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Darwin's Dilemma - LJK - 12/13/2006 5:03:53 AM
- Rare Dolphin Declared Extinct - SDF - 12/13/2006 2:00:39 PM
  - Worldâ€™s tallest man saves dolphins in China - LJK - 12/14/2006 6:01:38 PM
    - Its good to have a porpise in life.... (n/t) - R.L. - 12/14/2006 10:43:45 PM
  - New Insights Into the Secret Lives of Archaea - LJK - 12/13/2006 4:11:21 PM
    - Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census - LJK - 12/13/2006 4:13:53 PM
      - Darwinism and its Discontents - LJK - 12/14/2006 3:13:16 PM
        
        The God Lab - LJK - 12/14/2006 5:10:43 PM
        
        Strange new microbe may be clue to first life - LJK - 12/21/2006 3:54:10 PM

400 years ago today. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/20/2006 11:12:37 PM

I'll take her. - Bowser - 12/18/2006 8:35:25 PM
- She's what? 18? And you're what? 60? You old dog! (n/t) - SDF - 12/19/2006 8:44:06 AM
  - She is a MATURE 20! And I'm an immature 66. We can help each other. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/19/2006 5:30:32 PM
    - Sure sure. I'm an immature 31 but I wouldn't think of dating anyone so young. - SDF - 12/20/2006 2:25:20 PM
      - â€œAh, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?â€ (n/t) - alcaray - 12/20/2006 6:25:51 PM
        
        â€œThe aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!â€ (n/t) - Laurie Street - 12/20/2006 7:28:00 PM
- Personally, I love shaving damsels in dis-dress.... (n/t) - Ok, sorry... - 12/19/2006 5:23:14 AM
  - You need to see someone about that speah impediment. ;) (n/t) - Mary Anne - 12/19/2006 4:41:10 PM
    - As you know, I have never been a supporter of bush... (n/t) - ok, very sorry - 12/19/2006 6:21:26 PM
- Down boy! (n/t) - podrock - 12/19/2006 1:41:04 AM

Happy Festivus! - LJK - 12/18/2006 3:52:12 PM

Why Iraq? - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/17/2006 4:36:48 AM
- By the way, do you remember saying the fighting in baghdad would be over in 86 hours? - R.L. - 12/18/2006 2:58:53 AM
- I cannot believe that you are still hawking the idea that Iraq was involved in 9-11 - R.L. - 12/17/2006 3:55:57 PM
- And not once did I question the validity of the attack on Afghanistan... - R.L. - 12/17/2006 7:13:37 AM

Daily Show Foxifies Al Jazerra english.... - et - 12/15/2006 11:56:39 PM
- That WAS good. You should watch it..... (n/t) - yET another try at ET. - 12/17/2006 5:01:32 AM
  - It was funny... - R.L. - 12/17/2006 4:01:04 PM

NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon BBC Interview - Eric - 12/16/2006 8:24:14 PM
- moved from the Space Sciences board (n/t) - moderating podrock - 12/16/2006 10:29:26 PM
  - The issue is hacking NASA. Breaking into NASAs computers. Space agency. - Bowser - 12/16/2006 10:43:48 PM
    - Did you actually listen to the link? (n/t) - R.L. - 12/16/2006 10:53:41 PM
      - Didn't think so... - R.L. - 12/17/2006 12:03:38 AM
- This anomalist crap needs to be moved (n/t) - R.L. - 12/16/2006 8:57:26 PM

Wreaths Across America - TB - 12/16/2006 6:42:38 AM

Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense - LJK - 12/12/2006 5:21:31 PM
- electric cars should be enough for most consumers in the future... - Scott Evil - 12/14/2006 5:33:37 PM
- Newton's Laws (published in 1687 AD) still met with ignorance 320 years later - SDF - 12/14/2006 1:57:53 PM
  - Simplificate and add lightness (n/t) - Colin Chapman - 12/14/2006 4:51:40 PM
  - a solution to energy woes.... - SDF - 12/14/2006 2:14:44 PM
    - How many kids, dogs and suitcases will go in there? - TB - 12/14/2006 7:03:50 PM
      - If all cars were made of plastic and went slow - LJK - 12/15/2006 4:05:57 PM
        
