Sayonara

I have never seen Mark touching a midget (thankfully) so I am unable to say. ps

Indeed, they used midgets for those scenes. Last time I saw MrL he was THE ANTIMIDGET.

"They" get everywhere

Beware the dreaded "They"!

Long? So what? I think the Roman Empire probably qualifies as being "big enough". In fact a lot of their ruins are often mistaken for henges. This is quite interesting: http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/mpp/mcd/henges.htm

More evidence from my hyperdimensional resonator two person time machine:

"Out with the old, in with the new" is a constant theme in evolution wherever true divergence doesn't occur - doesn't matter what the method is, just the result. If that helps...?

It can depend on the context, but it's usually taken to mean Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

Usually when the containment fails in Star Trek, they don't get much further than the "o". Unless it's on TOS, which is toss.

Exactly, the function of organisms is to pass on information. In this respect it could be said that ebola does preserve its species, but I see no evidence that this is intentional, considered or even acknowledged by individual organisms of that species.

I have new evidence! See this amazing image from the Mars Express probe:

Seems to me that one of you is saying "the fabric of space can't be bottled up", and the other is saying "a volume of space contains stuff". Not really an argument at all.

Ummm, does gravity stretch thought then? The guy can't literally hear his wife screaming with telepathy - he senses her mind's reaction of shock and horror, surely?

^ Stop being linear. That really wouldn't help.

Geometry? "It looks like something from the air" doesn't mean it can't be devised purely on the ground. I'm pretty sure I could duplicate the Nazca designs with a big paintbrush and a long stick. This is completely aside, but does anyone else think "Olmec" is a wonderful word?

^ Drink lots of tea kids.

Eugenics has nothing to do with killing people. Hitler just happened to do both at the same time, forever villifying an interesting area of science.

In the first sentence you are talking about Natural Selection, not "evolution". The two are not synonymous. An organism that exceeds its reproductive period is not necessarily useless. Remember that evolution happens to species, not individuals, and an evolving species by definition has to have generations. An organism that lives more than twice its reproductive lifespan again can have plenty to offer its species, whether it be in defence, hunting or -- in a species like ours where information is the main fitness currency -- education. This could have a massive effect on the overall rate of reproduction, and it would doubtless be a major selective advantage for the generational groups with the greatest number of most "experienced" elders.

It's self-assessment so you can work it out for yourself. This is the scale elfin vampire keeps posting BTW, it's here to save space

Sounds like a lovely story

Screw killing the jobless - the unemployed should be regularly forced to take over the jobs of those whose taxes pay their social security hand-outs. j/k... OR AM I?

If you weren't so busy flicking through your thesaurus you'd have seen I was not aligning myself with the concept, but explaining where it came from.

Just out of curiosity, how much older than you is Steven?

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4 Episode 196 - "Half a Life"

So if you could vacuum up all the interstellar dust, we'd have quite a spectacular view