a metaphor for marriage?

Corporations also fling poo.

The fact that we are in a small galactic cluster, per typical cluster, suggests its small size has protected us from being visited or invaded. If we had evolved in a medium or large cluster, the most likely case otherwise due to density, then perhaps we'd have encountered ET's by now. ET's are less likely to visit & colonize sparse clusters because it's too far to travel for too few resources.

Copernican Principle and Anthropic Principle would suggest that some factor is involved to "keep us out" of denser clusters, where probability would otherwise place us. The boondocks are protecting us. Nobody is bothering us because we are stellar rednecks hidden in the difficult-to-reach woods.

intelligent non-human life is most likely everywhere around us, but beyond the perceptual capacities of the vast majority of humans. Goldfish don't see you walking by their bowl, they just see a flash of light...

For example, to us they are just Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson.

Here's my summary representation of the Drake Equation:

guess1 x guess2 x guess3...guessN = bigAssGuess

("Profit" probably fits in there somewhere, by the way. And, please no jeans jokes.)

"Are you signing to the deaf in slow motion, or running your invisible pr0n app?"

I'd like to play a tune that expresses my frustration at Apple.....hey, where'd it go?

He was aping Ted Nugent.

Yes, BOTH. I've caught myself profiling also at times.

Once I saw a youtube vid of a black boy throwing a cat against a wall. Immediately I thought of his "ghetto upbringing" and poor parenting as the cause. Then it occurred to me I had done some bad things to cats also as a boy. He was no stupider than the average boy of ANY color. (Turned out the vid was fake, by the way.)

(I apologize, cats. I was young and foolish and full of excess testosterone and had no girlfriend.)

Just declare chimps as corporations, THEN they'll have rights.

Police should create a mobile platform and move the police stations to where the crime happens every few...

Congratulations, you've just invented the TARDIS.

In my opinion, that "problem" is caused by being stuck in a cycle. People who feel disenfranchised and unfairly profiled are less likely to follow the "rules" of a society they feel rejects them. Why would you want to follow the "rules" made by people you believe hate you?

Thus, they are more likely to commit crimes. (Job candidate profiling also means they are less likely to be employed, meaning they take more risk.) But being more likely to commit crimes means they are profiled even more, creating yet more disenfranchisement, and the cycle drills yet deeper, neither side blinking, and both sides saying, "the other guy should straiten up first, THEN I will straiten up also" = STALEMATE.

Politicians and pundits seem too eager to blame than solve the problem. If you can make a case that it's "the other guy's fault", then you escape "responsibility" to change yourself.

I'd argue that Triton (of Neptune) is currently the "most well studied known Kuiper belt object", being it already had a Voyager flyby. There's a good chance Triton is from the Kuiper belt based on composition, density, and its "backward" orbit.

But we'll have better evidence for that theory either way when Pluto is visited by New Horizons.

Corporations and programming languages are people too. --Rom Mittney

"faster-than-light propagation of non-information" -- Politicians will looove that technology