Nietzche is facinating, so even if someone is getting him wrong, I don't think even he would mind. I like the idea that a race would base themselves after him, even if they screw it up.
Can you please explain what you mean by Canadian Accent?
Do you mean... people who say aboot when they should say about? I must say... I've never said aboot, and I'm Canadian.
The vast majority of Canadians sound like new anchors, but without the cheese.
Doesn't it make you wonder how long it will be before the reality of The Matrix comes to life?
Berman was right -- no living thing may halt progress. The machine will topple you if you even think about it.
Big business brought Orwell's 1984 upon us, not because of some evil plot -- because of profit.
Humans in their natural state are unprofitable. We don't want anything! In order for us to want something, we have to be coaxed into it, and then we always want it, because we are creatures of habit.
You can't win against the biggies. They are unstoppable.
I laughed out loud when I read that we are in line for some divine ass kicking!!!
OMG that is soooo true!
Kinda makes you wonder if we have the power to wake a seemingly asleep diety.
If you look at all the science going on, and how only impoverished countries seem to worship regularly, I have to ask...
If God is watching us always, why is it that true believers seem to be so poor and lowly?
It seems that great thinking men and women all believe that a 'greater being' exists, yet many of them refute God as being nothing more than a supersition.
If I was God, I would have kicked human ass long ago. According to scripture, God agrees with me, because that's WHEN he kicked our asses... long long ago.
Does that mean we are free to do as we please?
I can only imagine the Hell that lives in the collective human consciousness. What if you could tap into that?
Would you remain sane?
Well according to scripture, God can and does tap that every day. Perhaps God is insane?
Game developers, like myself, account for audience age limits when we design our games. We market according to our company policy. Companies like Id Software have designed violent games nearly from day one, and to slap restrictions on their content would be worse than carding minors and policing the vendors. Censorship would be the only other way to keep naughty games out of the hands of our blessed youth.:)
Developers have seen legal backlash from the sale of violent games, which is a travesty. Columbine parents tried to sue Id Software and a handful of other companies for titles like Doom, and the courts threw out such claims as bogus. Why? Because the claims were nothing but money grabs from pissed off parents. I don't blame the parents, but I do blame the stores who sell violent titles for profiting from corruption of youth.
We don't develop violent games so that kiddies can go mow down their schoolmates. We make violent games so that we can come home from a shitty day at the office and kick some ass, with NO backlash or legal penalty. I would rather tote a rocket launcher against some sickos on a game server than hit a 7-11 and leave a lot of bodies in my wake. It's elementary... it's about having your cake and eating it too.
Violent games let adults have their cake and eat it too. Adults get to kill a shitload of people without going to jail! Talk about cool!!!!:)
And if you are 17, chances are you are old enough to have formed a good understanding between reality and fantasy.
ESRB is good. They make a call on a game and it's usually on the money. ESRB gave Quake 3: Arena the 17+ mature rating -- what's wrong with that?
Enforced age restrictions could lead to a better gaming experience overall anyway. Shit talkers on servers tend to lessen the experience, and we all know that the younger the player, the more chance of verbal diarrhea and poor sportsmanship.
I expect that under certain circumstances, violent games affect the perception of people who have not formed boundaries between reality and fantasy, and I agree that it is a good idea
The coolest people to play with are often older than the ESRB rating. I have no qualms with kids -- I just think they need to grow up, and then they can smoke, drink and kick online ass.
Now they can trump the guy with extortion charges!!!
He will do REAL time, cuz all judges hate h4x0r5.
First they get him to stop doing what he was doing -- ripping & distributing the DC ISOs. Sony can claim he forced them to give him stock, or else he wouldn't stop his dirty distribution ring!
I mean this is perfect! I think I saw it on Law & Order!!!:P
There is no question that kalisto was in the wrong, as far as any judge is concerned. Now Sony can really stick it to kalisto!
Sony offered the stock, and now they can claim duress, and then first get a conviction in kalisto's home state for extortion. Then they can bankrupt him by a civil suit.
Problems like security holes in private and public companies pop up, and at Slashdot, a thousand-million geeks all come up with the solutions --> for FREE.
