one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

“One of the report's most striking scenarios involves the use of devices called brain-machine interfaces to connect people's brains directly to military technology, including drones and other weapons systems.”

“Imagine for a minute that, instead of discovering a diamond planet, we'd made a breakthrough in global temperature projections.”

“If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram”

“Countries with the highest levels of active transportation generally had the lowest obesity rates”

“Some scientists think climate change needs a more radical approach. As well as trying to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, they have plans to re-engineer the Earth”

“The Doctrine of Joint Belief isn't evidence of harmony between two systems of thought. It simply offers permission to ignore the clash between them.”

“When a scientist talks about reducing greenhouse gas emissions ... he or she means just that; actually reducing them. But what it is coming to mean in the political lexicon is something very different”

“Statistics show that you are far more likely to die in a car accident or by a heart-attack. But we have no idea what the probability of a terrorist attack is, and that frightens us”

“The most important difference between evolutionists and creationists is that scientists are always prepared to say, I don't know … That's one thing that believers never say, because it's all written down in a big book.”