Kasparov is about 37 now. He's getting close to that age where one is no longer so sharp.
Doesn't that seem a bit odd to anyone: just because a man is 37 his skills wane? Instead, why not give the credit that at some point, there will have to arise someone better than Kasparov. It is a natural occurence as man evolves intellectually that more intelligent people will come to push less intelligent people aside. Someday, there will be someone who makes Einstein look like a child...
It seems to me only natural that the great champion would someday loose his claim to the title. And someday, I will actually beat my friend Enoch in a game of chess, too!
But note that snopes did say that the Brits sent a study team down to find out, despite the fact that a Maj. in the Brittish military pointed out it was nothing more than an urban legend.
It would seem that the British government is just as wasteful as our own here in the USA! ---------------------
Why do so few people seem interested in excactly what this fungus is?
What is more sad? "Nerds" who make silly comments, or nerds who make righteous and serious comments that don't bother reading what the article said the fungi are.
---- Eat more Lemmings
(Quoted with respect to Peter S.)
Except for the fact that State and Revolution (by V. I. Lenin) is an apologetic for Marxism and is actually much better for Comprehending Marx than trying to read the source material...
Yes, in practice Leninism and later Stalinism fail to live up to the ideals of Marxist thought. But Lenin died before achiving his ideal and Stalin had no intention of trying.
Actually, he proved that the core flaw of Marxism is that it fails to recognize that people are basically evil (Genesis 3), especially in collective, and will serve their own interests before others (Machiavelli, The Prince).
The extremely negative treatment of individuals here who failed to read the source article proves that. Instead of pointing out that the article says [insert comment here], they are berated and condemned. Hence, socialism even fails at the level of intellectual forums!
All right, all right, all right! Take away all the fun of sarchasm!
I definitely blame Shuttle design for the Challenger deaths.
Then you buy into government lies. The Challenger explosion was directly caused by an inept and oversized bureacracy in which the peons who actualy know what needs to happen don't have the power to do it. An engineer who worked with the faulty O-ring informed his superiors and their superiors all the way up through mission control that the weather had damaged the ring on the liquid gas valve.
This happened months before the takeoff date, and he again pushed the issue when he saw what the weather was on the date of takeoff, to no avail. The launch date had already been postponed once, and so the bureaucrats pushed it through.
I remember watching this launch on live TV. Due to the camera angle, you could clearly see the liquid fuel in the central tank leaking on the right side of the shuttle-- there was a bright stream, a flash, and the fatal explosion.
You cannot tell me that design of the shuttle caused the deaths of those astronauts when it was the fault of the bureaucrats that made the design flaw a problem.
Would a spary can work in minimal gravity? Not only is there the stability problem for the sprayer, but how well would the Lysol stay on the surface? I recommend Lysol antifungal wipes.
Doesn't anyone else find it odd that the place is still inhabited?
In context? Consider that there are still millions of people that still live in the formet Soviet terrirories... Most Soviet buildings are falling down, too. And anyone who would want to drink water downstream on the Dnieper (I believe that's the right river) from Chernobyl...
Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
Actually, I'm rather fond of the rendering, Micro$oft, myself!
That's because verything NASA does, including disasters, is much more efficient than the Soyuz projects. For example, (despite NASA's foreknowledge of the problem with the o-rings) the Challenger explosion happened within a matter of seconds, and by time anyone in Mission Control actually saw the flames coming off the main tank, there was no time to warn the astronauts. What good would the rocket do then, other than more efficiently destroy the remains of the capsule when it exploded?
Not a lot of room for divers huge, multicellular organisms such as you and me, but plenty of room for hundreds of colonies of the tiny organisms that moulds are made of!
The problem being that fermentation is also a natural part of the Krebs cycle in plants, which converts H20+CO2+N2, etc into O2 and Glucose. Where does carbon dioxide production come into that?
The problem being, of course, that the anerobic bacteria still thrive in some sort of gasseous or liquid solution. It says nothing for bacteria living in the vacuum of space. And, true to the atricle, it also says nothing about FUNGUS living in the vacuum of space.
As far as I can recall, the organism's space-bound origin is generally unknown. They WERE aware of it's existence, but (1) did not know what it was-- it did not satisfy classification by any of the five kingdoms, and (2) they did not know where it came from.
But isn't that how Dave solved the problem in 2001? He, being in his space suit, vented the spacecraft (the name escapes me), and enters HAL's control room to completely deactivate the system by removing the CPU. Consider the fungus a living HAL.
Though I must agree with the second reply that it would most likely cause the MIR to implode... Maybe if you opened two at once? Or created soem sort of slow ventalation system, or just stopped repairing all the leaks...
Nah, it's probably some mould brought up by an ineffective space program run by the over-compartmentalized Soviets. As for the radioactive mutation, I'd say its more likely sprung from the Chernobyl disaster than the mild solar winds!
That, I suppose, is the wonderful thing about living on a dry campus. Just seventy miles from WSU and their infamous riots (I wonder why my hometown college of CU doesn't get similar coverage...), I can remember one time in my four years here that we've had to step in puke, and that because the guy didn't make it to the shower.
But with that crazy cosmonaut they just took down, I would rather go without showering up there...
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Kasparov is about 37 now. He's getting close to that age where one is no longer so sharp.
Doesn't that seem a bit odd to anyone: just because a man is 37 his skills wane? Instead, why not give the credit that at some point, there will have to arise someone better than Kasparov. It is a natural occurence as man evolves intellectually that more intelligent people will come to push less intelligent people aside. Someday, there will be someone who makes Einstein look like a child...