Hey I don't wanna sound like a troll, but when are these companies going to send us all on a pizza night?
All you can do is manage the risks. There is no security.
This is music to my ears! I agree with your adept comment that altruism sucks, yet one can never sing the security song loud enough to management, with their semi-focus on the real issues in a product -- they salivate on profit and unachieved success while the deadlines they push are forcibly unreasonable.
Good management listens, and better managers do best to respect the lowly designers, who all tend to respect the job at hand. (Orwell, "Napoleon was a sturdy pig.")
The problem with society is that society has problems.
Management almost always is the root of all evil when it comes to product safety. While you can package security in your product, to whom you sell security depends on what you have to sell. We can sit here like a gaggle of winos, contemplating if a product is going to be secure, or we can push back deadlines and make things work correctly before D-Day.
Buddha said it best; "The gatherings of your neighbor are not meant for your jealousy!"
Management stiffs are often jealous. They often forget the reality of what's going on in the day-to-day because they are stuck looking at how good the new office rep has it.
I find it very unsettling to think of Pay for Play (PFP) as an advance to PC gaming.
I originally bought EQ, and took it back when I realized it was PFP. Yeah, I'm a dummy... but I'm not the only dummy to be duped into the cycle. At least I got out in time!
PFP games make 60$ (CAN) per copy, and on top of that, 20 bucks a month for server fees. How much of the server fees goes to profit, and how much is really used to improve the game?
When it's in the can, the game is done. Sure they add models and contests and stuff via PFP server downloads, but you are never really getting a refined game. The game tends to become congested, not better.
The online community loves EQ. I hear nothing but rave reviews of EQ. Asheron's Call also has a good following. These games are immersive, fun and very cool, indeed. PFP is not a method to improve gameplay; PFP is a cash grab.
With the current free Quake 3 servers available, it's about time that immersive online games followed suit.
Instead of paying for servers, now I can put some cash toward better hardware.:)
Damn fools... if I'm playing on a free server, do I really care if you smoke my EQ account?
The points you made about nano tech all reign true. It's the answer to our evolution, yet it will also probably replace humanity as we know it.
Human morbidity will probably stand in the way of our evolution, and since we are afraid of being replaced, how can we ever improve?
This all reminds me of Jedi talk from SW. "Use the metachlorines, Luke!"
One of the hardest parts in optimizing nano tech is trust related issues. We would have to give ourselves to tech, rather than control and dominate tech.
I don't know if we are ready as a species to do that yet, as we are not ready to suspend fear when approching a scruffy person near a 7-11 after dark.
SETI seems to be off track, although it is a noble venture. While I think the project is cool, I think it might be a little messed up to believe that a thousand societies could coexist in a galaxy. The probability of that is next to impossible, for many reasons.
Many people believe that there could be either good or evil aliens. For the sake of this article, let's call anyone who will talk about alien phenomena "Alien Watchers", or AW - everyone else is a skeptic (even neutral parties).
A slim minority of AW fear aliens. Most AW think that aliens are cool, even if they are evil.
Skeptics are really poor examples of the opposition in the debate because most skeptics won't think out their ideas to the bitter end, while many AW will work out the problems fully, regardless of bias.
The cream of the crop AW will tend to suspend judgment when hearing any idea, and wait to form an opinion based on multiple fact structures, using complex methods to obtain test results. This being the case, aliens must exist solely because the people who spend the most time working out how or why aliens exist, all believe in aliens. Or is it chicken & egg? Maybe the more a human concentrates on something, the more they tend to believe it.
I don't know about you, but the harder I think about something on a test in school, the better results I tend to get. Perhaps the same is true with 1% of the AW?
Some skeptics will sit in a room with AW and talk about the possibilities of ET, yet very few will hold fast to the belief that ET does not exist, without closing off their mind to the possibility.
The easiest way to swing a skeptic, is to simply say... "We humans exist. Reasonable doubt would lean to believe that something like us must exist as well, somewhere, at some time." Uh... maybe this planet is the only place in the universe where life as we know it will exist! Dinosaurs existed here... then we replaced them. What if this world is a vantage point for biology? Maybe it's the only place biology can work in the fashion it does. Then what kind of alien would we be looking for off this Earth, then?
