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It is clear we have had a major effect on the evolution of canines... but consider this- are we not unchanged ourselves? The early humans who (inexplicably!) could bond with a canine had an evolutionary advantage over those who didn't, and had to defend themselves 24/7. The more canines became...

I can't imagine such large eyes as a good idea. Sunlight would be blinding, and accidents that wouldn't even bruise one of us, would blind such a person. And anyone who thinks a larger head is a good idea, has never witnessed a human birth... As far as telepathy goes, I wouldn't have one...

What is the technical difference between an "assault" and "home defense" rifle? Why are home defense rifles called "assault rifles"? It's as if someone wants us to equate protecting ourselves, with attacking others... But who could possibly benefit from that? ;-) Anyone who wants to disarm...

How can you tell that's an assault rifle? Looks exactly like a home defense rifle, to me...

The truth hurts that much, hmm? Quoting the facts may bother you, even when condensed into one "catchy gem", but quoting such a truth, relevantly, is hardly "regurgitation".

Thanks, will have to look into it. I can recommend Fredric Brown, who worked his way from pulps to slicks. Too bad most of his mysteries are forgotten, in favor of his SF. I can recommend any of his "Ed and Am Hunter" books and stories. Unfortunately, too many people know what his books are...

And yet there were bankers and industrialists on both sides of every war, and an earned profit is in no way unjust. The fact that some, while they can, are neutral enough to sell to both sides is just good business sense, when you have no dog in the fight- or if the other dog seems friendlier...

"Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War Has Never Solved Anything"

it is very definitely theft; it is very definitely prosecuted... and you don't know when the power company chopper will be following the lines (to check for this, as well as potentially damaging trees etc.) so just don't do it. I used to work for a power company, and know. Also, a good way to...

Selective breeding is a *form* of genetic modification; of changing the spelling of the DNA code. So what is really being said is, "Now that we have some idea how to do this without waiting for natural mutation, or creating unnatural mutations at random, let's give up!" Why is it "holy" for some...

I doubt there are any major food plants left that *aren't already* GMO- if not from modern gene-splicing days, then from the old days when they saved the best of the crop for seed (selective breeding of useful mutations) or used chemicals or radiation to cause random genetic mutations, then...

Crystal radio enthusiasts have done this for years... just an antenna, the higher and longer the better, and a diode (a 1N34A or equivalent- there are microwave diodes now that make even the venerable 1N34A look bad), a meter, and a good ground. Or you can tune a crystal set set to *not* receive...

Now, picture the wonky built-around-a-substation framework failing and collapsing- and with its skeleton suddenly gone, the outer shell follows, with nothing much to slow it up. And don't forget, substations have OCRs- for our purposes, fuel/air bombs of hot oil. I saw one cook off once... it...

So some people would be slower to go berserk... newspapers refer to such people as "victims"...

Mike- What testimony? At the time, or after decades, or after the Myth started and publicity and (probably) money were involved? The question is *when* they lied, and Occam's Razor makes that an easy thing to decide. Mr. Steinberg, a TV show of the Roswell story, prior to the Eighties myth...

No one, in 1947, reported any bodies or supermetal. All that slosh was added decades later. BTW, there was an episode of "Science Fiction Theatre" titled "Bulletproof", and it was about alien supermetal being found in the desert from a damaged saucer... alien i-beams and bulletproof sheets of...

To quote Fredric Brown, "Death has many doors". No matter what you ban or block or plan for, a slimy enough person will manage a workaround. But just try to get a box cutter on a flight today... and if you think box cutters are silly little nothings that can't kill, remember Flight 93's first...

I was just listening to some old radio shows... one was from Feb. 26, 1974. It mentioned a nutter named Samuel Bike, who had just gotten shot the previous Friday while trying to hijack a Delta plane at Baltimore International. His intention was to crash it into the White House, and he sent a...

"The baby had no chance of long term survival" means the murder didn't have to happen. The notion that murder is a form of mercy is strange, since most people would flee a murderous attacker, instead of catching a free ride to the end of life, and Heaven. Somehow the people who think that murder...

I guess murder must be illegal in Oklahoma, or something. She didn't mind murder being illegal when it was in her favor, I'll bet.