Due to the laws of quantum physics, we will continue to exist in a time line that doesn't see destruction. I am happy to be safe. Now the other branched realities, they are so screwed!
Funny how they don't like to show the 2008 or 2009 Ice Sheet levels when discussing Global Warming oh I mean "Climate Change"...
It is also funny how they are finding "Sun Spots" that would only be visible with today's technology (one stinking pixel in a SOHO images) and since mostly reliable sunspot counts have existed for 200+ years we are definetly in a minimum period if you define your parameters based off the instruments used from 200 to 50 years ago to measure them....
Gee it is getting colder, this last year it barely cracked 100 in Colorado and only for a day or two compared to 2007 when we had a few weeks of above 100 weather.
We may be contributing to climate change through radiative heating of asphalt etc and a little bit to CO2, but not as much as some peopel would have you believe, that big ball of hot gas in the daytime sky seems to make a lot more of a difference for the temps on earth.
40% percent of air pollution in the southwest united states comes from China.....
CO2 isn't air pollution, CO, Hydrogen Sulfides, Sulfuric Acid, Mercury, Nitrogen oxides DO kill animals and more importantly Plants. If we want to improve the planet's CO2 take care fo the plant killing pollution first and the plant feeding "pollution" CO2 after solving the first problem.
You forgot about all the money that was lost in Graft and ripoff schemes like the new fiat currency of "Carbon Credits" which would make the Repent strategy even less attractive as the money lost through graft and corruption does nothing to help anyways.
Vikings build villages in Greenland 1,000 years ago. Those same villages got covered in ice and snow 900 years ago and the viking left cause it was cold as heck, nothing would grow and their animals starved.
Viking villages are just now being exposed that were buried under ice 1,000 years ago in Greenland.
So it is warmer now than when vikings were settling Greenland?????
It is like a robot having a dream and seeing the number 2.....
There are three groups to blame for the illegal immigrant mess in this country.
1. Big Business, they want their uneducated slaves to do their grunt work and pay them below minimum wage and no benefits. If a worker gets hurt they go to an ER where they cannot be turned away and we end up paying for the benefits the company should have provided.
2. Big Politics, They see a potential voting pool that if they can pander enough to when they become eligible for voting they can have guaranteed votes to keep them in power for life. Both parties are guilty of this, though the Democrats are the majority uptakes on this while the Republicans align themselves with businesses from example 1.
3. Mexico City politicians, why do they have to deal with their country's social and economic issues when they get paid by the other rich white Spaniard jackals who make up 1% of the rich population in Mexico. They are happy running their little serfdoms from Mexico City and could care less abotu the majority of the population who are dirt poor. To them the USA is a blessing because what should be a boiling pot of revolution in their country to throw the bums out now has a pressure relief valve. They are also gettign kickbacks form the drug lords who love the porous border for drug trafficking. Plus there is a bunch of money from Mexico city that flows northwards to Big Business and Big Government to encourage that nothign is done about illegal immigration and the leaky border.
I have no problem legalizing illegal immigrants provided they teach their children English and assimilate into our culture. I don't want an underclass of people in this country separated by language who can be exploited by unscrupulous businesses into low wages and forced into perpetual lower class hell.
If we just legalize them and don't expect them to assimilate it will be bad for their offspring in the long run. Their offspring may as well have been born in the country their parent came from as they face the same hardships all over again. It may seem mean to tell them they need to assimilate, but in the long run it best way for them to reach the American dream.
Unless the goal of the power hungry elites it to create a lower class of language divided peoples to do grunt work, I have a word for that, it is called slavery and I thought it was outlawed over 150 years ago.....
Yeah, hell of a lot chance that will happen, if they do anything they will just tell the town residents and farmers to leave town the day of the launches....
It is more like a data migration, like when you move your windows 3.1 apps over to windows 95 and then to windows 2000 then XP then Windows 7......
While the apps may not "feel the same" because some of the libraries are updated they still get the job done.
