Recent content by Elixir

Maybe 400ky- old stuff preserves better at higher latitudes? Otherwise it sounds like a dubious claim. But I figure there’s probably a million or more years of humanoid history and fire is fairly ubiquitous …,

WUT? I have suffered some disillusionments lately, but this takes the cake. You telling me that the continuous stream of 72° days he reports, comes from Palmdale or somewhere? (It’s 38° in Palmdale at the moment - I didn’t think a Swiz could survive that!) The entire SF valley is subject to...

Some people are naturally disadvantaged. QED

I had some posters like that, back in the 60s. God bless Chet Helms and The Family Dog!

Yup. Funny thing, this has been modeled and predicted for decades by reputable scientific process. And it is happening as repeatedly predicted, except possibly faster. Great thermal graphic!

Hey, I think it’s a great idea. If they ever expressed a favorable opinion of Trump or of anyone who has ever expressed such a positive opinion, they should be disallowed, and locked up, should they make it to our golden shores. Fuck Trump, and fuck trumpsuckers, whether they’re ignorant...

You’re still saying Islamists are not the problem, Islam is. AGAIN. I get that you hate Islam and love Jesus but I’m saying that’s bullshit. Religion is religion and it compels people to behave badly. Christianity in its myriad forms is no different in that regard from Voodoo, Hinduism or...

I heard that before. That was his emotional contrarianism as I understand it. I didn't hear THAT before. That's sad.

Water is wet. Trump is a power-mad sociopathic killer with the world's most powerful military at his disposal. Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. This is as predictable as gravity.

I dunno - He basically foregoes it afaics. I don't argue at all with the meat robots idea; it seems inarguable to me that physical humans are an emergent phenomenon of the physical universe. And I think genetic determinism is dumb and irrelevant, considering the vulnerability of genetic...

Jerry Coyne said it pretty well IMO. He says a lot of things very well indeed, especially talking about evolution. His exposures of the Behe - Dembski ID and Irreducible Complexity garbage are delicious. To me, the sensation of being an observer, whether to my own conscious choice, to my fight...

I don't think sleepy don gives two fux who he hurts - he just likes hurting people, because it momentarily mitigates his vast insecurity.

Thanks. I'll take your word for it. Truth be told, my intellect and curiosity may be stunted, but this was never a question for me. I tangled with the question more than a half century ago and took very little time arriving at the conclusion that no human and no human creation could ever detect...