if religion got out of the business of politics and morality-legislation (while being tax-free) i would be more on board with this... but the religious influence politics and make policies based on their religion that affect us all - as a non-believer, i don't tolerate that.

Metallicity is still an issue. The first planets had less of the larger elements available due to the lack of supernovae to seed such materials. Lack of such materials makes complex life less likely, as it limits the chemical reactions available to produce a living system. In turn this prolongs significantly the time…

"System of planets" is singular, not plural.

"Imagined" based on when heavy elements began to form in the universe, most likely.

But do they want to meet us? The jury's still out on our species' asshole status.

No it wouldn't.

As an atheist, I'd like to snark on this but..Christina Hendricks. Yeah.

Christina Hendricks. Christina Hendricks proves the existence of God. Next question.

If Monty Python wrote this today, it would just be called "The Internet."

All of this will be eclipsed when Marvel release "Marvel Zombies" in a surprise move next Halloween...

On the television front there's also Agent Carter and Marvel's Daredevil and Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones. These three also produce risks and and possible rewards for Marvel.

Watergate was much more than "stupid." It was just a small bit of Nixon's shady dealings, not a one-off event. I have no idea what you mean by "good...leader," but Nixon did a great deal of damage to this nation, and his legacy (such as the "Southern Strategy" and "Silent Majority") plagues us to this day.

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This is why I love the Americans. No overly costly blockades, no logistical nightmares, no over extended period of conducting a mission. Two pushes of a button and puff go 230.000 civilians/combatants/bystanders in mere seconds, omitting here the countless lives lost later on by the latter effects of the initial act.…

"Prussian militarism seemed to us insufferable; we thought the invasion of Belgium a crime; German atrocities horrified us, and also the idea of German submarines exploding ships full of peaceful people without warning. But then we began to hear about ...Allied armies invaded and seized a part of neutral Greece, and a…

Christ's sake, we get it already; the British Empire was a Bad Thing and we all ought to be terribly ashamed.

Oh brother! Where the HECK in that intro did it say ANYTHING about it being the Poor who were at fault?

Thank you for writing this article on why undereducated, underachieving individuals should outpace the intelligent, hardworking, educated, wealthy people. I now understand why these rich people should have to subsidize the living of everyone else at their expense, it's only fair. I now understand that I was merely…

Even if the population of intelligent people was greater it wouldn't mean that the world would be a better place. An intelligent person isn't more inclined to be altruistic. There are plenty of intelligent people who are petty and biased little turds out to get what they want at the expense of others.

Really, Eugenics is where you go? Troll much?