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Comment Breathtaking (Score 1) 15

That image profound in it's simplicity. There are thousands and thousands of amorphous blobs of rock, ice and dust like this flying around the solar system. It is only a matter of time before one of significant size hits the earth. We need a planetary defense system, now. That we still do not have one almost 70 years after humans first put objects in space is, IMHO, evidence that reptilian aliens control our government. Or maybe just really dim-witted humans.

Submission + - Legal torpedoes headed for Meta (reuters.com)

Sparkatron writes: A coalition of US states is suing Meta for damages of $1.4 TRILLION dollars. Yeah, you read that right, TRILLION. It is just a coincidence that this is very close to Meta's entire market capitalization of $1.5T. The suit alleges that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to be addictive to under-age children, and that Meta deliberately concealed evidence of harm to children. A lawsuit with a price-tag this big would seem to be aimed more at creating headlines than seriously obtaining compensation. So far the Stock Market has initially ignored the lawsuit. But in this day and age of seemingly irrational verdicts, like the ~$1Billion defamation award against Joe Rogan, maybe that isn't so wise. Who knows? For those of us that quit face-bvtt years ago because Mark Zuckerberg is a reptilian alien attempting to destroy the human race, this lawsuit seems virtuous. For others this might seem like an abuse of the courts. Worth keeping an eye on, its success could encourage more ludicrous lawsuits to punish other technology companies.

Comment Re: No reason to keep it secret (Score 1) 102

Pssst -here's the secret they are hiding. There ARE NO aliens. No crashed UFOs, no ETs. But nobody can MAKE MONEY by telling us the speed of light keeps aliens from reaching us. So they do the "Alien Strip Tease" burlesque. A liitle flash here, a little glimpse there. But there will never be a "big reveal". The stripper doesn't love you, you're not going to sleep with her, and there are no aliens.

Comment This isn't the 1970s (Score 1) 102

There have been dozens of alien contact movies since "Close Encounters" and the subject has been done to death. If aliens have contacted humans the VERY FIRST question any scientific person would ask is "How did you get here, how did you exceed the speed of light?" I am sick to the point of vomitting of these poofy stories of aliens who come to tell us we need more group hugs. It is time for real scientists to stop pandering to the mentally ill and indulging their fairy stories. Show me a phaser, show me a transporter, show me a warp drive, or even some alien DNA. If you ain't got that, it's just wishful science fiction.

Comment Re: Lawsuit in 3... 2... (Score 1) 190

Don't try to blame Microsoft's predatory practices on the current administration. They have been this evil for forty years. Remember when Wordperfect was the defacto word processor. sMegrosoft copied them, then sabotaged their software with undocumented API changes that put them out of business ( Windows ain't done till Wordperfect won't run). Or remember when Lotus 123 was the original spreadsheet software, but suffered a similar fate? sMegrosoft has more lawyers than engineers, and very deep pockets.

Comment Uh oh (Score 1) 50

Remember in the old days of keyboards how you had to make up your own lies for why you couldn't meet your boss's insane demands. Now with Solara, AI will make up and write the lies for you. And since the lies will be read by your boss's own AI without human involvement there is very little chance of exposure. AI talking autonomously to AI will generate an ever expanding database of false information built on top of previous false information, till communication becomes impossible and the company grinds to a halt. You'll realize I'm prescient when it happens.

Comment An alternative to dark matter (Score 2) 23

Astrophysicists are looking for dark matter because there does not appear to be enough normal matter to generate the gravity needed to spin galaxies the way they are spinning, or to hold the universe together. What if we didn't need dark matter. Maybe there's an alternate solution. One so simple it will make people do face-palms. Think of the typical diagram of warped space time around a planet. Like a bowling ball stretching a rubber sheet. A bug travelling on the rubber sheet will travel towards the bowling ball even though it thinks it is going straight because the sheet is curved in the time dimension. This has been confirmed because if we synchronize two clocks on earth , then put one in orbit, the one on earth records time more slowly. Think about that. The "gravity" well shows displacement in time. But a clock placed in that well shows time flowing more slowly... So the net time displacent should be growing. The well should be getting deeper. Ergo gravity increases over time. Since most of the stars in the galaxy are billions of years old than the sun, they could have 2 or 3 times the gravity. No dark matter needed.

Comment Re: This is misdirection (Score 0) 154

Knock it off. Their are dozens of studies going back to the 1970s showing nutrient depletion in crops due to poor soil management. Bullying people into accepting the outrageous lies of the climate doomers just makes everyone realize how fake most of climate pseudoscience really is. Climate loons are worse than the Nazis.

Comment Old problem (Score 1) 154

Thos phenomenon is not new. It has been documented since the 1970s and it has nothing to do with the global warming boogeyman. Just because two things are correlated in time, doesn't mean there is a causal link. The depletion of nutrients in crops is due to soil depletion. Modern farming methods use the soil as a holding tank for commercial fetilizer. The ground is never allowed to lie fallow, or enriched with decaying organic matter. It can be fixed with healthier farming techniques, without the climate doomers using it as another doom fetish plaything.

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