I agree with you, we are electro-chemical meat computers that have delusions of quantum grandeur. It is kind of like a MS-DOS having delusions of being a GI because it has windows 3.0 running on top of it....
Forget cryogenic temperatures. After I die I want my brain to preserved by injecting it with a polymer that can preserve the positions of all of my neurons. Forget saving my DNA and cells, my DNA is already a mess. Just preserve my neural patterns and do it so my brain can survive at room temperatures for thousands of years. Think of an insect trapped in amber. You can never revive it, but you can take scans of it in a computer to make a "virtual" copy of it in computer memory. That way your "consciousness" can survive onwards, even if no atom of your original body is ever involved. Then later you may even have the opportunity to be transferred into a living flesh body, but you may not want to, why be a flesh and blood human with obvious weaknesses. Exist instead in a prosthetic body and a virtual mind. At home you can have a few extra spare bodies lying around and if you don't check in for a few years the hard copy you made of yourself will activate and copy itself into a fresh body and you live yet again!!!
There are techniques that can polymerize tissue, like in the body work 3-D exhibit, not sure if that can preserve discrete neuron positions and connections. But I could imagine if done properly you could preserve enough information from your brain to save your hopes, dreams fears and ambitions, your very soul! CAT scan technology is getting quite advanced and soon we may have scans with high enough resolution to record the positions of neurons and what other neurons they are connected to.
Disadvantages: You won't be "Exactly your former self" You won't have the same DNA or maybe even ANY DNA. You may never be able to go back "into the flesh" as your old self and may have to put up with being inside of a android body built by some company in China. They might take your virtual mind and put it to work in some menial capacity such as teaching annoying brats about history or piloting space garbage trucks. You may spend an eternity on your distant offspring's knick knack box to be sold at a garage sale... They may not be able to scan your neurons and simulate your brain. You might "screw the pooch" and your frozen friends were right and you are screwed because they cannot de-plasticize your brain... In order to scan your brain you may have to have your brain all sliced up and it may be destructive process so if the tech screws up, sorry, you dead for good now....
Advantages: You will be more "immortal" than your frozen popsicle counterparts. If they lose Nitrogen in their dewers they are rancid spoiler meat. You can take room temperatures in a box in the attic and laugh at your thawed friends. Zombies won't want to eat you plasticized brain, "it taste bad..." No apocalypse survivors would want to eat you either and no organ market would want to use you to make a quick buck as the process on plasticizing is irreversible unless you have micro bots or something exotic and if you have them you won't need organs from dead plastic people. Advanced CAT scans and brain simulation seems to be a little closer technologically speaking than flesh re-animating defrosting nanobots. Having multiple hard backups of yourself is a lot easier. You can "burn" multiple backups of yourself on "Gamma Ray Holographic Disc". If you are not a data pattern you could be sent to Mars with ease and at light speed. They just need a computer at their end and a spare robot body. You can "deadhead" for many years if things get boring, (think of it like having a Fast Forward button on life, but you cannot rewind unless you want to live it virtually, heh).
Technology needed:
1. A chemical cocktail that can plasticize human cells at a cellular level and isn't destructive to neural connections and can remain stable after "setting up" in room temperatures. (we may already have this) 2. Scanning equipment than has cellular resolution or better than can record neural connections. (we are getting really close today to this) 3. A computer than can simulate a human mind based
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Due to the laws of quantum physics, we will continue to exist in a time line that doesn't see destruction. I am happy to be safe. Now the other branched realities, they are so screwed!
Funny how they don't like to show the 2008 or 2009 Ice Sheet levels when discussing Global Warming oh I mean "Climate Change"...
It is also funny how they are finding "Sun Spots" that would only be visible with today's technology (one stinking pixel in a SOHO images) and since mostly reliable sunspot counts have existed for 200+ years we are definetly in a minimum period if you define your parameters based off the instruments used from 200 to 50 years ago to measure them....
Gee it is getting colder, this last year it barely cracked 100 in Colorado and only for a day or two compared to 2007 when we had a few weeks of above 100 weather.
