Second point, in trying to turn my argument against me, you're conflating an agreement with a particular person (author Joe, you have been granted copyright for this work) with an inherently nebulous agreement with society (society, this work will pass into the public domain).
Isn't the former agreement more along the lines of "Author Joe, you have been granted copyright of your work for $years".
Either humanity will eventually colonize other places (at least in our own solar system) or we will go extinct.
Humanity will eventually go extinct because of the heat death of the universe. Therefore, we will never colonize other places even in our own solar system.
But if you don't put up a hedge there's no reason I can't look at your house. And if you're listed in the phone book, there's no reason why I can't call you up.
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Second point, in trying to turn my argument against me, you're conflating an agreement with a particular person (author Joe, you have been granted copyright for this work) with an inherently nebulous agreement with society (society, this work will pass into the public domain).
Isn't the former agreement more along the lines of
"Author Joe, you have been granted copyright of your work for $years".
It's a bit of a bad idea to create an incentive for people to kill off authors.
News flash! JK Rowling killed on day of seventh book's release! Warner Brothers reporting record profits on new movie!
Well, that's a bit unrealistic. Hollywood never reports profits.
If there is life swimming in a big ocean under the ice of Europa, the question becomes: how does it taste?
Like a dog with no tongue.
You can get training if you really care.
Either humanity will eventually colonize other places (at least in our own solar system) or we will go extinct.
Humanity will eventually go extinct because of the heat death of the universe. Therefore, we will never colonize other places even in our own solar system.
Check, and mate.
And a Ladies Home Journal article in 1900 had similar predictions.
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/17/what-may-happen-in-the-next-hundred-years-ladies-home-journa.html
He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the future conquers the past.
Put him in the news when he has a less shoddy track record than Ehrlich.
Until then, get off my lawn.
The entire human body runs on about 100 W of power.
The brain apparently uses about 20 W of that. I've seen figures quoted as low as 12 W, which seem a bit on the low end.
If it's on approach, it ain't going to have a big fireball. Virtually no fuel left.
Tribes 2's real claim to fame is "most botched game sequel ever."
Now that's a funny way of spelling Tribes: Vengeance.
War. War is Hell.
Cyber-war is cyber-hell. Full of cyberdemons. Bring a shotgun.
But if you don't put up a hedge there's no reason I can't look at your house. And if you're listed in the phone book, there's no reason why I can't call you up.
Governor of California, right?
They don't have any formal definition of planets outside our system, what my post was about...
The real question is, can we find aliens?
You don't like the definition, get your PhD in astrophysics and make up a new one.
Bzzt. The IAU doesn't define this as a planet, let alone an extragalactic one.
C is exactly 299792458 ms.
The speed of light is 3.46982012 days?
Can you do the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs?
Like the last level of Psychonauts. (which never got playtested)
Fuck the glitchy cheese graters
Who PAYS for pirated material?
People who aren't intentionally doing so. They think they're just getting a good deal on films from what looks like a reputable online seller.
You're actually incorrect. The vast majority of people cannot to use 100% of their brain at once.
We have a word for those rare people with the ability to do so.
Epileptics.
Norman Borlaug. Because if saving a billion people's lives using science doesn't make you a sciencey hero, nothing will.
Kudo's to the Japanese
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
How the hell is this flamebait?
You mean like the Russian Gas-Powered boots?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/business/worldbusiness/17gazshoes.html