"Linus Pauling was a physician"

The man never went to medical school.

Besides being a chemist, he was also an excellent theoretical physicist and textbook author.

"Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" by Pauling and Wilson is a classic quantum mechanics textbook.

"Linus Pauling was a physician"

Linus Pauling was a physical chemist.

"What arrogance! What conceit!"

#26 | Posted by Ray at 2009-10-31 01:48 PM | Reply | Flag: what bullshit

"forgive me for being informed"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHaaaaaaaaaaaa

Try reading a book sometime, you are in a library using public computers to bitch about socialism, you pathetic, ignorant, illiterate shit.

#15 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2009-10-31 10:59 AM | Reply | Flag: arguments are worthless rantings

" I can't remember the name of it. "

Out of Time

"fuckin liar."

#78 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2009-10-31 10:29 AM | Reply | Flag: shiny mirror

"article is implying the opposite"

Terminal cognitive dissonance.

The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today

Time Is On My Side

"I am conforted(sic) in the knowledge"

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

There is no man and there is no curtain.

Deal with it.

Nice chuckle, but even the IRS can't deal with it.

We die.

I doubt any change in the atmosphere's temperature will destroy "this sphere we're on."

But it will get rid of the likes of you.

"10,000 years ago, global human population was somewhere between 1 and 10 million people. We now number over 6.6 billion. Our seemingly endless thirst for resources means we are losing up to 27,000 species of plants, animals, insects, fungi, bacteria each year - just from tropical forest habitats.

The last 10 years has seen the overall number of threatened species increasing in all taxonomic groups according to the 2006 IUCN Red List.

While extinction is a normal part of evolution, the current extinction rate is anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than at any time over the past 60 million years. That being the case, I don't think this period of time being called the sixth great extinction is an exaggeration. Some say that the sixth great extinction will rival the third - 90-95% of all species will vanish over a very short period unless we dramatically change our ways."

"thank you for the post!"

You're welcome.

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

~Carl Sagan

"100's of billions of light years away"

I hate to break this to you, but it's 13.7 +/- 0.1 billion, max.