It seems that people in the US do not want governors or presidents who are highly intelligent. They want people who they think that they can identify with. The problem with this is that being a governor, or president, is not something that most people can identify with.
Self-driving cars are the way of the future. Why drive when you don't have to? Once people get over the fear of trusting the software they will realize that their time is far too valuable to waste driving.
> "I don't think you quite understand how conspiracy theories work."
> Exactly! Because any evidence disproving the conspiracy theories > MUST be part of the conspiracy. Besides everyone knows that that > the dark side of the moon is really Elvis' retirement home.:)
This is exactly how the global warming and October surprise conspiracy theories work too, except for the Elvis part.
> Yo. Conservative checking in. There's no hatred of science. There's a dislike of fudged numbers,
The problem with the "dislike of fudged numbers" theory is that no-one has ever been able to show that the numbers have been fudged. Climate change has been a hot topic for more than 25 years, and even after all that time no-one has been able to provide and convincing evidence that there is a conspiracy to present false information as fact. Even the infamous East Anglia e-mails showed no evidence for a plot to defraud the world. The reality is that after nearly a generation of trying the extremists have not been able to provide any evidence to back-up their claims of fraud. At some point rational people accept the fact that they were wrong and move on.
That is a very simplistic definition of prayer. There is a better on at http:www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm. Prayer is a request of God. It is a way to focus ones mind on the divine. Giving thanks is somewhat different from this, although the two terms are commonly confused. The important point is that the form of prayer Christ was referring to in the Sermon on the Mount was making a show of praying. in Matthew 6:6 Christ makes it clear that prayer is a private thing between a person and God, and that it is not something that involves anyone else. This is consistent with quietly saying grace before a meal, as Christ did in when he multiplied the bread and fishes. There is nothing in John 6 that suggests that Christ gave thanks out loud, or that he did it in a way that anyone who was not standing right next to him would have known what he was doing. The two passages do not contradict each other.
>> Jesus also specifically said not to pray in public (maybe you should have actually READ that book you keep >> yammering about). Good luck trying to explain to him someday why you repeated defied one of the most prominent >> commands in the most important sermon of his career.
> If you think Jesus was forbidding public prayer, perhaps you should read John chapter 6 where Jesus prays in public.
Where, exactly, in John 6 does Jesus pray? He gives thanks for some loaves of bread early in the chapter, but that is not really what he was talking about during the Sermon on the Mount.
No it is not. The long-term thing to worry about is the Earth becoming uninhabitable in the next several hundred million years due to the Sun heating up. At best we probably have only about a billion years left before Earth is too hot life. By the time the Sun becomes a red giant life on Earth will be a distant memory.
No, it is not that hard to put something on the Moon. We have the parts, and we know how to make them. We can soft-land rovers on Mars, and the Moon is a lot easier to get to and easier to land something on than Mars is. The problem is not the technology, that is essentially a solved problem. The problem is doing it cheaply.
So far NASA has resisted naming satellite or observatories after politicians. Even the James Webb Space Telescope is named after an administrator, not a politician. I sometimes wonder when someone is going to make a serious proposal to name something in space after Reagan.
Radio telescopes can resolve sources that are about 0.001 arcsec across, or even smaller in some cases. It may be possible to monitor the expansion of SN2011B over the next few years. In many cases it is possible to watch the shockwave expand into the surrounding medium by measuring changes in the X-ray flux with time. This does not produce a resolved image, but the information can be reconstructed to produce a three-dimensional picture of how the shockwave is interacting with the surroundings.
New supernovae are detected at a rate of about one a day, and that rate will increase as new survey telescopes go online over the next few years. Overall a supernova goes off about once a second somewhere in the Universe.
It is extremely unlikely that Betelgeuse will produce a gamma-ray burst. The current thinking is that supernovae only produce gamma-ray bursts in stars that have been stripped of their hydrogen envelopes. Betelgeuse still has most of its hydrogen, and there is not enough time to lose it before the supernova is likely to happen. Even if Betelgeuse does produce a gamma-ray burst the bursts occur along the rotation axis of the star, and Betelgeuse's rotation axis is not pointed towards us. Fortunately, we do not have to worry about a gamma-ray burst from Betelgeuse, because it is close enough that such a burst would be rather nasty for us.
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No, the guy took a different test from the ones that were quoted from in the article.
It seems that people in the US do not want governors or presidents who are highly intelligent. They want people who they think that they can identify with. The problem with this is that being a governor, or president, is not something that most people can identify with.
All but question five are trivial without a calculator.
Most people are not as dumb as you think they are, and not as smart as they think they are.
This was funny the first time that I saw it. It was vaguely amusing the second time. Now it is just gratuitous.
