The "red cars get more tickets" myth is a myth. See snopes.com. Supporting evidence of this is the fact that insurance companies don't ask you what color your car is.

I'm sort of at a loss here. Why would a random person think they have ebola? The CDC has ready contacted the people possibly exposed. Either way, yes, they should contact a medical professsionsl as they have all or should have all been contacted and are aware of the threat and symptoms.

But thats largely neither here nor there. The entire point of my comment was about people knowingly in a possible situation where they could have been infected.If they are one of the, assuming they value their life or even the lives of others, do yoh think they would want to know if it was ebola or just not care and get some antibiotics?

I had a '98 Supra Turbo and I sped regularly but not egregiously. Never got a ticket in that car. I now have a BMW 335is and have also had a Lotus Turbo Esprit, a Mazda RX-7 convertible, a Lexus SC400, a 1990 Toyota Supra Turbo and a 1988 Toyota MR-2. Of all of these cars, the only one I have gotten a ticket in was the MR-2, and that was about 20 years ago, for driving 45 on a 4 lane divided highway, having not noticed that the speed limit was 35. Luckily I saw the cop ahead of me and slowed down from 55, which might have been a little bit fast, to 45 , which was a reasonable and prudent speed for the road and conditions. In fact, 45 was probably a little slow for that section of road. Luckily for me I got pulled over there and not 500 feet further up, where the highway was no longer divided, but was still 4 lanes, and the speed limit was 20.

Except if you compare those same drivers and their tickets while driving different cars, I'll bet money (based on my personal experience owning both family sedans and sports cars) that you'll see that it's the car and not the driver that drives the ticket count.

When I drove an old sedan, I never got a speeding ticket. Ever since buying a new coupe (driving the same speeds) I've gotten at least one ticket per year. I don't care about paying the money because I'll openly admit I was speeding, but to claim that cops don't target sporty cars to punish them is a joke.

If you think about it, The Great Salt Lake is staring at the same issue (albeit on a longer timescale).

The old Soviet Union did enough ecological damage without having to hang that subject on it...

I don't think this particular story is a harbinger of that. Rather, I think it's a story of monumental stupidity caused by a totalitarian government that didn't bother looking forward, and was too eager by half to waggle their technological penises in front of the world.

The rivers feeding the Aral Sea haven't dried up - just that most of it got diverted to other uses, and the Aral Sea was the unfortunate loser in that bargain.

I don't disagree that yeah, potable water is going to eventually be a problem as climate slowly shifts and population grows. The climate and population growth are debatable and mostly unknown as to rate, direction and cause, but change they will.

They are experts at using circular reasoning and 'because the (insert holy book here) says so' arguments for thousands of years. Why would the discovery of aliens change that?

People who are delusional always find reasons to continue to believe in things that aren't there, the arguments don't have to be logical or correct. They just continue to believe in them.

We know all this stuff is based on an order from Reagan, you mental midget. Have you read that EO, and the subsequent ones? It's what has been done since that original order that is the real problem.

So you think without guns, there would be more liberty?

The followers of a religion often care little about what their leaders and theologians say, especially on esoteric topics. There are fanatical cultists who hang on some personality's every word, but those are the exception.

How many Catholics do you know who use birth control? How many Southern Baptists drink? How many Jews work on Saturday?

If anything, finding a non-intelligent life form would be pretty much meaningless. It may even reinforce the Christian idea of human exceptionality. It'd just be more plants, animals, bacteria, etc. for them to steward on behalf of their deity.

Finding another intelligent life form would be a thorny theological problem for some, but a simple mission to convert for others. It might just cause a whole bunch of new splitter congregations based on differing opinions. It may cause wars among factions. Whole new religions might sprout and grow based around the discovery. If we ever find an intelligent and communicative species with their own religion, some portion of humans will convert to that no matter how different it is from anything we already have.

TL;DR: What theologians and church leaders for religions that exist now have to say has little to do with the new belief systems such a major event would usher in.

Well, I figure, any aliens able to get to Earth from who knows how many light-years away would regard us as an interesting species to study. Kind of like we might study some animals or primitive natives on an isolated island. An "arms race" would be like those natives harvesting more spears, and the ETs would probably get a few laughs out of it.