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

[Supermac1976]

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

[zimgunner]

[Ashberto]

Or perhaps the Great Green Arkleseizure?

[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

[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.

[Ashberto]

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

[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.

[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.

[zimgunner]