Our next stretch goal: you could pee INTO the trains. When they're empty, the trains would be sent back up a track that runs from outside the stall to the inside. You would just stand with your feet on either side of the track and pee into all the little tiny trains. Your pee would pass through little flaps attached to generators on the way down. Those little trains would then run down the track, generating power and then dumping your pee into a trough near the wall, coal-cart style. The pee running down the trough would turn a generator and generate electricity one more time before just falling through a hole and onto the passing soil below. We'd just do away with the inefficient hydro-pumping style of toilets and get used to a whole new way of life.
Our stretch goal would be to combine all of this into one.
The giant office complex covered in solar panels would contain the actual power company headquarters and employees. And all of the furniture, all of the reclining swivel chairs, all of the ergonomic desks, all of the staplers and all of the filing cabinets would all actually be batteries. Batteries everywhere.
The floors inside the office building would be ever so slightly unstable so that when they're walked on, they generate power as well. All of the doors, all of the chair swivels and hydraulics, all of the staplers, everything that moves would have a little generator inside of it reclaiming some of the energy spent walking from cubicle to cubicle, sitting down, spinning around in your chair and stapling paper.
When you pee in the office toilets, the falling energy of the pee would strike a generator and this power would be stored in the toilet which is actually a battery. And when nobody is using the toilet, water would be pumped into the toilet to be pumped out again later -- wait, toilets already do that. Well, we would find out some way to use the toilets as hydro.
But wait? Why? We're already more efficient than hydro. We would actually use hundreds of tiny little trains that ride up and down the office toilets and the insides of the toilet stalls. There would be little trains everywhere storing the energy from when you pee, or when you press keys on your keyboard, or when you get a drink from the office cooler. The water falling from the cooler would spin a generator the same way as your pee does.
And all the tiny little trains would themselves also be batteries and also be covered in photovoltaic cells to capture energy from the lights being on in the bathroom. When you go to the bathroom and turn on the lights all of a sudden all these little trains would start chugging around the room and you could find a way to still pee with all of that going on around you if you got used to it.
Why is the concept about using a relatively cube-like mass similar to a normal freight car? You could flatten the mass out and have a really huge solar panel to help generate some of its own "surplus".
Or hey. Why not just put the power plants themselves on giant long tracks. Or hey let's make the trains actually giant batteries. So they can store energy two different ways at once.
Hey what about this idea: we can do away with the mountains entirely. You can just have a really, really long track with Bill Nye's patented weight-lifting system at either end. You lift the end with the train on it up during peak hours and release the car's brake when the energy's needed. When the car gets to the other end, the lifting piston is dropped and the track goes flat again.
See at that point, you could actually use the train to transport people, too. As long as they're not in a hurry or anything. Well why not put an office space inside of the train and run a business from there. You could cross a state line and pay lower taxes during peak hours.
Hey you could build the track all the way around the world. It would come back to right about where it started, and so it would be really efficient to reclaim a little tiny little bit of precious energy from the piston doing the dropping of the track (which you have to admit would probably be a really heavy track) and distribute it directly to the other piston lifting the other end.
With the solar panels on the top of the large, flat office building full of internationals who jump on to buy stock where it's lower and then jump off to sell stock where it's higher, and with the track going all the way around the world, and considering the very low resistance of the two pistons being just inches apart, it'd be really efficient guys. Let's kick start this bitch.
Since you don't trust non-Chinese sources on this, let's see, you're going to have to rely on whatever information the Chinese government allows to pass through their Great Firewall. And frankly, you can't trust what the Chinese Government says about anything. Nor what Chinese academics say about anything. Nor what the Chinese stock market tickers and brokers say about anything.
Hearing this news I simply shrug my shoulders. The government sanctioned mafia probably decided the startup was big enough to start laundering money through and extorting from.
they're dragging their own name through the mud by this. more experienced unethical builders and housing authorities simply change their business name to escape their bad reviews online.
there's an apartment complex nearby that is expensive (located across the street from a university) but looks kind of like crap. the siding is all dirty, and you can see horrible mold infestations growing in the wood under the walk-out patios on the 2nd and 3rd stories. this is in a town where every single place i've lived there has been mold infestations, even right next to campus. the town... the entire state of michigan, really... is just a drained swamp and wooden, dutch-style homes simply don't stand up to it very well.
well this nearby apartment complex has changed its name every year. from "Campus Hills" (with an umlaut over the u for some reason) to "Varsity" to now "Soho 700". The sign out front of "Soho 700" promises fast internet and other things among "newly renovated".
