But who are we to say what risk is acceptable and what not? Let NASA and other space faring agencies/companies/industries calculate the risk and present it to the would be astronauts. Let them accept - or not - it
whatever medication you are using, you are not using enough or too many of it
It's a good thing I took lots of pictures for the "pics or it didn't happen" crowd
Proof that the Slashdot editors really are journalists!
They have always known...
Because in south-east Asia, only old people use Google
I've been ionice'ing my backups
Ionizing? That can't be good for magnetic storage!
I think most people, at least I, would agree that a capitalist democracy, even with its many flaws, is vastly superior to the alternatives
Your link does not work
I don't trust the company as they have too much control over my money and I have none.
Then what's the problem?
Or buy IKEA shares
and statistics
The world will keep turning... the other way
You must have bought a subscription while drunk
I know I was
http://www.amazon.com/Physiology-Behavior-MyPsychKit-Neil-Carlson/dp/0205593895/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230187013&sr=8-1
Chapter 1 has a short item on blindsight and it's relation to consciousness. You should really read chapter 1 of this book.
IMHO, sight doesn't happen as much in the eyes as it does in the brain.
Well, that's how the brain does its thing. Your eyes, ears, nose, skin, are instruments that extend from the brain. Data that flows from your senses to your brain lacks meaning until the brain processes it.
A few posts earlier you say:
( http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1072951&cid=26228425 )
Without a working visual cortex, nothing from the eyes enters the brain. At all.
Blindsight does not imply that the visual cortex does not "work". Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_visual_cortex
Data still flows from the eyes over the optical chiasm to the primary visual cortex (the cortex around the calcarine fissure in the occipital lobe). From there, there are multiple "streams" of visual data. One of those streams is the one that "enters" consciousness.
It is the absolute certainty with which you refute the previous, and the postulation of the following near-superhuman senses that make you appear rather uninformed and quite arrogant.
Most likely, he is using sound or air pressure. Blind people can often maneuver by hearing things like subtle changes in sound of footprints, etc., echoing off of or being aborbed by walls, etc. There are also subtle changes in air pressure as you approach obstacles, and that can often be 'felt' by blind people.
Take a biological psychology course or your own medicine (your signature)
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Blindsight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
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