Even if I was to suspend belief and buy this argument that you end up at the same position relative to the barycenter of the most significant gravity sources of your departure (I don't), you would still need to travel through space. Consider the situation where you travel back in time one hour. The earth is rotating - so if you started on the east coast of a continent, and arrived at the same point relative to the barycenter, you would end up somewhere in the ocean. Even if you were to travel back only in increments of 24 hours to avoid this situation - the earth doesn't spin perfectly- it has processional wobble about a tilted axis - you would end up far above or below ground - not too useful. You would still need some sort of space travel.

And things get worse the farther you go back - things like meteor collisions throughout the ages will all jiggle the Earth further and further from the original radius of orbit of the sun. If you travel through time, you will need to also travel through space at some point to get to where you want to go.

Agreed, it is so weird that Dr Who is the only show that ever understood this! The TARDIS can travel through time and space for this very reason.

Why do other shows get it so wrong? Dr Who has been running for 50 years! Other writers should have noticed by now.

Find Earth 2? Pfft, I'd rather make Earth 2. Anyone want to give me some funding to get some terraforming going on?

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Heh, if you like those, then you need to try some incinerator extreme hot sauce some time.

It's made from a mix of pure capsaicin crystals and Moruga scorpion chilies. One drop made my eyes tear, and I almost doubled up in pain. Takes a couple of minutes after eating to hit full potency.

Excellent stuff.

Read the ibtimes link - the good old USA is one of the 36 countries.

So, how are they getting away with this in the US?

I don't live in the US - I live in Australia, and my nearest supermarket is currently 30 mins walk away. Yes our infrastructure sucks

When I lived in Europe (a village in southern Italy), there was a grocery store in the village only 5 mins away. But there was very little choice - it was more like a corner convenience store. If you wanted a proper grocery store you had to drive at least 20 mins to the nearest town.

If you live deep in surburbia walking isn't an option as the nearest grocery store may be more than a couple of km away. And if you are shopping for a family, cycling isn't an option because of the load you have to haul back.

But if you happen to be single and/or living within 20 min walk of a grocery store, have at it.

All foods are atheist. At least, I've never met or heard of any food that claimed that it believed in a god.

Feel free to provide evidence that theist foods exist - after all - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

It is apparently from a book called "Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History".

Blurb reads: "Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy."

So it is likely a true record of the exchange.

As someone else posted, there are many reasons the brain can arrive separate to the body in an autopsy, so that part at least does make sense.

Didn't realize it was possible. Here's an exchange I was told is from an actual court transcript. I really hope it happened as recorded:

Yes! I can't believe there are websites out there that still don't hash passwords.

A few months ago I signed up to the website of a large health insurance provider, and they sent me an email confirmation of my account creation that included my website password in plaintext. Unbelievable.

Who writes this stuff? And who hires these people?

This has always been the case across all of history. The segments of society that organize will always overwhelm the individualists. The millions of Bieber fans out there can easily shout down my opinion that his music sucks on every conceivable level. It doesn't make them more right, but they have more power than me because there are more of them. This is why organized religions are so strong, even though they mostly spout nonsense.

And there are always people who feel the need to belong, and that sharing every component of their life increases that feeling of belonging. These people don't value privacy because they can't imagine a situation where they wouldn't want to share their feelings and experiences for validation. It's what we might consider an extremely extroverted personality. But, in the future, this type of personality may become the norm - because all this social technology favors that sort, and is about to become so cheap as to be ubiquitous.

So yeah, you and I are screwed. The only good news is that if/when the singularity hits, no one will actually care what the humans are doing, because the future of science/technology/arts, etc will be completely out of our hands.

Crap. You are correct.

I'm going to go off and hang my head in shame for not being cynical enough.

Yeah - you just know it has potential to be turned to creepy uses: cute girl wearing short shorts drops her bag, bends over to pick it up, someone wearing google glasses happens to be walking by and glances over, resulting video is uploaded to upskirt fetish sites across the internet.

Or plumber shows a bit of tradesman's crack while working on something -> internet.

If these glasses start becoming ubiquitous, I have a feeling that before long people are going to start dressing a lot more conservatively.