Jim

Did you know that the best place to get Bananas is not in Nicaragua as many think…but are on the Canary Islands. Fabulous place to eat and buy bananas. I am utterly gaga for Canary Island bananas.

If you cannot read the comments section without getting hurt or discouraged…then DO NOT READ THE COMMENT SECTION. Ask a friend to do it or pay someone to make honest summaries of it. There are many online temp sites where you can pay a student $5 an hour to do whatever you ask them (including very smart students from India or budding…[Read more]

Indeed Matt. It is bunk. Oops. My mistake.

I would actually call it four dimensional weasel tactics…which are so weasel-like it is borderline trolling. I wish that David guy had stayed on and kept going.

@SteveInCo

Some theists like to set up the debate in a way in which it is next to impossible to criticise religion (more importantly their religion) and their institutions.

Resident theists have recently used the following technique:

If you quote their particularily foul lines in their scriptures in addition to pointing out contradictions,…[Read more]

Check out this video (been doing the rounds on social media).

Animation of the Sun and planets as they revolve around the Sun, the sun revolves around the centre of the galaxy (as well as deviations) and as the galaxy moves relative to other galaxies.

Nassim Haramein has woo-meistered the video to fit his toxic steaming bullshit. Helarious and…[Read more]

@SteveInCo: You never know…a bizzare aqua space rocket might thrash through the ice and come say hello. I think the betting odds on this with a london book keeper would be about 1,000,000,000,000…which is worse odds than Jamaica winning the next world cup…but you know…imagination and stuff.

@Simon Paynton

No we haven’t argued that there is a particular concrete atheist-morality. We’ve agreed that (various) moral systems devised/used by (various) atheists can be just as meaningful or praisworthy as (various) religious based moral systems. We did not…in any way…establish t…[Read more]

@SteveInCo

Chiron, from Pluto’s surface looks 57 times large than the moon viewed from Earth.

That is incredible…the sky would look so uuuuuuuuuuuuterly surreal. I’m sure if intelligent life were to have evolved there, they would have treated Chiron as much more of a tangible/subjectifiable object than early man did with the moon and…[Read more]

@SteveInCo

Actually…I uh…spelt it with an extra “e” on purpose…to…uh…make some sort of statement about stuff…which is…you know…so obvious…I don’t even need to explain it. You dig?

@Paul Ryan

It’s true that a distant fly by was the best they could pull off but it’s remarkable that it is being pulled off. They have promised us that we will still end up with a more and more spectacular image every day and during the flyby…an image with an incredible resolution (a pixel per football field I think I read).

They want to send…[Read more]

What you’re ultimately talking about is half folk-wisdom, half-common sense and half-motivational-uplifting-snippets-of-warm-gooeyness. There is nothing necesarily wrong with that if you take them as tentative ideas and then thoroughly explore them. Some of what you say/claim can and has been backed up by empirical research…and some has not or…[Read more]

It’s a black and white image of Pluto. From what I understand…the imaging tools they have on the probe which have the highest resolution render the images in black and white. The coloured images are composites of the black and white with much lower resolution coloured images collaged together.

I totally know what you mean about closure. The…[Read more]

So many interesting (compelling?) features.

We are not in a position yet to claim that free will does not exist nor that it is impossible…let alone with a reasonable level of certainty. We barely have an accepted model/understanding of cognition. The so called test which shows that our mind makes decisions before we are aware of it is deeply flawed and yet still remains one of the key…[Read more]

We’ve already covered this Arcus. Percentage of government spending does not give us any information. We are not talking about over all spending. We are talking about deep cruel cuts for social programs and other essential services.