Troberg said:

Exactly, which makes the question somewhat dubious. I would have answered true on it, because I believe intelligent life exists somewhere out there, but I also believe that the interstellar void is pretty much impossible to travel due to the scale of things, so we won’t see them here.

Pessimistic estimates are that a generation ship could travel to the next star over in about 500 years (we could probably do that with current technology, e.g. Orion), even giving thousands of years for a colony to send out another ship to its nearest star you still get the galaxy colonised within but a small fraction of the length of galactic history.

Space is vast, but so is time.

I wonder if there are many conspiracy theorists in Sweden. In 1988 the prime minister, Olof Palme was assassinated and it was never officially solved. It stands out as one of the only high level political assassinations in the first world in recent history that was not solved. That seems like it would be a perfect fertile ground for conspiracy theory, and possibly not even an implausible one.

Actually, there’s quite a few, and some of them are quite believable, especially the one that blames an extreme right-wing group within the police. Several witnesses have seen people with walkie-talkies (remember, this was before mobile phones), and the policemen in question has been identified in the vicinity, despite them officially being elsewhere. The police in charge of the investigation, though, stated “We will not investigate any police leads!” and stood by it, so it has only been investigated by reporters (reporters of good reputation, not tabloid) so far.

Also, in Australia, the Prime Minister dissipated in 1967 when he went swimming. No body was ever found.

Well, given that Australia is only a snack dispenser for monstrous wildlife, that’s not hard to explain…

The more interesting assasination of a Swedish dimplomat would be the downing of Dag Hammarskjölds (Secretary General of the UN) DC-6, there are reports that Dag survived the crash but was executed in or near the plane. There is enough documents leaked to make any sane person jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon…

Conspiracy, not so much. Coverup, very possible.

Actually, he was shot in 1986 (I’m a nit pick), but who remembers or cares about a socialist primeminister from an insignificant country located in the northen regions of Europe?

Actually, quite a few does remember it, and it’s still an open wound in our national psyche. Palme was very much loved in Sweden, and internationally. So, your comment is quite offensive to a lot of people.

Aliens as intelligence somewhere else in the universe is likely, UFOs are not.

Exactly, which makes the question somewhat dubious. I would have answered true on it, because I believe intelligent life exists somewhere out there, but I also believe that the interstellar void is pretty much impossible to travel due to the scale of things, so we won’t see them here.

Apologies to the blog owner for contributing to this flood.

But minor nitpick: “For an adult, that makes a lethal dose of more than ten milligrams”.
I assume that’s a typo, and you actually meant “ten grams”.

At least with coffee it is not loaded with sugar (unless you do so yourself) and it can warm you up on a cold day and give you some good steam to clear your nose. These caffeinated sugarwater drinks probably cost nothing to make, though.

I do know they used to put ephedra (SP?) in some of them before that was banned and it turns out that is actually a potent stimulant in its own right, hence it being banned.

When I was in my early teens, by the way, I could put away a lot more caffeine than that. My friends and I used to do back yard camping things where we built a fire and stayed up all night playing gameboys or whatever and we had about two 2-liters of mountain dew each, I kid you not. I am not sure what the point was, in hindsight. I think at the time it just seemed amazing to be able to stay up all night and then feel like complete crap the next day. Whatever, that’s what we did, and nobody seems to have died.

        Dionigi said:

Jolt Caffeinated gum – 45 mhz I will have to be careful I work on a different frequency.

Sorry. I was actually multitasking while I wrote this. Making a post and playing around with a software defined radio. Somehow I got my units mixed up somewhere.

At least I didn’t try to tune into 45 milligrams.

        DV82XL said:

I have to agree, this has gone on long enough. This commenter is not interested in an exchange of ideas, he is only using this space as a platform for his idiotic ranting.

But there’s such perfect circularity to his arguments. It’s a scientific oddity. It’s also a fascinating study in the conservation of ignorance.

        BMS said:

Enough is enough. Chris, please get your own blog.

I have to agree, this has gone on long enough. This commenter is not interested in an exchange of ideas, he is only using this space as a platform for his idiotic ranting.