When you put up a government website and promise to answer any question that gets enough petition signatures, this is the kind of foolishness that can be expected:
The U.S. government has said it has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet or that an extraterrestrial presence has ever contacted any human being.
Isn't this the kind of thing they say in all those disaster movies to lull the population and prevent a panic?
"There is no chance that this object will collide with the Earth or moon," Yeomans said.
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The Indianapolis Star's Matthew Tully takes a break from politics and lists 10 good things about the Colts' dismal season so far, including:
Here's a case of "experts" overreaching a little:
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.— Scientists at Purdue University and two other schools are developing detailed computer models intended to predict how people behave in the panic-filled hours after local officials issue hurricane evacuation orders.
Sen. Dick Durbin is nominated for the Dim Bulb of the Year award. When Congress was debating the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, he's the one who insisted on an amendment to limit what banks can charge merchants for debit card trnasactions. Critics warned at the time that banks would merely find another way to make up the difference, probably at the expense of consumers. And guess what? Think of it as "the Durbin fee" if you end up being one of the debit card users who has to pay a yearly fee for the privilege:
Ah, how fondly I remember those innocent days when "Women suck at parking" was No. 1 on the "Men are sexist pigs who thoughtlessly spread horrible stereotypes about women" hit parade. But here comes the science:
Of the 170,000 women who failed their driving test in 2010 for mistakes in reversing or failing to use their mirrors, 55,000 failed on parking.
Feel lucky to be alive? You should:
Probability of your existing at all: 1 in 102,685,000
As a comparison, the number of atoms in the body of an average male (80kg, 175 lb) is 1027. The number of atoms making up the earth is about 1050. The number of atoms in the known universe is estimated at 1080.
People like this should be drummed out of the scientif community:
(Reuters) - Scientists around the world said on Friday the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos, but the findings would first have to be independently confirmed.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a brand-new euphemism:
