BTW I couldn’t get white onions, because of the war.

But the drone does come with an onion on its belt? That’s quite a deal!

I’m sure Gary Aldridge would agree.

Well, his last gasps might have involved how rubber doesn’t prevent asphyxiation… I’m quite sure he was well insulated against electrical shocks? Anyhoo, this is veering way off the topic of the possible flavors of PZ.

Or is he wearing two neoprene wetsuits as well? Does that modify the flavor?

(I want to be clear that I’m talking about a specific type of word choice-gender neutral words used to avoid misgendering anyone. I’m not talking about avoiding the use of “your imaginary sky daddy” when speaking with a creationist.)

$1600 includes shipping to me and my donor, indiegogo’s cut, and tax. It is an extremely robust RC quadrotor copter than can be operated via remote control and also can fly through waypoints programmed using sophisticated open-source autopilot software (https://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Mission) – which further reduces costs. Current FAA rules makes flying the unmanned aerial vehicle WITHIN eyeshot and below a certain altitude mandatory. It’s remarkably unscary with those rules. http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/.

…you mean you didn’t EAT the onion?

wasteful punks.

It was the style at the time.

I didn’t mention that in the O.P. because I wasn’t entirely sure I liked the thought of the Horde acquiring drone technology.

What’s not to like? Just because we’re militant atheists doesn’t mean we’d use it aggressively or anything. Mostly they’d be useful for defense purposes, surveillance of hard-to-find gods, studying which regions have the most succulent baby populations, and so forth — innocuous things like that.

I didn’t mention that in the O.P. because I wasn’t entirely sure I liked the thought of the Horde acquiring drone technology. B ut it’s the truth.

wasteful punks.

Holy crap! I-5 bridge in Mount Vernon (WA) just collapsed into the Skagit River. Cars and people in the water. King 5 news. My mom is driving through there tomorrow to come up here… Scary!

I’m glad your mom wasn’t there today. That is truly frightening. I hate bridges (I mean, I love the engineering, and where they get us to, but as a scaredy cat, I kind of hate driving on them).

Singular ‘they’ has limited potential. It tends to sound stilted.

I have, on occasion, used ‘s/h/it’ to convey my feelings about a person, but I’m going to adopt ‘motherfucker’ for that purpose.

Living at this time, I don’t think that one can write well in English without out offending someone.

Given that, offend with style and gusto through intent rather than through carelessness.

I think I’ll go to the next event too.

I’ve been invited by the next town over to attend a gathering. I’m not sure if I am ready to go, as I’m not out in my community (would totally lose my job). I’d love to attend, but I’m also a little apprehensive. There is an unusually large population of scientists in the town next door (ask Xavius) and I wonder what I would be getting myself into, as a lay-atheist of sorts.

A drone that can be deployed for 2 months in desert territory by grad students only costs $1,600? Wow. I’m guessing it’s a rental/lease agreement, but still… wow!

I had the same reaction, “that is all????”
This sounds like an awesome project. I hate the “desert as a wasteland” narrative.
@Chas

Why, back in my day, we’d tie an onion on our belts and go out walkin’ around in the desert looking for shit.

Yeah, well in my day, we’d tie that onion on our belts, and go walkin’ uphill, no matter which ways we were goin. So top that.

I know where a couple of kit-fox dens are too, or used to be. Twice I scared one out of a burrow from which I was ttrying to extract a tortoise. One night, sleeping on a cot, I awoke quietly enough to watch one check out my campsite for a few minutes. But, yeah, I also saw a couple DOR.

Think I’ll help this young biologist out.

I think we all know a rubber suit prevents conduction of power, fictional or otherwise.

I’m sure Gary Aldridge would agree.

…or would have.

;P

A drone that can be deployed for 2 months in desert territory by grad students only costs $1,600? Wow. I’m guessing it’s a rental/lease agreement, but still… wow!

Well shoot. I thought I would come home and read what ChasCPeterson would have to say about how tear proteins and delivery mechanisms coincidentally arose by way of random DNA replication errors. Imagine my shock and disappointment when it wasn’t there.

Whereas you need to show conclusive physical evidence for your imaginary deity. And I am not shocked that it never, ever happens. As it can’t. Your deity/creator?/designer doesn’t exist. You are too stupid, stubborn, and dishonest to admit that fact.

I was hoping for something like Mark Isaak’s interesting outline on TalkOrigins about how bombardier beetles could have developed their peculiar talent, which he accomplished without mentioning mutations. But actually, that’s how evolution does it so easily.

Gee, it all involves mutations. You are a mutant yourself. Think about that while you shut the fuck up permanently, after getting a case of honesty and integrity. Nah, your dishonesty goes all the way down….