So, he was the first to actually be in heavens while... not believing in them?
And in regards to various mythologies you probably also allude to - don't believe so readily in... myths. Vast majority of people behind the Iron Curtain... heck, vast majority of Party members were closet Christians, at "worst". "Strangely" in most communist places you can't really see any phenomenon of "unbaptized generation" (at worst - baptism in the countryside)
Also, there's a curious overlap between "old Christian sects" places and those which had any notable problems with "communism"; it's probably largely a continuation of the same dynamics, really.
Plus, Sputnik and Yuri were lifted by essentially the same rocket... with quite a bit of other accomplishments Even better - Vostok (which doesn't have to mean only "East"; also "dawn" or "sunrise", a bit) was essentially a variant of Zenit satellite... quite possibly the largest series of unmanned satellites in history.
I guess one can say her costume was quite unique & unusually good... actually inducing some sort of fear, for once;p
And hey, no reason why cats shouldn't use such cognitive shortcut as the presence of cat ears.[1] I'm fine with it as long as cats are (supposedly; nvm the means) unusually good in generally realizing that humans are not cats; in comparison to, say, dogs. Even how the cats are almost certainly more stupid from them overall (and no wonder, cats don't have to function in groups), is more than balanced by how they appear less-retarded (an effect present also with humans, the more distanced ones appear wiser - perhaps because they were more likely to be a threat during our evolution, so ignoring their potential was nonadaptive; but really, consider two people, one acting and greeting you like a dog, the other like a cat - which one will appear deep and sophisticated, and which like a complete retard?;p )
1. We sort of... use this one too! For example in such costumes:>
And many others, our minds operating mostly on guesses / best effort shortcut basis. We wouldn't be able to do almost anything otherwise. The illusions I linked to wouldn't work otherwise.
Likewise numerous cognitive biases. Having generally quite poor grip on ourselves: the myth of "monolithic me" while split-brain patients appear almost unchanged, while we are generally closer to our peers than to ourselves at different life stages; only believing how decent memory we have, convincing ourselves about reliability of it, not remembering how little we remember (and how, when people get older, they tend to start believing myths about the greatness of their youth... not the least because it makes us feel better when faced with "frustrating" reality of how much better in fact it is "now", for most cases of "now" - this one gives tiresome political results); there's even one very localised brain trauma which results in people becoming completelly blind... without them realising it; popular harmful BS lies / myth of "we're so important, gods love us, more of us live now than have ever lived!" & ignoring 100+ billion dead homo sapiens sapiens (at least we will be similarly ignored very quickly, so there's some "balance"...)); even about how decent and freedom loving people we are (it's a bit sad how our deep need for Just World gets derailed so easily:/ )
Yeah, cats aren't so bad. Those cute, fluffy killers of ours...;>
From what I've seen, motion sickness in trains doesn't really happen when they roll slowly on perfectly smooth track, when you can't feel movement - but when the scenery outside the window (very 3D) moves.
I don't get headache, nausea with stereoscopy; can easily see it instantly with "rough" methods, the "crossing eyes" one for example, also for such videos. It just looks weird (even unreal & more flat) & wrong to me, and I can hypothesize why (other responses under top GP); the stimuli is conflicting also when looking just at visual parts.
Hm, not sure why I put a blank on them; perhaps because I watch so few. But I suspect "most" wasn't really ever the case, globally & when not looking just at the top ones.
(and thankfully playback is more straightforward in PAL place;) )
Establishing how one thinks of oneself as being representative even for this place is irrelevant for the inevitable reaction / I wasn't saying you would do it...
Prometheus Particle. He's even related, to the symbolic representation of Satan. People in question will find a reason to rally against things "satanic", things from Hell.
I'm offended by you implying that the evil supreme being I worship - and, in truth, vast majority of humans / the Demiurge (and more: revelations in zima post, faster to link that way;p ) just keeps them in the darkness, for its own means - isn't a god.
Commands being drown out by the sound of the movie is a non-issue; not when the listening device can get the "pure" movie audio and subtract it (and even when it can't, ambient noise cancellation works fine with few microphones)
Ah, yes, the good old times when prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. And legal system was about justice, apparently.
