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First off, it's true that the History Channel is not the world's best expert on things scientific. For example, the lady who is acting as moderator says at one point that "in ten billion years, the Earth will die" due to the Sun's moving off the Main Sequence and becoming a red giant that engulfs Mercury, Venus, Earth, and, perhaps, Mars. ( Read more... )

Is our propensity for social media part of our design - so humans are stepping stones to the creation of a global brain...

. . . Could it be that, in some sense, the point of evolution - both the biological evolution that created an intelligent species and the technological evolution that a sufficiently intelligent species is bound to unleash - ( Read more... )

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Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth
Credit: Matt Harding & Melissa Nixon"What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. Above, Matt Harding traveled ( Read more... )

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% wombat-sochoI'm not sure if this is a serious argumentative ploy or just a way of dicking away the time. Anybody want ( Read more... )

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Scenario: At some unknown point in the past, probably near the end of the Paleolithic, around 12,000-15,000 years ago, but possibly later, and possibly much, much earlier, say, a few million years ago, before the hominids separated from the other great apes, we were visited by somebody. Extraterrestrials ( Read more... )