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What do you vote if you deny the settled science for when life on earth began again???

I'm a paleo-geologist, and seriously we are still guessing on that one. the best scientists are the ones who tell the best stories, LOL.

That's what I love about science. People smart enough to admit that we don't live in a world of absolutes. Even the most staunch scientist can believe 100% that his theory on something is correct. However, if you produce enough evidence to the contrary he will admit his theory was wrong eventually.

I watched a documentary recently about how they sent satellites up to detect nuclear explosions. Then started getting these random flashes out in space of enormous radioactivity similar to one. So the race was on to discover the cause of this newly discovered phenomenon.

People spent years trying to get funding to launch better equipment, and cooperating with different countries to share information. Different sides formed different opinions and some devoted their lives work just to figuring out the answer to one question.

When finally enough information was available for one theory to disprove another. They didn't try and deny the facts presented before them. Even if they'd spent their lives trying to prove something and were wrong. They were just happy the question was answered, because even if what you thought was right was wrong, gaining knowledge previously unknown was worth the effort.

Scientists tell the best stories, because as we learn more about the world around us. Their stories adapt so that an intelligent audience doesn't have to take it on faith that what doesn't sound possible is true.

Excellent points, thanks for taking the time to put them down in print.

My pleasure... I love writing :)

It saddens me that people now have access to all the information in the known universe in their pocket.... then get peeved if you type something at them longer than a tweet lol.

People think I'm eccentric for refusing to have a cell phone. I'm online all the time, even if I'm working on writing something I still take a lot of little breaks for stuff like this. If I take my kids to the playground down at the lake, or we go grab something to eat, no you can't reach me.
Leave me a message.... I promise I'll get back to you before the ice caps melt, leaving the zombie polar bears no choice besides making the Russian hackers evacuate to North Korea. Unless of course they make them hack a rocket that detonates in our upper atmosphere destroying all our electronics. If that happens I'm sure we will run into each other when China decides to call in our debt. Since we will all end up making Nike's and iPhones. In factories that have nets under all the windows in case we try to kill ourselves....

That was actually on my answering machine for a while lol....

I miss real conversations, just sitting around with a group of friends. At a bonfire or bbq... I'd settle for the back parking lot behind the old dairy queen next to that old cemetery we were scared of as kids. It wasn't the place that mattered it was the people. One persons story would make another think of a similar experience, back and forth it would go without interruption besides the breaks for laughter and shit talking.

Now people get together and stare at their phones, nobody has a story to tell about something they experienced because they weren't paying attention and missed it.

But dude... did you see the video of that girl... you know... the famous one... that can't form complete sentences... yeah... she's dumb... Hold on a sec.. I just got a notification and have to click like on a picture... by somebody I never spend time with... of their breakfast burrito,,

I'd rather sit here for a minute and write this to somebody I don't know but think has a cool job... than have a device in my hand that was admittedly designed to buzz and ding often enough to literally keep my attention focused on it all the time.

I love stories....
the best ones come from real life experiences....
which are impossible to have...
if you are busy arguing over the new hot topic...
with 280 characters or less...

Agreed. I've seen families sit down for dinner in a restaurant and not say a word to each other while they mess with their phones. I heard an ad that autism is up 600% in the last 10 years- aligns with when I started seeing parents hand phones to infants to keep them quiet. Not implying, but?? I might be a little twisted, but as the illegals doing a fine job at fast food places fled the country after Trump was elected, there are lot's of kids getting their chance at a first job, they have a hard time engaging with customers, and I've seen more than one who can't take a hamburger order without looking at their smart phone at least once in the process. And if you really want to get scared, glance at the cars beside you as you slow down to a stop for a traffic jam, I've seen probably 30 accidents when they are pulling out their phones to text instead of watching what's going on.
Yup, bonfires, laughing, understanding each other. Hope they aren't lost arts.
One last bit of drivel, I had a friend that bought one of the first answering machines and played that Blue Oyster Cult song in the background and his message said, Don't fear the beeper, leave a message after the tone.

I don't think most people realize it. I didn't until I stopped having one in my hand all the time myself. It's an addiction, the people that make them brag about how they design them with that intention. Wasn't it back in the 90's that they broke the processing speed threshold to pump information at us fast enough that we never want to look away? Obviously things have progressed a little further since then lol.

I go to my doctors office. Every single person in there regardless of age is on their phone. I sit there in a room full of people that find it strange I have an actual book in my hand. While I'm amazed it's quite enough to read in a crowded room. due to them being on their phones and not really at the place they are..

