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Stephen Hawking: I'll pay to send climate change deniers to Venus
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/scien...iers-to-venus/ar-AAuyQ62?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp
 
nononono said:
I wonder if those comments are really coming from him or are they someone Else's interpretation
of his responses ......Something to ponder.
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Good point.
I wonder if we can blame someone else for all the BS the kooks spout around here, make more sense than the lefties just being that crazy.
 
A 2-foot-long venomous sea snake found Monday slithering along a California beach has biologists wondering if the find is more than a fluke.

A person walking along Newport Beach found a 25-inch-long yellow-bellied sea snake and gave it to a lifeguard, who took the serpent to Pacific Marine Mammal Center. It was later euthanized.

"When one of these marine serpents washes up on a beach," said Greg Pauly, herpetological curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. "It means it is sick and doesn’t have enough energy to swim out beyond the shore break."
The venomous snake is named for its yellow scales and yellow tail with black spots. The populous species can be found along the coasts of Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America and Mexico.

While a rare sight where it was found, the species has been spotted more often in recent years as warmer water temperatures have extended north, Pauly said.

Monday’s find was the third since 2015 and fifth since 1972.

"Oceans are warming and the species that respond to that change will be those that are the most mobile. So the big question now is this: Are sea snakes swimming off the coast of Southern California the new normal?" Pauly said. "A few more of these sea snake sightings in Southern California and we’ll have a pattern telling us that something remarkable is happening in our ocean and the species it supports."
 
Hüsker Dü said:
A 2-foot-long venomous sea snake found Monday slithering along a California beach has biologists wondering if the find is more than a fluke.

A person walking along Newport Beach found a 25-inch-long yellow-bellied sea snake and gave it to a lifeguard, who took the serpent to Pacific Marine Mammal Center. It was later euthanized.

"When one of these marine serpents washes up on a beach," said Greg Pauly, herpetological curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. "It means it is sick and doesn’t have enough energy to swim out beyond the shore break."
The venomous snake is named for its yellow scales and yellow tail with black spots. The populous species can be found along the coasts of Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America and Mexico.

While a rare sight where it was found, the species has been spotted more often in recent years as warmer water temperatures have extended north, Pauly said.

Monday’s find was the third since 2015 and fifth since 1972.

"Oceans are warming and the species that respond to that change will be those that are the most mobile. So the big question now is this: Are sea snakes swimming off the coast of Southern California the new normal?" Pauly said. "A few more of these sea snake sightings in Southern California and we’ll have a pattern telling us that something remarkable is happening in our ocean and the species it supports."
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Probably got sick from all the shit in the water when it swam past OB.
 
Industrial Regulation

Matt Ridley, a columnist for the U.K.-based Times, writes about the pernicious impact of cronyism, licensing, and industrial policy.

Domestic electricity bills are a higher proportion of household budgets for the poor than for the rich, so this policy is regressive; doubly so, because the wind and solar subsidies mostly go to the rich.
 
A study by three academics from Yale’s Department of Psychology concludes that people want fairness rather than equality.

Why people prefer unequal societies

…there is no evidence that people are bothered by economic inequality itself. Rather, they are bothered by something that is often confounded with inequality: economic unfairness. Drawing upon laboratory studies, cross-cultural research, and experiments with babies and young children, we argue that humans naturally favour fair distributions, not equal ones, and that when fairness and equality clash, people prefer fair inequality over unfair equality.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
A 2-foot-long venomous sea snake found Monday slithering along a California beach has biologists wondering if the find is more than a fluke.

A person walking along Newport Beach found a 25-inch-long yellow-bellied sea snake and gave it to a lifeguard, who took the serpent to Pacific Marine Mammal Center. It was later euthanized.

"When one of these marine serpents washes up on a beach," said Greg Pauly, herpetological curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. "It means it is sick and doesn’t have enough energy to swim out beyond the shore break."
The venomous snake is named for its yellow scales and yellow tail with black spots. The populous species can be found along the coasts of Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America and Mexico.

While a rare sight where it was found, the species has been spotted more often in recent years as warmer water temperatures have extended north, Pauly said.

Monday’s find was the third since 2015 and fifth since 1972.

"Oceans are warming and the species that respond to that change will be those that are the most mobile. So the big question now is this: Are sea snakes swimming off the coast of Southern California the new normal?" Pauly said. "A few more of these sea snake sightings in Southern California and we’ll have a pattern telling us that something remarkable is happening in our ocean and the species it supports."
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Hey Rat......and we all evolved from Chimps didn't we !
 
TRWAP version. With math.

Dec 2017 TRWAP.jpg

Can't remember where we were on the soft music. Don't want to have to page back through the endless rondo of "whose the pussy" to find it. So lets go with an old white guy's translation of Sanskrit love poetry instead as a soothing tonic. That should work.

"Death I take up as consolation....And never a bed without my bright darling. Most fit that you strike now, black guards. And let the fountain out before the dawn.

Even now-I know that I have savoured the hot taste of life. Lifting green cups and gold at the great feast. Just for a small and a forgotten time. I have had full in my eyes from off my bride. The whitest pouring of eternal light. The heavy knife. As to a gala day."
 
EvilGoalie 21 said:
TRWAP version. With math.

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Can't remember where we were on the soft music. Don't want to have to page back through the endless rondo of "whose the pussy" to find it. So lets go with an old white guy's translation of Sanskrit love poetry instead as a soothing tonic. That should work.

"Death I take up as consolation....And never a bed without my bright darling. Most fit that you strike now, black guards. And let the fountain out before the dawn.

Even now-I know that I have savoured the hot taste of life. Lifting green cups and gold at the great feast. Just for a small and a forgotten time. I have had full in my eyes from off my bride. The whitest pouring of eternal light. The heavy knife. As to a gala day."
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Much easier to see on this one.
What's the trend? (since beginning of thread)
 
Procrastinating. 2017 is the first full year for the monthly graphs. As I recall. So something to wrap up 2017. I think to be a blues legend your date of birth has to be a matter of some dispute. Like there's no real record of it but later on people decide it matters. 2017 was put forward for what would have been a centennial birthday for John Lee Hooker, but I guess nobody really knows for sure. That's probably why this song was on the radio; its not standard airplay stuff. Anyway, the family stopped by briefly at the old place over the summer. Like I said at some point, it used to be a straight up redneck paradise. Now its got bike lanes, hybrids. Stopped by a coffee place on the way out of town. With its own roasting facility. 20-something with tats on his arms and his billfold on a chain pulled me an amazing shot of a Central American single origin. I mean just as good as Portola in Orange county or Blue Bottle up in the Bay. WTF. On the small roads outside of town the old country families that didn't sell out after the 93 flood not looking so good. Plywood on the windows. River break brush taking over the fields. Looks like the state tore down the old women's correctional facility and built this monster new prison. Double fences. Razor wire gleaming. 2016 election signs on the fences starting to fade in the sun. Done deal at this point really. And then this song comes on. Weird. But I like the time signature. Kind of makes it stick with you.

 
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