Comment Re:Cue creationists (Score 1) 51
I sometimes wish my honesty and self-respect were low enough to let me cash in by publishing any kind of drek people are dying to hear.
I sometimes wish my honesty and self-respect were low enough to let me cash in by publishing any kind of drek people are dying to hear.
And that means the strike is very unlikely to happen by any rational power because they know a lethal retaliation is certain.
[Emphasis added.]
In addition to the possibility of someone irrational getting control, you have to consider launches based on accidents or limited/inaccurate information.
We really need a system that fails-safe rather than fails-MAD. Not that I have any suggestions...
BTW, supposedly a Soviet submarine commander and his political officer agreed to launch a nuclear torpedo against the US Navy during the Cuban missile crisis, and were only stopped because the fleet commander happened to be on the sub and overruled them.[*]
[*] Per a documentary on PBS last week. Unfortunately, it was not clear whether we have any evidence other than the sub's radio operator's word for it. But it was a very nasty limited-information scenario.
Not sure it would be very effective on such an unsophisticated military. Maybe burn their trucks out. Certainly cause a lot of misery in the already-miserable cities.
Cue young earth creationists claiming this dinosaur was intelligently designed 5000 years ago.
Sigh.
Some of them already claim that soft tissue discoveries proved that dinosaurs were recent. IIRC it was listed in the "creationist rigs search results" article a week or two ago.
Of course, there's a pending religious schism between those who claim all the dinos died in the flood, those who claim that they were saved by Noah and died later, and those who say they never existed at all (the fossils being planted by God to make sure no eviloutionists believe the bible).
does mega have a bandwidth cap? I'm pretty sure if i download something big, after 24 hours i get really slow speed (10KB/s) for 24 hours.
Archaeologists can only afford tiny little sheds.
Look up "Kingdom of Axum" on Wikipedia. Prominent by 1st Century CE. Middle-man for ivory trade and trade between Rome and India.
how could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles?
Asks the society that puts two men in a ring to beat each other up until one can't go any more.
Or runs racehorses until their ankles break, then kills them.
Eat the baby too, and get *all* your nutrients back.
Unless they visit the USA.
at the end she went "Wait, that was a real trailer? I thought it was some sort of ad!"
Context is everything.
I reckon Tesla and Bitcoin haven't been keeping up with their payola.
if the sentence is in any way based on an assumption of guilt for a crime he wasn't actually tried for.
I think the poll needs to be in a fullscreen lightbox with auto-playing video ads in the background.
I think they should automatically kick it off on your 3D printer when you load the page.
Two copies, just to make sure you don't miss it.
"You can tell everyone that you were here when the human race learned...
that this collider isn't powerful enough to tell us anything new.
(Paraphrasing from memory - that ep was on last night.)
We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one. -- John Fisher
