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Comment Re:Idle speculation (Score 1) 290

Ok, chimps can be "evil", like when parties of males 'patrol' for the unfortunate neighbouring males that might be travelling alone, and attack those single males, often killing them.... on the other hand we have the Bonobos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo. Just to mention some special things related to them, they are capable of altruism, compassion, empathy, kindness, patience, sensitivity, face-to-face genital sex, tongue kissing, and oral sex. Plus, they are capable of passing the mirror-recognition test for self-awareness. In my life i met not a few Homo sapiens with much less capabilities...
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35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For the Stars 226

DevotedSkeptic writes with news that today is the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1's launch. (Voyager 2 reached the same anniversary on August 20.) Voyager 1 is roughly 18 billion kilometers from the sun, slowly but steadily pushing through the heliosheath and toward interstellar space. From the article: "Perhaps no one on Earth will relish the moment more than 76-year-old Ed Stone, who has toiled on the project from the start. 'We're anxious to get outside and find what's out there,' he said. When NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 first rocketed out of Earth's grip in 1977, no one knew how long they would live. Now, they are the longest-operating spacecraft in history and the most distant, at billions of miles from Earth but in different directions. ... Voyager 1 is in uncharted celestial territory. One thing is clear: The boundary that separates the solar system and interstellar space is near, but it could take days, months or years to cross that milestone. ... These days, a handful of engineers diligently listen for the Voyagers from a satellite campus not far from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which built the spacecraft. The control room, with its cubicles and carpeting, could be mistaken for an insurance office if not for a blue sign overhead that reads 'Mission Controller' and a warning on a computer: 'Voyager mission critical hardware. Please do not touch!' There are no full-time scientists left on the mission, but 20 part-timers analyze the data streamed back. Since the spacecraft are so far out, it takes 17 hours for a radio signal from Voyager 1 to travel to Earth. For Voyager 2, it takes about 13 hours."

Comment Re:Of course. (Score 1) 1174

Now what does concern me is that if the American people feel that their system of democracy is a fallacy and lose faith in our electoral system.

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Who do you want, the puppet on the left or the puppet in the right? In Brazil, the scenario is even more caothic/pathetic: all sorts of puppets, clowns, artists...despite the higly developed election sistem. We have the winners in the very same day, around midnite. How convenient is that?.

Anyway, your towers were probably attacked by the worst criminals of the world and theyre not terrorists... they control you mostly by means of fear, I guess..

Given the rights circumstances, a new reality is just as possible as the old one. Revolution is possible, but the war must be fougth in the real fields, you know... Bellum sine bello

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