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I don't find that particularly outrageous that a sociologist, when presented with the potential of space colonization, instead of being all starry-eyed, asks: "Ok, but with what kind of society?" A lawyer would probably wonder about things like jurisdiction and a philosopher about the purpose of...

The Cliff Notes leaked: build up, build up, build up, build up, hasty resolution.

Dellavedova for finals MVP!

The Cavs are playing this 4th quarter like they did the OT in game one...

It's true, but it has yet to materialize into a significant lead on the scoreboard.

How many more injuries needed for the Cavs to be only able to field 4 players?

Sunday was a great day for tennis, but today is even greater: TOMMY HAAS IS BACK! After a year off the tour to recover from a fourth (!) shoulder injury, the 37 (!) year old is back in action! His beautiful brand of all court attacking tennis is still a feast for the eyes. Remember it is also...

Considering Scott's recent track record, the martian will probably be carried back to earth by angels or something...

He is certainly the greatest swiss tennis player of these past two weeks!

Day 15:Stan the Man: 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 We knew Wawrinka would try to be the aggressor, but what we did not know is how well he would play during the final. The answer: pretty damn well. The key stat of the match: 60 winners to 30. Yep. Wawrinka scored 60 winners in just four sets against the...

Day 14! I feared the end of the Murray vs Djokovic match would last 12 points, but it did not. Starting at 3-3, there was zero room for observation or a slow start and both leapt out of the starting blocks. Djokovic was regal behind his serve, getting free points and taking care of any meek...

They need to train some more:

Does "everything" include Chris Tucker's obnoxious radio host?

Day 13! Semi finals day! Only two matches! They start at 1 pm so surely they can play two matches right? Nope. They can't. The Wawrinka vs Tsonga match played in grueling heat. The other thing red hot was Wawrinka who just trampled Tsonga during a set and a half. It felt the swiss was hitting...

What a nightmarish overtime.

My guess would be: filming schedule conflict with Divergent. Or did her character die in the previous film? I don't think it did.

It should me mentioned that this show does not reach brilliant territory because it is pretty formulaic, but it is very good. The weekly cases are often clever and tackle interesting subjects in a reasonably smart way and the personal life / case solving balance is good. Add some good dialogues...

Tomato juice is also not carbonated.

I suspect retarded inconsistent policies over islamophobia for this one. Could anyone on the plane get a closed Diet Coke? I went to see a sport event in France and I had to throw away my plastic canteen because closed container were forbidden (the idea being you can hurt someone by throwing...

Day 11! As our old friend Aesop would say: The mountains gave birth to mice. The top half quarters that had the potential to be very close and hard fought battles ended up being fought, but one sided. After winning a very tight first set against Ferrer, Murray opened the flood gates and would...

Voted. It should be mentioned that the first post no longer says who to vote for... I found the answer relatively quickly, but still.

But they apparently were not aware that red vehicles go faster!

This was a remake of a french film in the first place.

Is that good or bad news? Or neutral news because the lack of plasma bow does not hinder the sheathing effect?

It's difficult to quantify "dramatic" without a point of comparison, but ok. This assumption is huge. We know that in human history the pace of discoveries varied dramatically for cultural reasons alone. We even know it went backward at times, so assuming this will no longer happen is in itself...

There are several movies with zombies/undead that walk at the bottom of a body of water. Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind, but, more canon, Romero's Land of the Dead. But I can think of at least one movie with a swimming zombie: Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2! In that 1979 classic there is a jaw...

My points are that the article is not very good, that the Fermi paradox does not feel very paradoxical to me and that my speculations as to why are not covered by said article and that many of the speculations listed by the article use a number of poor assumptions.

Day 10! No rain, some sun, not too cold... but a lot of wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind. Yep. All matches today were plagued my heavy, irregular gusts of wind that heavily affected play. It was terrible early in the afternoon and calmed down a little as time went by, but even late in the...

How so? It's been a while since I saw Blazing Saddles, but other than being a comedy in a wild west context, I don't see any similarity. Were some of the jokes reused? Because the plot is pretty different as far as I can remember.

Some things in the article are tangentially related but none are addressed in the same context. For instance the time scale problem is only addressed in the context of a thousand Type II and Type III civilizations existing in our galaxy (estimation reached by the absurd chain of 1% conservative...

"any civs beyond our tech tree" is something already laced with assumptions. Assumptions about our own future (the fantasy civ is like us, but in the future - so assumptions about what is possible to achieve), assumptions about the linearity of technological discovery (even different human...

For years, there have been talks and deals and even some scripts for an american-made live-action version of Akira. At some point it was supposed to take place in Neo New York or something...

I wonder who is the clever strategist who decided to put a fort at the feet of cliffs.

Mais que veut dire "reveite"? I don't see what is so paradoxical about the Fermi paradox. It feels to me it is built on a number of weak assumptions. I mean, here on planet earth, right now, there are several million different types of life forms (8.7 some say - bacteria and the likes...

Day 9! No rain, no 5 sets matches: 4th round is completed! The Djokovic vs Gasquet match started strangely as it took 25 minutes to play 3 games! In a way this grueling start broke Gasquet's will. 90 minutes later, Djokovic was the victor. Exiled on court 1, Ferrer also made very light work...

Day 8! They wanted to play 4 WTA matches and 4 ATP matches on two main courts, but thanks to the crappy weather, 2 WTA matches were canceled (well... adjourned), and only 3 of the 4 ATP matches got completed. Nishikori did not have to play particularly well to beat Gabashvili in straight...

Damp day at the French... the 11:00 am matches could only played a handful of games before being stopped. It's now 1:30 pm and play has yet to be resumed. As I feared a couple days ago, this "sun"day feels a bit like that day Soderling beat Federer in straight sets. In humid conditions on clay...

Day 7! 3rd round top half gogogo! DJOKOVIC vs KOKKINAKIS: Not seen. Straight forward win. ANDERSON vs GASQUET: Gasquet had to play yesterday against Berlocq to play their fifth set and a decided frenchman sealed the deal with a clean 6-1. Against Anderson though he kinda forgot the...