Hello Mammals! It's time once again, for reasons that no one can properly explain, that Your Wonkette presents yet another fascinating, illuminating and disturbing Sci-Blog. Take off your pants and come on in! Expectations for the discovery of life on Mars have fallen over the hundreds of years that Humans have been observing the planet. H. G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined a dying desert world where advanced alien intelligences crafted massive geoengineering projects and plotted interplanetary invasion. After more powerful telescopes were developed in the '40s and '50s, we realized that Shaparelli's
Leaving aside what is undoubtedly a natural distribution of curiosity from ultra-curious to disinterested, I think a lot of people sort of have curiosity driven out of them. For many people, knowing more would just mean knowing more how screwed they are. They recoil. It's very sad, on a number of levels.
The MSM refers to the 'Higgs Boson' whilst the Wingnut sites call it the 'God Particle' which will no doubt be accepted by their readership of proof that God exists, in itty bitty chunks.
Well, they wouldn't, would they?
Gimme Francis any day:
รขยยซรขยยช Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars ...
What could possibly go wrong?
Leaving aside what is undoubtedly a natural distribution of curiosity from ultra-curious to disinterested, I think a lot of people sort of have curiosity driven out of them. For many people, knowing more would just mean knowing more how screwed they are. They recoil. It's very sad, on a number of levels.
Schroedinger's cat might be relieved, though. Finally, someone to just TELL it if it's dead or not. All this uncertainty upsets it.
Damn ... <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=i8lrfRwNlfs" target="_blank">forgot the link.</a>
It was the Whitworth bolts?
Eh, a day was a lot longer back then.
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Depressed.
As far as Life On Mars: I prefer the Barbara Streisand version.
He&#039;s a cephalopod. What&#039;s your excuse?
I&#039;m sympathetic ... but what&#039;s the state of Alaska supposed to do about it?
The &quot;supplementary materials&quot; are freely available. Scary graphs aplenty!
The MSM refers to the &#039;Higgs Boson&#039; whilst the Wingnut sites call it the &#039;God Particle&#039; which will no doubt be accepted by their readership of proof that God exists, in itty bitty chunks.
I would have voted for him for a third term and again in 2016.