The various human belief structures regarding ET all seem to conflict. You have to be able to play chess against yourself to even think about the unknown (alien) phenomena. What I'm saying here is not necessarily all true, or even partially true... it's a set of conflicting ideas that represent what the majority of alien watcher believe - in part or in whole.
One basic human belief is that aliens had a hand in creating humanity, and all other life on Earth. Evil aliens created humanity as slaves for some substance, or knowledge, or to serve, or to fight for them. Good aliens created humanity out of the goodness in their hearts, or as an experiment, or as a gift.
Some believe that aliens are harvesting something from us. Evil aliens would be taking some important thing, like our souls, awareness, or life energy, or perhaps knowledge. Good aliens might be growing extra energy, solving social ailments or perhaps just guiding us to a higher level, perhaps by giving us help.
Aliens could be similar to us, in every way. Evil aliens might want to destroy us, out of fear, or perhaps just to prove their worth to the cosmic order. Good aliens may want to steer clear of us. Good aliens might also want to form treaties, or nudge our history in the right direction anonymously, by hanging around schools or hospitals. Perhaps good aliens would want to nudge our DNA by emitting fields near our water supply, or in reverse, evil aliens might want to emit poisons near water supplies as well.
Duh... tobacco.
Aliens could own companies in our society could help certain types of humans. One such group might be Clear Green (www.cleargreen.com). Good aliens may focus energies in aiding people, while bad aliens might use such organizations to set humanity back. I guess this give good cause for human intuition.
Clear Green's methodology is based on Carlos Castaneda's writings of his time spent with Sorcerer Don Juan Matus. CC's books are filled with alien encounters and other science fiction trips, which all seem real when you read them. CC's books also tend to transcend the God complex and fire up new suspicions of alien interaction with humanity, all leaning toward inter-dimensional travel for humans and aliens, thus putting ideas like SETI in a different light. Carlos Castaneda is worth reading, if you are an AW or a skeptic, but you have to read between the lines.
Perhaps aliens have no idea what or who we are. What if they never become adults, or never die? We take much for granted, especially our own biological paths. We tend to believe that another race could behave as we do.
Humanity is horrible! We kill our own kind, do all kinds of nasty stuff to things unrelated to us, and we have a terrible case of morbidity, as a whole population. We are interested in police, and crime. We like violence. We don't think before we act.
If aliens never mature, if they stay in their perfect infant stage, perhaps they are closer to trees or other peaceful creatures. How would you find an alien tree on a spec of dust far, far away?
Have you ever shown up to an exam unprepared? Perhaps SETI is doing just that! I mean... what if these aliens don't even exist in a quadrant of space. Plausibly, ET could exist in a different space/time continuum. ET might live in a different universe and have the technology to show up here in an instant and annihilate us.
What is probably the truth is that ET has the means to get here, and they want nothing to do with us, or we are a kind of science project for them and they have been keeping tabs all along. Either case scores few points for alien search parties.:P
Okay maybe the little green men had nothing to do with manufacturing our ancestors. Maybe they were manufactured like us and want to kick our ass.
Can you imagine if we find ET and we are not prepared? The result could be cataclysmic! We could be signing our own death warrants! If ET were at all moral, they would want to exterminate us.
Our planet is on a destructive path. We have social ailments that are less important than weaponry budgets!
Corporate agenda is more important than education and nutrition! Government has become a travesty. Justice has a price.
ET would probably destroy us with a simple flick of its antennae. It would certainly look at us in puzzlement. We are the epitome of imperfection, the height of human self-interest.
We need to start looking at who we are and how we can improve the lives of all living things around us.
Yet somehow, we appear to be of a design. I think, therefore, I am - it's a simple way to believe in yourself, yet what about other human traits?
They never said, "I move, therefore, I am." And they never said, "I feel, therefore, I am."
I think...
I believe that if there is an ET, that somehow one species of ET was responsible for creating humanity, and all life on Earth. However easy to believe, faith could not possibly generate truth. Truth is only found from observation and contemplation.
The evidence appears to lean toward deity intervention as the cause of our genesis. Advanced technology can blur the lines between religion and science. Deity intervention could be easily confused with hyper advanced tech.
