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Pretty sure Atlantis is in the Pegasus galaxy...
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Interesting where "research" leads you: www.atlantis.com[^]
Searching for "Atlantis Pegasus" didn't find anything but suggested "Atlantic Pegasus" and searching there found other resorts. Therefore Atlantis is a resort. (Yea, right, and "she" is dating a French model.)
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What do you mean it didn't find anything? Googling "Atlantis Pegasus", the very first result points to what I was referencing. So does the second... and the rest of the first page. (Hint: Sci Fi T.V. show. I was making a joke.)
But yes, Atlantis is a name for a resort these days. I've seen the ads.
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The story takes a bad turn when years later he crashed his truck. When they x-rayed his neck, they found a shadow they investigated further and found he had a brain tumor the size of an apple.
It was so sad, he'd call me from the hospital to tell me he had figured out gravity and the physicists had it wrong, but he couldn't explain it in words.
He didn't last much longer after that.
It made me re-examine all the goofy stuff he used to tell me, but I knew him over 30 years and he was always like that.
Now when I hear people spouting crazy stuff I wonder if they have a tumor as well. Can't be that many of them, can there?
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I've spouted crazy stuff all my life. Because of a health issue I had an MRI 4 years ago. My brain was unusual, but no tumors.
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KP Lee wrote: My brain was unusual, but no tumors.
I've lost count of the number of CT Scans and MRIs I've had.
Besides being a unique individual, it seemed I had a unique physiology. I had PSC, where the vessels coming from my liver and gall bladder were small and thready. Only 4 in 100,000 have it.
A doctor performing a test on me got confused and failing to find that vessel, may have injected the radioactive dye into my pancreas (which shares the vessel) instead. This led to months in the hospital and and over the years, ultimately to a liver transplant. Soooo looking forward to them being able to bioprint me a new one someday to get off the immunosuppressants.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Wow, you had it worse than I did. My regular physician couldn't figure out what she was reading, so sent me to a specialist. My problem was completely different, I had more blood vessels in my brain than normal, but nothing to be alarmed about. I figured that was why I used to be smarter than most and may have caused my drop in brain function. There is no way I could take the SAT test now and score in the 98th percentile in math nationally.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Thoughts/comments?
I have thoughts, but commenting on them isn't allowed anymore.
But really, it sounds like the problem could be solved with better moderation instead of silencing everyone.
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..and Science takes another lumbering step towards becoming the Catholic Church.
While I agree the owners of the site are free to do whatever they want with comments I think they may have over estimated their impact on the public discourse. There isn't a policy that is going to trot through the public marketplace of ideas without getting smeared.
For example: the global warming debate hasn't become an international poop storm because of comments on that journal's website.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Thoughts/comments?
Isn't this vaguely ironic?
Anyway, most comments I've seen were completely useless. Even this one.
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harold aptroot wrote: Isn't this vaguely ironic?
Precisely the effect I was aiming for.
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From Article: ...commenters are shrill, boorish specimens of the lower internet phyla.
Sounds remarkably like my time spent at a popular Apple forum trying to work around an iOS7 bug this morning. I saw a discussion rapidly deteriorate into complete mayhem over the use of the term "bricked". The poor poster was insulted and jeered mercilessly and never once had a member of the site offer anything remotely useful to solve his issue. (No, it wasn't me.)
After seeing that reminds me that Code Project is a great place to be.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Thought you might be talking about[^] 
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"We also plan to open the comments section on select articles that lend themselves to vigorous and intelligent discussion. We hope you'll chime in with your brightest thoughts. "
They still keep the door open to enable comments for select articles/topics.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: They still keep the door open to enable comments for select articles/topics.
Which they select. And I bet they will also turn off comments to those as well for reasons which they choose.
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I think it is the right decision, most the time people don't want to debate or discuss intellectual issues they just want to throw up BS that isn't germane (yeah I know a big word for me) to the issue.
Unless it's a forum where there are mostly regulars and can be self moderated like the lounge it just doesn't work. I say self moderated because I'm sure they don't have the resources to moderate and baby sit.
It's a shame though that someone with a real issue of insightful (yeah another $5 word) bit of knowledge is now silenced because of the 5% that think the internet is the place to be a child.
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Mike Hankey wrote: ....is now silenced because of the 5% that think the internet is the place to be a child.
I agree with your post completely, except for the last bit quoted above, specifically the bits in big/bold.
In the defence of the child.
1. You sound like a teacher.
2. Choosing the word child, instead of elphanting idiots, or something more inventive, was an unfortunate mistake.
3. Your Childist comments spoilt your whole post.
4. Childism like all forms of discrimination distracts the reader from the real issues of your post.
5. The child is not driven by fundamentalism, politics, religion, idiocy or plain bloody mindedness.
...and finally
6 Whilst I get your drift, I do think that 5% is a gross underestimation.
...and really finally
Sorry, but I just couldn't help doing this in this over politically correct world and if you had the ability to turn comments to you post OFF then you wouldn't have to put up with this drivel. 
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I have absolutely nothing relevant to contribute to this discussion other than saying at least my child can beat up your child 
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Mike Hankey wrote: I think it is the right decision, most the time people don't want to debate or discuss intellectual issues they just want to throw up BS that isn't germane (yeah I know a big word for me) to the issue.
Errr...do you understand what "Popular Science" is?
This is not the IEEE Journal nor the New England Journal of Medicine. As "People" is to entertainment Popular Science is to science.
It is specifically NOT targeting scientists nor strict scientific discipline. There are in fact magazines popularizing science in a much more strict way like Scientific American.
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jschell wrote: Errr...do you understand what "Popular Science" is?
I'm 64 and I've been reading it since I was in my early teens.
We are having an intellectual discussion now but if I had put a link to a music video or told you my toes where fat then it would be the BS I'm talking about.
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Mike Hankey wrote: We are having an intellectual discussion now but if I had put a link to a music
video or told you my toes where fat then it would be the BS I'm talking about.
I didn't really get the impression from the article that that was the reason they were limiting discussion.
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Admittedly comments get crazy on the internet, but Yahoo! has articles with no comments. When any of these are scientific in general, and chemistry-based in particular, I often want to scream at their stupidity.
A good way to gain confidence is to never be questioned or corrected - for the simpleminded, at least.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It's tough to swallow, but I grow weary of every article on anthropology or evolution turning into a debate on creationism v. evolution.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Long live Pastafarianism and the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I've noticed the same with climate change. It galls me when someone says they don't "believe" in it. It's not a religion. The data either supports it or it doesn't. And, the data certainly supports it and our contribution to it. Somewhere around 2,000 scientific papers supporting this and around 3 that don't. Sounds pretty conclusive to me...
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