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  1. Operating System on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    I sure would like to see the operating system this "software" will run on, it will have to be close to something like, e.g. reality.

  2. Ask Treebeard, on Scientists Turn Wood Into Bone · · Score: 1

    The Elves started it...

  3. Re:Isn't this axiomatically impossible? on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    Good post.
    What I think will happen is this.

    The first photon will be measured.
    The entangled photons will shift state.

    The second photon will be measured.
    The entangled photons will shift state.

    State changes between the entangled photons are instantaneous.
    This has nothing to do with time travel.
    The 50 micro seconds are not a delay in time, just a different position.
    It doesn't matter where entangled particles are in the universe to exchange state.

  4. Re:Particles popping in and out of existence??? on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 1

    First thing I wanted to say is: you say particles and anti-particles, but energy does not have to be a particle, right? Second is a question, does it matter for a black hole if it sucks up particles or anti-particles? An anti-particle could annihilate a particle inside the black hole, or is there no way of telling? (total information loss?)

  5. Changing rules? on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 1

    As I read that quasars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar ) are very far away, from 780 million light years to 13 billion light years away, we see them as they were when the universe was quite young. It's not unthinkable that the rules of the universe dynamically change, why would they be fixed rules? the universe expands? what would an expansion of the universe mean for the speed of light? Black holes have been found much closer to home, as many think there is one at the centre of our own milky way galaxy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkyway#Structure ) and are thought to exist in many galaxies. In my humble opinion quasars and black holes are quite different types of objects in space, even more so when it comes to the age of our universe, in the time these objects exist. That we can observe quasars now, does not mean they still exist. For black holes, our observations are much more 'fresh'. It is possible that the two types of objects can both exist in our universe, given the fact that they existed in different times.( And perhaps a different ruleset of our universe?)

  6. Re:Wrong.... on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    >> a belief based not on facts but on the creation myth of a particular religion, Christianity Many religions, including vey old ones have creation myths.

  7. This is the 21st Century on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    A wise man once said A flower is only A sexual organ Beauty is cruelty And evolution A wise man once said that everything could be explained with mathematics He had denied His feminine side Now where is the wisdom in that? I came just as fast as I could Through the dirty air Of your neighbourhood Your name on a grain of rice Hangin' around my neck And a head like lead This is the 21st century I heard everything they said The Universe demystified Chemicals for God This is the 21st century I heard everything they said A wise man once wrote That love is only An ancient instinct For reproduction Natural selection A wise man once said That everything could be explained And it's all in the brain We lay on a velvet rug by the open fire She blew air on my eyelids I cried "What's it all about?" As she kissed my hair She said "There, there.." "This is the 21st century I heard everything you said The universe demystified Astronomy instead This is the 21st century Can't you get it through your head This aint the way it was meant to be Magic isn't dead Come to bed Come to bed And rest your heavy head my love.." And slowly, from above, She showed the answer's something that can't be written down This is the 21st century Flash to crash and burn Nobody's gonna give you anything For nothing in return There's a man up in a mirrored building And he just bought the world Would you want To have kids Growing up Into what's left of this? She shook her head, She said "Can't you see? The world is you The world is me." This is the 21st Century - Marillion Lyrics: Hogarth Music: Hogarth/Kelly/Mosley/Rothery/Trewavas (...If you could only see what I've seen with your eyes)

  8. Re:For those of you under the age of 30... on Less Might Be More · · Score: 1

    /me kneels in silent obedience and bows to the holy vt100

  9. DVD Jon on Hacker Indicted In France For Publishing Exploits · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this smell like DVD Jon? The norwegian guy who coded "illegal" dvd software.
    He won in court. Destroying his youth by this sword of justice penduling over his head.
    What difference is there between "illegal" dvd software and "illegal" exploits?

    If I would see a car with a faulty part that could result in death to the driver, and suggest a fix for that part, I am a terrorist ?

    Suppose I tell everyone in the world that the car has a faulty part, but I would not tell the manufacturer.

    (After all I am a hobbyist, I don't know how to reach the manufacturer.)

    People knowing the flaw could alert the manufacturer, or obtain a proper working part for their car themselves.

    As a person I would feel the urge to spread my findings. It would too be convenient.

    Even so, would a faulty part in piece of software not be heared of ? It would too be convenient.

    Not Guilty.
    Expenses paid.

    Have a nice day.

  10. Blasphemy on Universal Goo · · Score: 1

    ...to call it univeral goo. Imagine they are right and someone picks up "goo" from slashdot. Our very existance would be initiated by "goo"!! Blasphemy!

  11. Re:Unnecessary speculation is silly on Martin Rees On The Multiverse, Scientific Research & Reality · · Score: 1

    Question remains, who pulls the superstrings?