ET is probably very distant from our physiology. It probably does not live as we do, on the surface of a rock (earth). Quite possibly, the ET responsible for our genesis exists in another dimension. Perhaps we were a kind of stepping stone for the archaic beings. They created us to be a monument for any other races that might exist.
Think of it this way... Did you ever get to have a cushy job? You know... plush leather interior office... the works. Did you ever notice how unhealthy behavior seems to coincide with luxury? ET might have had to find that out the hard way... and now ET is either dead or hiding.
Human DNA is a coded sequence. This leads me to believe that ET coded us, and left us here. What possible reason could they have for creating human beings?
Let's say you want to harvest a kind of element from a neighboring plane of existence, and you don't have the ability to do it yourself, or you don't want to get dirty.
Humans might be a cool vehicle to getting what you want, Mr. Alien. In fact, humans seem to be designed to produce energy, planetary change and excrement.
Everyone should read Marshall Berman's "All that is Solid Melts into Air."
Berman maintains that anyone who tries to stop progress will be paved over by the giant machine.
Sony is a company that is stuck in the machine of progress that their kind created, and they want out, but the fact is, they are bound to the law of supply and demand. With unlimited supply of free music that Napster and other progs provide, the overall music demand declines. Fewer pop artists will record music, and less money will be made by music.
That means... Sony is in for an ass whooping by their own damn foot!
If Sony tried to tamper with the Internet, you would see their stock plummet faster than the apple that hit Newton on his head! They would suffer boycotts and protests unlike ever before. If I know one thing about the Internet, it's that we can organize efforts better than any other group in the world, because we offer our services usually for free, and we have a passion for life that pushes us toward the greater good.
Any business that tampers with the Internet will suffer.
Just think about this...
CDs sell for 20 bucks and they cost a 25 cents to make! Who is getting ripped off?!
You spelled 'idea' wrong. Funny how that happened when you were hosing my ideas...:)
Surely the act of gravity moving a rock is a different scale than the force you would need to move light. It's the same principle.
Less than a thousand years ago, we learned about the combustion engine. Before that day, we had to abuse animals to get from place to place. The progress of science in all other facets is quite similar. We have not found the energy or magnetism force to bend light, and one day we will. I'm sure it is in the refraction process, to be quite honest, but with a twist... a special kind of gravity focused at the point of refraction could do it. Maybe a centrifuge could get the kind of pull you'd need?
Macrocosm is microcosm.
Peas and carrots are both vegetables. Rocks and light can also form similar relationship, although it is a distant one.
I speak merely in conjecture. I have no grounds for saying any of this, as I am not a physics major or a physician.:P I'm Joe, the ordinary guy. My opinion is based on archetype, not readings. You won't find any answers in books -- merely questions.
Clearly I possess an understanding of particle physics that you could never grasp. (Lucky for you.:)
Linear accelerations of light particles is not at all impossible. That's what you were really talking about.
Naturally, a rock sits right where it is. You can pick it up and touch it. When you drop it, you are acting 9.81 m/s^2 of gravity upon the rock, by displacing the potential energy of the rock from point A (at rest) to point B (raised above ground). The gravity is always acting on the rock; you are simply converting the energy it takes to make potential energy in the rock, from moving the rock upward to a new position.
It's elementary that you can do the same thing with light. Light is not attracted, however, or you would find it occuring in waves, not linear travel from origin to extent.
Therefore, to accelerate light, the scientist must cause it to have waveform, as sound does.
Why?! Well because once you have a wave, you are able to manipulate the wave, while for the most part light is not attracted like sound can be.
Light is able to have elasticity acted upon it, as even rudementary episodes of Star Trek have explained. You can therefore elasticate light, pulling it to accelearation.
Slashdot Mirror
It all says something about the human condition.
Can you please explain what you mean by Canadian Accent? Do you mean... people who say aboot when they should say about? I must say... I've never said aboot, and I'm Canadian. The vast majority of Canadians sound like new anchors, but without the cheese.
The site was /.'d
My take on the thing is that any artist, no matter what, has the right to put any lyrics into their music.
