I should hope so. I'm sure many scientists who actually realize how large the universe is believe that life isn't unique to Earth. These same scientists would also tell you that there's no evidence for it, so the official consensus is: "As far as we know, life is unique to Earth."
I'm curious what this course would be about though. There are already astronomy courses offered at many universities. If you have an UNIDENTIFIED flying object, you might be able to identify it with some knowledge of astronomy. After all, UFO sightings among amateur astronomers is substantially smaller than in the general population, because they know what the fuck they're looking at. It's a huge leap of pseudo-scientific nonsense to say "I don't know what everything in the sky is, therefor those objects I can't identify must be aliens from another planet in a faster-than-light starship."
The "UFO = Alien ships" crowd has exactly as much evidence as the religious crowd. It's all anecdotal. Nobody's every brought back an Alien brain, or even a sample of their DNA, or whatever they would have instead of brains/DNA.
I live IN Florida, but I'm north of Fort Myers, and there are several lights around here that turn red while I'm passing under them. It's not unusual to have it happen several times a month, and most of the lights that it occurs at have the cameras. I've never gotten any citations in the mail.
What's more efficient at performing arithmetic: your natural human brain, or a calculator?
GE crops are much more efficient at producing food than natural plants, because they've been modified. It'll take time, but if the researchers got the funding and spent enough time doing it, they could put the natural definition of "efficient" to shame. Humans don't have to operate like evolution. Evolution doesn't pick the smartest option, it just works on what the best way to do it that manages to survive, but engineering a solution has no such constraint.
Having one language, so long as it's turing-complete, shouldn't give you fewer methods to solve a problem. Now, if you're locked into a single language it would probably make it difficult to find a pre-existing library that might assist you.
I agree that there's no computer science basis for Apple's decision, but then again, Apple doesn't make their decisions based on computer science, they base them on business.
In Japan, the age of consent is 16, not 18. Also, I'm willing to bet that information is added during the translation/localization phase, because the Japanese government doesn't view lolicon as a crime, because it doesn't actually involve minors.
I know he did fucked up things during his presidency, it was one of the things that motivated Booth to shoot him, but he was doing those things because he was in power, not because they were religiously motivated.
The loophole in the copyright extension that allowed Night of the Living Dead and Plan 9 From Outer Space to fall into the public domain were closed in the Sonny Bono Copyright act a few years ago. Now, your work has a copyright that lasts for 70 years + life or whatever it is from the moment it's created. The copyright holder no longer has to file extensions.
By saying "why things happened" is begging the question. You're implying that there has to be a REASON for it to happen. Compare these two questions: "Why do apples accelerate toward the ground?" - Because of an attractive force that exists between everything with mass. The earth pulls on the apples, so they fall downward.
"Why does gravity pull at all?" - Begging the question, it assumes gravity has a motivation for doing so, instead of it just being what it is.
If there IS a *why* you should ask a philosopher, not a scientist. Science stops at the why, because you can't test why. Well, you can't test the SECOND kind of why.
The most popular definition of a species is any group of organisms that can reproduce within. Reproduction in this case meaning the off-spring is itself able to reproduce. Donkeys and horses can actually produce offspring, but the offspring are sterile.
The definition works well enough, but it's not perfect. When a donkey/horse offspring is female, there have been cases of them being fertile, but males have never been observed to be so. Another difficulty arises with farm raised turkeys. They cannot reproduce on their own at all, so would that make for several million species of domestic turkey at any given moment?
Think of it in terms of genes. If the genes of the parents can flow into their grandchildren, then the parents are the same species.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but that second paragraph is absurd. There are four genera classified as "great apes", there are Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Humans, and Gorillas. Each genus, except the one that humans belong to, consists of more than one species. Of those species, all the great apes, except for the humans, have 48 chromosomes. Humans have 46.
In order for your idea to be true, it would mean that the non-human apes each got a separate mutation after branching off from us, which caused them to lose a pair of chromosomes. That also fails to explain why there's an obvious fusion site in human chromosome number 2, which contains a deactivated centromere, and an active centromere, IN THE SAME CHROMOSOME.
