SmallIsPower

Global warming is taking its toll, altering weather patterns. Africa is not the only place drying up, American cities are running out. If the town of Los Vegas, New Mexico {pop 18,000}doesn't get normal rainfall, it could dry up in a few months.

The 1918 flu supposedly recurs every 80 years, is the reason we haven't heard of a 1840 flu and 1760 flu because WWI's trench warfare greatly exasperated it?

I realise that, but I asked a bunch of local activists if they'd heard of it, they said no, and given the egregious and bizzare nature of the crime, I felt it was worth posting. Here is something new, the cops were cleared by their department, while others got 15 years for looting a grocery market.

A video of a reporter interviewing looters after Katrina, including a looting New Orleans cop, who accuses the reporter of looting!

Bonobos aren't the only species that's more integent than we expected. Tool makers with tiny brains!

That we live in a culture where we are sold on the buying the easy way out. Here's an interesting counterpoint to the Pharmaetical companies'claims: http://adbusters.org/metas/psycho/prozacspotlight/

I was on another SSRI, prozac, and within 2 weeks I was even more depressed, for no apparent reason, so I quit. I had a friend who tried to get off antidepressants because the state raised his copay, his symptoms were more like drug withdrawl than depression. Big Pharma is interested in your money, not you, so be careful.

I haven't seen the movie, but if Hitler could have cloned millions of copies, the Allies would have won faster. His aggresive "strategy" was bound to fail, he didn't do anything right after the occupation of Paris starting with his decision to rest his troops while the Brits were evacuting Dunkirk. When his invasion of Britain failed, he attacked Russia, then declared war on the US (he was not obligated by treaty, as Japan wasn't attacked first by the US, and besides, when did a treaty obligation ever stop him before)? Hitler was an aggressive idiot who got lucky in the begininning, even Rommel was part of the assasination plot. If there had been a million Hitler clones he would have put them all above his Generals etc. they would have spent so much time plotting against each other, that WWII would have become the ultimate reductio ad absurdum of centralised power.

$127,200,000 of $42,700,000,000 Nationwide, I guess not many New Yorkers voted for Bush.

MoveOn.com joining with the Christian coalition? The only people who are for it are SOME of the super-rich, they'll be some degree of rebellion from this. In recent years, states have sidestepped the feds: Remember the governors who drove people to Canada for cheap persciptions? Arnold spending money for stem cell research & hydrogen? Seven states have legalised growing hemp? States pushing renewable energy subsidies without federal matching funds? The states are moving towards a defacto succession from Washington, this is just another step.

I'm saying that when there is the possibilty of great harm, care should be taken. Part of my last statement is clarification, first causes as to why we need pedophilia laws. I'm amending it, sexual contact with children is either harmful or so against social norms that it is proper to outlaw it. However, this kiss just looks like affection to me, and I'm reminded of a friend who said she became a prostitute, partly because she didn't get ENOUGH affection and touching growing up. Does anyone have an opinion about this picture of Putin kissing a boy? http://www.themoscowtimes.com/photos/huge/2006_06/2006_06_30/kiss_4.jpg As for me, I find it too weird for words.

America still hasn't adopted the metric system, despite Jimmy Carter's best attempts, and that is much more logical. I'm typing this on a qwerty keyboard, they were designed to slow typists up, so the keys wouldn't get tangled up, 100 years ago. Faster keyboards have been designed, but not adopted. If your going to worry, worry about an asteriod, it's more likely.

At the end of every chromosome is a telemere. At every cell division, a part of the telemere is cut off. Cells can only survive 50 divisions before they die. A clone is made from a cell that already has made many divisions, so it's lifespan is greatly shortened.

No I don't, as I've stated in the global warming and other threads, when there is a possibilty of great harm, one must side in the area of caution. However, this is a case that is so different, one must return to first principles. IMO, adults shouldn't allow any sexual contact to happen, either.

I have a hard time imagining how such a low frequency can have a deleterious effect.

With oil companies getting record profits I'd hope they'd stop subsidies, but I forget that we live in a kleptocracy.

One thing that may not be obvoius is the amount of fuel the Shuttle has to carry to get to orbital speed. One and a half million pounds, mostly solid propellant to get 50,000 pounds of payload to orbit. orbit.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle Or 30 pounds of fuel per pound of payload (or extra paint etc.).

for what it's worth- The 777-300ER contains many modifications, including the GE90-115B engines, which are currently the world's most powerful jet engine with 115,300 lbf (513 kN) thrust. There's a 777 frieghter coming out too.

Silly question, they look like they both feel like they are expressing affection, nothing more. Pedephilia is an attack on a child that she/he would not consider a normal action, creating fear, and maladjsuting the child in her/his later sexuality. I've had enough friends who'd been molested as kids to understand the hurtfulness. The hurt and confusion that results should help define pedophilia, as well as the gental contact.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. Things can go both ways in space, and we have something that looks like it does in time, too,

A few problems with this idea too.... Neutrino pressure is at least as strong as the electromagnetic force? How come we haven't seen this before? When we observe an electron and proton in proximity neutrino pressure creates the appearance of a force as powerful as the electromagnetic force... Yet when we observe an electron and neutron in proximity neutrino pressure creates the appearance of a force as weak as the gravitational force... Huh?

Isn't it likely that cutting down trees will result in less carbon sequestration, and higher CO2 levels. This would occur before the industrial revolution, and trees that no longer exist couldn't reverse the warming trend. This is not the time to wait for proof, being wrong can be devestating. Is there any info on earth's albedo during previous warmings, has this much of the ice ever been melted? Is there evidence of past sea levels? Even if it is checked by vegitation or whatever, The Great Conveyor Belt could stop, desertifying and starving Africans and freezing Europe.

Then the 747 could use lift and turn to get away from the shuttle's launch. There are scramjets that don't function until hypersonic velocities, should an engine be designed for efficency only at supersonic speeds, the 747 would be a plus, in addition to whatever altitude the 747's lift provided. It would never be a great improvement, but it could help somewhat.

Murder is a hideous crime when it involves 1 person. Hundreds of thousands of "excess deaths" havew occured, and you buy the rationalisation that it's OK, because there have been worse? I doubt you said the same of the 9/11 attacks.