Whoever sets up the lunar base, do you mind also putting a Pirate Bay server up there, too? I never finished downloading the second season of Hannibal.

Wasn't "passive-aggressive" at all. I'm genuinely concerned when I see someone get uncharacteristically upset over what may be a simple missed point.

I don't do passive-aggressive very much. I'm more the aggressive-aggressive type if I have reason to lash out. I also don't much care for sarcasm unless it can't be avoided.

For fuck's sake, this is the last comment like this I am going to respond to!

Take it easy. You're getting all worked up for nothing.

It's a new year. Make the best of it and learn to deal with your stress level. You'll live a longer, healthier life.

The tearing up of the Constitution actually got well and truly under way by the tyrant Lincoln

You could go back to John J Marshall.

In fact, if you really want to look at the history, you could say the Constitution was "torn up" before it was even ratified. It was never anything but a counter-revolutionary document intended to create rule by the elite.

You read the ratification debates, you'll see what I mean. It's ugly the way the impulse for liberty and democracy was thwarted by a bunch of wine snobs who didn't want to pay their taxes or give up their slaves.

And Carter. And Ford

Probably the only two since Kennedy who were NOT sociopaths. Whatever you think of their politics, they seem to have been decent human beings. You can't say that about anyone who came after.

Yes. And totalitarian regimes love coal-fired power plants for some reason.

And coal-fired powerplants do not lift anyone out of poverty. North Korea has PLENTY of coal-fired powerplants.

You do know that there's PLENTY of scientific evidence out there which ISN'T funded by big oil refuting the ridiculous notion that carbon-dioxide is pollution?

First of all, "scientific evidence" doesn't show whether or not something is or is not "pollution". "Pollution" is a term of judgement.

The science shows that increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can change the climate. There are not "PLENTY" of scientists who disagree with that.

http://www.mufon.com/ufo-news

If you think the "era of UFO footage" is over, I would suggest taking a look at just a small fraction of the sightings (with pictures) that have occurred in the past few weeks.

You can just go down the line on MUFON's news site and see one sighting after another. Like I said, I don't believe there are extraterrestrials visiting Earth in flying saucers, but there has been a surprisingly consistent number of UFO sightings for a long long time, dating back to before there was "science fiction" talking about flying saucers.. Whatever your theory about them, there is no denying that people are seeing things they don't recognize flying around. And not just toothless Red State country bumpkins, either.

It doesn't matter how bad the recording would be, but there would be some. The end of film in the hand of consumers ended the era of UFO footage. Why is that?

That's not what happened. There are just as many digital pictures of UFOs as there ever were of film. They're posted all the time. Seen all the time. But without any sort of explanation or understanding, there's just less reason. MUFON gets so many new reports with photographic evidence that there just seems to be some fatigue among people talking about it.

We're not going to get any answers regarding the hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings that have occurred just since 2000 from having more pictures. But not having answers has not stopped the occurrences of sightings (with pictures).

But, if anything, the interest in various kinds of cheap recording technology has led to even more wacky made-up supernatural crap

Don't make the mistake that pop skeptics make that "unidentified" means "supernatural". It just means we don't know. The problem with people who think it's real skepticism to think this way is that we end up with the swamp gas theory, which is plenty wacky itself.

The UFO did not move for at least 30 seconds
and then it accelerated out of sight at tremendous speed.

This is an extremely common story, told by military, commercial pilots and other people who know a little about aviation.

And yes, there are pictures. But of course, the pop skeptics are going to say they're just "swamp gas". I don't know what these things are, but I doubt there's any truth to the CIA's story of "U2 spyplanes".

It's really nice when a tyrannical government agency gets cute and gives its tools of oppression pet names.

So, does that argument support theism, atheism, or neither?

It supports the wonder and joy of being human. Further affiant sayeth not,