Comment Re:Sweet F A (Score 1) 576
If they have mastered interstellar travel, then then there is no way that they will be behind us in any other aspect.
Hopefully they might have fewer Star Wars prequels.
If they have mastered interstellar travel, then then there is no way that they will be behind us in any other aspect.
Hopefully they might have fewer Star Wars prequels.
Ya, no shit. As someone who is from downunder, holy CRAP America is in the dark ages when it comes to its banking and communications systems.
And if this works, we might try the metric system.
I think the disconnect is in expecting evolution to produce optimal solutions. Biology is full of make-do solutions.
Fitness of a species is not relevant. It's all about fitness of individual genes. Read The Selfish Gene.
On the contrary, for sexually reproducing species it doesn't matter how fit you and your genes are. Without a species, the genes are dead-enders.
Yeah, after thinking about it for a while I did exactly that. Came back to post about it, and found your post.
One map showed the 100th meridian as the divide between who gets 20"/year and who doesn't.
nteresting to note the map also looks like the city lights maps.
Interesting that they both show a sharp verticle divide right down the center of the country. When I first saw it on the light pollution maps it was so sharp that I wondered whether it was a time-of-photo artifact.
1) Buy movie rights.
2) Make movie.
3) Air in paid informercial time slot.
4) (TBD)
5) Profit!
Makes you wonder it the whole thing was just a scam to get at her estate all along.
In other news, the production companies are merging under the name "Streisand Corp, LLC".
HR wants 10 years experience in something that was invented 5 years ago.
If you have bigger-picture skills, you might be tempted to think for yourself.
chinook:% echo $0
bash
Now I'm totally confused. Zero dollars equals bash. Bash what? Bash head into keyboard? ORP BASH!
I know better. After a bit of strong drink I get +2 STR, +6 INT, +9 WIS, +2 DEX, +5 CON, and +8 CHA - and the effects last *exactly* until I sober up.
What actually matters isn't the fidelity of the sound, but the self-satisfaction you feel when you listen to it.
I've always been inclined to dismiss the existence of infinities outside of mathematics, but it's starting to look like the universe might be infinite in extent, and probably is infinite in the forward direction of time, so I'm starting to entertain the possibilities.
Though the idea of a universe infinite in extent arising from a point or a very small space is kind of hard to wrap your head around.
OK, these guys are probably far smarter than I'll ever be, but... the universe clearly isn't staying at a finite size, and playing the universe's expansion in reverse would imply that it started at a single point. How do they account for this? I even went as far as to read the article, but it wasn't mentioned.
Actually, if you assume that expansion plays backwards with no change in rate you pass through a point and then into negative size. Probably we should not assume that expansion can be extrapolated backwards past some point, which could as easily be a non-singularity as a singularity.
1) Some creationists claim that the big bang proves scripture is true.
2) Some creationists claim that the bag bang cannot be true, because it contradicts scripture.
3) You're the first person I've ever heard to claim that the big crunch matches scripture, and frankly I don't see where you pulled that from.
Conclusion: Scripture means whatever you want it to mean.
Also, do you know of any scientist other than Hoyle who tried to dismiss the big bang as religion? Hoyle, who was still pushing his steady state theory a generation after everyone else recognized that the evidence pointed to a big bang, and coined the term 'big bang' to denigrate the competition to his own precious theory?
Finally, I'm not sure how this qualifies as "going back to the old model", since there's still a big bang. It just doesn't start with a singularity in this proposed model. Scientists have asked about "before the big bang" for decades. In fact, they now seem to associating 'the big bang' with the beginning of the inflationary era, if I understand what I read correctly.
An AI to add a laugh track to the Simpsons so you'll know when there has been a joke.
Trap full -- please empty.