Youtube comments of Thunderf00t (@Thunderf00t).

  1. Crash investigators....THIS WAS ONE HECK OF A PILOT!!! The plane lost both of its wings and the tail... but he still kept that baby in the air for a full extra minute!
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  2. you gotta be honest, telling people that planting 20 million trees would be a 'big deal' when in reality it would offset ONLY the CO2 emissions of the USA by half a day..... is probably overselling it!
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  3. HOLY CRAP!!! I just googled Thunderf00ts name!!
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  4. sorry, but ABC claiming to be 'News' here is kinda mis-selling. What youve done here is just as journalisticly sloppy as the UVA -Rolling Stone 'mulitple - rape' scandal.  You talked to some professional victims, believed everything they said, and didnt bother to check if ANY of it was true. Hey ABC, I've got a great story about magic beans that can take you up a giant bean stalk to a giant who lives in the clouds.  I just dont want you to ask anyone else about it, because I fear being harassed by the giant.
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  5. I've now filed the counter-notice. Im writing to EFF tomorrow to see if they have any interest in the case :-) Whadya reckon to a crowd-funder to sue them?
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  6. again, this video was demonetized before it was even premiered!.... sigh.....
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  7. WIN, that is all.
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  8. .....and for those who want closure.... YES, this video was demonetized before it was even made public.
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  9. 'Chernobyl..... it will explode with an estimated size of 3-5 MEGA tons.... it will render most of Europe uninhabitable for over a century.....' how accurate do you think your average viewer would rate this? Off by a factor of 10?.... 100? 1000? 10 000? 100 000? 1 000 000? .... yeah... this bunk needs bustin!
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  10. Someone REALLY didnt want me to make this video!!! Computer died (power supply failure... BACK UP YOUR DATA NOW!!!! - I had some sweaty brow moments!!), and then all sorts of software trouble rendering!!! But now its done!!! Enjoy :-)
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  11. it aint movement of ions as drawn in your animation at 4.25! 1) ions move incredibly slowly in water, even in high electric fields.  Their movement is certainly insignificant compared to the water flow. 2) as drawn at 4.25, you end with MACROSCOPIC charge separation!!!.... eV per particle type energies 3) as drawn it violates conservation of energy. (charge separation at the end). subtle phenomena like this can be tricky to describe.... but the above observations make me uncomfortable with the one given here.
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  12. Great conversation Dave! Really enjoyed it :-)
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  13. My 'Little Blue New Yorker'...... I miss you baby!
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  14. Im sure you will all be shocked to hear it was demonetized as soon as it was uploaded :-/
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  15. Benny Hinn.... what a hero... makes 40 million dollars from 'faith healing' then goes to the HOSPITAL to get treated for a heart condition by REAL DOCTORS. The even sadder thing is you look around on youtube and the lions share of what you will find is people praising his amazing 'faith healing' abilities... sigh......
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  16. Im still stunned that people have been listening to YEARS of massive overpromise and underdeliver.... and they will still say... 'but maybe hes telling the truth about starlink!'
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  17. a depressingly accurate ending!
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  18. I love the folk who say this is just a meme... odd the guy in the video at 17m50s must be not have got the memo! Or go to the video of the doc. talking about abortion and look at the comments..... sorry guys, youre just wrong... folks take this as seriously as they do religion!
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  19. if you like 'life in the ball pit' and wanna see more... let me know :-)
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  20. cos i have a sense of humor! ;-)
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  21. ..... to anyone typing 'gain of function'....... thanks for showing us you never watched the video!
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  22. I had exactly the same experience when waterseer tried to take my videos on it down for 'trademark violation'. Youtube not only didnt take the videos down, they sent me all the correspondence!
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  23. note to self.... check orders of magnitude!!
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  24. .... it was already ALMOST suicidal to attack a US navy task group at sea by 1942. Kamakaze just increased the chances of death from 90% to 99%. night attacks by wooden trainer planes would be the one that would have given the us most sleepless nights. Almost radar invisible, and carried a similar bomb load.
