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| Comments on Saturday 14 January 2006: |
| Thought for the day - science is rubbish. It's had years and years peering at diseases, and the best it can do for most of them is vaccines - made of other diseases that nature made. Science can't even make its own vaccines, let alone cures for things. And that's just the external-influence diseases, the sort that go into you and start messing about - it's even more useless when it comes to the sorts of issues that start with your internals messing up, like cancers, allergies, diabetes, even appendicitis. "What's that, there's something wrong with your appendix? We can't fix that, but we can hack it out of you, will that do?" No it won't, science, that's crap, come up with something better. And it's not just at the microscopic level - nobody wants ants, cockroaches, termites and the like in their buildings, but can science give us something that will keep them out? Not on any sort of permanent self-maintaining basis it can't. Just horrible poisons and things that'll make your pets explode nearly as much as it will the bugs. Come on, science, *I* can kill these creatures, can't you give me a robot that does it for me? But of course you can't, you can barely make a robot to clean up dust, and similar crud that doesn't breed or try to move out of the way. You suck, science. Nature can make anteaters, nature can make diseases that quell other diseases, nature can make immune systems that have a damn good go at fighting all the diseases at once, and what can you do, science? You can augment nature's immune system temporarily, often at the expense of its long term capabilities. Well done. In unrelated things, 16 Across is bi-weekly short stories that double as crossword clues, Alphabox is Sokoban crossed with crosswords, Sci-fi News is real up-to-the-minute news translated into something that sounds interesting instead, and The Mechanical Contrivium reveals the following interesting trivia about RavenBlacks:
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| Anet |
| All this trivia is absolutely true. I have proven it scientifically. Except the last... Upon seeing that Ravenblacks are full of pomegranate seeds, none have gotten to the counting stage. They have beaten the remains with a large stick and ran screaming from the test area. More research (and better chains) are needed. |