Moreover - we can draw conclusions from relatively long history of stereoscopy (NOT "3D"[1]), around for ~150 years, barely younger than "2D" photography [2]. Pushed many times. Also in cinema. Basically every time proving to be a passing fad...
1. "3D" description is apt for volumetric displays (limited due to their nature). Or holographic ones (those can be better, being felt essentially like a window or mirror; but good holographic display needs to wait for pixels smaller than the wavelength of light + processing and memory we're nowhere near yet).
In fact, it's entirely possible that stereoscopy bets on the wrong parts of depth perception: if you think about it, the parts it uses cannot be the primary hints for our brains, since they are the result of our eyes converging on a particular object & its depth... so the brain must have a good idea about depth beforehand (and considering how decent we are at deducting it in "2D" images and distant panoramas...). NVM how the way stereoscopy works, its limited choice of hints is not merely incomplete, but working in a wrong way (trying to convey depth of objects while forcing "focus lock" on the screen, ignoring full effects of parallax / "dance" of translucent objects outside of focus plane). NVM how its usual very deep focus feels paradoxically very flat (and shallow focus brings even more issues with "wrong" hints)
2. Ask yourself how many of the cherished, "great" photos relied in any way on stereoscopy, for the effect they have on us. Or did you see any family album with stereo photos, know anybody who made them regularly (which is quite easy and inexpensive to do for a long time)
Yes, you didn't even have the decency (or was afraid) to read the provided links. Of course, saying "maybe you misunderstand" is so easy... and those who invested much of their life into some myths are most interested in self-delusions.
Furthermore, looking at basic societal statistics, it's clear that the "best" places to live, with most "good" people, least amount of crime, etc. are on average those with the highest levels of organic secularism.
And what a coincidence that gods always chose to manifest (supposedly being able to after all) in times and places without, say, modern means of communications. Curious how big miracles (vs. small ones, which are just misunderstanding of statistics / go through a list of cognitive biases) ceased.
(and majority of Christianity doesn't have a problem with evolution; those who have it, must a very shallow, very "poured" into, "faith"; and you can see from the thread that I actually value and recognize positive contributions of social constructs known as religions, how they kept the drones mostly in check at the least; but that doesn't mean I have to be one; BTW, check the genesis of name "Barabas, think about who welcomed your messiah during last Sunday, or how many customs you will do in the upcoming weekend are pagan ones; NVM how the whole crucifixion, a fairly unremarkable and not anywhere near the worst death, is a farce when you're a "god"; and how many resurrection deities there were in the area)
Too bad the bikes are ultimately derided in many of the places in question, with so called car "culture"(?)... especialy considering how great they can work out in practice in tandem. Having most of the time a folding bike in the trunk is quite easy (even in a supermini); and often very handy (a sort of personal variant of hub-and-spoke transport model)
If Google currency converter is correct - then DVD blanks cost basically the same at your place and mine (Central European EU); or only slightly (few €) more if one wants some recognizable name (Verbatim, TDK). It gets... interesting with BD-R. According to Froogle-like local website, in the whole country there are no 50-packs. There are 25-packs; in two online shops; the same product in one for an equivalent of 11250yen, in the other for 26800yen (no, that's not a typo). More sensible are 10-packs, costing... the amounts typical for DVD 100-pack. Making BD-R around twice more expensive per GB. At best; because those are the best prices and it's not hard to find 2 or 3 times more expensive BD-R blanks (especially in "offline" shops)
At least recorders are nearing reasonable levels (sub-12000yen, for the most affordable 5.25" bay ones); which doesn't help them much if only the cost of BD-R blanks is noticeably higher per GB than just getting another nice 3.5" 2TB external USB HDD, and be done with it / no need for not-quite-yet-inexpensive optical drive.