Well, I've lived here for two years and I walk by the place every night and day. There have been no trucks, no workers, no sign of any renovation occurring at all whatsoever.
Sadly here in Michigan there's no legal recourse for the students who get sucked into moving into that place and spending oodles of money on it. The Consumer Protection Agency actually makes things worse on people who complain about unethical business practices, by sending a copy of the complaint along with the complete identity, address, and phone number of the complainer to the company they're complaining about -- and then proceeding to sit on their own hands and do nothing. I've had a pretty scary experience due to the Consumer Protection Agency doxing me to a shady store.
You can't really rely on the Better Business Bureau, either. It turns out that the BBB is just a money-mill here in Michigan. You either apply to receive an endorsement from the BBB (which costs money) or you don't. There's no recourse for consumers who turn to the BBB to get things done. The BBB isn't actually in authority.
At any rate, in many U.S. states any business owner can get away with just about anything if they're willing to pay the fees and legal costs of incorporation on top of the fees and costs of obtaining a tax code, DBA and so on (which even for an LLC is several thousand dollars). Once you're incorporated, you get to enjoy a different set of laws and many of them don't even mention anything about jail or anything scary like that, just various monetary fines all in the thousands of dollars and upwards. I wouldn't be surprised if the UK's system is even worse, considering that heinous acts are kind of part and parcel with the British Empire, and power has a way of ensuring its own legacy.
Yes, but that doesn't simply translate into Kazakhstan currency. You can get it that cheap because you have that many US dollars to fuck around with. I'm sure it's hard to get your head above the wealth gap and actually afford that luxury if your class of lifestyle is solely dictated by your meagerly wages in Kazakhstani Tenge (US$0.0030).
Earth could be headed for "hard times" in terms of incoming fragments, bolides, comets, and other giant dead space things, both solar and galactic. Why not open those panels of our social camera obscurae?
Even if these possible events are lifetimes away (which they may or may not be, not like anybody can say for absolutely sure -- hence why there are pleas for public funding to become better equipped to detect and to prevent collisions with near-Earth objects) this light show doesn't have to actually represent that eventuality in order to carry the same deeper, human meaning.
I'm sure there are many reasons why many people feel pre-apocalyptic stress disorder, what with everything going on in the news today. Something like this is bound to ring true with just about every generation that's managed to still be alive today. You could light the atmosphere on fire with numerous atomic warheads and there are dwindling numbers of people who would have any immediate qualms with it.
I thought all of these pie-in-the-sky, bubble-creating dot-commies had been effectively filtered out of the market by now.
Some comment below actually says that if you give the internet to some person who lives without electricity, clean water, food, literacy or rights, that the person will somehow be able to use it to obtain the clean water.
I mean, I guess it makes sense in a way: there's a new generation who did not already live through that awkward phase when the internet was the magical "information superhighway" that was going to transport perfection into everyone's life. You can't blame them for not knowing better when crooked corporate scammers pitch them that idea like it's fresh.
Who knows, maybe these guys are onto something. I see some warning signs, though.
See, these guys have been working on this theory for some time. They've developed some language (as in L) of their own and it sounds like they're having some trouble showing that it is internally consistent. This shouldn't really be a speedbump. It should be possible to first of all show that a space can exist in the algebra, by finding a basis. This would simply require finding a set of linearly independent vectors satisfying the expression of every pertinent "dimension" that the algebra requires. In commutative algebra, this is trivial.
Personally, I think any unified theory should be simple to demonstrate in R^3 using linear algebra. Coming up with a convoluted mathematical expression for the universe is by no means anything new; you can do this any time you want by defining a language L and giving it a set of operations that satisfy your view of a given universe of whatever size. You can describe an infinite universe with a finite number of operations, by placing some constraint on what's observable in that universe, such as by stating that everything observable in that universe exists in R^3. There you go, now your universe can just exist as a set of vectors (classical physics). If you want to add things like quantum entanglement you simply create some operations and show that the results of the operations can be reliably reproduced. There you go, your language for your universe is internally consistent.
