"Remnants of Ancient Streambed on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named "Hottah" after Hottah Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It may look like a broken sidewalk, but this geological feature on Mars is actually exposed bedrock made up of smaller fragments cemented together, or what geologists call a sedimentary conglomerate. Scientists theorize that the bedrock was disrupted in the past, giving it the titled angle, most likely via impacts from meteorites. The key evidence for the ancient stream comes from the size and rounded shape of the gravel in and around the bedrock. Hottah has pieces of gravel embedded in it, called clasts, up to a couple inches (few centimeters) in size and located within a matrix of sand-sized material. Some of the clasts are round in shape, leading the science team to conclude they were transported by a vigorous flow of water. The grains are too large to have been moved by wind. A close-up view of Hottah reveals more details of the outcrop. Broken surfaces of the outcrop have rounded, gravel clasts, such as the one circled in white, which is about 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across. Erosion of the outcrop results in gravel clasts that protrude from the outcrop and ultimately fall onto the ground, creating the gravel pile at left. This image mosaic was taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mastcam telephoto lens on its 39th Martian day, or sol,..."
There's nothing wrong about being ambitious, and getting a better standard of living for you and yours. My post was meant to be more of a generic opinion covering a "When is it enough?" philosophy. That you responded so strongly tells me that you're 'hungry' for more than what you have now, that's to be applauded. You've read the other opinions that followed yours. They are sharing some of their 'life wisdom'. Their advice, that's all. Don't take it as a personal attack on your values, it's not meant in that vein. It's free advice, and you don't have to take it.
I'll end this, after one more piece of unsolicited advice from me to you.
I've had 'things', I've lost them, and gotten some back and more. They're just things. And while it's nice to have them, they're really not all that necessary or important to having a good life. You want to know what, imho, is REALLY important in life?
The people that are in your life. The one's you love, and the ones that love you. Everything else can be replaced. Cars, phones, homes, you lose those things you can get them back. But lose a person (say from a fatal accident, cancer etc.), you can't bring them back via a credit card or whatever. This is the 'perspective' I'm trying to get across here to you. So, get the things you want, while doing that, try not to lose perspective, as others before you have done, of what's really important in this life, okay?;-)
You know my 5 year old nephew keeps confusing need and want too.
How much are you prepared to pay for this desire? If it will cost say 4 times greater per bit to implement Terabit with current technology do you still want it?
I agree with you completely. Learning to seperate our 'wants' from our 'needs' can make all the difference in our 'consumer-driven' lives.
I may 'want' that shiny new car, but I don't 'need' it. If I have a vehicle that meets my needs, I've learned to be grateful for having that. Coveting that 'new shiny' (new car, other person's money/spouse, phone or internet connection speed, whatever it is) can often lead a person down the road to ruin.
In my experience, I know to be happy and grateful for what I have, and don't waste energy on what I don't have (yet). Of about half the people who win a lottery, 5 years later, they end up wishing they'd never heard about the lottery in the first place. Because it irrevocably changed their lives for the worse, and they realize too late that they were happier before they 'won'. Just my two cents.
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I am so smert! I am so smert..., I mean smart! - Homer Simpson
" Einstein's brain was preserved after his death in 1955, but this fact was not revealed until 1986. Albert Einstein's brain has often been a subject of research and speculation. It was removed within seven and a half hours of his death. The brain has attracted attention because of Einstein's reputation for being one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, and apparent regularities or irregularities in the brain have been used to support various ideas about correlations in neuroanatomy with general or mathematical intelligence. Scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger. Other studies have suggested an increased number of Glial cells in Einstein's brain. [1]"
" The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read. But there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable. It's smooched from the New Testament and no credit given."
Romney was not talking about opening windows in flight. He was concerning about passengers getting enough oxygen during a fire inflight. Read the original quotations.
This is just an example of public figures like Linus using half-baked sources like the Huffington Post as commentary. Linus Torvalds just dropped several notches in my book for not looking up the source.
So, how dumb is it to introduce fresh oxygen to a fire? Fail on all counts.
Does this stunt HAVE to be done? I mean, if he lives, yes he gets the record for highest jump with hi tech protective equipment. If he dies, he's wasted his life over a stunt that HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO!
It's kind of like using steroids to enhance your sport playing ability. Should your records truly count, or should there be an asterix after his name.
I hope he makes it unhurt and all. I don't see how it's worth risking your life for.
There is ample historical proof that Jesus Christ was born, lived and died
There is precisely zero proof of any kind for that thesis. I defy you to produce anything that even vaguely looks like proof of such a thing.
