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That's a great little film, Thorn. Thanks for posting it I felt sorry for his best friend Giovana getting sidelined, though A full length version with the same cast is currently in production, due for cinema release in 2014. I hope it can sustain the charm of this short feature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don%27t_Want_to_Go_Back_Alone

Yeah, shopped. Clever though .

Agree with crazyfish. Healthy family relationships are already based around love - unless there are issues preventing this - so to introduce sex seems unnecessary, inappropriate and ... well I'll leave it at that. Of course it does happen in real life, but I think it's more of a tragedy for the players. So while there's justification in exploring that tragic side in stories I don't see the appeal in merely writing / reading an erotic incest story. It has the same appeal for me as reading an erotic love story between an 18 yo and an 80 yo *shudders*

poor Symp needs to increase his medication meanwhile, getting back to the question ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4Kj7ow2UM :funny:

It seems to be cultural, probably with some underlying evolutionary biological bias for the "health of the herd". Nothing radical about inherited behaviours - plenty of examples in the animal world. btw wouldn't a "pair of twins" avoid the problem - they could just swap siblings .

I guess those would be the donuts eaten with a fresh brew from Russell's Teapot :funny:

Individualism. Collectivism. Society.

It's been pretty clear for a long time that Putin's Russia is a corrupt oligarchy. It plays by a different set of rules. So does China. Don't see that changing any time soon But we still have to deal with them.

The fossil records are there - nothing here changes that

1950s horror sci-fi movies are great fun, but it seems more likely that WE came from outer space. The idea of "panspermia" has been around since Ancient Greece - proposed scientifically in 1834 - and was picked up by Professors Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe in 1974 when they proposed that some dust in interstellar space was largely organic. In 2001 Wickramasinghe led a team that discovered the existence of life forms near the edge of space in the Earth's stratosphere at 41 km. This was supported by an ISRO study in 2005 that also discovered radiation resistant bacteria, raising the question how these could have drifted up from the Earth or whether they could be extraterrestrial in origin. The latest findings to support panspermia come from analysis of the Sutter's Mill meteorite "which lit up the skies over California with a dazzling fireball in April 2012. Meteors that streak across Earth's sky mostly are fragments of the asteroids that lie between Mars and Jupiter. Meteorites can be rich in organic compounds, including some found among life on Earth. "Their composition therefore has always been seen as an indication that the precursors to the evolution that led to the origins of life could have come from the extraterrestrial material of meteorites," study lead author Sandra Pizzarello, a biochemist at Arizona State University in Tempe, told Space.com. "Since the origins of life are utterly unknown, the idea has its merits." Pizzarello and her colleagues analyzed two fragments of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which streaked through the skies on April 22, 2012, crashing in California. Fragments of this meteorite were given to researchers who have worked on similar rocks before, including Pizzarello. The organic chemicals in meteorites can get extracted with the aid of solvents. Speculation regarding the origin of life is based on the notion that it arose from a "prebiotic" soup of organic molecules, perhaps delivered in part by meteorites. Initially, fragments of the Sutter's Mill meteorite apparently possessed fewer dissolvable organic compounds left after solvent extraction compared to other similar meteorites. "You may say that it was a disappointment," Pizzarello said. However, the researchers tried dissolving the fragments in conditions mimicking hydrothermal vents on Earth, the environment often seen in the early Earth that life might have arisen within. Upon such treatment, the rocks released organic molecules not previously detected in similar meteorites. The findings that suggest there are far more organic materials available via meteorite for planetary environments than scientists assumed. Scientists investigating the origin of life often suppose dissolved compounds desirable for life need to first have gotten concentrated and held together somehow, much as cell membranes do for the cell's components. The organic molecules the researchers discovered in the Sutter's Mill fragments "could be good for such a purpose, because they can form rudimentary enclosures to contain compounds useful to prebiotic evolution," Pizzarello said. The scientists detailed their findings online Monday [september 9] in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. WARNING! WARNING!! Usual risk warnings about mad scientists and scoop-hungry, credulous, weazel-wording journalists apply, investments can go down as well as up, and smoking really isn't good for you http://www.nbcnews.com/science/meteorite-brought-surprising-ingredient-life-earth-2012-8C11118242?lite&lite=obinsite

Well said! You've got a lot of good things in your life. I've not read the story but there's nothing wrong in using any word when the story justifies it and sometimes the story needs painful words to be used. You are the writer so you make that call

brink's analysis is informed and instructive, especially about Facebook. I'd also be concerned about building close links with Google - since Google took over Youtube I have found Google wanting my identity to be disclosed along with my Youtube content. I got annoyed and fed up having to resist Google's persistent attempts to do this, so I ditched my Youtube a/c. Until players like Google start respecting people's wish to remain anonymous I will avoid all engagement with them.

I think you'll find it works like this, Bill

Thanks for posting the pic of Woobiekins - looks like he's got a good deal going on there

Welcome Solo - hope you have a great time on GA and get lots of new story fans

You lookin' at me, punk?

You guys sure have a lot of fun your side of the pond ...

Two issues in addition to Ron's point about any cultural / ethnic bias, which is unclear 1. this is a minuscule sample - tiny tiny tiny!! 2. the sampling methodology seems deeply flawed because if the report is accurate "researchers recruited 70 fathers who had a biological child between ages 1 and 2, and who lived in a home with the child and its biological mother" which means the "researchers" pre-selected a sample of men that were already performing parenting duties - see Brink's rant about bad science/tists

Yeah, the fish has had a damn good SMACK!!

Reading between the lines, seems you've rubbed up aganst some pretty shitty scientists along the way, and this thread has given you an outlet to let off some steam! And your reference to cat fights probably nails some of these dudes for what the are - I guess they're all men? women scientists seem to behave much more professionally But whatever your issues with individual scientists - and let's face it we all like watching a good cat fight! - the field of science [and mathematics] is still one of humankind's greatest achievements

Other road users should be very afraid ...

If you can provide a good home then you should

Well, according to my "research" on several "specialist" websites it seems this sport often involves several balls ...

Thought it might be helpful and educational to post a couple of pics of some hot wrestling action *coughs* absolutely nothing gratuitously homoerotic about these pics *splutters* nope, not at all