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Oh come on... You know this shit's gotta happen every so often. It helps to keep the war... alive! Now they can fatten up the budget a bit and build a nice new station (like the owners burning down their own restaurant to write off and collect the insurance), and who's gonna bitch about it? Who's gonna listen? There's big money out there. Everybody wants a piece of the pie.

In the words of the famous Inspector Clouseau: "Not anymore..."

"Process" is ongoing. It implies nothing of the sort. There is 'before' and 'after' with 'now' in between. Indeed it is you that must prove otherwise. As to where chemistry becomes biology (as if they were ever separate), the process remains undiscovered. But to claim a 'divinity' did it is no less absurd than any other theory out there. I'm not going to fret over it. When you know yourself, you will have your answer. Until then you are merely speculating, just like the rest of us. I know I'm talking to the hand, but your obsession with 'purpose' has you barking up the wrong tree. Simple laws of physics made you what you are today. You are an accretion of dust particles, a lily white snow flake that comes and goes on the slightest wind. Don't be so sanctimonious to think your so special before the creator. Arrogance is a sin.

It's far more likely for them to figure out if there is anything they really care about in the data...

This is precisely the point of my OP. I really don't understand all the chatter that followed. The spooks are shooting in the dark (which is what this Miranda affair was, with all the grace of Inspector Clouseau) , which provides for more than a bit of good humored fun to keep the press busy with some fresh 'news'... They just want to know if they're chasing ghosts. It's not like there will be any long term effect on the system or anything.

People in the Middle East have been slaughtering each other since the 7th century...

Yeah, and I'll bet that more often than not the wars were over trade disputes. It was a very busy place. The religious angle can play a role, but mostly for riling people up.

..."Process" implies both an initial state...

Then so must your deity. There is no forward and back. There is only in and out. Gravity and radiation.

The world is watching you USA.

Since '68.... We landed on the moon a few times. After that, not much happened.

That man has been the de facto president for over 45 years now.

I think it's gonna be the best triple agent movie Hollywood ever puts out.

So now what?

There need to be penalties. Someone should be brought up on charges.

Yeah well, he's in Russia, or so we are told :-)

Everybody's a comedian...

Well she's not exactly getting any more beautiful herself either..

Identify yourself...

and get shot... http://mashable.com/2011/11/10/mexico-blogger/