Perhaps not incapable, but at the very least _currently_ unwilling. FOSS is still gaining traction and staying with the status quo makes the transition easier for people. There are pros and cons to that: easier transition, yet innovative stagnation. Perhaps what's really needed is a radical paradigm-shift, something new and amazing that will draw people to it. If you build it, they will come ; )
I intend this as a serious question, so please do not be offended. I am just curious.
I can fully appreciate the archeological landmarks used to begin the calculation of the earth's age. So long as the dates provided in the Bible are accurate, it makes perfect sense. From the fall of Jerusalem backwards through Solomon's kingdom and Temple, to the Exodus from Egypt, and all the way to Noah and the Flood, we have reached the year 3987 B.C., approximately.
Now, finding that all of the above time-spans and dates are correct and accurate, what seems difficult to believe is the Genesis genealogy that comes previous to the flood (Gen 5:3-32). What support, evidence, or explanations are there for the listed ages in the genealogy? I have never once heard someone with an explanation to these millennium-aged people; Adam lived 800 years, Seth lived 912 years, Enosh lived 905 years, Kenan lived 910 years, and so on and so forth.
You know, it's a funny thing. With a linux box, the first thing you do is install everything and tweak it till it purrs like a kitten. With every windows box though, including the new laptop I bought pre-loaded with vista, I literally spend hours uninstalling programs and disabling pretty much everything.
Makes you think: One hour perfecting a linux install... versus nine hours hacking (think machete) away at vista (in the hope that it will take less than five minutes to boot up).
Sequoyah didn't start working on the syllabary until around 1809 and took him over a decade to complete. Europeans had, at this time, been in the Americas for over 300 years. An enormous amount of land had already been conquered, and populations severely devastated.
Confirm that in wikipedia if you want; but I would suggest reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. Much more in-depth and informative.
Is Gore really encouraging "fouling the air with lots of space launches"? Or could one of the overriding goals of privatization be the development of more economically feasible, and environmentally friendly space technology? The status-quo sure isn't working out for the best... so lets just think about it. The internet for example, did not just expand with more and more people using out-dated technology--but rather, with more people, internet and computer technology has grown leaps and bounds while drastically decreasing in cost.
Well, Mike - it sounds like you either have extremely high standards for yourself, or you're suffering from some strange--well, I don't know what to call it. Gaining weight in spite of a healthy diet and regular excercise is not exactly-- healthy per se? If that's weight gained in fat rather than muscle mass though it's to be expected... otherwise you might think about looking up a doctor.
It could be that you're suffering from a hormone imbalance... caused by some defect of your thyroid or one of the other mushy gooshy things stuck inside your body... I only know because my mom suffered from cancer of the thyroid. At times she ate such minor portions and excercised so much that I was seriously worried about her well-being; yet all the while she has stayed at a glandular 260lbs or there about. Anyway, just a thought, I would rather hope you just have high expectations. And if that, way to go - more of us need to whip ourselves into shape.
Why was this modded as a troll? I'm not saying I entirely agree with him, heck I love to learn new and interesting things. Progress in the area of knowledge is great, but seriously?
He has a point, there is NO reason for this besides the fact of learning something new (which I have to say, is a decent reason but still). The money could be put to better uses, such as say.. helping third world countries. I mean really, Why should we be focusing on something that is uh, let me check my math
(so yeah... um, Jupiter is 817mil km from the sun max, and take the average with the minimum and then subtract the average distance of the Earth from the sun and then ok.. soo.. here is my final answer)
Why educate ourselves on something 588,000,000 kilometers away (at minimum) when there are children and even adults in third-world countries that can't even do basic arithmetic??
If I was put in there with Heidi Klum, there would be enough thrust to get that thing to Jupiter and back twice over:D
Seriously though, what about plasma propulsion using cesium (where the ions are stripped off of a cesium core and give about 1 gram of thrust)? I'm sure once the shuttle was in space they could have a LOT of plasma chargers, rockets, whatever you want to call them.