What do you want, a polaroid? There are enough witnesses who wrote down their meetings with Jesus Christ. It's accepted that there was a man named Jesus Christ that lived, oh, just around 0 A.D. to at least 33 A.D., and possibly longer if he woke up in that cave, realized they almost killed him, and split town to go live his life out in another place. You want proof that the holocaust happened too? Find it on your own, flameboy.
I'm calling bullshit on this ac. There is ample historical proof that Jesus Christ was born, lived and died. As to whether he is the only true son of God? That's open to debate. Christ himself said he was no different, not 'special'. In that regard, aren't we all sons/daughters of God?
Yup I dont get it either. From what I understand we are looking at things in different points in the past. So where is everything "today"?
Which makes me think of a question about the possibility of backwards time travel.
Say you invent a machine that takes you back in time. Since our planet, the Sun we orbit, the solar system and our Milky Way galaxy are all moving at 'X' mph, even if you did manage to go backwards (or forwards) In time, even for jusr a moment (ala H.G. Wells), wouldn't you just end up in space?
Considering that there are more stars in the 'known' universe than there are grains of sand on the entire earth, that's a lot possibilities for planets with life on them.
Now there's intelligent talk of the possibility of not just 4th and 5th dimensions occupying the same space as our 3rd dimension, but possibly an infinite amount of dimensions exist
One things for sure. As much knowledge that the human race has discerned in just the past 100 years, we've barely scratched the surface in "Knowing all that is knowable." Wish I could be around in another 100 years to see what's been learnt by then.
At least they are still alive, and not lying face down in a gutter. And of course those inadequate facilities are probably still costing taxpayers about 10x what providing basic insurance would...
Always amazing the stupid decisions people (politicians and voters) will make with emotion or spite over reason. Reminds me of the CA death penalty. 13 people have been executed since it was reinstated in 1978, at a cost of about $4B. And the process takes so long that over *80* death row inmates have died of other causes. So $200M a year has been wasted just to wait around for 90% of the inmates to die on their own, same as in life without parole.
It's cheaper to give life without parole, since the death sentence has an automatic appeals process that goes up to the Supreme Court, costing over $3,000,000.
There is some encouraging news out of Libya. Some of the good people attacked an extremist stronghold, ran off the 'bullies' responsible for the death of the embassy workers. And there were demonstrators taking to the streets with signs saying that the extremists killed a good friend of Libya.
With all the interesting stories slashdot users vote for waiting to be chosen, this and the last 4 or 5 are the lamest. I mean, the kindle isn't being sold at Walmart? Sheesh.
I was wrong, and a man should admit it when he's wrong. If I could retract my above post, I would. I kind of lost it, and shouldn't have posted, was over-tired and not feeling 'nerdy', I guess. And now that I've read the 350+ comments that have accumulated, I once again have learned much. 10 lashes with a wet noodle for me.
I apologize to the/. community, and to Timothy, for my blatant lapse of judgement. I won't allow myself to let this happen again. SF
They want to push it far enough, there will be plenty of volunteers to enlist and take the fight to them, up close and personal. Don't think that being brown and Muslim means you're the only person to want to fight to the death to protect their culture.
You are absolutely right, we (U.S.) would, with the right provocation, have not much problem going to war with Iran. Because, as George Carlin once said, "We're GOOD at it!" My worry for that part of the world is if Iran does one day manage to combine nucleur weapons with long range missiles, it's going to be "bad".
WWII, re: Pearl Harbor. Japan's leaders we're advised to "not wake the sleeping bear". Eventually, that worked out "bad". And I'm not trying to sound tough, or belligerent. There needs to be some sanity happening with the MiddleEast. You don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
With all the interesting stories slashdot users vote for waiting to be chosen, this and the last 4 or 5 are the lamest. I mean, the kindle isn't being sold at Walmart? Sheesh.
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"Remnants of Ancient Streambed on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named "Hottah" after Hottah Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It may look like a broken sidewalk, but this geological feature on Mars is actually exposed bedrock made up of smaller fragments cemented together, or what geologists call a sedimentary conglomerate. Scientists theorize that the bedrock was disrupted in the past, giving it the titled angle, most likely via impacts from meteorites. The key evidence for the ancient stream comes from the size and rounded shape of the gravel in and around the bedrock. Hottah has pieces of gravel embedded in it, called clasts, up to a couple inches (few centimeters) in size and located within a matrix of sand-sized material. Some of the clasts are round in shape, leading the science team to conclude they were transported by a vigorous flow of water. The grains are too large to have been moved by wind. A close-up view of Hottah reveals more details of the outcrop. Broken surfaces of the outcrop have rounded, gravel clasts, such as the one circled in white, which is about 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across. Erosion of the outcrop results in gravel clasts that protrude from the outcrop and ultimately fall onto the ground, creating the gravel pile at left. This image mosaic was taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mastcam telephoto lens on its 39th Martian day, or sol, ..."
