If I was the creator of the universe, and had billions of trillions of planets capable of supporting life, what would be the most efficient 'delivery system' for me to use to deliver the "Seeds of Life" to them all?
If you can create universes, you don't need "delivery systems". You just speak your will into being.
The effect of greenhouse gasses has been known for a couple of hundred years.
However, I think it was Sagan's group's concern about a possible Nuclear Winter that got people started actually thinking about greenhouse gasses and climate.
...don't you think he'll punish you for using your talents to suck resources away from survival and toward some unnecessary dalliance?
You sure have funny notions about God. What he'll actually be angry about is not spending the money and talent on anti-abortion, gay-healing, and other sex-control campaigns.
"Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc"
Is the Higgs Boson disc-shaped or is Timothy too lazy to use the preview button before posting ?
No, what he meant was that Organtini is going to put a bunch of Higgs Bosons on a DVD and sell them to people who want them. This is your chance to ask questions before you buy, such as:
Have the possibilities of an early European people moving east and then over Bering been ruled out?
I don't think so. In fact, the map at the Wikipedia article seems to suggest that.
Then again, I suppose movement over the sea ice across the northern Atlantic is more probable.
I think that's the popular view. I don't know whether there's an established scholarly view. And I try to resist the urge to speculate, since I'm utterly unqualified.
Its really interesting what DNA can and cannot tell us. Obviously genetics isn't everything, but it can help us track the flows of people. Combined with archaeological evidence, it also can give us a slightly clearer picture of what happened. Then again, it can open up a lot of unresolved questions.
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Did the Triumph and BMW people arrive as a single wave, or are you saying that there were actually four waves of immigration?
The only thing I question is they are still sticking by the Clovis dogma and insisting that the two other waves were later.
I think the field of anthropology is finally abandoning the Clovis-first model that was believed for so long. There have been too many anomalous findings that challenge it, mostly in the past 15-20 years I think.
There's a pretty good summary of the evidence on Wikipedia, if you're interested.
Interestingly, a bit further down in that article they mention a publication that firmly established a single-wave model. Looks like there's some reconciliation to be done.
IMO the most interesting thing about settlement of the Americas is the whole haplotype X thing, which strongly suggests a genetic relation between the early peoples of northern North America and Europe or the Middle East. Though that fact is well established, I recommend skepticism when reading interpretations of what it means, because a lot of people take that ball and run a long way with it. However, as best I can tell it can't simply be dismissed as a parallel mutation, because of the way X is embedded down at a specific point in a whole tree of haplotypes.
The problem is that any interpretation of what haplotypes mean tends to get very political very fast, especially with people who want to use it to support crank claims or religious/nationalist primacy fantasies.
If you read the nytimes article you see that the genetic evidence appears to confirm the linguistic work done by Joseph Greenberg in 1987. So that is probably what the grandparent is thinking of as the "old news". However, the theories of Joseph Greenberg aren't widely accepted.
All it vindicates about Greenberg is his specific proposal of three waves of immigration. Most historical linguists utterly reject his "mass comparison" method for identifying languages. I don't think this work is going to change that, no matter how enthusiastic Ruiz is.
I have a really witty comment about San Francisco stopping buying Apple computers, but it's in poor taste, and would probably be perceived as an attempt at flamsterbaition, rather than the sincere attempt at being a smartass that it would actually be.
So I'll skip posting it, but you might want to pretend I did and mod me town as a troll anyway, just for thinking of it.
Where I lived previously they were working on a deal to outsource them to for-profit ventures. Including already built freeways that were built with my tax money.
Lucky for me, there aren't any toll roads where I live now.
What sort of mechanism are you proposing by which a global increase of a degree will change local peak temperatures by 15-19 degrees?
Uh... have you ever paused to wonder why we get local peaks *now*? Do you expect global warming to introduce a smooth temperature gradient from pole to pole?
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It also kills everyone within 100 meters of the fire.
If I was the creator of the universe, and had billions of trillions of planets capable of supporting life, what would be the most efficient 'delivery system' for me to use to deliver the "Seeds of Life" to them all?
If you can create universes, you don't need "delivery systems". You just speak your will into being.
That's the simplest explanation. You nerds and your crazy ideas !!
Best possible explanation for unplanned pregnancies.
So rocks carrying massive amounts of water magically came to the Earth?
Yes, and the Intelligent Designer's son turned some of it into wine.
The effect of greenhouse gasses has been known for a couple of hundred years.
However, I think it was Sagan's group's concern about a possible Nuclear Winter that got people started actually thinking about greenhouse gasses and climate.
I was hurtin' for another pi article.
Yeah, but I was kinda hoping to hear how many bitcoins it's gonna to cost.
