I did not know the octopus spent some time on land in its evolutionary history!
In any case, water has the advantage of bouyancy, allowing for the easier growth of larger structures, so there is some advantage to be had there, too.
I'd be much more concerned about the difficulties in creating fire or some high powered energy source, processing ores to get material (much of technological advancement is actually materials science), and imagine the difficulties in exploring electricity both underwater and metal-scarce.
Of course, they may become massive geniuses in ceramics and pottery and the like, so who knows where that would lead?
Nah, imagine the possibilities not of accidently breathing someone's fart, but of someone accidentally swimming through someone's else's cloud of piss and shit.
Well, I think the problem was that one reasonable definition of "planet", "a mass large enough that its gravity pulls it into a ball" leaves us with 50-something planets in our solar system.
- Light could have a different speed elsewhere. - I'm pretty sure we'll find that out. - See? The age of the universe really could be 6000 years just like the Bible says!
The "reference" lines are your own local equipment in the lab, or our own sun. It's relativity, of course. There are no privleged points of view, and this is the other galaxy relative to our own. To them, of course, we would look equally far away and shifted.
You'll note the grotesquely confiscatorally high income tax rates were applied by men in Congress who had already earned their millions. I.e old money.
So it barely affected them. But it did have the effect of keeping new competition for power down while giving them, the members of Congress, the new guy's money to spend at Congresses' discretion!
Oh how sweet it is! To use the product of some other guy's effort in the service of one's own power goals!
Eh, deconstruction's a bitch. Pay no attention. Go on back to your populist rhetoric.
Apparently you've confused songwriter with songmutilating singer.
Paying millions to people who can write a song with a hook, then changing one lyric so you can slap your name on as co-writer does not a writer make. See also Madonna, Michael Jackson, etc.
Lemme ask this question. How many markets are open, legally, to competition, and how many still laber under the socialist fraud that grants a legal monopoly under the argument "this town ain't big enough for more than one provider"?
I humbly await my downmod, but before modding me down, read my.sig.
So if I used 4 70" TVs in my own living room, and had a 7.1 surround sound getup, with extra speakers on top of that in different rooms, I'd be in violation?
Come on, nerds! Do you really wanna find a parallel universe where you're suave and sophisticated and successful with the ladies?
In any case, this just makes the Fermi Paradox even worse, because now some far more statistically likely ancient civilzation should have long since colonized and clogged all universes.
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I did not know the octopus spent some time on land in its evolutionary history!
In any case, water has the advantage of bouyancy, allowing for the easier growth of larger structures, so there is some advantage to be had there, too.
I'd be much more concerned about the difficulties in creating fire or some high powered energy source, processing ores to get material (much of technological advancement is actually materials science), and imagine the difficulties in exploring electricity both underwater and metal-scarce.
Of course, they may become massive geniuses in ceramics and pottery and the like, so who knows where that would lead?
> Is it elaborate fart jokes?
Nah, imagine the possibilities not of accidently breathing someone's fart, but of someone accidentally swimming through someone's else's cloud of piss and shit.
Endless hillarity!
Did settlers bring worms with them? Because to spread 2000+ miles in 200 years means the worms are advancing at 10 miles per year.
Life spreads quickly, in geologic terms, but not that quickly. In any case, there should be loads of places those worms should be, but aren't.
Well, I think the problem was that one reasonable definition of "planet", "a mass large enough that its gravity pulls it into a ball" leaves us with 50-something planets in our solar system.
"And what were you dreaming?"
"Uhhh, I was eating a hot dog."
"Wow! Most of your dreams the last few weeks you sure do love eating hot dogs!"
One has had said about it, "Oh, the humanity...", and the other, "Oh, the huge mantitties..."
> To address the article though, yes, the 12.8 billion year figure is
> pulled out of someone's ass.
It has far less ass all over it than "6000 years because The Bible says so."
Hehe, again, it goes something like this:
- Light could have a different speed elsewhere.
- I'm pretty sure we'll find that out.
- See? The age of the universe really could be 6000 years just like the Bible says!
The "reference" lines are your own local equipment in the lab, or our own sun. It's relativity, of course. There are no privleged points of view, and this is the other galaxy relative to our own. To them, of course, we would look equally far away and shifted.
Plus who can forget the wonderful "Kill those who say Islam is a violent religion!" stuff that actually happened a couple of years ago.
"Well, living in America's better than being tied down on a board and having water poured into your lungs so you choke and almost die."
Oh, wait. n/m
You'll note the grotesquely confiscatorally high income tax rates were applied by men in Congress who had already earned their millions . I.e old money.
So it barely affected them. But it did have the effect of keeping new competition for power down while giving them, the members of Congress, the new guy's money to spend at Congresses' discretion!
Oh how sweet it is! To use the product of some other guy's effort in the service of one's own power goals!
Eh, deconstruction's a bitch. Pay no attention. Go on back to your populist rhetoric.
> I just went to http://www.megagames.com/ [megagames.com] for the no cd patch.
> Oh this is the official no-cd patch. Well, that's a bit better.
Company removes copy protection from ancient program. People mislead themselves into thinking the company's "seen the light!"
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along...move along.
> Kinda late though.
They waited for years before doing this, when the game's sales are largely over. Kinda late...for what then?
Apparently you've confused songwriter with songmutilating singer.
Paying millions to people who can write a song with a hook, then changing one lyric so you can slap your name on as co-writer does not a writer make. See also Madonna, Michael Jackson, etc.
Lemme ask this question. How many markets are open, legally, to competition, and how many still laber under the socialist fraud that grants a legal monopoly under the argument "this town ain't big enough for more than one provider"?
.sig.
I humbly await my downmod, but before modding me down, read my
> Uneducated masses lead by religious zealots, as usual in that part of the world.
> Uneducated masses lead by religious zealots, as usual in the world.
Fixed it for you.
You can only fail if you try things.
I am going to literally tear your head off...figuratively speaking.
Hence the "...until I run out of ammo" part, you genius you!
Or maybe you did go out and vote...which makes it even worse!
So if I used 4 70" TVs in my own living room, and had a 7.1 surround sound getup, with extra speakers on top of that in different rooms, I'd be in violation?
"Cool! Nice arm, Joe!"
"Thanks! Here, lemme plug it into the computer. Check out all these grips I can select."
"Chuck grip. Key grip. Power grip. Hey, what's Charlizetheron grip?"
"Uhhh...that's for sweeping, yeah, sweeping!"
Come on, nerds! Do you really wanna find a parallel universe where you're suave and sophisticated and successful with the ladies?
In any case, this just makes the Fermi Paradox even worse, because now some far more statistically likely ancient civilzation should have long since colonized and clogged all universes.
Well, Slashdot nerds have long been able to apparently fit a pool table into their pockets, so why not a supercomputer?
It's ironic you bring up "artificial swarming life" in the context of "being used to kill people."