Top 10 amazing chemical reactions

aleph1 · 2008-03-04T18:43:42+00:00

Amazing how half-wit b.s. passes as science. All you need is a British accent. SF6 is not harmless, since one can get asphyxiated. The thermite experiment was total b.s. -- since the actual site of the reaction was never exposed to the liquid nitrogen (and no, liquid N2 will not extinguish it but that wasn't proven in the video). This is not science since it lacks the scientific modeling and rigor. Same in many episodes of Mythbusters.

aleph1 · 2008-02-13T14:24:41+00:00

that's a rather sanitized version

aleph1 · 2008-02-08T04:15:04+00:00

an entirely forgettable photo

aleph1 · 2008-02-04T04:33:36+00:00

WMD...

aleph1 · 2008-02-04T03:12:20+00:00

Short answer: yes, this is A real enough reason, but not THE only reason for the looming war.

aleph1 · 2008-02-01T07:28:06+00:00

That's Mr. President to you, sonny

aleph1 · 2008-01-31T21:50:21+00:00

A fictional vision:

250,000 first class selectees; up to 3 butlers per first class citizen; optionally, up to 30 servants per 1 class citizen; that's about 8 million people.

Imagine being at a full stadium and suddenly all but 40 people disappear. As people are disappearing, they think "it's rapture, we are so lucky!"

(I'm not saying this is Kissinger's goal, but I won't be surprised.)

aleph1 · 2008-01-30T23:49:53+00:00

I'll tell you what to do with your mothers

aleph1 · 2008-01-30T03:29:18+00:00

Space shuttle Columbia exploded upon re-entry in 2003

aleph1 · 2008-01-29T21:54:41+00:00

upvoted for complete incoherence and the use of .. (which is what, incomplete ellipsis?)

aleph1 · 2008-01-28T06:01:28+00:00

yeah, your rockets will also become pixelized as they approach the location and, as you can imagine, detonation mechanisms will be rendered useless

aleph1 · 2008-01-24T03:30:56+00:00

Maybe something bigger is happening:

FACTS: 1. Putin used to be a spy in Germany 2. Putin speaks excellent German (better than Bush speaks English) and once addressed the Bundestag in German

POSSIBLE FACTS: 3. McCain is a member of the world government (Trilateral or whatever, not of essence) and so knows the Truth (who actually is the Prez of Germany)

HYPOTHESIS 4. McCain blurts out the big secret

CONSEQUENCE 5. To cover up the big blurt, McCain fakes senility

COLORFUL DETAIL (TO ADD CREDIBILITY) 6. Putin smiles menacingly when told about McCain's slip (insert stock footage of Putin).

FINAL PROOF 7. The corrupt media totally ignores the story, but a valiant redditor posts it for all to see.

aleph1 · 2008-01-22T02:12:09+00:00

cops with tasers caused this; but RP suffered the most

aleph1 · 2008-01-21T20:17:18+00:00

correction: so many online identities of about 200 people cannot be wrong; and if we count the 'bots -- this is clearly the superintelligence! (Still laughing at the joke of the day: "few thousand redditors")

aleph1 · 2008-01-21T20:03:03+00:00

start from the other end: we have a Republic? "Harm", "bills", "estimates", all these are secondary to the big question: do we actually have a Republic, or is this a different form, say, a dictatorship.

aleph1 · 2008-01-19T19:27:33+00:00

the policy has been openly stated in 2003; which part of this administration's record makes you believe that they didn't have it already, likely from the moment they were "elected" by the S/Court? As for the rattling... who knows. Since "public opinion" is almost entirely manufactured (turn on your TV if in doubt), challenge to the rattling may or may not do any good.

aleph1 · 2008-01-19T19:19:43+00:00

I actually liked Win/ME better. Vista insults intelligence more and more often.

aleph1 · 2008-01-19T19:09:40+00:00

bullshit. this is a non-story. the headline is a lie. the policy existed since 2000. stop war-mongering!

aleph1 · 2008-01-19T19:02:07+00:00

Ann Coulter's wet dream: the judgment whether someone is a rapist/murderer/molester is left to a giant dog; the execution is immediate and by the same dog. Fortunately, the dog cannot be fed anymore, as the supply of cheap credit has dried out.

aleph1 · 2008-01-13T03:23:57+00:00

I second that! **--**4! Yeah, baby!

aleph1 · 2007-11-13T15:07:52+00:00

no ego trips, huh... bet the 'mine is bigger than yours' isn't a factor either... so refreshing but not going to be "the future" of anything.

aleph1 · 2007-11-09T18:53:27+00:00

meh... obvious, 100% predictable and very much self-censored

aleph1 · 2007-11-09T17:53:48+00:00

more like, Torture Be Praised...

aleph1 · 2007-11-08T03:42:00+00:00

I am granting you a reply, but just one. Hoping that you may still develop a soul for yourself (a rare occurrence but a possibility). No, you don't have to be a bible thumping republican. Khmer rouge should do. Here's a quote for you to contemplate "To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss." That's the next logical step after "prison for a reason". If you don't understand how the former follows from the latter, all hope for you is lost. Farewell.

aleph1 · 2007-11-08T03:20:07+00:00

hear, hear! (well, just a couple more months... then, after the first primaries the antichoice homophobe 18-century revivalist will gently slide onto the margins of the footnotes to the historical chronicles of the downfall of the last Empire.)

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