Has anyone here considered the negative side effects to mining the moon? As we Luna, we will be removing mass. As we all should know, less mass means less gravity. Less gravity means our tides won't be as strong and our axis of rotation could wobble wildly and end up killing everything on the planet.
That's a Doomsday scenario that would take a very long time to be relevant, but it's worth consideration.
Most of here are techies who understand a bit of computing. I am one as well as a computer science graduate student. I thought the architect scene was great.
"Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix."
Can anyone say roundoff error?! That completely explans the rest of the scene. Now, anyone into the meat of computers (IT guys do not count.) would understand this as me and my friends did as we were watching the movie. Maybe a class in computation linear algebra should be a prerequisite to Reloaded.:-)
Most people have no idea what roundoff error is. And this is where I feel the brothers Wachowski miscalculated. They gave too much credit to the average movie-goer. Thus, people were confused and lost the meaning of it all. I did not. Nor did any of my CS buddies.
I can't wait to see Revolutions this Saturday.
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Has anyone here considered the negative side effects to mining the moon? As we Luna, we will be removing mass. As we all should know, less mass means less gravity. Less gravity means our tides won't be as strong and our axis of rotation could wobble wildly and end up killing everything on the planet.
That's a Doomsday scenario that would take a very long time to be relevant, but it's worth consideration.
I postulated with my friends that the ending would be as follows:
As you're approaching the ultimate climax of the movie, the screen goes black. Then all you get is "SEGMENTATION FAULT" in bold, whiet letters.
How great would that have been?
Most of here are techies who understand a bit of computing. I am one as well as a computer science graduate student. I thought the architect scene was great. "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix." Can anyone say roundoff error?! That completely explans the rest of the scene. Now, anyone into the meat of computers (IT guys do not count.) would understand this as me and my friends did as we were watching the movie. Maybe a class in computation linear algebra should be a prerequisite to Reloaded. :-)
Most people have no idea what roundoff error is. And this is where I feel the brothers Wachowski miscalculated. They gave too much credit to the average movie-goer. Thus, people were confused and lost the meaning of it all. I did not. Nor did any of my CS buddies.
I can't wait to see Revolutions this Saturday.