I once heard it estimated that during the same time period as the Apollo Space program, American women spent more on cosmetics than what it cost to put a man on the Moon. Obviously, if women would just give up makeup for 5 or 10 years, we could easily afford to build a Mars base.
There are several other space-faring nations now. When you look up and see a Chinese base on the Moon, or Mars, then will it be time for the government to care?
"Someone who, given the choice of spending $30K on a car that they fully control and can go anywhere they want at any speed they want – or another, likely more expensive buggy that will only travel on certain routes at slower speeds and with less options." Which car would you buy?"
Cell phones? They said that about horses when cars first came out! Given the choice between an intelligent, sure-footed creature that can travel over any terrain and a noisy, smelly, prone-to-breakdown mechanical contraption, which would you buy?
Nice! Love it! We should all use the term berserk from now on. Especially a large scale thorium berserk. Of course the plural is taken... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Brodmann already counted the CPUs of the brain. They are called Brodmann areas. BA17, for example, is primary visual cortex. BA45 is Broca's area (speech). There are about 50. They are defined by differences in the micro-cellular architecture of the area. Most areas of cortex look roughly the same, but there are many differences, for example the input layers of primary sensory areas are larger than in other areas. Some areas have large output layers, or more inhibitory cells, etc.
The brain does have many distinct areas, asynchronously operating, highly connected with both local and long distance connections, and the areas themselves are composed of a rich mosaic of different cell types that continuously self-regulate, process information, and adapt.
I expect Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Uma Thurman, and Cameron Diaz (with cameos by Dolly Parton and Emma Watson) to make a movie about this immediately. "The Corona"
You all remember the recent smallpox discovery at the NIH... well it turns out they found quite a number of samples of various other things, and their disposition was somewhat odd: some of them went to the FDA, the CDC, or were destroyed, but a number of samples (they didn't say what) were sent to Homeland Security.
WTF?!
What possible business can H.S. have with vials of deadly diseases?
'The original smallpox samples, along with ten others that were unclearly labeled, were securely transferred to the CDC’s high-containment facility in Atlanta., the FDA said, and 32 other vials have already been destroyed. The remaining 279 were transferred to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Bioforensic Analysis Center “for safeguarding.”'
Dang modern science, guys, they found us! It'll only be a matter of time before they round us up. I mean, it's not like you all should be GRATEFUL to your elders but NO
I marked this as offtopic stale troll spam under submissions, but they posted it anyway. You don't have to be a genius to predict exactly this kind of response, but noooooo, somehow Mr. Soulskill thought it'd be a laugh. Yeah, look, lots of posts! Ad revenue! I'm going to disable ads now. Thanks.
Oh please, haven't you been paying attention? They just built another 60 megawatts of server space in MD, and not just because the Utah facility is full. The Utah facility, by the way, is measured in units of Facebook. As in, they can store 10 copies of ALL of Facebook. Plus a couple Youtubes.
Why is it that *nobody* is outraged over the fact that the phone companies and ISPs already collect this information? The only scandal I see is that the gov't forced them to give it up for free, cuz the US is too broke to just buy it like everybody else.
When the Lazy Gun is fired at humans, many different things may occur. An anchor may appear above the person, giant electrodes may appear on either side of the target and electrocute them, or an animal may tear their throat out. Larger targets such as tanks or ships may suffer tidal waves, implosion, explosion, sudden lava flows or just disappear. When fired at cities and other such targets, thermonuclear explosions are the norm, although in one instance a comet crashed into the city.
I visited an East Berlin museum back when there was an East Berlin. There was an exhibit consisting of several rooms worth of intercepted mail. Yeah, they read all the mail, except they didn't really have enough staff to do it all, so most of the letters just sat in crates forever. Basically, they were inept idiots compared to what's being done today.
Why is it that nobody seems to care that phone companies and ISPs have been collecting and selling exactly the same information to marketing companies for years? The only thing draconian about this is that the government is too broke to just buy the data like everyone else, so they strong-arm the companies into giving it up for free.
Why is nobody outraged about the fact that Verizon is collecting this data? The NSA isn't spying on you, Verizon is! The only reason the NSA needed a warrant is because the government is too broke to just buy it from the phone companies and web providers like any number of marketing companies already do.
Gödel supported Gauss. He proved that yes, you can come up with many statements that can't be proven. However, if a statement like Beal's conjecture can't be proven, you should be able to prove *that*. Which would also qualify for the prize money, I'd say.
The point the previous poster was making is that math is different from science, because you can prove things in math, but in science you can only disprove things.
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Heh. +1
I once heard it estimated that during the same time period as the Apollo Space program, American women spent more on cosmetics than what it cost to put a man on the Moon. Obviously, if women would just give up makeup for 5 or 10 years, we could easily afford to build a Mars base.
There are several other space-faring nations now. When you look up and see a Chinese base on the Moon, or Mars, then will it be time for the government to care?
