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Comment: Re:CORRECTION (Score 1, Insightful) 414

by rubycodez (#43440699) Attached to: Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth

nonsense, human population growth will peak in 60 years. almost all the resources we "used" are still around, and moreover the crust of the earth is miles thick (we won't run out of anything, not helium, not rare earths, not minerals). there's an xkcd cartoon for your type, you must think pregnant women will be one mile in diameter after two years.....

Comment: Re:Current naming system is going to fail anyways (Score 1) 142

by rubycodez (#43435143) Attached to: IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet

not unique. there are quite a few catalogs in common use though, and moreover stars visible to the human eye already have many, many names. if a few hundred million internet users come up with a name for a star, of course that would, for the common people, overrule any catalog number the IAU makes. we don't call our elbow an olecranon either.

Comment: Re:Everything is connected (Score 1) 114

by rubycodez (#43434201) Attached to: Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World

do you have any proof for your assertion? those people have to deal with poisons already, the world has had arsenic, lead, mercury, etc. since the dawn of time, and no doubt their lifestyle with less than ideal sanitation introduces more. anyway, average lifespan has almost doubled there in 20th century to 67 years, modern times can't be all bad for them

Comment: Re:U.S. off the hook for this one (Score 1) 114

by rubycodez (#43432661) Attached to: Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World

And you are from a part of the world with poor reading comprehension (I'd guess Kentucky); the article gives an example of a POP as Agent Orange, but does not say that compound was found.

most protocols of the geneva convention haven't been ratified in the USA so it is not bound by them; signing is irrelevant, the Constitution is the supreme law of this land.

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