Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 986
Why is it so fucking hard to get a team of reputable people, using a well designed experiment, test this thing?
Because we are busy. It takes 10 times more time to debunk bullshit than to spew it around.
Why is it so fucking hard to get a team of reputable people, using a well designed experiment, test this thing?
Because we are busy. It takes 10 times more time to debunk bullshit than to spew it around.
The Pauper Post Doc Army is collective punishment for lack of significant clinical advancement in Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Alzheimer's and Schizophrenia.
Have you seen the rate of survival of cancer now vs 30 years ago ? Don't say there aren't advances.
But the real story is even more absurd, the fact that the average person believes they are of any interest to anyone but marketers.
Nobody is of interest until something happens that makes you commited.
Claiming that "we are going to find alien life by XXXX date" is akin to claiming "the world is going to end by XXXX date".
There are reasons for such a claim. Bigger telescopes are being designed or built right now with the express purpose of finding exolife. Methods are being devised for finding life and intelligent life (two different things): look for chlorophyll ? For radiated energy ? For pollution ? For radio signals ? For laser beams ?... Even if you take the low estimate on the number of planets with life, the rate at which we discover new planets makes it rather sure that by that date we should have found several candidates. If not, then something will be strangely wrong.
The only scenario I find credible and that is perhaps not so unlikely is that large parts of the army and national guard would split off and join the resistance [...]
Which is basically also the only way that any rebellion/revolution has managed to succeed in the past.
capitalism as severed the world well
There are so many different ways to interpret those two (?) typos...
Hackers of the world, unite!