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It is hard to do science, or even function day to day, if you let your emotions interfere with your thought process to such an extent that it makes it hard to think.

Imagine you're ten, you have a fever, and you have to live out in the open for a week in Arica in the hot and dry season, covered in hair and no way to cool off. How do you think you would do? We all have imaginations. Unfortunately they don't really mean anything unless we've got some evidence to back it up.

Is rain really that deadly?

Any number of ways I would imagine. Perhaps when they were losing hair the elements were not harsh enough to make having hair a significant advantage. Perhaps a loss of hair eliminated a significant cause of death due to vermin. Perhaps the loss of hair was a byproduct of a genetic change that enhanced survival to an extent that outweighed hair loss. Perhaps hyperthermia death outweighed hypothermia death. I don't think we can just pick one without evidence simply because it sounds good us.

The laws are not there to change human biology. They are there in an attempt to protect children from predators. Similarly there are laws against children drinking alcohol, working in coal mines, and buying guns even though their human biology allows them to do so.

Saying "I consent" doesn't mean much if you are not capable of understanding what consent is. That is why it doesn't matter if you consent or not when you are judged to be too young to consent.

In the US: Drinking age: 21 Age of consent: Per the federal government it is 18. Unless the older person is 21, then the age of consent is seventeen. But if the older person is 20 then the age of consent is 16. This progression goes down to an age of consent of 12 if the older person is 16. Unless you are in California where two people who are 17 do not have the right to consent. This changes by state. In France a 15 year old can consent to sex with an 80 year old. In New Zealand you'd have to be 16. Marriage age: 18. Unless you are in Nebraska then it is 19. Or Mississippi where it is 21. Unless you have parental consent, then it is younger. Voting age: Varies by country from 16 to 21. Retirement age (with benefits): Between the ages of 62 and 70. Running for political office: In the states it varies from 18 to 30. For president you must be 35. As you can see, the age at which you can do any of those things depends on where you live. There is no standard age of minority or majority. And even in locations where there is a standard age of minority and majority, the right to drink, fornicate, marry, vote and run for office do not all follow those standard ages. Even though one is considered an adult wrt fornicating, you may still have to be older to drink, marry, vote and run for office. In the US you are generally considered an adult at 18, but you still can't buy a beer, run for certain offices, or maybe even marry without your parents approving. That and the fact that anyone impacted by it probably doesn't even know it is happening, and can't do anything about it if they do know.

Same here! Hence the story about the lion headed trashcan. 😁

Sure, I can see that. But then neither is hearing someone say "good point" (IMO). If they want to let you know they like your post they can tell you in a comment. That's pretty common practice here.

Challenge accepted... We legislate two classes all the time: drinking, fornicating, marriage, voting, running for office, retiring. Why not one for smoking? Why should smoking get special status and not have to adhere to an age limit? Basically what this law does is grandfather in people prior to an outright ban. Another thing done all the time. It's not a right, it is a, um, privilege I guess?

While I'm pretty free with the rep points I don't think they really mean much. It may give you a warm fuzzy that someone upvoted your post but you rarely know why. Was I witty? Insightful? Accurate? Complete? Rude? Wrong? Didn't directly answer the question? Too technical? Not technical enough? You like me? Don't like me? You agree with me? Don't like my liberal leanings? You caught my reference to Seinfeld? You misunderstood me? I misunderstood you? Unless someone tells you, the meaning of the rep gives you no more than the most general of hints. Even if you know it came from me, you don't really know why.

I believe dachshunds and greyhounds also suffer pattern baldness.

Just reducing the amount of trash, no matter how innovative and expensive, doesn't solve the trash problem. The cheapest and most effective solution for trash that is generated out in the world is trash containers. You'll never solve the problem completely with producing less trash in the first place.

When I was a kid I remember this really cool trashcan at the zoo. It had a lion's head with an open mouth and was pulling a vacuum. When you got near the mouth with your trash it was sucked in with gusto. I remember running around, along with lots of other kids, searching for trash so we could put it in the lion's mouth. Like with most things when trying to solve a problem, I think designing the carrot deserves considerable effort before resorting to the stick.

Yes, I literally meant the cells have status meetings and use tiny blueprints.

I'm sure you'd catch at least some of them. Can you imagine how clean the streets would be if you executed the offenders? The ends don't always justify the means.

Lock those children litterbugs in the stocks for a few hours and toss rotten vegetables at them. That will get them in line!!!

Can't say that I'm in favor of the Hitler Youth model of litter control. Do we really want the government turning citizens against each other for the righteous goal of nailing scofflaws who drop a gum wrapper in the parking lot?

That's news to me. Thank you!

Cell differentiation. The fact that a particular cell says 'now is the time to do something different', and by following some set of directions, this cell rather than the one next to it, knows it is time for a change.

That's what blogs are for.

Botflies and leaches (carnivores) are stupid. Elephants (herbivores) are one of the smartest animals in the animal kingdom. Orangutans are almost complete fruit eaters. German shepherds are not carnivores. They are omnivores.

Yes, those botflies and leaches always best me at chess.

It wasn't a dig nor was I talking about you. Generally speaking I think others dismiss you too quickly due to the fact the topic is aliens, but I feel that you tend to make a distinction between those things that are phony and those that are genuinely unexplained.

Did they get arrested or something?