwise, so...detritus
    • If you're still so rigid in your belief that there is no evidence whatsoever, then there is really no helping you.set
    • Sure, but you said you didn't take it that way, now you're saying that obviously you took it that way. Make your mind up.set
    • Show the fucking evidence! i've waited my entire life for anything that has any semblance of being proof - go on, please!
      PLLLLLEEEEEASSSSSE!
      detritus
    • I've even told you I saw a UFO when I was a kid - if I'm rigid in my disbelief, it's because I've never seen anything believable, so please - PLEASE, show me.detritus
    • Use your brain and investigate yourself. I've already wasted far too much energy on you responding to this utter fucking nonsense...set
    • Of course, if someone's not unquesitioningly gaping wide their mind's cunt to every STD-ridden halfwit prick of bullshit, they must be stupid, right?detritus
    • Ok, show me ONE mote of evidence.

      ONE. Can't be too hard to back up your arrogant certainty here, can it?
      detritus
    • I mean, if there's a vast sea of the shit, it can only take you a second's worth of effort to make me look like a fool, right? Got to be worth a punt!detritus
    • Clearly my posting something about alien contact means i'm closed to the very idea of aliens and alien contact. *slaps forehead* what a fuckwit am I!detritus
    • Fuck off and do your own research you silly cunt. You'll come back empty handed because clearly you have already formed your old man's opinion in stoneset
    • You only need to open the relevant qbn thread to see that something is going on. Now fuck off. You're a boring cunt.set
    • So you have no evidence?
      Just to be clear, you literally can't find one scrap of evidence? ONE? Not even one. I'm dismayed. I made tea and everything.
      detritus
    • "there is literally no evidence that supports anything, set" has to be one of the most moronic things ever typed on this forum.set
    • And yet you can't confute it and in being unable to do so exhibit yet more arrogance.detritus
    • I just told you that we have a thread on this very forum with plenty of things to get started on, but instead of actually doing your research, you'd rather...set
    • ...sit there, mocking me, convincing yourself that you've proved me wrong. It's fucking hilarious.set
    • And still, no evidence.detritus
    • I'll show you a hundred things and you'll come back with utter nonsense in response. I've seen it time and time again.set
    • You have the wealth of knowledge available to man at your fingertips, and you're still literally insane enough to there there is 'literally NO evidence'.set
    • There is literally no helping someone like you. None. Why would I bother to try? As I said, please fuck off now.set
    • I WISH TO BE UNBURDENED OF MY STUPIDITY, BUT THE GOOD MAN (haile setassie) WON'T HELP ME :(detritus
    • All I've said is there is enough evidence out there to make you question what's going on. If you can't see that, you're either a complete idiot or mentally ill.set
    • Show. Me. One.
      One that you think is utterly convincing.
      Wholly unquestionable as evidence.
      Go on.
      detritus
    • I've started to type multiple items worth checking out, but I really cannot bare to listen to your response. Go on, fuck off now. There's no helping you.set
    • A strange way to prove your assertion - I'm afraid I can now only logically surmise that you realise you're talking shit in unhelpfully absolutist terms.detritus
    • by the way - in your world, is 'doing research' browsing crap on adolescent's Youtube channels? is that even intellectually rigorous?detritus
    • I mean are you honestly and actually suggesting that every. single. video, every single eye witness testimony, every. single. one. was bullshit?set
    • at least I, as someone interested in the idea of aliens, etc, posted something from academia... .detritus
    • Oops, sorry - of course, I'm rigidly and wilfully ignorant, closed to the idea of concepts beyond my own perception, aren't I? What a fool am I!detritus
    • More idiotic assumptions. You're not doing yourself any favours, wild desperately trying to appear more rational and intelligent. Fucking lol.set
    • You thick piece of shit.