We may be contributing to climate change through radiative heating of asphalt etc and a little bit to CO2, but not as much as some peopel would have you believe, that big ball of hot gas in the daytime sky seems to make a lot more of a difference for the temps on earth.
40% percent of air pollution in the southwest united states comes from China.....
CO2 isn't air pollution, CO, Hydrogen Sulfides, Sulfuric Acid, Mercury, Nitrogen oxides DO kill animals and more importantly Plants. If we want to improve the planet's CO2 take care fo the plant killing pollution first and the plant feeding "pollution" CO2 after solving the first problem.
You forgot about all the money that was lost in Graft and ripoff schemes like the new fiat currency of "Carbon Credits" which would make the Repent strategy even less attractive as the money lost through graft and corruption does nothing to help anyways.
Ok here is a posit....
Vikings build villages in Greenland 1,000 years ago. Those same villages got covered in ice and snow 900 years ago and the viking left cause it was cold as heck, nothing would grow and their animals starved.
Viking villages are just now being exposed that were buried under ice 1,000 years ago in Greenland.
So it is warmer now than when vikings were settling Greenland?????
It is like a robot having a dream and seeing the number 2.....
That's all we need is to give rednecks another 4 senate seats and a few extra seats in the house as well.....
Wonder which new state will have "dueling banjos" as their state anthem....
There are three groups to blame for the illegal immigrant mess in this country.
1. Big Business, they want their uneducated slaves to do their grunt work and pay them below minimum wage and no benefits. If a worker gets hurt they go to an ER where they cannot be turned away and we end up paying for the benefits the company should have provided.
2. Big Politics, They see a potential voting pool that if they can pander enough to when they become eligible for voting they can have guaranteed votes to keep them in power for life. Both parties are guilty of this, though the Democrats are the majority uptakes on this while the Republicans align themselves with businesses from example 1.
3. Mexico City politicians, why do they have to deal with their country's social and economic issues when they get paid by the other rich white Spaniard jackals who make up 1% of the rich population in Mexico. They are happy running their little serfdoms from Mexico City and could care less abotu the majority of the population who are dirt poor. To them the USA is a blessing because what should be a boiling pot of revolution in their country to throw the bums out now has a pressure relief valve. They are also gettign kickbacks form the drug lords who love the porous border for drug trafficking. Plus there is a bunch of money from Mexico city that flows northwards to Big Business and Big Government to encourage that nothign is done about illegal immigration and the leaky border.
I have no problem legalizing illegal immigrants provided they teach their children English and assimilate into our culture. I don't want an underclass of people in this country separated by language who can be exploited by unscrupulous businesses into low wages and forced into perpetual lower class hell.
If we just legalize them and don't expect them to assimilate it will be bad for their offspring in the long run. Their offspring may as well have been born in the country their parent came from as they face the same hardships all over again. It may seem mean to tell them they need to assimilate, but in the long run it best way for them to reach the American dream.
Unless the goal of the power hungry elites it to create a lower class of language divided peoples to do grunt work, I have a word for that, it is called slavery and I thought it was outlawed over 150 years ago.....
Everyone knows that Firefly is way better.
Yeah, hell of a lot chance that will happen, if they do anything they will just tell the town residents and farmers to leave town the day of the launches....
And Pr0n, don't forget someone has to watch it....
Instead of de-orbiting the ISS, trade it tot he Chinese for some Debt write offs....
At least China has already tested it for us and we won't need Ares....
That would make too much sense.....
How dare you take money from the children, think of the children, oh and hand over your paycheck, your own children don't need your money either....
They are even worse.
I'll take in my Backyard, I'll take it over ANY Coal fired plant.
As long they build a containment vessel and don't let Russian yahoos run it I am fine with it.
It is more like a data migration, like when you move your windows 3.1 apps over to windows 95 and then to windows 2000 then XP then Windows 7......
While the apps may not "feel the same" because some of the libraries are updated they still get the job done.
I agree with you, we are electro-chemical meat computers that have delusions of quantum grandeur. It is kind of like a MS-DOS having delusions of being a GI because it has windows 3.0 running on top of it....