I suspect that you will end up in a similar situation to those people who enjoyed riding their horse.
Self-driving cars are the way of the future. Why drive when you don't have to? Once people get over the fear of trusting the software they will realize that their time is far too valuable to waste driving.
How do you expect people who do not have real intelligence to recognize artificial intelligence?
> "I don't think you quite understand how conspiracy theories work."
> Exactly! Because any evidence disproving the conspiracy theories :)
> MUST be part of the conspiracy. Besides everyone knows that that
> the dark side of the moon is really Elvis' retirement home.
This is exactly how the global warming and October surprise conspiracy
theories work too, except for the Elvis part.
> Yo. Conservative checking in. There's no hatred of science. There's a dislike of fudged numbers,
The problem with the "dislike of fudged numbers" theory is that no-one has ever been able to show that the numbers have been fudged. Climate change has been a hot topic for more than 25 years, and even after all that time no-one has been able to provide and convincing evidence that there is a conspiracy to present false information as fact. Even the infamous East Anglia e-mails showed no evidence for a plot to defraud the world. The reality is that after nearly a generation of trying the extremists have not been able to provide any evidence to back-up their claims of fraud. At some point rational people accept the fact that they were wrong and move on.
That is a very simplistic definition of prayer. There is a better on at http:www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm. Prayer is a request of God. It is a way to focus ones mind on the divine. Giving thanks is somewhat different from this, although the two terms are commonly confused. The important point is that the form of prayer Christ was referring to in the Sermon on the Mount was making a show of praying. in Matthew 6:6 Christ makes it clear that prayer is a private thing between a person and God, and that it is not something that involves anyone else. This is consistent with quietly saying grace before a meal, as Christ did in when he multiplied the bread and fishes. There is nothing in John 6 that suggests that Christ gave thanks out loud, or that he did it in a way that anyone who was not standing right next to him would have known what he was doing. The two passages do not contradict each other.
>> Jesus also specifically said not to pray in public (maybe you should have actually READ that book you keep
>> yammering about). Good luck trying to explain to him someday why you repeated defied one of the most prominent
>> commands in the most important sermon of his career.
> If you think Jesus was forbidding public prayer, perhaps you should read John chapter 6 where Jesus prays in public.
Where, exactly, in John 6 does Jesus pray? He gives thanks for some loaves of bread early in the chapter, but that is not really what he was talking about during the Sermon on the Mount.
And others, who actually have a clue, will understand that you are just a troll.
Another useful idiot.
No it is not. The long-term thing to worry about is the Earth becoming uninhabitable in the next several hundred million years due to the Sun heating up. At best we probably have only about a billion years left before Earth is too hot life. By the time the Sun becomes a red giant life on Earth will be a distant memory.
No, he did not.
BLUE HADES is not going to be happy about this.
No, it is not that hard to put something on the Moon. We have the parts, and we know how to make them. We can soft-land rovers on Mars, and the Moon is a lot easier to get to and easier to land something on than Mars is. The problem is not the technology, that is essentially a solved problem. The problem is doing it cheaply.
So far NASA has resisted naming satellite or observatories after politicians. Even the James Webb Space Telescope is named after an administrator, not a politician. I sometimes wonder when someone is going to make a serious proposal to name something in space after Reagan.
So did Buran. It made one test flight, in 1988, then the Soviet Union abandoned the programme as not being worth the cost.
Radio telescopes can resolve sources that are about 0.001 arcsec across, or even smaller in some cases. It may be possible to monitor the expansion of SN2011B over the next few years. In many cases it is possible to watch the shockwave expand into the surrounding medium by measuring changes in the X-ray flux with time. This does not produce a resolved image, but the information can be reconstructed to produce a three-dimensional picture of how the shockwave is interacting with the surroundings.
New supernovae are detected at a rate of about one a day, and that rate will increase as new survey telescopes go online over the next few years. Overall a supernova goes off about once a second somewhere in the Universe.
Globular clusters and elliptical galaxies neither spin nor collapse. They are supported by the velocities of their stars.
The new App Store for OS X is just Apple trying to get a cut of the 3rd party software market for OS X.
It is extremely unlikely that Betelgeuse will produce a gamma-ray burst. The current thinking is that supernovae only produce gamma-ray bursts in stars that have been stripped of their hydrogen envelopes. Betelgeuse still has most of its hydrogen, and there is not enough time to lose it before the supernova is likely to happen. Even if Betelgeuse does produce a gamma-ray burst the bursts occur along the rotation axis of the star, and Betelgeuse's rotation axis is not pointed towards us. Fortunately, we do not have to worry about a gamma-ray burst from Betelgeuse, because it is close enough that such a burst would be rather nasty for us.