Exactly. Calling the amino acids produced by the Miller Urey experiment "precursors of life" is like calling a lump of silicon a "precursor to a Pentium".
It's true in a very literal sense, but really quite meaningless.
Only in the sense that a lump of plastic may one day become a Lego block.
Or a bunch of vegetables, having been eaten by a woman, may one day become a baby.
That's true, but explains nothing.
So how did it turn out?
Well, I hope. If so, good for you.
I hope you make an effort to serve as a role model for other young girls, maybe by volunteering at your old school. Imagine if you had had a cool female role model to look up to back then, and how much that would have meant to you.
If you bother to pay much attention you find terribly ignorant statements about all manner of things posted here, including things about Christianity and the Bible Belt.
But we can blame an individual: Linda Ham. But to do so would cast the people who hired and retained her in a bad light. Of course, we can't have that.
You know, there is nothing we can do about damage to the TPS. If it has been damaged it's probably better not to know
And by the same argument, they definitely shouldn't have done anything to save Apollo 13 when it's oxygen tanks blew up. I mean, they never planned to do any of those things they did to save it. In fact, they probably never even imagined all those unorthodox kludges.
So it would have been better not to try.Much less messy.
That was the official excuse, made up by the bitch manager who refused to allow an inspection while the shuttle was in orbit. This has long since been debunked. Yes, it would have been hard to do.
And absolutely worth it.
If you look at any depiction of paradise around the world, they have one thing in common: People all were out of work.
I've been in places like that. They are called "nursing homes". You can spend all of your time doing anything you want. Nobody cares if you work. Nobody cares if you don't work.
Know any older people who are looking forward to living in a nursing home?
Neither do I.
1. Robots make goods for rich people.
2. Rich people sell these goods to other rich people.
3. Everyone else lives in misery and deprivation.
In other words, welcome to the return of feudalism.
Future historians may look back on the 20th century as the anomalous period where feudalism wasn't the way of the world.
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Damn right. I spend every summer worshiping her.
Not if those molecules are stable. You start with N variables. You end up with fewer than N variables. That is a reduction in entropy.
Exactly. Calling the amino acids produced by the Miller Urey experiment "precursors of life" is like calling a lump of silicon a "precursor to a Pentium".
It's true in a very literal sense, but really quite meaningless.
Only in the sense that a lump of plastic may one day become a Lego block.
Or a bunch of vegetables, having been eaten by a woman, may one day become a baby.
That's true, but explains nothing.
Then let lastpass, keepass, etc. remember it for you.
Or Itchy and Scratchy land.
As if you were familiar with the "facts of life".
So how did it turn out?
Well, I hope. If so, good for you.
I hope you make an effort to serve as a role model for other young girls, maybe by volunteering at your old school.
Imagine if you had had a cool female role model to look up to back then, and how much that would have meant to you.
"But I'm not dead yet!"
Of course, it must be remembered that:
there's no such thing as a Nobel prize in economics!
See Fake Nobel
Yes.
How would you know that?
That poll refers specifically to knowledge of American politics.
It says nothing about knowledge of science.
Oh my God.
Do you get to vote? If so, you live in a democracy.
Specifically, a constitutional democratic republic.
Can you give an example?
Didn't think so.
No, but being stupid makes you believe in God.
I predict that no one will every need more than 64 GB.
Like they had a choice?
But we can blame an individual: Linda Ham.
But to do so would cast the people who hired and retained her in a bad light. Of course, we can't have that.
And by the same argument, they definitely shouldn't have done anything to save Apollo 13 when it's oxygen tanks blew up.
I mean, they never planned to do any of those things they did to save it.
In fact, they probably never even imagined all those unorthodox kludges.
So it would have been better not to try.Much less messy.
But he came back, didn't he? Well, didn't he?
That was the official excuse, made up by the bitch manager who refused to allow an inspection while the shuttle was in orbit.
This has long since been debunked.
Yes, it would have been hard to do. And absolutely worth it.
I've been in places like that. They are called "nursing homes".
You can spend all of your time doing anything you want. Nobody cares if you work. Nobody cares if you don't work.
Know any older people who are looking forward to living in a nursing home? Neither do I.
The robot labour force will have been paid for by the rich and powerful, and will answer only to them.
In other words, the fix requires the wealthy and powerful to take wealth and power from the wealthy and powerful.
How likely is that?
1. Robots make goods for rich people.
2. Rich people sell these goods to other rich people.
3. Everyone else lives in misery and deprivation.
In other words, welcome to the return of feudalism.
Future historians may look back on the 20th century as the anomalous period where feudalism wasn't the way of the world.
One word: power.
It's the only thing that truly motivates the ambitious.