The Chinese get no Hope and Change, instead they either get silence or the opportunity to live on several people due to the Weekly Organ van visit.
I just need to make my own chip fab in my garage and hundreds of hazardous chemicals that are sure to get me on DHS's shit list....
Make your own damn LCD monitor and stay off my lawn you damned kids!!!!
Make a Beowulf cluster of these and violla, simulated brain!
Forget cryogenic temperatures. After I die I want my brain to preserved by injecting it with a polymer that can preserve the positions of all of my neurons. Forget saving my DNA and cells, my DNA is already a mess. Just preserve my neural patterns and do it so my brain can survive at room temperatures for thousands of years. Think of an insect trapped in amber. You can never revive it, but you can take scans of it in a computer to make a "virtual" copy of it in computer memory. That way your "consciousness" can survive onwards, even if no atom of your original body is ever involved. Then later you may even have the opportunity to be transferred into a living flesh body, but you may not want to, why be a flesh and blood human with obvious weaknesses. Exist instead in a prosthetic body and a virtual mind. At home you can have a few extra spare bodies lying around and if you don't check in for a few years the hard copy you made of yourself will activate and copy itself into a fresh body and you live yet again!!!
There are techniques that can polymerize tissue, like in the body work 3-D exhibit, not sure if that can preserve discrete neuron positions and connections. But I could imagine if done properly you could preserve enough information from your brain to save your hopes, dreams fears and ambitions, your very soul! CAT scan technology is getting quite advanced and soon we may have scans with high enough resolution to record the positions of neurons and what other neurons they are connected to.
Disadvantages: You won't be "Exactly your former self" You won't have the same DNA or maybe even ANY DNA. You may never be able to go back "into the flesh" as your old self and may have to put up with being inside of a android body built by some company in China. They might take your virtual mind and put it to work in some menial capacity such as teaching annoying brats about history or piloting space garbage trucks. You may spend an eternity on your distant offspring's knick knack box to be sold at a garage sale... They may not be able to scan your neurons and simulate your brain. You might "screw the pooch" and your frozen friends were right and you are screwed because they cannot de-plasticize your brain... In order to scan your brain you may have to have your brain all sliced up and it may be destructive process so if the tech screws up, sorry, you dead for good now....
Advantages: You will be more "immortal" than your frozen popsicle counterparts. If they lose Nitrogen in their dewers they are rancid spoiler meat. You can take room temperatures in a box in the attic and laugh at your thawed friends. Zombies won't want to eat you plasticized brain, "it taste bad..." No apocalypse survivors would want to eat you either and no organ market would want to use you to make a quick buck as the process on plasticizing is irreversible unless you have micro bots or something exotic and if you have them you won't need organs from dead plastic people. Advanced CAT scans and brain simulation seems to be a little closer technologically speaking than flesh re-animating defrosting nanobots. Having multiple hard backups of yourself is a lot easier. You can "burn" multiple backups of yourself on "Gamma Ray Holographic Disc". If you are not a data pattern you could be sent to Mars with ease and at light speed. They just need a computer at their end and a spare robot body. You can "deadhead" for many years if things get boring, (think of it like having a Fast Forward button on life, but you cannot rewind unless you want to live it virtually, heh).
Technology needed:
1. A chemical cocktail that can plasticize human cells at a cellular level and isn't destructive to neural connections and can remain stable after "setting up" in room temperatures. (we may already have this)
2. Scanning equipment than has cellular resolution or better than can record neural connections. (we are getting really close today to this)
3. A computer than can simulate a human mind based
The second you step through that stargate is the second you become "Chunky Salsa" on the gate ramp. Try again....
So can all the guys who have been amputated via Circumcision be regarded as amputees?
Maybe the idea of a prosthetic penis is not to far away, maybe a detachable one at that...... Just don't loose it.
I was gong to make a joke about amputee pr0n, because now most all pr0n with males in can be classified as Amputee pr0n.....\\