Apes, monkeys...I'm a layman and can't tell the difference.
So it really went: There were some apes in the jungle. Some left for the grasslands and became humans. The others stayed in the jungle and became monkeys or died out. Later on, some humans returned to the jungle, but didn't wipe out the monkeys, because their population didn't expand sufficiently.
There were monkeys, and then some monkeys went into a new habitat (grasslands) and evolved into humans. The monkeys who stayed in the jungle remained monkeys. Later on, some humans returned to the jungle but didn't wipe out the monkeys because their population didn't expand to that point.
In the absence of other life forms, the first life form would expand its geographic range as fast as it could move. That would be slow, they being single-celled organisms, but lighting speed by evolutionary time. By the time something else might have become life, there was already life around that had had time to evolve into a decent level of fitness for the environment, and so outcompeted the newcomers.
One of the clearest signs of global warming (human-caused or otherwise) is an increase in algae using up waterborne oxygen and causing fish deaths. Can we scoop up that algae and kill 2 birds with one stone?
The second half of season 2 was no good either. I think they crammed 6 episodes' worth of plot into the season finale, and 2 episodes' worth of plot into the previous 7 episodes.
Honestly, I think they sat down after the miniseries and wrote out the whole plot up to Home, Part 2, then just winged it. The quality dropoff after that was marked.
How can you use Yahoo Messenger on Linux? (I'm dual-booting for gaming purposes, but yahoo messenger is one of the few internet functions I use windows for).
This is as good a time as any to ask a question I've long wondered about:
Say you have a dyson sphere, and for one reason or another it's drifting around its sun (perturbations in the sun's orbit around the galaxy, say). The sun is coming closer to one side and farther from the other. How could the inhabitants get the sphere back in the right place/avoid that happening at all?
Have you got a friend in the States? I'd gladly offer to take it and ship it to you, but I don't actually know you so you might not want to trust me with it.
In another book (I think it's N-Space), Niven goes through the Mote universe's physics and describes how the laws of physics would have to change to make that world's tech work. Pretty awesome.
Most of the honor killings I've heard about have come out of South Asia. I think it's one of those traditional odious customs, like female genital mutilation in West Africa, that when Islam came it didn't forbid and, over time, got associated into the local practice to the point where now, the locals will insist that Islam commands it even though elsewhere Muslims have never heard of it.
Lots of cultures do this (albeit usually with much more pleasant traditions). The Hasidic Jewish dress, for example, dates from 1700s Lithuania, and has only tangentially to do with any older traditions. Christmas trees are another example.
Some polygamists do exist, but nowhere near enough to explain suicide bombing.
If a surplus of young males was all that was needed for suicide bombing, where are the Chinese suicide bombers? They're looking at a surplus of 71 million not too long from now.
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I think you're missing the whole "This is a 30-second summary meant to address one particular common misconception about human evolution" thing.
So it really went: There were some apes in the jungle. Some left for the grasslands and became humans. The others stayed in the jungle and became monkeys or died out. Later on, some humans returned to the jungle, but didn't wipe out the monkeys, because their population didn't expand sufficiently.
That's how it went?
Please, cornholing corn farmers.
There were monkeys, and then some monkeys went into a new habitat (grasslands) and evolved into humans. The monkeys who stayed in the jungle remained monkeys. Later on, some humans returned to the jungle but didn't wipe out the monkeys because their population didn't expand to that point.
1) How fast it can move
2) Other life forms
In the absence of other life forms, the first life form would expand its geographic range as fast as it could move. That would be slow, they being single-celled organisms, but lighting speed by evolutionary time. By the time something else might have become life, there was already life around that had had time to evolve into a decent level of fitness for the environment, and so outcompeted the newcomers.
You eat your PC?
Seen Black Hawk Down? What I want to know is how that phalanx sank my battleship.
Hey, I like fish, I hate birds. Whaddaya want, ideological consistency?
In any event, if that algae can be harvested and put to fuely use, that'd be an added bonus.
One of the clearest signs of global warming (human-caused or otherwise) is an increase in algae using up waterborne oxygen and causing fish deaths. Can we scoop up that algae and kill 2 birds with one stone?
Honestly, I think they sat down after the miniseries and wrote out the whole plot up to Home, Part 2, then just winged it. The quality dropoff after that was marked.
Democracy has been dragged through the linguistic mud already.
Those don't have the full functionality of Yahoo messenger, they just let you talk to people on your friends list from it.
How can you use Yahoo Messenger on Linux? (I'm dual-booting for gaming purposes, but yahoo messenger is one of the few internet functions I use windows for).
You'll have agreed to this in the EULA. Under the section where they reserve the right to install whatever updates they like.
Say you have a dyson sphere, and for one reason or another it's drifting around its sun (perturbations in the sun's orbit around the galaxy, say). The sun is coming closer to one side and farther from the other. How could the inhabitants get the sphere back in the right place/avoid that happening at all?
It's Chuck Norris's eyes.
Have you got a friend in the States? I'd gladly offer to take it and ship it to you, but I don't actually know you so you might not want to trust me with it.
Really, stone should be a unit for measuring drug potency.
In another book (I think it's N-Space), Niven goes through the Mote universe's physics and describes how the laws of physics would have to change to make that world's tech work. Pretty awesome.
And what about the Sauron Supermen?
Lots of cultures do this (albeit usually with much more pleasant traditions). The Hasidic Jewish dress, for example, dates from 1700s Lithuania, and has only tangentially to do with any older traditions. Christmas trees are another example.
Some polygamists do exist, but nowhere near enough to explain suicide bombing.
If a surplus of young males was all that was needed for suicide bombing, where are the Chinese suicide bombers? They're looking at a surplus of 71 million not too long from now.
Do you have the ridiculous flavors and colors, or just the standard fruit punch, orange, lemon/lime?