They don't exactly react to pain. They react to tactile stimuli. Some plants also do, e.g. Mimosa pudica, and we can safely assume they don't feel pain, having no neural system at all. The only way to prove or disprove lesser animals are self-aware is through experimentation. Of course, animal rights zealots would like to make Pascal's bet on that point, except that unlike any hypothetic god, animals can be vivisected. If you've gone that far as making animal self-awareness your god, you're a sad, sorry person...
Buzzword thesaurus. I don't know how many of you bothered to read the full report, but most of it far from scientific. Furthermore, it's quite like a sickly mix of XIXth century positivism and XXth century liberalism. Nothing I'd call progressive in any sense. Yet, there are a couple parts worth reading, as they're worth some healthy laugh. Like that article written by a guy everyone here should love to hate. Best quote : "I am 58 and I am already thinking about Alzheimer's disease and cancer. The fact that George
Harrison has died and was my age makes mortality much more vivid. So, I have a vested interest in
accelerating the rate of discovery and the application of that discovery. The largest single voting
block is baby boomers, and they would all understand that argument. They may not understand
plasma physics or the highest level of the human genome project. But they can surely understand the
alternative between having Alzheimer's and not having it." Yup, that's Newt Gingrich writing... By the way, don't you feel there's something amiss on their logo? Like an eye or something...
That's only one of the drawbacks of having privately owned powerplants. Leaving what should be public services in the hands of corps can only lead to a mess, eventually. Just look at what happened in California and what's happening to railroads and telecommunications in Europe. Actually, no house should be off-grid...
I guess I'm too much used to electricity as a public service... Which means you already pay for investment through taxes. And, no, I'm not talking payback, I can hardly see how this would be possible when each and every hailstorm is a hazard. On the other hand thermic use of solar energy is way cheaper and far more useful. But these are two distinct uses.
I thought it was closer to 10%. Yet, it's a costly and unpractical technology... No point in using it unless you really have to. Energy from nuclear powerplants is much cheaper overall.
Except that unlike some other pieces of s...oftware, it can live up to this reputation. Of course, it can also be a weakness when the outsiders' technology get noticeably ahead. Kind of a mammoth effect.
...already have identification numbers, be they for ID cards, social security or both. In most cases, the only centralized information is in the number itself, linked to the name. I haven't heard of any widespread falsification through hacking. Of course, if the number itself isn't directly based on the info, which is instead stored in a database, things could get awry... Yet, it's weird people would complain about getting such a unique id number when database cross-referencing is already common practice.
The Ariane series aren't German, but French launchers, though most european countries are funding them by now. They are based in Kourou, French Guyane.
Why are they always looking for life on Mars? Quite simple. They're all self-centered chauvinists. Men are from Mars...
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Cellphones, even with hands-off systems, have already become the third source of road accidents. Of course, nothing will ever beat alcohol and excess speed.
The oldest traces of life on Earth are around 3.8B years old, which is close enough to the age of our planet. Bear in mind archaeabacteria are extremophiles.
If so, that would be an interesting case of convergent evolution, spectacular if the information carrier was not DNA. Though I'm not expecting any surprise on that last point.
First, the martian origin of those SNC meteorites is not yet fully demonstrated. Yet, there are detritic layers on Mars that suggest there once were bodies of water. Provided the sulfide concentration was high enough, such bacteriae may have lived in those. If so, where would they have come from in the first place? Earth as a wild guess sounds likely, as many meteorites coming from our planet have spread in the solar system in those early ages.
An isolated lifeform doesn't prove anything concening the martian origin of said lifeform.
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It actually has. Methane gas is one of the main factors in the greenhouse effect, though the trouble here comes more from bovines than humans.
They don't exactly react to pain. They react to tactile stimuli. Some plants also do, e.g. Mimosa pudica, and we can safely assume they don't feel pain, having no neural system at all. The only way to prove or disprove lesser animals are self-aware is through experimentation. Of course, animal rights zealots would like to make Pascal's bet on that point, except that unlike any hypothetic god, animals can be vivisected. If you've gone that far as making animal self-awareness your god, you're a sad, sorry person...
