Here's a book review I wrote in 2012 about a friend of mine's book, Golden Rule or Greedy Rule.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Actually I do not think that you could live by the golden rule and obey the ten commandments. But how can 'unwed' fit the list, since if we lived by the golden rule as you say, we would not need marriage laws any more than the ten commandments.

I joined this site a couple years ago.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Congrats, felt sure you would make it. ( Wait till you get the invoice for the T-shirt. LOL )

Narcissists for lunch, anyone?

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Too small, can't read it and it won't enlarge.

The CDC has been around for a long time.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Biggest groan this year so far, thanks.

Okay, so how's about we have a little harmless fun here.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

"Poetry in motion." I could always hear. "Oh a tree in motion." Which until I worked out the correct lyrics, I always thought sounded really stupid.

When time and space cease to exist

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Great photo.

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

I think someone once made a quote. "Educated way beyond his understanding." But I do not know to who that is attributed.

Volcano eruption that nearly ended humanity [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Very good.

If you had your choice between going to see some really famous singer and a great small venue local ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Small local concert every time. In our local town there is a club who meet in a room above the library, they often have really quite good performers, mainly classical, some jazz, folk and other types, you pay for it with a donation, or by buying a coffee/tea with a light cheese salad lunch before it starts, (no eating in the concert.) I am often amazed at the quality of the artists they get on their budget, though they pay nothing for the room. The intimacy of a small room, where you are close enough to see the artists fingers is always magic. I went to a small nightclub fado concert, last time I was in Portugal, wonderful, for exactly the same reason.

Have you heard of THIS problem if you get Coronavirus?

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

People have said that it affects nearly every organ in the body to some degree, add hair follicles to the known list.

When a star exceeds its volume, gravity causes it to implode.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

What Pedrohbds below said. Plus it is wrong to assume that life or the universe has a purpose, let alone that that purpose is to evolve intelligence. An intelligence is only one small tool in the many survival tool kits, that evolution has come up with. The most intelligence of animals can easily be predated by the malaria parasite, which is just about the least intelligent Eukaryot there is.

How to Be a Woke White Person - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Very funny, but go on, you can still label me a woke, I hope.

Don’t get fooled or conned again — 5 tactics to look out for |

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

A very short list, I can think of several more.

Do you believe in what you don't see?

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

I try to place belief first in the things that have the strongest evidence, and things which have the weakest evidence, last. Seeing is just one source of evidence. But you have to be more wary of evidence that has been given to you by other agents. For example, if I see dead animals and cat droppings in my garden, I am reasonably certain that next doors cat has been in the garden. But if an irate neighbour tells me that they are fed up with the cat leaving shit in their garden, I wonder. Does he know the difference between cat droppings and fox?

Predictions for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season just got worse: [sciencenews.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The controversy rages across the US and the world: to wear a mask or not to wear a mask, and: a ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Sadly I do not think that, "the US and the world" is quite the case. Most of the rest of the world is wondering why there is a controversy in the US at all.

Back on July 23rd I posted pictures of my Alcantarea imperilais' emerging bloom stock.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

The background shots of the garden are, even more interesting.

Moral? Don't be a group of monkeys. Question things you did not dream questionable.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Nice metaphor, and I would love to think that that was a real experiment, but sadly I think it is just a made up meme. If anyone does have real history please share.

Reminds me of the time my ex and I conspired to give my son a “naughty” Latin phrase to put in ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

So what is the Maori for feather ?

I don't understand why I can't get any notification from this group ☺ but btw my cat just wanted ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Yes, I have never been able to understand why I get notifications from some groups, and not others. Its just one of the strange things that happen here. Cute cat.

Hii.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site, and if you have time do check out the groups, there is something for everyone.

God's True Purpose The way I see it, God's only real use is as an escape from death.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Yes but how much of that fear of death is artificial anyway, a fear stoked up by religion, with stories of hell etc. . It was I suspect a small fear once, but they managed to align it with the even bigger fear, fear of the unknown so that it was yet another unknown they could pose as answering. Since god does not exist, his true purpose is anything that the criminals need an accomplice for.

a – Spirit – being – a – Person – an – animal – species – a – bipedal – life...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

A - doughnut - a- bun. Essence - of - calories. Sweetness- of - refined - white - sugar. Body - of - sweet. And - hole - of, air, Greed - personified. Joy - of - gluten. Germ - of - flour. Baking - made - perfect. Come - into - my - mouth. And - grant - my - weight gain. U R & I AM – as – fat - IS Perfect - flabby. Be Obese.

Which came first?

