#1 2018-10-24 21:08:06
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Note: Kurt Vonnegut credited the idea for Ice-9 in "Cat's Cradle" to Nobel Prize-winning General Electric research chemist Irving Langmuir. Asked to host novelist HG Wells during his visit to GE, Langmuir suggested a form of ice stable at room temperature might prove entertaining science fiction. Wells passed and Vonnegut declared finders-keepers.
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#2 2018-10-25 13:40:29
Why do scientists persist on poking things with a stick, that could ultimately wipe us out?
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#3 2018-10-25 16:41:32
How else are going to know if it would wipe us out or not?
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#4 2018-10-25 16:53:47
BorderCount wrote:
How else are going to know if it would wipe us out or not?
LOL. I've heard climate change deniers make this same argument. "You can't PROVE to me that climate change is going to end humanity, so I'm going to ignore it."
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#5 2018-10-25 23:07:56
Smudge wrote:
BorderCount wrote:
How else are going to know if it would wipe us out or not?
LOL. I've heard climate change deniers make this same argument. "You can't PROVE to me that climate change is going to end humanity, so I'm going to ignore it."
I just want Mar a Lago completely under water before I die. Surely the Elder Gods will grant that minor disaster before the end.
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