        re: If all cars were made of plastic and went slow - TB - 12/15/2006 9:30:48 PM
        
        "As for monorails, they aren't that much safer." - R.L. - 12/16/2006 2:32:07 AM
      - Buy a minivan. - SDF - 12/15/2006 12:37:15 AM
    - How about this one? 3145 mpg - Laurie Street - 12/14/2006 5:04:59 PM
      - Supermileage Competition - SDF - 12/14/2006 6:58:09 PM
- Richard Branson and alternative fuels - TB - 12/13/2006 6:07:14 AM
  - hybrid of a hybrid - SDG - 12/13/2006 5:59:03 PM
- re: hydrogen economy - TB - 12/12/2006 6:47:58 PM
  - re: hydrogen economy - REB - 12/12/2006 9:38:38 PM
    - To do what? - TB - 12/13/2006 12:20:38 AM
      - re: To do what? - REB - 12/13/2006 1:48:23 PM
        
        Magnetrons under the pavement? - SDF - 12/13/2006 2:09:51 PM
        
        re: Magnetrons under the pavement? - REB - 12/13/2006 2:58:39 PM
        
        re: Magnetrons under the pavement? - TB - 12/13/2006 6:25:03 PM
        
        Correction: Inductive charging, not magnetron - SDF - 12/13/2006 9:55:51 PM
        
        Ethylene Suggested For Hydrogen Storage - LJK - 12/15/2006 4:07:56 PM

Starry, starry night - Raoul - 12/15/2006 7:14:35 PM
- Thanks, - podrock - 12/15/2006 11:38:04 PM

Next on NOVA: "Wave That Shook the World" - LJK - 12/15/2006 8:44:33 PM

A collection of Lord of the Rings Maps - REB - 12/15/2006 4:36:15 PM

You Tube - TB - 12/13/2006 6:25:49 AM
- The secret to creating successful viral videos - SDG - 12/15/2006 12:04:18 AM
  - Oh that's way too funny. (n/t) - azstrummer - 12/15/2006 1:41:30 PM
- Oh yeah? Who are you calling a Tube? - Robert - 12/14/2006 5:13:54 AM
- Tube-R's - carl - 12/13/2006 9:26:00 PM
- re: You Tube Generation - SDG - 12/13/2006 4:23:36 PM
  - Speaking of tubes... - LJK - 12/13/2006 4:41:39 PM
- It's a fad - SDF - 12/13/2006 2:15:25 PM
  - It's like any other part of the internet. - TB - 12/13/2006 6:18:52 PM
  - re:Missed events and Memories - Raoul - 12/13/2006 5:03:37 PM
    - Our brave new world - azstrummer - 12/14/2006 6:19:33 PM
      - re: Our limited brave new world - Raoul - 12/14/2006 7:42:46 PM
        
        re: Our limited brave new world - azstrummer - 12/14/2006 8:39:31 PM

"More bad weather predicted for Mount Hood" - Bowser - 12/14/2006 4:40:36 PM
- It's sort of a form of a death wish isn't it? - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/15/2006 2:15:23 AM
  - Surprisingly, that's a good question. - Bowser - 12/15/2006 2:47:59 AM
    - Keeping my fingers crossed. - TB - 12/15/2006 3:55:35 AM

"Diversity and dissent" (from Community) - TB - 12/8/2006 10:15:25 PM
- Laughable as always - azstrummer - 12/9/2006 5:03:46 PM
  - Choices - Bowser - 12/11/2006 5:27:40 AM
- "Liberal-tarianism" - Fox - 12/9/2006 3:55:46 AM
  - Link - TB - 12/9/2006 7:01:48 AM
    - Quote - Fox - 12/9/2006 9:23:12 PM
- re: "Diversity and dissent" (from Community) - Robert - 12/9/2006 2:07:48 AM
  - So let me get this straight... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/9/2006 6:49:35 AM
    - That'd be novel - Robert - 12/10/2006 6:05:48 PM
      - "You and your invisible Robert have a lovely time. " - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/12/2006 6:28:33 PM
    - Either/or - Mary Anne - 12/9/2006 12:50:30 PM
      - It ain't the Republicans trying to get "Huckleberry Finn" out of the schools. - TB - 12/9/2006 11:07:23 PM
        
        No. They're working on "Macbeth". - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 3:39:12 PM
        