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

I think, jokingly, that like the chicken and the egg they co evolved. But having said that, religion is a cultural creation and once it was the same things as culture, in that it was the only cultural understanding of the world people had, so that it involved everyone. I think therefore that it was intelligence and understanding which led some people out of it, rather than stupidity which led people into it.

Eugenics

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Your link only leads to a generic definition of the term, generally I think that people would expect more than that from a post. Some original history or an opinion would be nice.

I was a Christian.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Well done, hello and welcome.

Yeah yoga!

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

I'm nearly sixty four and still able to climb trees, and remember where I put the spare key.

I get the idea that people usually call themselves Agnostic out of fear that using the name Atheist ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Happy with either, usually call myself an atheist, but in theory I accept that you can never know anything with absolute certainty, so in principle will also accept agnostic for the sake of accurate definition. But I also call myself a "broad Church sceptic" because I am prepared to respect anyones views, even deist, as long as they do not hold to any religious dogma. Since it is the dogma and the claim to knowledge of the God/gods views, which makes all the difference, since a god without any opinions, values or laws affects nothing.

I shared a collection of these with the gardeners but I know many of you aren't in that group so I ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

They look especially good because of the way you used the back-light. Great shots.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. Lao Tzu

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

And it is worth remembering that people with something to sell, have more incentive to compose beautiful words. Beautiful words should therefore be a warning sign, which makes you ask, what is this persons agenda. The most popular translation of the bible, with fundamentalists, is probably the King James, in part because of its poetry, it is also probably the most distorted.

As you may have heard, I have built a number of different online communities each of which to bring ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2020:

I find that it is well possible to mainly ignore the political side of the site, and that there is a good, as you put it. "a harmonious group of Secular Humanists; a bastion for civil discourse and a support system for non-believers." Maybe it is easy to see what you are looking for and ignore the big picture, I would say look again.

Genomic Study Reveals New Zealand's Tuatara Is Like No Other Animal on The Planet

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2020:

When I was young the common sound bite about the tuatara was that it could be the last surviving dinosaur, but now it seems that it goes back even further than that. Fascinating.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. - Diogenes

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Not proven.

OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2020:

We have long known that the site creator had issues, this explains a lot. But having said that, you get and take from the site what you are prepared to put in, I have largely stayed away from the politically active parts of the site anyway, in part because they are largely US based , and therefore I do not see it as my business to lecture Americans on what they should be doing in their own country. In consequence I have largely found just such a site as. "a harmonious group of Secular Humanists; a bastion for civil discourse and a support system for non-believers." I think that the founder has perhaps been looking at the site through a microscope, which like all microscopes shows up some details very large, but leave the bigger part of the picture out of view. He cites Trump pinata, as an example of the sites preferences, in fact with 1047 members, it is not even one of the larger groups, sexual deviants for one far exceeds that, (Wonder why, must join to find out ?) as does Just for Laughs, while even the gardeners number at least half that. But if the founder now feels that the site has become a political movement, then he only has to hand it on to someone else, I am sure it would not be hard to find someone. There comes a time when the baby has grown up, and you have to let it go its own way.

A little rain makes everything blossom

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Rain, we need some here. I sometimes just like to stand out in it for fun.

While watching TV this morning, I saw a commercial for Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water"!! I ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Hey. I know some places where they give you grape juice, which is only pretending to be wine, and they will tell you it is in fact blood, and that it will make you live forever if you drink it. Surely that has to be against the trade descriptions laws, fake goods or what.

Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

The most basic story in the old testament, is of semi-nomadic people from the Sinai desert moving into the bottom end of the fertile crescent and trying to take, and hold on to, land there. That probably happened continually for hundreds if not thousands of years, sometimes in small ways and sometimes with large acts of organized violence, the rich lands of the farmers would always be a temptation to the nomad from the desert. It is not surprising therefore that there would be a folk memory passed down among the later generations, of life in the desert, and opposed attempts at migrations into the farmlands. At the same time there was probably an almost continual trickle of fleeing slaves, criminals and peasants out of Egypt, into the desert to the east, who would be forced to join the nomads. It is therefore almost certain that stories of origins in Egypt circulated among the desert nomads, even those who had never been there. When you put those two things together and remember the tendency of folk memories to simplify, and personalize things, around a few half remembered, or mythical, hero figures. It would not really be surprising that a story like the old testament one, of the flight from Egypt and the conquest of Israel grew up, even though there would be not a trace of truth in it, it would be inevitable, because that is the way folklore remembers history, especially long drawn out history, the sound bite is not a new invention.

