> I hope you are also against experimenting on animals. >I really think my dog has more self awareness >than an embryo. So do chimps, lab rats, house flies...
No. Because they are animals. My ancestors didn't spend millions of years to get to the top of the food chain so I could eat kelp.
I've a very different view of life - so you'll excuse me if I politely disagree with your perspective.
I believe any and all life should be respected - I'm vegetarian, and I realize that I'm killing plants, too. Ideally, I'd like a world where we all ate fruits and other products where no life was harmed - eating an apple without killing the tree, harvesting products without harming the plants. But that is quite impractical, or rather, we humans either are not civilized enough or we do not care enough to accord respect to any and all life.
But I can only hope that in the future, we can artifically generate food in a way without harming any life or at the very least realize learn and respect life, immaterial of the fact whether it fits in with our narrow-minded version of intelligence and sentience.
Hopefully, atleast this will make people realize that animals should be given much the same right as humans. But then, we're having trouble giving rights to most humans to begin with. So I suppose it's asking for too much to hope that we'll grow civilized enough not to kill any animals.
That is not physically possible. It could be used as a tool to draw matter to be used for propulsion, but it can never be a source of power in and of itself. Even that would be a very very destructive way to travel.
That's because we are at a part of the galaxy where such phenomenon does not happen that frequnently. It is theorised that as you approach the center of the galaxy the frequency increases.
"NASA successfully launched its Swift Satellite today at 12:16 PM EST, after weeks of delays due to hurricanes and rocket trouble. The Swift satellite hopes to explore the origin of Gamma ray bursts, long believed to be related to the birth of Black Holes. The Swift project is a joint undertaking between the American, British and Italian space agencies. Kennedy Space Center has a video stream of the launch. "
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Giving in to someone you like is not weak-kneed. If anything, it's wonderful.
That's besides the point - the "female" could be my girlfriend, which could result in problems for both me and her. The question is not whether or not the privacy matters, merely that no matter what privacy *is* needed.
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Being as how everyone is created equal, men have the same right as women to the front seat of the car. i.e. women don't own the front seat.
Yeah, but that would bring upon quite a bit of load on the servers -- I'm sure if the feature were offered, every geek using it would want to encrypt their IMs. That would be a significant load at his end - he'd prefer to go without it because other than the geeks, nobody is going to care.
We don't really know if that for sure unless we know time is constant, or rather radioactive decay is constant.
We choose to keep them constant because we need a frame of reference to study things. Besides, the change that does indeed happen is small enough to be of interest to none else other than a physicist.
And changing them would lead to a lot of confusion, and we may not yet be ready to comprehend time and space the way it is because it would go against the way we perceive things.
True, but we do have cosmic rays and others which left their sources a few billion years ago, which are reaching us now.
By observing and studying these closely and comparing that to how particles now behave, we can extrapolate on how the Universe _might_ have been.
There are NO laws of physics that mandate that these fundamental time-based "constants" must be invariant.
Well said and agreed. However, that would mean that they are varying on the basis of some other factor (or set of factors) that we have not yet considered. Which would mean that there is a super-equation guiding the change (and am not talking of UFT here), which we are not yet aware of.
Because you need precise measurements for things other than needing to know what the time is.
And these clocks are not just used as solar clocks, they are calibrated to be sidereal clocks too - to know the movement of the stars and the like.
Imagine you are conducting a particle collision experiment in a tunnel - the particles are almost travelling at the speed of light, and they'd cover the distance of your tunnel almost instantaneously. You would need to measure this as precisely as you can. The more this measurement is, the more precisely we can calculate how the data from other particle collisions in the Universe (from cosmic rays, for instance) are - letting us know how the Universe has changed/is changing.
There are several applications of it - most of it of interest to physicists only, ofcourse.
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Oh wait until you hear what I have to say about mature old women.
Okay, my post was supposed to be funny.
It was modded as such, and then was modded interesting. Chill, I was kidding - do read my other responses to the replies given.
I remember the_mad_poster having something along those lines - Fat Rodent Sex.
Ewww is all I can say.
Reminds me of something I once read here on Slashdot -
> I hope you are also against experimenting on animals.
>I really think my dog has more self awareness
>than an embryo. So do chimps, lab rats, house flies...
No. Because they are animals.
My ancestors didn't spend millions of years
to get to the top of the food chain so I could
eat kelp.
Gee, I was kidding. Chill :-)
I've a very different view of life - so you'll excuse me if I politely disagree with your perspective.