Are there any sites other than mp3.com that are good for artists to post their shit?
I have a site at mp3.com here: http://www.mp3.com/djnekrull
Lemmie know at dolomite@planetquake.com if you know of a good site for recording artists.
Berman was right -- no living thing may halt progress. The machine will topple you if you even think about it.
Big business brought Orwell's 1984 upon us, not because of some evil plot -- because of profit.
Humans in their natural state are unprofitable. We don't want anything! In order for us to want something, we have to be coaxed into it, and then we always want it, because we are creatures of habit.
You can't win against the biggies. They are unstoppable.
If you can't beat em, join em.
Abandon ship!!!
ARGH!!!
Our data has been stolen!
{{ fade to black }}
Hey nobody will ever need more than 128k memory!
That's insane!!!
OMG that is soooo true!
Kinda makes you wonder if we have the power to wake a seemingly asleep diety.
If you look at all the science going on, and how only impoverished countries seem to worship regularly, I have to ask...
If God is watching us always, why is it that true believers seem to be so poor and lowly?
It seems that great thinking men and women all believe that a 'greater being' exists, yet many of them refute God as being nothing more than a supersition.
If I was God, I would have kicked human ass long ago. According to scripture, God agrees with me, because that's WHEN he kicked our asses... long long ago.
Does that mean we are free to do as we please?
I can only imagine the Hell that lives in the collective human consciousness. What if you could tap into that?
Would you remain sane?
Well according to scripture, God can and does tap that every day. Perhaps God is insane?
Or perhaps sleep is his only choice.
I wonder, will the old man will kick our ass for this space elevator?
Minors should be carded. It's a good idea.
Game developers, like myself, account for audience age limits when we design our games. We market according to our company policy. Companies like Id Software have designed violent games nearly from day one, and to slap restrictions on their content would be worse than carding minors and policing the vendors. Censorship would be the only other way to keep naughty games out of the hands of our blessed youth. :)
Developers have seen legal backlash from the sale of violent games, which is a travesty. Columbine parents tried to sue Id Software and a handful of other companies for titles like Doom, and the courts threw out such claims as bogus. Why? Because the claims were nothing but money grabs from pissed off parents. I don't blame the parents, but I do blame the stores who sell violent titles for profiting from corruption of youth.
We don't develop violent games so that kiddies can go mow down their schoolmates. We make violent games so that we can come home from a shitty day at the office and kick some ass, with NO backlash or legal penalty. I would rather tote a rocket launcher against some sickos on a game server than hit a 7-11 and leave a lot of bodies in my wake. It's elementary... it's about having your cake and eating it too.
Violent games let adults have their cake and eat it too. Adults get to kill a shitload of people without going to jail! Talk about cool!!!! :)
And if you are 17, chances are you are old enough to have formed a good understanding between reality and fantasy.
ESRB is good. They make a call on a game and it's usually on the money. ESRB gave Quake 3: Arena the 17+ mature rating -- what's wrong with that?
Enforced age restrictions could lead to a better gaming experience overall anyway. Shit talkers on servers tend to lessen the experience, and we all know that the younger the player, the more chance of verbal diarrhea and poor sportsmanship.
I expect that under certain circumstances, violent games affect the perception of people who have not formed boundaries between reality and fantasy, and I agree that it is a good idea
The coolest people to play with are often older than the ESRB rating. I have no qualms with kids -- I just think they need to grow up, and then they can smoke, drink and kick online ass.
Microsoft sucks.
Microsoft sucks.
Microsoft sucks.
I think this says everything they need to hear.
Why does Microsoft suck?
Hmm... that would be a much bigger paper! /d
Perfect move by Sony!
Now they can trump the guy with extortion charges!!!
He will do REAL time, cuz all judges hate h4x0r5.
First they get him to stop doing what he was doing -- ripping & distributing the DC ISOs. Sony can claim he forced them to give him stock, or else he wouldn't stop his dirty distribution ring!
I mean this is perfect! I think I saw it on Law & Order!!! :P
There is no question that kalisto was in the wrong, as far as any judge is concerned. Now Sony can really stick it to kalisto!