      Your problem is you don't even realise how fucking stupid you are. I try, at least, and am not above apology.
      detritus
    • ha, ironic timing.detritus
    • Your and fadein's only defence is to loudly proclaim in a sarcastic tone the things that I'm asserting. It's hilarious.set
    • To have the whole internet at your fingertips and still not see there's a single piece of evidence worth exploring more, is to be an utter, utter, utter, moronset
    • I've wasted far too much time already on this nonsense. You are ill read on the subject and are making excuses for such. It's embarrassing.set
    • https://www.echinese…detritus
    • lol at calling me stupid when you are literally incapable of educating yourself and instead need me to help you. You've seen plenty and rubbished it all off.set
    • I'm literally not wasting another second of my time on you. You're a moron. Ta ta for now.set
    • https://tinyurl.com/…detritus
    • Don't bring me into more of your fucking bullshit.fadein11
    • That was for set by theway. @det a masterful handling of the troublemaking twit.fadein11
    • lol the idiots are combiningset
    • Fadein even completely agrees with me on the point in this discussion, but can't help but hold hands with his fellow kin. LOLset
    • I witnessed with my own eyes, Detritus feebly trying to rubbish off this NASA footage, for example...set
    • https://www.youtube.…set
    • Why the fuck would I bother?set
    • and LOL and 'don't bring me in to your bullshit'. You respond and involve yourself in my discussions constantly. LOLset
    • Where did I rubbish that? I rubbished other footage that was posted around the same time as that, biut not that (if memory serves)detritus
    • if I remember right, i was railing against footage that showed what was clearly motes of dust around the ISS, affected by static build up.detritus
    • That video you've posted there I'm unsure about, purely because I have fuck all context for how/where it was taken. It IS odd though, I can't deny that.detritus
    • Hurrah! I should have posted that half an hour ago, haha. I distinctly remember you dismissing that too when I've posted it in this past...set
    • ...but if I'm wrong then I apologise.set
    • fact is - space is inherently alien - things even in LEO act weirldy different to how we'd innately expect. If I see dust motes, I see motes, not UFOs.detritus
    • Did you spend any time watching Musk's Starman? I did. I spent a lot of time looking at dust motes and weird lights in the background. I didn't assume UFOsdetritus
    • Yea but I see a big flash of light, a laser or projectile and a fucking orb intelligently moving out of the way of the incoming 'thing'.set
    • It's Space Shuttle STS-48 footage, you're welcome to look in to it for 'context'.set
    • I try and be very open about this shit - how the fuck can I or anyone KNOW. What I do KNOW is that humans make patterns and see things they want to.detritus
    • Tha';s the first and most critical thing to understand and to rail against. Beyond that, well fuck - open country.detritus
    • 99.99% of what people say is ALIENS or UFOs is not. Sorry, It's not. If any significant % of it were, well then by now we'd have more useful evidence. we don'tdetritus
    • The remaining 0.01% is likely not aliens either - prossibly something more interesting in terms of curiosity or nature.detritus
    • Just 1 of a million pieces of video, testimony, ancient writings and common sense that start to piece together a picture of rationale that SOMETHING is going onset
    • I meant more context in terms of aperture type and 'what am I looking at'. That mote reacting to the flash of light? Well, could be explained by...detritus
    • https://www.nature.c…
      = https://www.youtube.…
      detritus
    • = photons can move small physical objects.detritus
    • if that mote was 1cm from the lens, then it's fucking small and moving relatively slowly and could, perhaps, be affected in a zeroG vacuum simply by lightdetritus
    • It's a coincidence that the projectile that came from the flash of light was on an exact collision course with the object that moved out of it's way?set
    • I could be talking out of my ass there, but I'm talking way less out of my ass there than someone simply invoking 'ALIENS'.detritus
    • If it was just that video, I might agree with you, but there are literally million date points that all add together to suggest something is going on.set
    • yes, set - it could well just be coincidence here. How many hundreds of hours of footage are there that show fuck all happening?detritus
    • Have you read the mahabharata?set
    • or show similar events that aren't QUITE so coincidental, but almost? How many hundreds of hours of footage have you analysed in detail?detritus