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  25. meh, if i wanted to know more about fake rape, I'd read 50 shades of grey, or more about the rush to injustice in the duke lacrosse 'rape' case, or on all those 'I stand with Jackie' feminists in the UVA 'rape' case,,.  seems to be what 'rape culture' is all about anyways..... or is hearing more and more about 'rape culture' really about the 20 year decline in rape statistics? #feministlogic
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  26. Only episode of futurama I can't watch....  that ending with the faithful Seymour waiting and waiting just cuts me up.
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  27. I've always found body language at least as important as looks in defining 'what is sexy'. One you get to actually talking, the game changes!   -All the sexy in the world won't make Britney smart!
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  28. I'm instantly skeptical.  USS Ronald Reagan is a nuclear aircraft carrier. With that will go ALL the safety kit available to detect radiation leaks.   They would have known almost instantly what the radiation hazards were. Radiation hazards on the ship and in the water is almost certainly a non-starter. No sane captain would knowingly and needlessly subject himself and his crew to high levels of radiation If they went to work at the fukashima then I cant understand why they didnt take radiation meters with them to monitor occupational exposure.
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  29. youre playing a game where the objective is to KILL all the other people in the game, and they are worried about the language? This sort of morality police should be pushing for games where you hug kittens.
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  30. The industries of the future will depend heavily on having a populous that understands science and technology.   One of those key areas will be medicine.  Trying to compete in this field with a generation of people who have had their biological education deliberately stunted is like shooting someone in the leg, and asking them to race for your country. 
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  31.  @Davidson0617  interesting form of 'engineering' that requires no actual understanding or engineering.
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  32. Vibranium powered graphene?!!!! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!! ;-)
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  33. honestly the thing was DOA even if all the claims were true. If its a millionth the efficiency of a regular thruster, you would be using nuclear fuel at about the same rate you would be burning chemical fuel in a regular rocket (nuclear fuel has about a million times the energy density of regular fuel). It would offer no benefits over a regular rocket.
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  34. this was my first thought too! Its a f*ckin dipole transmitter receiver! Transfer of current.... well yes... but miniscule!
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  35. 1:11 300mn dollar a day, 300 mn americans.  $1 per american per day. Looked at like that it aint so bad.   1/3rd of a cup of 'cheap starbux coffee' per day. Now lets put that in a different perspective.  Missions like the Hubble space telescope, and the Mars landers cost about 1bn dollars.  You could put up a Hubble space telescope every 3 days for that cash... or send another rover to Mars every 3 days... or about once a month, you could send americans back to the moon!
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  36. ug... well most of the reporting in the press looks like this study has come up with the AMAZING conclusions that fat little girls (the ones typically called fat) grow up into fat big girls. -STOP THE PRESSES!  Thankfully most of the reporting is VERY inaccurate. The study looks like it did some controls, but even at this, these results are HUGELY overplayed.  Girls called fat are probably called other things too.  Are you sure this is the 'fat shaming' or just the fact that unhappy girls tend to eat more. The study also says that they had to correct for 'household income, parental education and race'.  Guess what else will make you fat! If you really think that addressing an unhealthy weight issue when someone is a kid will only make them fatter, then you've already lost.
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  37. a minor point... 4m V2s used ethanol water.... not methanol water.... other than that... an excellent appraisal :-)
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  38. Not a meteor Not a laser Not an IR laser Not going behind a cloud Not a drone Not a duck Not a bird Not a bug Not a UFO!!!! :-)
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  39. Cenk, I agree with most of what you say, but my first impression of this compound is it will have properties similar to that of soap. The mere fact that its used in ton quantities with relatively little ill effect tells you this is not a very dangerous compound (although I cannot find any LD50s for it).   -Washing your hands with this water would be fine.  Flushing your toilet with it would be fine.  Drinking it would probably also be fine in that.... 7500 gallons leaked into river.  River flow is 250gallons/s, ~1mn gallons/ hr, 24 mn gallons per day.  Over 1 day you are down to about 0.3%.  Water that comes to your tap will go through a treatment plant first that will remove most of that. We (mankind) flush bleach (sodium hypochlorate) and soap (sodium sterate) down into the water supply in huge quantities. Just because you have a long scary sounding name, doesnt make it bad (acetylsalicylic acid anyone?).  Im not saying that they didnt drop a bollock by having this stuff leak into the river, but you at least have to show the stuff is nasty, well nastier than bleach anyways!
