Comment Immaculate Conception=/=Virgin Birth (Score 1) 478
In Catholicism, the Immaculate Conception (Mary being conceived without sin) is NOT the same as the Virgin Birth(Jesus being conceived without an earthly father).
Comment Immaculate Conception =/= Virgin Birth (Score 1) 478
In Catholicism, the Immaculate Conception of Mary (Mary being conceived without sin) is NOT the same as the Virgin Birth of Jesus(Jesus being conceived without an earthly father).
The Proton Just Got Smaller 289
inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"
Comment Re:I love moderates (Score 5, Informative) 1318
I hate to bring this up because it's off topic. But Hitler was Catholic. He went to church, was backed by the Vatican and mentions doing Gods work in Mein Kampf. You can't disown him from your belief system because he was a cunt.
What??? How was this modded informative?? Hitler may have been born Catholic, but he was Catholic in the same way Marx was Jewish--both are religions that are also ethnic identities, because people are inducted into them in childhood. Here are some representative quotes from his later life:
"You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
(Quoted by Albert Speer, architect of the Third Reich)
The individual may establish with pain today that with the appearance of Christianity the first spiritual terror entered into the far freer ancient world, but he will not be able to contest the fact that since then the world has been afflicted and dominated by this coercion, and that coercion is broken only by coercion, and terror only by terror.
--From Mein Kampf
"We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany."
"Cyber-Roach" Forces Rethink On Animal Movement 41
Lanxon writes "A team of researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in London has built a 'cyber-cockroach' (a cockroach wearing an accelerometer in a tiny backpack) to try and better understand the movements of many-legged animals. They found that unlike bipedal creatures, animals with more than two legs don't adjust their movements when walking over a softer surface."
The academic paper is available from the Journal of Experimental Biology. This research will be helpful in finding better ways for multi-legged robots to navigate difficult terrain.
Comment Re:inb4 (Score 1) 223
Great post. If you look at it, Catholic clerics made crucial contributions to:
*the Big Bang theory (Georges Lemaitre)
*genetics (Gregor Mendel)
* the heliocentric model (Nicolaus Copernicus)
* the battery (Giuseppe Zamboni)
and many other fields.
Comment Re:Not according to Sean Penn (Score 1) 452
I actually wonder the same thing about your mind. How is a person democratically elected... a dictator? Do you even know what a dictatorship is?
Are you kidding me? Do you know what a dictatorship is? Not to Godwin this thread, but you know that Hitler was democratically elected, right? The same for Mussolini. Can an election be fair and democratic if the voting public is starved of the relevant information they need to make their chice, through intimidation tactics and restrictions on the free press? The designation 'dictator' has nothing to with the way someone attains power, and everything to do with the way that he(ab)uses that power.
Comment Re:There is only... Super Virus! (Score 1) 321
If you're going to consistently play faux-Latin, you might claim that your boxen have viri, but I can't think of any reason for ever typing "virii". That's like talking about octopii or hippopotamii.
or penii! (latin plural of penis is penes)
Comment Re:Serial console (Score 1) 347
This is generally a good suggestion, but note this caveat from the HOWTO you linked to:
"Unlike minicomputer systems, the IBM PC was not designed to use a serial console. This has two consequences. Firstly, Power On Self-Test messages and Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) messages are sent to the screen and received from the keyboard. This makes it difficult to use the serial port to reconfigure the BIOS and impossible to see Power On Self-Test errors."
10 Worst Evolutionary Designs 232
JamJam writes "Besides my beer gut, which I'm sure has some purpose, Wired is running a story on the
10 Worst Evolutionary Designs. Ranging from baby giraffes being dropped 5-foot during birth to Goliath bird-eating spiders that practically explode when they fall from trees."
