Search results

Yes, that pesky speed limit (the speed of light) does get in the way of interstellar travel. 😏 Colonization might still be possible with known or reasonably hypothesized future technology, though. Imagine frozen human embryos sent on spacecraft equipped with artificial wombs and A.I. spacecraft...

There is also a temporal aspect to this. The Earth had a long period of time with no life at all. Then an even longer period with only single celled life. A visitor would have to be incredibly fortunate to observe the Earth during the cosmic millisecond that coinsided with an industrial...

I think it has a lot of potential. I have been taking oral semaglutide (rybelsus) for type 2 diabetes the last two years, and as a side effect I have lost over 50 pounds. This is something I was never been able accomplish in any other way. My blood pressure has lowered, along with my weight...

This old girl, adopted from the local animal shelter.

Well done!

An impressive total indeed. I thought I was doing good with my paultry 19 �� The only one on that list that I would question being deserving of National Park status is the St. Louis Arch. Impressive, yes, but not a natural feature.

I agree. As a child in the 70’s I remember my parents giving a Christmas gift (tip) to the mail delivery person.

After you threw up in the family car, I’ll bet your mom has never let you have one since!!!

The rabbit died. With modern laboratory technology, the rabbit doesn’t die, it doesn’t even exist.

I disagree with this, at least as a blanket statement. Most people’s jobs (and the workers themselves) aren’t so all-important that it requires their entire waking existence. For most jobs (with some exceptions such as your aerospace industry) “satisfactory” work does not require absolute and...

It looks amazing, but I gotta agree with Audrey. I am close to my expiration date, and I don’t want it to be reached in the Arizona desert.

Sounds like Fagin from Oliver Twist.

Every time you visit Facebook you are barraged by age-ist clickbait posts. Kind of surprising for such a pc company. I just laugh at the hypocrisy and move along.

That is phenomenal. That is equivalent to the cost of A LOT of trips to Disney World. Good job Mom and Dad.

Lol, as long as we are nerding out on the boring topic of dental crowns, there are intermediate options. Crowns can be made with porcelain facings but with gold margins and grinding surfaces. More suitable for molars than front teeth, but you capture some of the advantages of each.

There are advantages to gold. Gold has the same wear coefficient as enamel, so they are less abrasive to opposing teeth than porcelain (at least if the bite has to be adjusted by grinding off any of the porcelain glaze). Gold is malleable and can be drawn with various rotary discs, minimizing...

+1 Of course then the critics would say they had “over saved” and wasted precious years of life working. Sometimes you can’t win. 😏

It wasn’t my intention to besmirch an entire generation. Then, as today, most people avoided the worst of the excesses of the era’s drug culture. I was comparing the rise in the use of illegal drugs to previous generations, not subsequent ones. Some chemically created drugs like LSD and...

It is not surprising that as the flower child generation advances into old age, the “elderly” exhibit more drug use (with all its effects) than in previous generations. I also think that heavy substance use combined with life on the streets can make a middle aged individual look far older than...

Everyone is different, but for me it is now less about “what airline” and more about “what strategy”. Instead of playing games with loyalty programs, I think that I will just fly in the cheapest seat on any airline (excluding the Spirit Airlines of the world). Reading between the lines, I...

The new “gentler kinder” back peddling is so minor as to make absolutely no difference. With 850,000 lifetime miles and seven consecutive years of Platinum Medallion status, I still have zero chance of renewing Platinum or even Gold. It is time for me to move on.

Lol, more like a (token) compensation.

I have been Platinum Elite for the last six years, and this will be my last year. Requiring $18,000 spent on air tickets per year simply puts it out of my reach.

That was a very thoughtful response. I am a birder in Florida, and I share your sadness over the development of coastal areas. A few thoughts… Here in Florida, there is not a single county that is immune to possible devastation from hurricanes. The idea of a “buyout” in order to depopulate...

Nope.