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Re: Friday Five April 8
1.? ? What one book have you been reading lately that most impressed you? Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Daivies 2.? ? ?Can you depend on your ability to tell when someone is lying to you? Not as
By mrvnchpmn · #473 ·
Re: Friday Five April 8
Nothing too intense as most of my newly-retired time is being spent building a skoolie. A fictional series by a new author Kyla Stone is doing better than I had hoped. I am currently on *Edge of
By Darrell King · #472 ·
Re: Friday Five April 8
1. What one book have you been reading lately that most impressed you? "The Signal and the Noise: Why so Many Predictions Fail- but Some Don't" - Nate Silver 2. Can you depend on your ability to tell
By Ed Lomas · #471 ·
Re: Friday Five April 8
By mrvnchpmn · #470 ·
Re: Friday Five April 1
Had to Google that one! Maybe in space, but sounds to me like an ineffective stopgap alternative to more common fission plants. Best to place the effort into solar or maybe geothermal. and central
By Darrell King · #469 ·
Re: Friday Five April 1
1. Do you think thorium reactors are a viable alternative for energy production? I have no idea. 2. Are there any countries in the world you would be afraid to visit? Yes, several. The list changes
By Ed Lomas · #468 ·
Re: [m-scholars-and-scribes] Re: Friday Five April 1
1.? Do you think thorium reactors are a viable alternative for energy production? Yes - there is a tremendous amount of thorium available and the reactors running on thorium don't turn out plutonium
By mrvnchpmn · #467 ·
Re: Friday Five April 1
1.? Do you think thorium reactors are a viable alternative for energy production? 2.? ?Are there any countries in the world you would be afraid to visit? 3.? ?Do ou think rare metals should be
By mrvnchpmn · #466 ·
Re: Friday Five Mar 25
1. Did Ukraine make a ,mistake giving up it's nuclear weapons in 21994? Yes and no. No, Ukraine made the best decision they could at the time, and it would have been a mistake, at that time, not to
By FreedomRocks · #465 ·
Re: [M-Positive} Re: [PhilosophicalM] Trudeau at the EU parliament
<<Well, at least the people have been shown clearly over the past two years that "the news" has in our time become effectively a propaganda arm of the ruling establishment. Whether or not the people
By FreedomRocks · #464 ·
Re: [M-Positive} Trudeau at the EU parliament
<<America and Canada are both ruled by fools. This is possible because of two things. The first is that both use majority rule. The second, which follows on from the first, is that both have become
By FreedomRocks · #463 ·
Re: Trudeau at the EU parliament
There was an interesting photo posted this am of the attendees at the summit standing around talking. Trudeau and Biden were talking to each other, separated from the clumps of other world leaders. It
By Ed Lomas · #462 ·
Re: Friday Five Mar 25
// I will miss sunsets atop forested hills, though. Peak foliage in Autumn, the smells and sounds of breezes through the trees and the cute pictures of cuddly polar bear cubs! Fortunately I am old,
By David Smith · #461 ·
Re: Friday Five Mar 25
*Pat said: * *Darrell replied:* I am *not *taking responsibility for Thwaites melting, stunningly high record Arctic and Antarctic temperatures or the recent collapse of the Conger ice shelf. Nor for
By Darrell King · #460 ·
Re: [M-Positive} Re: [PhilosophicalM] Trudeau at the EU parliament
We are a culture grown accustomed to physical ease and, even those of us not worth five or fifty million dollars, to a certain amount of ongoing luxury. It's a frictionless existence - so long as we
By David Smith · #459 ·
Re: Friday Five Mar 25
Pat, You forgot to mention a scientific hoax. Aloha, Celeste Pat Trivers wrote:
By a1thighmaster · #458 ·
Re: [M-Positive} Re: [PhilosophicalM] Trudeau at the EU parliament
Yes. We are much too docile and trusting in western societies. We trust the government, we trust the news services. We don't think for ourselves. When the US war against Iraq started, I was dating a
By Pat Trivers · #457 ·
Re: [M-Positive} Re: [PhilosophicalM] Trudeau at the EU parliament
Well, Someone, I can see why you want to remain anonymous. When you write an entire paragraph of fake news I'm sure you don't want anyone to know where it comes from. Aloha, Celeste Someone wrote:
By a1thighmaster · #456 ·
Re: Friday Five Mar 25
No. Having them would simply have increased the chance for accidents, escalation and misuse. Doesn't seem to me they have yet suffered defeat for the lack of them! I seem to be drawing a blank, except
By Darrell King · #455 ·
Re: Friday Five Mar 25
Excellent answers - especially to #2 Marvin ? 1. Did Ukraine make a mistake giving up it's nuclear weapons in 1994? Yes 2. What was the most egregious scientific hoax of the 20th century?
By mrvnchpmn · #454 ·