Since these guys are kind of going out on a mathematical limb, I think they've reached egg-head stage. Which means there's a possibility that nothing they're working on now has any basis in reality. It might have a "basis" in terms of linear programming and that sort of thing, it might even be consistent to itself, but you have to take into consideration that it's a constructed language. There might not be any real-world way to take their "EUREEKA" moment and translate it back into the R^3 that we all live in, to use it for any kind of practical predictions or applications.
There are already some pretty good candidates for Grand Unified Theories that aren't seeking crowd funding and have also been published portion by portion academically. I'm rather partial to the theory posited by Willie Johnson Jr., supervisor of Rutgers Inorganic Analytical Laboratory. He basically wants to describe everything in the universe as a sort of "centrifugal force", and he's done extensive work unifying various classical and quantum formulae through the units he's come up with. And what's better, his work appears to be completely presentable in linear algebra. http://www.lehighvalleylive.co...
There are enough theories out there for everybody to find one that's their pet theory and work on following it or even adding to its development. Finding a Grand Unified Theory is a great ambition and its can serve as the constant impetus that keeps a person learning more things and proposing and testing more hypotheses.
What I see in this project is somebody who might be burned out already, who might have already rapped their knuckles against the white painted rock wall they thought was the light at the end of the tunnel, and is now asking for money to dig themselves back out. I'm not saying that's the case -- I'm just pointing out that it's a distinct possibility.
Emojis are *already* visual cues, formed by the shapes of various ASCII or other character sets. They *already* suffer from this problem from the get-go.
The problem is that some people's brains are so fucking dull, so abused, so worthless, that they can't even interpret a smiley face made out of some characters.
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Who cares is some of the weirdos who've helped this brain-drain along by capitalizing on it screw up by not socializing with one another? Those people are trogs, too.
As soon as you say "hey, I'm going to make something that turns emoticons into little graphics," my first thought is, "wow, you're really out to fuck with people, aren't you?"
No good could have ever come of it in the first place. The people these replacement scripts cater to and the people who write and add to them are all together in the same barrel of shit-monkeys. They're the Morlocks to nations full of soft-headed Eloi.
Your only hope as the analogous Time Traveler is to get back on your Attention Machine and turn your attention elsewhere.
This article and all the attention you pay to it is basically the Morlocks showing their faces above ground and stealing your Time Machine away.
Well, OK, joining you out on your four various limbs of one tree, I can offer some conversational points to each:
1 "Species" in this sense could be broad. You could be talking about a species that has already been star-hopping for some time, and it would still be this same species here on Earth. If to allow for that we would need to lend some discredit to theories of evolution from apes to humans, we could accept that the current state of research in that area is kind of messy and fumbling. We could even inject the possibility that some space-faring race could pull a little trick by seeding several different hominids with genetics that would lead their offspring to intellect and eventual dominance, which would have two benefits: to increase the chance of an intelligent hominid successfully taking hold, and to make it hard for the dominant hominid's descendant civilization to figure out exactly what happened. Not that any of this discounts this option, since it would still be the case, as long as this hypothetical spacefaring race were the first of its kind.
2 This one's really intriguing. The universe is pretty old. We're always finding out new things that shift the margins of what we think we know about the time frame of formation and lifespan of stars and planets, and therefore what scenarios are possible. And this has been the case with galaxies, as well. I think the idea that we're the last intelligent race (in the galaxy? in the universe?) is really poignant.
3 This is probably true. Well honestly I can't add much to this.
4 Why military aviation, though? If there's no evidence of something weird, then there's no evidence. Not that this isn't a good most-probable point but I'd offer one even more likely:
5 That it's a smokescreen for shifty geopolitics that the U.S. government wouldn't benefit from U.S. citizens paying too much attention to or forming strong opinions on.
I personally really, highly doubt that our government has anything revelatory or unprecedented to say about the fullest extent of their knowledge about visits by E.T.
