Good question. The way I see it, swapping half-brains between people would be a bit like taking two hard drives, chopping the platters in half, and then swapping those. A slightly inaccurate analogy, I admit, but that's what I think the result would be.
I shutdown (WinXP) by Sys, U, U(typing, not a key-combonation, where 'Sys' is the "windows" key), and restart with Sys, U, R. Far quicker than using the start menu, and even any of the shortcut icons that some people use. I don't even wait for the 'Sys' key entry to summon the menu, I type the string as if it were a word, and the process flows through.
"It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet along the way are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
Hmmm, maybe it was just a northeast thing, as I lived in NY at the time. But yeah, it was sweet, and even came in other flavors. The Mocha-Cola was awesome.
I'd think it'd be a tad messy. If the carbonation is lost as the water is heated in the tubing, I'd think that the churning of it would be akin to shaking an open can of soda...
This was before cars or factories. It managed to cool itself down.
Yes, but try asking the dominate species from back then how they survived the ice age. Big-ass dinosaurs were veritably* transformed into chickens and pigeons. Would you like to survive the next ice age by becoming a small monkey-rodent?
*By means of evolution/mutation/ etc of the species blah-blah-blah. Go ahead, ruin a joke.
One hypothesis would be that the land/water on the horizon is more feasibly tangible than a spot in the sky, just as a tree or house is. By seeing the moon on the horizon, even without such structures, it's possible that the brain tells us "Gee, the moon looks as big on the horizon as a house...".
I prefer a slightly different paradox-puzzle:
Travel back in time and visit Strauss, give him a copy of "Blue Danube" (at a point in time prior to him having composed it). Strauss will then have gotten the melody from you, who originally got it from an archive of his work. This would mean that Strauss did not compose the piece until after you gave it to him. This, I think, is a trickier puzzle, as it asks how the piece came into being in the first place. If Strauss got it from you, and your copy came from one history acredited to him, where then did the idea come from?
I read the books after seeing the movie, and enjoyed both in as seperated a manner as possible. Although the voice-acting by Rickman was well done, and matched exactly how I thought Marvin would've sounded in my head had I not seen the film first. However, am I the only one that thinks that, when scaling his head down a bit, Marvin looked more like how the Krikkit Robots looked?
C'mon Mods, I'm flattered that at the time of this post someone modded my post +1 Informative, it was a waste of a Mod Point. Half a dozen of others said more-or-less the same thing I did, on top of that, what I said was only half-accurate.
Anyone with points left, feel free to mod my parent post back down, hell, mod it as redundant.
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Catching criminals is only one form of crime prevention, and, when you think about it, a shoddy one at that.
Good question. The way I see it, swapping half-brains between people would be a bit like taking two hard drives, chopping the platters in half, and then swapping those. A slightly inaccurate analogy, I admit, but that's what I think the result would be.
Will this apply to inter-galactic cranks as well? I'm still emotionally scarred ever since Wowbagger paid a visit...
"...He proposes that maybe it is to solve a problem they could not solve in their own..."
Such as 'how many roads must a man walk down'?
I shutdown (WinXP) by Sys, U, U(typing, not a key-combonation, where 'Sys' is the "windows" key), and restart with Sys, U, R. Far quicker than using the start menu, and even any of the shortcut icons that some people use. I don't even wait for the 'Sys' key entry to summon the menu, I type the string as if it were a word, and the process flows through.
Was I the only one that read the title and pictured John Cleese as the host?
To paraphrase Adams:
"It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet along the way are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
The Magratheans wouldn't have to worry so much about the economy though if they just returned the destroyed planets in exchange for the 0.05c deposit.
Hmmm, maybe it was just a northeast thing, as I lived in NY at the time. But yeah, it was sweet, and even came in other flavors. The Mocha-Cola was awesome.
I'd think it'd be a tad messy. If the carbonation is lost as the water is heated in the tubing, I'd think that the churning of it would be akin to shaking an open can of soda...
This is far from new. I recall about eight or nine years ago, a product called Java Cola (which was actually quite good).
Given the failed Mars projects, who wants to place bets that this plan to intentionally crash the probe will result in a safe "three-point" landing?
"...I can't understand how they can put up with the repetitivness..." And American TV/Movies aren't constantly rehashing crap?
This was before cars or factories. It managed to cool itself down.
Yes, but try asking the dominate species from back then how they survived the ice age. Big-ass dinosaurs were veritably* transformed into chickens and pigeons. Would you like to survive the next ice age by becoming a small monkey-rodent? *By means of evolution/mutation/ etc of the species blah-blah-blah. Go ahead, ruin a joke.
Lighthouse? Do you mean Leviathan as the form of a Lament Configuration. Indeed the scene was cool effects-wise, but hardly noteworth.
One hypothesis would be that the land/water on the horizon is more feasibly tangible than a spot in the sky, just as a tree or house is. By seeing the moon on the horizon, even without such structures, it's possible that the brain tells us "Gee, the moon looks as big on the horizon as a house...".
Isn't the horizon itself a reference?
I prefer a slightly different paradox-puzzle: Travel back in time and visit Strauss, give him a copy of "Blue Danube" (at a point in time prior to him having composed it). Strauss will then have gotten the melody from you, who originally got it from an archive of his work. This would mean that Strauss did not compose the piece until after you gave it to him. This, I think, is a trickier puzzle, as it asks how the piece came into being in the first place. If Strauss got it from you, and your copy came from one history acredited to him, where then did the idea come from?
I know IE isn't on the ball with W3C compliance, but I think it recognizes a:visited{} just the same.
I read the books after seeing the movie, and enjoyed both in as seperated a manner as possible. Although the voice-acting by Rickman was well done, and matched exactly how I thought Marvin would've sounded in my head had I not seen the film first. However, am I the only one that thinks that, when scaling his head down a bit, Marvin looked more like how the Krikkit Robots looked?
Funny you should say that, 'cuz the first thing that popped into my head when I saw it was "War Mech" from the original FF.
That's why MMO need Crimson Knights ;).
Last I knew, Disney bought all of Jim Henson's stuff back in 1990. Unless certain portions of Creture Workshop were exempt from the deal.
And here I thought the Alan Parsons project was some sort of hovercraft...
C'mon Mods, I'm flattered that at the time of this post someone modded my post +1 Informative, it was a waste of a Mod Point. Half a dozen of others said more-or-less the same thing I did, on top of that, what I said was only half-accurate.
Anyone with points left, feel free to mod my parent post back down, hell, mod it as redundant.