The speed would be constantly accelerating the whole time, they wouldn't to worry about running out of fuel. It *could* work, right? Right?!
Well, as I understand, magnets would interrupt the wireless network. Or is that not a problem?
I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly, the electromagnetic radiation from appliances such as microwaves disrupts transmission on a wireless network, so I figure a normal magnet could do so too.
(Note: I could be REALLY wrong! Take that into consideration when moderating, please.)
Yeah, what about hibernation like in science fiction? If we had advanced enough hibernation technology we could send 4 or 5 people easily to mars.
We'd just need to trust NASA that they could send the people to Mars without problems while they're hibernating (having no one on board who could fix a remote problem)...
I've always had this little idea... You know from movies and stuff when the little missions and surveying stuff goes to the farside of mars and we lose communication?
Well, If they send a few satallites to Mars equipped with communication hardware along with surveying stuff, etc- we would be able to communicate with anything there almost. And if there was multiple satallites doing certain tasks they could get the job done much quicker.
I think they plan on sending people to mars, that's why they are surveying... or atleast I hope they plan on it:)
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Once you begin gaining in power, you can select any of the myriad beasts you see prowling the landscape to be your own pet Titan. You will magically enhance the creature, causing it to grow to gargantuan proportions, towering meters above the land and the villagers. But the beast comes to you stupid; you must teach him what to do and what not to do. This is done simply through slapping him when you want to discourage his behaviour and stroking him when you want to encourage his behaviour."
Basically you train your "titan" by either slapping it or petting it. Here is the Newbie Guide to Black & White from thecitadel.net. It gives the jist of the game and then some.
Please, before you hurt yourself, refrain from such negative comments. I simply misrepresented my postition on Mortal Kombat. I was refering to the sequal but forgot to mention that.
And just to let you know, fagot (or it's variant faggot) are defined as:
1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.
2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.
But if you feel like scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the page you will find a slang definition:
1. Used as a disparaging term for an
openly gay or homosexual man.
Now, just how exactly, have I openly shown that I'm in any way homosexual? I'm waiting for you answer (FYI: My girlfriend is very curious too)
I highly doubt this show will be any good. Though this is a show instead of a movie, any movies that were based off games all sucked (such as Super Mario Brothers and Mortal Kombat).
Just watch one of those two movies thirteen times and KABLAMO! You got your self the first season of "The Sims".
This is not just to you athlon02, but to the rest of this little portion of the thread.
If there was no sun or moon, how could there be a day? Day is a rotation from light to dark, that happens to be practically 24 hours. If they were using 24 hours as the basis for a day, how did they come up with that number exactly?
That doesn't necassarily mean the evolved creatures would be any smart does it? I mean, they didn't really need any intelligence to survive, they just had to be hardier creatures that could survive extreme climates. Look at insects... They are highly evolved creatures and there are trillions in every possible environment imaginable on this planet. But does this mean they are intelligent?
Wouldn't *intelligent* creatures that were more than likely not "as suited" for extreme environments been likely to evolve into an intellectual species sooner, had there not been any cataclysmic events that wiped them out?
Very interesting though, Thanks for the insight.
(PS. I'm asking a question! Give your thoughts, not a flame war!)
It's very interesting to think how these cataclysmic events have shaped the evolutionary path of the life on earth. I'm wondering what life would be like if they never happened?
Just imagine it, Intelligent life such as ourselve would have evolved much longer ago. Along the evolutionary path all the higher-level thinking species that aren't fit for a rigorous lifstyle wouldn't have been killed.
Anyways, this is kind of a scary article. We haven't had any devastating asteroid impacts for a while and there tends to be one every few hundred-million years:(
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Arthur C. Clarke... Space Oddyssey 2010. The chinese secretly constructed an interplanetary spacecraft in plan sight... saying it was a space station.
