Aha! Bias! There is supposed to be a little cross after "seams" and another linking it to "Hebrews" at the bottom. Most fitting, I thought. I made my liberal little girl with her Masters (in art) laugh out loud when I first said I thought God was digital. I have reconsidered and gone beyond that a bit...except for that 0 -1 nothingness/existence part. Hey! overwrite your own little bit of reality!: http://www.soopergrape.com/photobox/Anomalousluminousartifacts.mp3 (This is way old.)
Mr. Nye,
Out of what shall they build things? Oh! Out of all this "stuff" that just so happens to be everywhere. This stuff that we can't seem to completely disassemble, duplicate, or even fully understand. Your world would seem to be made up of two kinds of people:
1. Those who think that all this "stuff" just poofed into existence-or was always here* lying around.
and:
2. Those who think that it was deliberately planned, engineered, and created specifically to interact in such a finely detailed and controlled way that those of us inside this reality do not have the ability to see the seams.
I would suggest that the second group, if properly educated, would be much better at interacting with this "stuff."
Personally, I believe that the first is much like a bunch of fleas denying the existence of a Dog, but I digress.
What if the digital construct, or simulation scenarios postulated by some are correct...sort of. What if God transcends the concepts of digital, analog, chemical, organic, etc. What if in His realm light is downright pokey. What if He deliberately set up a construct in which the most curious of concepts could be brought to life and tested: The possibility of failure. Pretty liberal for One who can only know perfection, don't you think? What if the ability to begin to understand this "stuff" was tossed along with Heavyside's apple cores and orange peels when he threw out Maxwell's multidimensional math and rewrote his work - omitting most of it? (The parts he couldn't understand?)
Please explain all this Mr. Nye. I don't understand maths, I just know what I like. SG
*Please tell us "Engineered Reality" idiots just exactly where "here" is. While you are at it could you also say what's outside?
Hebrews 11:3 (vortex atom? Spun-up energy, you know, like invisible yarn.)
I read an article in a science mag (in a waiting room) that spoke of a reduction of neural connectivity between different areas of the brain discovered in those with Autism and Aspergers. I speculated that this probably correlates nicely with the tendency for males to far outnumber females affected by each of these. Given the much larger corpus callosum (20-40%, averaging maybe 24%) of the female brain, I proposed that this larger "cable" between the the two halves of the brain would likely be supported by a more robust network of nerves throughout the brain. This would be required to supply the data this additional "bandwidth" would indicate flows between the halves of the female brain.
In females this reduction in inter-area connectivity would obviously not be first indicated by signs of Autism or Aspergers, but in mental and behavioral patterns that would tend to appear more male. Girls and women who find boys and men more suitable friends that other females, that show markedly reduced interest in activities females of their age are attracted to (dolls, fashion, shopping, etc.), and who may tend to be more technical, analytical, mathematical, etc. may indeed be on-the-spectrum, as they say.
Since smart women of all kinds have been with us from the beginning, I would agree that the change in society most responsible for the increase in Autism/Aspergers must be the acceptance and growth in the number of women in technical fields formerly dominated by men. This relative concentration of technically-minded women has caused the greatest increase in the interaction and coupling of of those who before would have either had spouses who had no idea what their mates did-but had dinner on the table at six and constantly fussed about the interior decor, or lived lives of quiet desperation playing bridge and working the Times crossword puzzle in their heads, so as not to disturb their acceptable but plodding husbands-or bosses.
As I have often told my former Managing-Editor wife, some women manage five newspapers, some can look at the contents of your kitchen and list all the meals you can make in order of difficulty, prep time, or how the presented meal will look with your dining room decor. Unfortunately, few can do both.
(We have a son on the spectrum. He is the most intelligent person I know.)
There are already windmill ships that produce hydrogen. What if high velocity winds of stormy areas and even hurricanes could be tapped to produce massive amounts of hydrogen under partial pressure at depth? This would be ferried to power plants on the shore by piloted or robotic tanker subs that need never surface, connecting to pipelines offshore. Not your traditional windmill...I'm thinking vanes the size of Airbus wings (...or larger, tip to tip, but uniformly wide.) riding on railroad capacity carriages top and bottom like a massive venetian blind wrapped around two towers cruising the leading or trailing edge with a category five blowing through it and producing power like a portable Hoover Dam on steroids...while operating with at least a fifty percent safety margin. I forget the numbers, supported at both ends and not tapered the vanes could handle more than the maximum takeoff weight of the new Airbus and probably half again or more. A hundred and fifty-five mph wind is really not so very much over stall speed. (We must allow for increased air density due to the high moisture content.) I don't have the numbers handy, and I never calculated the electrical output or hydrogen production, figure fifty to maybe a hundred vanes per harvester generating on front and back sides with a little trim for maneuvering. Might be interesting. Some places are so stormy you could just about park one and run a hose...
Oh yes, the cars! Yeah, roasted feathers, sure. And a star rotor pure hybrid with those new capacitors. Just put acceleration power strips on the on ramps and at intersections so I can get up to speed on the grid. "Home, James."
