Yes. I'm confused too.

Funny, I keep more porn in the same spot.

That still doesn't explain why they would think planets were uncommon. We didn't know of any extra solar planets because we didn't have instruments that could find them...and we knew they were inadequate. Just because we were incapable of seeing them, that's no reason to believe they were uncommon. What we can infer from the known laws of physics suggests that all you need is gravity and matter and you're going to get clumps of matter orbiting other clumps matter orbiting other clumps of matter until you get stars and planets and moons and galaxies.

Well thanks for that. But this was 25 years ago...hence the C-64. Like you, I developed self confidence too.

How about an overabundance of black holes?

Same. My lack of self confidence is what caused me to spent all my time with my c-64 instead of people.

Few people care if you have datamine the hell out of a bunch of different private databases to determine someone's identity. But if you can google your name and find every discussion you ever had on the internet, then people care. I don't want a bunch of old discussions haunting me for the rest of my life. Nobody does.

Won't do any good. Producing more stupid people is relatively easy. You simply don't educate them.

And less open discussion.

Young males already romanticize war. Video games/movies/novels frequently encourage that. Just because they're fictional, doesn't mean they don't affect people's opinions.

Fixed title for you.

I didn't say it was practical. Taken in context, I was merely saying we have flying devices that don't plummet to the ground when they run out of gas.

If only there was some kind of balloon like device to raise our buoyancy so we could float in the air.

I'm not talking about killing people. I'm talking about managing growth...child birth...China style. Jesus, are IQs plummeting or something? What on earth made you think I was talking about killing people when I said "manage our population growth".

I think the conclusion is pretty obvious. We're heading toward major ecological issues which will kill people. We need to manage our population growth.