        Correction: - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 4:15:51 PM
        
        Statistics - TB - 12/10/2006 11:05:05 PM
        
        Thanks for looking. - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 11:48:56 PM
        
        re: Thanks for looking. - TB - 12/11/2006 4:56:46 AM
        
        When I was in 5th grade... - R.L. - 12/11/2006 11:51:18 PM
        
        Where's Waldo? - Mary Anne - 12/11/2006 1:27:47 PM
      - You know... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/9/2006 10:56:09 PM
        
        Hmmm. You made sense. - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 6:07:24 PM
        
        Everybody has to draw their own lines. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/12/2006 2:52:49 AM
        
        re: Hmmm. You made sense. - M.A.E. - 12/11/2006 3:19:54 AM
        
        The war against religion is a war of demographics and population surges - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/12/2006 7:03:52 PM
        
        run your stats again and compare urban vs. agrarian and middle-class vs. poor - alcaray - 12/13/2006 5:00:58 PM
        
        B i r t h C o n t r o l... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 12:07:51 AM
        
        C h i l d M o r t a l i t y... - Mary Anne - 12/14/2006 3:04:36 AM
        
        I agree... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 4:27:11 AM
  - A short refresher - TB - 12/9/2006 6:46:17 AM
    - A short reframing - Robert - 12/10/2006 5:59:30 PM
      - Naivete thy champion is Robert. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 2:13:31 AM
        
        Something something, thy poster boy is SDAI-Tech1 - Robert - 12/14/2006 3:35:20 AM
        
        Whatchamacallit Conservatism - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 4:17:51 AM
        
        For those of us who don't believe in reincarnation... - Mary Anne - 12/14/2006 3:43:00 PM
        
        Reincarnation or not... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 6:18:30 PM
        
        Thingamajig theology - Robert - 12/14/2006 5:09:46 AM
      - re: reframing, and some new ideas. - TB - 12/10/2006 11:46:07 PM
        
        some new ideas. - Robert - 12/11/2006 5:48:44 PM
        
        re: some new ideas. - TB - 12/11/2006 7:27:57 PM
        
        new ideas, summary, new ramblings - Robert - 12/11/2006 10:32:30 PM
        
        I really think you're working too hard on this. - TB - 12/11/2006 11:57:35 PM
        
        I overlooked an axis - Robert - 12/13/2006 6:02:46 PM
        
        re: I overlooked an axis - TB - 12/13/2006 11:33:51 PM
        
        re: I overlooked an axis - Robert - 12/14/2006 3:14:57 AM
        
        Correction: - TB - 12/11/2006 7:28:57 PM
  - bla bla blablabla bla blaaaaa bla blabla - M.A.E. - 12/9/2006 4:04:18 AM

Scrat from Ice Age in No Time for Nuts - LJK - 12/10/2006 4:08:36 AM
- That is cute. - Bowser - 12/11/2006 2:01:11 PM
  - Ancient squirrel glided with birds - LJK - 12/14/2006 3:18:09 PM
    - You mean like this? - Laurie Street - 12/14/2006 5:11:05 PM
      - re: You mean like this? - LJK - 12/14/2006 6:11:19 PM

100th anniversary of the birth of Kurt GÃ¶del - LJK - 12/14/2006 3:32:48 PM
- re: 100th anniversary of the birth of Kurt - Logician Yeti - 12/14/2006 4:41:50 PM

Got milk? - TB - 12/12/2006 12:16:57 AM
- That is fascinating.... - R.L. - 12/12/2006 3:34:06 PM
  - More study would be cool, too - Fox - 12/13/2006 12:55:14 AM
- re: Got milk? - REB - 12/12/2006 3:22:31 PM
  - "Good Eats" - Mary Anne - 12/13/2006 6:33:36 PM
    - Cheese - TB - 12/13/2006 11:16:03 PM
    - I love that show. - REB - 12/13/2006 6:46:19 PM
  - Whoa. Thanks! - TB - 12/12/2006 6:35:42 PM

"Ain't It Cool News" DVD listings - TB - 12/13/2006 5:52:32 AM
- re: "Ain't It Cool News" DVD listings - REB - 12/13/2006 1:53:18 PM