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  40. Hmmm, maybe you missed the author stating 'im my original work I stated that if we found phosphine on ANY terrestrial planet it can ONLY mean life'. The clip is in this video a few times! Honestly I think I was pretty fair to them here. Life on venus is the ONLY thing they make no effort to discredit in the paper as a source for the phosphine (if its there!).
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  41. some ball park no.s Smoking related deaths ~500 000 alcohol related deaths ~90 000 driving related deaths ~40 000 gun related deaths ~30 000 radiation (background) ~3000 choking ~ 3 000 Moral of the story, eat healthy, exercise daily, die anyway!
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  42. understanding global warming really is this simple. 1) there is more CO2 in the atm than there used to be 2) CO2 is absorbing more of the suns energy than it used to 3) More energy influx into the system means the system will increase in temperature till the rate at which it radiates heat equals the rate it absorbs heat (thermal equilibrium).
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  43. The government may have aspirations for control, but I mostly feel they are simply too incompetent to do anything effective with social media.   Googles power on the other hand I fear more.  Control the metadata (the search engines), and you control what data people can find.  Data is a key factor in determining how people act. I think google is more powerful than many of these wannabe agencies.  The only thing I can see that stops them wielding that power (thus far) is it would be bad business practice.  I dont find that a very reassuring constraint.
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  44. Trial outcomes are often misquoted.  The jury of 12 decided there wasnt enough evidence to convict him of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.   This may well be correct. He probably didnt WANT to beat the guy to death.  He may well not have expected this IF others he had sadistically beaten had not died.  Not really sure its the sort of guy you want to 'maintain the peace' though! However not enough evidence to establish guilt is not the same thing as saying they found him innocent.  They found him not guilty.  In a legal system where you are presumed innocent this is a technicality, but its a bloody important technicality! The sad truth is jobs frequently attract people unsuited for them.
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  45. creep a TSA agent out.... when they starts rubbing you down.... make out like youre enjoying it! ;-)
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  46. Its amazing.... Generally (watch?v=rBDd4dLmB5s) I dont have any partially clad photos because people DONT want to see my partially clad body!! Ana on the other hand doesnt want partially clad photos because people DO want to see her partially clad body. Never really understood why women feel the need to 'compete' with the most beautiful women in the world.... cos in that game, 1) you KNOW you will lose, 2) you will feel bad.   For me I just don't get it.  I've never felt the need to compare myself to the worlds richest men..... then again... happiest time of my life... I was living out of a car.
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  47. FYI.... its bullshit.
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  48.  @Feces132  not seeing anything in there about her renouncing christianity! u did watch the video right?
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  49. random fact, bacardi 151 has almost exactly the same composition as the fuel used in the V2 rocket (~75 % alcohol, 25 % water). It also mixes quite well if you're so inclined! :-)
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  50. I kept rats for a few years.  They make quite interesting pets.  'fancy rats' really arent that more prone to carry diseases than cats or dogs.  They are smart.... I spent many a fun day making them problems and watching them try to solve them.  They are interesting social creatures too.  Black death was of course spread by fleas.... transported by rats.   Wild rats of course can carry a range of disease, but then again... most wild animals do!
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  51. actually, magic would be a better way of solving all of these issues at once.  Magic will not only do all the things solar roads will do, but will also allow you to magically transport yourself from a to b AND help fight dark wizards. Sure if you want to believe everything you read that makes you feel good, then solar roads are for you. For everything else there is science, and those who understand it. Just run the calculations of average snow fall on us roads, and the energy required to melt it.
