I see where Hawking is coming from and I guess that he's right if you accept his new use of the word evolution, which is fine. But in the classic Darwinian sense I would argue that humans have STOPPED evolving. Our weak and stupid are allowed (rightfully i suppose) to live simply because we have created a civilization to support each other (in most countries). There is seldom any real natural selection in the traditional sense since the weak (whatever your definition of that might include) live on and most likely will breed along with all the strong. You could argue the Idiocracy point of view that we are "devolving" based on the same kind of argument but I wouldn't take it that far... yet.

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I'll sell you some. Email me. Am i kidding? You'll just have to find out.

It can say whatever the hell they want, they will never be able to enforce it. If they try I suspect the backlash will show them that despite their delusions WE are more powerful than they are, we just haven't realized it yet.

Please don't patronize me, I know the history of democracy.

Just because you invented it doesn't mean you perfected it.

And don't presume to know anything about me based off of my one sentence attempt at humor above. I just got back to the states after 3 years living in Germany (US Army), I have a very realistic picture of both your countries and mine, so please stop stereotyping Americans as I'm sure you hate it when American's do it about you.

Seems Europe is starting to get better at that whole "democracy" concept than we are.

I wonder how many Japanese citizens in that area realize that the big ass doll in the first pic is inspired by that drawing.

My question is how the hell can they determine all this information about other planets when we can't even figure out exactly what makes our own planet tick?

Its not totally wrong.

FTA: "While Ryskinâ(TM)s research looks only at long-term changes in the Earthâ(TM)s magnetic field, he points out that, âoeIf secular variation is caused by the ocean flow, the entire concept of the dynamo operating in the Earthâ(TM)s core is called into question: there exists no other evidence of hydrodynamic flow in the core.â"

He does go so far to say that there is no examinable proof of a liquid core and that we could have been wrong all these years.

It doesn't seem too far fetched for me, but I'll leave the proof to the geomagnetism community.

What was it before?

Uhm.... this is Sims 8 on PS4 dude. Sounds to me like your consciousness lost some parts of your memory in the transfer and your subconscious is making up for it in the form of an unintentionally ironic Slashdot post on SimWeb.

To get an Admin blink your right eye 3 times while rubbing your nose and they should be able to help you out with that...

Did the speed of light slow down again? Really you'd think they'd put out a chain-letter or something.

Oh god I've been there man. I had all the armor sets laid out neatly by the metal, hundreds of potions nicely lined up on the shelves. I even had a special alchemy corner with all the Master potion making shit and barrels full of all the ingredients that I had been collecting since i started.

Now I look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking (just like I do with WoW and EQ) but it was funny how satisfied I was just hoarding shit in that game. I kept my in-game house cleaner and more organized than anywhere I've lived since then. Maybe if I start accumulating tons of weapons and armor I'll be motivated to clean up my place so I can display it all. =P