Rick Baudé Wrote:
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[...] I thought
> California was supposed to have a gigantic
> earthquake and go sailing off into the pacific.
> Whatever happened to that?
Or sink.
Back when I was in 6th grade (making this, what? 1969, or thenabouts), there was even a specific day on which California was supposed to sink.
Many pare
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Thanks! I'd never heard of atmospheric rivers before this.
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> What I don't get is why they expect to find
> Nefertiti in Tut's tomb. I mean why her?
Name Brand Recognition.
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Mike Brass Wrote:
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> Thanks :-)
> Hoping someone reading these posts wants to take
> one of my courses!
I want to take 'em...but my budget forbids.
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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I know that if I put a leash
> on Tarquin, he immediately breaks.
When I tried to leash-train my Merlin-cat, he would immediately flop down like a dead thing. We would joke about "taking Merlin out for a drag", because there would be no taking him for a walk.
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Geotio Wrote:
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> Who would seriously suggest that the use of
> purifying ,as in any of the above ,was an example
> , WOW Racist language . ?
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I would seriously suggest that the use of 'purifying', where we are talking about inherited characteristics in a category of humans that are/have-historically-freq
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I think that we are simply doomed to talk past each other.
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Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> But why would Mr./Ms. Public need to know what
> scientists are talking about to each other?
I'd say that it'd be desirable for the Public Family to have a much greater awareness of science-related subjects, in general---if only to mitigate their reliance on such things as "scientists&quo
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Geotio Wrote:
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> cicely Wrote:
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> > Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > > Purifying.
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> > > Wow. Racist much?
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> &
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> 2016 claims another of the good ones.
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> RIP Bernard.
And it just had to add to its score quick, before the year ends.
2016 has blown serious chunks. I wonder if we can get a mulligan....
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Quote:We find that the bulk of purifying selection
> against Neanderthal ancestry is best understood as
> acting on many weakly deleterious alleles.
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> Purifying.
>
> Wow. Racist much?
That was what kinda jumped out at me, as well.
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Jammer Wrote:
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> <LA Builder> "What if you built below sea
> level on a planet where the ocean has been rising
> for 15,000 years & the rise is accelerating a
> LOT?"
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"Then may Your Insurance Company have mercy on your soul."
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Repent! The end is nigh!
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>
> People have been screeching this for as long as
> we've had ears to hear it. Remember Y2K panic?
Vividly!
I also remember the remainders table at Hastings, shortly thereafter---heaped high with Y2K-related books. I wonder...how many of them actually sold,
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Because Scientology, Inc. will sue anyone at the drop of a hat?
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