He changed his name to Zuckenberg to fool the Chinese censors who were triggering the firewall based on his name.
PS: Zuckerberg means "suger mountain" in German. Zuckenberg means "twitch mountain", a much cooler name.
Before the movie "Airplane", he had always been seen as a dramatic actor. It was because of his deadpan seriousness that he was able to be so funny.
Also, his role as the captain of the starship in "Forbidden Planet" was a prototype for Captain Kirk.
Freeman Dyson, a very smart person, once calculated that an interstellar craft using thermonuclear bombs as propulsion (Project Orion) could reach 10% the speed of light. At that rate it would take a little over 200 years to reach Gliese 581. Time dilation would be minimal, so it would NOT be doable in a normal person's lifetime. But we could, with our current technology, build an unmanned craft that could reach Gliese 581 by the 23rd century and send back pictures.
Be careful what you wish for. A lot of those sheeple don't agree with you on a variety of issues, and if they suddenly rose up and decided to break laws for their causes--however whacky the causes--things would get messy.
Since AAVE is its own established dialect, it would be a valid intellectual and aesthetic exercise to translate Hamlet into it.
I would love to watch that play.
Humans are Mother Nature's way of bringing nature back into balance by returning carbon to the biosphere that has been remove by millions of years of sedimentation. Isn't in incredible how ingenious Mother Nature is? After all, back when nature was REALLY in balance (back when there were only one-celled organisms) there was much more carbon in the atmosphere. Things didn't change much for millions of years at a time because all of that great natural balance.
There are 3 major disadvantages to space stations: gravity, temperature regulation, and atmospheric pressure. These problems don't exist on Venus City. If we are going to talk about a significant population of humans living off the Earth (I'm talking thousands) I would bet on cloud cities on Venus before space stations. A hull breach on a space station would be a much more significant problem than on the floating city. However, Venus city has 3 major problems: distance from Earth, gravity well, and raw materials. What is needed prior to building Venus City is a space based infrastructure. This would include large space stations, perhaps built along the Stanford Torus model. I don't see those supporting more than a few hundred humans each, though. There could be orbiting space stations around Venus and Skyhooks for transfering raw materials. As far as building materials go, the atmosphere has plenty of carbon so your basic building blocks could be carbon nanotubes (I'm not sure how they hold up against sulfuric acid though). There is no shortage of solar energy at 50k up, you would get almost as much solar power from the clouds below you reflecting sunlight up as you would from above you. You would still need to import oxygen, hydrogen, and a few other important elements. Mercury could be mined and materials sent to Venus. The only alternative to large scale human colonization of space that would allow for Earth gravity and life style would be Oneillian Space stations (think Babylon 5) which I think would be a step up in difficulty.
People ask why should we go into space and try to colonize it. There are 2 good answers: energy and economies of scale. Energy is abundant and cheap in space (in the inner solar system). Once you are established outside of the Earth's gravity well, transportation is really cheap per kilometer traveled. If an economy of scale is built in space, the material needs of humanity would be taken care of in a way that could sustain billions of humans without polluting the Earth. The wealth generated in space could be rained down on the people of the Earth.
The great, memorable minds change our view of reality. Newton made it clockwork. Freud made it unconscious. Einstein made it relative. If someone else changes our universe for us again, they will be remembered.
Memories have been shown to depend on chemical changes in neurons. Emotions, however, are another story. There is evidence that getting an MRI can improve the moods of people with depression. So far scientist don't know why.
When the impending ecological disaster comes, the US will be the only country left with a working economy because we didn't spend so much money to follow this silly protocol which doesn't address the third world which is where most of the growth in emissions is coming from.
I've seen ED2 several dozen times, and it does stand on it's own without ED1. I admit I only saw ED1 a couple times when it first came out, and I was a bit drunk both times. I think it's time to see it again.
Evil Dead 2 was not a sequel, but a remake, and a better one at that. I don't see how anything could be better than Evil Dead 2, but what the hell, why not let Sam try again?
It's not like they got there and said "Hey, resources are limited here and if the population grows too much our decendants are going to be short." There was probably plenty to survive on for the first arrivals, and with time their culture adapted to the island. The decendants of the first arrivals may have forgotten whatever boating tech that allowed them to get there, and that was the only home they knew. Remember, grapefruit sized brains.
When I first read the book back in high school I was shocked to discover that it presented a world that most of my peers considered to be desireable. Lots of sex and drugs. Sure, not too much freedom, but lots of sex and drugs. Everything is planned out for you...but lots of sex and drugs. It has its appeal to the modern mentality. Has society changed so much since Huxley's time?
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He changed his name to Zuckenberg to fool the Chinese censors who were triggering the firewall based on his name. PS: Zuckerberg means "suger mountain" in German. Zuckenberg means "twitch mountain", a much cooler name.
Before the movie "Airplane", he had always been seen as a dramatic actor. It was because of his deadpan seriousness that he was able to be so funny. Also, his role as the captain of the starship in "Forbidden Planet" was a prototype for Captain Kirk.
