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Science, philosophy, skepticism, atheism, biking, walking.

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• A reply on Talk: Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater

  Mar 25 2013: If we humans manage to survive the next 20,000 years, I suppose most of our problems will be over and we will have spread out into the galaxy. Mankind is still in its cradle and you know a cradle gets dirty. But hopefully we'll grow up.
  By the way, nature isn't a masterpiece. Masterpieces are produced by thinking minds, nature is a product of evolution. And evolution isn't mister Nice Guy. "Red in tooth and claw", remember. If we're worth our money we will outdo nature in 'goodness'.

• A reply on Talk: Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater

  Mar 25 2013: What those ships do is essentially the same as what the sun does: displacing pure water from sea to land from where it will flow back to the sea. No water destroyed in the process. More important is how polluted the water will be that goes back into the sea.
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  A comment on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 12 2013: I'm waiting for a chemist with knowledge of modern chemical technology to comment here. For me this seems pure nonsense. But I keep an open mind and hoping that my brain will not fall out.
  Nevertheless Mr. Cronin seems to have enough credentials: http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/
  If this amounts to something it will be game changing. I'm holding my breath.

• A reply on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 11 2013: This is something completely different. This printer works with existing materials. But the printer Lee Cronin talks about has to synthesize molecules. How that can be done molecule per molecule is the question. I have no clue.
  Can somebody help me out?

• A reply on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 11 2013: This is something completely different. This printer works with existing materials. But the printer Lee Cronin talks about has to synthesize molecules. How that can be done molecule per molecule is the question. I have no clue.
  Can somebody help me out?
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  A comment on Talk: Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

  Feb 11 2013: This is a hoax, isn't it? Almost unbelievable. Why didn't he get more time to explain this? Or does he work for The Onion?

• A reply on Talk: Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?

  Jan 29 2013: Have you tried with 'embed'?
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  A comment on Talk: Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

  Oct 19 2012: What a dream teacher! A real inspiration.
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  A comment on Talk: Kary Mullis celebrates the experiment

  Aug 23 2012: There's something wrong with the video. Other images appear before he's finished.
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  A comment on Talk: Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater

  Aug 13 2012: If the desalinization process would take place on huge ships, the resultant brine could be spread over large surfaces at sea and, being heavier, sink to the bottom while being diluted. Also you could use solar and wind energy to drive the process. When the tanks of the ship are full they could come in and deliver their cargo of desalinated water. This would be the same as what the sunshine does, but more targeted. You get the pure water where you want it.
  Naturally only in the case you have an overproduction of brine, of course.