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  52. yup, to a reasonable approximation viscous flow goes with the fourth power (if memory serves) of the diameter. Big tubes make a huge difference. That being said, even if you assume the water is travelling at the speed of sound, and assuming 10% eff. (probably generous) you need to freeze about 1 ton of water to supply one person with energy for one day. Im not sure I see this happening any time soon! ;-)
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  53. Well, looks like that was the shortest 'DRAIN THE SWAMP' party in history!
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  54. This software is awesome. That is all.
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  55. I usually like to look at the numbers as per capita (approx). ~300mn americans, 1bn dollars is ~3 dollars each. 3bn dollars is about 10 dollars each. How much it cost your average american seems a much more relatable number. US military budget is ~600 bn, thats about $2 000 each!
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  56. "The paper goes into great detail about the methods used to determine phosphine concentration." -yeah, they go into great detail of how difficult this measurement is. This is certainly trying to fish a signal out of the noise type levels. Quoting that they did this in the paper does little more than confirm they are down in the signal to noise level! In any event, Im not sure what you are complaining about, I praise them for being able to measure anything that small, AND assume that their tiny signal is correct! Not really sure why you are so upset here! 'You state multiple times that the researchers didn't consider (many) other methods when they obviously did. And they state as much and provide the methods and source code for their analysis. > "We find that PH3 formation is not favoured even considering ~75 relevant reactions under thousands of conditions encompassing any likely atmosphere, surface or subsurface properties (temperatures of 270–1,500 K, atmospheric and subsurface pressures of 0.25–10,000 bar, wide range of concentrations of reactants)."' Oh jeese! All this crap can be summed up as the phosphorous oxygen bond is strong. If you need pages of source code and thousands of conditions to work this out your might want to consider reading an entry level inorganic chemistry textbook. 'Lightning striking the surface is also discounted (21:41)' No it wasnt. " because the Venusian crust is largely basalt and there isn't enough lighting." .... i dont know where youre getting all this from, but it wasnt the paper. You do realise that its not even clear if there is lightning on venus, let alone what the surface composition is. But the signs of lightning an vulcanism and MANY times clearer than this 'phosphine on venus' and millions of times stronger than 'phosphine is a sign of life on venus' Even if there was a huge quantity of phosphides produced on the surface, just as you say, there isn't a lot of water for hydrolysis reactions at the surface. It is almost exclusively in the clouds. 1) fail on understanding of atmospheric mixing. 2) Riiiighht. So phospides on the surface couldnt produce phosphine cos no enough water, but you are perfectly happy to entertain the idea of that water magically condensing somehow so that bacteria can make that same phosphne out of.... OH THE SAME WATER YOU SAY THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OF! "Lastly, the researchers completely acknowledge that unknown chemistry could be responsible and even list those explanations first:" Oh is that the researcher in this video who proudly claims 'In my earlier work I stated that if you find phosphine on ANY terrestrial planet... it can ONLY mean life'' Why thats an odd way of saying it could be something else!
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  57. :-) no winners yet!
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  58. HOLY CRAP!
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  59. .... life requires liquid water (or MAYBE ammonia) and biomolecules..... .... theres almost no water and even less biomolecules on Venus. Am I really the only person who checked this before speculating phosphine on Venus might have been produced by life?!!
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  60. The fact that the dominant form of phosphorous oxides in the Venusian atmosphere hydrolyze to phosphine is such an obvious mechanism you would need remarkable evidence to reject it. Instead what do you get? speculation about 'if phosphorus was present as 1 molar H3PO4 in droplets,' I molar in what? water? but you know there are no water drops in venus. How about trying that for conc. sulfuric acid? In summary, the stuff that you want me to address is summarized as 'they have a calculation that is not relevant to the conditions on venus' to 'disprove' that this cant be the mechanism on venus.' Or even better, if they really wanted to examine this, why not set up an atmospheric chamber and actually do the experiment?
