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I can't imagine what life is like when you're encumbered by that. How did it feel to be in that fight of "good vs evil", and how does it feel to no longer have to fight it? What has changed?

That's not the point. Coming up with the idea in the first place when there is absolutely zero evidence of it is the irrational part. At least Earth is almost flat locally, but we don't almost have lizard people.

The chance for both is zero; which means that neither is more likely than the other. You can believe the Earth is flat if you lack the means and the inclination to observe the evidence to the contrary (that is a low bar since Egyptians and Greeks managed this more than 2 millenia ago), which...

Here's the final page of the interview, from the Internet Archive. Note the first question and answer in the final column.

I need to correct myself here. Close Encounters was released November 9th, 1977, in the US, but the international release was mid-March 1978. Cinema Papers is published in Melbourne, and the interview being in the April-June issue matches the Australian release on March 16th. Still, the fact...

The fact that Spielberg didn't talk about the letter until a year after the film had been released (as PS writes in post #1) makes this unlikely. Publicity for a movie is done in the run-up to its release; publicizing the movie when it is no longer in theaters has no benefit for Spielberg. From...

Yeah, but that'd be bunk.

The thing is that you don't have that level of detail for 72000 people, and can't easily produce it. If you're looking for people with flu symptoms in flu season, you're going to find thousands of people with the flu, and even more with a more benign infection. You'll need to find a smaller...

I disagree with the premise, and I disagree with the "taint" logic. As an aside: I know that in many Western countries, giving foreign investigators access to the health records of 72,000 citizens would be a privacy problem, legally.

I learned something today. Cecotropes, also caecal pellets, or night fecs, are the product of the cecum, a part of the digestive system in mammals of the order lagomorpha, which includes two families: Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas). Cecotropes are passed through the...

Judaism does not see your body as meat, because we human beings are considered to be sufficiently unlike animals not to be in that category. This author says that human meat is parve, like fish. I have no idea why you are making things up, deirdre.

But it also means that he's very familiar with the work the lab is usually doing, what its capabilities are, and how the virus could have escaped from there if it did. If you're going to send someone to investigate, you're going to want to send someone who knows their way around, right...

It's not a "tabloid slur"; to my knowledge, Scientific American used it first (in 2020) on March 11th: Shi, a virologist who is often called China’s “bat woman” by her colleagues because of her virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves over the past 16 years, walked out of the conference she was...

I was thinking about "smoke" machines that heat up a fluid to turn it into steam, and then blow it out where it turns into fog.

And they, too, can be stopped by snow.

A grand jury chose not to indict two Buffalo, New York, police officers who pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground last June, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn announced Thursday. Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe each faced a felony second-degree assault charge in Martin Gugino's...

Using Mick's picture and JMartJr's doorknob and some other lines I spotted:

I'm sure a little safety margin for snow on the runway won't hurt, either. :-) I'm sure that every train traveler knows that time spent while moving can be productive. I expect that applies more to the comforts of a presidential jet than it does to the cramped noisy interior of a helicopter.

Evidence for the pictures being fake: -- fake Oval offices exist But: -- Biden-less fake Oval Office used in meme actually located in German TV studio -- Oval office replicas have existed around the country for years, they are not evidence of a conspiracy Evidence for the Biden pictures being...