(AVCREC seems mostly contained to Japan? But yes, many Bluray players can handle "BD-like formatted DVDs" with AVCHD/H264 video; handy, considering most semi-recent PCs are also able to play it and how there's (usually) no BD player around)
Yes, how of all things you decided to directly defend an urban myth is very telling. Out of all things (not seeing their relation to the subject - but still trying to disparage what is clearly just a freehand & compact form - likewise telling) you chose to doubt one which is the simplest to check, being one of the favorite dilemmas of demographers (with basically all serious estimations putting the number at at least 100 billion dead homo sapiens sapiens - just our subspecies, not any "the dawn of man" BS)
And FYI, that quote implies disliking stupid people, not the label (which is valuable in many ways, when it actually takes place according to definition) they mostly flock into and cause it to cater largely to them, largely bring it to their level. Hm, why would you confuse something so simple, in defending the label?... (NVM how telling it is to misrepresent being taught by another not bad thinker as "home schooling"; and approach of "owning" kids is an unfortunate characteristic of... guess who)
If you'd also first spend few billions for a spacecraft capable of that (& rocket cost becoming quite small part of each launch)... plus "most certainly" is too strong of a word, seeing crew to mass ratios of existing spacecraft; 30 would be a safer bet. Especially since it might very well be beyond the practical sizes of capsules, so you need a lifting reentry with all its mass waste brought by airframe (yes, something a bit like Shuttle, which essentially wastes that way most of its launched to LEO mass... its size looks almost fine for this "100"... ups, two times too massive for F9H-class launcher)
Realities for rockets are very different than for airliners; the launch mass of the latter isn't 95% fuel, and the small fuel they have isn't used up in less than 10 minutes.
Generally, such scifi-inspired scenarios are... unimaginative. Give me a medium launcher, and I can send now probably at least a thousand people to any place of our system. Deep hibernation of miniaturized humans is routine...
Also, you don't need heavy rockets for many missions, like that circumlunar one (and BTW, Russian lunar lander was the only fully flight qualified part of their Moon effort - it did few simulated test flights in LEO). In a spacecraft which we have few decades of experience with.
Oh, and "less than a billion dollar in R&D" is a PR, don't believe it. NVM a) when was the last time SpaceX delivered something on time? b) where's the flaunted reusability / why they call their rockets like that? c) they merely are finally in the range of other inexpensive launchers. Most importantly... they're build on massive R&D investment from the past / talent / infrastructure (even using existing one). Saying "see, it took private industry just few hundred million dollars!" is an incincere BS, which stalinist libertarians and teabaggers want you to believe and propagate.
(and that was of course THE POINT of past NASA investment in r&d, education, infrastructure)
Also more than thrust even if still within the scope of the launcher. For example, efficiency in conversion of the stored chemical energy into thrust; and it so happens that the Russians use very efficient staged combustion cycle in their engines (check RD-170 family and where it is used, NK-33 and where it is being used)...and are basically alone in this.
It's geneally curious that SpaceX has an approach very similar to many longstanding Russian design "rules"... even exactly the same propellants (but not so popular elsewhere; likewise Taurus 2, especially considering where its 1st stage has been designed). And getting costs finally (merely?) in the range of those designs / yup, costs overruns and delays at odds with optimistic claims are pretty much expected in this field (heck, with Angara it would be good if 7-segment version had official funding, for a start)
Well, to be "fair", isn't Obama half black, IIRC? That might be enough to them... (not like it matters to many others, with absurd "one drop rule" vs. how we are all black according to it - recent African origin of homo sapiens, and all; not like races aren't absurd generally)
(of course, at my place "religious right" supported an openly atheist, against EU accession of PL (~"EU doesn't need such backward place"), Czech candidate as the head of their coalition in EU parliament... mostly to get even on someone / what such people do is a farce / this one not really visible to their usual voters)
Must burn the oil faster! Product of 3 million years burned in one year - not fast enough! (also...) Must maximize consumption and minimize satisfaction! (nvm how it works out pretty much exactly backwards to cherished ideology)
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So, he was the first to actually be in heavens while... not believing in them?
And in regards to various mythologies you probably also allude to - don't believe so readily in... myths. Vast majority of people behind the Iron Curtain... heck, vast majority of Party members were closet Christians, at "worst". "Strangely" in most communist places you can't really see any phenomenon of "unbaptized generation" (at worst - baptism in the countryside)
Also, there's a curious overlap between "old Christian sects" places and those which had any notable problems with "communism"; it's probably largely a continuation of the same dynamics, really.
