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Comment Stopped Evolving (Score 1) 398

I see where Hawking is coming from and I guess that he's right if you accept his new use of the word evolution, which is fine. But in the classic Darwinian sense I would argue that humans have STOPPED evolving. Our weak and stupid are allowed (rightfully i suppose) to live simply because we have created a civilization to support each other (in most countries). There is seldom any real natural selection in the traditional sense since the weak (whatever your definition of that might include) live on and most likely will breed along with all the strong. You could argue the Idiocracy point of view that we are "devolving" based on the same kind of argument but I wouldn't take it that far... yet.

Comment Re:Well done Germany (Score -1, Troll) 246

Please don't patronize me, I know the history of democracy.

Just because you invented it doesn't mean you perfected it.

And don't presume to know anything about me based off of my one sentence attempt at humor above. I just got back to the states after 3 years living in Germany (US Army), I have a very realistic picture of both your countries and mine, so please stop stereotyping Americans as I'm sure you hate it when American's do it about you.

Comment Re:Summary wrong: Oceans only small variations (Score 3, Informative) 333

Its not totally wrong.

FTA: "While Ryskinâ(TM)s research looks only at long-term changes in the Earthâ(TM)s magnetic field, he points out that, âoeIf secular variation is caused by the ocean flow, the entire concept of the dynamo operating in the Earthâ(TM)s core is called into question: there exists no other evidence of hydrodynamic flow in the core.â"

He does go so far to say that there is no examinable proof of a liquid core and that we could have been wrong all these years.

It doesn't seem too far fetched for me, but I'll leave the proof to the geomagnetism community.

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