Also, given the current state of the universe, multiple big bangs are not possible. There could not have been any big bangs 15 billion light years ago, because time itself was formed at the moment of the big bang, which occurred approximately 14 billion years ago. There could be a parallel universe that formed 15 billion years before today, but it would not exist within this universe, because this universe did not exist 15 billion years ago. Also, given current evidence, there was exactly one big bang. One was definitely enough for the vastness of current space, because there's the cosmic microwave background radiation that establishes a single big bang.
If "spiritual" things, whatever that word means, can manifest themselves in the physical world, then science can be used to analyze and describe them.
If "spiritual" things do not manifest in the real world, then science doesn't acknowledge their existence. But if these things don't manifest themselves in the real world, how would anybody know about them in the first place?
Your idea is interesting until that last bit about loaning a car to somebody. If I loan my car to a friend, and he gets caught driving while he's over the limit, it's still MY car, not my friend's car. It'd be a violation of the fifth amendment to take my car like that.
Obviously you need to read the summary. It can't happen *yet*. The bill has to pass the Senate, then it has to pass a committee in the House, then it has to pass the House, then the President has to sign it.
The Star Wars prequels and that "thing" people called Indiana Jones 4 didn't flop because they didn't lose money.
That's sort of the definition of "flop".
People went to see those movies, even though they knew they were bad. Why? Because they had Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the title, so they couldn't be THAT bad.
Are you sure inverted sugar comes from corn? Some corn-free products here in the US that use cane sugar use inverted sugar syrup because it's a liquid. It allows the manufacturers to use the same equipment that would normally use HFCS, which is also a liquid.
Kim Il-Sung is still the de jure leader of the country. He's either the President of the communist party, or head of the cabinet, or both. Yes, North Korea has a corpse as a leader, and the North Koreans don't see that as a strange concept.
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I should hope so. I'm sure many scientists who actually realize how large the universe is believe that life isn't unique to Earth. These same scientists would also tell you that there's no evidence for it, so the official consensus is: "As far as we know, life is unique to Earth."
I'm curious what this course would be about though. There are already astronomy courses offered at many universities. If you have an UNIDENTIFIED flying object, you might be able to identify it with some knowledge of astronomy. After all, UFO sightings among amateur astronomers is substantially smaller than in the general population, because they know what the fuck they're looking at. It's a huge leap of pseudo-scientific nonsense to say "I don't know what everything in the sky is, therefor those objects I can't identify must be aliens from another planet in a faster-than-light starship."
The "UFO = Alien ships" crowd has exactly as much evidence as the religious crowd. It's all anecdotal. Nobody's every brought back an Alien brain, or even a sample of their DNA, or whatever they would have instead of brains/DNA.
Which raises the question, if seeing Goatse blinds you, what does feeling it do?
Turns you into a paraplegic, obviously.
I live IN Florida, but I'm north of Fort Myers, and there are several lights around here that turn red while I'm passing under them. It's not unusual to have it happen several times a month, and most of the lights that it occurs at have the cameras. I've never gotten any citations in the mail.
What's more efficient at performing arithmetic: your natural human brain, or a calculator?
GE crops are much more efficient at producing food than natural plants, because they've been modified. It'll take time, but if the researchers got the funding and spent enough time doing it, they could put the natural definition of "efficient" to shame. Humans don't have to operate like evolution. Evolution doesn't pick the smartest option, it just works on what the best way to do it that manages to survive, but engineering a solution has no such constraint.
You could simply create your own unsigned integer data type that corrected any problems, and then used it.
Having one language, so long as it's turing-complete, shouldn't give you fewer methods to solve a problem. Now, if you're locked into a single language it would probably make it difficult to find a pre-existing library that might assist you.
I agree that there's no computer science basis for Apple's decision, but then again, Apple doesn't make their decisions based on computer science, they base them on business.
In Japan, the age of consent is 16, not 18. Also, I'm willing to bet that information is added during the translation/localization phase, because the Japanese government doesn't view lolicon as a crime, because it doesn't actually involve minors.
I know he did fucked up things during his presidency, it was one of the things that motivated Booth to shoot him, but he was doing those things because he was in power, not because they were religiously motivated.