Plus, Sputnik and Yuri were lifted by essentially the same rocket... with quite a bit of other accomplishments Even better - Vostok (which doesn't have to mean only "East"; also "dawn" or "sunrise", a bit) was essentially a variant of Zenit satellite... quite possibly the largest series of unmanned satellites in history.
I guess one can say her costume was quite unique & unusually good... actually inducing some sort of fear, for once ;p
;p )
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:/ )
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And hey, no reason why cats shouldn't use such cognitive shortcut as the presence of cat ears.[1] I'm fine with it as long as cats are (supposedly; nvm the means) unusually good in generally realizing that humans are not cats; in comparison to, say, dogs. Even how the cats are almost certainly more stupid from them overall (and no wonder, cats don't have to function in groups), is more than balanced by how they appear less-retarded (an effect present also with humans, the more distanced ones appear wiser - perhaps because they were more likely to be a threat during our evolution, so ignoring their potential was nonadaptive; but really, consider two people, one acting and greeting you like a dog, the other like a cat - which one will appear deep and sophisticated, and which like a complete retard?
1. We sort of... use this one too! For example in such costumes
And many others, our minds operating mostly on guesses / best effort shortcut basis. We wouldn't be able to do almost anything otherwise. The illusions I linked to wouldn't work otherwise.
Likewise numerous cognitive biases. Having generally quite poor grip on ourselves: the myth of "monolithic me" while split-brain patients appear almost unchanged, while we are generally closer to our peers than to ourselves at different life stages; only believing how decent memory we have, convincing ourselves about reliability of it, not remembering how little we remember (and how, when people get older, they tend to start believing myths about the greatness of their youth... not the least because it makes us feel better when faced with "frustrating" reality of how much better in fact it is "now", for most cases of "now" - this one gives tiresome political results); there's even one very localised brain trauma which results in people becoming completelly blind... without them realising it; popular harmful BS lies / myth of "we're so important, gods love us, more of us live now than have ever lived!" & ignoring 100+ billion dead homo sapiens sapiens (at least we will be similarly ignored very quickly, so there's some "balance"...)); even about how decent and freedom loving people we are (it's a bit sad how our deep need for Just World gets derailed so easily
Yeah, cats aren't so bad. Those cute, fluffy killers of ours...
From what I've seen, motion sickness in trains doesn't really happen when they roll slowly on perfectly smooth track, when you can't feel movement - but when the scenery outside the window (very 3D) moves.
I don't get headache, nausea with stereoscopy; can easily see it instantly with "rough" methods, the "crossing eyes" one for example, also for such videos. It just looks weird (even unreal & more flat) & wrong to me, and I can hypothesize why (other responses under top GP); the stimuli is conflicting also when looking just at visual parts.
Hm, not sure why I put a blank on them; perhaps because I watch so few. But I suspect "most" wasn't really ever the case, globally & when not looking just at the top ones. ;) )
(and thankfully playback is more straightforward in PAL place
"Decrease" of the source with more frames in the first place. That was also your point...
Establishing how one thinks of oneself as being representative even for this place is irrelevant for the inevitable reaction / I wasn't saying you would do it...
It's good to remember also some other things Asimov wrote. Maybe hoping for some surprising stuff... but better not to expect it.
Prometheus Particle. He's even related, to the symbolic representation of Satan. People in question will find a reason to rally against things "satanic", things from Hell.
I'm offended by you implying that the evil supreme being I worship - and, in truth, vast majority of humans / the Demiurge (and more: revelations in zima post, faster to link that way ;p ) just keeps them in the darkness, for its own means - isn't a god.
it could read your lips to have even better voice recognition
You could even control TV while sitting comfortably in one of the Pods, together with your crew mate (the one carbon based & not in hibernation)
Commands being drown out by the sound of the movie is a non-issue; not when the listening device can get the "pure" movie audio and subtract it (and even when it can't, ambient noise cancellation works fine with few microphones)
Self-declared or generally admitted (to oneself) homosexuality, probably. Other than that... who knows.
