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• Commented on Test Case
  if the 'Heavenly Palace' crashes into Jerusalem, whelp: G_D is quite Irate. USSTRATCOM's predictions for the reentry have tightened up enough that it looks like Jerusalem is going to escape. Washington DC remains a possibility, so there's that....
• Commented on Solarpunk rising, or how to turn boring bureaucratic meetings into creative fodder
  BMW Yes, here in this part of the US BMWs also stand out for dominance-game behavior. Not all or even most of them, but when a car is being driven in such a way, it's likely to be a...
• Commented on The crazy years
  The world's top 1% earned 82% of all wealth generated in 2017 OT: If I may indulge a personal hate for a moment, I hate the use of "earn" in such contexts. The original reference put it in a...
• Commented on The sudden eruption of news
  century storm comes along every ten years We've had three century floods here in seventeen years, so you do have to wonder about those estimates....
• Commented on 2117 revisited
  Cortana Yes, Cortana has been on the edges of the nonacoustic submarine detection world for decades and has come up with many such ideas. Maybe this one will work out. It is true that Cortana's founder, KJ Moore, is...
• Commented on 2117 revisited
  You can literally detect submarines via displacement / gravity differences from Space these days Do you mean detection by gravimeters or gradiometers in space? If so, nope: http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=AD1012150 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2377.pdf Or do you mean some other effect, like gravity-induced distortion...
• Commented on The light at the end of the tunnel (is not necessarily an oncoming train)
  Oh, ok, I'll play. Stealing from Vinge, Fire Upon The Deep Hexapodia Is The Key Insight Not stealing from Vinge, Democritus Was Right There Is Naught But Atoms And the Void Except All the Rest...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  They're like a cryptic crossword; either you can figure out the underlying message, or you can't, but if you can there's some good stuff there. For such folk as I who, after a while, have decided that it isn't...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  Question: If word of the discussions leak to Trump/Bannon, what preemptive actions could they take to head off impeachment and removal? What if the process is actually underway in the House and then Senate? Could he declare a state...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  Is it hopelessly optimistic to want to believe that a bunch more of them are meeting in private to discuss impeachment proceedings, but aren't going public until they've got enough folks on their team to make a credible play?...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  I (a USian) absolutely endorse your decision not to visit the US until and if relative sanity sets in. On the practical side, one thing that business and local governments pay attention to is actions that might cut into revenue....
• Commented on Empire Games
  Offered for possible plot reuse. https://twitter.com/TheNardvark/status/822473456977608704 BREAKING: The Secret Service has shot and killed another time traveler, bringing today's total to 873. #InaugurationDay 7:58 AM 20 Jan 2017...
• Commented on Playtime is over
  Try asking a real question, that doesn't have to do with your cultural insecurities. Did we ask a question somewhere up there? Well, maybe a meta-meta one, you can hardly help that. Doubtless you and we have a lot...
• Commented on Playtime is over
  Next? I need to spread our Wings a little. Please do, it could be worth seeing. https://www.zazzle.com/winged_guitar_cheese_board-256671630490209374...
• Commented on Playtime is over
  Perhaps a useful reference for current discussions here: https://psicovalero.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/dsm-v-ingles-manual-diagnc3b3stico-y-estadc3adstico-de-los-trastornos-mentales.pdf...
• Commented on Ever Young?
  Perhaps a P.S.: What do we mean by chronic low-grade pain here? Is it something that intrudes enough that you have to pay attention to it even if you'd rather not? Or something that, if you start searching around your...
• Commented on Ever Young?
  I have "retired" and only do gym three times a week that the pain has evaporated. Some skeletal injuries remain, but as long as I exercise the pain remains at bay. Yes, we and acquaintances do take care to...
• Commented on Ever Young?
  most middle-aged or older folks are in chronic low-grade pain from damaged joins, aching muscles, or the effects of old injuries Really? I'm flying on personal anecdotes here, but at age 70 I, my spouse and several (not all)...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  "Forgeries &/or later textual insertions, huh? Well it would all have to have been done before Nicea, wouldn't it, when the "bible" was officially stitched-up. Yes, pretty much so. From shortly after 30 CE until the CofN in 325, things...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  "Forgeries &/or later textual insertions, huh? Well it would all have to have been done before Nicea, wouldn't it, when the "bible" was officially stitched-up. Yes, pretty much so. From shortly after 30 CE until the CofN in 325, things...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  the most virulently misogynistic bots of "saint" Paul Not to defend Saul/Paul in particular (he wasn't a very nice guy), but the virulently misogynistic parts that are ascribed to him (Pastoral Epistles) or appear in the seven more or...
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  On what is a hive mind, I defer to others above who have pointed out that we already live in such, an emergent entity. However, "Given that 'destabilizing the false vacuum' is not something any one person could do alone,...