Secular Café Archive

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It's about time governments and law-courts woke up to the wastefulness of keeping people in the world who don't want to be here and can't contribute anything. I wish they had done it, all along, on humane grounds, but I'll settle for recognition of the ridiculous cost.

What does "regulate" mean? You can't take a religious body to court for telling blatant lies about the age of the world, or the creation of species, or parthenogenesis. Law-courts are just for obtaining money through deception or misrepresentation. Churches can tell all the lies they want,...

Some questions that occur: In what size of populations are they thinking of recreating these species? A couple dozen passenger pigeons, no problem... or at least maybe not a huge problem. In the hundreds of thousands - where are the acorns, hickories, beeches, and chestnuts to feed them? It's the sa...

[quote=""Roo St. Gallus""] Has cost-effective storage of electrical energy made any improvements of late? [/quote] I've heard that it has, and is about to take a leap forward, but I've not been keeping up with technological news lately. Pretty sure I won't live long enough ever t...

It really doesn't matter about the stupid birds - they're going extinct anyway. I only mentioned that as an added advantage of a bladeless wind generator, that's quieter, more efficient and independent; hasn't any of the objectionable attributes of the those monster turbines along the lake-shore. I ...

[quote=""Hermit""]Yes, wind farms have contributed only 5.55% of the electricity generated in the USA in 2016. Had it been 100%, an extrapolation of the figures would result in 4.2 million bird deaths, still behind all other causes listed except for agricultural chemicals and sti...

The wind farm numbers are a bit deceptive, since there are not very many of them in place yet - compared to big stupid skyscrapers with their lights on all night. I question the agricultural chemical stats, as well: a lot of those are being used illegally and not reported, and I'm pretty sure they f...

Just how stupid are these law-enforcement officers?
Just how much abuse from them are the [liberty-loving, rugged individualist, armed to the teeth just in case government becomes oppressive and they need to protect themselves] American people prepared to take?

He's quite right. Had there been a concerted effort to do this in 1970, we might not have the problems we have. But that concerted effort would have had to be made by popular media... which are still using words like "alarmist" and "fear-mongering" when scientists issue yet anoth...

A friend of mine put her mother (81, diabetic, with heart problems, incontinent, forgetful, prone to wander off and set fires - my friend is single and has to work for a living: What were his options?) in an expensive private facility that chewed up the old lady's income from renting her house - whe...

https://www.treehugger.com/wind-technology/new-bladeless-wind-turbine-claimed-be-twice-efficient-conventional-designs.html Doesn't kill birds or keep neighbours awake. https://phys.org/news/2016-08-flexible-material-window-smart.ht Less efficient than the old panels, but you don't have to mount and...

The most remarkable pushback came from Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler, who dismissed the allegations by saying that there was also an age gap between the biblical Joseph and Mary. “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus,” he told The Washington Examin...

Watched it again, probably for the last time unless the only alternative is something with helicopters and machine guns, and I finally figured out what it is:
Friends - in Space.

How many people and in what official position, have to say that the president, in observable and verifiable fact, is : 1. evil 3. a moron (2. fucking status at this time is unknown, though there is physical evidence that he has done it in the past.) before Americans understand it? Did you'll see him...

It doesn't matter what this particular nutter's problem was or with whom. The kind of guns this nutter had, and many, many other Americans have, and all Americans can easily get, has only one purpose, only one function: killing as many as possible as fast as possible. If the current definition of ma...

[quote=""prideandfall""] so here's the thing: star trek was a show with a theme for a very long time, and that theme had to do with the utopian future of the human race, of mankind coming together and becoming better than our base and petty earth-bound animal history. if you map ...

All right, I watched it tonight and it didn't suck too badly.
Some ST echoes.
Still not much in the way of humour.

[quote=""crazyfingers""] Crazyfingers, do you have Babylon 5? I don't. I have heard lots of good stuff about it but never did get up the interest to buy a season of DVDs. You think that I should?[/QUOTE] If you like your sf stories long and complex. I rather missed my familiar al...

Crazyfingers, do you have Babylon 5? We just finished watching the whole series for the third time around (one episode per day). My So thinks it's the best of its kind, but I'm still loyal to the brand and my real home is DS9. I have no use for the juvie prequel movies, but can tolerate Enterprise b...

A review First: As a sci-fi/action drama, Star Trek: Discovery is nearly unparalleled. The story is intense, the writing is engaging, the cinematography is gorgeous, the special effects are top-notch, the cast is convincing and the pacing is brisk. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-trek-discovery-...

It's a bad rip-off of the movie Galaxy Quest, which was a good parody of Star Trek. All this series lacks is the wit, the charm, the empathy for fans, and the excellent cast of Galaxy Quest. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/combined

Thanks, will definitely try it.
The latest Star Trek travesty sure didn't work out.

[quote=""Ozymandias""] There is plenty of much better TV to watch.[/quote] Where? That's a serious question. Not physically up to outdoor winter activities and there isn't much else in the country. I've run through the good Netflix stuff; only more violence on offer now. Besides ...

I loved that book!
Where do i get to watch this series?

Because it's run by the guys who want to run things and skim the cream off the top - just like every other country.
Why would you expect it to be any different?