because some people would probably rather not have a good idea ruined for a generation by a fiasco caused by shoddy implementation.
build it, but don't overstate, and take into consideration that it's a highly corrosive environment... and stuff in the ocean grows on everything... literally everything...
the fucking whales have barnacles growing on them... come on.
well, world creation is easy... you start out with a nearly uniform plane of existence filled with hydrogen. enough for a couple hundred billion galaxies worth of stuff. then set your universe on fast forward. voila. worlds and some of them will have chemical scum crawling around on the surface.:)
:) then i guess there really aren't that many religious people i respect the stances of. Either your religious texts are sacrosanct, or you're playing a guessing game with your dogma. aren't there those jews that take leviticus really really seriously? and how about islam. they've got some crazy oppression over there.
don't get me wrong. We'll maybe eventually be able to do it digitally. massive undertaking and expense and all. I believe in us... you know as a species. and an omnipotent omniscient diety could probably do it... you know because of magic... but really, these types of things are way more complicated than most people imagine:)
we've had no evidence of a non-material reality. And as they say, a deistic god does not a theistic one make. Even if god were to exist, knowledge of him would not immediately follow. I cannot argue against a deistic god. But evidence for one isn't available. If we allow that all things lacking evidence to the contrary are plausible, where does that leave us in cataloging the truth?
Why is a deity more likely than orcs? It's also possible to conceive of scenarios where orcs happened. Or where we descended from dinosaurs. Evidence to the contrary can easily be reversed with enough intervening highly unlikely steps.
it would be equally difficult to refute that we all spontaneously generated from star stuff 3 seconds ago, memories, fossil evidence and radioactive isotopes included.
The only assumptions that are made in science for the most part are that the universe is knowable, and that it lacks agency and isn't out to play a massive joke on us.
yes, it can say, please don't trespass unless student of faculty. general enough. though it probably wouldn't cuz that costs money to enforce. It can't say, please be feel free to rent out our for your conferences... unless you're a christian group.
michigan state can deny them access. but it'd have to give a reason... and a good enough one to not get sued for religious discrimination. which it would lose... because it's religious discrimination.
Baby, i really don't have the time for that:) The alternative to science being wrong on evolution... is that the cosmos is playing the biggest joke on humanity and we're just not getting the joke. The preponderance of evidence.
What the hell do you think MRSA is except the giant downside to natural selection?
also public place in this context covers restaurants stores... etc. things that are open to the public and do business with the public.
basically, if you want to advertise and do business in our country, it's not ok to say no black people and no women and no gays and no muslims.
Unless it's a non-profit? think gender discrimination is ok for things like boyscouts and girlscouts. still can't discriminate based on race, sexual orientation or religion.... and i think the gender thing is only skating by because nobody cares that much.
unmeasurable doesn't mean unobservable. It's not happened since we've been keeping you know... good records. Also the bible says the sun stopped in the sky... which would be a great place for an XKCD link, but it was only in the book. Anyway, to sum it up... if the earth stopped rotating, the wind would scour everything south of norway clean down to bedrock. Also, the chinese didn't notice the moon sticking around for 72 hours.:)
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that's because they've been bred to be dinosaur slayers extraordinaire :)
won't work, barnacles grown on whales... it's like their primary habitat or some shit :)
because one is ostensibly for safety, and the other is out and out for greed.
this isn't corruption, this is exactly what the chinese government intends. corporate espionage is state sponsored.
because some people would probably rather not have a good idea ruined for a generation by a fiasco caused by shoddy implementation.
build it, but don't overstate, and take into consideration that it's a highly corrosive environment... and stuff in the ocean grows on everything... literally everything...
the fucking whales have barnacles growing on them... come on.
:) and all the birds you can eat too :)
i'm guessing that dams of any kind are going to generate more power than free standing turbines.
pocketwatch would be dope
inadvertently topical as tim cook just came out.
yeah, but running is boring, and even the ethiopians have lions.
gordon freeman approves.
the time scales involved are staggering. and corruption would always be suspect.
I don't have that kind of time booboo.
... so he was employed :)
throw some wicked rides, i'd definitely stop by. It would be interesting to see.
... I don't think the bar is set especially high for bill nye. I mean, he's not really an expert on anything.
well, world creation is easy... you start out with a nearly uniform plane of existence filled with hydrogen. enough for a couple hundred billion galaxies worth of stuff. then set your universe on fast forward. voila. worlds and some of them will have chemical scum crawling around on the surface. :)
:) then i guess there really aren't that many religious people i respect the stances of. Either your religious texts are sacrosanct, or you're playing a guessing game with your dogma. aren't there those jews that take leviticus really really seriously? and how about islam. they've got some crazy oppression over there.
don't get me wrong. We'll maybe eventually be able to do it digitally. massive undertaking and expense and all. I believe in us... you know as a species. and an omnipotent omniscient diety could probably do it... you know because of magic... but really, these types of things are way more complicated than most people imagine :)
we've had no evidence of a non-material reality. And as they say, a deistic god does not a theistic one make. Even if god were to exist, knowledge of him would not immediately follow. I cannot argue against a deistic god. But evidence for one isn't available. If we allow that all things lacking evidence to the contrary are plausible, where does that leave us in cataloging the truth?
Why is a deity more likely than orcs? It's also possible to conceive of scenarios where orcs happened. Or where we descended from dinosaurs. Evidence to the contrary can easily be reversed with enough intervening highly unlikely steps.
it would be equally difficult to refute that we all spontaneously generated from star stuff 3 seconds ago, memories, fossil evidence and radioactive isotopes included.
The only assumptions that are made in science for the most part are that the universe is knowable, and that it lacks agency and isn't out to play a massive joke on us.
yes, it can say, please don't trespass unless student of faculty. general enough. though it probably wouldn't cuz that costs money to enforce. It can't say, please be feel free to rent out our for your conferences... unless you're a christian group.
michigan state can deny them access. but it'd have to give a reason... and a good enough one to not get sued for religious discrimination. which it would lose... because it's religious discrimination.
i actually didn't make a first amendment case. It's the whole restricting access to publicly available services based on religion thing.
Baby, i really don't have the time for that :) The alternative to science being wrong on evolution... is that the cosmos is playing the biggest joke on humanity and we're just not getting the joke. The preponderance of evidence.
What the hell do you think MRSA is except the giant downside to natural selection?
also public place in this context covers restaurants stores... etc. things that are open to the public and do business with the public.
basically, if you want to advertise and do business in our country, it's not ok to say no black people and no women and no gays and no muslims.
Unless it's a non-profit? think gender discrimination is ok for things like boyscouts and girlscouts. still can't discriminate based on race, sexual orientation or religion.... and i think the gender thing is only skating by because nobody cares that much.
unmeasurable doesn't mean unobservable. It's not happened since we've been keeping you know... good records. Also the bible says the sun stopped in the sky... which would be a great place for an XKCD link, but it was only in the book. Anyway, to sum it up... if the earth stopped rotating, the wind would scour everything south of norway clean down to bedrock. Also, the chinese didn't notice the moon sticking around for 72 hours. :)