I'm not going to go all-out and say we've never been visited. Personally I've stuck most of my life with the ideal (while fully acknowledging it as idealistic) that until you know for sure one way or the other, most proposed limits to possible phenomena in the universe deserve a 50/50 consideration. That is, it's just as likely said phenomenon doesn't exist as it does.
That being said, I've seen or experienced firsthand -- well outside of controlled or manipulable environments -- evidence of things such as "ghosts" and ESP, things that are supposed to be impossible in the constraints contemporary to our modern, scientific dogma.
However, I've never seen one shred of evidence for the visitation of extraterrestrials on Earth. I know several people who swear up and down that they were visited, or that they have "missing time" surrounding events that they believe strongly suggest a visitation -- lights in the sky before "blacking out and disappearing for two days", etc. I'm not going to discredit those sorts of claims. But nothing I've seen or experienced has shifted me off of "my 50/50" regarding E.T.
So if you said "the government has deep files with proof -- PROOF! -- of ghosts" or of any other thing that I'm no longer strictly 50/50 about, I'd say "man, I'd love to see that!" If we could take some arbitrary ratio like 90/10 regarding something like ghosts, I could say I 80% believe somebody else somewhere has had similar experiences and maybe even found a way to form concrete evidence out of them. But regarding E.T. I can't say I can lend even 1% of credence to claims that the government is hiding anything from us.
More likely, the government knows fully well that either:
A) there is no evidence of any E.T. visits to Earth since the foundation of the United States, or at least going back as far as 1920;... or...
B) that there is "compelling, yet inconclusive" evidence for same.
Either way, there's nothing to say that the government doesn't see something lucrative in allowing people to:
1. believe what they want to believe without threat to those beliefs, no matter how deluded, far-out, or insane;
2. believe specific things that benefit the government to have them believe.
It's not impossible -- in fact it's somewhat likely -- that the U.S. government (whoever that is we're talking about, whatever agency, etc.) could actually *gain* something by having people believe that the U.S. government knows for sure that there has been an E.T. visit to Earth, even if the truth is that the U.S. government has no reason to believe that there ever has.
I'm glad to hear other people have posited the same theory.
About the only thing we could hope for (if we're serious -- I'm not too sure that I am in this case) is that enough people support the theory and wait around for all of the thousands of other theories that are based on its exact inverse to eventually fail, leaving no further opposition.
(I suppose the method of thinking behind passing these laws and seeing them upheld in a COJ is that a woman would not go out of her way to bring a man to trial with no evidence except her testimony that he raped her, or perhaps they simply never considered the possibility that a woman would simply lie on the stand as an act of revenge against a man who failed to provide her with enough drugs and money, or maybe just because she's crazy and has a vendetta against mankind and found herself comfortable in a state with a law on the books that conforms to her wild delusions.
One such woman I met ended up badly -- she fell from a third story window and escaped only with permanent waist-down paralysis. Apparently it was entirely an accident caused by her recklessness during a party, with numerous witnesses accounting for her stupid behaviour. The one good thing to come out of it is that it's very unlikely she'll be putting any more men in prison for rape accusations ever again, what with the loss of control of her pelvic muscles and all.)
In some states, Michigan included, a woman's testimony *is* evidence, and it does stand in a court of law.
I've known some men who've gone to prison for false rape accusations, and I've sometimes known the women who made the accusations as well. There are some women who are simply scourges and some states that have no idea WTF course of justice is.
Do you read an entire comment before you barge in with a rebuttle? I was offering a counter-point not to support it but to shoot it down in later sentences. Sheesh!
And any ways, it's embarrassing. Supposing you offered to include data outside the observable universe, someone trite could ask "oh, yeah? Where'd you get that from?"
Which all implies that your mother is the size of the observable universe, you know, what with all the talk of light-emitting matter entering the cherry-picked black hole and all, Adam Kadmon, etc.
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You must simply never have joined an upper-level professional program a University, as you seem completely unfamiliar with the term "academic hubris".
Our next stretch goal: you could pee INTO the trains. When they're empty, the trains would be sent back up a track that runs from outside the stall to the inside. You would just stand with your feet on either side of the track and pee into all the little tiny trains. Your pee would pass through little flaps attached to generators on the way down. Those little trains would then run down the track, generating power and then dumping your pee into a trough near the wall, coal-cart style. The pee running down the trough would turn a generator and generate electricity one more time before just falling through a hole and onto the passing soil below. We'd just do away with the inefficient hydro-pumping style of toilets and get used to a whole new way of life.
