Re:Why so much disbelief in aliens among scientist
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Exoplanet Count Tops 700
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Because if what we've found so far is at least a somewhat representative sample, the overwhelming majority of planets tend to be either gas giants, frozen balls of rock and ice, or roasted balls of rock and lava. You have to be terribly imaginative to see life coming up on worlds like that.
Of course, even if we go by 1 in 700, or 1 in a million for that matter, the Milky way ought to be positively teeming with life. We simply don't have enough data to make a meaningful conclusion either way yet.
there isn't that much additional fuel involved in bumping the payload up from a single serving soda to a family size 12 pack, is there?
For a retun trip to mars, the mass ratio is around 100 parts fuel for 1 part sample return. It scales pretty linearly. It doesn't matter that it spends most time coasting, you have to accelerate it to the same delta-v regardless of the mass.
And in the 16th century, most people in this world didn't want to be "book literate", they just wanted to work their feudal lord's land. Face it, computer literacy is becoming a basic social requirement as much as being able to read, write and operate a motor vehicle. If someone proudly claimed "I don't do reading, that shit's for geeks", we'd be justified in looking down upon them. That is equally the case for people who display their complete ignorance of "computer literacy". And Apple is partly to blame for making it socially acceptable to be an uneducated moron and proud of it.
But hey, who gives a shit about security, privacy, DRM, free software et all when IT JUST WERKS! HURR IT'S MAGICAL!!!1
It's the "stirp away everything else" part that bothers people who aren't in on the Jobsian cult.
You've found your "target market". Great. That's no damn reason to take away the choice. Or, if "people who are intimidated by choice" is a part of your target market, at least stop pretending to be a respectable company and fess up to peddling to retards. They won't care either way.
Seriously, sitting "computer-illiterate" people behind macs is the tech equivalent of peddling crack to school kids. You have to educate them, not profiteer off their ignorance.
When I think back to playing vast adventure games, like Below the Root, that amazingly fit on two sides of a 5.25" floppy, but the same game now would probably be written to take up a CD-ROM, even using the same graphics. Programmers have lost the need to optimize.
Definitely. Depends on who you ask, but most historians agree the USA was at its prime either during the interbellum, or the WWII - late 1950's period.
Just as while it's noble to confront death and conquer your fears of it
Why would you want to do that? If I had to pick a single evolutionary mental bias that hasn't been turned obsolete by us becoming a technological society, it's the fear of death. It's right to want to exist, and do everything in your power to prevent the end of your existence. I am terrified as fuck of dying, and that's OK, because that's the only way we'll ever do something about it. If people conquered their fears of getting eaten by tigers or trampled by mammoths (as opposed to doing something about it), we'd go extinct.
I don't respond well to people trivialising death. A canned response just isn't appropriate for an atrocity of this proportion. On average, some 10000-15000 people per day were dying as a direct result of WWII. Did people just shrug and go "RIP" when someone they happened to know died? Then why is this the response when we have ten times that many dying, most from entirely preventable causes?
Nor did he "pass on", nor is he "resting in peace". The pattern that made up his consciousness was destroyed and he ceased to exist. Please, stop repeating these tired, superstitious cliches. It cheapens the finality and horror of death. A sentient agent has ceased to exist. Explaining this away with semi-religious terminology just doesn't do it justice.
Unlike the majority of the ~162000 people who will also stop existing today, dmr will not be forgotten, and future generations will continue to use his life's work and benefit from it. I won't say something ridiculous like "he lives on through his work", but I do in fact believe that to be the highest distinction a mortal sentient entity can achieve.
Will this help us leave this rock and get mass off this mud ball? I don't care if my lifespan is only 0.00000001% of the life of the universe, I feel the species must colonize the galaxy, even if in 100000 years humans will have diverged so much we'll be different species.
I'd much rather prolong my lifespan so I can see whether we do.
Yes, I'm aware radical life extension is a very sensitive topic. I hope to spend many centuries to properly think it over.
Because the people who award them want to be almost-completely-sure it's legit after they gave a guy a prize for discovering "the parasite that causes cancer" in the 20s. This is why most Nobel prizes tend to be for stuff that's been happening for years.
That kind of conflicts and would be easily mistaken for the F (farad), the unit for capacitance. Also, in physics you generally don't name two units after the same person.
If being christian is irrational, depends on the existence of god.
Not on the christians around, that are irrational.
So since there is no observational, experimental or inferential evidence that points to the existence of a god, you're willing to concede that religious people who are unwilling to take this lack of evidence into account and re-consider their beliefs are, in fact, exhibiting a lack of rationality?
You're a rational Christian, then? When was the last time you sat down, weighed the factual evidence (not scripture), critically evaluated your beliefs and adjusted them to reflect your perceived probability of your prior beliefs being correct?
I doubt most people who consider themselves religious would even know how to do that. And those that are rational in other areas of their life are obviously not applying rationality to their religious beliefs. So yes, I think labelling religious people as irrational is perfectly right.
How about electing someone who actually believes a fairy tale instead of claiming to believe it to get votes
As much as I admire honesty...no.
As an atheist who has read the bible, I am honestly fucking scared of being governed by someone who is familiar with it and literally believes the whole thing.
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Because if what we've found so far is at least a somewhat representative sample, the overwhelming majority of planets tend to be either gas giants, frozen balls of rock and ice, or roasted balls of rock and lava. You have to be terribly imaginative to see life coming up on worlds like that.
Of course, even if we go by 1 in 700, or 1 in a million for that matter, the Milky way ought to be positively teeming with life. We simply don't have enough data to make a meaningful conclusion either way yet.
