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Reactions to unexplained phenomena mirror the culture. In the bible they were metal shields. In the space age they're flying saucers. George Carlin said we created god "in our own image & likeness", a Genesis allusion. Does this explain why so many of our boogeymen are humanoid? Anxiety...

What a pastoral mental image! mark mywords, your lively descriptions, worth the price of admission. Keep em coming.

At this point I'm curious about King Charles. He has some big shoes to fill. If he tries to duplicate / replace her by mirroring results, he's likely to fail. But if Charles seizes it as an opportunity to leverage his meager station to successful utilitarian results, Mummy may not overshadow...

As an object's velocity approaches the speed of light (sol) it shrinks in length, and grows more massive (like getting heavier). * In the following scenario, when both ladder & garage are at equal rest, the ladder is too long to fit in the garage. Approaching sol an object's dimension along the...

Mark, that was more interesting, concise than anything I've seen on TV about it, though I haven't seen much TV lately. "Andrew was a pilot during the Falklands war" mark Didn't Prince Charles pilot a helicopter in or near combat during the Falklands war?

"And this prospect would worry Russia how? The reactor is in Ukraine, the land which would be contaminated would be in Ukraine and the vast majority of the people killed would be Ukrainian." mark It's a complex cost to benefit analysis. A variety of criteria may be considered: global public...

White House punts on 'digital dollar' but announces interagency research group The White House punted on whether it was ready to support the creation of a digital dollar, which would have allowed the United States to further adapt to the evolving crypto industry and help strengthen the dollar's...

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The climate change evidence is rapidly piling up. One of the more concerning aspects of what the climatologists warned, it seems many of their dire predictions were actually under-stated. It's worse than they said. Brutal heat wave shatters all-time records, threatens power outages across...

The impression I get from your link mark is that this specific Boris Johnson critic is more style than substance. The same argument without the clenched fists and repeated emphatic knee flexures would merely be political antagonism. I'm somewhat relieved that the U.S. isn't the only nation with...

Texas Judge Says HIV Drug Mandate Violates Religious Freedom Bloomberg It's not practical for a civilized country to function properly if individuals acquire a legal right to discriminate, even if premised on their own religious freedom. The Liberty right is a reciprocal right. Neither party's...

Looks unstable to me Rampage. Didn't this change result from a court ruling? What I've read leaves the impression rather than settling the matter, there are more law suits in progress, some with potential to establish yet more binding precedent.

National student test scores plummet, pandemic blamed. Thursday September 1, 2022 11:00 am EdSource staff National test results released on Thursday showed the pandemic’s devastating effects on American schoolchildren, with 9-year-olds’ math...

CNN and others are running similar stories. The more clever (elusive, evasive) Republican candidates have tossed the political hot oppression potato to the constitution, the tenth amendment. They can retain the political, electoral benefit of appearing to be "pro-life", while also appearing to...

Guns grab the headlines. But the very definition of what a weapon is has proved to be somewhat fluid. Automobiles racing through a crowd can kill and injure many. But it's a blunt, indiscriminate instrument. My opening post mentions the age limit. That by itself raises Constitutional questions...

That may be a near textbook assessment, snapshot of present day geopolitics. However, Putin's model of military invasion and acquisition though long-tenured, is old fashioned, and increasingly outmoded. Expanding territorial authority, sovereignty is the traditional method. However solidifying...

The command and control decisions surely cannot be dismissed here. But some may not realize what a high stakes risk artillery fire is so near to a nuclear power plant. Ukraine has been providing a significant percentage of the world's farm produce. If a nuclear disaster contaminates Ukraine's...

sear, I didn't really have asceticism in mind when I opened this topic, though I understand the benefit of considering the extreme case when evaluating a proposition. One might think there would be divergence between one religion and another. But I suppose there may be more overlap than distinction.

It might seem a solution might be obvious, within easy reach. But as we look closer, we see guns aren't really the problem, but a symptom. Switzerland demonstrates that. The Swiss are trained in the use of small arms, and issued small arms by their government, for use in national defense. Of...

In your brief tenure here Oran you've established an impression of a stable, prudent observer. I'm confident you are right of course. I don't believe this specific case will directly result in war between the continents. Your "probably no particular cause for concern" phrasing summons to mind...