Sony offered the stock, and now they can claim duress, and then first get a conviction in kalisto's home state for extortion. Then they can bankrupt him by a civil suit.
Are these Sony guys Bony or what? :P /d
DragonBall fans will totally dig this site:
DragonBall Quake - mod for Quake 3: Arena.
I plan to help them out with some maps and music, after I'm done with work on PainKeep Arena.
Problems like security holes in private and public companies pop up, and at Slashdot, a thousand-million geeks all come up with the solutions --> for FREE.
Hey I don't wanna sound like a troll, but when are these companies going to send us all on a pizza night?
All you can do is manage the risks. There is no security.
This is music to my ears! I agree with your adept comment that altruism sucks, yet one can never sing the security song loud enough to management, with their semi-focus on the real issues in a product -- they salivate on profit and unachieved success while the deadlines they push are forcibly unreasonable.
Good management listens, and better managers do best to respect the lowly designers, who all tend to respect the job at hand. (Orwell, "Napoleon was a sturdy pig.")
The problem with society is that society has problems.
Management almost always is the root of all evil when it comes to product safety. While you can package security in your product, to whom you sell security depends on what you have to sell. We can sit here like a gaggle of winos, contemplating if a product is going to be secure, or we can push back deadlines and make things work correctly before D-Day.
Buddha said it best; "The gatherings of your neighbor are not meant for your jealousy!"
Management stiffs are often jealous. They often forget the reality of what's going on in the day-to-day because they are stuck looking at how good the new office rep has it.
Tell that to Mohammed. /d
I originally bought EQ, and took it back when I realized it was PFP. Yeah, I'm a dummy... but I'm not the only dummy to be duped into the cycle. At least I got out in time!
PFP games make 60$ (CAN) per copy, and on top of that, 20 bucks a month for server fees. How much of the server fees goes to profit, and how much is really used to improve the game?
When it's in the can, the game is done. Sure they add models and contests and stuff via PFP server downloads, but you are never really getting a refined game. The game tends to become congested, not better.
The online community loves EQ. I hear nothing but rave reviews of EQ. Asheron's Call also has a good following. These games are immersive, fun and very cool, indeed. PFP is not a method to improve gameplay; PFP is a cash grab.
With the current free Quake 3 servers available, it's about time that immersive online games followed suit.
Instead of paying for servers, now I can put some cash toward better hardware. :)
Damn fools... if I'm playing on a free server, do I really care if you smoke my EQ account?
Great article.
The points you made about nano tech all reign true. It's the answer to our evolution, yet it will also probably replace humanity as we know it.
Human morbidity will probably stand in the way of our evolution, and since we are afraid of being replaced, how can we ever improve?
This all reminds me of Jedi talk from SW. "Use the metachlorines, Luke!"
One of the hardest parts in optimizing nano tech is trust related issues. We would have to give ourselves to tech, rather than control and dominate tech.
I don't know if we are ready as a species to do that yet, as we are not ready to suspend fear when approching a scruffy person near a 7-11 after dark.
Many people believe that there could be either good or evil aliens. For the sake of this article, let's call anyone who will talk about alien phenomena "Alien Watchers", or AW - everyone else is a skeptic (even neutral parties).
A slim minority of AW fear aliens. Most AW think that aliens are cool, even if they are evil.
Skeptics are really poor examples of the opposition in the debate because most skeptics won't think out their ideas to the bitter end, while many AW will work out the problems fully, regardless of bias.
The cream of the crop AW will tend to suspend judgment when hearing any idea, and wait to form an opinion based on multiple fact structures, using complex methods to obtain test results. This being the case, aliens must exist solely because the people who spend the most time working out how or why aliens exist, all believe in aliens. Or is it chicken & egg? Maybe the more a human concentrates on something, the more they tend to believe it.
I don't know about you, but the harder I think about something on a test in school, the better results I tend to get. Perhaps the same is true with 1% of the AW?
Some skeptics will sit in a room with AW and talk about the possibilities of ET, yet very few will hold fast to the belief that ET does not exist, without closing off their mind to the possibility.