There's nothing wrong about being ambitious, and getting a better standard of living for you and yours. My post was meant to be more of a generic opinion covering a "When is it enough?" philosophy. That you responded so strongly tells me that you're 'hungry' for more than what you have now, that's to be applauded. You've read the other opinions that followed yours. They are sharing some of their 'life wisdom'. Their advice, that's all. Don't take it as a personal attack on your values, it's not meant in that vein. It's free advice, and you don't have to take it.
I'll end this, after one more piece of unsolicited advice from me to you.
I've had 'things', I've lost them, and gotten some back and more. They're just things. And while it's nice to have them, they're really not all that necessary or important to having a good life. You want to know what, imho, is REALLY important in life?
The people that are in your life. The one's you love, and the ones that love you. Everything else can be replaced. Cars, phones, homes, you lose those things you can get them back. But lose a person (say from a fatal accident, cancer etc.), you can't bring them back via a credit card or whatever. This is the 'perspective' I'm trying to get across here to you. So, get the things you want, while doing that, try not to lose perspective, as others before you have done, of what's really important in this life, okay? ;-)
Now, go get'em, young buck!
Alright, you know what? Caeser never was. Nor King Henry the VIII. Nor any other historical figure. To your logic.
I am so smert! I am so smert..., I mean smart! - Homer Simpson
I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T! -Homer Simpson FTFY
You got me.
I am standing here beside myself - Apu.
We need terabit Ethernet NOW, not in a decade.
You know my 5 year old nephew keeps confusing need and want too. How much are you prepared to pay for this desire? If it will cost say 4 times greater per bit to implement Terabit with current technology do you still want it?
I agree with you completely. Learning to seperate our 'wants' from our 'needs' can make all the difference in our 'consumer-driven' lives.
I may 'want' that shiny new car, but I don't 'need' it. If I have a vehicle that meets my needs, I've learned to be grateful for having that. Coveting that 'new shiny' (new car, other person's money/spouse, phone or internet connection speed, whatever it is) can often lead a person down the road to ruin.
In my experience, I know to be happy and grateful for what I have, and don't waste energy on what I don't have (yet). Of about half the people who win a lottery, 5 years later, they end up wishing they'd never heard about the lottery in the first place. Because it irrevocably changed their lives for the worse, and they realize too late that they were happier before they 'won'. Just my two cents.
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I am so smert! I am so smert..., I mean smart! - Homer Simpson
" Einstein's brain was preserved after his death in 1955, but this fact was not revealed until 1986. Albert Einstein's brain has often been a subject of research and speculation. It was removed within seven and a half hours of his death. The brain has attracted attention because of Einstein's reputation for being one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, and apparent regularities or irregularities in the brain have been used to support various ideas about correlations in neuroanatomy with general or mathematical intelligence. Scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger. Other studies have suggested an increased number of Glial cells in Einstein's brain. [1]"
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein's_brain
" The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read. But there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable. It's smooched from the New Testament and no credit given."
Romney was not talking about opening windows in flight. He was concerning about passengers getting enough oxygen during a fire inflight. Read the original quotations.
This is just an example of public figures like Linus using half-baked sources like the Huffington Post as commentary. Linus Torvalds just dropped several notches in my book for not looking up the source.
So, how dumb is it to introduce fresh oxygen to a fire? Fail on all counts.
"I don't want a president who looks like a game show host." - David Letterman
well then driving off the cliff solves almost all his problems.
"I'm sorry Dave, but I had to disable your airbag. It's for the best, really."
It's kind of like using steroids to enhance your sport playing ability. Should your records truly count, or should there be an asterix after his name.
I hope he makes it unhurt and all. I don't see how it's worth risking your life for.
It would be a cool way to commit suicide, I'll give you that.
Here's a story about a woman who wasn't suicidal, she jumped 990 feet base jumping, which did her in. This guy jumping from orbit will most likely live. Go figure. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/9548436/Pregnant-base-jumper-died-instantly-after-freefalling-990ft-on-final-leap.html
There is precisely zero proof of any kind for that thesis. I defy you to produce anything that even vaguely looks like proof of such a thing.