Do all Christian denominations believe only they will go to heaven?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

If they are literal fundamentalist believers yes, though they may be a minority even in the churches. Though amusingly there have been some sects, which limited their total numbers to five thousand members, because some interpretations of the bible say that only five thousand will be saved on judgement day, and they are obviously the five thousand. LOL

Im confused is blm part of the far left now because of protest?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

BLM is not part of the far left, that is a myth making attempt by the racists and fascists who are opposed to it. You have to remember that when people are opposed something, and they don't have any arguments worth a fig, one of their first resorts, is to try and associate the thing they don't like, with something else which they think is hateful to the wider community. And if they make a lot of noise, then the media will give them more attention than their numbers deserve, and the idea becomes mainstream if they are lucky. Or that is what they think anyway, but the people may be more savvy than they think.

Rituals of Waiting - or one more 'how I'm surviving the pandemic' piece.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

For what it is worth, you are far from being alone in feeling like that.

I feel welcome and happy to be on this site.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

It is only a small and distant community, but it is here if you need it, though I do hope that you can one day find a community in the flesh that supports you. Hang on to your true self until you do.

I absolutely abhor statements like, "I heard from (preacher, uncle, hick on Youtube) that ____" when...

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Nice rant, if it makes you feel better feel free to rant here whenever you like, it is a very sympathetic and easy going site, as long as you are not preaching. And you are not.

Most mornings I am greeted by the sun streaming thru the trees.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Beautiful place, you are very lucky. (Or very clever.)

I cannot sing but love to sing.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Yep one reason I am glad I don't go to church anymore, I love the sound that music makes, but I could not tell a bad note from a good one, let alone hit one. You are certainly not alone.

10 most Incredible births in the world, Some are dreadful☺ [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

The great diversity of life always leaves me amazed.

One of the blooms on my Amaryllis belladonna was a double ! so I captured it for the horticultural ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Teeny tiny snail, but what big eyes.

"There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

No, I think that observed experimental results trump it, but it runs a good second.

From Center for Inquiry: Here's an example of what's great about skepticism and the ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

A true hero.

Humanity

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Almost impossible to say, we have a good capacity for surviving, it is hard to imagine a disaster so bad that some few humans would not crawl out of a cave somewhere in a mountain valley, and start over, without that disaster being so bad that it destroyed almost all multicellular life. On the other hand, that which we call advanced civilization could be very fragile. So that perhaps a better, pair, of questions would be. Can civilization survive into the future? And. Can the biosphere as a whole, excepting perhaps bacterial life, survive into the future? ( One irony is of course, that one of the things which could really save us and civilization, may well be a major disaster, say a disease like the current virus, but much more damaging, which would relieve the world of say 99% of our population. Given that we have used up so many of the worlds resources, recovery would be slow, perhaps slow and measured enough to save us from making the same mistakes again. But that I think is a dream, not likely to happen. )

Governors Bay New Zealand worth getting up early to take the photo...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Wonderful photos, publishable quality, they would wow if printed in a coffee table book.

What happend to phxbillcee aka Bill?

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Sad yes, I liked talking with him, we still have some half finished lines.

🥃😎 bottoms up.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I will drink to that.

I am somewhat melancholy.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Take care of yourself. Thats the best thing you do for people like your son who care about you.

HELP the Post Office! Just go on down to your local PO and buy some stamps! If everybody spent $20...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

You are so lucky to have a post office, which I presume is a national institution. In the UK the Thatcher person sold ours off, so that her capitalist mates could asset strip it. So that we are now just about the only nation in the world without a national postal service, which serves the nations interests alone.

David Garrett with the Filarmonica de La Scala, Milano conductor Riccardo Chailly.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Oldy but a goldy. Best played with a little irreverence.

The Age of self Obsession.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Or maybe there will be a reaction, and a new age dominate by the idea that good taste is an objective reality, is about to dawn.

Why would a lifelong atheist suddenly decide to become baptized into Mormonism and be going on a ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Could be a lady, and it could also be that if he does not smoke, drink, or do coffee, he is attracted to a lifestyle where he gets easy approval for what he does anyway, though he may find the approval fades when he joins and he is no longer a newby. However a lady will probably be almost certainly involved in some way, most men, and I speak as one, are dragged through life by the testicles.

New word! CONSPIRITUALITY - conspiracy-theory-style 'spirituality'! Just the word I needed.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Did you invent it. Well done if you did. Sorry don't worry Pondartincbendog just answered below.

Who & What - U R - Not - U R - Not - just a - sentient - Individual - mammal - U R - Not - ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I am a person who only uses hyphens now and again, mainly when I am pedaling pseudo-truth. Take care its a bad world out here.