"Someone who, given the choice of spending $30K on a car that they fully control and can go anywhere they want at any speed they want – or another, likely more expensive buggy that will only travel on certain routes at slower speeds and with less options." Which car would you buy?"
Cell phones? They said that about horses when cars first came out! Given the choice between an intelligent, sure-footed creature that can travel over any terrain and a noisy, smelly, prone-to-breakdown mechanical contraption, which would you buy?
why you so down on renewables? can't kill sunlight
Nice! Love it! We should all use the term berserk from now on. Especially a large scale thorium berserk. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Of course the plural is taken
Brodmann already counted the CPUs of the brain. They are called Brodmann areas. BA17, for example, is primary visual cortex. BA45 is Broca's area (speech). There are about 50. They are defined by differences in the micro-cellular architecture of the area. Most areas of cortex look roughly the same, but there are many differences, for example the input layers of primary sensory areas are larger than in other areas. Some areas have large output layers, or more inhibitory cells, etc.
The brain does have many distinct areas, asynchronously operating, highly connected with both local and long distance connections, and the areas themselves are composed of a rich mosaic of different cell types that continuously self-regulate, process information, and adapt.
LOL
I expect Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Uma Thurman, and Cameron Diaz (with cameos by Dolly Parton and Emma Watson) to make a movie about this immediately. "The Corona"
You all remember the recent smallpox discovery at the NIH ... well it turns out they found quite a number of samples of various other things, and their disposition was somewhat odd: some of them went to the FDA, the CDC, or were destroyed, but a number of samples (they didn't say what) were sent to Homeland Security.
WTF?!
What possible business can H.S. have with vials of deadly diseases?
'The original smallpox samples, along with ten others that were unclearly labeled, were securely transferred to the CDC’s high-containment facility in Atlanta., the FDA said, and 32 other vials have already been destroyed. The remaining 279 were transferred to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Bioforensic Analysis Center “for safeguarding.”'
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/1...
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Dang modern science, guys, they found us! It'll only be a matter of time before they round us up. I mean, it's not like you all should be GRATEFUL to your elders but NO
sorry, I thought this was a different thread. Oops! I'm an idiot. Ha ha.
I marked this as offtopic stale troll spam under submissions, but they posted it anyway. You don't have to be a genius to predict exactly this kind of response, but noooooo, somehow Mr. Soulskill thought it'd be a laugh. Yeah, look, lots of posts! Ad revenue! I'm going to disable ads now. Thanks.
Oh please, haven't you been paying attention? They just built another 60 megawatts of server space in MD, and not just because the Utah facility is full. The Utah facility, by the way, is measured in units of Facebook. As in, they can store 10 copies of ALL of Facebook. Plus a couple Youtubes.
Why is it that *nobody* is outraged over the fact that the phone companies and ISPs already collect this information? The only scandal I see is that the gov't forced them to give it up for free, cuz the US is too broke to just buy it like everybody else.
Derp, by now he's FAR away from there. Do you think this guy is as dumb as McAfee?
When the Lazy Gun is fired at humans, many different things may occur. An anchor may appear above the person, giant electrodes may appear on either side of the target and electrocute them, or an animal may tear their throat out. Larger targets such as tanks or ships may suffer tidal waves, implosion, explosion, sudden lava flows or just disappear. When fired at cities and other such targets, thermonuclear explosions are the norm, although in one instance a comet crashed into the city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_a_Dark_Background
Another interesting fact about a Lazy Gun is that it weighs three times as much when turned upside down.
is how we gather statistics from the past to generate probabilities for predicting the future. The More You Know.
/scoff
I visited an East Berlin museum back when there was an East Berlin. There was an exhibit consisting of several rooms worth of intercepted mail. Yeah, they read all the mail, except they didn't really have enough staff to do it all, so most of the letters just sat in crates forever. Basically, they were inept idiots compared to what's being done today.
Why is it that nobody seems to care that phone companies and ISPs have been collecting and selling exactly the same information to marketing companies for years?
The only thing draconian about this is that the government is too broke to just buy the data like everyone else, so they strong-arm the companies into giving it up for free.
Where do you think the probabilities for the Markov nets come from? They are learned from examples.
Where is the outrage over Verizon already collecting this data? Hmm? And selling it?
Why is nobody outraged about the fact that Verizon is collecting this data? The NSA isn't spying on you, Verizon is!
The only reason the NSA needed a warrant is because the government is too broke to just buy it from the phone companies and web providers like any number of marketing companies already do.
Gödel supported Gauss. He proved that yes, you can come up with many statements that can't be proven. However, if a statement like Beal's conjecture can't be proven, you should be able to prove *that*. Which would also qualify for the prize money, I'd say.
The point the previous poster was making is that math is different from science, because you can prove things in math, but in science you can only disprove things.