Print more gold, obviously.
And yet you're still complaining while Europe pays upwards of 1€ (coming up on 1.5) per LITRE of petrol.
there isn't that much additional fuel involved in bumping the payload up from a single serving soda to a family size 12 pack, is there?
For a retun trip to mars, the mass ratio is around 100 parts fuel for 1 part sample return. It scales pretty linearly. It doesn't matter that it spends most time coasting, you have to accelerate it to the same delta-v regardless of the mass.
The "You want performance? Fuck you, have more features instead!" of IDEs.
And in the 16th century, most people in this world didn't want to be "book literate", they just wanted to work their feudal lord's land. Face it, computer literacy is becoming a basic social requirement as much as being able to read, write and operate a motor vehicle. If someone proudly claimed "I don't do reading, that shit's for geeks", we'd be justified in looking down upon them. That is equally the case for people who display their complete ignorance of "computer literacy". And Apple is partly to blame for making it socially acceptable to be an uneducated moron and proud of it.
But hey, who gives a shit about security, privacy, DRM, free software et all when IT JUST WERKS! HURR IT'S MAGICAL!!!1
It's the "stirp away everything else" part that bothers people who aren't in on the Jobsian cult.
You've found your "target market". Great. That's no damn reason to take away the choice. Or, if "people who are intimidated by choice" is a part of your target market, at least stop pretending to be a respectable company and fess up to peddling to retards. They won't care either way.
Seriously, sitting "computer-illiterate" people behind macs is the tech equivalent of peddling crack to school kids. You have to educate them, not profiteer off their ignorance.
When I think back to playing vast adventure games, like Below the Root, that amazingly fit on two sides of a 5.25" floppy, but the same game now would probably be written to take up a CD-ROM, even using the same graphics. Programmers have lost the need to optimize.
FTFY
Anyone who has used it knows that there is no debate.
Confirmation bias.
Are we past our prime?
Definitely. Depends on who you ask, but most historians agree the USA was at its prime either during the interbellum, or the WWII - late 1950's period.
It doesn't even have to power anything but itself, I wouldn't mind having a few implanted to burn calories and help with weight loss.
Just as while it's noble to confront death and conquer your fears of it
Why would you want to do that? If I had to pick a single evolutionary mental bias that hasn't been turned obsolete by us becoming a technological society, it's the fear of death. It's right to want to exist, and do everything in your power to prevent the end of your existence. I am terrified as fuck of dying, and that's OK, because that's the only way we'll ever do something about it. If people conquered their fears of getting eaten by tigers or trampled by mammoths (as opposed to doing something about it), we'd go extinct.
If you have any proof to the contrary,I'll be happy to hear it.
Relying on a "Cloud" service is like relying on clouds to provide shade in the Mediterranean summer.
I don't respond well to people trivialising death. A canned response just isn't appropriate for an atrocity of this proportion. On average, some 10000-15000 people per day were dying as a direct result of WWII. Did people just shrug and go "RIP" when someone they happened to know died? Then why is this the response when we have ten times that many dying, most from entirely preventable causes?
Nor did he "pass on", nor is he "resting in peace". The pattern that made up his consciousness was destroyed and he ceased to exist. Please, stop repeating these tired, superstitious cliches. It cheapens the finality and horror of death. A sentient agent has ceased to exist. Explaining this away with semi-religious terminology just doesn't do it justice.
Unlike the majority of the ~162000 people who will also stop existing today, dmr will not be forgotten, and future generations will continue to use his life's work and benefit from it. I won't say something ridiculous like "he lives on through his work", but I do in fact believe that to be the highest distinction a mortal sentient entity can achieve.
Will this help us leave this rock and get mass off this mud ball? I don't care if my lifespan is only 0.00000001% of the life of the universe, I feel the species must colonize the galaxy, even if in 100000 years humans will have diverged so much we'll be different species.
I'd much rather prolong my lifespan so I can see whether we do.
Yes, I'm aware radical life extension is a very sensitive topic. I hope to spend many centuries to properly think it over.
Because the people who award them want to be almost-completely-sure it's legit after they gave a guy a prize for discovering "the parasite that causes cancer" in the 20s. This is why most Nobel prizes tend to be for stuff that's been happening for years.
Tree of liberty, blood of patriots, permanent freedom, temporary safety, et cetera.
(I await the SA with bated breath)
Those facts are not intended for public consumption by the goyim, citizen!
It's (Atacama (large (millimetre array))), not (Atacama (large (millimetre)) array).
S-expressions: They're superior to natural grammar.
That kind of conflicts and would be easily mistaken for the F (farad), the unit for capacitance. Also, in physics you generally don't name two units after the same person.
If being christian is irrational, depends on the existence of god. Not on the christians around, that are irrational.
So since there is no observational, experimental or inferential evidence that points to the existence of a god, you're willing to concede that religious people who are unwilling to take this lack of evidence into account and re-consider their beliefs are, in fact, exhibiting a lack of rationality?
You're a rational Christian, then? When was the last time you sat down, weighed the factual evidence (not scripture), critically evaluated your beliefs and adjusted them to reflect your perceived probability of your prior beliefs being correct? I doubt most people who consider themselves religious would even know how to do that. And those that are rational in other areas of their life are obviously not applying rationality to their religious beliefs. So yes, I think labelling religious people as irrational is perfectly right.
How about electing someone who actually believes a fairy tale instead of claiming to believe it to get votes
As much as I admire honesty...no.
As an atheist who has read the bible, I am honestly fucking scared of being governed by someone who is familiar with it and literally believes the whole thing.