Our stretch goal would be to combine all of this into one.
The giant office complex covered in solar panels would contain the actual power company headquarters and employees. And all of the furniture, all of the reclining swivel chairs, all of the ergonomic desks, all of the staplers and all of the filing cabinets would all actually be batteries. Batteries everywhere.
The floors inside the office building would be ever so slightly unstable so that when they're walked on, they generate power as well. All of the doors, all of the chair swivels and hydraulics, all of the staplers, everything that moves would have a little generator inside of it reclaiming some of the energy spent walking from cubicle to cubicle, sitting down, spinning around in your chair and stapling paper.
When you pee in the office toilets, the falling energy of the pee would strike a generator and this power would be stored in the toilet which is actually a battery. And when nobody is using the toilet, water would be pumped into the toilet to be pumped out again later -- wait, toilets already do that. Well, we would find out some way to use the toilets as hydro.
But wait? Why? We're already more efficient than hydro. We would actually use hundreds of tiny little trains that ride up and down the office toilets and the insides of the toilet stalls. There would be little trains everywhere storing the energy from when you pee, or when you press keys on your keyboard, or when you get a drink from the office cooler. The water falling from the cooler would spin a generator the same way as your pee does.
And all the tiny little trains would themselves also be batteries and also be covered in photovoltaic cells to capture energy from the lights being on in the bathroom. When you go to the bathroom and turn on the lights all of a sudden all these little trains would start chugging around the room and you could find a way to still pee with all of that going on around you if you got used to it.
Come on guys. Let's kick start this bitch.
Why is the concept about using a relatively cube-like mass similar to a normal freight car? You could flatten the mass out and have a really huge solar panel to help generate some of its own "surplus".
Or hey. Why not just put the power plants themselves on giant long tracks. Or hey let's make the trains actually giant batteries. So they can store energy two different ways at once.
Hey what about this idea: we can do away with the mountains entirely. You can just have a really, really long track with Bill Nye's patented weight-lifting system at either end. You lift the end with the train on it up during peak hours and release the car's brake when the energy's needed. When the car gets to the other end, the lifting piston is dropped and the track goes flat again.
See at that point, you could actually use the train to transport people, too. As long as they're not in a hurry or anything. Well why not put an office space inside of the train and run a business from there. You could cross a state line and pay lower taxes during peak hours.
Hey you could build the track all the way around the world. It would come back to right about where it started, and so it would be really efficient to reclaim a little tiny little bit of precious energy from the piston doing the dropping of the track (which you have to admit would probably be a really heavy track) and distribute it directly to the other piston lifting the other end.
With the solar panels on the top of the large, flat office building full of internationals who jump on to buy stock where it's lower and then jump off to sell stock where it's higher, and with the track going all the way around the world, and considering the very low resistance of the two pistons being just inches apart, it'd be really efficient guys. Let's kick start this bitch.
ERR ... correction:
You say all this as if apple has NOT become synonymous with planned obsolescence.
You say all this as if Apple has become synonymous with planned obsolescence.
Since you don't trust non-Chinese sources on this, let's see, you're going to have to rely on whatever information the Chinese government allows to pass through their Great Firewall. And frankly, you can't trust what the Chinese Government says about anything. Nor what Chinese academics say about anything. Nor what the Chinese stock market tickers and brokers say about anything.
Your challenge is pretty lopsided.
Hearing this news I simply shrug my shoulders. The government sanctioned mafia probably decided the startup was big enough to start laundering money through and extorting from.
they're dragging their own name through the mud by this. more experienced unethical builders and housing authorities simply change their business name to escape their bad reviews online.
there's an apartment complex nearby that is expensive (located across the street from a university) but looks kind of like crap. the siding is all dirty, and you can see horrible mold infestations growing in the wood under the walk-out patios on the 2nd and 3rd stories. this is in a town where every single place i've lived there has been mold infestations, even right next to campus. the town ... the entire state of michigan, really ... is just a drained swamp and wooden, dutch-style homes simply don't stand up to it very well.
well this nearby apartment complex has changed its name every year. from "Campus Hills" (with an umlaut over the u for some reason) to "Varsity" to now "Soho 700". The sign out front of "Soho 700" promises fast internet and other things among "newly renovated".
