the more evidence you gather that can be explained best by life, the more probable it is. Occam's Razor and all that.
Why do you find this to be insignificant data? It's really interesting regardless of the implications for life...why are the water vapor concentrations highest around the methane concentrations? Any way you look at it, its an important mystery to be solved.
It's really awesome, and really amazing, that as we study Mars more, the evidence suggests more and more that life is possible. In other words, the body of evidence isn't ruling life out even as we gather more evidence. It's STILL premature to assume this is life-generated, but its another awesome piece of support for the increased possibility of life.
"Britney Spears' career, as a pop artist, is over."
Wow. That's some Insightful commentary. I mean, backing up a statement like that with support and facts and information is cool and all, but just one hopeful sentence like that is even COOLER.
I'm going start predicting stuff like that. Hey, I predict that computer games will be different in the future.
so basically they run their business bass-ackwards. focus on unecessary features that people don't need (seeing as how they aren't being used right now) instead of getting the foundation up to date and correct, which would make adding the features later much easier.
Well, that sounds par for the course. Doesn't Microsoft operate that way? I hope/. adds a Clippy "feature" soon...
Arthur Thompson, mission manager for MER surface operations, told Reuters in an interview in Lima, "My best guess is 20 to 30 years, if that becomes our primary priority."
well i was a little vague...i know its not visible to the backyard telescope, but id like to know where in the sky it is, just so i could point to it and say "yeah, over there" -- the star chart info is great, but im an astronomy chart n00b. now if someone said "dead center in the pan of the big dipper" or "a few inches to the left of betelgeuse", thats enough for me. 8)
Fantastic and cool. The only question I have is...where the hell is it? no where in the article could I find where to point a telescope to see it. I hope, for scientific verification, other astronomers have access to that information somewhere.
What's a little disappointing is that this planet is orbiting a brown dwarf, which isn't really a star...but its a start!
It's not that illogical. It's just a little odd. I mean, so we get a bunch of earth DNA up there. So what? Personally I think it makes more sense to populate the moon and mars and beyond with people, instead of just sending DNA. Who's gonna be able to replicate it and recreate the living earth if we're all dead or bombed back into the stone age? Or what if it gets destroyed in the 2112 moon vs. earth war? Seems like more reasons NOT to do it than to do it. And any ET's that happen upon a DNA stash would probably be very wary of bringing it back to life.
Wow what a mess for EA, and at the worst possible time. ESPN Football is $20 (or less!) for the current version. Madden? $50. I wonder if that extra $30 goes straight to Mr. Madden himself? Maybe they should be using it to hire better QA testers.
so if this is really nothing and they at SETI aren't interested, where'd all the damn hype come from in the first place? thats what i dont get....who started it, and what happened to them?
i understand its so very probably not an ET signal...but what if it was?
He does have a lot of good stuff going, but it seems that the more ambitious the game, the harder it is to pull off -- and PM is more ambitious than most. 8/
Mr. Molyneux's game concepts are always amazing, topnotch, and sadly, overambitious. Thats how I've always felt. B&W was a disappointment, because for all the hype and all the "open-ended" promises, the game played pretty much the same for everyone, and had a ton of bugs too. I put it down after getting about 3/4 of the way through and just never picked it up--just didn't live up.
Now that I hear that a lot of the promises of Fable didn't make it into the final game, I wonder if the same thing will happen -- huge concept, big promises, but weak on the execution.
This isn't to say the games are bad, they're just horribly disappointing to me. A game that sounds like 10/10 ends up being more like an 8 or a 7/10, but given the expectations, tends to "feel" more like a 5/10.
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Oh, so now there IS life but its just a rough one. So you're saying that a rough life is probably no life at all?
it says the simplest explanation for a given body of data is probably the correct one.
as we gain more data on martian phenomena, and if life increasingly becomes the most common simple explanation....
You forgot
"In Soviet Russia, there's Mars on Life!"
the more evidence you gather that can be explained best by life, the more probable it is. Occam's Razor and all that.
Why do you find this to be insignificant data? It's really interesting regardless of the implications for life...why are the water vapor concentrations highest around the methane concentrations? Any way you look at it, its an important mystery to be solved.
that would take some pretty big comets, and we'd be able to notice them...
