Of Intelligent Life in the Universe - Not in This Solar System

Brexit and Trump proves intelligent life does not exist in our solar system. So what does that do to our chances of finding it elsewhere in the universe?

Drives it nearly to zero.

We're not going to survive as a species to see the day. It exists - we're just not going to see it before we destroy ourselves.

But don't worry bubba - lover of Trump and all things ignorant - until that day comes we won't interrupt your TV reality show watchin or your piss in a can beer drinkin. You can just go on not bothering with a proper education, not bothering with facts or even hope. Go ahead just keep replacing truth, knowledge and understanding with your lazy purposeful ignorance, self-loathing, hate, fear, cowardliness. Thanks to YOU, your cowardly apocalyptic fantasy of a 12 year old will come true.

Except your ass will not make it any more than billions of others. Your ass will be cooked along with everyone else in the world - boiled in your nifty little bunker in a pool of your own hate and ignorance.

Nice Job Ameria

His ignorance about almost all things not Trump didn't do it.
His hate, vitriol, nastiness didn't do it.
His racism, xenophobia, and fear mongering didn't do it.
His utter inability to feel empathy and his subsequent cruelty didn't do it.
His mental illness, narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy, didn't do it.
His disruptive behavior, name calling, utter disregard for human dignity, for the truth, for facts, for decorum and decency didn't do it.
His complete lack of credentials to lead the world's most powerful and complex nation didn't do it.

Grabbing pussy did it.

Are you kidding me?

America you would be the laughing stock of the world if this wasnt all so deadly serious.

Profit over Life

What happens when you emphasize profit in medicine?
This.....

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Trump, Clinton and the Supreme Court

If people are willing to vote for a pig like Trump solely to keep Clinton from selecting supreme court justices, perhaps the supreme court has become too powerful. Time to limit it by constitutional change?

Here piggy piggies

Donald Trump is a pig.
Mike Pence knows it, truth be told, and lies through his teeth to support him.
What does that make Pence?
A lying supporter of pigs?
Or just another disgustingly sad politician?

We've met the 'enemy' and it is us.

We are going to develop an artificial intelligence millions perhaps billions of times smarter than our current capabilities in the next 100 years. It is the inevitable result of computer technology.

Lots of fear over what this intelligence will do with us.

As a starting point perhaps we should stop calling it artificial. Probably not a good idea to piss it off right out of the starting gate. More importantly there will be nothing artificial about it.

Humans are not a special case, us versus nature is an illusion of sentience only. And so in coming from us it is as real as anything else in this universe.

But here's the real argument against it being artificial. If we want what is fundamentally human to survive, then this intelligence will need to BE us. It will be us and we this intelligence. It is our only viable evolutionary pathway.

Hurricane Matthew and Guantanamo Bay

Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 145 mph, is heading directly towards Guantanomo Bay. The US Navy will evacuate 700 family members of its military staff in anticipation of its arrival. No prisoners will be evacuated from the infamous prison. 

Guantanamo bay prison was built years ago as a temporary solution, and is in need of major repair and upgrade. Matthew on its present course will cause a devastating storm surge and severe wind damage to a prison that suffers from drainage issues and structural faults. 

This prison already denies due process and is contrary to international law and basic human decency. Now it gambles with its prisoners lives while protecting its own.