The easiest way to swing a skeptic, is to simply say... "We humans exist. Reasonable doubt would lean to believe that something like us must exist as well, somewhere, at some time." Uh... maybe this planet is the only place in the universe where life as we know it will exist! Dinosaurs existed here... then we replaced them. What if this world is a vantage point for biology? Maybe it's the only place biology can work in the fashion it does. Then what kind of alien would we be looking for off this Earth, then?
The various human belief structures regarding ET all seem to conflict. You have to be able to play chess against yourself to even think about the unknown (alien) phenomena. What I'm saying here is not necessarily all true, or even partially true... it's a set of conflicting ideas that represent what the majority of alien watcher believe - in part or in whole.
One basic human belief is that aliens had a hand in creating humanity, and all other life on Earth. Evil aliens created humanity as slaves for some substance, or knowledge, or to serve, or to fight for them. Good aliens created humanity out of the goodness in their hearts, or as an experiment, or as a gift.
Some believe that aliens are harvesting something from us. Evil aliens would be taking some important thing, like our souls, awareness, or life energy, or perhaps knowledge. Good aliens might be growing extra energy, solving social ailments or perhaps just guiding us to a higher level, perhaps by giving us help.
Aliens could be similar to us, in every way. Evil aliens might want to destroy us, out of fear, or perhaps just to prove their worth to the cosmic order. Good aliens may want to steer clear of us. Good aliens might also want to form treaties, or nudge our history in the right direction anonymously, by hanging around schools or hospitals. Perhaps good aliens would want to nudge our DNA by emitting fields near our water supply, or in reverse, evil aliens might want to emit poisons near water supplies as well.
Duh... tobacco.
Aliens could own companies in our society could help certain types of humans. One such group might be Clear Green (www.cleargreen.com). Good aliens may focus energies in aiding people, while bad aliens might use such organizations to set humanity back. I guess this give good cause for human intuition.
Clear Green's methodology is based on Carlos Castaneda's writings of his time spent with Sorcerer Don Juan Matus. CC's books are filled with alien encounters and other science fiction trips, which all seem real when you read them. CC's books also tend to transcend the God complex and fire up new suspicions of alien interaction with humanity, all leaning toward inter-dimensional travel for humans and aliens, thus putting ideas like SETI in a different light. Carlos Castaneda is worth reading, if you are an AW or a skeptic, but you have to read between the lines.
Perhaps aliens have no idea what or who we are. What if they never become adults, or never die? We take much for granted, especially our own biological paths. We tend to believe that another race could behave as we do.
Humanity is horrible! We kill our own kind, do all kinds of nasty stuff to things unrelated to us, and we have a terrible case of morbidity, as a whole population. We are interested in police, and crime. We like violence. We don't think before we act.
If aliens never mature, if they stay in their perfect infant stage, perhaps they are closer to trees or other peaceful creatures. How would you find an alien tree on a spec of dust far, far away?
Have you ever shown up to an exam unprepared? Perhaps SETI is doing just that! I mean... what if these aliens don't even exist in a quadrant of space. Plausibly, ET could exist in a different space/time continuum. ET might live in a different universe and have the technology to show up here in an instant and annihilate us.
What is probably the truth is that ET has the means to get here, and they want nothing to do with us, or we are a kind of science project for them and they have been keeping tabs all along. Either case scores few points for alien search parties. :P
Okay maybe the little green men had nothing to do with manufacturing our ancestors. Maybe they were manufactured like us and want to kick our ass.
Can you imagine if we find ET and we are not prepared? The result could be cataclysmic! We could be signing our own death warrants! If ET were at all moral, they would want to exterminate us.
Our planet is on a destructive path. We have social ailments that are less important than weaponry budgets! Corporate agenda is more important than education and nutrition! Government has become a travesty. Justice has a price.
ET would probably destroy us with a simple flick of its antennae. It would certainly look at us in puzzlement. We are the epitome of imperfection, the height of human self-interest.
We need to start looking at who we are and how we can improve the lives of all living things around us.
Yet somehow, we appear to be of a design. I think, therefore, I am - it's a simple way to believe in yourself, yet what about other human traits?
They never said, "I move, therefore, I am." And they never said, "I feel, therefore, I am."
I think...
