Forgot your password?  Comment: FUD all over (Score 1) 459
People that say marijuana harms those around through smoke must
never have heard of edibles or vaporizing. Don't make the whole
argument about a single method, of which there are quite a few.
Secondly, obligatory Bill Hicks: "We are losing the war against
drugs." You know what that implies? There's a war being fought,
and the people on drugs are winning it."  How Nearby Supernovae
Affected Life On Earth 109  Posted by Soulskill from the made-
of-star-stuff dept. sycodon writes with news of research into
how nearby supernovae affected the development of life on Earth.
"[Professor Henrik Svensmark] found that the changing frequency
of nearby supernovae seems to have strongly shaped the
conditions for life on Earth. Whenever the Sun and its planets
have visited regions of enhanced star formation in the Milky Way
Galaxy, where exploding stars are most common, life has
prospered. Prof. Svensmark remarks in the paper, "The biosphere
seems to contain a refle