Comment Re:"What happened to the dinosaurs?" (Score 1) 445
Seems to me that Google is calling the creationists themselves dinosaurs. In that sense the answer is correct, although a bit abstract for most people who would be doing this search.
Seems to me that Google is calling the creationists themselves dinosaurs. In that sense the answer is correct, although a bit abstract for most people who would be doing this search.
Is it an insult if it's true? And I doubt that you're the first to say that.
It's used in fracking fluids - and also in a LOT of other places, like paints, sealants, cleaning products, et bloody cetera. The shocker would be if they didn't find the stuff.
It's used in many Simple Green products, a LOT of Rustoleum paints, and a lot of others. Minwax, Goo-Gone, Zep, Windex... the list is pretty long. And all it would take would be a home mechanic spilling a bottle of one of those products to get to that same parts-per-trillion levels in their own well water.
The paper suggests that the chemical may have come from a surface-level leak at a nearby well - and that they can't actually tie the chemical to the actual fracking chemicals used at that well.
You raise some good points, but also some further questions that would help validate or invalidate this study. Since this chemical is apparently ubiquitous, is it also found at similar levels in wells not located near fracking sites? Does the concentration vary with distance from fracking sites? Since fracking is relatively recent, is there any historical data on chemical concentrations in wells?
Note that (from TFA) "an unresolved complex mixture of organic compounds was identified" which included 2-Butoxyethanol, and that "Similar signatures were also observed in flowback from Marcellus Shale gas wells" which seems like a bit of a smoking gun. It is also implied that the reason they can't actually tie the chemical mixture to the specific well is that the operator is not making samples available.
Also from TFA is that the wells that were tested were chosen because they were 'foaming' from the chemicals. I doubt that the well foamed from the date of construction.
How about "Does not exceed FDA Recommended Dietary Allowance for Radioactive Nuclear Waste"?
At the time of publishing, the chimps were unavailable for comment, though they could be observed engaging in their habitual poo-flinging and screeching.
Please review TFA. It was not the chimps flinging and screeching, it was their lawyers.
I have met several Dutch people in the US, and while all of them were very nice people, most of them were around average height.
Maybe they're just exporting the ones who don't meet their unstated height requirements?
That was somebody from Apple. They screwed up. They were going for your pancreas.
They were probably holding him wrong. I hear that can cause problems.
It's so bad today that people are actually asking for reposts...
This is not complicated, You can link Secret Service agents arm-to-arm around the White House and some nutjobs are still going to try to make a run for it.
But post just one IRS agent at each entrance and you will not have a problem again.
Wouldn't the elderly be better off on a space station? You could actually control the level of (artificial) gravity by designing it with rings and spinning the station (ref. almost every scifi story in space). They could start off at the outer layers (maybe 0.5 G equiv.?) and work their way up through the rings as their capabilities decreased. When they perish (dead ringers?) they could be released to fall back to Earth (shooting star), or on an orbit to intersect the Sun (if they need more flare) or wherever they chose.
That's an obvious solution of course, I think the holdup on it is that the test is given on dedicated Chomebooks, and they don't have enough of them to administer the test to all students at once.
...never UTC-3 unless someone is working very early hours. So it seems like weak evidence indeed!
AFAIK working early doesn't change your timezone, unless you're a pilot or long-distance driver (if it did I probably would have lapped my office a few times by now).
UTC-3 seems to only cover part of Greenland and Brazil, both well-known hotbeds of hacker activity. I suspect that the timezone information is as accurate as info found in random strings in the malware (BACKSNARF_AB25: darn it, time to change the combination on my luggage again...).
Or better yet change the GPS data to the coordinates of a prison or army base.
These drug companies are already raking in $XX billions on other drugs, and the cost to develop a new antibiotic could be less than some of their advertising budgets. The $2 billion might not even be enough incentive.
How about a rule like for every non-antibiotic drug that is approved by the FDA, they also need to submit one antibiotic drug for approval? That would get their attention.
But I'm only laughing because I'm not British. This would terrify me if I were British. Not that we don't have plenty of similar nuts in Congress.
Has anyone checked recently if Treddinick weighs as much as a duck? I think it's time.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.