    • people see what they want to see
      https://s.abcnews.co…
      detritus
    • NASA continuously shut off the live feed when a ufo appears on it.set
    • Yo do realise even their own astronauts have commented on ufos and aliens?set
    • You do know that NASA themselves told the papers they'd discovered a crashed saucer in 1947, before swiftly changing their story the next day?set
    • How about the disclosure project with endless corroborating testimony from military personel, government, pilots with nothing to gainset
    • How about every ancient culture talking about their gods coming from the sky in ships and teaching themset
    • Not to mention the millions upon millions of UFO videos, abduction testimonies. Is every single one bullshit? Every one?set
    • To say there is no evidence whatsoever is just simply not true.set
    • Wait - we can go beyond 100 notes now?detritus
    • I'm not 100% convinced myself. In terms of physical beings from other planets, but there is certainly something worth exploring.set
    • The mMayans and Egyptians for example were definitely taking psychedelics and describing the same kinds of beingsset
    • Well, there are different flavours of 'evidence' I suppose I meant something more concre in terms of 'direct' evidence rather than anecdotal or circumstantialdetritus
    • but suyre, when an astonaut says he saw weird shit out of a porthole, I take that with less salt... although local-orbiting motes around ships ...detritus
    • Interdimensional intelligence is starting to make more sense to me than physically travelling in ships, I'd guess both were real if I was pushed to...set
    • Who fucking knows. But to say there is literally no evidence of anything at all going on, is completely and utterly incorrect.set
    • fuck's sake, can't type with the excitement of going above 100 notes - giddying!detritus
    • No, it's not - there's nothing that can be pointed to that all can absorb and agree "yes, that is indeed evidence". If there were, our reality would be v. diffdetritus
    • there is weird unexplainable shit, and then anecdote. these are not evidence of aliens, sorry - they're not.detritus
    • meh, when I used to take DXM I 'literally' travelled to a galactic arm and saw, in HiDef, a full alien space station.detritus
    • So literally the only 'evidence' (please go back and read the definition of the word) for you is Aliens landing and saying hello.set
    • Everything else, even if all pointing generally to the same conclusion, is all utter nonsense and bullshit. That's weird...set
    • I also *definitely* travelled through time (by about 4 minutes) and met and had proof of th existence of the JudeoXtian God. I doubt these are relevant evidencedetritus
    • It's evidence. No one is saying conclusive proof. it's evidence...set
    • ..when I used to take too much NOXdetritus
    • You're confusing evidence with proof.set
    • Have you read the mahabharata?set
    • There's no weight of anecdotal evidence to point to anything actual either, set. That's the thing, there just isn't, as much as you would like to believe.detritus
    • they only point to the 'same conclusion' because we've had some sort of mass consensus shared reality space for x decades, perpetuating memes.detritus
    • as I say, 99.999x% is fully explainable, and there is some odd shit otherwise that is hard or nebulous to explain. none of this constitutes evidence though.detritus
    • Simply not true. But we'll never agree. I'll agree that there is no solid proof, which is obviously the word you should have used from the start.set
    • How much ancient history have you studied? They all tell the same story. Have you read the mahabharata? (3x now)set
    • They describe their god's flying spaceships, nuclear war and it's effects in detail, guided missiles etc etc etc. It's 5 thousand years old.set
    • Having studied all the ancient culture we know about. Having seen UFO's with my own eyes. Having seen many videos I cannot explain. Having heard many...set
    • ... very credible testimonies. Having read books like the Gods of Eden and having done thousands of hours of reading on relevant subjects...set
    • ...you start to build a picture. There is no proof but there is plenty of evidence to suggest the truth.set
    • Working. Didn't realise what time it was. Have you actually read the mahabharata, out of interest? I mean, cover to cover, in person - not some paraphrasing?detritus
    • Because whilst not having read it itself, i have read 'what it says about contemporary tech' but also as much saying that it's all minsterpreted bullshit... .detritus
    • eg. https://www.quora.co…detritus
    • I've read it cover to cover. You seem to suggest just reading paragraph on the internet is an untrustworthy way of doing things but then...set
