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NASA's Voyager 2 probe enters interstellar space
Via: CB • Health, Science & Technology • 10 Comments • 8 years ago • LOCKED
“There is still a lot to learn about the region of interstellar space immediately beyond the heliopause" ”
This illustration shows the position of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech December 10, 2018 by Dwayne Brown / Karen Fox For the second time in...
Paul Ryan’s Legacy: The Destruction Of American Sovereignty
Via: CB • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 8 years ago • LOCKED
“ we doubt anyone in the establishment media will write about Ryan’s real legacy – destroying American sovereignty by killing the best chance to...”
12/7/18 According to our friend Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4), Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and his leadership team, including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP Whip Steve Scalise, refused to lobby for the Trump-supported Goodlatte immigration bill, which would have built a border wall, enacted...
How The Late George H.W. Bush Killed The Border Wall
Via: CB • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 8 years ago • LOCKED
“Ryan and McConnell are cynically using the lying-in-state and funeral arrangements for the late President to give air cover to their government by...”
Soon to be departed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have announced that, out of respect for the late President George H.W. Bush, Congress will have a very light schedule this week. What this means is that Ryan and McConnell are cynically using the...
The Chinese gene-editing experiment was an outrage. The scientific community shares blame.
Via: CB • Religion & Ethics • 80 Comments • 8 years ago • LOCKED
“ we desperately need to support a more inclusive public debate about biotechnology and the human future. That discussion cannot and must not be...”
We’re overdue for a society-wide conversation about this technology. Chinese scientist He Jiankui is part of a team that claims to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)By J. Benjamin Hurlbut,Sheila Jasanoff and Krishanu SahaNovember 29 This is...
Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 254 Comments • 8 years ago • LOCKED
“Although science has not even remotely destroyed religion, Shermer’s Last Law predicts that the relation between the two will be profoundly...”
Shermer’s Last Law Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God As scientist extraordinaire and author of an empire of science-fiction books, Arthur C. Clarke is one of the farthest-seeing visionaries of our time. His pithy quotations tug harder...
Can Atheists Be Religious? Are there Religious Atheists?
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 33 Comments • 8 years ago • LOCKED
“The answer to the question is thus an unequivocal yes: atheists can be religious and atheism can occur in conjunction with, or even in the context...”
by Austin Cline Atheism and religion are often portrayed and treated as polar opposites; although there is a strong correlation between being an atheist and being irreligious, there is no necessary and inherent connection between the two. Atheism is not the same as being irreligious; theism is...
Neil deGrasse Tyson: We Might Be Living In Higher Dimensions…But Our Senses Can’t Tell Yet.
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 152 Comments • 8 years ago • LOCKED
“One of the things we know from research in pyschology is that one of the lowest forms of evidence you can possibly invoke is eye witness testimony....”
I wanted to title this one: Is Neil deGrasse Tyson a Scientist, Philosopher, or Gone Crazy?!
Philosophical Naturalism? Who you?
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 67 Comments • 8 years ago
“Metaphysical naturalism, also called philosophical naturalism, is a philosophical worldview and belief system that holds that there is nothing but...”
Metaphysical naturalism, also called philosophical naturalism, is a philosophical worldview and belief system that holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences, meaning those required to understand our physical...
The dodgy science of wiping your backside
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 2 Comments • 8 years ago
“William Reville: Predatory journals can contaminate scientific literature."”
Science is now a massive and expensive international project and one of the, perhaps inevitable, downsides of this success is the growth of dishonest practices. I have written before about the unreliability of a substantial fraction of the current scientific literature, ranging from outright...
Be a voter. Save the web.
Via: CB • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 8 years ago
“The things we all care about — including the health and future of the open web — depend on engaged citizens like you to be a voter."”
Be a voter. Save the web. Daniel Kessler September 20, 2018 The things we all care about — including the health and future of the open web — depend on engaged citizens like you to be a voter. Left. right, or center. Blue, red, or green. Whatever your flavor, it’s your right to...