Hey, guys. Sorry I was gone for so long. I was busy. Anyway, I know it's easy to say, right now, that the risk of a nuclear war is low. No leader...
Sorry for continually bumping this thread, guys. I'm just scared. I look at all of these events going on in the world, like the recent sabre-rattling...
Hey, can we get this thread back on track, please? I'm starting to get quite a bit concerned about this Syria situation. The US and Russia can't...
By the way, I should point out that the president of Georgia is promising his people that Georgia will be a NATO member by 2014. Also, you should...
Sorry if I sound paranoid, but when you read articles like this one, it's hard not to....
RoccoR and quadraphonics, you guys appear to be in quite a disagreement. I was wondering if you could just, in a nutshell, each give your own...
I guess the question is: if there is an epidemic, if H5N1 does become easily transmissible among humans, what kind of death toll are we looking at?
The second of two controversial H5N1 studies was released today. My question is this: if H5N1 were to become easily transmissible between humans, how...
I would find this comforting, but it makes the assumption that all actors are rational. What happens if either leader or some general gets an itchy...
What I'm worried about is escalation. It's unlikely that Russia is just going to, out of the blue, decide to nuke the US, or vice versa. But what I'm...
It's just that this fear has got me in a real...I don't know...funk? I'm just wondering what the point is of even trying to live or be happy if it...
Another thing that could set off a nuclear war: an accident. You know, someone in a command center thinks he sees an incoming nuclear missile on the...
Anyone else have any feedback? I'm actually freaking out quite a bit over this.
The Cold War ended 20 years ago, but I still wonder: is nuclear war still a danger to mankind? How likely is it that we'll experience a nuclear war...
If the recent developments at CERN end up being true (i.e. it turns out that something CAN travel faster than light), then what's to stop us from...
So if it turns out that these neutrinos actually DID go faster than the speed of light, what does that mean? Does that open the door to things like...
If you had such a twin, he would be "you". He would have just as much of a claim to being "you" as you do.
Also, what about artificial brains made of, say, silicon? We have artificial hearts? Could we one day transplant artificial brains (i.e....
Well then don't awaken it until after it's been placed in the body.
Could nanotechnology and/or stem cells help with that?
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