Sure, except the main reason ISIS is a problem now is because of the U.S. We broke it; we bought it.

We well through that option out the window when we precipitously withdrew from Iraq, which goes to the comment below, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

The U.S. has been incompetent and now violence is the only option we have left.

It also depends on how old you are. If you are in your early 20s, this is pretty normal. If you are in your 40s, I'd be very surprised and a little jealous.

Good. I like when things are questioned. I read both Brian Greene and Lee Smolin.

Nonetheless, there are predictions that can be made based on current research, and it makes sense to try them out if there's a reasonable way to do it.

Yeah, except I think most of us agree that genocide is a Bad Thing.

Just today I was typing a message in Thunderbird and it stopped accepting my keyboard input for about 8 seconds while it was busy running an index or whatever it felt like hijacking the UI thread for.

Sounds like Outlook, except for the 8 seconds part. More like 20-30.

Because it's consistent with all the stuff we know now that we didn't know 30 years ago. Look up inflation cosmology.

I don't want our nuclear reactors mediating any kind of reaction using illegal alien neutrons!

I guess you haven't been keeping up with physics lately, but this kind of thing has been seriously discussed for decades, and has gained a lot of momentum in the last 10 years or so. The only thing slowing down the development of the science of alternate universes is inability to make falsifiable predictions. While not finding neutrons we can't account for wouldn't disprove anything, finding them could be the biggest science news since the prediction of and then discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

It's a weird world out there and the possibilities of what reality really consists of are getting weirder and weirder and yet more plausible at the same time.

I think paper clips leak _out_ of our universe, but coat hangers leak in.

So it's stirred up the desire for even more violence. That ought to solve the problem then. It always has in the past.

Sometimes violence is the only option left. With groups like ISIS, I think a fair argument can be made that we've reached that point.

Now all pictures will tend to be the same with the algorithm telling the amateur photographer how to frame the shot.

Sorta like the way most movies are all orange and blue now, huh?

I haven't looked at beta in a while... does it still have the pointless generic stock photos on every story?

I bet you were a hit at parties in the late 80s when it came time to debate the relative merits of Captains Picard and Kirk. ;-)

Seriously, though, you have a point.

Yeah, it will be great to get the experience of 30 seconds of hourglass every time you click on an e-mail on your phone.