non-footie -- an article with a lot of mind-blowing stuff

[zimgunner]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/the-fermi-paradox _b_5489415.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/the-fermi-paradox_b_5489415.html)

[Supermac1976]

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/02/-sp-astronomy -photographer-of-the-year-2014-shortlist-in-pictures (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/02/-sp-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2014-shortlist-in-pictures)

http://i.guim.co.uk/w-860/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/1/1404232889269/78b06bd1-6002-40d7-b571-baa3a5cd1a21-1020x680.jpeg

http://i.guim.co.uk/w-860/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/1/1404233053685/7679660e-8159-4faa-9de8-8d4d6ed1e7a0-1020x699.jpeg

[zimgunner]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

50 years ago. I think you mean the information has been packaged up into chunks that suit your attention span.

Think of all that stuff you're missing that hasn't yet been fashioned into a "Ten of" list for you with info-graphics :-)

[Ashberto]

unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly 93 million miles in an utterly insignificant blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life-forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think social media is a good idea.

[Ashberto]

Or perhaps the Great Green Arkleseizure?

[zimgunner]

i associated fermi with nuclear fission before i read that article, so it's new to me.

if you are so open-minded that you've digested all this complicated information so many years before us laymen, then why so many assumptions and pre-judgment in your comment?

thanks for putting down war and peace to descend to the ranks of mortals with short attention spans and grace us with your wisdom.

[zimgunner]

why it would be bad news for us if we found complex fossils on mars?

the article is NOTHING like a trite list with superfluous graphics. quite the opposite -- it explains complex topics in easily-digested prose and uses graphics to facilitate that understanding.

i just can't stand running into unprovoked bad energy like you just exhibited.

[zimgunner]

[Ashberto]

I would have assumed it to be a directional control mechanism on a vacuum cleaner.

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

Think of the jumps forward made in the 20th Century.

Flight, splitting the atom, landing on the f**king moon. Genuinely great things for us as a species.

The last 20 years we just seem to be making shiny things we can take pictures of each other with. And pictures of ourselves. Lots and lots of them.

Oh and if anyone tries to claim the internet as a Great Leap Forward from the last 20 years.......just don't alright. :bow:

[zimgunner]

is pretty rocky, even if it has a slow upward climb.

we're due another middle ages soon.

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

We are already there Zim :-(

[zimgunner]

going to do a top ten list of footballers with big noses.

[Ashberto]

than a technological one. Identity politics, lack of interest in economic growth, collapse of support for the main political parties, etc.

When the only competing ideological vision around to a plodding, stagnant and managerial capitalism seems to be a medieval theocracy, we must be in a bit of a rut.

[Ashberto]

[redgunamo]

Still, plus ça change and a' that.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

[redgunamo]

[zimgunner]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/12/275896094/sci entists-say-their-giant-laser-has-produced-nuclear-fusion (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/12/275896094/scientists-say-their-giant-laser-has-produced-nuclear-fusion)

[Bergkamp's Brain]

It will be like the discovery of the internal combustion engine