Tiny Young Galaxies Full of Stars Discovered

2008-05-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
While these http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/universe/galaxies-article.htmlgalaxies are small enough to fit within the central hub of our own Milky Way, they each contain as many stars as larger, more mature galaxies.

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

2008-05-02 Thread Charlie Bell
On 02/05/2008, at 4:21 AM, Dan M wrote: Why do you think mainstream science is wrong on global warming? Why do you think people will willingly die before using nuclear power? Just out of interest - what about the environmental costs of getting and refining uranium ore? It's not like the

Re: Global Warming

2008-05-02 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Kevin B. O'Brien blasphemed: Or does IAAMOAC mean that civilized behavior includes throwing other people under the wheels in order to save themselves? I don't recognize the acronym you used, WHAT??? You herectic

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew Crystall
The worst-case estimates I've seen put the carbon produced at arround 4% of coal, Charlie. And true, the deposits are not in the best areas..but neither are the oil reserves, for different reasons. I'd rather depend on Canada and Australia than the OPEC countries. AndrewC On 2 May 2008 at

Population control

2008-05-02 Thread jon louis mann
I was talking in terms of restricting reproduction, not practicing euthanasia. If we leave it to the Four Horsemen, I am certain the worst of it will fall on those populations that are poor, and that will hardly look any better. It will take more than just population control, I suspect, but

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

2008-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - From: Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 22:27:45 +1000 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3 On 02/05/2008, at 4:21 AM, Dan M wrote: Why do you think mainstream science is wrong on global warming? Why

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

2008-05-02 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 May 2008, at 02:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, I have a buddy working on a uraninium minining detector project in the US. The market for uranium has come out of the doldrums of the last 20+ years, so folks are actually looking now. Last year, the US, for example, used about

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

2008-05-02 Thread Charlie Bell
On 03/05/2008, at 11:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that the newly discovered, offline, Australian reserve is in a national park. Yes, and in indigenous land. But it's not that that I mean. National Parks aren't inherently more sensitive, they're just areas reserved for

Just one complaint about Forbidden Kingdom

2008-05-02 Thread Julia Thompson
The moon. The frakkin' moon. By what they said in dialogue at one point, I figured it was waning. Then when we saw it on the screen, it was waxing. Do they need to hire someone who understands the phases of the moon there? Julia ___

Re: An interesting response

2008-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charlie Bell wrote on April 16th: Re: An interesting response On 17/04/2008, at 12:26 PM, Dan M wrote: Well, Concord was a political animal from the very beginning wasn't it? It was a tax subsidized showcase for Britain and France from the start. IIRC, it never really was a profit center.

Re: An interesting response

2008-05-02 Thread Charlie Bell
On 03/05/2008, at 1:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to think the subsidies were aimed towards Concorde's final fate. They weren't, they were aimed at getting the time of long-haul flights down. Even today, it takes a day to get from London to Sydney. Concorde was supposed to