It's really awesome, and really amazing, that as we study Mars more, the evidence suggests more and more that life is possible. In other words, the body of evidence isn't ruling life out even as we gather more evidence. It's STILL premature to assume this is life-generated, but its another awesome piece of support for the increased possibility of life.
smart+hot is plenty good for me. geekiness can be learned, especially if you're smart. ;)
The prediction about Britney's career?
"Britney Spears' career, as a pop artist, is over."
Wow. That's some Insightful commentary. I mean, backing up a statement like that with support and facts and information is cool and all, but just one hopeful sentence like that is even COOLER.
I'm going start predicting stuff like that. Hey, I predict that computer games will be different in the future.
Robots that turn into robots...hmm...
That's less "More than meets the eye" and more "Exactly what meets the eye"
I guess more work needs to be done.
so basically they run their business bass-ackwards. focus on unecessary features that people don't need (seeing as how they aren't being used right now) instead of getting the foundation up to date and correct, which would make adding the features later much easier.
/. adds a Clippy "feature" soon...
Well, that sounds par for the course. Doesn't Microsoft operate that way? I hope
Has there ever been an official response as to why Slashdot's code is so outdated and why they haven't updated it?
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Arthur Thompson, mission manager for MER surface operations, told Reuters in an interview in Lima, "My best guess is 20 to 30 years, if that becomes our primary priority."
In other words, Notgonnahappen. 8(
the definition of a real beer isn't always about its alcohol content.
now go out and get some chimay.
well i was a little vague...i know its not visible to the backyard telescope, but id like to know where in the sky it is, just so i could point to it and say "yeah, over there" -- the star chart info is great, but im an astronomy chart n00b. now if someone said "dead center in the pan of the big dipper" or "a few inches to the left of betelgeuse", thats enough for me. 8)
Fantastic and cool. The only question I have is...where the hell is it? no where in the article could I find where to point a telescope to see it. I hope, for scientific verification, other astronomers have access to that information somewhere.
What's a little disappointing is that this planet is orbiting a brown dwarf, which isn't really a star...but its a start!
well that couldnt be helped. she IS pretty hot...
It's not that illogical. It's just a little odd. I mean, so we get a bunch of earth DNA up there. So what? Personally I think it makes more sense to populate the moon and mars and beyond with people, instead of just sending DNA. Who's gonna be able to replicate it and recreate the living earth if we're all dead or bombed back into the stone age? Or what if it gets destroyed in the 2112 moon vs. earth war? Seems like more reasons NOT to do it than to do it. And any ET's that happen upon a DNA stash would probably be very wary of bringing it back to life.
Wow what a mess for EA, and at the worst possible time. ESPN Football is $20 (or less!) for the current version. Madden? $50. I wonder if that extra $30 goes straight to Mr. Madden himself? Maybe they should be using it to hire better QA testers.
dude...the sound man...i can SEE it...sound and sight man, its all the same....far out man....
usually people tend to get sick AFTER seeing the picture...
Or a cookbook.
so if this is really nothing and they at SETI aren't interested, where'd all the damn hype come from in the first place? thats what i dont get....who started it, and what happened to them?
i understand its so very probably not an ET signal...but what if it was?
He does have a lot of good stuff going, but it seems that the more ambitious the game, the harder it is to pull off -- and PM is more ambitious than most. 8/
Mr. Molyneux's game concepts are always amazing, topnotch, and sadly, overambitious. Thats how I've always felt. B&W was a disappointment, because for all the hype and all the "open-ended" promises, the game played pretty much the same for everyone, and had a ton of bugs too. I put it down after getting about 3/4 of the way through and just never picked it up--just didn't live up.
Now that I hear that a lot of the promises of Fable didn't make it into the final game, I wonder if the same thing will happen -- huge concept, big promises, but weak on the execution.
This isn't to say the games are bad, they're just horribly disappointing to me. A game that sounds like 10/10 ends up being more like an 8 or a 7/10, but given the expectations, tends to "feel" more like a 5/10.