Post #229,237
10/11/05 11:28:18 PM
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More "Hobbits" found.
[link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4331252.stm|BBC]: Scientists have discovered more remains of the strange, small people that once lived on Flores island, Indonesia.
The announcement last year detailing a single, partial skeleton caused a sensation when it was claimed to be a human species new to science.
Homo floresiensis, as it was called, was little more than a metre tall and lived 18,000 years ago.
Now, the same team tells Nature journal it has skeletal remains from at least nine of the "Hobbit-like" individuals. Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #229,242
10/11/05 11:59:09 PM
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There goes the Shire!
Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly!
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Post #229,255
10/12/05 5:56:02 AM
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Pratchett for Pres. Cloned-Bilbo for Veep!
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Post #229,267
10/12/05 9:03:05 AM
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With discoveries like this
occuring on a fairly regular basis, HOW can people dispute evolution?!?
Jesus was a star last week.
Now he's tending bar on Melrose.
Welcome to Hollywood.
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Post #229,308
10/12/05 1:18:25 PM
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Because they don't pay attention
If they paid attention, the stuff that is old hat would have convinced them, let alone the discoveries.
Instead they look at something like this and go, "Oh, the scientists were wrong again. And they still haven't figured out that C-14 doesn't work. I wonder how those hobbits died - maybe they didn't get on Noah's ark? Ah well. Time to do something more important."
That is, if they have the curiousity to even notice these news reports.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #229,337
10/12/05 3:40:06 PM
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evolution isnt disputed, only who designed it /me dux
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
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Post #229,343
10/12/05 4:02:00 PM
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That one's easy -
When one observes that one dwells within a Mystery-ous illusion - and for most, 24/7:
One. never. asks. Why?.
(and all n+666 variants of Stupid Questions beyond one's referent-system)
HTH
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Post #229,353
10/12/05 4:42:31 PM
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But, who designed the designer?
Sometimes recursion leads to stack overflow.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #229,354
10/12/05 4:43:23 PM
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Qui custodiet custodes?
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #229,356
10/12/05 4:47:56 PM
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Another zinger from the Texas Catholic
Bronson Havard has seen the light! He is kicking butt and taking names.
Go Bronson! Go Bronson!
[link|http://www.texascatholic.com/default.asp?IsDev=False&NodeId=928|http://www.texascath...=False&NodeId=928]
Peace,
Amy
Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly!
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Post #229,385
10/12/05 7:05:43 PM
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we did, of course
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #229,394
10/12/05 8:52:49 PM
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No stack overflow in that case! :)
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #230,415
10/21/05 4:29:23 PM
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Underflow error
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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