I believe any and all life should be respected - I'm vegetarian, and I realize that I'm killing plants, too. Ideally, I'd like a world where we all ate fruits and other products where no life was harmed - eating an apple without killing the tree, harvesting products without harming the plants. But that is quite impractical, or rather, we humans either are not civilized enough or we do not care enough to accord respect to any and all life.
But I can only hope that in the future, we can artifically generate food in a way without harming any life or at the very least realize learn and respect life, immaterial of the fact whether it fits in with our narrow-minded version of intelligence and sentience.
Hopefully, atleast this will make people realize that animals should be given much the same right as humans. But then, we're having trouble giving rights to most humans to begin with. So I suppose it's asking for too much to hope that we'll grow civilized enough not to kill any animals.
Yup, especially considering how famous the Triple Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six was
No, I'm not - to the best of my knowledge, it is theorised that they can be observed at higher frequency at the center of galaxies.
I could be wrong, though and judging by the responses I probably am.
Ooh! Thanks for pointing that out!
;-)
Okay, I change my stance - this guy is perverted for sure
That is not physically possible. It could be used as a tool to draw matter to be used for propulsion, but it can never be a source of power in and of itself. Even that would be a very very destructive way to travel.
That's because we are at a part of the galaxy where such phenomenon does not happen that frequnently. It is theorised that as you approach the center of the galaxy the frequency increases.
Here's what I'd submitted --
"NASA successfully launched its Swift Satellite today at 12:16 PM EST, after weeks of delays due to hurricanes and rocket trouble. The Swift satellite hopes to explore the origin of Gamma ray bursts, long believed to be related to the birth of Black Holes. The Swift project is a joint undertaking between the American, British and Italian space agencies. Kennedy Space Center has a video stream of the launch. "
Giving in to someone you like is not weak-kneed. If anything, it's wonderful.
That's besides the point - the "female" could be my girlfriend, which could result in problems for both me and her. The question is not whether or not the privacy matters, merely that no matter what privacy *is* needed.
Being as how everyone is created equal, men have the same right as women to the front seat of the car. i.e. women don't own the front seat.
Man, this guy is obviously single.
Yeah, but that would bring upon quite a bit of load on the servers -- I'm sure if the feature were offered, every geek using it would want to encrypt their IMs. That would be a significant load at his end - he'd prefer to go without it because other than the geeks, nobody is going to care.
Yes, but IMs by their very nature tend to be a whole lot personal than emails.
For instance, how often do you flirt on emails, when compared to IMs?
We don't really know if that for sure unless we know time is constant, or rather radioactive decay is constant.
We choose to keep them constant because we need a frame of reference to study things. Besides, the change that does indeed happen is small enough to be of interest to none else other than a physicist.
And changing them would lead to a lot of confusion, and we may not yet be ready to comprehend time and space the way it is because it would go against the way we perceive things.
True, but we do have cosmic rays and others which left their sources a few billion years ago, which are reaching us now.
By observing and studying these closely and comparing that to how particles now behave, we can extrapolate on how the Universe _might_ have been.
There are NO laws of physics that mandate that these fundamental time-based "constants" must be invariant.
Well said and agreed. However, that would mean that they are varying on the basis of some other factor (or set of factors) that we have not yet considered. Which would mean that there is a super-equation guiding the change (and am not talking of UFT here), which we are not yet aware of.
Has anyone else noticed that it almost always coincides with new audio happening?
Yup, I did too. Apparently, this is common - or so I read on a couple of boards.
Ofcourse, I do understand :-)
I was merely trying to put it in layman's terms -- precision is the frequency of agreement of the measurements to ONE value.
Neither is "firt, off".
I merely meant that precision is a measure of how close and how often the values measured are in agreement with one another.
No, he was right.
Accuracy is how close the measurement is to the actual value, precision is how much often the measurement is in agreement with the value.
Showing the wrong time, no matter how precise, doesn't mean much. The new clock is more accurate.
Because you need precise measurements for things other than needing to know what the time is.
And these clocks are not just used as solar clocks, they are calibrated to be sidereal clocks too - to know the movement of the stars and the like.
Imagine you are conducting a particle collision experiment in a tunnel - the particles are almost travelling at the speed of light, and they'd cover the distance of your tunnel almost instantaneously. You would need to measure this as precisely as you can. The more this measurement is, the more precisely we can calculate how the data from other particle collisions in the Universe (from cosmic rays, for instance) are - letting us know how the Universe has changed/is changing.
There are several applications of it - most of it of interest to physicists only, ofcourse.