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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/13/2004 : 12:26:32
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http://economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3471304 Homo floresiensis Mofo stole the mini-human
I find this disturbing. Hes lucky hes not living in my Totalitarian Scientific Distopia, The Empire of Double Blind Testing!
www.Nationstates.net Neat web based goverment game, Its not very complex, and mostly takes place in forums. Be sure to read the book its based on Jennifer Gevernment, one of my favorites.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2004 : 13:08:56 [Permalink]
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Yes..... Again politics takes precidence over scholorship.
Nothing new about that. Look at how long the Piltdown fraud was locked away in the London Museum of Natural History.
Disgusting!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/13/2004 : 13:24:28 [Permalink]
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| Now filthy, you should know better than to equate this with fraud, yet. Givin' Verlch ammo. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2004 : 13:28:13 [Permalink]
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That's pathetic.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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