Or maybe they have and figure the action sequences in that were awesome enough to risk the superpowered red cloaked terrorists and terrible overacting.
Careful or else EA will just buy up NASA in a hostile takeover! After that you can expect yearly space missions which are different from each other only in that they will have progressively higher numbers after their name.
He interviews scientists and editors who have lost their jobs for printing/writing papers that claim our DNA has a 'code' with information that could not have happened in nature.
Disclaimer, I read a lot of Darwin/Dawkins/Gould so I'm pretty biased here... but I fear that the ostracized members of the scientific community will make the evolutionists look just as much like religious zealots trying to purge their ranks of people with open minds. Which is why I likened his trailer to the Spanish Inquisition.
I think that even though it's 'a waste of time,' it's bad to write these people off or fire them. I'm sure there's sound criticism against these papers and authors but Ben Stein isn't showing that in his movie if there is.
The "expelled exposed" site someone else mentioned earlier (http://www.expelledexposed.com/index.php/the-truth) has detailed information about each of the "expelled" individuals.
There's of course a lot of bias. However, these sound like sub-par scientists who weren't really fired for their scientific views. It sounds like they just weren't good at their job and/or had poor people skills. One of the researchers denied tenure had all but stopped doing research, two others who claimed they were fired were temporary workers whose contracts weren't terminated early. One was a journalist who is still a journalist. As for the doctor, the website says it best:
"The Claim: Michael Egnor says in Expelled that he expected criticism, but was shocked by the viciousness and baseness of the response. The Facts: Michael Egnor had apparently never been on the Internet before."
I also was fairly biased from the start, but it seems to me that these are people whose professional lives weren't heading where they wanted them to go and are blaming an imaginary conspiracy rather than their own ineptitude.
Because despite the jingoist tune, the US hasn't been the forefront of technology and science for quite some time. When you have creationists trying to ruin science education all across the country it's not that surprising.
How are creationists ruining superconducting research? (I'm not defending them, I'm looking for more ammo.)
And so as to defend myself, in some fields, like biomedical research, I think the US is still putting out the most and the highest-impact research papers.
Also, I'm betting that peripheral motor nerves are very hard to find, isolate, and attach an electrode to without completely destroying it. The axons of the motor neurons are small and sensitive to damage, I would assume if you surgically dug one up in the arm, that alone would cause the axon to undergo wallerian degeneration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallerian_degeneration) and the connection would be no good. I know there are very small electrodes out there, but I think that making the connection might be tough.
(I need to point out here that I am no surgeon or neuroscientist. I have no idea how big they are, if it's possible to make a connection without exposing one first, or how easy it would be to find them even.)
The motor domain of the brain on the other hand is a bigger area, easier to find it, and it's definitely possible to get right to it without damaging it much.
More guessing: maybe the "electrodes" aren't actually "synapsing" with the brain neurons, maybe they're just detecting when certain ones fire, and relaying that information to the prosthetic?
This website, (although not very official looking) says the minigun weighs 30 pounds, which sounds reasonable. That's kind of heavy to be pointing with one arm. Plus the ammo would weigh another 35 pounds. A minigun mounted on the back of a jeep would be cheaper, more ethical, faster, easier to defend, easier to aim, and easier to use. Also, what's the advantage of being able to shoot one without pulling a trigger?
So in answer to your question: No. No one at all. I wouldn't say your idea is totally without merit, but only because that would be really mean of me.
Well, even if they're not radioactive, coconuts are high in cholesterol.
For what it's worth, that didn't seem to be hurting pacific island groups whose diets were up to 60% coconuts (http://coconutdiet.com/cholesterol.htm), but it might still be a bad idea for western senior citizen tourists who might already have heart problems.
Dude, his research is close to a tautology anyways: "His team concluded that Neanderthal speech did not have the subtlety of modern human speech.'"
To be fair, the complete paper probably came to more conclusions than that and justified them better than a one line summary. If you summed up Newton's work with "Gravity made the apple fall toward earth," that would sound ridiculously obvious too. Crick, Wilkin's and Franklin's * discovery of the structure of DNA also could sound unimportant if you just state it like "DNA is in a double helix."
*side note: that other guy has gotten far too much credit he doesn't deserve.
I'm no physicist, but I have a hard time believing that this laser won't kill me when it is "2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the US, and is brighter than sunlight on the surface of the Sun," even for only a femtosecond. You see, I am very fragile when it comes to high-energy reactions.
I will stop at NOTHING to clone this gene and make a treatment to cure it, even if I have to kill every last man, woman, and child to do it!...which come to think of it would by definition have the result I'm looking for. Okay, new plan: to kill every last man, woman, and child to ensure this gene is eliminated
Awesome, I was starting to worry I might not be able to tell them apart if I got drunk and wandered into the wrong one. How awkward would that be? "Sorry, I thought you were the evil version of my neighbor's wife, my mistake."
Not to mention that "just making your minds up about it" would mean ignoring evidence, and would instantly make them politicians not scientists.
"Okay guys, the slashdotting public is tired of this back and forth, we need to pick one and go ahead with it. All in favor of coffee is healthy for you raise your hand now!"
Stop trying to mislead the guy. You know they don't have those. It would take a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity you would need, and you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. You'd have to steal it from a Libiyan nationalist or something.
