Possibly untrue science news

I can’t. You’re I presume thinking of Homo sapiens, which are unique and diverse with only a percentage that have decided to destroy the world. But while we may be the cause we won’t be the only consequence. As Dinosaur Comics put it, we put ourselves on the endangered species list under least concern because if we go extinct then by God everyone else will too.

The one positive I have is that unlike formation of a large igneous province, our emissions are not independent of conditions. If civilization collapses they will stop. It’s a pretty poor consolation though.

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This is something of a pushback to my gin&tonic lake theory.

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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

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Yeah, this will take at least a generation to recover from, if it is possible at all. And that assumes we actually can recover from the evisceration of our science infrastructure that Il Douche and his minions have inflicted upon us. The stupidifying of our country proceeds apace, to the cheers of the people who think it will somehow make things better…
I do not understand.

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“More specifically, a localized field with reversed polarity grows strongly in the SAA region, thus making the field intensity very weak, weaker than that of the surrounding regions.”

Uh oh…

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In before the deadline.

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Baaaaasic physics…

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Oh, they’ve met my cousin…

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:thinking: What about those of us who don’t have a one-track mind, or a mixture of languages, images and sounds/songs bouncing around our brains throughout the day? Asking for a friend…

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Otherwise known as a cloaca?

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Well, a cloaca does both. So this is suggesting the gonopore came first and then the digestive connection was added to it. Which is kind of interesting, though it’s tough to know what to make of the xenacoelomorph worms they’re looking at – the article shows them as a separate branch from animals with through-guts, but usually they are placed with deuterostomes so might be simplified rather than primitive.

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So, the development of the anus allowed animals to grow larger than the buttless, paving the way for our existence.

I can only hope that a sentence like this appears in the final paper!

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