No more than ten to twenty million dead, tops! - LJK - 12/11/2006 8:09:32 PM
- Horse manure. - TB - 12/11/2006 8:39:37 PM
  - Agreed - R.L. - 12/11/2006 10:59:56 PM
    - If you defined WWII deaths as including only military deaths... - alcaray - 12/11/2006 11:29:00 PM
    - nuclear attack - TB - 12/11/2006 11:22:53 PM
      - Yup - R.L. - 12/11/2006 11:28:29 PM
        
        Radiation - REB - 12/12/2006 3:25:55 PM
        
        A possibly related story... - TB - 12/12/2006 12:38:20 AM
        
        re: Yup - TB - 12/12/2006 12:02:50 AM
        
        In Grad school.... - R.L. - 12/12/2006 12:35:33 AM
        
        To make it more interesting... - TB - 12/12/2006 12:48:53 AM
        
        Well.... - R.L. - 12/12/2006 1:11:31 AM
        
        I wonder... - Laurie Street - 12/12/2006 3:42:09 AM
        
        re: I wonder... - R.L. - 12/12/2006 4:04:08 AM
        
        There is Deinococcus radiodurans - LJK - 12/12/2006 5:36:34 PM
        
        not to mention... - podrock - 12/12/2006 2:16:58 AM
        
        Well, I have YOU to blame for that... - R.L. - 12/12/2006 2:18:38 AM
  - Yeah, but, nuclear detonations are still very annoying - LJK - 12/11/2006 10:23:25 PM

This one's for Raoul... - TB - 12/9/2006 11:23:22 PM
- re: Local elections and a huge sigh of relief - Raoul - 12/11/2006 6:43:36 AM
- I would guess they're less afraid to be Muslim in Belguim. - Bowser - 12/11/2006 6:02:00 AM
  - On intimidation - TB - 12/11/2006 8:02:44 AM
    - Forget it - Daniel - 12/11/2006 9:17:48 AM
      - Well, lessee. - Bowser - 12/11/2006 6:26:07 PM
        
        re: Well, lessee. - Daniel - 12/12/2006 2:46:14 PM
- Gee, if they had such statistics in NY in the 1850s... - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 11:21:46 PM
  - re: NY in the 1850s - TB - 12/11/2006 4:47:10 AM
    - Fervent believers - Laurie Street - 12/11/2006 4:47:06 PM
      - re: Fervent believers - TB - 12/11/2006 6:16:05 PM
    - re: NY in the 1850s - Daniel - 12/11/2006 9:11:44 AM
      - Baby boy Mohammed - Mary Anne - 12/11/2006 1:50:07 PM
        
        Who's worried about groups remaining separate? - Daniel - 12/11/2006 3:48:27 PM
- It's gotta be good for business - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/9/2006 11:42:12 PM
  - re: I'm not aware of violence in Belgium; certainly not to the extend known in the US or even in France - Raoul - 12/10/2006 12:24:52 AM

Why Are We Here? Theoreticians Debate the Fundamentals - LJK - 12/5/2006 7:14:23 PM
- anthropists parallel the argument used to prove that there is fate... - alcaray - 12/8/2006 7:46:50 PM
  - re: The problem with fate - Raoul - 12/8/2006 9:15:33 PM
    - The "men who control other men" are men too. - alcaray - 12/9/2006 7:13:54 PM
- The continuity of physical phenomenons gives the illusion of finality - Raoul - 12/5/2006 8:39:59 PM
  - Collisions simulation - SDF - 12/7/2006 7:48:09 PM
    - the universe does not run simulations - alcaray - 12/8/2006 6:54:39 PM
      - On the other hand... - Fox - 12/10/2006 3:16:19 AM
        
        If the simulators open a dialog with the simulatees? (n/t) - alcaray - 12/10/2006 6:03:02 AM
        
        Visitation - Fox - 12/10/2006 7:57:44 PM
        
        If you use our abilities as a model of how a simulator might do things... - alcaray - 12/11/2006 9:16:54 AM
        
        re: our abilities as a model - Fox - 12/12/2006 3:35:58 AM
    - re:Unpredictable! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/8/2006 6:32:01 AM
      - The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? - LJK - 12/8/2006 5:54:01 PM