Thanks for bringing back painful memories. I'll hate those optical pens you had to point on the screen all my life.
Buzzword thesaurus. I don't know how many of you bothered to read the full report, but most of it far from scientific. Furthermore, it's quite like a sickly mix of XIXth century positivism and XXth century liberalism. Nothing I'd call progressive in any sense.
Yet, there are a couple parts worth reading, as they're worth some healthy laugh. Like that article written by a guy everyone here should love to hate. Best quote : "I am 58 and I am already thinking about Alzheimer's disease and cancer. The fact that George Harrison has died and was my age makes mortality much more vivid. So, I have a vested interest in accelerating the rate of discovery and the application of that discovery. The largest single voting block is baby boomers, and they would all understand that argument. They may not understand plasma physics or the highest level of the human genome project. But they can surely understand the alternative between having Alzheimer's and not having it." Yup, that's Newt Gingrich writing...
By the way, don't you feel there's something amiss on their logo? Like an eye or something...
That's only one of the drawbacks of having privately owned powerplants. Leaving what should be public services in the hands of corps can only lead to a mess, eventually. Just look at what happened in California and what's happening to railroads and telecommunications in Europe. Actually, no house should be off-grid...
I guess I'm too much used to electricity as a public service... Which means you already pay for investment through taxes. And, no, I'm not talking payback, I can hardly see how this would be possible when each and every hailstorm is a hazard. On the other hand thermic use of solar energy is way cheaper and far more useful. But these are two distinct uses.
I thought it was closer to 10%. Yet, it's a costly and unpractical technology... No point in using it unless you really have to. Energy from nuclear powerplants is much cheaper overall.
Less "shoot the monkey" and more "shoot Richard Parsons" ads?
Of marketers? As one may have predicted, la montagne a accouché d'une souris...
Except that unlike some other pieces of s...oftware, it can live up to this reputation. Of course, it can also be a weakness when the outsiders' technology get noticeably ahead. Kind of a mammoth effect.
...already have identification numbers, be they for ID cards, social security or both. In most cases, the only centralized information is in the number itself, linked to the name. I haven't heard of any widespread falsification through hacking. Of course, if the number itself isn't directly based on the info, which is instead stored in a database, things could get awry... Yet, it's weird people would complain about getting such a unique id number when database cross-referencing is already common practice.
I remember a game of ascii strip poker, running on a Thomson T07. With ugly MS Basic 1.0...
It's less a matter of blaming Xbox than of BLAM!ing Xbox, don't you think?
The Ariane series aren't German, but French launchers, though most european countries are funding them by now. They are based in Kourou, French Guyane.
Actually, with all this recycling, it's more and more dead toilet paper.
Everyone knows there is no such thing as truth, anyway.
Why are they always looking for life on Mars? Quite simple. They're all self-centered chauvinists. Men are from Mars...
Cellphones, even with hands-off systems, have already become the third source of road accidents. Of course, nothing will ever beat alcohol and excess speed.
Not for the last one, unfortunately... The very first one sounds real good, anyway.
Yet a li'l bit frightening when you consider the implications...
The oldest traces of life on Earth are around 3.8B years old, which is close enough to the age of our planet. Bear in mind archaeabacteria are extremophiles.
If so, that would be an interesting case of convergent evolution, spectacular if the information carrier was not DNA. Though I'm not expecting any surprise on that last point.
Ain't Michael Jackson enough? Oh, I guess he doesn't qualify for superior intelligence any more than the bacteriae...
Mass migrations, I guess, like birds. Nothing really exciting.
First, the martian origin of those SNC meteorites is not yet fully demonstrated. Yet, there are detritic layers on Mars that suggest there once were bodies of water. Provided the sulfide concentration was high enough, such bacteriae may have lived in those. If so, where would they have come from in the first place? Earth as a wild guess sounds likely, as many meteorites coming from our planet have spread in the solar system in those early ages. An isolated lifeform doesn't prove anything concening the martian origin of said lifeform.