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Aha! Bias! There is supposed to be a little cross after "seams" and another linking it to "Hebrews" at the bottom. Most fitting, I thought. I made my liberal little girl with her Masters (in art) laugh out loud when I first said I thought God was digital. I have reconsidered and gone beyond that a bit...except for that 0 -1 nothingness/existence part. Hey! overwrite your own little bit of reality!: http://www.soopergrape.com/photobox/Anomalousluminousartifacts.mp3 (This is way old.)
Mr. Nye, Out of what shall they build things? Oh! Out of all this "stuff" that just so happens to be everywhere. This stuff that we can't seem to completely disassemble, duplicate, or even fully understand. Your world would seem to be made up of two kinds of people: 1. Those who think that all this "stuff" just poofed into existence-or was always here* lying around. and: 2. Those who think that it was deliberately planned, engineered, and created specifically to interact in such a finely detailed and controlled way that those of us inside this reality do not have the ability to see the seams. I would suggest that the second group, if properly educated, would be much better at interacting with this "stuff." Personally, I believe that the first is much like a bunch of fleas denying the existence of a Dog, but I digress. What if the digital construct, or simulation scenarios postulated by some are correct...sort of. What if God transcends the concepts of digital, analog, chemical, organic, etc. What if in His realm light is downright pokey. What if He deliberately set up a construct in which the most curious of concepts could be brought to life and tested: The possibility of failure. Pretty liberal for One who can only know perfection, don't you think? What if the ability to begin to understand this "stuff" was tossed along with Heavyside's apple cores and orange peels when he threw out Maxwell's multidimensional math and rewrote his work - omitting most of it? (The parts he couldn't understand?) Please explain all this Mr. Nye. I don't understand maths, I just know what I like. SG *Please tell us "Engineered Reality" idiots just exactly where "here" is. While you are at it could you also say what's outside? Hebrews 11:3 (vortex atom? Spun-up energy, you know, like invisible yarn.)
I read an article in a science mag (in a waiting room) that spoke of a reduction of neural connectivity between different areas of the brain discovered in those with Autism and Aspergers. I speculated that this probably correlates nicely with the tendency for males to far outnumber females affected by each of these. Given the much larger corpus callosum (20-40%, averaging maybe 24%) of the female brain, I proposed that this larger "cable" between the the two halves of the brain would likely be supported by a more robust network of nerves throughout the brain. This would be required to supply the data this additional "bandwidth" would indicate flows between the halves of the female brain. In females this reduction in inter-area connectivity would obviously not be first indicated by signs of Autism or Aspergers, but in mental and behavioral patterns that would tend to appear more male. Girls and women who find boys and men more suitable friends that other females, that show markedly reduced interest in activities females of their age are attracted to (dolls, fashion, shopping, etc.), and who may tend to be more technical, analytical, mathematical, etc. may indeed be on-the-spectrum, as they say. Since smart women of all kinds have been with us from the beginning, I would agree that the change in society most responsible for the increase in Autism/Aspergers must be the acceptance and growth in the number of women in technical fields formerly dominated by men. This relative concentration of technically-minded women has caused the greatest increase in the interaction and coupling of of those who before would have either had spouses who had no idea what their mates did-but had dinner on the table at six and constantly fussed about the interior decor, or lived lives of quiet desperation playing bridge and working the Times crossword puzzle in their heads, so as not to disturb their acceptable but plodding husbands-or bosses. As I have often told my former Managing-Editor wife, some women manage five newspapers, some can look at the contents of your kitchen and list all the meals you can make in order of difficulty, prep time, or how the presented meal will look with your dining room decor. Unfortunately, few can do both. (We have a son on the spectrum. He is the most intelligent person I know.)
There are already windmill ships that produce hydrogen. What if high velocity winds of stormy areas and even hurricanes could be tapped to produce massive amounts of hydrogen under partial pressure at depth? This would be ferried to power plants on the shore by piloted or robotic tanker subs that need never surface, connecting to pipelines offshore. Not your traditional windmill...I'm thinking vanes the size of Airbus wings (...or larger, tip to tip, but uniformly wide.) riding on railroad capacity carriages top and bottom like a massive venetian blind wrapped around two towers cruising the leading or trailing edge with a category five blowing through it and producing power like a portable Hoover Dam on steroids...while operating with at least a fifty percent safety margin. I forget the numbers, supported at both ends and not tapered the vanes could handle more than the maximum takeoff weight of the new Airbus and probably half again or more. A hundred and fifty-five mph wind is really not so very much over stall speed. (We must allow for increased air density due to the high moisture content.) I don't have the numbers handy, and I never calculated the electrical output or hydrogen production, figure fifty to maybe a hundred vanes per harvester generating on front and back sides with a little trim for maneuvering. Might be interesting. Some places are so stormy you could just about park one and run a hose... Oh yes, the cars! Yeah, roasted feathers, sure. And a star rotor pure hybrid with those new capacitors. Just put acceleration power strips on the on ramps and at intersections so I can get up to speed on the grid. "Home, James."