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That last part is the most telling. The United States has more people behind bars than China. Not just more people per capita, more people period. It's beyond shameful how many people in the "Land of the Free" aren't free. | |||||||||||||||||
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The USSR launched Sputnik 50 years ago today, starting the space age. Poll #1065940 Open to: All, results viewable to: All In the next 50 years, humans will...
View Answers set foot back on Luna. set foot on Mars. set foot on another planet or moon. establish a strong civilian presence in space. establish a lunar base. establish a base on mars. establish a colony off earth. detect gravitational waves. mine an asteroid. begin terraforming Mars. be capable of interstellar travel. be capable of faster than light travel. detect extraterrestrial life. detect an earth-like planet. make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. not advanced much father than they have already. kill themselves off. | |||||||||||||||||
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6 of the 10 most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record (in terms of central pressure) have occurred withing the last 10 years, with 5 of those occurring in the last 4 years.
This represents a clear and significant uptick in the strength of the strongest storms. Global warming is not just a problem the future will have to deal with, it is currently happening on a destructive and deadly scale. | |||||||||||||||||
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![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} purpleglitter and I watched the House of Sand (Casa de Areia) last night. Fernanda Montenegro is one of those actors that can speak volumes without moving her lips, a face that says more than words can.A simply amazing movie. The move has an intensity so subtle and built up so steadily and skillfully that it simply envelops you and takes you on a journey to a place so far away that it seems like another world, yet still very much of this Earth. It is a pocket, a bubble of time, and the stories the lie there. If I still maintained my "100 movies everyone should see" list, this would likely be in the top 10. | |||||||||||||||||
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For each statement, please indicate how much you agree or disagree. -5 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree Poll #960552 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Honesty is always the best policy.
View Answers Mean: 2.47 Median: 3 Std. Dev 1.78
Pluto is a planet.
View Answers Mean: 1.85 Median: 3 Std. Dev 3.42
Snow is a good and wonderful thing.
View Answers Mean: 1.09 Median: 2 Std. Dev 3.28
Black jelly beans are the best.
View Answers Mean: -2.15 Median: -4 Std. Dev 3.83
The world will be a better place in 50 years than it is today.
View Answers Mean: -0.72 Median: 0 Std. Dev 2.50
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I've been thinking about the Hexagon of Saturn ever since I read about it on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif){kind=small} apod this morning. It looks almost solid in the time lapse movie. It seems the wind shear should rip such a fine shape to shreds on Saturn, but it has been there for over 20 years. The thing is huge, 3 earths wide. While there is a good chance that a natural explanation for this will be found (polygons have been know to appear in the eye walls of Earth hurricanes as well as in rapidly spinning buckets of water), it is still fantastic enough to spark my imagination in ways the "face" on Mars never did. | |||||||||||||||||
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If humanity is worth saving, it needs to get off this planet. Being limited one world makes humanity vulnerable to global-scale disasters, wars, and diseases. Humans could be wiped out by simple bad luck or by their own doing. The only way to ensure long-term survival is to inhabit more than one world. However, that still leaves the question "Is humanity is worth saving?". Poll #922561 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Is humanity worth saving? | |||||||||||||||||
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I talked to my sister ( ellynx) last night. Apparently Maddie has been very interested in the Baiji for about a year now, and even has a book on them. She's been very worried about them going extinct. My sister is going to have to find a way to tell her six year old daughter that they are most likely gone.Maddie has told me about her worry that many of the ocean species that she wants to study will be gone. At six you want to tell her she's wrong, but she's right and she knows it. She's a smart kid. I wonder just how many more animals won't she have a chance see? How many more will be gone in just the next few years, especially as global warming kicks into an even higher gear? The world is changing very rapidly. | |||||||||||||||||
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In therapy yesterday, we discussed why I want to get off disability and back into the job market. I hadn't really thought that much on the question other than that I wanted to. The reason I want a job is not because I feel guilty in some way for not having one. I don't feel guilty. First, it's only recently that I've been doing well enough to realistically consider getting one. Second, it's not like any job I'm likely to go into is going to make the world a better place o |