Comment I think it's more complicated than that ... (Score 2) 50
I'd be interested if psychological problems caused neurological issues.
Lots of climate change deniers, cornucopians and similar delusional folks in software development.
The same as there are in any other field. IT isn't full of science nerds. We have all sorts in this profession.
Example - when I started programming ages ago, one of my fellow programmers was working on an Astrological program. Another was developing something that would enable him to pick winners on the horse races. I suspect the latter was more scientifically based than the former.
Personally in my spare time I transmute base metals into gold. And vice versa.
When will the news media wake up to the fact that this is a scam and stop giving Mars Zero (zero because they have zero chance of actually going to Mars) free advertising?
My new start-up, Jupiter Zero, will soon replace Mars Zero in the news anyhow
(Actually, this is probably what's going to happen...)
So I disconnected it from the internet, and so it shall remain.
Are you sure it's really disconnected? If it has WiFi, it could auto-connect to any available, "open" access point.
The scene: two years from now:
Me: TV- turn on and switch to "The X-factor: pro-wrestling special"
TV: I'm sorry
Just hope that the TVs don't learn to lipread,,,,
I'd vote for Intelligent omnipotent Toasters.
I, for one, welcome our new Intelligent Omnipotent Toaster overlords.
Now, pass me a waffle.
The Fermi Paradox assumes that we know what to look for.
and that's enough 'Fermi' to worry about today.
[ducks]
That and there were a few spies among them.
[Citation needed]. Though I suspect if there weren't spies among 'em when they were interned, there were when they were released.
And if memory serves, as recently as the 1860's, the Brits were supplying arms to the Confederacy, so in the late 19th century, it wasn't all smiles and sunshine the way it has been since WW2.
There's also the 'Trent Affair'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... . The US stopped a British ship mid-Atlantic to take off a couple of confederate politicians. That got pretty heated, until Lincoln handled the incident (read the article...).
IMHO, the greatest accomplishment of the original Roddenberry Trek TV show was the mainstreaming of the concept of Star travel.
Nicely put and totally agree. I watched the originals when they came out, watch the reruns. I didn't bother with the rest (Next Generation, etc) as we'd done all that before.
You must mean Tiberian bats you insensitive clod!
Episode 67 clearly established they were Factarian moon bats. What you hear was an overdub based on a misspelling.
I'm sorry, I've got the Swedish dub and translates back to English as Fat, Aryan moon bats. This fits in with that Nazi vampire episode - the one that's only ever screened at Fan meetings.
I guess you have to be really geeky to remember the philosophical discussion between Spock and McCoy over this very question in the novel somewhat stupidly named "Spock must die!"
I remember it! McCoy pondered that he might have been a ghost (or whatever -- someone other than himself) since the first time he was teleported. Spock's final comment was that he'd have no way to test the argument one way or the other, so any answer was irrelevant.
Go on, ask me a hard one...
"I am, therefore I am." -- Akira