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Originally Posted by MerF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb
Not saying Wikipedia is the end-all source, but I think that's a pretty significant number. Just thought I'd point that out.

its a large number, but the amount of material that was actually put into the atmosphere was not significant enough to cause a change... now if they were all detonated simultaneously, yes, then we'd be in hot water....literally but they were spaced out enough to not affect things to a high degree

Originally Posted by swifttal

Best being an adjective. The purpose of an adjective is to describe a noun. The noun in this case being idiot.

Definition of idiot: noun - an utterly foolish or senseless person
Definition of best: adjective - of the highest quality, excellence, or standing

So as you can see from above, this is classified as a descriptive statement. He is of the highest quality of being an utterly foolish and senseless person. That is to say, he excels at it.
An oxymoron produces a self-contradictory effect. A good example would be "He is a brilliant idiot". Which is clearly not the case.

Let me know if you need anything else clarified

lol.... sarcasm doesnt read well does it?

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

You left out the effects of volcanoes and supervolcanoes.

The climate change doomsayers are so fixated on their one little concern that they haven't the slightes clue that the Earth is flying "Blind" in a sea of rocks and it's only a matter of time before a huge one smacks the planet and opens it up like a melon, releasing more carbon into the air in one millisecond than humand could produce in a million years.

Spending on asteroid research and detection and deflection technologies is so underfunded it's non-existant.

But we're worried about a few cars hurting us!

because its the majority of the public who thinks that kind of thing could only happen in the movies. when in fact, just a few years ago, an asteroid passed within 230,000,000 miles of earth... yeah, thats a large distance, but we didnt see the damn thing until a couple weeks before it passed our orbit.

I agree that we need to spend donkey assloads of money on detection and deflection technologies, but unfortunately, thats not what the majority of the world cares or thinks about.