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  61. ziah Reid yup, if you can find almost no information on a chemical that's used by the ton, it cant be very harmful, else someone would have worked out the harmful effects by now. If you've never come across hazard sheets before, you will probably be misled into thinking things are more dangerous than they are.  For instance, from the hazard sheets for aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid): Hazard statement(s)  H302 Harmful if swallowed.  H315 Causes skin irritation.  H319 Causes serious eye irritation.  H335 May cause respiratory irritation.  -what monster would give this hazardous compound to people to swallow?!
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  62. Just say to TSA agent 'I love these new free pre-flight massages, but can you get the lower back better this time?'
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  63. These people are a fucking cancer on academia!
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  64. KakashiBallZ RE "And no, washing you hands with this stuff would not be fine; you would be washing all the natural oils off your hands, drying them, and ultimately giving yourself dermititis" -and what do you think soap does?  Yes, the great dry hands terror of the west virginia chemical spill!  The end is nigh! "There are many compounds classified as "not harmful" which have LD50s in the grams per kilogram." -so a 100kg guy would have to eat about 100g (1/5th lb) of the RAW chemical to have a 50 % chance of dying.  Hmm yeah, that would make it about as toxic as table salt!  I would hate to see your panic if they'd spilled 20 tons of table salt into the river! I'm not sure if you were being serious with any of this, but I just figured I'd spell it out in case! :-)
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  65.  @nexussix7933  well, if you'd watched this video, you wouldnt have to ask this question.... the answer is THIS ONE! Tell me how many democrats you see swearing in to office on the bible in this video!
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  66. yup, this ENTIRELY! Falcon 9 is the ONLY ways the US currently has of getting men to orbit. This will continue in some form! All the BS about getting to mars for $100 000, starship launches costing $2mn, flying rockets like planes. These vaporware elements of the company will be dropped.
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  67. that... was... AWESOMEE!!!!
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  68. THANK YOU!!!! :-) edit..... minor technical point.... nasas budget is 3% of the military.... but the ISS is 0.3%... and for that correction.... THANK YOU!!!!
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  69.  @RationalMind  just checking you understand the difference between H3PO4 and H3PO3. I hope its not patronizing but its critical. P2O5 is the fully oxidized form of phosphorous... why hydrates to H3PO4. -There is no easy way of getting from this to phosphine. P4O6 however is a partially reduced form of fully oxidized phophorous. It hydrates to H3PO3, which you can then heat to give H3PO4 (stable) and Phosphine. also... fyi... Im so deeply skeptical about studies who's conclusions are based entirely on calculations. There is no experimental work actually done on phosphine in this paper. Ill bet you a beer none of these people have actually worked with any form of phosphine in the lab.
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  70.  @PagsPayback  no. Do they cover how there is no liquid water on venus, so proposing water based organisms would be out of the question?
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  71. fred col mostly cdc.
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  72. RedXlV you might have thought so, but it was actually another nuclear reactor (grenoble) that detected the chernobyl disaster.  They found their radiation levels climbing, and were about to pull the plug on their reactor (because they couldnt figure out where the radiation was coming from) when they worked out it was coming from outside their reactor, not inside.  Radiation detectors are v. sensitive! Apparently the USS RR was aware of the 'low level radiation cloud' (see pbs A super-size scrub) These ships were built with being attacked by nukes as a possibility.  A lot is known about the effect of nukes on ships.  Its possible they had all this kit, but just didnt use it.  Seems unlikely though. Radiation officers are typically pretty aware of the hazards of radiation and are unlikely to needlessly expose themselves, the crew and a multibillion dollar ship to high levels of radiation.
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  73. wow, and there was me thinking women looked for security cos of low reproduction rate and a 10+ year cost of raising offsping, leaving the males the far riskier job of competition as they are only needed for 10 seconds of the reproductive cycle.
