This Pyre Will Burn…! Reply to #57 Urstruly
You wrote, "napak fouj must be sent back into its kennels, Americans and other neo-colonialist be told to fukk off, ousted judiciary should be re-instated, an election commission should be established under the supervision of those judges; and free and fair elections be held."

- You have a long wish-list out of a tantrum, ending in a fantasy of free and fair elections, a self-perceived outcome of a imagined recipe. Grow up!

For HP,
Sir, this fire is fast burning down to ashes in itself, as earlier, even bigger fires, did. Pakistan lives on. Don't confuse yourself with a 3 day episode of looting and plundering as some form of popular reaction...there wasn't any, at the level we have perceived so far. The nation's amnesia keeps on getting stronger every day. Don't expect much!

Search for the God Particle Re: # 11
Createalpha, could you please exemplify any single "WHY" discussed by science, and I'll be on your side.
This is new science dogma akin to the church dogma ages ago that was repelled by the discussion of "HOW",...it is repelled by discussion of "WHY"

Search for the God Particle Boson or whatever...never will there be an end to this complexity. No matter how deep you go, there is always more...fractal style. This is God's universe.
It would be reasonable to discuss God on scientific terms only when scientific understanding starts to explain the WHYs behind these HOWs.

The Empire Strikes Again in Pakistan Why be afraid of emergency? Take a look around you. Life is same.
Berserk media and lawyers did need a hard punch. See how these blackies had taken law on streets. And how the media was without any check and balance. They deserve worse, but Mushy's govt is still soft on them...just as it was soft on Lal Mosque people, till they went out of control.
Who is concerned whether we have martial law or emergency or the glorious democracy by holy Mian or BB. If the nation is against this Mushy's dogma, why they aren't on the streets. Oh please don't tell me they are afraid of the bullets and tear gas. They are already out in the city happily busy with their routine life and business, like me and you.

Affordable UK Degrees Can anyone tell me if a college is found in the register of DFES (dfes.gov.uk/providersregister), is it an authentic institution and can visa be offered by British High Commission for a course in that institution?

The General vs. the Judge Sorry sir, but it is hard for me to believe that this so called lawyers movement has anything to do with the nation en masse. A common man is still unconcerned with whatever happening down the street in the name of judiciary and politics. All he is concerned is that he is being affected badly by these howling lawyers and politicians. He is least interested in taking sides in this fight of stray dogs on the streets. Media may portray it as a popular movement just to make a point, and to add the number of viewers, but the truth is far somewhere.
Secondly, if a judicial issue is taken by the lawyers on the streets, for the justice to be decided there, ``to golian bhi chalein gi aur danday bhi parain ge`` and that would be justified. Chaudhry sahab is no angel. If a common man can be convicted, why not the CJ. And why the lawyers did not themselves pulled his hair when he took oath under military rule and justified it?

Venus, Earth, and Mars - The Untold Story #8
The importance of water for the existence of life can be underscored by the fact that certain places in Atacama Desert (the driest place on Earth) are lifeless. The sands which do not have any trace of moisture for hundreds or thousands of years are essentially sterile. No matter how optimum is the amount of oxygen, temperature, atmospheric pressure, sunlight, or other essentials of life, these places do not harbour life. On the other hand, microbes called extremophiles, live and reproduce in places where there is water, regardless of the fact that the rest of the conditions are extremely unfavourable, as I mentioned earlier. The main question is: Is life unique to Earth, or it is also found elsewhere? There are two components of this question. One is, if there is a place outside Earth, with somewhat favourable environmental conditions to support life, is there or had there been spontaneous evolution of life? The second is, can life be supported outside Earth if similar conditions are artificially created, like terraforming of Mars? Mars and Jupiter`s moon Europa are main candidates for this dream. Scientists are completely clueless about these questions at the moment.
Avoiding statements is a safe way to explain something about which not enough conclusive evidences are there.

Venus, Earth, and Mars - The Untold Story #6
You are quite right. However quoting references would have meant an article double that size. Therefore, I have tried to keep the article as simplified as possible.
Most of the knowledge we have about the Universe is quite speculative of course. From Big Bang, to the birth of the Earth and Moon, and so on. But these are not wild guesses. Whatever we infer about the Universe is based on joining bits and pieces of whatever we know, till a time it is proved or disproved by conclusive evidences. Science is a self correcting phenomenon.
You are correct about sustenance of life under extreme conditions. We have ready examples of extremophiles. They have been found at the bottom of deepest ocean trenches, living and reproducing up in the clouds, at the bottom of the 4km ice sheets of Antarctica, in the boiling waters of geysers full of harmful chemicals...they are everywhere. So they can be everywhere. And the Earth billions of years ago was quite a different world than it is now, but it was a very slow transition. But abrupt changes do take their toll.