Comment Re:Phones getting too big .. (Score 1) 258
LOOOLL! Perfect!
Comment Re:Tip of the iceberg (Score 1) 669
Read what I will say carefully. What II will suggest is NOT the "absolute truth", it is only a possibility.
Imagine something in "2001 Space Odyssey" style, the very beginning of the film. Some intelligence gets down here, do some experiments with the most promising species and goes away to wait for the results. A few thousand years later it returns and finds a primitive society we know as Romans, and decides to try a more direct approach. But the approach do not occur well as she expected, and its representative is killed by the natives. Then the intelligence decides to wait until the natives evolve enough to be able to a contact, perhaps a few more thousand years in the future.
Imagine something in "2001 Space Odyssey" style, the very beginning of the film. Some intelligence gets down here, do some experiments with the most promising species and goes away to wait for the results. A few thousand years later it returns and finds a primitive society we know as Romans, and decides to try a more direct approach. But the approach do not occur well as she expected, and its representative is killed by the natives. Then the intelligence decides to wait until the natives evolve enough to be able to a contact, perhaps a few more thousand years in the future.
Comment Re:Tip of the iceberg (Score 1) 669
Hey, take it easy! The other commenter interpreted the bible as I also think that it should be interpreted, ie as a storybook.
In my humble opinion, nothing prevents the biblical characters would be aliens, because imagine how a person from that time would react when he see a being completely out of the ordinary. Even our earliest ancestors thought the sun would be a "god".
But having said that, do not think I'm saying that was exactly what happened, I'm just saying it's a good theory as any other.
But having said that, do not think I'm saying that was exactly what happened, I'm just saying it's a good theory as any other.
Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch 443
sneakyimp writes: The Antares rocket operated by Orbital Sciences Corporation exploded on launch due to a "catastrophic anomaly" after a flawless countdown. No injuries are reported and all personnel are accounted for. According to the audio stream hosted by local news affiliate WTVR's website, the Cygnus spacecraft contained classified crypto technology and efforts are being made to cordon off the wreckage area. Additionally, interviews of personnel and witness reports are to be limited to appropriate government agencies so that an accident report can be generated. This accident is likely to have a detrimental effect on the stock price of Orbital Sciences Corp, traded on the NYSE. The Antares rocket's engines are based on old soviet designs from the '60s. While this is sure to be a blow to NASA due to the cost, it may well boost the fortunes of SpaceX, a chief competitor of Orbital Sciences. Both companies were recently awarded resupply contracts by NASA.
Comment Re:It makes you uneasy? (Score 1) 1007
He's right, and you're also right. What he wrote therefore would be better if written as follows:
"Let them wallow in their beliefs, provided they do not harm anyone by doing so".
"Let them wallow in their beliefs, provided they do not harm anyone by doing so".
Comment Re:Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007
You're right, but never forget a very important detail... When you try to force others to have the same opinion as you using physical force as a threat (or other means of force, such as defamation), is not freedom of expression anymore.
"Believe what you want as long as it does not threatens the well-being of others around you"
"Believe what you want as long as it does not threatens the well-being of others around you"
Two Exocomet Families Found Around Baby Star System 23
astroengine writes Scientists have found two families of comets in the developing Beta Pictoris star system, located about 64 light-years from Earth, including one group that appears to be remnants of a smashed-up protoplanet. The discovery bolsters our theoretical understanding of the violent processes that led to the formation of Earth and the other terrestrial planets in the solar system. "If you look back at the solar system when it was only 22 million years old, you might have seen phenomena that's a like more like what's happening in Beta Pic," astrophysicist Aki Roberge, with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., told Discovery News.
Comment Interesting trick (Score 5, Interesting) 161
I read some time ago that the olfactory cells are one of the few nerve cells that maintains the ability to reproduce and create new connections, then it seems that the researchers basically created a "hard hack" with that. Interesting, and hopefully it will be applicable in many similar cases.
Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk 161
New submitter tiberus sends word of a breakthrough medical treatment that has restored the ability to walk to a man who was paralyzed from the chest down after his spinal cord was severed in a knife attack. A research team from the UK, led by Professor Geoff Raisman, transplanted cells from the patient's nose, along with strips of nerve tissue from his ankle, to the place where the spine was severed. This allowed the fibers in the spinal cord to gradually reconnect.
The treatment used olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) - specialist cells that form part of the sense of smell. ... In the first of two operations, surgeons removed one of the patient's olfactory bulbs and grew the cells in culture. Two weeks later they transplanted the OECs into the spinal cord, which had been cut through in the knife attack apart from a thin strip of scar tissue on the right. They had just a drop of material to work with - about 500,000 cells. About 100 micro-injections of OECs were made above and below the injury. Four thin strips of nerve tissue were taken from the patient's ankle and placed across an 8mm (0.3in) gap on the left side of the cord. ... Two years after the treatment, he can now walk outside the rehabilitation center using a frame.
Comment Re:That's the way the gyoza goes (Score 1) 331
This. And it was like in Europe, where the crossbow was considered unacceptable for letting an ordinary person kill the armoured nobles.
Comment Re:Technical solution for s social problem (Score 1) 115
In countries like mine, freedom of expression exists only on paper. So I understand the concern of the author of the topic as if I wanted to make a website I would also be targeted by fraudulent takedown requests in the first time that I write anything that a rich man or politician disliked.
Comment Re:This won't stop until we are in chains (Score 1) 132
You would not be against a population, you would be against a handful of really rich people and their bodyguards. Much easier.
Comment Re:OK, if not patents and IP protection, then what (Score 1) 132
The interesting detail is that you (and me) do not living in a democracy, you live in a plutocracy in practice. And in a plutocracy there is no place for this thing called people.
Comment Re:freedoms f----d (Score 3, Insightful) 132
Corporate profit is more important than our lives, is the current mantra of the USA. And then americans do not understand why most of the world hates them.
Comment Re:freedoms f----d (Score 2) 132
Is because of things like this that my country should have nuclear weapons. Then when the United States try to impose shit like this, we can say "fuck you" and blow up Washington if they insist.
