Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear.
JTFC, build more nuclear. All this hippie green power bullshit is crap. It will never give us enough energy.
Build more nuclear. A LOT more!
If you take the time to read it, you see that the data comes from no more than 18 people and the r^2 value of the alcohol consumption-publication correlation was 0.55. That doesn't convince me at all. In fact, it is a shame that the NYTimes picks up on this type of sensationalist pseudo science.
Intelligence is definitely heritable. Look no further than yourself. Are you smarter than a gorilla? Um, I sure hope so, and that is because back in the day (millions of years ago) the smart gorillas figured out how to make better tools, hunt better, work in groups, etc. which all meant they could live longer and have more progeny - i.e. intelligence was an evolutionary advantage. Carry this out and you get homo sapiens.
Now, just as the movie says, the opposite is true: in our society intelligence is actually an evolutionary disadvantage. Will humans evolve back down to apes? Probably not, but there will probably be a general decrease in overall intelligence until intelligence again becomes an advantage... like when realizing that water is the best thing to make crops grow leads you to live longer, etc.
conversely, doesn't this argue that we might not have any true idea of what happened 100 billion years ago, as all traces of that long ago past will have faded by now?
in fact, in TFA, they state that the beam has the equivalent energy of a flying mosquito. Obviously not going to have much effect when hitting the wall/windshield.
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Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear. JTFC, build more nuclear. All this hippie green power bullshit is crap. It will never give us enough energy. Build more nuclear. A LOT more!
This is a link to the article (you probably need an academic IP to be able to access it)
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.2008.0030-1299.16551.x?prevSearch=allfield%3A(tomas+grim)
If you take the time to read it, you see that the data comes from no more than 18 people and the r^2 value of the alcohol consumption-publication correlation was 0.55. That doesn't convince me at all. In fact, it is a shame that the NYTimes picks up on this type of sensationalist pseudo science.
Intelligence is definitely heritable. Look no further than yourself. Are you smarter than a gorilla? Um, I sure hope so, and that is because back in the day (millions of years ago) the smart gorillas figured out how to make better tools, hunt better, work in groups, etc. which all meant they could live longer and have more progeny - i.e. intelligence was an evolutionary advantage. Carry this out and you get homo sapiens. Now, just as the movie says, the opposite is true: in our society intelligence is actually an evolutionary disadvantage. Will humans evolve back down to apes? Probably not, but there will probably be a general decrease in overall intelligence until intelligence again becomes an advantage... like when realizing that water is the best thing to make crops grow leads you to live longer, etc.
conversely, doesn't this argue that we might not have any true idea of what happened 100 billion years ago, as all traces of that long ago past will have faded by now?
in fact, in TFA, they state that the beam has the equivalent energy of a flying mosquito. Obviously not going to have much effect when hitting the wall/windshield.