Just a random thought.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Yep, it used to be called the Old Testament. But then there is a myth that a guy, who may have been called Jesus, came along and tried to rip some of the rules up, but, they soon got rid of him. Then some other guys call St Paul, Constantine, Mohamed and legions of others came along and just kept printing and pasting more.

More than 70 killed, 3,000 wounded in Beirut explosions.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

It was an explosion of a warehouse, which may have been caused by a fire. Which 'may' in turn have been caused by a welding accident. All of which may yet be proved false. It is typical of a person like the Trump to start spouting before he has any sound information.

Trump, Covid-19, Beirut Explosion, Consciousness, etc. What a time to be alive. [united-cats.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

"May you live in interesting times." Old curse.

Adversity and chaos seem to be building and multiplying every day.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

True, but then the last fifty years have been especially peaceful and progressive, at least for the western world. Perhaps we are just getting back to normal.

hi everyone! its been 2 years since i posted something here.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Hello, nearly a founder member.

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Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Basically I agree with you, and certainly modern life is on the whole a vastly greater threat to human health overall than the virus. Though it could be said that the virus is a creation of modern lifestyles as well. Since it is clearly only a problem because, we have massive over population, over crowded cities, and far too fast a transport systems, especially air travel. Though it could be said figures in that sense are a little misleading, since the cancer deaths of twenty five percent, are spread over a whole lifetime, say an average of fifty years, ( its more than that, but lets err on the short side,) as opposed to five months. You would therefore have to multiply by at least 120, to get a true comparison. Point five times one hundred and twenty equals sixty percent, which would make the virus two and a half times more deadly than cancer, if it continued at its present rate. Though that does not take into account herd immunity, bringing with it the possibility that survivors would have milder symptoms and be less likely to die if reinfected. Assuming that there is long term immunity, which we don't know yet. However the cancer levels, if quoted in this way, are based on the assumption that all cancers are caused by modern lifestyle, which is almost certainly not true, since cancer was a major killer even in the deep past, and a lot of the increase in cancer today is probably due to the fact that we live longer and survive many other diseases which would have formerly killed us, so it would be correct to only take a percentage of the overall cancer figures. Its probably a lot more complicated than that, but that is just a quick way to look at the problems of making the comparison.

If I can’t steelman my opponent’s view to their satisfaction it means I think I’m opposed to ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Or that they have only the delusion that they have a intelligible view. They may not understand their own arguments, because they are not fully or well worked out.

France 24 reports in Beirut explosions [france24.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Its moved on a bit now, we now know that it was just one explosion, ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse.

These photographs catch some of the memorable sunrises and sunsets I experienced whilst camping out ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Well done.

I'm The Least Anti-Yosemite Person You'll Ever Meet In Your Life

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

I am sure when some people said. " Would it not be good to get a business man or two in politics." They did not say 'failed' business man. But the one thing that a boss of a big company, however failed, who has spent all his life listening to people say yes, does not know anything about, is just how stupid he is and what he needs to do to look stupider.

If You Believe This Lying Bastard You're a Complete and Total Imbecile

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

That's another thing we need, a face palm emoji.

Daisugi, The Ancient Bonsai Technique That Can Prevent Deforestation

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Pollarding, the harvesting takes place above the level at which animals can browse.

Landscapes — 1: The Grand Union Canal, Watford, England, 2012.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

I like the lighting and cloud scape in the last one especially.

Well I made it.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Congrates, you will I am sure find worthwhile new adventure in retirement, no mater what.

“Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

That one needs some thought. Good post.

“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

And explaining to most of them, that most of human culture is illusion, is just about impossible as well.

Why, oh why, did I purchase and wear this mask of my own face?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Great idea, but I want one with. Not viral, just ugly. Written on it.

Why do right wingers call people sheep all the time as an insult?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

It is easier to declare that your opponents are following blind dogma and then walk away, than it is to address their arguments, especially when you think that you will loose the argument.

Question on Social Darwinism

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Not many, I don't usually bother with such silliness. PS. There is no such thing as Dawinism, social or otherwise. C. Darwin was a man who wrote about a thing called the, 'theory of evolution by natural selection', that is all. He was never a founder of any political or religious movement. When people are trying to sell rubbish, one of the ways they try to do it, is by borrowing fake authority from respected figures, usually dead ones who can not therefore argue, when you see that happening, it is one of the ways you spot s##t.

More work on the different religiosities of N.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

People need culture and community, and if you live in a land where the churches have a near monopoly on both of those, then, 'meh' no surprise.

