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Re: Simpsons: Evolution of Homer
It was doing pretty well until he went from reptile to mammal. The branches that would become mammals and reptiles separated long before either existed.
By: Unloved
Re: 8,800 Pennies!
A business can choose to accept whatever form of payment they want to accept. A business could choose to only accept payment in pints of goat's blood if they wanted. It doesn't mean they'd stay in business long, but there's no legal requirement that they must accept cash. Just because cash "can" be used for debt doesn't mean it "must" be accepted.
By: Unloved
Re: 8,800 Pennies!
Snopes says a business is free to refuse payment:
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/pennies.asp
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/pennies.asp
By: Unloved
Re: The iPhone Ad You'll Never See
People get burned out on anything hyped too much. The more the hype and fans pump it, the more fun it is to tear it down. Regardless of whether we're talking iPhones or politicians.
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Re: All in the Family: Family Viewing Hour
Television's grown up now
No one needs a marriage vow
Folks go to the toilet now
These are the days
Single girls can take a pill
Robert can propose to Bill
We all can say prune juice and tush and potty out loud...
We can show my pregnancy
And John Boy can have VD
Plus a quick vasectomy
(after 9 oclock)
These are the days
No one needs a marriage vow
Folks go to the toilet now
These are the days
Single girls can take a pill
Robert can propose to Bill
We all can say prune juice and tush and potty out loud...
We can show my pregnancy
And John Boy can have VD
Plus a quick vasectomy
(after 9 oclock)
These are the days
By: Unloved
Re: Fuel Cells
It runs on hydrogen and creates water as a byproduct. So unless somebody finds a supply of ready-made hydrogen, we have to create it. And creating it means investing the same amount of energy you get back from it, which means it's a power storage mechanism, not a power source. The aquarium could just as easily been solar + traditional batteries.
By: Unloved
Re: On Drugs And Evolution
Why are our brains are wired to receive certain drugs? For the same reason our hemoglobin is "wired" to preferentially uptake carbon monoxide over oxygen. Just because an artificial drug molecule is close enough to a natural bio molecule does not mean that we were wired for that drug. Out of the millions of chemicals that have ended up in humanity's bodies over the course of, it's the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy to ignore the millions that have negative or null effect, and focus on the ones that have positive effect and conclude there's something inherently special about them.
By: Unloved
Re: Skewed Views of Science
Clear and concise. The punch comes in the last minute; I couldn't have said it better myself. The challenge of "If you disagree, either prove your belief or get lost" is great. After all, that's what scientists have to do with each other... prove your belief or get lost.
By: Unloved
Re: Thorndike's Puzzle Box
The cat is simultaneously both trapped within the box and escaped from the box, until the movement of the metal bolt forces the cat to become either.
By: Unloved
Re: How Did They Build That: Foundations
Here's some chipped and cracked masonry. Lovely!
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Re: 3D Printing
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/rival-robots-prepping-to-automate-home-building/
By: Unloved
Re: Knowledge: The Middle East Conflict
I don't have anything to add about the video itself (except the visual style was great and the concepts well described), but I'd like to note the exceptional maturity level of the comments here. Honest queries and meaningful discussion. That's why I like M&C over Ebaums or ToxicJunction any day.
By: Unloved
Re: Jim Norton: Reverse Psychology
I think it's in the same vein as, "I don't have to run faster than the bear, I just have to run faster than you"
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Re: Top 80 Best Short Atheist Quotes
Yeah, that one is an embarrassingly bad logical flaw. I've always heard it phrased as the opposite, "Absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence", which specifically reminds the listener of the impossibility of proving a negative.
By: Unloved
Re: Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
Besides being stupid, people don't want to believe it was that easily done. Rounding up 20 guys willing to die for a cause and giving them box knives wouldn't be difficult for many groups to do. There's a high degree of "It just couldn't have been that simple". Hence the search for a more grandiose explanationm. which to me, reeks of denial.
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