Except you legalized weed before we did... (I know it's not at the Federal level, but seems to be working out alright; provinces in Canada have nowhere near as much autonomy.)

Kind of on the fence on this one; really just want someone to clean house on the issue, but the SCC decision makes even mild reform a daunting task for any future government. Most likely it will just lead to a couple more decades of status quo.

Senate reform?

As a Canadian, I support this decision. For me it is important that (regardless of condition) I face death while I'm as lucid and aware as possible; this decision removes what could have been a huge impediment to that goal. But this does open a can of worms given the current Canadian health-care model which places…

You fail to emphasize just how horrible the process spaghettification would be. In most cases it would be preceded by a slow onset of shearing forces that would build up until parts of you began to snap and/or break; eventually a major artery or organ would rupture and that would be it. I suppose if you were feet down…

Actually, spaghettification would be a horrible way to go. In most cases it would take several minutes or more (size dependent) as the shearing forces slowly built up during your approach; it would be like being very slowly drawn and quartered.

The pantheons of ancient cultures were essentially maps of their collective psychological state at any given moment in history. Whatever instincts and/or traditions were currently the most dominant were reflected by the dominance of a god (or gods) in the current pantheon. When the Romans encountered the Greeks they…

Your 3D representation of the curvature of spacetime is no more accurate than the 2D version, just more useful for visualizing the effect in 3 dimensions, and in some ways it conveys even less information. The only reason the wires appear to bend inward in the 3D version is because your brain is not capable of…

Answer that and there's a shiny new Nobel in science waiting for you; the schism between relativity (curved space-time) and quantum physics (particles) is one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern physics.

Those interested in pre-industrial ecosystems will be disappointed or deeply shocked. This is a great place to see poverty in its natural setting, but prepare to be disturbed.

And you missed Twirlip's point entirely: it's not us and when we send the probes that he's talking about but the fact that somewhere in the billions of years that our galaxy has been around, if intelligence is common (or even exceedingly rare), some other species should have done this by now and we should have one or…

That's Uranus, and it most likely absorbed a huge impact during its formation that set it rotating on its side like that.

Sony Pictures == America

Because it would actually read: "American under-classes revolt and install themselves as yet another kleptocratic regime claiming to rule in the name of "representative democracy". Four legs good, two legs better...

Gotta say I didn't pick Svalbard to be a potential flash point, though the ME's descent into gut wrenching carnage has been a safe bet for any one playing the prophet game for the past 4000 years or so.

The purpose is to keep you confused and on the defensive; nothing you say or do (or don't say or don't do) is correct. This way you have your conscience dictated to you and the writer gets her catharsis (and clicks.) Giving you a straight answer on how to relate/help better would be counter to this purpose.

Can we say confirmation bias? I'd sooner come to the conclusion that studies suck (or at least drawing conclusions from single studies that happen to agree with our pre-existing views sucks) than say people suck. I'm sure I could dig up some studies that contradict the claims of climate change or that purport to show…

Image artifacts. Probably seams showing up from tiling smaller pics.

If you're dreaming (and grinning) about the deaths of others then, yes, you are basically the same type of person that starts wars.

That wouldn't solve any problems because there'd still be lots people like you left.