Well, I've lived here for two years and I walk by the place every night and day. There have been no trucks, no workers, no sign of any renovation occurring at all whatsoever.
Sadly here in Michigan there's no legal recourse for the students who get sucked into moving into that place and spending oodles of money on it. The Consumer Protection Agency actually makes things worse on people who complain about unethical business practices, by sending a copy of the complaint along with the complete identity, address, and phone number of the complainer to the company they're complaining about -- and then proceeding to sit on their own hands and do nothing. I've had a pretty scary experience due to the Consumer Protection Agency doxing me to a shady store.
You can't really rely on the Better Business Bureau, either. It turns out that the BBB is just a money-mill here in Michigan. You either apply to receive an endorsement from the BBB (which costs money) or you don't. There's no recourse for consumers who turn to the BBB to get things done. The BBB isn't actually in authority.
At any rate, in many U.S. states any business owner can get away with just about anything if they're willing to pay the fees and legal costs of incorporation on top of the fees and costs of obtaining a tax code, DBA and so on (which even for an LLC is several thousand dollars). Once you're incorporated, you get to enjoy a different set of laws and many of them don't even mention anything about jail or anything scary like that, just various monetary fines all in the thousands of dollars and upwards. I wouldn't be surprised if the UK's system is even worse, considering that heinous acts are kind of part and parcel with the British Empire, and power has a way of ensuring its own legacy.
Yes, but that doesn't simply translate into Kazakhstan currency. You can get it that cheap because you have that many US dollars to fuck around with. I'm sure it's hard to get your head above the wealth gap and actually afford that luxury if your class of lifestyle is solely dictated by your meagerly wages in Kazakhstani Tenge (US$0.0030).
If you think money solves the world's worst problems, you've lived with a lack of one of two things:
* that kind of money
* any understanding of what's actually causing those kinds of problems
You can't just throw "money" at drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, and despair, and expect them to go away.
In most cases, the money you're throwing goes directly into the hands of people who do the most harm with the most money.
Earth could be headed for "hard times" in terms of incoming fragments, bolides, comets, and other giant dead space things, both solar and galactic. Why not open those panels of our social camera obscurae?
Even if these possible events are lifetimes away (which they may or may not be, not like anybody can say for absolutely sure -- hence why there are pleas for public funding to become better equipped to detect and to prevent collisions with near-Earth objects) this light show doesn't have to actually represent that eventuality in order to carry the same deeper, human meaning.
I'm sure there are many reasons why many people feel pre-apocalyptic stress disorder, what with everything going on in the news today. Something like this is bound to ring true with just about every generation that's managed to still be alive today. You could light the atmosphere on fire with numerous atomic warheads and there are dwindling numbers of people who would have any immediate qualms with it.
More power to 'em, whoever the fuck they are.
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I thought all of these pie-in-the-sky, bubble-creating dot-commies had been effectively filtered out of the market by now.
Some comment below actually says that if you give the internet to some person who lives without electricity, clean water, food, literacy or rights, that the person will somehow be able to use it to obtain the clean water.
I mean, I guess it makes sense in a way: there's a new generation who did not already live through that awkward phase when the internet was the magical "information superhighway" that was going to transport perfection into everyone's life. You can't blame them for not knowing better when crooked corporate scammers pitch them that idea like it's fresh.
Who knows, maybe these guys are onto something. I see some warning signs, though.
See, these guys have been working on this theory for some time. They've developed some language (as in L) of their own and it sounds like they're having some trouble showing that it is internally consistent. This shouldn't really be a speedbump. It should be possible to first of all show that a space can exist in the algebra, by finding a basis. This would simply require finding a set of linearly independent vectors satisfying the expression of every pertinent "dimension" that the algebra requires. In commutative algebra, this is trivial.