Ah, yes, the good old times when prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. And legal system was about justice, apparently.
Moreover - we can draw conclusions from relatively long history of stereoscopy (NOT "3D"[1]), around for ~150 years, barely younger than "2D" photography [2]. Pushed many times. Also in cinema. Basically every time proving to be a passing fad...
1. "3D" description is apt for volumetric displays (limited due to their nature). Or holographic ones (those can be better, being felt essentially like a window or mirror; but good holographic display needs to wait for pixels smaller than the wavelength of light + processing and memory we're nowhere near yet).
In fact, it's entirely possible that stereoscopy bets on the wrong parts of depth perception: if you think about it, the parts it uses cannot be the primary hints for our brains, since they are the result of our eyes converging on a particular object & its depth... so the brain must have a good idea about depth beforehand (and considering how decent we are at deducting it in "2D" images and distant panoramas...). NVM how the way stereoscopy works, its limited choice of hints is not merely incomplete, but working in a wrong way (trying to convey depth of objects while forcing "focus lock" on the screen, ignoring full effects of parallax / "dance" of translucent objects outside of focus plane). NVM how its usual very deep focus feels paradoxically very flat (and shallow focus brings even more issues with "wrong" hints)
2. Ask yourself how many of the cherished, "great" photos relied in any way on stereoscopy, for the effect they have on us. Or did you see any family album with stereo photos, know anybody who made them regularly (which is quite easy and inexpensive to do for a long time)
Huh, "killing"? Helloooo, what about the established practice of sterilization?
(so crude, such lack of subtlety and finesse... you have no chance of becoming the hegemon. Good, less competition for me)
Yes, you didn't even have the decency (or was afraid) to read the provided links. Of course, saying "maybe you misunderstand" is so easy... and those who invested much of their life into some myths are most interested in self-delusions.
Furthermore, looking at basic societal statistics, it's clear that the "best" places to live, with most "good" people, least amount of crime, etc. are on average those with the highest levels of organic secularism.
And what a coincidence that gods always chose to manifest (supposedly being able to after all) in times and places without, say, modern means of communications. Curious how big miracles (vs. small ones, which are just misunderstanding of statistics / go through a list of cognitive biases) ceased.
(and majority of Christianity doesn't have a problem with evolution; those who have it, must a very shallow, very "poured" into, "faith"; and you can see from the thread that I actually value and recognize positive contributions of social constructs known as religions, how they kept the drones mostly in check at the least; but that doesn't mean I have to be one; BTW, check the genesis of name "Barabas, think about who welcomed your messiah during last Sunday, or how many customs you will do in the upcoming weekend are pagan ones; NVM how the whole crucifixion, a fairly unremarkable and not anywhere near the worst death, is a farce when you're a "god"; and how many resurrection deities there were in the area)
Too bad the bikes are ultimately derided in many of the places in question, with so called car "culture"(?)... especialy considering how great they can work out in practice in tandem. Having most of the time a folding bike in the trunk is quite easy (even in a supermini); and often very handy (a sort of personal variant of hub-and-spoke transport model)
If Google currency converter is correct - then DVD blanks cost basically the same at your place and mine (Central European EU); or only slightly (few €) more if one wants some recognizable name (Verbatim, TDK). It gets... interesting with BD-R. According to Froogle-like local website, in the whole country there are no 50-packs. There are 25-packs; in two online shops; the same product in one for an equivalent of 11250yen, in the other for 26800yen (no, that's not a typo). More sensible are 10-packs, costing... the amounts typical for DVD 100-pack. Making BD-R around twice more expensive per GB. At best; because those are the best prices and it's not hard to find 2 or 3 times more expensive BD-R blanks (especially in "offline" shops)
At least recorders are nearing reasonable levels (sub-12000yen, for the most affordable 5.25" bay ones); which doesn't help them much if only the cost of BD-R blanks is noticeably higher per GB than just getting another nice 3.5" 2TB external USB HDD, and be done with it / no need for not-quite-yet-inexpensive optical drive.
