The cat 1 Hurricane was a 'superstorm' because it hit[gasp] New York. Bigger storms hit in the Pacific every year and regularly in the Gulf. A cat 1 hurricane as a 'superstorm' is just so NYC. Even with no sea walls and essentially no preparation, the areas damaged were right on the ocean. Cat 5 Hurricanes have hit…

When I watched Prometius, I felt like 2 movies were being shown in sequencial scenes using the same actors and sets. One movie was a story of 1st contact gone bad with the engineers. The second movie was a camp and sarcastic take on Alien. It probably is not worth it to watch again ,but if you did, you could easily…

Sadly, there is no reality to this. No tech is available as batteries that hold energy enough and recharge in 10 minutes-not 24 hours. And, as many point out, all this electric battery issue is bogus until some other method to create electricity exists. Electricity comes from nuclear and fossil fuels. Till that…

1434 is a continuation of the story and of the last great fleet of classsic China. The book presents that part of the great fleet may have gone on to the Americas and has a lot of evidence that the Chinese had explored both the polar areas of western North America and the Atlantic seacoast of the Americas by the…

And that is why those of us who are not lawyers hire lawyers to help navigate the legal issues we cannot even spell correctly.

Copywrite law is very real. Why don't you have your attorney request a waver from Lucas,Inc for use of his copywrited term in your title?

My profession now has journal articles that have become absurdities of statistical sleight of hand with tables of data and graphs that go all over. I love to read other fields but I wonder if their studies are as silly as many I look at daily in my field-and not being in my field, I am too amateurish to know?

Gavin Menzies.

What the world needs is more of a drug that makes people stupid, lazy, and fat. Like people today couldn't accomplish that triad without chemical help.

Humanity will be fine ,too. I am reading a fascinating book-"1434" about the Chinese explorations in the 1200-1400 time period during the early 1000's warming period in which the Chinese sailed across the unfrozen Arctic to the Americas amongst other places. Even during that period which was much warmer than today,…

I read the article and the 'wall of fire'is on the inside of the event horizon so it would not be the Hawking radiation, which is on the outside. Fire is a mass of plasma -charged particles, but I have no idea from the article if they mean fire in that conventional sense or some other sense. The problem for lay…

Sorry, Krantz, my post was grumpy . I need more coffee. Merry Holiday and I am going to get more coffee and some candy . May you have a great day and a great New Year!

Actually, all people repress the vast majority of their sexual urges all their life-regardless of who or what the urges are for. You may feel a sexual urge toward someone-or something - multiple times a day. You do not act it out. Thus, almost all sexual urge is 'closeted' by everyone. But, don't beat up on Western…

You've actually gotten my point exactly backwards- My point and the sex research is that sexuality is a preference and not binary or trinary or very set at all. Really, before you post a big reply, please read the posts first. We agree and my point is exactly that human sexuality is fluid not very set. Primary hetero…

Marriage as it existed for milennia was doomed not by Gay marriage but by the blurring of the definition of marriage . Once the courts redefined marriage indirectly through Palimony precedents, marriage was doomed. Star Trek was once again prescient that marriage would become a common contract law issue and include…

The problem with messing with viral gene therapies is all those unintended consequences. Here's hoping this experiment was done in Level 4 containment...ha,ha, who am I kidding. I would not be surprised to learn the mice were in an open lab setting.

The Arctic freezes and thaws repeatedly and always has. Wooden sailing ships went close to the North Pole 200 years ago and at other times the ice is so thick that nuclear powered icebreakers had trouble getting shipping out of Swedish ports 2 years ago. Stop worrying -both Al Gore and the 2012 Doomsdayers are equally…

We agree. Have a Happy Week and New Year.

Ok- I respect your philosophy and I agree I will need to do more reading at how the two philosophies interact as I had never come upon that before[except in the genetic determinist concept but I infer you are looking at this in a more sophisticated combo]. Have a great End of Year corp. I appreciate hearing your…

Oh come on Corp- you have said many times you are an Atheist, yet here you are arguing for Determinism. That is so remarkable and such a reversal. Doesn't the irony of that strike you just a little?