He just put together the right conditions and then left the Laws of Nature - which we cannot change, nor are material - do the rest. Again, this is no news: cf. Isaac Newton's `metallic vegetations'.
You really do like Newton's metallic vegetations, don't you? Oh, go on then, I'll google it...
Hmm. Ok, I would recommend for you the trilogy of books by Phillip Ball called "Nature's Patterns : A Tapestry in Three Parts" (assuming you haven't already read it)
It deals very well with the ideas of pattern formation in nature, and why phenomena like Newton's metallic vegetation appear so much like 'Natural' forms.
He just put together the right conditions and then left the Laws of Nature - which we cannot change, nor are material - do the rest. Again, this is no news: cf. Isaac Newton's `metallic vegetations'.
You really do like Newton's metallic vegetations, don't you? Oh, go on then, I'll google it...
Interesting post. I think that you are right, but for the wrong reasons.
As you point out, a major part of the story of life is the growth in complexity. Just having a bounding membrane - Cronin's current claim - is only the first step on a long road. A key next step is - like ATP synthase - to set up an energy source. It is thought by some that the first membranes played an important role in energy capture by allowing primitive cells to set up an ion gradient across them
The problem that I see is a lack of potential in non-carbon structures. The number of possible forms of proteins is very large; the number for polyoxometallates is larger then most inorganic forms but still smaller than organic. So he may get some steps down the road of complexity, but run out of steam (to mix metaphors!) half way there.
Finally, crystal structures only show one feature of life : growth. If he can demonstrate self-replicating, self-repairing, self-bounding, inorganic structures then it will be life.
When asked in a talk on this, he claimed that they would have fully replicating matter (IE : 'living' inorganic matter) in 2 years. The host who asked the question sounded startled when he said "That would be, er, something amazing, yes" - in other words "Yeah, right!".
My arse it is, I've never heard a native English speaker use that word[1]. It smells suspiciously like a badly Anglicised version of informatique, which itself is rather vague.
[1] Though you do see "bioinformatics", probably because "computing related to plants and hanimules and shit" is rather unwieldy.
I used to do bioinformatics, I'm now in a field with an even worse name of 'cheminformatics' (or 'chemoinformatics'). I assure you that there are even departments of 'Informatics', although academics are known for using some nonsense terminology for what they do:)
In the US, Bioinformatics is sometimes called 'Computational Biology', which I prefer, but hey.
Wow. I had to look up the word 'shkotzim' - is there any subject, no matter how mundane (OS loading, for example) that can't be turned to anti-jewish sentiment?
In answer to your question : yes, this UI customisation issue IS the inevitable result of millennia of Jewish culture! It's what they've been planning ALL ALONG!
Dr Hadwen saw through the fraud of 'vaccination' over a hundred years ago, and none of his talks have ever been refuted. Why is that?
A hundred years ago, it was just about still possible to be unconvinced by the germ theory of disease - now, not in the slightest. As for 'seeing through the fraud of vaccination', you do realise that this is basically nonsense?
What am I saying? It's like trying to convince flat earthers or geocentrists, or creationists...
, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in.eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.
Actually old people are the same here, the sitcoms are not too different but are funnier, because they can make more sexual references.
Go and watch coupling if you can, best Britcom ever, also Green Wing is highly recommendable.
COUPLING?! Are you mad? That was like a bad Friends! Green Wing was okay, but again it's just a British Scrubs, I would say. Spaced, now, _that's_ good comedy. Or Black Books.
I'm not sure what pnewhook's point was, but the possibility of non-terrestrial life is potentially a tricky one for religion. Well, it was for the geocentric idea at least.
If I remember correctly, Discovery magazine has an article many years ago discussing the fact that scientists had traced human ancestry back umpteen thousands of years to a single female (who's name is withheld to protect her privacy) using mitochondrial DNA, which apparently does not join with the father's, but remains intact from generation to generation.
I'll leave up to someone without a job to look it up.
We all inherit the mitochondria from our mothers' egg as the sperm mitochondria don't get carried inside. Er, scratch that. On reading the wikipedia page, it tells me the male mitochondria are actually targeted for deletion by ubiquitin tagging.
Apparently, there was one recorded incidence of 'Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA' (Paper here). Oh, and do have a job, but I'm on holiday...
The outsourcers are evil. Pick any of the 3-letter acronym usual suspects and there's a great chance it's the one I personally know charged £8000 to write 1 line of SQL.
Was it a really, really long nested query?:)
Then again, the mechanic isn't paid because he has a hammer, but because he know where to hit...
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He just put together the right conditions and then left the Laws of Nature - which we cannot change, nor are material - do the rest. Again, this is no news: cf. Isaac Newton's `metallic vegetations'.
You really do like Newton's metallic vegetations, don't you? Oh, go on then, I'll google it...
Hmm. Ok, I would recommend for you the trilogy of books by Phillip Ball called "Nature's Patterns : A Tapestry in Three Parts" (assuming you haven't already read it)
http://www.philipball.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20:natures-patterns-a-tapestry-in-three-parts&catid=3:books&Itemid=4
It deals very well with the ideas of pattern formation in nature, and why phenomena like Newton's metallic vegetation appear so much like 'Natural' forms.
I hate to see whatever credibility we have spent on things like this.u can be here to see the details http://bit.ly/oZvFCE
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He just put together the right conditions and then left the Laws of Nature - which we cannot change, nor are material - do the rest. Again, this is no news: cf. Isaac Newton's `metallic vegetations'.
You really do like Newton's metallic vegetations, don't you? Oh, go on then, I'll google it...
Interesting post. I think that you are right, but for the wrong reasons.
