Certainly can't argue with that, although i imagine there's more than 1 in a million that does know, the numbers of the ignorant are disproportionally large compared to those that do. But downplaying the meaning and actions of those "groups" is hardly the answer.

While some of these quite a ways out there in the way they use the data, many of them put forward a pretty simple analysis of what's going on...such as: http://www.activistpost.com/20...

Make no mistake, the militarism, anti-intellectualism, religious fervor, party "purity," along with the other traits justifies the radical rights admission into the roster of fascist groups, even though they've substituted total obedience to their party for the total obedience to the state that the European fascists of the 1920's-1940's pushed. That list of traits is like a checklist for the radical right.

So no, this isn't just a political insult... it's the way things are happening in the US. My statement above, that's already been modded down by someone who disagrees, is accurate.

...did it also coincide with the TV being turned on?

Over here in the US, the fascist conservatives equate anything not as fascist as them to be socialists.

"But we also need to reduce the incentives for elites to spread misinformation to their followers in the first place. Once people’s cultural and political views get tied up in their factual beliefs, it’s very difficult to undo regardless of the messaging that is used."

As long as the few can remain in power or make money by lying, they will.

Yes, Amaurea right above your post laid that out pretty well, as do you.... but the OP didn't specify surface gravity. You would feel roughly the same effects (gravitationally) from it as you would from our sun at the same distance from center of mass; you'd simply be able to get much closer to center of mass on a white dwarf, baring being fried from the radiation output.

It's a white dwarf.

It's gravitational pull, not including the pulsar's, would be almost the same as our suns.

... and me without my earmuffs, mittens, and scarf.

What could lead to the acceptance of an alternate cosmology is when one of them is more refined than Relativity. So far there's a lot of BS out there, but nothing coming close to Relativity.

I'll at least give you points for not putting up a link to that Plasma Cosmology bullshit.

No, it's saying that the photons travel at the speed of light, but are not always photons..... and when they're not photons, they travel slower than the speed of light.

Those eco-fanatics" actually haven't: http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...

The real answer: Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

...but i really wanted to answer the last question you asked:

That one is incredibly easy: the people that want to save this species form fucking over the environment so much that everyone dies, although why they'd want to save your stupid fucking ass is beyond me.

Yes, please share this actual scientific evidence of God's existence. I've heard so many devoutly religious people spout all sorts of complete bullshit on the topic, and not understand that if there ever had been any evidence, God's existence wouldn't be a matter of faith, but of science.... but there is none, regardless of what made up fantasy bullshit you pull out of your ass. More likely is the simple probability that you do not understand what the word "evidence" means, and you've been brainwashed by a bunch of lying sacks of crap abusing you.... keeping you stupid and delusional.

If it ain't advanced enough to be indistinguishable from magic, it won't pry our misbegotten race off the couch and away from the TV.

I too am sorry for your pain. It means nothing to reality, though. Reality is reality, it doesn't care about your feelings or mine, your wishes or mine, your faith or mine.... it is reality. In reality, there is no evidence, and never has been any evidence, that God exists... none, not a single shred, ever in the history of the human species. Teaching that there is to a bunch of impressionable children, should be considered a vile form of abuse.

Maybe in every other country in the world, but here in the US the companies will buy enough politicians that they can have 5G legally defined as somewhere between 3G and where 4G is supposed to be.