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Comment Re:A openly editable source has errors? (Score 1) 200

Not only that, but I have made several edits to where the "source" for the information either contradicted what was being documented, or didn't have any relation at all. Especially cites from NIH, people use the article title as reference, but the contents of the article have little to do with how the wikipedia editor interpreted them. A perfect example is the Timeline of the far future. The citations are dubious at BEST and flat out wrong in a significant amount of cases.

Comment Re:Memories do decay (Score 1) 426

That is because after the memory starts to fade, we start remembering recalling that memory, not the memory itself. Each iteration likely has details that weren't recalled, so they can be supplemented with someone elses recollection, or simply imagination filling in the gaps. Since this process isn't observable it is hard to tell where the memory changed and how

Comment Re:36% less pain (Score 1) 274

Are you telling me you never felt real pain while dreaming? My first experience was when I was 4-5 years old, and I dreamed that I kept falling into a river of tomato soup. When I fell in, there was an intense stabbing pain in my gut. Eventually I woke up to having diarrhea. I had a stomach bug for a couple of days that I felt the symptoms of when I was unconscious. Another dream much later in life, someone stabbed me in my foot. Apparently, I had kicked the post on my bed (as per my wife) and had a nice bruise in the morning to show for it.

Comment Re:ET's not that bad. (Score 4, Funny) 179

and you _really_ have to read the instructions to play No kidding! Once upon a time, having a $50 Atari 2600, the only game I had was asteroids. At a yard sale, I picked up E.T. for $1, though it had no instruction manual. I played that for way way way too many hours, thinking I needed some secret hidden one last piece to the phone. Of course I never found it, the atari broke and I sold that E.T. cartridge at a yard sale for $1. Fast forward 25 years I pick up a 2600 in a nice clean original box, along with E.T. and several other games with nice clean boxes and instruction booklets. I took it all home and I broke open the E.T. instructions. All that time I wasted... there was no one more piece to the phone, I always got them all! You just had to go back to the very spot E.T. landed at the beginning of the game and press the button. I beat the game in 5 minutes.

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