Personally I would prefer an ignorant populace to the credible, misinformed boobs that surround me.
I work with people who believe we never landed on the moon, because of a television special... not to mention "John Edward" and some woman who allegedly speaks to pets.
Even as a child I could distingush reality from fantasy. Someone needs to instill these people with a sense of critical, rational thinking.
I think I'm going to go read James Randi and be fanatically skeptical now.
The original paper in question here was called "Reassessing the Possibility of Life on Venus: Proposal for an Astrobiology Mission" and published in a journal called "Astrobiology."
Please note that the title of the damn paper is not "Merchants of Venus Discovered, Are Selling Us Meat," but, it appears to me to be an optimistic proposal for another venusian probe.
Perhaps my grasp of common sense is skewed, but your post implies that the Moon is "infected" with bacteria we sent there. Evidence of such an event would surely be remarkable news.
There are bacteria surviving in the depths of volcanos on earth.
True, but we didn't send those guys to Venus, or the Moon, or Mars. The microbes that allegedly "hitched a ride" were garden-variety, room-temperature wimps!
It seems to me that the chances of anything surviving the trip are too slim to waste time speculating over.
"A great movie. It was incredibly brought about with the scenic views and such an interesting plot. It was a long 87 minutes. It was very waffling and it got me standing up in my seats. I am a very heavy man and I love to watch movies. Of the many movies I've seen this ranks among the top ten. A wonderful story, rent it and enjoy."
Apparently this film is very waffling, especially among very heavy men who like to watch movies.
Agreed, it is a fascinating theory, and seems as though it could be a plausable one, at least upon cursory inspection.
Unfortunately, the article entitled "The Man Who Saw the Past," by the Founder of the organization makes the mistakes of Heresy Equals Correctness, and Bold Statements Make Claims True. He rather comes across as a crackpot, to the detriment of his foundation.
Not to mention the fact that he mentions Nikola Tesla. Dead giveaway as a pseudoscientist:P
If the car could somehow tap into Slashdot comments about "Thermodynamics," Simpsons quotes, and movie-reference-jokes, it would have a nearly endless supply of fuel!
I'll be HERE. You dont have to take action as direct as that but voting does not count for shit.
Referencing some pinko website is apparently more important than legitimate forms of electing representation and participating in one's democracy. Right.
>America subsidises its farmers to such an extent that overproduction is inevitable
That's total bullshit.
Farmers are paid to produce less than they can to create a market for their product.
The United States does not have a "surplus" of food, nor would such a thing logically affect eating habits, obesity, etc.
Apparently there's a distributed computing project called ZetaGrid which has calculated the first 50 billion zeros out... if you're bored of SETI@Home, this might be a nice change of pace.
Riemann Hypothesis Riemann Zeta Function
Also, there's some rather technical details on the subject, from Stephen Wolfram's (A New Kind of Science) pet site.
There's a great old article called "The Browser is Dead" about how bloated browsers have become nowadays... though I've grown to love all the bells-and-whistles built into IE.
There's doodads like font-embedding (via Microsoft WEFT), Vector Markup Language support (an SVG rip-off), and TIME (an animation language, a SMIL rip-off) which virtually no one ever uses, but are there, apparently for shits-and-giggles.
The bottom line is that Netscape gives me no incentive to switch.
Slashdot Mirror
Ouch.
... not to mention "John Edward" and some woman who allegedly speaks to pets.
Personally I would prefer an ignorant populace to the credible, misinformed boobs that surround me.
I work with people who believe we never landed on the moon, because of a television special
Even as a child I could distingush reality from fantasy. Someone needs to instill these people with a sense of critical, rational thinking.
I think I'm going to go read James Randi and be fanatically skeptical now.
I'm glad you nitpicked that before I did... the verbage is rather misleading.
ie. "genetically-enhanced version" implying an Earthly origin or designer.
The original paper in question here was called "Reassessing the Possibility of Life on Venus: Proposal for an Astrobiology Mission" and published in a journal called "Astrobiology."
Please note that the title of the damn paper is not "Merchants of Venus Discovered, Are Selling Us Meat," but, it appears to me to be an optimistic proposal for another venusian probe.
