Going into full nonsense mode now, bro. Corpses can't reproduce. Destroying ten corpses of an endangered species would be less harmful than killing one.

One which you don't understand and, let's be honest, you know you don't understand. You have not formally studied the subject of scientific error.

Investigating frivolous use of NASA money is not, in itself, a bad idea. In fact not doing that would be the stupid idea. It's money that could either go to schools or hospitals or in fact just to actual NASA stuff.

Previously we had no clue how uncommon life might be. With this new information, we... still have no clue.

You don't seem to understand the concept of "margin of error" or even of experiments and measurement...

No, I am a thorough believer in the conservation of species. I never said I wasn't. Would you like me to explain what I was saying, or were you just missing the entire point on purpose?

The statement wasn't "we'll have strong AI", it was, "computers will be able to think for themselves". In other words, whether a computer will ever have a human-like intelligence.

I... really don't know what your post is about. Yes, I'm saying sceptical, dissenting views are very very important in science.

500 million years was already thought to be the lower bound for when Earth becomes uninhabitable. It's definitely a figure lodged in my memory, as it basically means complex life is already halfway through its evolutionary development.

No it doesn't. But I'm interested by your suggestion that the right thing to do would have been instead to tell everybody that humans causing a runaway climate into oblivion was perfectly possible, despite it being contrary to... well, you know, the truth.

Narrowing the proportion of habitable planets by an unspecified amount has 'solved' Fermi's paradox?

"the star's age overlaps with the universe's age"

I find it a bit schizophrenic for io9 to present itself as a science site, but then also to revel in "putting the smackdown" on scepticism.

What new finding are you talking about? The age of the universe hasn't changed within the span of my memory.

You forgot about destroying, ingesting, digesting and passing it out

You're very much mistaken. "Flat" does has nothing to do with "2D", for a start. 3D space, as commonly imagined with 3 rectilinear axes, is flat.

There's these fairly well-known things called 'red shift' and 'cosmic microwave background radiation'. You should probably learn about something before trying to teach people about it.

Yes, a local Greek chef. He probably has strict guidelines about what he can and can't cook. There's no way you can conclude from this that it's scientifically interesting. Most 'rare' species still have populations of hundreds of thousands.

He liked his fish very rare. *cough cough*

Human nature at its finest?