Religion bans a lot of things that apparently offend the Almighty One but why?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Or, just perhaps the laws were made up by his prophets ? They did not like to delete any, and each new prophet kept on adding a another ban. So that the list just grew and grew, until it gets endless. After all a lot of them in modern times have tried to ban alcohol ! Just imagine trying to do that, when your gods best trick was turning water into wine, and he told his mates that he liked their nights out having a drink together so much, that even death would not keep him away !

The Prosperity Gospel VS The Actual Gospels Everybody knows the gospels of the bible are Matthew,...

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

The criminal classes, ( sorry religious leaders ) will sell anything their victims will buy, end of story.

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." - Herbert Spencer

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

No. Understanding.

Some of my photographs of Riverscapes in the grounds of Irwin Zoo Brisbane Australia.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

To get the photos to load, just get a photo editor, any good one will resize photos, your device may offer you the chance to resize when saving the photo anyway. There is no point in loading big photos to this site as most people will be viewing them with a mobile device or at best a lap top, so the extra quality of a large photo is wasted anyway.

Did Jesus, the man, exist?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

I do not think that there is good evidence either way, and that any guess about his existence is just a guess and no more. It is also highly likely that there were several of him, since that is the way most myths tend to grow. Because people remember the stories better than they remember names, so that when they forget the name they tend to associate the story with the first name which comes into their head , which is usually the most talked about at the time. So that you may well have had twelve stories being told in ancient Greece, about twelve people, but you end up with the twelve labours of Hercules when eleven names have been forgotten.

Wow, apparently Jesus was a holy terror growing up! How many time-outs did Mary and Joseph give him?

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

There is a charming old legend. Charming that is if you are English. That during the missing years he went traveling with his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, and that they voyaged to England, the south west especially. Given that no one really has any idea if either of them really existed, but that there is some anecdotal evidence that Joseph came to the UK later, was a tin trader, (south west England being the main ancient source of tin ) and that many young boys in that culture were apprenticed to their uncles. And given that the young adult Jesus, does act a lot like a returning traveler, who has gained some sophistication from travel that the stay at homes lack. Its as good a story as any. You can have all sorts of fun with it, just to see how much gullible Christians can take.

Is Aljazeera popular in the united states?

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

We get it in the UK and it is often very good. It is important if you can to view as many news media as possible, always especially take the time to view the ones you don't agree with is my attitude. So I do RT, Aljazeera, BBC , ITV, Sky, and just now and then the US ones.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. - Clarence Darrow

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Or not to even question.

Spacecraft Made from Ultra Thin Foam Could Reach Proxima Centauri in Just 185 Years ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Too slow, there will be nobody left back here for it to send messages to by then.

Hello again, I am 101 points from level 8!!!!!!

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Points, Points Points. Best wishes, hows the other rotten business going/ Don't wear the T-shirt to court.

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Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Always makes every thing seem great.

Orchid Rock Rose! A couple months ago, @MarkWD responded to a photo of a Rock Rose (a Texas native) ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

You may like this. Photographed growing wild in the Algarve region of Portugal back in March.

Have any atheists or anti-theists here (that I haven't blocked) ever designed a website or ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Yes I have done three websites. Since I started early in the digital era I tend to write my own htm code, which I still think is the best way, even if it is a little slow though there are lots of ways to make it quicker.

[twitter.com] who will like an idiot like you 🤣😂😅

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

He likes himself more than enough to compensate.

The weather is pretty "muggy" today, but thanks to lots of cloud cover the temperature is a quite ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Gosh, you think 33 is bearable, that's about as hot as it ever gets here, and its almost too much for us Brits. Strange bright light also seen in the sky, is it ? Do you call it? The san, nus soun, or something like that?

Last nights sunset on the hottest day so far this year.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Made it to 34 in Lincolnshire, but fortunately we are near enough to the coast to get a sea breeze. No rain though despite a thunder and lightening display last night.

Please change the absolutely useless flat mouth emoji to one of sadness.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Yes, lots of people have asked for that, for a long time.

Lyme disease vaccine found to be safe and effective in clinical trial | New Scientist

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Lyme disease is actually on the increase here in the UK, so that is good news indeed. I could not access the whole article, is it usable on animals as well, since it seems that deer are the main carriers, and the increase may be down to an increase in domestic deer ?

We all have a book in us... they say.

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Big book multi volume, should fill a few shelves.

What's a favorite repair you did?

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

A friend gave my parents an old CD stand, but it was falling to bits. So I turned a top and bottom plus a centre shaft and fitted it together. Actually its more of a rebuild, since the metal holders are the only original bits.

Yes I want this back

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Used to look across the Atlantic and think, the US has its problems, but they are basically good people, and since we have a common language, we do sometimes have some fun together. Now think, if I believed in crystal balls I could perhaps say what going to happen over there, but sadly I don't.