And that was before Covid! You've gotta laugh; if you don't you'll cry! What I've noticed is - that over the longer term, these things tend to pan out...
I don't know. Globally, the US and China together are a lot bigger than the EU, and they're not at all keen on the kind of tight regulation the EU pro...
You didn't need to tell me. You're right, but I can't do this. It's done now, we may as well just get on with it. What you need to realise is - two th...
The referendum still chaps my hide - because it was crooked AF. People have no idea. But what good does it do to dwell? It's done - and now we can but...
Was it funny? I haven't seen it. The popularity of the character would seem to suggest it was funny. Also, we're still laughing at Homer Simpson's alc...
Hmm, and I thought you'd pick up on the interesting question of whether unions are consistent with lassiez faire economics - or, if not that, you'd de...
Cameron said he was a Remainer. Politicians lie all the time. They say one thing and do another; so better to judge them by what they do. Closing the ...
Thatcher closed the coal mines - and devastated large parts of the north of England. One can argue, it was a sustainable industrial strategy, but I th...
I've never seen the Andy Griffith Show. Seems "Otis" was only in 32 of 274 episodes, but stole the show. Interesting, if uncontroversial guy. Lived a ...
I think it's unlikely, but Jamalrob did ask, what's the worst that could happen? I cut the bit about him being turned out of his home, and his wife an...
The twilight zone - where science is valued above the politics of primitive people, and technology is applied on the basis of scientific merit, to sec...
What's the worst that can happen? The suicide of someone who cares about "reputation" - and thought they were popular, but as it turns out, they now k...
All of this is irrelevant. It's not how I thought this discussion would develop. I'll let you talk - but frankly, you know less than I do. I didn't ex...
"Inflation is now a built-in piece of our standard story of cosmic evolution. But it’s still controversial. In 2014, researchers claimed to have seen ...
Oh, I see where this is going. I'm talking about the extinction of humankind, and the role religion and subjectivist philosophy has played by making a...
Not really, no! I think my original point was about science communication, or lack thereof - and the discussion followed from there. I'm not going to ...
Oh, well then - that explains it. Thanks! 14x2x2=56 - which only leaves 37bn light years accounted for by magic. I mean cosmic expansion. Close enough...
"Insanely rapid" - there's a scientific term! I wasn't accounting for the insanity! My bad!! Because, to a sane person it would seems that two points ...
As far as I understand it, cosmic inflation occurred only very early on, shortly after the big bang - and on a small scale, 10 to the power minus 36 s...
This thread is a fishing expedition. I'm seeking out those who disagree with this proposition: Science is a good thing, to see what their arguments ar...
I think it impossible to distinguish between intrinsic and instrumental value with regard to nature. The fact I intrinsically value nature doesn't exc...
Western philosophy took a wrong turn at the Galileo roundabout, and ended up making Descartes the father of modern philosophy; and to the exclusion of...
Europe has been blanketed with featureless grey cloud for weeks. London looks like Venice after a flood, while the US north west and Canada are appare...
That's incorrect. In 1634, Galileo was arrested for proving the earth orbits the sun; was put on trial - threatened with torture, death and excommunic...
Thanks for your post(s) - I didn't respond because I took the day off, for no particular reason, and read an article about the incorporation of mitoch...
Either that, or the average age of those joining the Church! I suppose it's all related - I mean, someone either had to dig a hole six feet deep to bu...
I don't mean to sound critical; except of our relationship to science - for which I'm merely pointing out the evidence, and the consequences. I wouldn...
That's not a claim I would make because at its heart is a naturalistic fallacy; that because something is true in nature, it ought to be to be so. And...
I'll continue as if you've answered in the negative, because that's what I think you think. I would argue your view - as I have arbitrarily assigned i...
Thank you for your question. No. I haven't tried to publish anything - except here, where, with all due respect to the moderators, the editorial stand...
And I thank you for being there, if just to bounce my ideas off. I go nuts if I don't talk about it. Shouting at passing traffic crazy. I think maybe,...
The word geothermal covers a wide range of technologies, from low temperature heat difference for domestic use, right through to volcanic springs. My ...
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