Or else, what if it causes us to never smell a fart again? Methane reclamation would start at the industrial level undoubtedly, but you already know someone would introduce bacteria-lined household filters, underwear, sleepwear, bed sheets, and suddenly a fart is never smelled again.

/s farts contain more than just methane and certain stenches would be perceivably unquenchable.

And it smells like farts!

So what happens when one throws a match into the termite house?? For science, of course.

Biofilters with methanotrophs are being explored, but I think the biggest hurdle is capturing the methane in the first place.

I'd argue that it is at least partially proven, but I will cede that it is technically still theory.

I would imagine volume would be the issue

Could we grow this bacteria to help with our methane leaks in our infrastructure?

TIL I was a "mammalian ruminant". :-)

Oooo I smell a technological innovation coming on

Good thinking, don’t want that thing to come back as a botchling

You know, one simple word would resolve this whole controversy with me and I would shut my mouth. That word is "theory". When scientists dropped that word when speaking of evolution, they lost my respect as fact-based scientists.

I give you points for honesty. However, I think it's worth giving weight to the general agreement of so many scientists. You admit you don't know, and that's okay. You didn't focus your life on that. But some people have.

You say you are or were an attorney, so you understand records, surely? Documentation? Historians work with records and context to fill in where records fail. Detectives and crime scene investigators do the same.

Archeologists do the same on a much larger time table. We don't know the exact time and date that things happened, we know they happened a long time ago. We can estimate how old dirt is. We can use that to guess when this water horse lived and died. We see that the fossilized water horse was NOT the same creature as the ones we have, but that the creatures have similarities. We can look at how the bones of a whale match the bones of a horse with some modification. We can see the same sort of bone shape changing in different breeds of dog.

I will say this: I offer my apologies for calling you dumb.

I will ask: simply consider?

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Hi there!

I think you meant to say ##FUCK

Herp derp

You're maybe thinking of tandoori masala (now actually not so uncommon in India). Saag paneer, tandoori chicken, and butter chicken absolutely do exist in India and have for some time.

I think it's fair to say many dishes we think of as traditional Indian cuisine are tied to colonialism in general due to use of non native ingrédients such as chili peppers or tomato, sure, but not that it all originates from the UK.

I'm going to try to avoid treating you like an idiot like most people here have and instead try to explain some things.

Evolution is based in reality and our long study and observation of the world.

We can start by saying that we do not have to rely solely on ancient fossils for determination.

There has been a long running study of evolution in bacteria that has run since 1988 and over 70 thousand generation where we have watched genetic adaptation in real time.

This has been replicated by other studies which have been running for shorter times.

We can stay modern and go outside of the lab environment though. Frog species around chernobyl have turned pitch black in an adaptation to protect from radiation evolving pigmentation and protection.

Then there is a classic of science that we can confirm things from seperate independant sources. We can roughly catagorize species based on similar traits and did so for a long time before being able to confirm these lineages through DNA and genetic evidence.

Then there is simply the fossil record. We can look back at fossils throughout history and see plain evidence of evolution and adaptation over time.

I encourage you to challenge your belief and look further into evolution and you will find that there is a vast amount of evidence for it.

farts* in this case.

It's impossible to know anything with certainty. Therefore you might as well not exist at all to me.

In the fossil record? Yes we do. In DNA comparisons of related creatures? In a roundabout way also yes.

Which were all created in Britain. Butter chicken isn't a dish that actually exists in India.

There's a saying, one person's trash is another's treasure.

The whole family is buried at Arlington, except for John Jr who was cremated and scattered at sea.

Legal writing is very complicated. I should know, being a retired attorney.

I can't. Because it's impossible to know with certainty. I admit I don't know, and don't make up fake crap about it.

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