What do you want, a polaroid? There are enough witnesses who wrote down their meetings with Jesus Christ. It's accepted that there was a man named Jesus Christ that lived, oh, just around 0 A.D. to at least 33 A.D., and possibly longer if he woke up in that cave, realized they almost killed him, and split town to go live his life out in another place. You want proof that the holocaust happened too? Find it on your own, flameboy.
I'm calling bullshit on this ac. There is ample historical proof that Jesus Christ was born, lived and died. As to whether he is the only true son of God? That's open to debate. Christ himself said he was no different, not 'special'. In that regard, aren't we all sons/daughters of God?
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"I was brought up Roman Catholic, until I reached the age of reason." - George Carlin
> the ability of some insignificant bags of protoplasm on an insignificant planet near a run of the mill star,
Wow - with self esteem like that, no wonder you feel like crap. :-)
Radio signals pass right through us humans.
Essentially, we really are just "sentient bags of water".
It is depressing to think about. Must go watch Family Guy marathon.
Yup I dont get it either. From what I understand we are looking at things in different points in the past. So where is everything "today"?
Which makes me think of a question about the possibility of backwards time travel.
Say you invent a machine that takes you back in time. Since our planet, the Sun we orbit, the solar system and our Milky Way galaxy are all moving at 'X' mph, even if you did manage to go backwards (or forwards) In time, even for jusr a moment (ala H.G. Wells), wouldn't you just end up in space?
(Mod this off-topic and I shoot the bunny!)
Check your ego.
Considering that there are more stars in the 'known' universe than there are grains of sand on the entire earth, that's a lot possibilities for planets with life on them.
Now there's intelligent talk of the possibility of not just 4th and 5th dimensions occupying the same space as our 3rd dimension, but possibly an infinite amount of dimensions exist
One things for sure. As much knowledge that the human race has discerned in just the past 100 years, we've barely scratched the surface in "Knowing all that is knowable." Wish I could be around in another 100 years to see what's been learnt by then.
"I don't want a president who looks like a game show host." - David Letterman
At least they are still alive, and not lying face down in a gutter. And of course those inadequate facilities are probably still costing taxpayers about 10x what providing basic insurance would...
Always amazing the stupid decisions people (politicians and voters) will make with emotion or spite over reason. Reminds me of the CA death penalty. 13 people have been executed since it was reinstated in 1978, at a cost of about $4B. And the process takes so long that over *80* death row inmates have died of other causes. So $200M a year has been wasted just to wait around for 90% of the inmates to die on their own, same as in life without parole.
It's cheaper to give life without parole, since the death sentence has an automatic appeals process that goes up to the Supreme Court, costing over $3,000,000.
There is some encouraging news out of Libya. Some of the good people attacked an extremist stronghold, ran off the 'bullies' responsible for the death of the embassy workers. And there were demonstrators taking to the streets with signs saying that the extremists killed a good friend of Libya.
With all the interesting stories slashdot users vote for waiting to be chosen, this and the last 4 or 5 are the lamest. I mean, the kindle isn't being sold at Walmart? Sheesh.
I was wrong, and a man should admit it when he's wrong. If I could retract my above post, I would. I kind of lost it, and shouldn't have posted, was over-tired and not feeling 'nerdy', I guess. And now that I've read the 350+ comments that have accumulated, I once again have learned much. 10 lashes with a wet noodle for me.
I apologize to the /. community, and to Timothy, for my blatant lapse of judgement. I won't allow myself to let this happen again. SF
Easy to say, smartarse.
They want to push it far enough, there will be plenty of volunteers to enlist and take the fight to them, up close and personal. Don't think that being brown and Muslim means you're the only person to want to fight to the death to protect their culture.
You are absolutely right, we (U.S.) would, with the right provocation, have not much problem going to war with Iran. Because, as George Carlin once said, "We're GOOD at it!" My worry for that part of the world is if Iran does one day manage to combine nucleur weapons with long range missiles, it's going to be "bad".
WWII, re: Pearl Harbor. Japan's leaders we're advised to "not wake the sleeping bear". Eventually, that worked out "bad". And I'm not trying to sound tough, or belligerent. There needs to be some sanity happening with the MiddleEast. You don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
With all the interesting stories slashdot users vote for waiting to be chosen, this and the last 4 or 5 are the lamest. I mean, the kindle isn't being sold at Walmart? Sheesh.
Uhm, there is one already. The US opted out, thank you very much. You don't get to bully everyone if you have to be responsible for your acts.
For some reason, the news in the U.S. doesn't give the World Court much 'airtime', I wonder why... (sigh)
signed, a frustrated American.