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Comment Re:I would like to verify the legitimacy myself (Score 1) 319

So why doesn't Ekstra Bladet just publish a "Ekstra Bladet Web Browser" app instead of a "Ekstra Bladet Newspaper" app? Certainly Atomic Web Browser for iPad causes Apple to warn me that it might expose me to explicit content. I assume the "Ekstra Bladet Web Browser" would similarly warn me of that moral peril.

Comment Out of proportion (Score 1) 595

This is out of proportion. The critical pollution today is CO2 and other Greenhouse gases. Other pollutants are localized - they are "safely" stored in the ground/seabed and/or break down. Of all places to release such pollutants, the least environmental impact is releasing them at sea (the ocean has a gigantic 3 dimensional ability to absorb and "safely" store pollutants).

This is not to say pollution is not a problem, but let's keep this in perspective. It has been far more important to reduce particulate pollutions on land (vehicles and industry) than at sea; and now the next problem is CO2.

Comment It's just Creation v. Evolution (Score 1) 341

It's just Creation v. Evolution. There is no "debate". In Genesis, God created birds (not eggs); meanwhile, the fossil records clearly shows creatures all the way back to the oceanic ancestors of chickens laying eggs long before any birds, let alone specifically chickens. Any scientist who is still "pondering" this should go hang out with Paul Davies or some other Templeton Prize winning fool.

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Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report 495

cremeglace writes "In an unusual last-minute edit that has drawn flak from the White House and science educators, a federal advisory committee omitted data on Americans' knowledge of evolution and the Big Bang from a key report. The data shows that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to accept that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang."

Comment Re:just trying to be relevant (Score 1) 231

Yes, so really, the population of an "advanced economy" is 10 times lower because of this factor, thus each one should be allocated 10 times the carbon emissions budget (which they can then spend on powering computers and other intelligence-multipliers like AC units and Plasma TVs). Indeed, each computer I have churning away running SETI@home is doing the work of 1000 mathematicians that never needed to be born! And my Tic-tac-toe game is simulating the minds of 10,000 politicians than never needed to be born! Talk about carbon credits!

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