The loophole in the copyright extension that allowed Night of the Living Dead and Plan 9 From Outer Space to fall into the public domain were closed in the Sonny Bono Copyright act a few years ago. Now, your work has a copyright that lasts for 70 years + life or whatever it is from the moment it's created. The copyright holder no longer has to file extensions.
By saying "why things happened" is begging the question. You're implying that there has to be a REASON for it to happen.
Compare these two questions:
"Why do apples accelerate toward the ground?" - Because of an attractive force that exists between everything with mass. The earth pulls on the apples, so they fall downward.
"Why does gravity pull at all?" - Begging the question, it assumes gravity has a motivation for doing so, instead of it just being what it is.
If there IS a *why* you should ask a philosopher, not a scientist. Science stops at the why, because you can't test why. Well, you can't test the SECOND kind of why.
What was nutty about Lincoln? Wasn't he a Deist?
The most popular definition of a species is any group of organisms that can reproduce within. Reproduction in this case meaning the off-spring is itself able to reproduce. Donkeys and horses can actually produce offspring, but the offspring are sterile.
The definition works well enough, but it's not perfect. When a donkey/horse offspring is female, there have been cases of them being fertile, but males have never been observed to be so. Another difficulty arises with farm raised turkeys. They cannot reproduce on their own at all, so would that make for several million species of domestic turkey at any given moment?
Think of it in terms of genes. If the genes of the parents can flow into their grandchildren, then the parents are the same species.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but that second paragraph is absurd. There are four genera classified as "great apes", there are Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Humans, and Gorillas. Each genus, except the one that humans belong to, consists of more than one species. Of those species, all the great apes, except for the humans, have 48 chromosomes. Humans have 46.
In order for your idea to be true, it would mean that the non-human apes each got a separate mutation after branching off from us, which caused them to lose a pair of chromosomes. That also fails to explain why there's an obvious fusion site in human chromosome number 2, which contains a deactivated centromere, and an active centromere, IN THE SAME CHROMOSOME.
Also, given the current state of the universe, multiple big bangs are not possible. There could not have been any big bangs 15 billion light years ago, because time itself was formed at the moment of the big bang, which occurred approximately 14 billion years ago. There could be a parallel universe that formed 15 billion years before today, but it would not exist within this universe, because this universe did not exist 15 billion years ago. Also, given current evidence, there was exactly one big bang. One was definitely enough for the vastness of current space, because there's the cosmic microwave background radiation that establishes a single big bang.
I'm not too worried about my kids being born with two legs.
I would be.. I mean what kind of parent wants to raise a kid with only TWO legs?
How is an organic diet going to help somebody who could be at risk of radiation poisoning?
If "spiritual" things, whatever that word means, can manifest themselves in the physical world, then science can be used to analyze and describe them.
If "spiritual" things do not manifest in the real world, then science doesn't acknowledge their existence. But if these things don't manifest themselves in the real world, how would anybody know about them in the first place?
Your idea is interesting until that last bit about loaning a car to somebody. If I loan my car to a friend, and he gets caught driving while he's over the limit, it's still MY car, not my friend's car. It'd be a violation of the fifth amendment to take my car like that.
Obviously you need to read the summary. It can't happen *yet*. The bill has to pass the Senate, then it has to pass a committee in the House, then it has to pass the House, then the President has to sign it.
Presumably, if you had physical access to the drive, wouldn't you have more time to crack it than two hours?
The Star Wars prequels and that "thing" people called Indiana Jones 4 didn't flop because they didn't lose money.
That's sort of the definition of "flop".
People went to see those movies, even though they knew they were bad. Why? Because they had Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the title, so they couldn't be THAT bad.
Are you sure inverted sugar comes from corn? Some corn-free products here in the US that use cane sugar use inverted sugar syrup because it's a liquid. It allows the manufacturers to use the same equipment that would normally use HFCS, which is also a liquid.
Starcraft is about as unsung about RTS games as WoW is unsung as far as MMO's go.
While only having a single core.
Kim Il-Sung is still the de jure leader of the country. He's either the President of the communist party, or head of the cabinet, or both. Yes, North Korea has a corpse as a leader, and the North Koreans don't see that as a strange concept.