It seems to me only natural that the great champion would someday loose his claim to the title. And someday, I will actually beat my friend Enoch in a game of chess, too!
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But note that snopes did say that the Brits sent a study team down to find out, despite the fact that a Maj. in the Brittish military pointed out it was nothing more than an urban legend.
It would seem that the British government is just as wasteful as our own here in the USA!
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Why do so few people seem interested in excactly what this fungus is?
What is more sad? "Nerds" who make silly comments, or nerds who make righteous and serious comments that don't bother reading what the article said the fungi are.
---- Eat more Lemmings
(Quoted with respect to Peter S.)
Except for the fact that State and Revolution (by V. I. Lenin) is an apologetic for Marxism and is actually much better for Comprehending Marx than trying to read the source material...
Yes, in practice Leninism and later Stalinism fail to live up to the ideals of Marxist thought. But Lenin died before achiving his ideal and Stalin had no intention of trying.
Actually, he proved that the core flaw of Marxism is that it fails to recognize that people are basically evil (Genesis 3), especially in collective, and will serve their own interests before others (Machiavelli, The Prince).
The extremely negative treatment of individuals here who failed to read the source article proves that. Instead of pointing out that the article says [insert comment here], they are berated and condemned. Hence, socialism even fails at the level of intellectual forums!
If you were that serious, you'd read the article and find out they are, in fact, terran fungi.
Groan!
All right, all right, all right! Take away all the fun of sarchasm!
I definitely blame Shuttle design for the Challenger deaths.
Then you buy into government lies. The Challenger explosion was directly caused by an inept and oversized bureacracy in which the peons who actualy know what needs to happen don't have the power to do it. An engineer who worked with the faulty O-ring informed his superiors and their superiors all the way up through mission control that the weather had damaged the ring on the liquid gas valve.
This happened months before the takeoff date, and he again pushed the issue when he saw what the weather was on the date of takeoff, to no avail. The launch date had already been postponed once, and so the bureaucrats pushed it through.
I remember watching this launch on live TV. Due to the camera angle, you could clearly see the liquid fuel in the central tank leaking on the right side of the shuttle-- there was a bright stream, a flash, and the fatal explosion.
You cannot tell me that design of the shuttle caused the deaths of those astronauts when it was the fault of the bureaucrats that made the design flaw a problem.
Correction-- Yeast are FUNGI. There are no such thing as Funguses.
Now there's a comparison I've been unwittingly waiting for for a long time--> MIR = a Trailer house...
Would a spary can work in minimal gravity? Not only is there the stability problem for the sprayer, but how well would the Lysol stay on the surface? I recommend Lysol antifungal wipes.
Sigh.
Yet another individual who didn;t bother to read the original article...
As an Historian, this type of misuse of sources mortifies me.
Doesn't anyone else find it odd that the place is still inhabited?
In context? Consider that there are still millions of people that still live in the formet Soviet terrirories... Most Soviet buildings are falling down, too. And anyone who would want to drink water downstream on the Dnieper (I believe that's the right river) from Chernobyl...
Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
Actually, I'm rather fond of the rendering, Micro$oft, myself!
That's because verything NASA does, including disasters, is much more efficient than the Soyuz projects. For example, (despite NASA's foreknowledge of the problem with the o-rings) the Challenger explosion happened within a matter of seconds, and by time anyone in Mission Control actually saw the flames coming off the main tank, there was no time to warn the astronauts. What good would the rocket do then, other than more efficiently destroy the remains of the capsule when it exploded?
Yeah, but the fourth space station will stay up! And that's what our children will inheret-- the strongest space station in these parts!
Not a lot of room for divers huge, multicellular organisms such as you and me, but plenty of room for hundreds of colonies of the tiny organisms that moulds are made of!
A careful reading of the article shows that these were terran-based fungi.
Yes, all well and good, if you live inside a comic book. What about in the real world?
The problem being that fermentation is also a natural part of the Krebs cycle in plants, which converts H20+CO2+N2, etc into O2 and Glucose. Where does carbon dioxide production come into that?
The problem being, of course, that the anerobic bacteria still thrive in some sort of gasseous or liquid solution. It says nothing for bacteria living in the vacuum of space. And, true to the atricle, it also says nothing about FUNGUS living in the vacuum of space.
I didn't think that spelling looked right... ;-)
As far as I can recall, the organism's space-bound origin is generally unknown. They WERE aware of it's existence, but (1) did not know what it was-- it did not satisfy classification by any of the five kingdoms, and (2) they did not know where it came from.
But isn't that how Dave solved the problem in 2001? He, being in his space suit, vented the spacecraft (the name escapes me), and enters HAL's control room to completely deactivate the system by removing the CPU. Consider the fungus a living HAL.
Though I must agree with the second reply that it would most likely cause the MIR to implode... Maybe if you opened two at once? Or created soem sort of slow ventalation system, or just stopped repairing all the leaks...
Nah, it's probably some mould brought up by an ineffective space program run by the over-compartmentalized Soviets. As for the radioactive mutation, I'd say its more likely sprung from the Chernobyl disaster than the mild solar winds!
That, I suppose, is the wonderful thing about living on a dry campus. Just seventy miles from WSU and their infamous riots (I wonder why my hometown college of CU doesn't get similar coverage...), I can remember one time in my four years here that we've had to step in puke, and that because the guy didn't make it to the shower.
But with that crazy cosmonaut they just took down, I would rather go without showering up there...
It sure gives a whole new meaning to Whirlpool's Space-age fridge commercials!
Now THAT's funny.
But seriously, since this is called 'shrooms...
Can you imagine what some of the richer drug cartels are thinking right now?