Well, most zealots I know don't even know what they believe or not, they just like to have someone else they can insult and put the blame for everything that's wrong in the world.

I don't want to start a theological discussion on this delicate subject, because I know it's close to people's hearts and may hurt some sensibilities, but I have to say this:

You can't prove anything, you can only disprove things.

Without repeating it, you can see some mistake in the design of the experiments that says "see, you're having a systematic error here, that's causing you to have a measure a wrong value for the speed". I'm guessing that's what they're expecting.

and how is looking at the findings and running more tests and see if it's right or wrong different from trying to disprove it? That's how you try to disprove something!

isn't everything already advertised by ladies with large breasts?

With Quantum Physics, there *IS* fundamental randomness.

Well, what I meant is the "survival of the fittest" concept is tautologic, once you define fittest as "the ones who survive for longer".

You know what happens if you use animal butter to swallow those pills, right?

They're copying all of their features, so I guess they can see someone moving because it works better. Either that or they don't want the "it does so many cool things that are missing in FB" kind of publicity.

So, there are people who know that traces are inherited (something we have known since before we knew how to speak, otherwise we wouldn't have dogs, cats or bananas) but they don't believe that the traces that are inherited by more individuals lead to having more individuals with said traces.

Which is just another way to show how absurd is the non-belief in evolution. Do they also deny the existence of genes? If they do, what do they care what we do with things that don't exist anyway? If they do, do they think that the ones who have more offspring pass less genes than the ones who have more?

I'm not sure about this, but i don't think journals pay researchers for articles. Researchers would pay to see them published if they could

Does HIMYM have a laugh track? I hadn't noticed shows stopped having them, 2BG's sounded very loud to me, but I'm not sure I've watched any sitcom without one except for flight of the Conchords. i'll be paying attention to that this year

Also, the guy who wrote yesterday's rant wasn't an io9 writer but a guest (I think)

Absolutely

yeah, well, a tiger isn't taller than you either

Yeah, monitors need very high voltages, so they need to use a lot of capacitors, charge them and then make them work in series, that's why CRT monitors and TVs take a bit to start up when you turn them on, they need to load those capacitors. I'm not sure how this is done exactly, but it's roughly like that (also a lot…

so he's the honey badger of dinosaurs, the spinosaurus don't give a shit

I remember I was very into dinosaurs as a kid (not so much when JP came out) and said "veloci... what the fuck, that's a deynonichus!". I knew lots of names of dinosaurs and read some books, but I had never heard the word "velociraptor" before JP.