I believe in evidence. If we find hard evidence of creation, I'm cool with it.
Science adjusts its beliefs based on whats observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved.
If you show me
That, say, homeopathy works,
Then I will change my mind
Ill spin on a fucking dime
Ill be embarrassed as hell,
But I will run through the streets yelling
Its a miracle! Take physics and bin it!
Water has memory in it!
And while its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is Infinite
It somehow forgets all the poo its had in it!
You show me that it works and how it works
And when Ive recovered from the shock
I will take a compass and carve "Fancy That" on the side of my cock.
Tim Minchin, Storm
Don't get your kilt in a knot, just because England is in the UK and I said 'UK riots' rather than 'English riots' does not mean I think Scotland experienced riots. That's your own faulty logic, not mine.
You'd get a chaotic mess of angry people lashing out.
From what I saw of the UK riots it was bunch of spoilt brats cheerfully participating in vandalism, looting, mugging, and arson.
How exactly would civil unrest against a perceived corrupt political system manifest?
An angry political protest in the UK looks like the coal miners strike, the anti-war protests, (or for really angry, the IRA attacks), they have prominent leaders, a clear political message, and their parents do not hand them over to the police.
Don't think anything that grand has been mentioned anywhere in TFA. The question is more along the lines of what mixture of vaporised rocks would make an atmosphere with those oddball properties.
Thanks for the link, the map is really informative, from an Aussie's POV I find it unsurprising we are in the same band as Canada but I didn't expect China to be in there too.
I recently read another appalling statistical comparison ( somewhere on scienceblogs ), it said; - The 27 nations of western Europe (including the UK) have a total population of 500M and a prison population of 600K (total for ALL crimes). The USA has a total population of 300M and a prison population of 500K (DRUG crimes only).
[citation] - According to my legacy 1950's wetware.
I wouldn't call it "fear mongering", but the claim that the Manhattan project tests could "ignite the atmosphere" via a chain reaction involving nitrogen was raised by none other than Edward Teller. Another scientists (can't recall who) calculated that this was highly unlikely and Teller subsequently retracted his claim.
As for grey goo, it happened ~3.8 billion years ago, we call it the biosphere. Nothing short of vaporising the top few kilometers of the Earth's crust will totally destroy it, and even then it will probably come back when things cool down.
Could be wrong, but Neil Degrasse Tyson doesn't strike me as the type who would knowingly butt-fuck Sagan's legacy. Even if he was, do you think Sagan's widow would go along with it too?
Not saying you did this, but I love that people jump on the Mars is warming propaganda to try and show that climate science in general is bullshit. It's the same intellectually dishonest tactic that creationists use and frankly anyone who falls for it cannot possibly qualify as a skeptical thinker on the subject.
The "Mars is warming" myth is argument #27 on this excellent list of arguments from "climate skeptics", you may want to check on some other things you've "heard". Of course there's also a WP page describing the main lines of evidence that puts AGW firmly in the "scientific fact" category.
DRTFA but assuming the circles are laid out to cover the entire lawn then it's an unconstrained 'Travelling salesman' problem, if not then it's constrained TS problem.
Using a fossil to determine when the animal was alive is a proxy dating technique. Also merging different formats in different databases is a problem not an error.
Finite Element methods are a whole class of algorithms
Why can't you comprehend that the context of my post was clearly talking about a specific instances in your 'class of algorithms'? Why do you consider pointing out your pedantic hair splitting to be an insult?
1. Run programme
2. Encounter error
3. Resolve error in programme / dataset / system
4. Repeat
So basically the classic shotgun debugging pattern of amateur developers.
Professionals developers call that procedure 'testing', ideally the tester and the developer are not the same person. Any developer who think his code does not need testing is in my view an amateur.
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I believe in evidence. If we find hard evidence of creation, I'm cool with it.
Science adjusts its beliefs based on whats observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved.
If you show me
That, say, homeopathy works,
Then I will change my mind
Ill spin on a fucking dime
Ill be embarrassed as hell,
But I will run through the streets yelling
Its a miracle! Take physics and bin it!
Water has memory in it!
And while its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is Infinite
It somehow forgets all the poo its had in it!
You show me that it works and how it works
And when Ive recovered from the shock
I will take a compass and carve "Fancy That" on the side of my cock.