Perhaps not incapable, but at the very least _currently_ unwilling. FOSS is still gaining traction and staying with the status quo makes the transition easier for people. There are pros and cons to that: easier transition, yet innovative stagnation. Perhaps what's really needed is a radical paradigm-shift, something new and amazing that will draw people to it. If you build it, they will come ; )
I intend this as a serious question, so please do not be offended. I am just curious.
I can fully appreciate the archeological landmarks used to begin the calculation of the earth's age. So long as the dates provided in the Bible are accurate, it makes perfect sense. From the fall of Jerusalem backwards through Solomon's kingdom and Temple, to the Exodus from Egypt, and all the way to Noah and the Flood, we have reached the year 3987 B.C., approximately.
Now, finding that all of the above time-spans and dates are correct and accurate, what seems difficult to believe is the Genesis genealogy that comes previous to the flood (Gen 5:3-32). What support, evidence, or explanations are there for the listed ages in the genealogy? I have never once heard someone with an explanation to these millennium-aged people; Adam lived 800 years, Seth lived 912 years, Enosh lived 905 years, Kenan lived 910 years, and so on and so forth.
What explanations are out there?
You know, it's a funny thing. With a linux box, the first thing you do is install everything and tweak it till it purrs like a kitten. With every windows box though, including the new laptop I bought pre-loaded with vista, I literally spend hours uninstalling programs and disabling pretty much everything.
Makes you think: One hour perfecting a linux install... versus nine hours hacking (think machete) away at vista (in the hope that it will take less than five minutes to boot up).
Sequoyah didn't start working on the syllabary until around 1809 and took him over a decade to complete. Europeans had, at this time, been in the Americas for over 300 years. An enormous amount of land had already been conquered, and populations severely devastated.
Confirm that in wikipedia if you want; but I would suggest reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. Much more in-depth and informative.
Is Gore really encouraging "fouling the air with lots of space launches"? Or could one of the overriding goals of privatization be the development of more economically feasible, and environmentally friendly space technology? The status-quo sure isn't working out for the best... so lets just think about it. The internet for example, did not just expand with more and more people using out-dated technology--but rather, with more people, internet and computer technology has grown leaps and bounds while drastically decreasing in cost.
"Paolo Fril"? Look at the letters: they're an anagram! Rearrange them and you get April Fool =)
Well, Mike - it sounds like you either have extremely high standards for yourself, or you're suffering from some strange--well, I don't know what to call it. Gaining weight in spite of a healthy diet and regular excercise is not exactly-- healthy per se? If that's weight gained in fat rather than muscle mass though it's to be expected... otherwise you might think about looking up a doctor.
It could be that you're suffering from a hormone imbalance... caused by some defect of your thyroid or one of the other mushy gooshy things stuck inside your body... I only know because my mom suffered from cancer of the thyroid. At times she ate such minor portions and excercised so much that I was seriously worried about her well-being; yet all the while she has stayed at a glandular 260lbs or there about. Anyway, just a thought, I would rather hope you just have high expectations. And if that, way to go - more of us need to whip ourselves into shape.
He has a point, there is NO reason for this besides the fact of learning something new (which I have to say, is a decent reason but still). The money could be put to better uses, such as say.. helping third world countries. I mean really, Why should we be focusing on something that is uh, let me check my math Why educate ourselves on something 588,000,000 kilometers away (at minimum) when there are children and even adults in third-world countries that can't even do basic arithmetic??
To hell with karma.
Hey! I know... They probably use polymers that are especially suited for space (ie. extra durable).
I never would have thought of that on my own.
Thanks for correcting me (and not being a jackass like some other people who happened to reply) :D
:)
We're just now working on atomic bonding and stuff in my phys/chem course... sooo.. Blame my instructor
But yeah, So now I'm wondering why NASA doesn't use magnets to secure small metallic objects...
