Recent content by Elixir

People have changed. More than once. Egalitarian civilizations existed thousands of years ago. Tyranny seems to correlate with population densities. It’s no coincidence that Europeans settling in North America took such pride in “individual freedom”. It wasn’t even a problem to kill some...

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Three words; O I L

Like feedback and reflection from the detection/rendering device’s own field. :)

Earth, in particular. All you need is escape velocity at the right trajectory to be intercepted. impacted and absorbed by the fast-traveling interloper. And I was only concerned with payload survival. YOU could probably do the math to figure out how long and how far the impact must last under...

The Meek shall probably have to inherit the earth several times over before not doing harm to each other and our environment becomes an evolutionary imperative. Maybe thousands of generations. Until then, lifespan to lifespan, it's going to be the same old general tribalist bellicosity.

Isn't "physical reality" a theoretical impossibility at T=0 even if you substitute "maximally compressed" for infintely compressed?

Of course, we deserve it, and we're gonna get it! That's why the ghosts of the Neanderthals, Denisovans, Cro Magnons, Homo Floresiensis and the whole gang ALL invented religions.

I strongly suspect that most of the increase from 23 to 32 percent came from disaffected democrats. It's not great news for "the left* if that's the case. * should be "the lefts" since there's a whole constellation of so called leftist concerns, all seemingly working at cross purposes.

Most of them. Of course they only really considered people of their own ethnicity to be human. But they had a set of ethics that pointed them toward benefiting the entire population of people who looked like them.

Article says the 2200+ acre site is “still a field of banana trees” as if that’s a BAD thing. If true, the land is currently productive and alive. May it remain so. Everything Trump touches, dies.