Tim Minchin, Storm
Teach all religions in one class, throw in a bit of philosophy (particularly epistemology),and ethics.
I think it's a bad idea, but clearly it's the best idea so far.
don't tar us with the same brush
Don't get your kilt in a knot, just because England is in the UK and I said 'UK riots' rather than 'English riots' does not mean I think Scotland experienced riots. That's your own faulty logic, not mine.
You'd get a chaotic mess of angry people lashing out.
From what I saw of the UK riots it was bunch of spoilt brats cheerfully participating in vandalism, looting, mugging, and arson.
How exactly would civil unrest against a perceived corrupt political system manifest?
An angry political protest in the UK looks like the coal miners strike, the anti-war protests, (or for really angry, the IRA attacks), they have prominent leaders, a clear political message, and their parents do not hand them over to the police.
It probably dates back to the 19th century.
I have a set of 19th century control characters, hand-carved in oak, great conversation piece.
before changing planet formation theories?
Don't think anything that grand has been mentioned anywhere in TFA. The question is more along the lines of what mixture of vaporised rocks would make an atmosphere with those oddball properties.
Thanks for the link, the map is really informative, from an Aussie's POV I find it unsurprising we are in the same band as Canada but I didn't expect China to be in there too.
I recently read another appalling statistical comparison ( somewhere on scienceblogs ), it said; -
The 27 nations of western Europe (including the UK) have a total population of 500M and a prison population of 600K (total for ALL crimes). The USA has a total population of 300M and a prison population of 500K (DRUG crimes only).
[citation] - According to my legacy 1950's wetware.
I think it's also fairly obvious that 'he' is a 'she'.
Tell AFACT they're dreamin.
There's a small colony of fairy penguins on (or near) South Melbourne beach.
Regular insurance does not cover damage from civil unrest.
Thanks, now I have the full set.
I wouldn't call it "fear mongering", but the claim that the Manhattan project tests could "ignite the atmosphere" via a chain reaction involving nitrogen was raised by none other than Edward Teller. Another scientists (can't recall who) calculated that this was highly unlikely and Teller subsequently retracted his claim.
As for grey goo, it happened ~3.8 billion years ago, we call it the biosphere. Nothing short of vaporising the top few kilometers of the Earth's crust will totally destroy it, and even then it will probably come back when things cool down.
Could be wrong, but Neil Degrasse Tyson doesn't strike me as the type who would knowingly butt-fuck Sagan's legacy. Even if he was, do you think Sagan's widow would go along with it too?
Not saying you did this, but I love that people jump on the Mars is warming propaganda to try and show that climate science in general is bullshit. It's the same intellectually dishonest tactic that creationists use and frankly anyone who falls for it cannot possibly qualify as a skeptical thinker on the subject.
The "Mars is warming" myth is argument #27 on this excellent list of arguments from "climate skeptics", you may want to check on some other things you've "heard". Of course there's also a WP page describing the main lines of evidence that puts AGW firmly in the "scientific fact" category.
Does your rant still hold if you substitute CO2 with Sulphur and Gore with Reagan? How did Gore get the Iron Lady on his side?
DRTFA but assuming the circles are laid out to cover the entire lawn then it's an unconstrained 'Travelling salesman' problem, if not then it's constrained TS problem.
Either that, or the truck will just drive over your car.
What's next, letting actual statisticians vet their modeling?
Been there, done that, the deniers were and still are wrong.
if you're going to make a point of how pesky the "deniers" were, then they were just returning the favor.
Exactly, the deniers threw 50 turds at them and then complained because they ducked
The point is that it's not evidence of fraud, fudging data or any other misconduct.
Agreed, it looks like an unremarkable chronicle of the problems that one would expect to encounter when merging disparate databases.
Using a fossil to determine when the animal was alive is a proxy dating technique. Also merging different formats in different databases is a problem not an error.
Finite Element methods are a whole class of algorithms
Why can't you comprehend that the context of my post was clearly talking about a specific instances in your 'class of algorithms'? Why do you consider pointing out your pedantic hair splitting to be an insult?
Basically, from scanning it I got:
1. Run programme
2. Encounter error
3. Resolve error in programme / dataset / system
4. Repeat
So basically the classic shotgun debugging pattern of amateur developers.
Professionals developers call that procedure 'testing', ideally the tester and the developer are not the same person. Any developer who think his code does not need testing is in my view an amateur.