It's not really comparable in my opinion. The key ingredient to remember about climate change is that emissions lock in a certain amount of warming over time. And this effect can last centuries. And … (View Post)

Even Mars as a colony wouldn't work. For two reasons. First off the gravity problem. No one yet truly knows how the human body would hold up under long term exposure to Mars' gravity, but our own cur… (View Post)

This wasn't a story of data manipulation however. It was a story of an honest mistake of calculation. There's a failure to grasp the greater context of what actually gets published in scientific jour… (View Post)

When multiple people are saying you are arguing in bad faith, maybe pause, and consider if they're right? This is an incredibly bad faith argument, along with your bomb argument from above. This woul… (View Post)

Ironically the justice system is often used to harass poor people in this manner. In fact, while the particular shooting of Brown in Ferguson, Missouri wasn't criminal, the federal justice department… (View Post)