(AVCREC seems mostly contained to Japan? But yes, many Bluray players can handle "BD-like formatted DVDs" with AVCHD/H264 video; handy, considering most semi-recent PCs are also able to play it and how there's (usually) no BD player around)
Yes, how of all things you decided to directly defend an urban myth is very telling. Out of all things (not seeing their relation to the subject - but still trying to disparage what is clearly just a freehand & compact form - likewise telling) you chose to doubt one which is the simplest to check, being one of the favorite dilemmas of demographers (with basically all serious estimations putting the number at at least 100 billion dead homo sapiens sapiens - just our subspecies, not any "the dawn of man" BS)
And FYI, that quote implies disliking stupid people, not the label (which is valuable in many ways, when it actually takes place according to definition) they mostly flock into and cause it to cater largely to them, largely bring it to their level. Hm, why would you confuse something so simple, in defending the label?... (NVM how telling it is to misrepresent being taught by another not bad thinker as "home schooling"; and approach of "owning" kids is an unfortunate characteristic of... guess who)
If you'd also first spend few billions for a spacecraft capable of that (& rocket cost becoming quite small part of each launch)... plus "most certainly" is too strong of a word, seeing crew to mass ratios of existing spacecraft; 30 would be a safer bet. Especially since it might very well be beyond the practical sizes of capsules, so you need a lifting reentry with all its mass waste brought by airframe (yes, something a bit like Shuttle, which essentially wastes that way most of its launched to LEO mass... its size looks almost fine for this "100"... ups, two times too massive for F9H-class launcher)
Realities for rockets are very different than for airliners; the launch mass of the latter isn't 95% fuel, and the small fuel they have isn't used up in less than 10 minutes.
Generally, such scifi-inspired scenarios are... unimaginative. Give me a medium launcher, and I can send now probably at least a thousand people to any place of our system. Deep hibernation of miniaturized humans is routine...
Also, you don't need heavy rockets for many missions, like that circumlunar one (and BTW, Russian lunar lander was the only fully flight qualified part of their Moon effort - it did few simulated test flights in LEO). In a spacecraft which we have few decades of experience with.
Oh, and "less than a billion dollar in R&D" is a PR, don't believe it. NVM a) when was the last time SpaceX delivered something on time? b) where's the flaunted reusability / why they call their rockets like that? c) they merely are finally in the range of other inexpensive launchers. Most importantly... they're build on massive R&D investment from the past / talent / infrastructure (even using existing one). Saying "see, it took private industry just few hundred million dollars!" is an incincere BS, which stalinist libertarians and teabaggers want you to believe and propagate.
(and that was of course THE POINT of past NASA investment in r&d, education, infrastructure)
Also more than thrust even if still within the scope of the launcher. For example, efficiency in conversion of the stored chemical energy into thrust; and it so happens that the Russians use very efficient staged combustion cycle in their engines (check RD-170 family and where it is used, NK-33 and where it is being used) ...and are basically alone in this.
It's geneally curious that SpaceX has an approach very similar to many longstanding Russian design "rules"... even exactly the same propellants (but not so popular elsewhere; likewise Taurus 2, especially considering where its 1st stage has been designed). And getting costs finally (merely?) in the range of those designs / yup, costs overruns and delays at odds with optimistic claims are pretty much expected in this field (heck, with Angara it would be good if 7-segment version had official funding, for a start)
Well, to be "fair", isn't Obama half black, IIRC? That might be enough to them... (not like it matters to many others, with absurd "one drop rule" vs. how we are all black according to it - recent African origin of homo sapiens, and all; not like races aren't absurd generally)
(of course, at my place "religious right" supported an openly atheist, against EU accession of PL (~"EU doesn't need such backward place"), Czech candidate as the head of their coalition in EU parliament... mostly to get even on someone / what such people do is a farce / this one not really visible to their usual voters)
Must burn the oil faster! Product of 3 million years burned in one year - not fast enough! (also...) Must maximize consumption and minimize satisfaction! (nvm how it works out pretty much exactly backwards to cherished ideology)