Personally, I think any unified theory should be simple to demonstrate in R^3 using linear algebra. Coming up with a convoluted mathematical expression for the universe is by no means anything new; you can do this any time you want by defining a language L and giving it a set of operations that satisfy your view of a given universe of whatever size. You can describe an infinite universe with a finite number of operations, by placing some constraint on what's observable in that universe, such as by stating that everything observable in that universe exists in R^3. There you go, now your universe can just exist as a set of vectors (classical physics). If you want to add things like quantum entanglement you simply create some operations and show that the results of the operations can be reliably reproduced. There you go, your language for your universe is internally consistent.
Since these guys are kind of going out on a mathematical limb, I think they've reached egg-head stage. Which means there's a possibility that nothing they're working on now has any basis in reality. It might have a "basis" in terms of linear programming and that sort of thing, it might even be consistent to itself, but you have to take into consideration that it's a constructed language. There might not be any real-world way to take their "EUREEKA" moment and translate it back into the R^3 that we all live in, to use it for any kind of practical predictions or applications.
There are already some pretty good candidates for Grand Unified Theories that aren't seeking crowd funding and have also been published portion by portion academically. I'm rather partial to the theory posited by Willie Johnson Jr., supervisor of Rutgers Inorganic Analytical Laboratory. He basically wants to describe everything in the universe as a sort of "centrifugal force", and he's done extensive work unifying various classical and quantum formulae through the units he's come up with. And what's better, his work appears to be completely presentable in linear algebra. http://www.lehighvalleylive.co...
There are enough theories out there for everybody to find one that's their pet theory and work on following it or even adding to its development. Finding a Grand Unified Theory is a great ambition and its can serve as the constant impetus that keeps a person learning more things and proposing and testing more hypotheses.
What I see in this project is somebody who might be burned out already, who might have already rapped their knuckles against the white painted rock wall they thought was the light at the end of the tunnel, and is now asking for money to dig themselves back out. I'm not saying that's the case -- I'm just pointing out that it's a distinct possibility.
some scientists will say / "conclude" anything, anything at all under the sun, to avoid concluding that things like clairvoyance and telepathy exist.
Emojis are *already* visual cues, formed by the shapes of various ASCII or other character sets. They *already* suffer from this problem from the get-go.
The problem is that some people's brains are so fucking dull, so abused, so worthless, that they can't even interpret a smiley face made out of some characters.
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Who cares is some of the weirdos who've helped this brain-drain along by capitalizing on it screw up by not socializing with one another? Those people are trogs, too.
As soon as you say "hey, I'm going to make something that turns emoticons into little graphics," my first thought is, "wow, you're really out to fuck with people, aren't you?"
No good could have ever come of it in the first place. The people these replacement scripts cater to and the people who write and add to them are all together in the same barrel of shit-monkeys. They're the Morlocks to nations full of soft-headed Eloi.
Your only hope as the analogous Time Traveler is to get back on your Attention Machine and turn your attention elsewhere.
This article and all the attention you pay to it is basically the Morlocks showing their faces above ground and stealing your Time Machine away.
(honestly, it's not like a certain amount of suicide wouldn't help the various governments of the world)
Well, OK, joining you out on your four various limbs of one tree, I can offer some conversational points to each:
1 "Species" in this sense could be broad. You could be talking about a species that has already been star-hopping for some time, and it would still be this same species here on Earth. If to allow for that we would need to lend some discredit to theories of evolution from apes to humans, we could accept that the current state of research in that area is kind of messy and fumbling. We could even inject the possibility that some space-faring race could pull a little trick by seeding several different hominids with genetics that would lead their offspring to intellect and eventual dominance, which would have two benefits: to increase the chance of an intelligent hominid successfully taking hold, and to make it hard for the dominant hominid's descendant civilization to figure out exactly what happened. Not that any of this discounts this option, since it would still be the case, as long as this hypothetical spacefaring race were the first of its kind.
2 This one's really intriguing. The universe is pretty old. We're always finding out new things that shift the margins of what we think we know about the time frame of formation and lifespan of stars and planets, and therefore what scenarios are possible. And this has been the case with galaxies, as well. I think the idea that we're the last intelligent race (in the galaxy? in the universe?) is really poignant.
