That's a lot of craters, or the Martians went extinct due to environmental complications from their society's addiction to stripmining.

Every time one of my yahoo relatives scoffs at the global warming "myth", I ask them if they've been out to Colorado lately. Huge sections of forests are now dead or dying due to the pine bark beetle, a pest that has thrived in the past two decades due to droughts and too-warm winters. I used to love to stay at the…

I'm sure that the timber industry wouldn't consider the yellow cedar endangered. It probably took a blight that wiped out 99.9999% of the American chestnut trees for the timber industry to consider them endangered.

Perhaps it's the girth of the missile that matters. Just sayin'.

With enough foreplay, the sky is the limit.

I was just going to ask if there are places one can still do this. I wouldn't mind doing it for an afternoon just to see what it was like. Where do you prospect?

I'm going to say that no, no we don't. The still picture alone will haunt my dreams. To actually watch those walking nightmares express affection would break my mind.

Oh definitely, with so much coal, oil and gas extraction in surrounding areas, fossil fuel methane has to be the prime candidate.

Indeed. Due to Kinja's (lack of) ways to make threading manifest, it should perhaps be made explicit that the map being called into question is the one at the SMU site which someone posted a few replies up from this one. The CO2 hotspot mentioned in the original article is shown in the literature paper referenced…

#IAmAScientistBecause I actually managed to score a research faculty job in the current cutthroat environment of falling funding!

I'm a Park Ranger now and people are very surprised I have a MA, with Honors no less, I don't get paid much but I love my job. I had a mom and boy ask me last week what you had to do to become a Ranger and my first words were got to college and get a B.A. in History, Biology, Forestry, Parks & Rec, and some other…

One time when I was outside of a Cheesecake Factory smoking a cigarette a man propositioned me thinking I was a hooker.

I had a table once whisper loudly to their children, "if you don't go to college, you'll end up waiting tables like her..." while I was prebussing their table.

Actually this seems to make a pretty good case for nuclear power. If a reactor can be still be safe, after automatically shutting down, then clearly the perceived problems concerning nuclear power are invalid.

Why are there so many Radiophobics in the world?

Fine, I admit it. I don't understand.

Doesn't this amount to saying we could detect ships that foolishly move beyond 0.9C where baryonic collisions, gravity effects and time dilation all get really unfriendly. So really, it's saying that we could detect the most outlandish of our galactic neighbours, if any are such fools. Why would any species engineer…

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The I in SETI stands for Intelligence. They're looking for intelligent life and when SETI was created, it was theorized that an intelligent civilization should be emitting radio signals of some kind. That was the theory anyway...

Well, okay. You get a point for asking the questions, but I'm taking that point away because you are asking questions that were included in the article, without offering anything new, which suggests you didn't read the article. Did you read the article? If you did, you can have the point back. I'm offering it on the…