My money is on "hello world."
Perhaps my grasp of common sense is skewed, but your post implies that the Moon is "infected" with bacteria we sent there. Evidence of such an event would surely be remarkable news.
And your link appears to be broken.
There are bacteria surviving in the depths of volcanos on earth.
True, but we didn't send those guys to Venus, or the Moon, or Mars. The microbes that allegedly "hitched a ride" were garden-variety, room-temperature wimps!
It seems to me that the chances of anything surviving the trip are too slim to waste time speculating over.
"A great movie. It was incredibly brought about with the scenic views and such an interesting plot. It was a long 87 minutes. It was very waffling and it got me standing up in my seats. I am a very heavy man and I love to watch movies. Of the many movies I've seen this ranks among the top ten. A wonderful story, rent it and enjoy."
Apparently this film is very waffling, especially among very heavy men who like to watch movies.
"little semicircle notches about 1cm in diameter; quite a bit bigger than the holes in peirced ears for us"
Ummm... have you been to a big city recently? The neo-tribal thing is "in" now, at least with a particularly degenerate crowd.
Hopefully their inheritance will cover the price of a good plastic surgeon.
Take a look at this, kids: "A parity code interpretation of nucleotide alphabet composition"
:)
It's the paper that the dumbed down Nature article is based upon... and probably more worthy of your criticism
Agreed, it is a fascinating theory, and seems as though it could be a plausable one, at least upon cursory inspection.
:P
Unfortunately, the article entitled "The Man Who Saw the Past," by the Founder of the organization makes the mistakes of Heresy Equals Correctness, and Bold Statements Make Claims True. He rather comes across as a crackpot, to the detriment of his foundation.
Not to mention the fact that he mentions Nikola Tesla. Dead giveaway as a pseudoscientist
To quote the article, "To look for possible signs of life, Schulze-Makuch and his colleague Louis Irwin looked at existing data..."
/. headline I thought they had something tangible. Oh well.
Of course if they were looking for signs of life, they would find some anomalous results that they could present as "amazing."
And from the
If the car could somehow tap into Slashdot comments about "Thermodynamics," Simpsons quotes, and movie-reference-jokes, it would have a nearly endless supply of fuel!
I'll be HERE. You dont have to take action as direct as that but voting does not count for shit.
Referencing some pinko website is apparently more important than legitimate forms of electing representation and participating in one's democracy.
Right.
>America subsidises its farmers to such an extent that overproduction is inevitable
That's total bullshit.
Farmers are paid to produce less than they can to create a market for their product.
The United States does not have a "surplus" of food, nor would such a thing logically affect eating habits, obesity, etc.
What I'd really like to know is what this Linux talk is doing under a lightbulb joke.
I am so confused.
The technology for this was originally developed by the Russian Mars program: "Inflatable Rentry and Descent Technology" is a nifty replacement for parachutes, IMHO.
The russians have done this before, though not from a submarine succesfully until now :)
This brings to mind some of those programming games that I was never able to bring myself to get into, even though the interest was there.
Corewars was too arcane (Although the program evolvers are neat, at least in theory), and my simple Robot Battle programs fared rather poorly.
IBM put together a Java-based rip-off of Robot Battle called "Robocode" which I'm looking into, especially since my Java could use some help :)
Apparently there's a distributed computing project called ZetaGrid which has calculated the first 50 billion zeros out ... if you're bored of SETI@Home, this might be a nice change of pace.
Riemann Hypothesis
Riemann Zeta Function
Also, there's some rather technical details on the subject, from Stephen Wolfram's (A New Kind of Science) pet site.
There's a great old article called "The Browser is Dead" about how bloated browsers have become nowadays ... though I've grown to love all the bells-and-whistles built into IE.
There's doodads like font-embedding (via Microsoft WEFT), Vector Markup Language support (an SVG rip-off), and TIME (an animation language, a SMIL rip-off) which virtually no one ever uses, but are there, apparently for shits-and-giggles.
The bottom line is that Netscape gives me no incentive to switch.