3 This is probably true. Well honestly I can't add much to this.
4 Why military aviation, though? If there's no evidence of something weird, then there's no evidence. Not that this isn't a good most-probable point but I'd offer one even more likely:
5 That it's a smokescreen for shifty geopolitics that the U.S. government wouldn't benefit from U.S. citizens paying too much attention to or forming strong opinions on.
I personally really, highly doubt that our government has anything revelatory or unprecedented to say about the fullest extent of their knowledge about visits by E.T.
I'm not going to go all-out and say we've never been visited. Personally I've stuck most of my life with the ideal (while fully acknowledging it as idealistic) that until you know for sure one way or the other, most proposed limits to possible phenomena in the universe deserve a 50/50 consideration. That is, it's just as likely said phenomenon doesn't exist as it does.
That being said, I've seen or experienced firsthand -- well outside of controlled or manipulable environments -- evidence of things such as "ghosts" and ESP, things that are supposed to be impossible in the constraints contemporary to our modern, scientific dogma.
However, I've never seen one shred of evidence for the visitation of extraterrestrials on Earth. I know several people who swear up and down that they were visited, or that they have "missing time" surrounding events that they believe strongly suggest a visitation -- lights in the sky before "blacking out and disappearing for two days", etc. I'm not going to discredit those sorts of claims. But nothing I've seen or experienced has shifted me off of "my 50/50" regarding E.T.
So if you said "the government has deep files with proof -- PROOF! -- of ghosts" or of any other thing that I'm no longer strictly 50/50 about, I'd say "man, I'd love to see that!" If we could take some arbitrary ratio like 90/10 regarding something like ghosts, I could say I 80% believe somebody else somewhere has had similar experiences and maybe even found a way to form concrete evidence out of them. But regarding E.T. I can't say I can lend even 1% of credence to claims that the government is hiding anything from us.
More likely, the government knows fully well that either:
A) there is no evidence of any E.T. visits to Earth since the foundation of the United States, or at least going back as far as 1920; ... or ...
B) that there is "compelling, yet inconclusive" evidence for same.
Either way, there's nothing to say that the government doesn't see something lucrative in allowing people to:
1. believe what they want to believe without threat to those beliefs, no matter how deluded, far-out, or insane;
2. believe specific things that benefit the government to have them believe.
It's not impossible -- in fact it's somewhat likely -- that the U.S. government (whoever that is we're talking about, whatever agency, etc.) could actually *gain* something by having people believe that the U.S. government knows for sure that there has been an E.T. visit to Earth, even if the truth is that the U.S. government has no reason to believe that there ever has.
I'm glad to hear other people have posited the same theory.
About the only thing we could hope for (if we're serious -- I'm not too sure that I am in this case) is that enough people support the theory and wait around for all of the thousands of other theories that are based on its exact inverse to eventually fail, leaving no further opposition.
(I suppose the method of thinking behind passing these laws and seeing them upheld in a COJ is that a woman would not go out of her way to bring a man to trial with no evidence except her testimony that he raped her, or perhaps they simply never considered the possibility that a woman would simply lie on the stand as an act of revenge against a man who failed to provide her with enough drugs and money, or maybe just because she's crazy and has a vendetta against mankind and found herself comfortable in a state with a law on the books that conforms to her wild delusions.
One such woman I met ended up badly -- she fell from a third story window and escaped only with permanent waist-down paralysis. Apparently it was entirely an accident caused by her recklessness during a party, with numerous witnesses accounting for her stupid behaviour. The one good thing to come out of it is that it's very unlikely she'll be putting any more men in prison for rape accusations ever again, what with the loss of control of her pelvic muscles and all.)
In some states, Michigan included, a woman's testimony *is* evidence, and it does stand in a court of law.
I've known some men who've gone to prison for false rape accusations, and I've sometimes known the women who made the accusations as well. There are some women who are simply scourges and some states that have no idea WTF course of justice is.
Do you read an entire comment before you barge in with a rebuttle? I was offering a counter-point not to support it but to shoot it down in later sentences. Sheesh!
And any ways, it's embarrassing. Supposing you offered to include data outside the observable universe, someone trite could ask "oh, yeah? Where'd you get that from?"
Which all implies that your mother is the size of the observable universe, you know, what with all the talk of light-emitting matter entering the cherry-picked black hole and all, Adam Kadmon, etc.