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Precise definitions can help, if those discussing the topic are willing to understand. With religion and many types of discussion (like partisan politics) it often contributes little, because position is the issue rather than understanding/learning. AFAIK, religion is non linear and a from...

The funny thing is that the best place for solar roads is not on Earth but on the moon, where inclement weather would be a non issue. It would be possible if photovoltaic cells were far more durable and cheaper than is present, so cheap as to be able to be made on site. Only the middle ground...

Not only that, it simply mentions that life may have had a head start in fresh water lakes and rivers rather than super salty and oxygen deprived oceans, which makes sense when and if that case came about. Tidepools also have been suggested as a better place than the ocean at large. I am a...

Perhaps reason is the way to handle the anti christ: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/12/peter-foster-inside-one-of-the-u-s-bible-belts-growing-number-of-atheist-churches/ Not my style, but it is interesting to see the idea develop, especially in the deep South. At least it helps...

IIRC we would have to re-write our code. People suggesting that we are on the edge of doing it really are making a wishful guess. I prefer not to go there. It is wondered if any readers know of plausible reasons theorized why each species only has so many generations before the process breaks...

I never say any of that. But praying is likely to be a mind mode, a variant of meditation. They have done brain scans on Tibetan Monks and find what the old hands do is very, very different than novices. Something apparently is happening up there, and I prefer the science explanation. As far...

MMM, I heard the Anti-Christ is supposed to be made of anti-matter. This would probably make lots of gamma rays, paradoxically destroying those who are trying to hear him/her convey the grand plan to overthrow goodness. It would explain much about the punk scene, with Johnny Rotten and Nancy...

Thank you. You are very correct in the origination of sheep in mountains or canyons of Central Asia, where I guess you mean to corral them, for sheep/caprid. The human link is less clear than dog/wolves. None of them edge closer to the campfire, on average, even if the occupants have been...

I am well aware of the figure 15k to 30k, but that is established sites found. Only .5 percent or less archeology sites been found so far from the dawn of civilization, a figure seen a few days ago in a science magazine, but also the earliest sites are the most difficult. So what you are...

Robert Sheckly wrote a SF story where the government clears out excess people by having suicide booths at the neighborhood corners, like telephones in UK years ago. One was even in the Marquesas, French Polynesia, he writes in an oh by the way, as if it was a public lavatory. Personally, you...

By this I mean the earliest semi domesticated animals, from perhaps 10,000 years BP, specifically sheep. Sheep are potentially dangerous enough as moderately large animals, so a middle ground might have been a stepping stone. In speculation, a mentally defective animal could provide a...

With all due respect, Black Holes, Neutron Stars, etc. have never been much an interest to me. Newton is my gravitational attraction. But maybe I can add some. As said by Dragan, it is impossible by present methods to know what happens inside of a place where gravity breaks down, if it...