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I think it's worth noting that we know just a tad more about building dikes than the colonial French knew in the 17th Century, and can build far more extensive earthworks with bulldozers than men with shovels can manage. Actually, the Netherlands' low-lying former swamps (i.e. much of the country) a...

MANY MANY people, whole Nations live "below sea level" without being doomed. (Ever hear the strory of the little boy blocking a hole in the dike with his finger?) In fact, most people in the Netherlands live below sea level -- behind dikes designed to withstand a 10,000 year surge. http://www.msnbc...

This has about as much to do with environmentalism as the nutjobs who firebomb abortion clinics have to do with the pro-life movement.

If pluto is a "double moon," then so is earth. As I recall, earth has the single largest moon in relation to it's own size.... You recall incorrectly. Or at least obsoletely: that was a factoid from before it was known the Pluto had a moon. (And now correct again since Pluto is no longer considered...

It strikes me as nothing but scientists playing politics--- within their tiny, petty little circle. Some crusty decrepit old fossil of a scientist has issues with the guy who discovered Pluto, and wants to steal his glory by getting his discovery downgraded. That wasn't it in the least. And this is...

So then there was no object that kept altering Uranus or Neptune's orbits in the 1800's? No. That was mostly due to a slight underestimation of the masses of the outer gas giants. The Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft provided corrections to the figures for their masses, and with that the apparent dis...

Rokas wrote:'Twas a joke, Acolyte. :p

And "Beige Dwarf" was a serious answer?

Rokas wrote:...If it's red, we can call it Red Dwarf.

It's kinda beige.

"Beige dwarf"? Hmmm. Oh, well. There are scads of objects out there like Pluto, which is one reason they demoted it, so one of them is bound to be red.

This is why I tried to convince my wife not to feed the local raccoons a while back, but there was no stopping her. Fortunately they haven't bothered our cats any -- other than emotionally -- and our cats have a good sense of which raccoons are too dangerous to provoke. I don't understand that pack ...

Doesn't matter if they're giving to the best of their ability. What matters is that they gave TIME. Time is something you can't get back, and I begrudge every friggin' second I have to spend on someone or something else that doesn't give me pleasure. I have a limited supply of time, therefore, its ...

Meh. The trouble with heroes like that is that Fate (or WhatEver) often appears to cheat - either in this life, or (should it exist) in the next. Rather like the Disney version of Hercules... the good guy gets a reward even after death. The heroes are getting more because they've given more. That a...

So, there's part of me that feels for Rahan - he's done his time, he ought to get something for it. Instead, Fate or God or the White Stag or whatever came along and tapped Quentyn on the shoulder, not Rahan. Well, that's grace for you. No one ever deserves it, not even those who get it, so it's us...

Pay close attention to Quentyn's expression in the third-to-last panel.

I'd start by saying it's not my place as a Christian individual to judge another at all, no matter what. The points Jesus makes about forgiveness have to do with offenses against oneself, personally, not with various sins that others might commit. It's not for me to forgive the kind of sin you're ta...

Protecting yourself, or not encouraging bad behavior could argue for this. On the other side of things are the verses where (Peter?) asks Jesus, something like 'How many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me... 7 times?' (and from what I have heard, probably thinking himself super-rig...

Quite probably. The "modern" 3.2 beer sold across America was partly the result of Prohibition As far as I can tell, most (non-lite) beers are stronger than that even in the US. Here's a large-scale comparison. The strongest beer listed is McEwan's (one of my favorites) at 9.5%. Most others run fro...

quentyn wont pull blade on an unarmed man - thats just not 'right', but rahan is bigger and stronger, albeit drunk. "Bigger and stronger" doesn't mean all that much -- especially if drunk. Q: "Pffh, why bother wasting time on someone who can't even hold his own against a girl?" Quentyn is not stupi...

And perhaps some understanding of why Ralph would invent such a bizarre creature and call it a "baba yaga" is worth a discussion, no?

It had to be something like that. About 10 years ago, the Anchor Brewing Company made a batch -- unfortunately only for private tasting -- of beer from an ancient Sumerian recipe. They didn't have a recipe as such; what they had was a very lengthy prayer to the goddess of brewing that praised her ex...

Here I'm sure Wanderwolf could speak to the question better than I can, but I don't think they had any way of isolating maltose back in the old days, or even understood why that process worked and resulted in a fermentable mash. In the case of kvas, the traditional way to start fermentation is to dr...