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#709016
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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I can say for sure that there are many scientists who have completely bizarre ideas about global warming. I was listening to a scientist on the radio talking about how the ice cap over the North Pole is going to disappear in a year! One, freaking year! That's so incredible it almost causes me to reject everything scientists say on global warming entirely, but I do recognize that there is some truth in it.

Some of it is political though. Look at what happened with the banning of CFCs. CFCs were banned by politicians who didn't know their facts. The ozone hole cannot spread away from Antarctica, and cannot occur outside of the months of August to November (I think it's those months), because it's creation is dependent on the Polar Vortex which only occurs in that place during those months. CFCs are responsible for only a minute amount of the damage caused to the ozone hole, which has been occurring since long before humans were able to affect it at all.

Many, though not all, scientists think the ozone hole is a serious problem, but they don't seem to have any evidence for it and it was an initial misinterpretation of the data that led to the misconceptions about the ozone hole.

I think the same goes for global warming.

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#708703
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The Fish Enthusiast Thread (My fishies are now thousands of miles away, but I finally uploaded pics of a couple of my tanks :-) )
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Thanks again, Ryan! I guess Flickr does it to prevent people from using your photos without your permission, but it would be nice to have it easier with your own photos. I'll get photos up once I take them...(I haven't taken any with the tanks fully set up because I've lost my battery charger :P).

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#708565
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The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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The answer is an emphatic NO. The uterus is still designed to contain and protect an embryo/fetus regardless of whether the uterus works or not, or whether other failing body functions will soon render it useless. You don't say a person's heart isn't designed to pump blood because the heart didn't develop properly, or that it wasn't designed for that purpose because their lungs are failing. The same goes for any other organ/muscle/limb regardless of whether or not a person would have survived long enough to use it without medical aid.

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#708547
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The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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In such a scenario, the girl was arguably meant to live long enough to reproduce. If God is real, he would have allowed her to live and it wouldn't have gone against his plan for that girl. If God is not real, she was not "meant" to die young, so she would be just as culpable as if she had been born entirely healthy and had been expected to live a long life.