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The Sparrow
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I was assigned this book as part of a relatively friendly theology discussion by one of our pastors last year.
My impressions: Flat dialogue, miraculous jumps in plot and exposition. Lacked the imagination/courage to examine the effects of alien life on theology (given it was a theological novel) big blank there. Mostly a lack of the alien POV. Despite being a reflection of the Jesuit arrival into America, and their subsequent torture (in some cases) by natives, it focuses more on "why does god allow bad things to happen" rather then on the results of the far more dangerous meme of "for the glory of god". Science is mostly skimmed over and frankly unbelievable. Catholic church cobbles together an interstellar spacecraft in secret capable of a a good fraction of C in a few years? Humans land on the planet with no testing of the atmosphere? Try native cuisine unhesitatingly? Here her anthropology experience shows through. But exobiology will probably have but little similarity. And what gives with the people selected for the mission? Seems more a recipe for disaster then a psych profiling. That being said, the book *is* a good examination of the courage of faith in the face of god's indifference to his creation. It is not good sci-fi, however. I would recommend "Grass" and "Hyperion". Both are much better "priests in space" books.
Interestingly, the author is a former Catholic turned Jewish. Presumably mystic. It does give her, along with her anthropology experience, some unique insights into human culture and religion. That being said, like the author of "A history of God" who went the same route, she deftly avoids conclusions to the valid questions concerning her religious meme.
I've watched DVD on TVs and on computer monitors. It seems to me that the resolution and colour on computer monitors is better. Anyone have statistics to back this up?
Well, I'd like to think most people here aren't that gullible, but p'raps they got a number of submissions about this. I know I've read a few comments in other articles bringing it up already. I'm still waiting for it to cross my spool... Merry Christmas...
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Oh yes! He was doing that in an attempt to recover the Buddha's standing wave soul, if I remember correctly. Fun "techno" interpretation of Hindu mythology.
It's worth pointing out that most of these religions started before the notion of copyright existed. Church of the SubGenius is new, but it is a parody. Given the vicious ways in which some of those religions have responded to "heresy", I bet they would have made full use of copyright law if it had existed at the time they were first disseminating their memes.
I assume this is some sort of joke. Evolution does not imply the creation of life in a laboratory. Unless you're willing to wait a couple of billion years. Evolution HAS been observed, however. In fossil evidence. In changes in DNA. In observed speciation. It is the basis for many predictions in current biology which HAVE been shown true. It is used in medicine, biology, sociology, computer sciences, and geology. The difference between it and a religion, is that evolution is science, tested science, observed science, proven science. You, on the other hand, are a nutcase.
Where's the mirror? I don't see a link? Did the mirror remove the offending meta tags? And if so, why can't xenu.net do the same and avoid the whole lawsuit hassle?
Of course, they don't have a working product. Still, neither is this fibre. www.annovation.com
Another possible reason for that upper limit.
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I agree that 9000 would be a painful number to work out in roman numerals, but I think he was really referring to the lack of any symbol higher then 1000.
Although it still suggests you didn't read the exam. The exam was not about solving problems through technology necessarily; but about the possible problems brought about by things like anonymity, and challenging the students to resolve them.
At any rate, you didn't even give "technology creates as many problems as it solves therefore this essay sucks" as a reason in your first post...
Write a contentless post, challenge downwards moderation, then wait for the moderators to fall over each other in their attempt to prove their willingness to support individual (if uninteresting and unsubstantiated) opinion?
You're forgetting what this article is all about. OGR has practical applications. And Seti@home has the cool benefit of potential contact with another species.
But yes, more applications would be nice. Of course, the more out there, the less processing power each gets...:)
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I was assigned this book as part of a relatively friendly theology discussion by one of our pastors last year.
My impressions:
Flat dialogue, miraculous jumps in plot and exposition.
Lacked the imagination/courage to examine the effects of alien life on theology (given it was a theological novel) big blank there.
Mostly a lack of the alien POV.
Despite being a reflection of the Jesuit arrival into America, and their subsequent torture (in some cases) by natives, it focuses more on "why does god allow bad things to happen" rather then on the results of the far more dangerous meme of "for the glory of god".
Science is mostly skimmed over and frankly unbelievable. Catholic church cobbles together an interstellar spacecraft in secret capable of a a good fraction of C in a few years? Humans land on the planet with no testing of the atmosphere? Try native cuisine unhesitatingly? Here her anthropology experience shows through. But exobiology will probably have but little similarity.
And what gives with the people selected for the mission? Seems more a recipe for disaster then a psych profiling.
That being said, the book *is* a good examination of the courage of faith in the face of god's indifference to his creation. It is not good sci-fi, however.
