Comments by "" (@stevenwiederholt7000) on "TED" channel.

  1. One of the sites I look at everyday is StrategyPage. A word that keeps popping up all over the world and is a source of unrest is CORRUPTION.
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  2. @Lewis Hamilton Why the West Won Feb. 17 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkTgBz9RYls
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  3. Every sane person hates war. 6,000 years of recorded history says that's a... "misstatement". Name me one ten(?) year period when there has not been war (of one kind or another all over the world. Either we're no where as smart as we think we are ...Or we really do like/love it.
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  4. As are all of us!
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  5. While I haven't watched all (or most Ted Talkers), but you're right.....They are AAA he's major league.
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  6. A 5 minute scan? Understandably you being such a busy person. Thank you for your input, resst assured I will give it all the consideration it so richly deserves.
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  7. @Hannah Thomas Like you I am Conservative (just a little to the Right of Attila the Hun :-)) , thing is many many of those on our side are Doom & Gloomers. How many times have we seen statements like...if (name the subject) happens its the End of The Republic...Western Civilization Is Dead!....etc...etc...ect.?
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  8. "Global Warming" Michael Crichton on Charlie Rose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4dIkEyfd0 "Human Beings, They line up for the catastrophe, They're ready for it.......Sit down at a dinner party and say The World Is Coming To An End, We Have the Most Horrible Things Ahead, you get immediately the aroused attention of the table. Alternatively you say, You Know What, Basically Everything's good, They get angry.
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  9. Didn't actually watch it did you.
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  10. One wonders what the reaction would be talk titled My road trip through the blackest towns in America? I suspect it would not be given at TED.
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  11. What are the odds of 1 protein forming by random chance? IF memory serves it is 1 in 10 to the 77th power. Time Out James Tour July 2019 https://inference-review.com/article/time-out In 1952, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey derived a number of racemic amino acids from a handful of small molecules. These were electrifying results because they suggested that the methods of synthetic chemistry might finally explain the origins of life. The excitement was justified, but premature.1 Origins of life (OOL) research has, to be sure, become progressively more sophisticated, but its goal—to explain the origins of life—remains as distant today as it was in 1952. This is not surprising. The protocols in use have remained unchanged: buy highly purified chemicals; mix them together in high concentrations and in a specific order under carefully devised laboratory conditions; derive a mixture of compounds; and publish a paper making bold claims about OOL. These protocols are as unrealistic as they are unimproved. This essay comprises an argument, but it also contains an appeal to the OOL community. The history of science suggests that on occasion what is required for research to flourish is not further research—at least to the extent that further research involves doing the same thing. This is one of those times. (Snip)
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