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  74. its okay, I understand that English isnt the first language of a lot of people. The space shuttle numbers were adjusted for inflation. The comparison that was clearly being done was spacex launch costs per kg of $3k per kg versus the kg launch on the shuttle. Clearly the spacex numbers here are for a regular launch not a human rated launch. Else to launch a human into space would cost about $3mn. In the meanwhile the human rated human launch costs on spacex costs $65mn. All the numbers were in the video.
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  75.  @RationalMind  "I got the impression that they were making an unrealistically generous assumption about the concentration of H3PO4 in droplets, and showing that even this unrealistically high amount would be incapable of producing the levels of phosphine they observed. 1 molar H3PO4 really is absurdly high, equivalent to about 100g per litre." Hardly!! their estimate of conc. of H3PO3 is: ' H3PO3 would be ~6.10^-17 molar ' (your quote from the paper above) Thats hardly a generous estimate given that P4O6 is pure anhydrous H3PO3. -P4O6 is the dominant particulate in the atmosphere just below cloud decks on venus. In any event, why are they speculating about a solution thats 100g H3PO4 per liter of water.... these are where near the conditions on venus. You will never get a solution that is mostly water on venus. Remember venus is ~20ppm water.
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  76. ​ @Ration alMind RE -where does the water come from, its a gas phase reaction. Water is present throughout the atmosphere at 20ppm. as for them conducting 3800 different conditions.... well if those arent the conditions on venus, they didnt disprove much did they. The fact that you can get to phosphine from a simple two stage reaction between two of the components of the venusian atmsophere, that just happen to be present at the level where phosphine was detected is a killer. Occams razor says 'this party is over'... the only thing left for these boys to do is work out where their calculations are wrong.
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  77. 'No scientist has said we have detected life on Venus, because we haven't. We have detected a possible biosignature, that is all.' Im just curious if you saw the author in the video stating that 'if we find phosphine on ANY terrestrial planet, it can ONLY mean life'? The reality is the conclusion of this paper should have been 'phosphine detected on lifeless terrestrial planet shows phosphine is not a good indicator of life' :-(
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  78. HEADSHOT! edit..... BOOM HEADSHOT!
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  79. ziah Reid Dude, theres a golden rule, do not start spouting 'facts' unless you know what you are talking about. Aspirin tablets that are essentially 100 % aspirin (its what wiki says, and its what I've personally measured) are sold all over the place, and you are just flat wrong when you say aspirin is "very hazardous in its purest form".  "Either way it's an acid so it's dangerous to the point were you wouldn't want to ingest a large amount of it, bathe in it, or inhale it." Gosh its an acid, so it must be dangerous, like amino acids? Oh wait no, those are the standard building blocks for proteins, including amino acids like glutamic and aspartic acid, or maybe how about deoxyribonucleic acid ribonucleic acid? Oh wait no those acids are DNA and RNA and are essential for all current terrestrial life.  Or citric acid, oh no that the core of the citric cycle. Or the worst one of all, soap is stearic acid!! and we do bathe in it! And I heard this rumor that soft drinks manufacturer dump lots of carbonic acid into their fizzy drinks before sale, and there are no government regulations to prevent them from doing this! People just drink it without knowing that they are drinking acid! I guess with so much acid in your body, you are in immediate danger!!  If you or anyone else on earth feels sick, it must be the acid!  Why doesnt the government do something to protect you from being contaminated by all these 'dangerous acids'? /sarcasm
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  80. links to spreadsheet in the video description :-) FYI, One day after I made this model, there were 10 000 extra cases of the coronavirus in the USA.
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  81. I like your stuff, but your explanation of partial pressures is repeatedly garbled.....also helium is used mainly cos its less soluble in water.... its really nothing to do with the density. Other than that.... some interesting insights :-)
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  82. errr, how is this not advocating for banning the law? What else is the law but an acceptable loss of liberty for acceptable gain of safety?
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  83. betas are stopped by protons? since when? Neutrons are effectively screened by protons, but thats because they interact via the strong force. Electrons are screened by the electromagnetic force, which is approx. proportional to the electron density of the material. Hydrogen is a dead loss for this.