I get in to see the doctor, or resident I guess, it's some program for new doctors but it's cheap so who cares right lol. I'm telling him what I think is going on with me, only to have him keep pulling his phone out and literally looking things up in front of me online about my issue! I can do that... give me the prescription pad and leave me alone lol. Two of the three prescriptions I take I researched myself and recommended to my doctor as something we might give a shot. I took myself off opiates after a bad neck injury and found out how to handle my chronic pain without them on my own. I overdid it a couple months ago and really messed myself up. It's happened before I knew the pain would return to a manageable state again in a few days. Asked my doctor for a few days worth of narcotics which is how I believe they are meant to be used. Only for the worst of days, not everyday because you'll go into withdrawal without them. He tells me he is concerned that I asked for them, like I'm some junkie not a guys with a bunch of metal screws holding his neck together.

I told him about the drugs I thought might help enough so that I wouldn't need opiates all the time and was right, Shouldn't that tell him the only thing he should be concerned about if I ask for them is the amount of pain I have to be in to do so...?

Such is life, a constant comedic tragedy, at least I got a good story out of it...;)

I feel like your body double- same thing in the doctor's office, same concept on pain. In the late 80's I blew out both shoulders in an accident. 2 1/2 years of physical therapy and 5 surgeries later I was released from comp and did physical therapy on my own for another 2 years before I got back to normal. I had a Nam vet buddy, stepped on a mine, who was hooked on percocet, when he had his scrip he was all peaches and cream, but when he ran out and had to go to the doc to get a refill, you didn't know him. When I blew out my shoulders I knew I didn't want to go down that path, so I only took anti inflammatory meds in general and pain killers only after surgery ( it was essential) I wanted to know what I was feeling.
Little known intent of Obamacare was to eliminate solo medical practices. The logic being to drive all doctors into a group so Medicare/Medicade payments were made to one group instead of multiple doctors. The result is my doc of 20 years had to quit his solo practice, along with 6 other docs in our small community. They were replaced by a group of new grads in a group who picked up 3500 patients. It took six months before I got to do the meet and greet specified in Obamacare with my new doc, three days later I was in the hospital with pnuemonia, three weeks later I nearly died from a rare form of adult onset asthma. He started with his phone, then became a real doc fast. It's turned out rather well, a year ago I didn't know if I could get back from my mailbox if I walked out to it, then I got started on a once a month injection of a new biologic called Nucala and I have almost no asthma symptoms. I still have asthma, still take a boatload of medication, but I'm baaaaack. Great conversation. Thank you .

Indeed it is always a pleasure to come across another like minded individual. Intelligence has a way of bridging gaps like nothing else in all of creation. Even after battling the Nazi's, whom the world uses even now as an example for evil. The most intelligent Nazi's, scientist and engineers, inventors of all sorts of things. Got captured by countries who didn't know what else to do with them but have them converse with their countries most intelligent people.

So they talked for a while...

At the end of which it was decided that yes, they had done some horrid, irreconcilable things that nobody should be forgiven for. Only the fact remained that the knowledge they gained from doing those things. Could be turned into something the world would suffer from not obtaining in the long run. They basically had become intelligent enough, that no matter what they did. Killing them was still the wrong move to make. If you thought about it long enough, without letting emotions cloud your judgement.

I don't think I'm near smart enough not to have shot those bastards in the face the second I saw them. Yet if I took the time to think about it I know the knowledge would be a lot more valuable to have than satisfaction.

It all boils down to whether you choose to argue over something or debate it. That's why they teach students of debate to argue both sides of a topic. The second emotions become involved it turns into an argument.

The problem has always been the same, only the intelligent people know the difference. While the emotional ones are too busy arguing to care..

Glad you are doing better than you were, we all try to roll that rock up a hill everyday. It's always nice to hear about somebody getting to watch it roll down the other side once in a while...

I turned some of your words of wisdom into a meme, not sure when I'll get to submit it because I'm never sure if I'll have internet where I go from day to day. Here's the link imgflip.com/i/2ix440

Nice of you :) Reading that again I realize argue should probably be replaced with fight or fighting about. You argue a point in a debate, it still implies emotion, you did after all understand what I meant by it. I think that last statement would be a stronger finishing point if it went like. only the intelligent people know the difference, while the emotional ones are too busy fighting to care.

I am after all my own hardest critic lol. But then if you always think of things as being in the form of a rough draft, you aren't afraid of going back to improve upon the original idea ;)

Oops, I submitted it before you added your thoughts, here's the link if you would like to append it in the comments
imgflip.com/i/2ix440