Hummer O2 Wins First Place in Environmental Design Challenge - SDF - 12/7/2006 7:38:02 PM
- It's interesting as a technical work of art. - TB - 12/7/2006 9:01:12 PM
  - I wasted many hours of my youth keeping and breeding acquarium fish - alcaray - 12/7/2006 11:04:06 PM
    - Algae - TB - 12/7/2006 11:30:31 PM
      - Catfish - nick hoffman - 12/9/2006 6:50:36 PM
        
        Not a bad idea... - TB - 12/9/2006 10:40:03 PM
        
        re: Algae, redux - podrock - 12/10/2006 1:02:36 AM
        
        re: Algae, redux - TB - 12/10/2006 1:35:08 AM
        
        My Pa (grandfather) used to have a goldfish pond in the 50s. - alcaray - 12/10/2006 5:59:00 AM
      - place a few pennies in a beeker with a few drops of sulfuric acid/ - Scott Evil - 12/8/2006 3:53:09 PM

Mission of mercy - TB - 12/7/2006 5:58:38 AM
- Thank you for that. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 2:23:25 PM
  - Just one example - TB - 12/7/2006 9:48:53 PM
    - Acts of Extreme Compassion in Extreme conditions - RNE - 12/9/2006 3:14:05 AM
      - re: Acts of Extreme Compassion in Extreme conditions - azstrummer - 12/9/2006 5:39:41 PM
        
        re: Intent - TB - 12/9/2006 10:52:22 PM
      - No, it's not exceptional. It's the rule. - TB - 12/9/2006 7:14:42 AM
    - That one was tough - REB - 12/7/2006 10:48:10 PM
      - re: That one was tough - TB - 12/7/2006 11:26:09 PM
        
        re: That one was tough - REB - 12/8/2006 1:49:29 PM
- And to think... - R.L. - 12/7/2006 2:20:52 PM

Richard Dawkins and God - LJK - 11/30/2006 2:41:36 PM
- Dawkins debated the morally superior Haggard - R.L. - 12/5/2006 7:32:35 PM
  - Very interesting body language in the faces, there. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 3:33:22 PM
    - rest of the conversation... - R.L. - 12/7/2006 4:08:34 PM
      - Searched for "The Root of all Evil +Dawkins". - et - 12/7/2006 7:58:53 PM
- Should the eradication of religion be the goal? - RobVG - 12/2/2006 3:23:30 AM
  - My karma ran over my dogma - LJK - 12/6/2006 7:07:40 PM
  - Certainly not! - alcaray - 12/4/2006 9:48:16 PM
    - Sorry I asked. - RobVG - 12/5/2006 12:58:09 AM
      - It was a great question. - alcaray - 12/5/2006 6:23:31 PM
  - re: Should the eradication of religion be the goal? - ER - 12/4/2006 2:16:06 AM
  - Education should be the goal - azstrummer - 12/2/2006 7:20:41 PM
    - Interesting choice of words - Daniel - 12/3/2006 8:35:05 AM
      - re: Interesting choice of words - ER - 12/4/2006 8:56:19 PM
        
        and, beyond lies the Wub - Daniel - 12/6/2006 6:21:46 PM
        
        So many different choices of words... - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 3:26:23 PM
      - Those Bronze Age priests were the scientists of their time. - Mary Anne - 12/3/2006 5:38:14 PM
        
        Trying to bypass science just for now - Daniel - 12/3/2006 6:10:09 PM
        
        Insights and revelations - Mary Anne - 12/4/2006 1:10:26 AM
        
        re: Sometimes a dream.... - Raoul - 12/3/2006 7:51:21 PM
        
        re: Sometimes a dream.... - Daniel - 12/4/2006 3:18:17 PM
        
        re: re:Written in the stars - Raoul - 12/4/2006 5:37:48 PM
  - re: Through persuasions and arguments, yes! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/2/2006 8:55:51 AM
    - I suppose religion will "whither away" into myth, but not until science starts answering more questions than it raises. (n/t) - RobVG - 12/2/2006 5:36:46 PM
      - I don't think science can ever answer more questions than it raises - Yeto - 12/3/2006 3:54:34 AM
      - re:We should bring forward science much earlier - Raoul - 12/2/2006 10:26:04 PM
- re: Richard Dawkins and God - Daniel - 11/30/2006 5:13:05 PM
- re: Isn't it "against" rather than "again"? (n/t) - Raoul - 11/30/2006 4:13:55 PM

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