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  84. ziah Reid err, no, your typical aspirin table is 300mg (~1/3rd gram) of almost pure aspirin. 'Pure aspirin' is not very hazardous.  We put it in tablet form and give it to children.  
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  85. Steven Winters 32 people sought treatment, not 32 people were hospitalized.  32 people out of ~300 000. How many do you think would seek treatment for symptoms real or imaginary or misattributed if you told everyone the water was contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide? Put simply, out of 1/3rd of a million people, how many do you think seek hospital treatment for nausea (food poisoning etc) per day? Im still skeptical there was any effect from this spill.  Bear in mind people shit and piss in this water, and by some magic, its always safe to drink again by the time it gets to the next tap.
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  86. Hans Muster "There is none but cyclohexane is coming quite close to it" errr, NO! In chemistry those small differences matter.  Hydrophobic polyaromatics are fairly well know for being carcinogens, but cyclohexane derivatives NOT.  Notable cyclohexane derivatives include chloresterol, testosterone and inositol.   Even aromatics wont do it, phenyl analine, tryosine and tryptophan are all aromatic containing amino acids. All the base pairs (both the purenes and uracils) are aromatic based. Nonpolar polyaromatics, things like pyrenes have a pretty good reputation for being carcinogenic.  Maybe thats what you mean. Like I said earlier, you cannot know for certain from eyeballing the structure if something will be safe, but this compound sets off no obvious alarm bells suggesting it will be toxic.  To me this molecule just looks like a weak surfactant.
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  87. this has gotta be a spoof right?
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  88. ziah Reid not when I last looked at it.  Tablets were advertised as having 300 mg of aspirin and weighed ~300mg (basically 100 %).  According to wiki 'Coated aspirin tablets, consisting of approximately 90% acetylsalicylic acid". 'Soluble aspirin will have a load of carbonate in of one sort or another, but I think the point you are trying to make is that aspirin is so dangerous it is diluted before sale.  It is not.   FYI, LD50 of aspirin (~200mg/kg) is about the chemical in this release (800mg/kg according to the guy above)
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  89. grrrrr..... so lets see, Kansas reinstates abortion laws and is punished by god by lots of tornadoes. England does not, and get almost no tornadoes!!! Conclusion, God loves abortion. We need to build more abortion clinics to appease god and reduce the number of tornadoes!
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  90. good will hunting :-)
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  91.  @ahmedhussain4665  "Life doesn't require water, it can be replaced with ammonium. " Well speaking as someone who probably classes as an expert on water and ammonia, PROBABLY NOT! -its a hydrogen bond thing. ' Biomolecules aren't just carbon-based, that can be replaced with silicon.' Biomolecules are pretty much by definition carbon based. For certain you CANNOT just replace carbon with silicon!
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  92.  @CitrusPeppercorn  sorry, maybe I was too subtle with the point. Claims about extraterrestrial life are commonly blown out of all proportion. Phosphine is just a rerun of the arsenic based life debacle.
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  93.  @daddust  "A group of people smarter than me and TF wrote up a complex paper in the subject" only someone who hadnt actually read the paper could make an assertion like that. Lukas is right though... where the hell do the phosphorous oxides in the atmosphere come from?....
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  94. THIS..... wtf is this report talking about.... a massed russian surprise attack bearly made it 20km inside ukraine!
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  95. the history of tidial power is: the sea destroys everything put into it.... eventually! Fouling (stuff growing on everything), corrosion and storms are your problems. None mentioned in this piece.
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  96. if this were a state of war, the ratio of civiliians to military dead is not out of the ordinary. However the rule of law is meant to be what you get when there isnt a war. If your judicial system was killing one innocent person out of three, there would be an outcry. I dont know the details here, but the only way of could justify this would be if depleting armed militants in pakistan was projected to be necessary to stabilize afghanistan, but like I say, i dont know the details here.
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