I understand the neutrino was theorized before discovery, but I just read the article and the chain of properties either WIMPs or SIMPs need to have, and they seem overly complex for something that there is no direct evidence for. Of course I am not a physicist. Just seems like we need better data collection of anomalous particle behaviors before investing much faith in such conjectures. Granted these theories could guide future experiments, but perhaps just sometimes theory gets a little too far ahead of experimental evidence.

True, but rightly or wrongly those people are perceived of has being in control of their own fate and could have escaped death with better decisions. Here you just strap your butt to someone else’s bomb.

I think I may have posted years ago this was sadly inevitable and a bad investment for states subsidizing “space ports”. We may put up with the occasional loss of life in pursuit of loftier goals, but suffer any deaths in pursuit of “space tourism” and it would probably be the death knell for the industry.

Have any of these “space ports” entered the construction phase? Surely backers will see this as good money after bad now. This coming so shortly after the Antares rocket explosion can only seem to amplify the perceived risk of attempting flights into space.

I’m all for progress, but how about we wait until access to space for industry and government is routine before we think about tourism?

“like you are told to do, undoubtedbly” Yes, yes, yes, I go to all the weekly meetings where we liberals are coached what to say.

Seems my attempt to have a conversation with a conservative has lead to “You are not worth conversing with”

Your petulance seems to confirm my suspicions about a conversation with a conservative -- it’s only a conversation if I agree with your conservative opinions in the end.

My last question: Is any additional money paid by the middle class and upper class justified if it helps those in the lower class? Apparently we can only help them by lower costs for everyone.

So.... Still no answer to how the have-nots will have health care. *Sigh*

Don't just point out flaws. What's the solution? And if I hear "more jobs" I think I just might hurl.

You do realize "is best when affordable" is just what the AHCA attempts to do for lower income and those with pre-existing conditions?

Costs may have been a concern for conservatives before AHCA, but really only for those middle class and above.

I too believe in universal health care, but misinterpreted your intent. I saw the phrase “liberal...inherent bias” and had a knee-jerk reaction you might be trying to obfuscate the outcomes to support a more conservative conclusion. I apologize for my tripwire liberal leanings.

Or perhaps I misunderstand again. Health care for everyone as in a liberal “we get everyone health care regardless”, or heath care for everyone as in “more jobs ought to do it” the conservative way.

Perhaps those of us in the middle or upper middle class will pay a little more for insurance. Oh woe is us with good paying jobs and good health care insurance should have to pay a little more. Let’s not sugar coat this – a great deal of anger over the affordable health care act is the idea that people on the lower rungs of society should have their health care subsidized at all. Better they all die without care for being stupid, lazy, or involved in self destructive habits like drugs. I mean the all deserve it after all don’t they?

Most really advance races will have probably passed through their singularity – being mechanical-beings they won't really need stars providing warmth to live by. It could be that a huge percentage of these planets are colonized by post-biological-entities and the planets around stars are left as garden areas for new post-biological-entities to emerge from.

Perhaps this is a new direction for SETI

With so much video being streamed today even 1 cent would have brought in considerable revenue. While I wouldn't approve of a tax of even 1 cent, it is hard to imagine how they came up with such a high target tax rate. For many their tax bill would likely be 5x higher than their Netflix subscription. How did they possibly think this would fly? Even is you eschewed online video the amount of data just see the news on CNN inexoribly climbs higher and higher every year with all the video add bloat on the sides. Sure, tax me on stuff I don't want to see anyway -- I think adblock downloads will skyrocket.

Maybe Hugary isn't the biggest market, but content providers everywhere would band to fight a trend like this.

I'm finding it hard to gain anything useful from the websites provided. This appears to be just about useless for us lay types. Since I consider myself tech and science literate I shudder to think about politicians trying to make policy decisions based on using it.

One bit of advice/insight several paragraphs in, travel restrictions only delay the arrival of cases in other countries. Delayed is really the real question. Overall peak severity given various travel restrictions seems more germane, both here and elsewhere. The concern seems to be that travel restrictions will be bad for the badly hit countries – it is unclear to me the will be bad in the short run for developed countries. That said, it it Africa turns into a festering pool of Ebola, then yes, very bad for us all.

There are so many conflicting priorities here I fear we will do far from the ideal. We need to protect our own citizens, we want to help others, maybe some don't want to help too much and see this as the final solution for Africa, but will hide their agenda under concern for those here.

I really was hoping to see better to understand trends based on combinations of aid and travel restrictions.

Umm, more power to them I guess. So for money I get to skip the adds, or I don’t have to see them at all? Seems unclear. Most of what my wife watches only requires a 5 second wait before allowing a skip. I expect that wait will skyrocket if subscription fees don’t bring in what marketing thinks they should.

From TFA:

She did say YouTube would continue to offer the option of music videos with ads for those who don’t want to pay.

Seems to suggest other previously commerical supported feeds might no longer be available to non subscribers.

All and all sounds like a bumpy road ahead.

The vast majority of coverage on CurrentC is negative – now this. It will be interesting to see how long they keep this thing on life support before pulling the plug. Anything after this would seem like good money after bad.

Everybody in the tech community was already worried about direct access to bank accounts and no fraud protection. How will the consortium behind CurrentC answer the already swirling security concerns when this happens so quickly after members give Apple Pay (and it's biometric locks) the boot?

While such efforts might garner a few more Young-Earth creation believers, the inevitable silliness of it all seems like it might push more people away from religion in general.

Also seems to show every major religious organization tends to be discriminatory – not just rabid dogs like ISIS. This if why organized religion must be confronted, given a chance only right thinking people will be allowed jobs if they had their way. Coercion is fine if it’s in God’s name you know.

Should be titled: Am I smart? I guess I'll never know.
Answer seems clear now :-)

When I was a child I use to fret to myself if I was stupid would I be smart enough to know I was stupid. At the age of 56 this thought still comes back to me, but now as when my mental decline starts will I realize it?

One can get into a loop thinking about these things, as the converse is that people that worry they don’t measure up, typically more than measure up. So if I think I’m below average does that make me about average, then the second I think I might be above average, boom I might be below average again :-)

Actually I do think I’m above average in many area’s as evidenced by various testing measures, but I probably over estimate my knowledge in non-technical areas, just as the study suggests. That said I typically stand back aghast at today’s Republican conservatives – I may be wrong, but in general they seem mean and – yes I’ll say it – bigoted. Of course that could just be Dunning-Kruger blinding me to the brilliance of the current Republican vision.