Posts by Bango Skank

oh for crying in a bloody bucket ...

What is it with people that they think a few high-school science classes during which they day-dreamed about sex and music enables them to second-guess major parts of scientific consensus?

Thousands of scientists have poured tens of thousands of hours into decades of interlocking research that has gone through the normal process of publication in peer-reviewed journals, replication by others, attack by competing findings, and this has slowly bubbled up through the layers of science bodies and panels, to finally emerge as a consensus position at the international level.

Whether it is in fact what nature is actually busy doing is neither here nor there - the point is that no single person, group of people, or even a whole cluster of them can ever hope to come up with a better guess than what the consensus position provides.

Unless one assembles an entirely different cohort also composed of thousands of scientists labouring for tens of thousands of hours over decades also with billions of euros and dollars of funding, one will never arrive at a better guess than the current consensus position.

I wish to hell that this simple and rather self-bloody-evident penny would drop down the slot and hit the bell.

It doesn't matter if you think your favourite filmstar, hooker, evangelist, or medium thinks the consensus is wrong, they simply don't have a snowflakes chance in a blast furnace of being in the same planetary system for coming up with a better guess.

The consensus position, right or wrong as nature would know but isn't telling, is the best and only guess in town - like it, lump it, or shove it up your central orifice - it is the best guess that our species is capable of making, and that's the bloody end of it!

great so now some spotty tweenager can

get hundreds of cars all to start themselves and flood loads of people's garages with carbon monoxide.

Lovely when your car starts itself and you are busy fueling it, and just remember to disconnect the battery if you intend putting your hands inside the engine compartment.

'kin whoopee, thanks guys, really clever invention that will create lots of real hazards and solve nothing in return.

it never really did anything other than

consume massive amount of money and endanger the crew.

No scientific discoveries were made there despite all the hoopla, and leaving it up in low earth orbit would continue to require massive amounts of energy and cash to prevent it re-entering in an uncontrolled crash.

Declare victory and just crash the white elephant into the sea after hauling back the atomics

Fail because it misdirected efforts into manned space travel which is a stone loser at the cost of developing robotic explorers

surprised not so much by the red ink ...

... as much as the fact that they still exist.

They never recovered from the tender mercies of Blumenthal and the cycles of layoffs

LuizSec, a division of NewsInternational, a RAMJAC corporation

Seriously, is there anything quite as air-headed as hacking evidence that would be used to prosecute the weasels?

Now that weasel-central security has been breached by Air-head Hackers United, NI has a golden "get out of jail" pass because they can claim that any and all evidence may have been tampered with.

Mega-Paris award to you for the most dimwitted hack of the century, way to go!