Moontanman

I'm not sure if this fits in here but it would seem China has been doing some semi serious war mongering as well, mostly against Japan but it involves the interests of several different countries in that area as well...

I can give you some damn good pictures...

The people of the USA and Russia are not at odds, the governments are..

I've been thinking of this post for several days I just can't ignore such wonderful straight line... Later that evening when the entire tribe get together for their evening meal in the great house. The handful that saw the helicopter tell all the others what they have seen the others think on it and ask if they can show it again? The people saw it say " I can't show it to you, it just showed up in the sky i have no idea what it was other than it was something real. The skeptics ask if a piece of it fell off? The ones who saw it say "I just saw it and heard it, nothing fell off of it" The skeptics say, tell us again when you have a piece of it so to show us, just seeing something is meaningless and eye witness testimony is always suspect....

New research into the development of life seems to favor the metabolism first crowd. Various organic compounds made by modern cells could have formed directly in the archean seas. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140425075235.htm

I confess, I am Bullwinkle J. Moose...

I sell cheeze nips...

Ummmm, no, why would you think this could be done?

If the church in Russia is more powerful than the Church in the USA you guys have a problem for sure. I doubt very much that your seeping generalizations about the Russian people are true in any realistic way. Pussy Riot is not a group of teenagers, it's members range in age from 20 to 33, they are musicians and artists, protesting political abuse with music is a well established form of art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot

Intelligent Design Science?

I raised two sons, it was never a matter of the truth or a lie, it was always seeing who could convince someone of the truth of something that might or might not be true. This was always fun and it taught my boys to question everything, accept nothing at face value. After they were old enough they would try and get me or their mom. I think it taught them to be skeptical it certainly was a lot of fun trying to see how credulous we were. They figured out Santa early on as well as the tooth fairy and other imaginary things, They have grown up to be skeptics and I am proud of them. They still get me on rare occasions but I still get them too...

Classic humor:

Sarcasm... do you speak it?

They are good fish bait and fish food...

Three letters... UFO...

Cancer is not a single disease, some types are harder to detect than others and some are harder to cure and some are both. The main reason it's hard to find drugs to fight off cancer is that the cancer is made up of our own cells. You have to find something that will target cancer cells but leave healthy cells alone. Cancer cells are often killed by our own immune system, in fact cancer forms quite a bit more often than is reported because your own immune system finds and kills cancer cells until one forms that doesn't appear to be abnormal to your own immune system then it spreads... I've had prostrate cancer, caught early it is easy to cure, caught late not so much, this type of cancer runs in my family. My great grandfather died of prostrate cancer but now it can be cured via prostrate removal if it caught before it begins to spread..

No, the west is not intolerant of insightful discussion but I am intolerant of baseless assertions like religion.. No one is attacking christians but they are attacking reason and reality if they get butt hurt when they realize how lacking their beliefs are I can't help that.. Humanity is embracing the truth of reality what you believe is irrelevant, only what you can show evidence for matters. Your beliefs are not based in anything but your mind.. The internet is providing real information about the world, not fairy tales... Faith with out evidence is meaningless. You need to clarify this and back up your assertions with more than what you believe.. Since genetics is not binary this paragraph is nonsensical.. The internet is lots of things, the most important of which in regards to religion is the free exchange of ideas, religion cannot compete with accurate information, the free exchange of information is what religion cannot compete with.. Can you back this assertion up with anything but your beliefs? Scripture is nothing but mythology deified... Your assertions are baseless.. Can we say conspiracy theories? Again, the internet is nothing but a way to exchange ideas, mythology doesn't fair well when asserted as reality in this context. But most importantly you need to show evidence of satan, god and jesus before any of this becomes anything but speculation. Do you realize that satan is not a specific thing? I suggest you google the roots of satan in mythology.. The christian point of view has no evidentiary support out side mythology and so can be ignored, a blood moon is just a lunar eclipse, they average two a year and are not special, i have seen many of them in my lifetime.. It is a good example of how magical thinking keeps a person from rational thought. Magical thinking has never helped us in any way, most christians are so devoted because they have been indoctrinated as children to believe in magical thinking, this applies to all religions not just christianity.

LFTR technology looks promising... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate labyrinthodonts I think would be what you are looking for.. Amphibians are not in the direct ancestry of reptiles but are an offshoot...

I am not trying to be pedantic but you answered your own question... Synapsids, Some people call them the mammal like reptiles but synapsids is the correct label, turtles on the other hand are Anapsids, reptile is no longer a useful term in this context..

No in fact evolution is a "fact" you do not know what a theory is in science... Abiogenesis is not part of the Theory of Evolution and while it doesn't have the overwhelming evidence that Evolution has abiogenesis is well supported and the investigation into abiogenesis is on going.. Chemical reactions are not random, evolution is not random, where do you get this stuff? Again, chemical reactions are not random... Citations please... What approach are you suggesting?