    • ... seem to put weight behind a few paragraphs on the internet debunking it...set
    • If it was just one text, then fine, but there are countless texts all describing beings coming from the stars with technologyset
    • i have no interest in reading it, but was a long time ago vaguely curious about some claims attributed to it. I read up on it a bit, came to nothing, forgot it.detritus
    • I'm just linking that now because a 5 minute scan of the answers in it implied as much of te criticism as I'd recalled.detritus
    • Remember - like Russia, there's a huge shoulder chip in India, but from Hindu nationalists wanting to proclaim their greatness and ancestry.detritus
    • Everyone and everything has an angle. Mine's born from a lifetime of disappointment seeing how much bullshit there is out there. *shrugdetritus
    • https://i.ebayimg.co…detritus
    • Simplest critique of the nuclear weapons angle - no discernible isotopes that could point to their having been used in any tangible history.detritus
    • Not very sexy, but there you go.detritus
    • This makes no sense, sorry... "no discernible isotopes that could point to their having been used in any tangible history"set
    • Yes, it does, set. Only curveball there is the inclusion of 'tangible' which I added in for greater allowance for the range of history you might be referring todetritus
    • nuclear weapons (etc) form rare istotopes which indelibly fingerprint their use for many (many) millennia thereafter.detritus
    • I'm no nuclear physicist, but this is GCSE level science—if you don't know that, then I can't understand how you can have so much conviction about all else toodetritus
    • Well, beyond what Dunning & Kruger might have to suggest on things, but .. well, it's late and I can't be bothered.detritus
    • Do your research. There's a great documentary on Netflix, and here are some websites where people speculate on things. Get woke.monospaced
    • *Googles"mahabharata...monospaced
    • Damn, Wikipedia says it's "ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined." Yikes. You read it 3X?monospaced
    • Oh, sorry. I've just read this shit back and realised you might not have realised I was talking about nukes in ancient India. Sorry.detritus
    • Yep. I was given a copy by the lovely parents of a v.close friend who passed away many years ago. There are many abridged versions though so perhapsfadein11
    • Anyway, two points here:
      • I think you're wrong.
      • we can go above 100 notes now - how far do you think we can push this shit?
      detritus
    • he read one of those three times. Who knows though, it's Set! One of the QBN superbrains.fadein11
    • He might have. I found a few websites that talk about ancient aliens and that epic. Even a few episodes of Ancient Aliens that feature top experts on the topic.monospaced
    • Haha, great — 2 more bodies into this mess — can we hit 999 notes?!detritus
    • No mess here. I really cannot be bothered with his approach to anything he disagrees with anymore. You handled yourself impeccably sir!fadein11
    • I hope he does know about isotopes though ;)fadein11
    • yeah, not interested in your spat either ... carry on ladies :)monospaced
    • No one wins here.detritus
    • nope. but some win more than others.fadein11
    • Given the time scales and distances involved in interstellar communications, it's unlikely any 'bad' message sent would be threatening.i_monk
    • Based on what?detritus
    • Absolutely nothing, clearly.set
  • scarabin5

    Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories

    https://aeon.co/essays/your-brai…

    • amazing article, thanks for sharing!monospaced
    • so my memory what i'm trying so hard to destroy in the past 33 years isn't in my brain. goodsted
    • and what can Mr. Robert Epstein say about that I can still draw my grandfather who died in '95 without any reference photo?sted
    • Or remember art pieces what i have only seen once?sted
    • very cool! I was skeptical at first but it won me over.sarahfailin
    • i think the point is that it does but not in the way we think it does ie like a computer_niko
    • they reckon it's in them there cellsset
    • @sted, it means that you are able to "recreate" that memory, which apparently is different from retrieving itmonospaced
    • he seems to be positing that current metaphors fall far short of what actually happens, and that we still have a lot of understanding to doscarabin
    • yeah, like 100 years more of understanding to domonospaced
    • nice article. what was it about again?Fax_Benson
    • @mono you are right and I misunderstood some part of the allegations... after the second reading it's much clearersted
    • A lot of "what"s instead of "that"s in this note thread. It's making me punchy.set
  • ok_not_ok7

  • scarabin10