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Environment & Energy

Binkie The Clown

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2. I don't recall who first said it, but intelligence truly is a lethal mutation.

Reply to Moostache (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 11:35 AM

Sep 2017

Life may be rare in the universe, but intelligent life is certainly much rarer. And rarest of all, if, in fact, it's even possible, would be intelligent life that survives long enough to escape its home planet. It's no mystery to me why we have yet to find any evidence of life elsewhere in the universe.

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New science shows killer heat waves will sweep the world... [View all] Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 OP

Things are desperately bad already...and that's BEFORE the effects baked in already emerge fully... Moostache Sep 2017 #1

I don't recall who first said it, but intelligence truly is a lethal mutation. Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #2

This defacto7 Sep 2017 #3

Don't worry. Our big brain will save us. CrispyQ Sep 2017 #6

"better adherence to the precepts of human faith systems" Duppers Sep 2017 #8

Re faith's role in CC Duppers Sep 2017 #14

Its pretty bleak Bayard Sep 2017 #4

I have despaired over the trillions of animals Duppers Sep 2017 #9

It will be interesting to see how Americans respond CrispyQ Sep 2017 #5

The problem is the domino series of system collapse from this drastic a change in the weather. mackdaddy Sep 2017 #7

THIS 🔼 Duppers Sep 2017 #10

Another symptom to watch for is... Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #11

And now Maria looks like she is going to follow the track of big sister Irma. mackdaddy Sep 2017 #12

and,... Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #13

9pm edt Monday, and Maria is already a CAT 5! 160mph 925mb. mackdaddy Sep 2017 #15