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2008-07-30

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Across the Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution

William Croft, requoted: "I have to constantly fend off the view that applying evolutionary ideas to linguistics is an analogy. [...] It's not an analogy: these are two different instantiations of a general theory of evolutionary change."

2008-07-30-evolan

Robert Zubrin: The Hydrogen Hoax

"Hydrogen is only a source of energy if it can be taken in its pure form and reacted with another chemical, such as oxygen. But all the hydrogen on Earth, except that in hydrocarbons, has already been oxidized, so none of it is available as fuel. If you want to get plentiful unbound hydrogen, the closest place it can be found is on the surface of the Sun; mining this hydrogen supply would be quite a trick."

2008-07-30-hydroHype