“You’re still a douche.”

Here’s something for you to read.

Advance what conversation? You insulting a guy (whose name is Murry, by the way, not Murray, Mr Reading Comprehension Policeman)? And then posting irrelevant sci-fi? And then getting pissy because someone who works in an actual frickin’ company whose entire existence is predicated on an actual frickin’ application…

“I’ll be not caring somewhere on this map.”

I really don’t give a shit if I’m not entertaining you. I called you out on trollish behaviour, and — quelle surprise! — you responded like a troll. I’ve said it again and again, and it still hasn’t sunk in to your armour-plated bonce, I have nothing to prove. You, on the other hand, have desperately,…

“Again, all talk, no substance.”

It’s a shame you turned out to be exactly what you seemed to be at the start of this thread: an intransigent, over-opinionated, under-informed snotty troll.

My goodness, George Church uses the word “fabulous” to describe respirocytes.

“... it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Sure, Matthew; sure. Thanks for playing.

You’re the one posting links to science fiction, and suddenly I’m the one who’s supposed to provide data and citations? Data and citations for what? That respirocytes aren’t real? That you don’t know what you’re talking about?

You know that’s not actually a real thing, right? Also, nothing to do with “nano-scale technology powerful & adaptable enough to interface with things like blood cells, nerves, etc.” So keep waving your hands and thinking you know what you’re talking about, if a bit of Dunning-Kruger keeps you happy.

Edit: I’ve been…

The fact that you’re talking in hand-waving terms about “nano-scale technology powerful adaptable enough to interface with things like blood cells, nerves, etc.” kind of tells me that you don’t know what you’re talking about, because that’s not going to happen.

Yes, it would be annoying if they had fabricated the data. But that’s the thing about science; it’s practiced by human beings, but has mechanisms we’ve developed over time (like retractions) which will correct for human foibles, to some extent. Science deniers will always find something to pick on, and yes it would…

It’s not great that this happens, but wouldn’t it be lovely if there was a retraction mechanism for false press stories or stories containing lies in general? Pretty much everything some politicians have ever said would just disappear ...

Be careful before drawing conclusions here. Universities can be cut-throat political battlefields, and it’s not entirely impossible that axes are being ground for the two researchers. I’m not discounting that there might be fraud, but there are other possible explanations for this (especially given that Science and…

Very interesting — that last image is almost the mirror image of the one published in the Nature article about the EHT from March 23rd.

Sand worms?

I went to see John Carter with a sci-fi/horror writer, a former Mondo 2000 editor, and an underground comic artist, and we all liked it. It flopped primarily because of tensions between Pixar and Disney execs which affected production & post-prod, and marketing. Expensive spats are expensive etc.

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