'more' and 'less' don't need theories; we already have software implementations.
...don't you think he'll punish you for using your talents to suck resources away from survival and toward some unnecessary dalliance?
You sure have funny notions about God. What he'll actually be angry about is not spending the money and talent on anti-abortion, gay-healing, and other sex-control campaigns.
"Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc"
Is the Higgs Boson disc-shaped or is Timothy too lazy to use the preview button before posting ?
No, what he meant was that Organtini is going to put a bunch of Higgs Bosons on a DVD and sell them to people who want them. This is your chance to ask questions before you buy, such as:
How many bosons will be on the disc?
Will I be able to view them on Linux?
Why not just make them available for download?
"No birds were blinded in the making of this invasion."
But think of the amount of popcorn they could produce in remote locations...
Give your ground troops a tan.
Have the possibilities of an early European people moving east and then over Bering been ruled out?
I don't think so. In fact, the map at the Wikipedia article seems to suggest that.
Then again, I suppose movement over the sea ice across the northern Atlantic is more probable.
I think that's the popular view. I don't know whether there's an established scholarly view. And I try to resist the urge to speculate, since I'm utterly unqualified.
Its really interesting what DNA can and cannot tell us. Obviously genetics isn't everything, but it can help us track the flows of people. Combined with archaeological evidence, it also can give us a slightly clearer picture of what happened. Then again, it can open up a lot of unresolved questions.
Precisely.
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Did the Triumph and BMW people arrive as a single wave, or are you saying that there were actually four waves of immigration?
The only thing I question is they are still sticking by the Clovis dogma and insisting that the two other waves were later.
I think the field of anthropology is finally abandoning the Clovis-first model that was believed for so long. There have been too many anomalous findings that challenge it, mostly in the past 15-20 years I think.
There's a pretty good summary of the evidence on Wikipedia, if you're interested.
Interestingly, a bit further down in that article they mention a publication that firmly established a single-wave model. Looks like there's some reconciliation to be done.
IMO the most interesting thing about settlement of the Americas is the whole haplotype X thing, which strongly suggests a genetic relation between the early peoples of northern North America and Europe or the Middle East. Though that fact is well established, I recommend skepticism when reading interpretations of what it means, because a lot of people take that ball and run a long way with it. However, as best I can tell it can't simply be dismissed as a parallel mutation, because of the way X is embedded down at a specific point in a whole tree of haplotypes.
The problem is that any interpretation of what haplotypes mean tends to get very political very fast, especially with people who want to use it to support crank claims or religious/nationalist primacy fantasies.
The earliest immigrants arrived in waves, more recent immigrants arrived in boats...
If you read the nytimes article you see that the genetic evidence appears to confirm the linguistic work done by Joseph Greenberg in 1987. So that is probably what the grandparent is thinking of as the "old news". However, the theories of Joseph Greenberg aren't widely accepted.
All it vindicates about Greenberg is his specific proposal of three waves of immigration. Most historical linguists utterly reject his "mass comparison" method for identifying languages. I don't think this work is going to change that, no matter how enthusiastic Ruiz is.
Yes. He actually came out and said "not everyone deserves to vote". I was quite stunned.
Some of the prevailing political philosophies in the USA don't actually subscribe to American values.
I know this is lost on some of you here, but there's a continuum between "world's largest inmate population" and "anarchy.
Truly, there's no reason a nation as special as us couldn't have both.
I have a really witty comment about San Francisco stopping buying Apple computers, but it's in poor taste, and would probably be perceived as an attempt at flamsterbaition, rather than the sincere attempt at being a smartass that it would actually be.
So I'll skip posting it, but you might want to pretend I did and mod me town as a troll anyway, just for thinking of it.
[snip flame war]
Remember the good ol' days, when polite folk talked about the weather because politics or religion might lead to an argument?
[maybe it's all the flame wars that's causing all the hot]
Tollways in the U.S. are government owned.
Where I lived previously they were working on a deal to outsource them to for-profit ventures. Including already built freeways that were built with my tax money.
Lucky for me, there aren't any toll roads where I live now.
Can someone give me a reason other than "-1 disagree" for parent being modded down to -1 troll?
Isn't that what "-1troll" means?
Seriously, pull your fat, ideologically poisoned head out of your fat geek ass.
Hey, don't call us geeks, you could hurt our feelings.
What sort of mechanism are you proposing by which a global increase of a degree will change local peak temperatures by 15-19 degrees?
Uh... have you ever paused to wonder why we get local peaks *now*? Do you expect global warming to introduce a smooth temperature gradient from pole to pole?
Who else was thinking "yet another damn markup language"?
YADML? You use it to mark up additional damns?