I am not a scientist, BUT

[pbmus]

[shenmue]

1. I see what you did there

[GeorgeGist]

2. Life will survive.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. But not the cuddly, cute life.

It'll be a bunch of single-celled critters for the most part, that can thrive in extreme environments.

And what are the next bunch of sentients going to think a few hundred million years down the road when they start digging up our fossils?

[Fumesucker]

8. You're cuddling millions of single-celled critters right now..

Probably don't have time left to re-evolve sapience before the sun gets too hot on the way to red gianthood..

Live fast, die young and leave a good looking dig for the alien archeologists.

[demwing]

36. Horrible advice

served with a side of despair

[daleanime]

18. Just not us....

[raouldukelives]

24. Yep. Just not the one in your sig line. nt

[Enthusiast]

3. Yeah. That would make a great movie. It's a wonder they haven't made one yet.

K&R!

[Stryder]

5. Why yes it would.

Killing people from afar defending their country from foreign invaders come to steal their resources makes one an all Murikun heroe ,movie legend, generating millions of dollars and(this is the best part) Dehumanizing the "enemy". Have you noticed the absolute spike in the fuck ragheads rhetoric?... well, you see what happened. So yeah. We's an easy people to sway.

[Enthusiast]

6. It is becoming all too clear to those of us that can see it.

[freebrew]

26. Just need polarized glsses...nt

[Enthusiast]

35. They allow us to see into the water. See that bass right over there?

Otherwise invisible.

[erronis]

9. Already been done.

And guess who the "extras" are...

You and me.

[Lucky Luciano]

12. A most excellent satirical dark comedy no doubt! nt

[eppur_se_muova]

27. Atlas Farted.

Unquestionably the greatest achievement in human history. Greater than the invention of the wheel, greater than the invention of credit, and the discovery of pi and penicillin, the Reformation, the invention of agriculture and the harnessing of electricity, greater than the greatest invention of all time: the washing machine (or the adult diaper, I can’t quite decide on that one). Orginally entitled Atlas Farted, Ayn was persuaded by her publisher to change the name to Atlas Shrugged. ...

http://thelectern.blogspot.com/2010/02/atlas-shrugged-ayn-rand.html

[Enthusiast]

32. Thanks. That was fun.

[onethatcares]

7. I am so stealing this.

who plays the lead scientist?

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

10. Michael Chrichton's final novel before he died was along those lines...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear

State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton in which eco-terrorists plot mass murder to publicize the danger of global warming. Despite being a work of fiction, the book contains many graphs and footnotes, two appendices, and a twenty-page bibliography in support of Crichton's beliefs about global warming. Most climate scientists dispute Crichton's science as being error-filled and distorted, and it was described as "pure porn for global warming deniers" by one skeptical science journalist.

[tclambert]

13. Michael Crichton always gets something in the science wrong.

In The Andromeda Strain, he had the main characters spend a ridiculous amount of time in what would have proven a fruitless effort to decontaminate their human bodies (in reality, this would have killed them). In real outbreak situations and when dealing with extremely dangerous pathogens in a biosafety level 4 laboratory, researchers don't do any of that. They wear protective suits, which they thoroughly wash and decontaminate before the workers remove them. And he has the Andromeda Strain evolve into a new strain, all of it all at once, inside the lab and simultaneously out in the world.

In Jurassic Park, he has large dangerous animals in a zoo contained by electrified fences. No zoo does that. It's dangerous for the animals and unreliable. Even more unbelievable, the people who manage to de-extinct dinosaurs keep it secret from the world at large until they have full grown versions of several species. At the first success in creating an embryo, they would rush to publish their results. Most unbelievable, they invite a mathematician to do a safety review of a zoological park. (All the art history majors must have been too busy.)

I'm surprised he took the stance he did on global warming. In most of his works he takes a cautionary approach, warning against the dire unintended effects human technology can have. Yet when a real-life case comes up illustrating this theme, he opposes efforts by legitimate scientists to warn the world about the risk. Maybe he was just anti-scientist.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

15. He cranked the steering wheel hard to the right after 9/11

And never looked back. But then again, he did have hints of a right-wing perspective in a few of his books.

[Enthusiast]

33. I'm glad he died.

[Buzz Clik]

29. Crichton's science in that bullshit book was pure plagiarism.

His quotes and references were directly from Bjorn Lomborg's Skeptical Environmentalist. It was laughable.

[hay rick]

11. We are living in an alternate reality.

Only possible explanation.

[tclambert]

14. Don't forget the "research industrial complex"

who use their millions of dollars in scientific grants to control what studies get done and what findings get reported, and demand an adherence to orthodoxy that suppresses any research that might lead to breakthroughs in understanding the natural world. Oh, if only the plucky oil company executives could raise the kind of money it would take to oppose these villains! But, alas, as we all know, oil companies barely break even, and unlike the evil scientists, they have no clout with politicians to get their views heard in the halls of power. Fortunately, they manage to organize a grassroots cadre of internet trolls to undermine the nefarious conspiracy, and save the world's economy from the dread specter of (shudder) conservation and alternative energy.

[on point]

16. Yes independent researchers in it for money, but altruistic oil companies

Only in it for truth, not for money

How this idea is able to play at all just makes me wonder how gullible people can be ......

[Duppers]

17. ....

[pbmus]

19. I love your ideas, can we meet on email for further discussion ...

[gregcrawford]

25. EXCELLENT!

LOL!

[blkmusclmachine]

20. ,

,

[ladyVet]

21. I'd write this book, but nobody would believe it.

But I don't think I could sell it.

Maybe if I turn it into an erotica novel, with the billionaires lusting after the BBW heroine, who is the lead scientist...

[pbmus]

31. Mike Myers ....

[JDPriestly]

22. K&R.

[jtuck004]

23. For the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

28. He's not a real doctor ....

"I have a Masters Degree -- in science!"

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Steve Milloy, founder of junkscience.com. Biostatistician and securities lawyer.

Who better to discuss science than someone with no training?

He's still more qualified than a f*cking truck driver.

[progressoid]

30. "Remember, he knows more than you do"

[DisgustipatedinCA]

34. Love this. I'm stealing it.

[hopemountain]

37. our forests will go first.

and all the living things connected to them and their canopy