Long live the cloud!
If 1/9 isn't equal to 0.1111111 then something is way more messed up in math than .99999 = 1
Freeman Dyson, a very smart person, once calculated that an interstellar craft using thermonuclear bombs as propulsion (Project Orion) could reach 10% the speed of light. At that rate it would take a little over 200 years to reach Gliese 581. Time dilation would be minimal, so it would NOT be doable in a normal person's lifetime. But we could, with our current technology, build an unmanned craft that could reach Gliese 581 by the 23rd century and send back pictures.
Be careful what you wish for. A lot of those sheeple don't agree with you on a variety of issues, and if they suddenly rose up and decided to break laws for their causes--however whacky the causes--things would get messy.
Ah! Found it. http://hamlet.8m.com/
Since AAVE is its own established dialect, it would be a valid intellectual and aesthetic exercise to translate Hamlet into it. I would love to watch that play.
Humans are Mother Nature's way of bringing nature back into balance by returning carbon to the biosphere that has been remove by millions of years of sedimentation. Isn't in incredible how ingenious Mother Nature is? After all, back when nature was REALLY in balance (back when there were only one-celled organisms) there was much more carbon in the atmosphere. Things didn't change much for millions of years at a time because all of that great natural balance.
There are 3 major disadvantages to space stations: gravity, temperature regulation, and atmospheric pressure. These problems don't exist on Venus City. If we are going to talk about a significant population of humans living off the Earth (I'm talking thousands) I would bet on cloud cities on Venus before space stations. A hull breach on a space station would be a much more significant problem than on the floating city. However, Venus city has 3 major problems: distance from Earth, gravity well, and raw materials. What is needed prior to building Venus City is a space based infrastructure. This would include large space stations, perhaps built along the Stanford Torus model. I don't see those supporting more than a few hundred humans each, though. There could be orbiting space stations around Venus and Skyhooks for transfering raw materials. As far as building materials go, the atmosphere has plenty of carbon so your basic building blocks could be carbon nanotubes (I'm not sure how they hold up against sulfuric acid though). There is no shortage of solar energy at 50k up, you would get almost as much solar power from the clouds below you reflecting sunlight up as you would from above you. You would still need to import oxygen, hydrogen, and a few other important elements. Mercury could be mined and materials sent to Venus. The only alternative to large scale human colonization of space that would allow for Earth gravity and life style would be Oneillian Space stations (think Babylon 5) which I think would be a step up in difficulty.
People ask why should we go into space and try to colonize it. There are 2 good answers: energy and economies of scale. Energy is abundant and cheap in space (in the inner solar system). Once you are established outside of the Earth's gravity well, transportation is really cheap per kilometer traveled. If an economy of scale is built in space, the material needs of humanity would be taken care of in a way that could sustain billions of humans without polluting the Earth. The wealth generated in space could be rained down on the people of the Earth.
We must stop global warming, if only to prevent the world from being populated by aquatic Kevin Costners.
The great, memorable minds change our view of reality. Newton made it clockwork. Freud made it unconscious. Einstein made it relative. If someone else changes our universe for us again, they will be remembered.
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Well, I just read this article from an Internet connection in Shanghai. It will be interesting to see if it posts.
Star Trek recast:
Captain Kirk: Keanu Reeves
Spock: Jeff Goldblume
Dr. McCoy: Gene Hackman
Scotty: Mel Gibson (he can do a fair Scottish accent)
Uhura: Beyonce (she can sing)
I'd watch it.
Memories have been shown to depend on chemical changes in neurons. Emotions, however, are another story. There is evidence that getting an MRI can improve the moods of people with depression. So far scientist don't know why.
I won't be impressed until I see Google Office. And Gwindows. That will be something.
When the impending ecological disaster comes, the US will be the only country left with a working economy because we didn't spend so much money to follow this silly protocol which doesn't address the third world which is where most of the growth in emissions is coming from.
I've seen ED2 several dozen times, and it does stand on it's own without ED1. I admit I only saw ED1 a couple times when it first came out, and I was a bit drunk both times. I think it's time to see it again.
Evil Dead 2 was not a sequel, but a remake, and a better one at that. I don't see how anything could be better than Evil Dead 2, but what the hell, why not let Sam try again?
It's not like they got there and said "Hey, resources are limited here and if the population grows too much our decendants are going to be short." There was probably plenty to survive on for the first arrivals, and with time their culture adapted to the island. The decendants of the first arrivals may have forgotten whatever boating tech that allowed them to get there, and that was the only home they knew. Remember, grapefruit sized brains.
I bet every one of those Californians will vote...maybe even twice.
When I first read the book back in high school I was shocked to discover that it presented a world that most of my peers considered to be desireable. Lots of sex and drugs. Sure, not too much freedom, but lots of sex and drugs. Everything is planned out for you...but lots of sex and drugs. It has its appeal to the modern mentality. Has society changed so much since Huxley's time?
The Internet is more dangerous to them than it is to us. Plus, it's healthy for a system to get attacked now and then.