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Comment Re:So I suppose Obama (Score -1) 805

Since when is telling the truth a war crime or a terrorist act? How is telling the truth worst than having the blood thirsty crew of a helicopter gunship killing unarmed civilians? We know that thanks to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. If you see anything criminal on that, your idea of crime, terrorist, truth and decency are very different from mine.

Comment Re:Travel to Future IS Possible (Score -1, Flamebait) 658

Not really. You have not considered the way that light behaves at high speed. I suggest you investigate the "relativistic doppler effect" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect ) before you go any further. Basically as you approach the speed of light, the frequency of the light wave that approaches you increases to twice the speed of light (blueshift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshift), so the frequency of light approaching the traveler from the object he is approaching will get past ultraviolet frequencies and into the X-ray frequency spectrum cooking everything in the alleged spaceship (Crew included), so even though it could be at some point in the future "technically possible" to achieve those speeds, we need to consider the practicality as there is no point in traveling to arrive to your destination roasted.

Submission + - Hand-made humans may hold the key to saving the world (smh.com.au)

InspectorGadget1964 writes: Human-induced climate change is one of the biggest problems that we face today. Millions could suffer hunger, water shortages, diseases and coastal flooding because of climate change. The latest science suggests that we may be near or even beyond the point of no return.

Some scientists and policy makers are therefore proposing that we take seriously the idea of geoengineering — that is, large-scale manipulations of the earth, such as spraying sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to alter the reflectivity of the planet or fertilising the ocean with iron to spur blooms of carbon-sucking plankton. However, geoengineering seems too risky. Many of the technologies involved have never been employed on such a large scale, which means that we could be endangering ourselves or future generations. Indeed, spraying sulfate aerosols could destroy the ozone layer and iron fertilisation could promote toxic planktons and destroy all forms of marine life.

        One might be able to use preimplantation genetic diagnosis to select shorter children.

I propose that we consider another solution to the problem of climate change that has not been considered before and that is potentially less risky than geoengineering. Elsewhere my colleagues and I have called this solution ''human engineering''. It involves the biomedical modification of humans to make us better at mitigating, and adapting to the effects of, climate change.

Apple

Submission + - Hackers claim 12 million Apple IDs from FBI (aljazeera.com)

InspectorGadget1964 writes: A hacker group has claimed to have obtained personal data from 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad users by breaching
a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) computer, raising concerns about government tracking.

The group called AntiSec, linked to the hacking collective known as Anonymous, posted one million Apple user identifiers on Monday purported to be part of a larger group of 12 million obtained from an FBI laptop.

How did the FBI come to have that information? Was it freely supplied by Apple?

Comment Follow Darwin.... (Score -1) 1264

The foreskin is product of evolution, if someone dies as consequence of having it, we can certainly deduce that it is a weak specimen of the human race that under normal circumstances should have not been able to reach age of reproduction. Removing that kind of “risk” only allows for the perpetuation of “inferior” specimens and it is therefore detrimental to mankind.

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