That's a nice argument and all, but you missed my point. Math is an integral part of science (no pun intended), and complaining about a math story going in this section of slashdot is absolutely ridiculous.
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Your post is patently ridiculous. First of all, every succesful scientific theory ever has had a foundation built from mathematics (in the hard sciences anyway -- biology and the like are excluded from this claim). Without the work of mathematicians, physics would be nigh impossible.
You also make the claim that medicine is not a science because "understanding the way a healing method works is irrelevant." This statement is not only untrue (if you want to achieve better healing methods than herbal remedies), but also it implies that physicists understand why the universe is the way it is, which they do not. Physicists are quite good at explaining how natural phenomena occur, but there really isn't a good explanation for say, why gravity exists or why inertial mass and gravitational mass are (or appear to be) the same. Physics is simply a model of reality based upon observation, logic, and induction, and any one of which may or may not be correct in the first place.
Finally, (and I do take this a little personally) you make a similar claim for engineering as you do medicine. Do you mean to imply that, say, aerospace engineering (rocket science, if you will) is not science? If you are trying to tell me that the men who put Neil Armstrong on the Moon did not understand why their spacecraft worked, you are either mentally handicapped or an elitist snob. The same can be said of the other engineering disciplines as well--you just seem to lack experience with them.
Uhh, I'm not going to give a lecture in Spaceflight Dynamics, but I think you have some serious misconceptions about orbital mechanics if you think that a rocket goes in a straight line from the launch pad to the Space Station.
Actually this would be quite a different experience than skydiving due to atmospheric drag felt during a dive. Inside the plane all of the air is moving along with you and so there are no drag effects.
Indeed. Police cars/emergency vehicles use these big honkin lights located right by the driver's side rear view mirror to hit a little sensor (that doubles as a blinking light) on the traffic light arm above the intersection. When it gets hit, the white light starts blinking, and that means don't fucking drive through the intersection. The lights themselves don't actually change color.
Just because an animal can not speak is no reason to think it is not sentient. It can move, metabolise, reproduce, learn, etc, etc, all without outside instruction.
It's obvious from the fact that you put "check" under metabolism that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Tell me what kind of AI you're using that requires you to feed it and wipe its ass when it's done with a #2.0
I'd like to see a photo of the Martian's take on the Statue of Liberty. I bet it's smaller and more efficient.
Of course, this is contingent on the Martians having built "Earth Town"...
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I thought Slashdot was "news for nerds"? So how did the submitter not ask, "Who watches the Watchmen?"
That's a nice argument and all, but you missed my point. Math is an integral part of science (no pun intended), and complaining about a math story going in this section of slashdot is absolutely ridiculous.
Your post is patently ridiculous. First of all, every succesful scientific theory ever has had a foundation built from mathematics (in the hard sciences anyway -- biology and the like are excluded from this claim). Without the work of mathematicians, physics would be nigh impossible.
You also make the claim that medicine is not a science because "understanding the way a healing method works is irrelevant." This statement is not only untrue (if you want to achieve better healing methods than herbal remedies), but also it implies that physicists understand why the universe is the way it is, which they do not. Physicists are quite good at explaining how natural phenomena occur, but there really isn't a good explanation for say, why gravity exists or why inertial mass and gravitational mass are (or appear to be) the same. Physics is simply a model of reality based upon observation, logic, and induction, and any one of which may or may not be correct in the first place.
Finally, (and I do take this a little personally) you make a similar claim for engineering as you do medicine. Do you mean to imply that, say, aerospace engineering (rocket science, if you will) is not science? If you are trying to tell me that the men who put Neil Armstrong on the Moon did not understand why their spacecraft worked, you are either mentally handicapped or an elitist snob. The same can be said of the other engineering disciplines as well--you just seem to lack experience with them.
Uhh, I'm not going to give a lecture in Spaceflight Dynamics, but I think you have some serious misconceptions about orbital mechanics if you think that a rocket goes in a straight line from the launch pad to the Space Station.
Actually this would be quite a different experience than skydiving due to atmospheric drag felt during a dive. Inside the plane all of the air is moving along with you and so there are no drag effects.
Yes, but the Romans took those words from the Greeks. So astronaut is certainly of greek origin.
Indeed. Police cars/emergency vehicles use these big honkin lights located right by the driver's side rear view mirror to hit a little sensor (that doubles as a blinking light) on the traffic light arm above the intersection. When it gets hit, the white light starts blinking, and that means don't fucking drive through the intersection. The lights themselves don't actually change color.
Just because an animal can not speak is no reason to think it is not sentient. It can move, metabolise, reproduce, learn, etc, etc, all without outside instruction.
It's obvious from the fact that you put "check" under metabolism that you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Tell me what kind of AI you're using that requires you to feed it and wipe its ass when it's done with a #2.0
I nominate this for worst post ever. Even for /. it goes above and beyond the call of nerdery.
I'd like to see a photo of the Martian's take on the Statue of Liberty. I bet it's smaller and more efficient. Of course, this is contingent on the Martians having built "Earth Town"...