I would recommend "Grass" and "Hyperion". Both are much better "priests in space" books.
Interestingly, the author is a former Catholic turned Jewish. Presumably mystic. It does give her, along with her anthropology experience, some unique insights into human culture and religion.
That being said, like the author of "A history of God" who went the same route, she deftly avoids conclusions to the valid questions concerning her religious meme.
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From this we can see that there will in fact be a political shift to the right.
Nooooo! Bush for president.
Ok, you were right, it is the apocalypse.
I've watched DVD on TVs and on computer monitors.
It seems to me that the resolution and colour on computer monitors is better. Anyone have statistics to back this up?
Moderate Up Up Up!
What happened to my moderate points?
Did I answer to a thread here?
MTV didn't hook up the bunker with fibre?
Well, I'd like to think most people here aren't
that gullible, but p'raps they got a number of
submissions about this.
I know I've read a few comments in other
articles bringing it up already.
I'm still waiting for it to cross my spool...
Merry Christmas...
We use htdig for the internal network for the precise reason that we want it to only return linked directories, trees, and files.
And most crawlers can easily be limited to a particular site, or set of sites. Even wget does that.
They figured they'd work with what they know. :)
We at Comet Cursors take very seriously our commitment to track every click on the web.
To further extend and embrace the lynx using market, we are designing a revolutionary new set of cursors for the text browser market.
When this proprietary code is invoked by lynx, it will automatically change your cursor as follows.
Movement:
Blink
fast Blink
no Blink
Color:
16 colors!
Size:
Regular
pinpoint
Mammoth
We hope that these cursors will greatly enhance the text browsing experience, and signficicantly increase our market share.
Oh yes! He was doing that in an attempt to recover the Buddha's standing wave soul, if I remember correctly.
Fun "techno" interpretation of Hindu mythology.
It's worth pointing out that most of these religions started before the notion of copyright existed.
Church of the SubGenius is new, but it is a parody.
Given the vicious ways in which some of those religions have responded to "heresy", I bet they would have made full use of copyright law if it had existed at the time they were first disseminating their memes.
I assume this is some sort of joke.
Evolution does not imply the creation of life in a laboratory.
Unless you're willing to wait a couple of billion years.
Evolution HAS been observed, however.
In fossil evidence.
In changes in DNA.
In observed speciation.
It is the basis for many predictions in current biology which HAVE been shown true.
It is used in medicine, biology, sociology, computer sciences, and geology.
The difference between it and a religion, is that evolution is science, tested science, observed science, proven science. You, on the other hand, are a nutcase.
http://www.google.com/search?q=c ache:www.xenu.net/ use google!
And the best thing is, is that the sub-pages are still there, so all the links work!
Where's the mirror? I don't see a link?
Did the mirror remove the offending meta tags?
And if so, why can't xenu.net do the same and avoid
the whole lawsuit hassle?
Where's the "Nuke Lawyers"?
Such a boon to mankind cannot be hidden!
www.nanovation.com
= 3) was in a frame. *sigh*
The article I wanted (http://www.nanovation.com/news_story.cfm?article
Of course, they don't have a working product.
Still, neither is this fibre.
www.annovation.com
IIIIIIIII + I
X
XXXXXXXXX + X
C
CCCCCCCCC + C
M
MMMMMMMMM + M
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I agree that 9000 would be a painful number to work out in roman numerals, but I think he was really referring to the lack of any symbol higher then 1000.
Although it still suggests you didn't read the exam. The exam was not about solving problems through technology necessarily; but about the possible problems brought about by things like anonymity, and challenging the students to resolve them.
At any rate, you didn't even give "technology creates as many problems as it solves therefore this essay sucks" as a reason in your first post...
Write a contentless post, challenge downwards moderation, then wait for the moderators to fall over each other in their attempt to prove their willingness to support individual (if uninteresting and unsubstantiated) opinion?
You're forgetting what this article is all about.
:)
OGR has practical applications.
And Seti@home has the cool benefit of potential contact with another species.
But yes, more applications would be nice.
Of course, the more out there, the less processing power each gets...
Imagine the computer could control impulses to your vision, hearing, touch...
In fact, every sense you had.
VR the way it was meant to be.
Well, this would hardly overturn evolutionary biology... We are still far from certain where the first life on earth originated.
You know, the point of view of the scientist we're all commenting on?
He didn't say God created the oil, just that the hydrocarbons weren't the result of prehistoric life.
That still leaves the same processes that formed the hydrocarbons in the comets and such. Which is probably what he's referring to.
Well this inspired me to do a websearch. http://www.aip.org/enews/ physnews/1995/split/pnu244-3.htm http://www.sciam.com/ askexpert/geology/geology9/geology9.html The second references the first.