So you are saying the Ark was a TARDIS, only had to be large enough to fit the elephants in the door?
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No. Cats are just dicks that way. Cute fluffy adorable small creature murdering dicks.
probably the master
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Well, at least we still have NASA and Johnson Space Center here. Iâd rather not have to talk about the defunct Super Conducting Super Collider in Waxahachie now that the Hunt brothers have turned it into a data center. Yuck.
Missing Molly Ivins and Bill Hicks more and more every dang day. [snif] Those two Texans would have this joker sorted out faster than a sneeze through a screen door (and that goes double for Drumpf).
Might could get Jim Hightower (an unapologetically feisty populist Texan) to weigh in, now that Molly and Bill are in the great blue yonder:
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/895
CHRISTIANIZATION. People think of many of Americaâs parks as awesome âcathedralsâ of solitude. But the Bushites are saying, hey, letâs bring some real âchurchâ to Momma Natureâin particular, letâs toss a sop to our extremist Christian constituency by converting to a system of faith-based park management (non-Christians need not apply).
Thus, while taking in the grandeur of the Grand Canyon from the popular viewing area on the south rim, your eyes can also behold three bronze plaques bearing Bible verses, put there by the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary. When the park superintendent had them removed on constitutional grounds, a top Bush appointee at NPS headquarters overruled him, and the plaques are still there.
In 2003, this same park began selling Grand Canyon: A Different View. It is a Christian creationist tome asserting that the canyon is not the product of geological forces but instead was created by Noahâs flood and is only 6,000 years old. Again, the park superintendent balked, and again he was overruled
by Bush political appointees, who ordered hundreds more copies of the book to sell. An NPS spokeswoman said flatly,â We donât want to remove itââand they havenât.
Ah yes⌠Dubya. A Texas man, or one who claims to be one, perhaps, but not one Iâm proud of either.
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I suspect that @OtherMichaelâs brownies may be of the sufficient (horticultural) technology type (AND HEâS NOT SHARING!)
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No need for them to walk to the Ark; penguins are capable swimmers.
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I think Iâve only read the two Dragonâs Egg books, but man â how many times did I read Dragonâs Egg?
That laser light and the prophet⌠mmmmmaybe I read Flight of the Dragonfly? Seems familiar, but maybe becuase it also sounds like an episode of Interstellar.
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Thanks for Reminding me of those books - gods itâs been a while!
Speaking as a religious person, I wish you wouldnât lump all religion into the same category as the science-denial religions like Christianity. There are many millions of religious people who are vehemently pro-science, and in some cases itâs actually a part of the religion itself - for example, the 4th principle of Unitarian Universalism is â[I support] A free and responsible search for truth and meaningâ.
Word! Testify!
Here, speaking as a scientist, I need to point out that replacing a blind faith in priests wearing black robes with a blind faith in professors wearing white lab coats is not progress. We need to respect the scientific method, and the skepticism it enshrines and promotes, not create a cult of Scientism.
Think of me as the loyal opposition. I share your basic pro-science, pro-reason attitude, and your dislike of indiscriminate, uncritical, unreasoning faith in ârevealed truthsâ. But the source of the problems we both recognize is not actually religion at all - itâs a lack of reason and skepticism. Religions that promote blind faith in textbooks and castigate skeptics are bad religions.
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Why is Frank Carson on the cover?
http://femaleimagination.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/frank-carson.jpg
Laser light? Valis?
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It was some sort of surface-scan of the neutron star; however, there was life on the surface, living at a such a high rate of speed that the pulses of the laser came weeks apart, and⌠long story, novel-length, actually.
Bob Forward used to work, not directly with my dad, but at the same Hughes Aircraft facility, so (and I hope this gets some punches on my uber nerd cred card) I am the proud owner of a signed copy of Starquake.
SQUEE!!!
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