fresno cormorant: Daily Kos: This week in science: The far lighter side

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Daily Kos: This week in science: The far lighter side

Giga-brain Stephen Hawking gives the species a millennia to get our shit together and get off the planet, presumably with heavy industry to avoid Easter-islanding the entire planet and all of us:

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking warns human beings won?t survive ?without escaping? from the ?fragile? planet. His gloomy forecast is people will become extinct on Earth within current the millennium.
Speaking at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles the 71-year-old scientist called for further exploration of space to guarantee the future of mankind, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

?We must continue to go into space for humanity. If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way,? Professor Hawking said, adding that ?we won?t survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet.?

A couple of orgs you can check into are the Planetary Society and the Space Frontier Foundation. Both do good work and there is no cost to sign up and receive info.

That being said, after the horrofic week gone by, let's turn our attention to some of the lighter and more hilarious furballs coughed up by denizens among the religious right. All links are 100 percent safely cross-linked through a friendly website .

There are four major reasons from the Bible why I believe the Sun is not a star, and therefore the assumptions made about stars, their creation, their life, their death, their burn rate, the composition ? basically every assumption we make about stars ? are faulty. These faulty assumptions completely throw into doubt the theory of the evolution of the universe and the big bang theory.

U.S. Rep Joe Barton (Texas?Guess) lays climate change low with a single biblical blow:

"I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy," said Barton, chairman emeritus of the energy committee.

"Once our firearms are confiscated, our Bibles are next,? she said. ?Make no mistake about it; Bibles will be illegal in America if we do not stand up and take our country back,? said the Biblical Education and Leadership graduate from Atlanta?s Beaulah Bible College.