the only real proper analogy here is that if there is a god, he gave us a book with invisible ink and is blaming us for not being able to read it... :P

is she a huuuuuuuuuuge world of darkness fangirl that made good?

i remember the old english dub version where the sergeant guy used to comically just go "....GRRRRRRR" every other word. loved that. if i was old enough, that would have been a great drinking game.

definitionally speaking, it wouldn't be difficult for a supreme being to fool or confound his creation.

awww booo. i liked robin curtis. i didn't remember kirstie alley's take when i saw the robin curtis movies and so letting curtis' interpretation stand on its own, it was fine.

hey man,

exactly... if they were talking about something - ANYTHING else - something that i've never heard of even, that would be reason for concern maybe....

that's only adolescent bacteria. bacteria who are adult usually get better but in two to four weeks.

imo yes. he has more rationalizations but the reader is still ahead of him. from start to finish he was a pretty infuriating guy.

i'm still amazed william gibson cited a "super conducting quantum interference detector" as far back as neuromancer and then have it show up in movies like "strange days" but also is still relevant in research.

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actually, then what it comes down to is how you peg the assertion of "possibility".

"It is not possible to say that God does not exist in any possible world. No matter how slim the chance is, God might exist."

yeah but that's ANY cepheid. there's nothing special about hubble's except that's the one we focused on - so in that sense, the title of this article is as anthro-centric as is the assertion that our sun is the most important.

wtf, the title of this article could not be more wrong. it's not the UBIQUITY of function words. it's the "mirroring" of their usage. and there is no strong indication of a causal relationship.

you KNOW indiana jones or james bond is not going to die. but in raiders, there was a palpable sense of danger that is completely lost by the time you get to last crusade.

....erection lasts for longer than four hours.

we should make end of the world prophecy completely legal (as it is) but attach the death penalty upon its failure to manifest.

320x240 was a pretty common capture format when video capture first started getting legs on computers (before firewire).