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NASA – A View of the Horizon
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As NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft acquired this image showing a variety of surface textures, including smooth plains at the center of the image, numerous impact craters and rough material that appears to have been ejected from the large crater to the lower left.
Creators of Intelligent Design movie will pay people to see it
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A few months ago we reported how Richard Dawkins had been tricked into recording interviews for Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a documentary film intended to promote the Intelligent Design agenda to the American public.
Now, as the film approaches its April release date, it seems its creators are so confident in the quality of their product that they are willing to pay people to go and see it in order to ensure a successful opening weekend.
Christian schools are being offered cash “donations” for every child they deliver to showings of Expelled, which it is hoped they will do by organising compulsory school trips. Parents would be expected to stump up for the price of a ticket, while the school receives at least $5 for every ticket stub they hand back to the filmmakers. The film gets more viewers, the school gets more cash, the kids get intellectually misled, and everyone’s a winner. Except for human progress, obviously.
Software Patents
White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone
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The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.
The 2005 study — whose credibility the White House attacked this week — identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices, said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).
That’s a bit more than 18 and a half minute…
GM says new fuel requirements to add $6,000 per car
I found my car laughing and pointing at the USA.
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Congress passed a new energy law in December 2007 that requires automakers to increase fuel economy across the industry to 35 miles per gallon by 2020 — up 40 percent from current levels.
“We’ve done the research and it’s going to cost us $4,000 on some vehicles and $10,000 on others, with an average of about $6,000,” Bob Lutz told reporters at the North American International Auto Show.
CNN: Experts agree…
Presidential milkshakes
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I drink your milkshake, even though I opposed drinking your milkshake four years ago. -Mitt Romney
I drink your milkshake, but only if the Bible says it’s allowed. -Mike Huckabee
I may drink your milkshake for another 100 years, if that’s what it takes. -John McCain
I drank a milkshake on 9/11. -Rudy Giuliani
I drink your milkshake, but I’m paying for it with gold. -Ron Paul
America deserves a new milkshake. -Barack Obama
I will fight the corporations so that you can drink your own milkshake. -John Edwards
I have 35 years of milkshake-drinking experience. *sob* -Hillary Clinton
More milkshake at the link…
Your end statement says human progress loses out on this one. I beg to differ. American progress certainly, but not human.
America, since we’ve been putting Republicans in charge, has been rushing towards the 19th century, but the world isn’t. The world is passing us by.
Last time I checked, Americans are part of the human race. If they lose out, mankind loses out. I don’t measure progress of a group by dropping out the slowest members. I don’t have to, I’m not subject to No Child Left Behind laws.
“Last time I checked, Americans are part of the human race. If they lose out, mankind loses out. I don’t measure progress of a group by dropping out the slowest members.”
Oddly enough, thats how the progress of a group is measured (evolutionarily at least).
Maybe, but I’m a member of the group thus measured, and I don’t like to leave other members behind…
Long live Dawkins! His ideas are immortal and true, based on more than blind indoctrinated faith.
Wouldn’t you say your blind indoctrinated belief about something statistics says is highly improbable is similar to the kind of beliefs you are making fun of?
One of those two is easily falsifiable. The other is not.
Would you please elaborate?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiable
It’s not America as a country that will be left behind, it’s the regular people. Government needs blind followers who will do anything in the name of the country/God/whatever and that’s what they are trying to achieve.
As far as speaking of leaving people behind, same country or not. Why then is the majority of the world so vastly behind? Let’s take the most obvious example, Africa. It is the second largest continent on Earth with a much greater population and size than the US. Yet, practically the whole continent is the “3rd world.” Now you are saying that you are not one who leaves anyone behind. Seriously, how do you feel about yourself when you live in such luxury compared to the people in Africa? You have left them behind since the moment you were born, and you should be happy about it. As much as I don’t like the concept, but in the end, we are all by ourselves and laws of “survival of the fittest” apply to everyone.
Yay Darwinism!
[i]“It is not as it is in the Bible, that God created Man in His own image. Quite the contrary, man created god in his own image.”[i] Ludwig Feuerbich
Yay Darwinism!
“It is not as it is in the Bible, that God created Man in His own image. Quite the contrary, man created god in his own image.”[i] Ludwig Feuerbich
and you should be happy about it
Wrong. Africa has many problems, but just about all of them are man made. Getting rid of corruption – which is the most important one right now – is very important, and if you’ve been following my weblog, you know that I expose it whenever I can. “Moving mankind forward” does not involve leaving parts behind, it involves getting rid of the parts that are keeping us back. And those “parts” is NOT about individuals, it is about systems.
Yeah, you’re doing a really world changing job here.. “exposing corruption”
Give me a break. How the hell does it change the situation with the churches paying to see their movie, after “exposing this terrible corruption”? Did all the world simply turn around, recognized the mistakes we have made and simply omitted the “bad parts of systems”? Blogging about problems like that is the same as masturbating – it is a one person party. How about actually taking the problem to the court and blogging about the results?
Africa.. yes you are right, all problems are man made. Actually all the problems in the world are man made. Think about it, animals don’t have problems, they don’t even have consciousness; only humans can perceive anything as a problem. How does it change the fact that you are still leaving Africa behind?
You have no idea what things I do besides this weblog, so thank you very much for the judgement.