The US and Europe got to do it during their industrialization...why not the Chinese? I kid, but seriously, a man will pollute the lake behind his house in order to feed his kids 9/10 times. Environmentalism is a luxury.

I have no doubts that pollution in China is terrible and getting worse by the day, but I do take issue with the photos shown above.

Basically impossible. But if it happened it would go much like the conversation with God about the babelfish.

More than that, I want to hear Pat and the Pope explain to aliens how God's Son visited our planet, and how great a guy he was.

The odds of winning the lottery are astronimical as well...yet someone always manages to win...

Just like the U.S. "chose" not to consume alcohol any longer during prohibition? People supported the laws at first, but eventually they realized they were punishing themselves for the benefit of a small minority.

You are contradicting yourself. You think it should be decriminalized (not legalized?), but also you hope that someday the masses punish themeselves for the benefit of the minority? I don't think that's where society is heading; I think we are heading towards increased personal responsibility.

I don't think this means they stuck her in a xerox machine...

MJ is an extraordinary compound. There is truly nothing else like it on earth.

So, do you think we should punish the masses to protect a minority? We tried that with alcohol and look how that turned out.

This is what has been bugging me: the "edge" of the universe.

Are you trolling? I think you're trolling.

Again, I think I'm starting to get it. Really, it goes back to the very topic of the post. A sub-set of infinity is still infinity. The universe can be infinitely large and expanding, just as the infinite number of fractions between 0 and 1 is equal to the infinite numbers you can count.

Okay, this helps a little, but it's still pretty difficult to conceive. I try to imagine the two most separated stars in the universe, which must be actually measurable (in theory). What is beyond these stars? Nothing? An infinite nothing? We're starting to understand that there's much more to "space" than we think.…

I thought that was Buzz Lightyear....?

I hope this story was for my benefit (it is)...I mentioned I've been studying infinity recently in the Symbol for Science story yesterday.

...I like that theory, but unfortunately in my brief research I've found that it's been disproven (not that it couldn't come into favor again down the road). The universe has been proven to be expanding only, and not only that...it's doing so at an accelerating rate. This accelerating rate is what leads to more…

What about a picture of a babelfish...doesn't that represent proof of the non-existence of God?

You think I'm impressed just because some ant learned the code for DK mode?!

But, if that's the case...that means there's an infinity of nothing beyond our universe. If that's the case then the finiteness of the Universe is completely outweighed by the infiniteness of nothing. Essentially...the universe would comprise 1/∞ of everything, which could be said to be nothing at all. This is when my…