The Country Shrink on December 4th, 2009

And because we know that you may be less than appropriately scared about global warming we do now turn to what we have discovered from history. We ask that you not be distracted by Climategate, and listen carefully to what we have to tell you about the past.
We did discover a fossil in Antarctica [...]

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The Country Shrink on October 30th, 2009

Then did we, the Most High Scientist, through the use of calculations and formulas, imagine that there exists a great many more universes in the multiverse than we had previously imagined.  We did previously imagine through string theory that there are 10500 universes in the multiverse.  One of our Most High, Andrei Linde, did recently [...]

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The Country Shrink on May 23rd, 2009

From time to time, we do like to use computers to look into the distant past. We know how impressed you are by computers. This time, we looked back 4.4 billion years in Earth’s history.(1) We do discover through the use of our simulations that life may have survived the massive asteroid bombardment [...]

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The Country Shrink on April 1st, 2009

We do know that 3 months ago,(1) we did tell you that super volcanoes did cause the mass extinction at the P/T boundary of 250 million years ago (praise Science).  We did tell you before that it was from the impacts of asteroids, but we will now tell you that we do have a new [...]

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The Country Shrink on February 23rd, 2009

And then did we, the Most High Scientists, decide that life may have “been forged in a quantum crucible.”(1)  Not to be outdone by our fellow believers in Naturalism, the venerable biologists, we physicists did decide to weigh in on the matter of life’s beginning. 
Erving Schrödinger, the fellow who did imagine a cat being dead [...]

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The Country Shrink on January 27th, 2009

And then did we, the Most High Scientists, decide to share our latest discoveries. We know you will be impressed. We did discover that Dark Flow, that mysterious Dark Force that is causing cluster galaxies to move at an impossible 1000 kilometers/second, may tell us what lies beyond that cosmic horizon.

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The Country Shrink on January 13th, 2009

And then did we, the Most High Scientists, discover that we may soon be able to look back before the Big Bang happened (praise Science). We’ll go ahead and use the word “before” even though time did not exist, and please do not worry about it, because you would become confused anyway. Because of the appearance of lopsidedness in the Universe, we do now think we can catch a glimpse of what existed before the Big Bang.

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The Country Shrink on January 3rd, 2009

And then did we, Most High Scientist, discover that the world was subject to a global deluge (not that stupid global flood story from the Bible or from many other traditions).(1) We did activate our computer, The Seer 9000, and did run time backward to 2.5 Billion Years Ago (praise Science). We do [...]

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The Country Shrink on December 31st, 2008

And then did we decide that giant meteors were possibly not the cause of mass extinction. We did decide that perhaps magnetic blips resulting in SUPER volcanoes (1) were the cause (praise Science). Please do disregard our past theories, or keep them in mind, in case we bring them up again as THE [...]

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The Country Shrink on December 27th, 2008

And then did we decide, that the Universe could be teeming with aliens. Sure, we decided that a planet must have the right mass, be the right distance from a star, have the right atmosphere, the right material composition, and the ability to sustain water.(1)

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