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Or maybe they have and figure the action sequences in that were awesome enough to risk the superpowered red cloaked terrorists and terrible overacting.
Careful or else EA will just buy up NASA in a hostile takeover! After that you can expect yearly space missions which are different from each other only in that they will have progressively higher numbers after their name.
The "expelled exposed" site someone else mentioned earlier (http://www.expelledexposed.com/index.php/the-truth) has detailed information about each of the "expelled" individuals.
There's of course a lot of bias. However, these sound like sub-par scientists who weren't really fired for their scientific views. It sounds like they just weren't good at their job and/or had poor people skills. One of the researchers denied tenure had all but stopped doing research, two others who claimed they were fired were temporary workers whose contracts weren't terminated early. One was a journalist who is still a journalist. As for the doctor, the website says it best:
"The Claim: Michael Egnor says in Expelled that he expected criticism, but was shocked by the viciousness and baseness of the response.
The Facts: Michael Egnor had apparently never been on the Internet before."
I also was fairly biased from the start, but it seems to me that these are people whose professional lives weren't heading where they wanted them to go and are blaming an imaginary conspiracy rather than their own ineptitude.
How are creationists ruining superconducting research? (I'm not defending them, I'm looking for more ammo.)
And so as to defend myself, in some fields, like biomedical research, I think the US is still putting out the most and the highest-impact research papers.
I know where it will go: really efficient wires. For electricity. Also maybe like a hoverskateboard. Am I God?
Hey, the cow-whale could have been a great way to get whale meat. Conversely, it could have been a great way to get a lot of hamburger.
Also, I'm betting that peripheral motor nerves are very hard to find, isolate, and attach an electrode to without completely destroying it. The axons of the motor neurons are small and sensitive to damage, I would assume if you surgically dug one up in the arm, that alone would cause the axon to undergo wallerian degeneration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallerian_degeneration) and the connection would be no good. I know there are very small electrodes out there, but I think that making the connection might be tough.
(I need to point out here that I am no surgeon or neuroscientist. I have no idea how big they are, if it's possible to make a connection without exposing one first, or how easy it would be to find them even.)
The motor domain of the brain on the other hand is a bigger area, easier to find it, and it's definitely possible to get right to it without damaging it much.
More guessing: maybe the "electrodes" aren't actually "synapsing" with the brain neurons, maybe they're just detecting when certain ones fire, and relaying that information to the prosthetic?
http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Machine-Guns/GE_XM214_Minigun.htm
This website, (although not very official looking) says the minigun weighs 30 pounds, which sounds reasonable. That's kind of heavy to be pointing with one arm. Plus the ammo would weigh another 35 pounds. A minigun mounted on the back of a jeep would be cheaper, more ethical, faster, easier to defend, easier to aim, and easier to use. Also, what's the advantage of being able to shoot one without pulling a trigger?
So in answer to your question: No. No one at all. I wouldn't say your idea is totally without merit, but only because that would be really mean of me.
Well, even if they're not radioactive, coconuts are high in cholesterol.
For what it's worth, that didn't seem to be hurting pacific island groups whose diets were up to 60% coconuts (http://coconutdiet.com/cholesterol.htm), but it might still be a bad idea for western senior citizen tourists who might already have heart problems.
To be fair, the complete paper probably came to more conclusions than that and justified them better than a one line summary. If you summed up Newton's work with "Gravity made the apple fall toward earth," that would sound ridiculously obvious too.
Crick, Wilkin's and Franklin's * discovery of the structure of DNA also could sound unimportant if you just state it like "DNA is in a double helix."
*side note: that other guy has gotten far too much credit he doesn't deserve.
Heck, I live in America, and I do all my own protein folding.
Ugh. I'd rather be smooshed by the asteroid.
I'm getting a wierd sense of dejavu, almost as if I had just read an article in vanity fair about this very subject...
I'm probably not the only one who realizes what this means: we can defend ourselves against nuclear war with the power of ROCK AND ROLL!
You know, if it weren't for us and our aluminum, you'd be talking about "das aluminium" right now.
Good reef, this is getting out of hand.
I'm no physicist, but I have a hard time believing that this laser won't kill me when it is "2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the US, and is brighter than sunlight on the surface of the Sun," even for only a femtosecond. You see, I am very fragile when it comes to high-energy reactions.
Well, better to die drunk than to die sober.
I will stop at NOTHING to clone this gene and make a treatment to cure it, even if I have to kill every last man, woman, and child to do it! ...which come to think of it would by definition have the result I'm looking for. Okay, new plan: to kill every last man, woman, and child to ensure this gene is eliminated
Awesome, I was starting to worry I might not be able to tell them apart if I got drunk and wandered into the wrong one. How awkward would that be? "Sorry, I thought you were the evil version of my neighbor's wife, my mistake."
There was the word "lurk" and then there was some gibberish. I didn't understand that.
So true.
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Not to mention that "just making your minds up about it" would mean ignoring evidence, and would instantly make them politicians not scientists.
"Okay guys, the slashdotting public is tired of this back and forth, we need to pick one and go ahead with it. All in favor of coffee is healthy for you raise your hand now!"
Stop trying to mislead the guy. You know they don't have those. It would take a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity you would need, and you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. You'd have to steal it from a Libiyan nationalist or something.