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2017-01-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2017-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 From their website,

We focus as well on ways to prevent catastrophe from the malign or accidental use of nuclear, carbon-based, and biology-based technologies.

They appear not to be aware that all Earth biology is carbon based.

Posted by phil_b 2017-01-27 00:42|| 2017-01-27 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Physicists, phil-b, physicists. You know why physics is the first exact science (or used to be - nowadays it attracts people who like to be absolutely certain). Because it's the simplest (I've heard rumors, can't say from personal knowledge, that even some physicists understand physics)!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-27 03:21|| 2017-01-27 03:21|| Front Page Top

#3 people who like to be absolutely certain

Upon reflection, not the best way to put it. How about "people who never question received knowledge"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-27 03:31|| 2017-01-27 03:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "humanity’s most pressing existential threats, nuclear weapons and climate change"

"and alt-right extremism...and fake news...and..."

Posted by Frank G 2017-01-27 10:31|| 2017-01-27 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 You have to really wonder sometimes how people who are supposedly so smart turn out to be such morons. Prime Example: Obama.

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-01-27 21:25|| 2017-01-27 21:25|| Front Page Top

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