We have billions of human brains cheaply available
I wouldn't say raising a human up to adulthood is cheap...
Right. Did you ever consider looking at what he actually said?
never
You didn't read the actual speech did you? If not, you are speaking from ignorance.
would you read a speech from a Mullah speaking of internet? no, why? you don't care a shit about that illiterate piece of
On slashdot, people will believe anything negative claimed about that Pope.
wow! this is an amazing fact... why should that be? The pope is an idiot, obviously, no one intelligent will ever defend the want of substituting reality with a fairy tale; it is coward and childish, and well studied in psychology. In the future this kind of people will be treated, and of course no one will ever read on their opinions, as if they had something important to say.
Oh my fucking god.... we are so willing that all those fucking believers disappear and lets us build a world without dellusions...
registering major drop in the developed world.
are you saying it is dropping in the USA? I thought there they had the record of believers per citizen...
I bet that in a thousand years from now we will consider life as anything having a)enough presence of nonequilibrium thermodynamics states, and b)the ability to perform universal computation (either classical or quantum, or maybe another yet undiscovered more general thing). This could include, as foreseen by Asimov, lakes of superconducting metals in remote planets. Will vegetarianism in the future include moral attitudes for superconducting helium inside high field magnets? Will we see an invasion of Earth by superconducting metal intelligent beings on a hunt-those-superconducting-torturers/bastards?
Maybe in Pluto there is a colony of intelligent robots (which communicate through gravity waves, i.e. civilizations withouth a theory of quantum gravity wouldn't detect their communications) and they are waiting for our civilization to build enough autonomous electronic components, so that at a given point they will send a signal/virus, take control of all our electronic infracstructure and take on planet's control. The threats of civilization always come from possibilities that we weren't able to imagine.
photons have size and mass
arrgggghh! I thought photons didn't have mass and this was the reason why they could travel at light's speed (apart from a small effective mass coming from virtual electron-positron pairs creation along propagation). When I heard the sentence, in the background there was a violin string breaking too.
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