Guard Dog Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Since reading a book about the New Horizons mission to Pluto I have found everything about the little guy of our solar system just fascinating. But this especially: How can a planet with so little gravity and only the most tenuous of atmospheres have enough gas density in that atmosphere to actually move the methane and nitrogen ice on it's surface enough to form dunes? I found this write up fascinating: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pluto-has-dunes-but-theyre-not-made-of-sand/ 4 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Miss America pageants are dropping the swim suit competition: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/miss-america-scrapping-swimsuit-competition-longer-judge-based/story?id=55638426 This first thing i thought when I read this was "Miss America pageants are still going on?" "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjjames Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Miss America pageants are dropping the swim suit competition: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/miss-america-scrapping-swimsuit-competition-longer-judge-based/story?id=55638426 This first thing i thought when I read this was "Miss America pageants are still going on?" MY first thought when I saw that they were scrapping swimsuits 'does that mean they're going to be naked?' LOL XD Terrible joke of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritino Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Miss America pageants are dropping the swim suit competition: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/miss-america-scrapping-swimsuit-competition-longer-judge-based/story?id=55638426 This first thing i thought when I read this was "Miss America pageants are still going on?" Yeah, who cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 I think 'who cares' is precisely the reasoning at this point; according to them, people who still tune in (and I think ratings have been down for years) are primarily tuning in for the talent portion, not the swimsuit and evening wear competitions. So they're maximizing the reality show like aspects of the program (personality and talent) and scrapping the rest to try and reinvent the program for a modern audience (and scrapping the Pageant name, its now the Miss America Competition). 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 ...and be able to show the world who you are as a person from the inside of your soul. Baahahahahahaha… I hope everyone gets a participation trophy too. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Just as an aside, the whole pageant circuit is also a scholarship program for women. My wife was able to cover a couple semesters of school by participating in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 whoa https://imgur.com/ZQnobLq steamed hams, but the ham is an egg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritino Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Found a nice website to go to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Old article https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/moscows-metro-dogs Rather than chasing the dogs away, metro workers fed them. Riders, too, were kind: if a tired dog fell asleep in the middle of a marble station, people walked around the animal to avoid waking him. The dogs have learned to recognize stations from the announcers’ voices—though Neuronov added that he doubts the oft-repeated assertion that, like humans, the commuting dogs occasionally fall asleep and miss their stops. “There are three models of metro dogs,” he explained: dogs who live in the subway but do not travel, dogs who use the subway to travel short distances instead of walking, and entrepreneurial dogs who spend the day riding back and forth, busking. This last type of dog takes long trips, working the crowd for treats and emotional contact. (On trains, dogs “seeking tenderness” are particularly inclined to approach women over forty who are carrying large shopping bags.) And, according to the results of a study Neuronov conducted of the Red Line, some dogs hop on the train for purely recreational reasons. “Like in human society,” he said, “there are dogs who are inclined to see new places.” 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Scientific American - Judge orders EPA to produce science behind Pruitts warming claims 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skazz Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Old article https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/moscows-metro-dogs Rather than chasing the dogs away, metro workers fed them. Riders, too, were kind: if a tired dog fell asleep in the middle of a marble station, people walked around the animal to avoid waking him. The dogs have learned to recognize stations from the announcers’ voices—though Neuronov added that he doubts the oft-repeated assertion that, like humans, the commuting dogs occasionally fall asleep and miss their stops. “There are three models of metro dogs,” he explained: dogs who live in the subway but do not travel, dogs who use the subway to travel short distances instead of walking, and entrepreneurial dogs who spend the day riding back and forth, busking. This last type of dog takes long trips, working the crowd for treats and emotional contact. (On trains, dogs “seeking tenderness” are particularly inclined to approach women over forty who are carrying large shopping bags.) And, according to the results of a study Neuronov conducted of the Red Line, some dogs hop on the train for purely recreational reasons. “Like in human society,” he said, “there are dogs who are inclined to see new places.” I approve of traveling dogs. Or, well, dogs in general. Dogs are awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritino Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Old article https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/moscows-metro-dogs Rather than chasing the dogs away, metro workers fed them. Riders, too, were kind: if a tired dog fell asleep in the middle of a marble station, people walked around the animal to avoid waking him. The dogs have learned to recognize stations from the announcers’ voices—though Neuronov added that he doubts the oft-repeated assertion that, like humans, the commuting dogs occasionally fall asleep and miss their stops. “There are three models of metro dogs,” he explained: dogs who live in the subway but do not travel, dogs who use the subway to travel short distances instead of walking, and entrepreneurial dogs who spend the day riding back and forth, busking. This last type of dog takes long trips, working the crowd for treats and emotional contact. (On trains, dogs “seeking tenderness” are particularly inclined to approach women over forty who are carrying large shopping bags.) And, according to the results of a study Neuronov conducted of the Red Line, some dogs hop on the train for purely recreational reasons. “Like in human society,” he said, “there are dogs who are inclined to see new places.” I approve of traveling dogs. Or, well, dogs in general. Dogs are awesome. I'm more of a cat person myself, but I've warmed up to dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritino Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia Not surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia I was telling my folks I thought this was the case, and jokingly demonstrated casually talking about needing some product that I didn't really need. Sure enough google's ad's started recommending me the very thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 I just said aloud (with my phone in earshot) "I want to be a multimillionaire". I hope papa Google hooks me up. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 All that will get you is a bunch of links to FAKE NEWS 'get rich quick schemes'. LMAO 1 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 All that will get you is a bunch of links to FAKE NEWS 'get rich quick schemes'. LMAO Hurry up and watch this video before it gets banned by the rich. 3 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritino Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia I was telling my folks I thought this was the case, and jokingly demonstrated casually talking about needing some product that I didn't really need. Sure enough google's ad's started recommending me the very thing. lol I don't doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 I'm safe. :3 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Linked for purely humorous purposes http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/06/08/jodie-foster-much-more-comfortable-having-robots-own-gun-than-humans/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9l9wxGFl4k "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 I've read through part of this and still can't figure out if it's a hoax or not. It's hardly unheard to to write a completely bogus study that "sounds right" and appeals to certain biases just to see if it could get published. It is the exact thing you'd expect, pseudo-intellectual junk science that passes for legitimate studies. It's long but the gist of it is a study of the "Rape culture" and "homosexual" activities of dogs in dog parks and human reactions to them. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1475346?journalCode=cgpc20& The thing that makes me thing this is a hoax is it essentially assigns human motivations and desires to explain the activity of dogs. Anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes in the company of a dog knows that does not work. Hey, the are sweet, lovable, smart (in their way) but they are not humans. They can't learn to think like humans. But humans CAN learn to understand them. Of course the whole thing is not really about the dogs as it is about the human reaction to them. Which presumes dog owners don't really understand their furry friends. And for the most part I don't think that's true at all. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjjames Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 It certainly sounds completely unscientific as it's trying to apply 'black feminist categories' to the dogs and whether they feel oppressed. It may be interesting as far as studying animal behavior goes, but they're doing it wrong by applying human behavior to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 American toddlers are eating more sugar than the maximum amount recommended for adults Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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