Yeah, the old herbal space program. Go to Mars, dude!

Dude, it’s the Trump Administration. You don’t need to know stuff to do things anymore.

To those of you who might be wondering “he’s clearly a well-educated physicist, from a prestigious university, how could be hold such ideas?” I present to you Thomas Midgley, the discoverer and flogger of both tetraethyl-lead (i.e. leaded gasoline) AND freon (the ozone killer). When presented with evidence that…

How’d he get you to the altar?

LBJ was a great man.

“In their own country?” Last time I checked, the vast majority of us are children of immigrants who arrived within the last 130 years. At any time, those already here could have and often did decry that WE were ruining THEIR country.

How strong is the magnetic field at that point? Is it tearing the ship apart, jetting an asston of charged particles into your face, or what?

“That decision clearly has had ripple effects into the movies” 

Hell, dogs have been domesticated (or at least entered into a symbiotic relationship with) baboons. They’re awesome that way.

Get a Newfoundland, or an English bulldog, breeds bred for gentleness. (But don’t get a bulldog, they’re far too inbred, and life is miserable for them unless you can do a lot).

Wrong. Prey drive and overall aggression don’t correlate with size. Fear aggression correlates with size. Pit bulls, Dobermans, Rottweilers, and Akitas, for example, are all big dogs, and will bite you just as often as a small dog. The bite data is skewed because people will put their faces next to a small dog,…

When the Great Dane ran you down, what did it do?

They are emotionally unstable and aggressive. A well trained Chow is merely much less likely to attack. But the likelihood is way, way, way higher than with, say, a Newfoundland, which has been bred for 200 years for docility. When Chows have been bred for docility for 30 generations, over other characteristics, then…

Dogs can’t be mean. That’s a human trait. Dogs are dominant or not, have a strong prey drive or not, see themselves as alphas or not. If dog owners understood that dogs are not people, maybe they’d get better at training them.

The belief that your dog biting people is “just fine” is ludicrous.

“I’m pretty sure would *never* bite”

Um, first of all, junk DNA is now believed not to be so much junk, as epigenetic factors (though this is still under study). Second, SNP arrays are generally developed from genes that have already been sequenced. A lot of places (like us) use whole exome rather than whole genome sequencing, one because we want to know…

TL/DR; they’re dangerous lunatics.

If you own a Chow you’d better be a plastic surgeon...

Counterpoint: Old English Sheepdogs are simply more civilized....