As you point out, a major part of the story of life is the growth in complexity. Just having a bounding membrane - Cronin's current claim - is only the first step on a long road. A key next step is - like ATP synthase - to set up an energy source. It is thought by some that the first membranes played an important role in energy capture by allowing primitive cells to set up an ion gradient across them
The problem that I see is a lack of potential in non-carbon structures. The number of possible forms of proteins is very large; the number for polyoxometallates is larger then most inorganic forms but still smaller than organic. So he may get some steps down the road of complexity, but run out of steam (to mix metaphors!) half way there.
Finally, crystal structures only show one feature of life : growth. If he can demonstrate self-replicating, self-repairing, self-bounding, inorganic structures then it will be life.
When asked in a talk on this, he claimed that they would have fully replicating matter (IE : 'living' inorganic matter) in 2 years. The host who asked the question sounded startled when he said "That would be, er, something amazing, yes" - in other words "Yeah, right!".
On the other hand, the lab's publication list is quite impressive, and full of cool looking polygonal structures : http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/publications.php
let me build a space station orbiting around every single planet in this galaxy
Using our FTL drives?
it's not like this is rocket science...
Well, it's rocket budget science.
I've already selected my angry font. Now to send them a strongly worded email!
Comic sans?
That's a font to make people angry. GP is talking about a font to be angry in.
Wouldn't a tag based system be more effective than trying to exhaustively list 140,000 things? Or can each of these 140,000 be used in a combination?
What if you walked into a lamp post, fell and hit your head on a turtle, it got angry and bit your ear?
In fact, if you are a trumpeter at the opera, and a turtle bites you so that you walk into the scenery, which happens to be a lamppost...
If this is true, this would be a huge fucking deal,
It would. I also like this pair of statements in the BBC article :
The system's developers say it runs all Windows programs, but is much faster than its Microsoft equivalent
compare with the next sentence/paragraph:
If it gets a financial boost, it could be usable in the near future...
Hey, I can make any number of unusable operating systems that run faster than windows!
*Looking up wikipedia page* *Lots of stuff on de-worming...hmmm, doesn't seem relevant* *adulterant in...ohhhh*
Well, I expect that I also have ...friends who would be interested in such a device
I didn't realize that graphite and diamonds were the byproduct of power generation.
If your power source is a flame, then (technically) yes :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14564702
My arse it is, I've never heard a native English speaker use that word[1]. It smells suspiciously like a badly Anglicised version of informatique, which itself is rather vague.
[1] Though you do see "bioinformatics", probably because "computing related to plants and hanimules and shit" is rather unwieldy.
I used to do bioinformatics, I'm now in a field with an even worse name of 'cheminformatics' (or 'chemoinformatics'). I assure you that there are even departments of 'Informatics', although academics are known for using some nonsense terminology for what they do :)
In the US, Bioinformatics is sometimes called 'Computational Biology', which I prefer, but hey.
Gah! IF I had a hat. Totally lost the meaning on one missing letter...
Sir, I I had a hat, I would be tipping it to you!
Hahaha : excellent analogy!
Also; how do I register with this 'Tough Guy Council' that you mention?
Wow. I had to look up the word 'shkotzim' - is there any subject, no matter how mundane (OS loading, for example) that can't be turned to anti-jewish sentiment?
In answer to your question : yes, this UI customisation issue IS the inevitable result of millennia of Jewish culture! It's what they've been planning ALL ALONG!
Funny how someone claiming to have a "superiour" intellect spelled superior wrong.
Mensa member : says it all really...
Dr Hadwen saw through the fraud of 'vaccination' over a hundred years ago, and none of his talks have ever been refuted. Why is that?
A hundred years ago, it was just about still possible to be unconvinced by the germ theory of disease - now, not in the slightest. As for 'seeing through the fraud of vaccination', you do realise that this is basically nonsense?
What am I saying? It's like trying to convince flat earthers or geocentrists, or creationists...
, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in .eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.
Actually old people are the same here, the sitcoms are not too different but are funnier, because they can make more sexual references. Go and watch coupling if you can, best Britcom ever, also Green Wing is highly recommendable.
COUPLING?! Are you mad? That was like a bad Friends! Green Wing was okay, but again it's just a British Scrubs, I would say. Spaced, now, _that's_ good comedy. Or Black Books.
I'm not sure what pnewhook's point was, but the possibility of non-terrestrial life is potentially a tricky one for religion. Well, it was for the geocentric idea at least.
If I remember correctly, Discovery magazine has an article many years ago discussing the fact that scientists had traced human ancestry back umpteen thousands of years to a single female (who's name is withheld to protect her privacy) using mitochondrial DNA, which apparently does not join with the father's, but remains intact from generation to generation.
I'll leave up to someone without a job to look it up.
We all inherit the mitochondria from our mothers' egg as the sperm mitochondria don't get carried inside. Er, scratch that. On reading the wikipedia page, it tells me the male mitochondria are actually targeted for deletion by ubiquitin tagging.
Apparently, there was one recorded incidence of 'Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA' (Paper here). Oh, and do have a job, but I'm on holiday...
Use facial recognition on all those fancy cams Briton has installed and see who you can track down.
Britons live in Britain, not the other way round.
Heh I remember the days where you could make a suit of flying and get a ring of invisibility and be nigh invulnerable!
The outsourcers are evil. Pick any of the 3-letter acronym usual suspects and there's a great chance it's the one I personally know charged £8000 to write 1 line of SQL.
Was it a really, really long nested query? :)
Then again, the mechanic isn't paid because he has a hammer, but because he know where to hit...