Comment Re:Lies & Damn Lies (Score 1) 208
Seems like a reasonable hypothesis.
And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered.
Well that's sexist, ignore him.
Crime rates are down, yet cops are more militarized than ever.
I am not certain, but it's possible that the latter is causing the former.
And how many great ideas did not get to see further publication?
Yes, please answer that question. How many?
My hypothesis is the answer is close to zero. There are too many journals that will accept close to anything.
You make an example out of them with your vastly superior firepower. Galt's Gulch wasn't just a bunch of rich dudes hiding out, but also the greatest technology center in the world along with a very competent military force. Thus is the power of science fiction.
You do know the meaning of the last word in that paragraph, right?
40 years ago, Pong was first released on home console. And now I'm using a device with orders of magnitude more computational power than all of the pong consoles ever created combined. I just asked this device where I should go for lunch. It gave me a few suggestions and helpfully drew me a map.
Am I the only one who finds this less than awesome, in the scheme of things?
If I'd been working forty years ago, I'd have talked to a colleague, or read a newspaper or just walked down the street or something, and found a place to go for lunch.
Mobile phones are cool, but they aren't curing cancer.
Should one of these guys succeed, half the denigrating posters in this thread will immediately demand the government seize the technology and roll it out to the masses.
Yes, I'm sure "these guys" are both funding and performing all the scientific research into ageing themselves. They own all the research hospitals in the world, as well as all the universities doing practical and theoretical research.
If they will succeed, it will be a singlehanded piece of brilliance by one of these Randian supermen.
I'm not sure how one can give up sugar and drink red wine?
Duh, only white wine is sweet, don't you know anything?
I think more to the point is what evidence do they have that Paleolithic hunter-gatherers were also wine buffs?
I wouldn't call cutting out a group of cancer cells a cure even though it means you no longer have that cancer.
I would.
It depends for how long. If you simply cut out a group of cancerous cells, and next week you've got a new lot, it's not a cure.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
