While many planetary geologists think Mars would have been warm, wet ideal environment for primitive life, not every agrees. And they have some science of their own to back it up: [Read more…]
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While many planetary geologists think Mars would have been warm, wet ideal environment for primitive life, not every agrees. And they have some science of their own to back it up: [Read more…]
Reader Dobby linked an interesting article published a couple of months ago, and it got me thinking about something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. The piece covers Mormon business practices. What’s been turning around in my tiny brain: given the popularity of conspiracy and end day stories on the delusional right, and their deep religious insularity and ethnocentrism, it’s easy to see a scenario where a hunk of that caucus goes balls deep into Mormon conspiracy theories, especially if Mitt Romney wins: [Read more…]
Eager to downplay the success of the 2012 DNC and anxious to put the gaffes and empty chairs of its counterpart behind him, Mitt Romney vowed to protect “God” this weekend to anyone with a camera or mic. It’s unclear if the GOP nominee was referring to the God he believes in, who will reward faithful Mormons like Romney with an exo-solar planet of their very own to rule in the quasi-afterlife, the Jesus-God-Ghost-human composite popular among Protestants and Catholics alike when they’re not trying to kill each other, or the ferocious deity that freed Moses and crushed Egypt. But I’d be willing to bet it’s not the God who spoke to Mohammed. [Read more…]
Mecca, Saudi Arabia where each year more than 15 million Muslims visit this important religious site. Here you can see Abraj Al Bait, one of the world largest clock towers, visible even from space!
I was reading about Google’s new map resolution, and it struck me this would have been very interesting had it happened during the cold war: [Read more…]
Just in case the world needs em, researchers are hard aty work perfecting the remotely controlled cockroach. Which will no doubt inherit the earth when Skynet blows everything up: [Read more…]
It’s going, going … when will it be gone? [Read more…]
There are moments in every campaign when a biased hack makes such a fool of themselves that mockery becomes obligatory. So it with this sad fluff piece on Paul Ryan by John Andrews: [Read more…]
Trick question, there are lots of them who are. They don’t have Koch-money to amplify their voices or patrons on Fox News to nourish them, but they exist and it makes sense they would: there’s this one guy in the Bible whose words sound awfully similar to progressives today. [Read more…]
Bill Clinton showed up at the DNC last night carrying a big stick, and he used it to do some ass whupp’n. In what’s being called a virtuoso performance and covering the gamut of conservative zombie lies and delusions, the 42nd President managed to speak eloquently and at times with soaring rhetoric, yet minced few words and pulled no punches. Full speech below: [Read more…]
Facts are annoying to a snake oil slaesman, they can threaten and even topple a foundation built on anti-facts. It may sound strange to those of us who dwell in the reality based universe, but many in the Teaparty wingnut division of the GOP are just now hearing how out of step they are with that reality. Paul Ryan offers a window into the dissonance [Read more…]