If I was put in there with Heidi Klum, there would be enough thrust to get that thing to Jupiter and back twice over :D
Seriously though, what about plasma propulsion using cesium (where the ions are stripped off of a cesium core and give about 1 gram of thrust)? I'm sure once the shuttle was in space they could have a LOT of plasma chargers, rockets, whatever you want to call them.
The speed would be constantly accelerating the whole time, they wouldn't to worry about running out of fuel. It *could* work, right? Right?!
Well, as I understand, magnets would interrupt the wireless network. Or is that not a problem?
I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly, the electromagnetic radiation from appliances such as microwaves disrupts transmission on a wireless network, so I figure a normal magnet could do so too.
(Note: I could be REALLY wrong! Take that into consideration when moderating, please.)
Yeah, what about hibernation like in science fiction? If we had advanced enough hibernation technology we could send 4 or 5 people easily to mars.
We'd just need to trust NASA that they could send the people to Mars without problems while they're hibernating (having no one on board who could fix a remote problem)...
I've always had this little idea... You know from movies and stuff when the little missions and surveying stuff goes to the farside of mars and we lose communication?
:)
Well, If they send a few satallites to Mars equipped with communication hardware along with surveying stuff, etc- we would be able to communicate with anything there almost. And if there was multiple satallites doing certain tasks they could get the job done much quicker.
I think they plan on sending people to mars, that's why they are surveying... or atleast I hope they plan on it
Now, a quick question: Do the cans of Moutain Dew need to have pop in them still?
:)
If not, I could use the excuse that all those cans laying around are to "optimize" my network connection
It's a joke. Laugh!
I'm just guessing, but I beleive he means they used blow-torches to make the turkeys look well cooked.
:)
If I'm wrong correct me, but it just seems kinda logical to me
I simply misrepresented my postition on Mortal Kombat. I was refering to the sequal but forgot to mention that.
And just to let you know, fagot (or it's variant faggot) are defined as:But if you feel like scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the page you will find a slang definition:
Now, just how exactly, have I openly shown that I'm in any way homosexual? I'm waiting for you answer (FYI: My girlfriend is very curious too)
Oops! My bad. The first Mortal Kombat was pretty tight.
:)
I was refering to the second,Thanks for correcting me
I highly doubt this show will be any good. Though this is a show instead of a movie, any movies that were based off games all sucked (such as Super Mario Brothers and Mortal Kombat).
Just watch one of those two movies thirteen times and KABLAMO! You got your self the first season of "The Sims".
This is not just to you athlon02, but to the rest of this little portion of the thread.
If there was no sun or moon, how could there be a day? Day is a rotation from light to dark, that happens to be practically 24 hours. If they were using 24 hours as the basis for a day, how did they come up with that number exactly?
PS. These are question. Answer, don't flame.
That doesn't necassarily mean the evolved creatures would be any smart does it? I mean, they didn't really need any intelligence to survive, they just had to be hardier creatures that could survive extreme climates. Look at insects... They are highly evolved creatures and there are trillions in every possible environment imaginable on this planet. But does this mean they are intelligent?
Wouldn't *intelligent* creatures that were more than likely not "as suited" for extreme environments been likely to evolve into an intellectual species sooner, had there not been any cataclysmic events that wiped them out?
Very interesting though, Thanks for the insight.
(PS. I'm asking a question! Give your thoughts, not a flame war!)
THINKGEEK LIVES!!!
:)
They should make some mass-extinction t-shirts
It's very interesting to think how these cataclysmic events have shaped the evolutionary path of the life on earth.
:(
I'm wondering what life would be like if they never happened?
Just imagine it, Intelligent life such as ourselve would have evolved much longer ago. Along the evolutionary path all the higher-level thinking species that aren't fit for a rigorous lifstyle wouldn't have been killed.
Anyways, this is kind of a scary article. We haven't had any devastating asteroid impacts for a while and there tends to be one every few hundred-million years