Aardvark

This is a hypothesis. If you lived long enough your permanent memory would become full. You would need to have your memory periodically wiped. That would have all sorts of implications for questions of identity. In effect you would be a succesion of people experiencing differnt lifetimes in the same body.

This is a hypothesis. If you lived long enough your permanent memory would become full. You would need to have your memory periodically wiped. That would have all sorts of implications for questions of identity. In effect you would be a succesion of people experiencing differnt lifetimes in the same body.

Pretty much any period where there was a large dominant power. For instance in the 19th Century the British ruled the waves. No other nation or combination of nations could challenge the Royal Navy. However times change, new technologies such as torpedo boats and submarines were developed which made some of the naval supremacy obselote. In addition other powers rose and insisted on building ships, the shipyards of the US, Italy and Japan soon provided hard competition. Unless the US declares that no other power is allowed in space at all and backs that up by destroying any non US presence then in time other nations will develop space technology and capability. It is clear the US isn't doing that. Sometime in the future other powers will be in a position of strength, the US will suffer economic problems or weak leadership or suffer some form of crisis. It happens to every power. When that time comes it will be unable to hold on to the monopoly of space any more than the Spanish could keep a monopoly of the Americas or the Portugese of the trade with the East Indies. Not even the Roman empire lasted forever. That is why i'm not worried about these silly bombastic statements issuing from Washington.

Pretty much any period where there was a large dominant power. For instance in the 19th Century the British ruled the waves. No other nation or combination of nations could challenge the Royal Navy. However times change, new technologies such as torpedo boats and submarines were developed which made some of the naval supremacy obselote. In addition other powers rose and insisted on building ships, the shipyards of the US, Italy and Japan soon provided hard competition. Unless the US declares that no other power is allowed in space at all and backs that up by destroying any non US presence then in time other nations will develop space technology and capability. It is clear the US isn't doing that. Sometime in the future other powers will be in a position of strength, the US will suffer economic problems or weak leadership or suffer some form of crisis. It happens to every power. When that time comes it will be unable to hold on to the monopoly of space any more than the Spanish could keep a monopoly of the Americas or the Portugese of the trade with the East Indies. Not even the Roman empire lasted forever. That is why i'm not worried about these silly bombastic statements issuing from Washington.

But he hasn't given any definition of anarchy, other than a brief quotation from a dictionairy. That's why i was asking him to clarify what exactly he meant by the use of that word.

But he hasn't given any definition of anarchy, other than a brief quotation from a dictionairy. That's why i was asking him to clarify what exactly he meant by the use of that word.

What do you mean by that?

What do you mean by that?

Yes, smokng is unreservedly bad for the health. However, that on its own does not justify banning it. If a person choses of their own free will to do something which they know is bad for them that is their right. We own our bodies, not the government, we are responsible for our bodies, not the government. If we chose to damage them, through smoking, or eating too much, or any one of thousands of ways, that's up to us. The only valid area of government intervention is to protect non smokers from the activities of smokers by cracking down on so called 'passive smoking'. Yes, nicotine is addictive, but no one physcally 'can't' stop smoking. It's a matter of self responsibility, everyone can stop if they really want too. People just need to take responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming others for their own mistakes.

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He asked for something realistic.

When was there a decrease in the Earths temperature? It's been increasing fairly consistently since the end of the Pleistocene. And it seems a bit unfair to decry all scientific research.

Calm down Ophiolite, I didn't misread your post, just noticed the natural slip of assuming that our species is the pinnacle of creation. A common fault of both the religious and the scientifically minded alike. That's the type of mindset that placed the Earth at the centre of the Solar system, then the sun at the centre of the universe. That sort of outlook can easily slip into a teological mindset which should be resisted, esp in debate with someone of Willowtrees opinions. I tried to bring that actually quite serious point to your attention in a good humoured way, didn't mean to piss you off. Anyway i think you've whipped Willowtrees opinions, he seems to have retired from the discussion.

Well, i'd rather be vague than spuriously precise.

I think it's fairly obvious that atinymonkey was referring to the child-in-a-playground-like lack of accountability that the USA .gov displays in international politics, rather than likening them to the dastardly pinkos. On the contary, his use of language clearly shows he is trying to draw an equivalence between the USA and nations such as North Korea.