That's what really worries me. Without prospects for marriage, what are billions of horny Chinamen going to do to vent their frustration?
Um, marry someone who is not Chinese? It already happens in Vietnam and Thailand. Some even marry white American girls after moving to the US [pauses for the sound of conservative Americans' heads exploding].
Of course the flip phone is coming back, they are even in use in the 23rd century! I have seen the historical documents!
I'm sure it will make a comeback. Never give up! Never surrender!
And remember, in Putin's Russia, fear tastes YOU!
All of the primary English speaking countries are going down the same over-regulated path; Canada, USA, UK, Australia, NZ. They may as well be the same country as far as I'm concerned. Stifling, oppressive, paranoid, reactionary. Its times like this I'm really sad that I'm a native English speaker. I guess its time to start learning Spanish or something.
So you can live in a non-oppressive country like Mexico, or most of the countries in central and south America?
We need to fight to maintain our freedoms and there's no doubt that things have been getting progressively worse. But get a little perspective.
There is this other country you may have heard of. I hear the speak quite a bit of Spanish there.
Some researcher connected a cow's brain to the internet and gave it a Slashdot account.
Well, that would explain the editors...
Such as?
Getting the nut-job moon landing deniers to shut the fuck up sounds like a good start.
It will never work. You could take them on a guided tour of the moon, and show them the left-behind equipment at all the landing sites for all the Apollo missions, and they still won't believe you.
Moreover why broadcast omnidirectionally instead of a tight beam in the desired direction? We already do this it makes zero sense to do otherwise. So on top of the long lanundry list of other things that all must line up we must have that physical line of sight too - like finding that needle in a haystack black hole that points a jet directly at earth.
You do realise antennae are usually designed to have a main beam with minimised side lobes? Or, did you not take an antenna theory class, or even read a book on them, and are simply spouting off about something of which you know nothing?
(although I personally think Mars is a terrible place to look
I've also heard that it ain't the kind of place to raise the kids. In fact, it's cold as hell.
As best I can tell, and I've been studying it all my adult life, there is nothing in the Bible to preclude the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life. It is not mentioned as such, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and all that. The universe is a big place. I find it unlikely that we would find extraterrestrial life, even if it were reasonably common, for reasons already amply stated by others. However, it would in no way call any part of the Christian faith into question if we did.
Also, there is this tiny little fact that there are religions other than Christianity. For some, discovering alien life would actually validate some of their beliefs.
You can't really be this stupid, right?
You must be new here.
I probably would be considered more of a Morlock by most people, really, as I'm simply not ready to hand over control of energy markets to collectivist political entities,
So, you'd rather hand it over to OPEC? You sound like someone who is arguing that Hitler is better than Stalin.
Species that is not clever enough to survive, is superseded by species that is more clever.
No, a species that is not clever enough to survive, dies. What supersedes them depends on the environmental conditions, the available species, and the evolutionary potential of those species (I'm oversimplifying, but I hope you get the idea). I think we will most likely be superseded by slugs. Giant, ravenous slugs.
The future isn't what it used to be.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be either.
No kidding. People are now getting nostalgic over East Germany. Sigh.
No, he's a butthurt redneck still pissing and moaning about his stupid assed racist flag.
Um, reading comprehension isn't really your thing, is it? It should have been apparent to all but the most dense of minds that my comment is making fun of those types of people.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