I believe that if there is an ET, that somehow one species of ET was responsible for creating humanity, and all life on Earth. However easy to believe, faith could not possibly generate truth. Truth is only found from observation and contemplation.
The evidence appears to lean toward deity intervention as the cause of our genesis. Advanced technology can blur the lines between religion and science. Deity intervention could be easily confused with hyper advanced tech.
ET is probably very distant from our physiology. It probably does not live as we do, on the surface of a rock (earth). Quite possibly, the ET responsible for our genesis exists in another dimension. Perhaps we were a kind of stepping stone for the archaic beings. They created us to be a monument for any other races that might exist.
Think of it this way... Did you ever get to have a cushy job? You know... plush leather interior office... the works. Did you ever notice how unhealthy behavior seems to coincide with luxury? ET might have had to find that out the hard way... and now ET is either dead or hiding.
Human DNA is a coded sequence. This leads me to believe that ET coded us, and left us here. What possible reason could they have for creating human beings?
Let's say you want to harvest a kind of element from a neighboring plane of existence, and you don't have the ability to do it yourself, or you don't want to get dirty.
Humans might be a cool vehicle to getting what you want, Mr. Alien. In fact, humans seem to be designed to produce energy, planetary change and excrement.
Any three byproducts could be of use to aliens.
Berman maintains that anyone who tries to stop progress will be paved over by the giant machine.
Sony is a company that is stuck in the machine of progress that their kind created, and they want out, but the fact is, they are bound to the law of supply and demand. With unlimited supply of free music that Napster and other progs provide, the overall music demand declines. Fewer pop artists will record music, and less money will be made by music.
That means... Sony is in for an ass whooping by their own damn foot!
If Sony tried to tamper with the Internet, you would see their stock plummet faster than the apple that hit Newton on his head! They would suffer boycotts and protests unlike ever before. If I know one thing about the Internet, it's that we can organize efforts better than any other group in the world, because we offer our services usually for free, and we have a passion for life that pushes us toward the greater good.
Any business that tampers with the Internet will suffer.
Just think about this...
CDs sell for 20 bucks and they cost a 25 cents to make! Who is getting ripped off?!
You.
Just an idea...
Now that the big bands will cost money, the little guys can release stuff for free and get noticed.
It's the end-all-be-all of nerdyness.
I think you could call it the Epitomy.
But I would call it the Epitome. :)
You could smell video games, the smoke, blood, environments...
That would totally enrich any gaming experience.
Surely the act of gravity moving a rock is a different scale than the force you would need to move light. It's the same principle.
Less than a thousand years ago, we learned about the combustion engine. Before that day, we had to abuse animals to get from place to place. The progress of science in all other facets is quite similar. We have not found the energy or magnetism force to bend light, and one day we will. I'm sure it is in the refraction process, to be quite honest, but with a twist... a special kind of gravity focused at the point of refraction could do it. Maybe a centrifuge could get the kind of pull you'd need?
Macrocosm is microcosm.
Peas and carrots are both vegetables. Rocks and light can also form similar relationship, although it is a distant one.
I speak merely in conjecture. I have no grounds for saying any of this, as I am not a physics major or a physician. :P I'm Joe, the ordinary guy. My opinion is based on archetype, not readings. You won't find any answers in books -- merely questions.
Clearly I possess an understanding of particle physics that you could never grasp. (Lucky for you. :)
I don't do drugs - they tend to destroy people.
Naturally, a rock sits right where it is. You can pick it up and touch it. When you drop it, you are acting 9.81 m/s^2 of gravity upon the rock, by displacing the potential energy of the rock from point A (at rest) to point B (raised above ground). The gravity is always acting on the rock; you are simply converting the energy it takes to make potential energy in the rock, from moving the rock upward to a new position.
It's elementary that you can do the same thing with light. Light is not attracted, however, or you would find it occuring in waves, not linear travel from origin to extent.
Therefore, to accelerate light, the scientist must cause it to have waveform, as sound does.
Why?! Well because once you have a wave, you are able to manipulate the wave, while for the most part light is not attracted like sound can be.
Light is able to have elasticity acted upon it, as even rudementary episodes of Star Trek have explained. You can therefore elasticate light, pulling it to accelearation.
Just my 0.02$