If that were the case, then we'd have to bow to the creationists and how they mock our use of fossil records to show how we descended from other species over the past tens of millions of years.
I wonder what happens if we continue to expand our knowledge about exoplanets at the current rate but we don't discover life on another planet by the year 2100. Fermi's Paradox bugs the hell out of me. I can't see how we are unique... but I also can't see why the evidence of other civilizations wouldn't be obvious.
Habitable seems to be in the eye of the beholder. Does it mean if we dropped off a human on the surface, he would be able to breathe? Does it mean that it is roughly the right mass? The right mass and roughly the right temperature? Right mass, temperature and has an atmosphere? All the above and has bountiful liquid water?
I am very excited about our discoveries over the past decade or so. But it will be another before we can truly have a reasonable idea of how many planets are "habitable".
I know... isn't it brilliant? First we stopped RingTFA. Then we skimmed the summaries only. Then we only read the headline. The next logical step is random posting to stories. Then, just picking a random website to post to.
Thatis amazing considering I used to be as conservative as you can be. Twenty years of being an adult and facing real world experience and becoming a Christian after growing up atheist has turned me into a social liberal though I am still as fiscally conservative as ever.
Well, the techniques are definitely different. While this photograph is defnitely very high resolution, you likely had to wait ten minutes for the image to be firmly etched into the plate. Would be really hard to take a shot of the World Cup... though you would likely get a good shot of the World Series.
One point: Your country is about as homogenous as a country can be. Try applying direct democracy to a country that is more heterogenous, and I think you will find it falls apart.
Also consider that Switzerland has about 10% less people than New York City.
If you read his entire post and not just the first couple sentences, he acknowledges 'And I suppose that if you're born in the US there's no requirement to learn English...'
No, what I meant was that 1) The authorities who might prosecute you are going after the bigger players and 2) Antivirus is less likely to detect threats that only affect a small number of machines.
Kinda weird we are close to our 2 millionth account. Also strange that I went through the id's of about 75 recent uid numbers, about 1/3 were non-existent and none of the others had any posts. Ii wonder how many of our "users" are computer generated.
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If that were the case, then we'd have to bow to the creationists and how they mock our use of fossil records to show how we descended from other species over the past tens of millions of years.
They'd turn you down too. Sorry.
I wonder what happens if we continue to expand our knowledge about exoplanets at the current rate but we don't discover life on another planet by the year 2100. Fermi's Paradox bugs the hell out of me. I can't see how we are unique... but I also can't see why the evidence of other civilizations wouldn't be obvious.
Not the above AC... but he is right except for the "dipshit" part.
Habitable seems to be in the eye of the beholder. Does it mean if we dropped off a human on the surface, he would be able to breathe? Does it mean that it is roughly the right mass? The right mass and roughly the right temperature? Right mass, temperature and has an atmosphere? All the above and has bountiful liquid water?
I am very excited about our discoveries over the past decade or so. But it will be another before we can truly have a reasonable idea of how many planets are "habitable".
Sound like when I drove the inlaws to the Outer Banks for vacation. I swear to God that their bladders held only 2 mls..... COMBINED.
I know... isn't it brilliant? First we stopped RingTFA. Then we skimmed the summaries only. Then we only read the headline. The next logical step is random posting to stories. Then, just picking a random website to post to.
I LOVE PROGRESS!!!!
I thought you were joking, so I checked TFA
Damn noobs.
If they did that, only idiots would read it!
Wow. They really should create a separate section of Slashdot for these ridiculous stories.
Nah. The caller just bought a couple penny stocks and used the proceeds to buy Verizon today.
Thatis amazing considering I used to be as conservative as you can be. Twenty years of being an adult and facing real world experience and becoming a Christian after growing up atheist has turned me into a social liberal though I am still as fiscally conservative as ever.
Somehow I am doubting it is as simple as a gene
Well, the techniques are definitely different. While this photograph is defnitely very high resolution, you likely had to wait ten minutes for the image to be firmly etched into the plate. Would be really hard to take a shot of the World Cup... though you would likely get a good shot of the World Series.
One point: Your country is about as homogenous as a country can be. Try applying direct democracy to a country that is more heterogenous, and I think you will find it falls apart.
Also consider that Switzerland has about 10% less people than New York City.
How in the world is this troll? We are not a direct democracy PRECISELY type for this reason. Someone needs to brush up on their Civics class...
So 61% of America's balls are in your ass? Not that there is anything wrong with that....
If you read his entire post and not just the first couple sentences, he acknowledges 'And I suppose that if you're born in the US there's no requirement to learn English...'
No, what I meant was that 1) The authorities who might prosecute you are going after the bigger players and 2) Antivirus is less likely to detect threats that only affect a small number of machines.
Heh, Flamebait :) Some mod is having fun modding me down today. Here's another one to waste your points on :)
He means what "under the radar" usually means: unnoticed by the authorities or those with the ability to stop you.
I'm posting from ThePromenader's unmonitored servers.
To really do damage to a webserver, you need a large botnet.
quite interested how such a tiny insect can figure it out on the fly
I thought we were talking about bees? I am so confused...
Kinda weird we are close to our 2 millionth account. Also strange that I went through the id's of about 75 recent uid numbers, about 1/3 were non-existent and none of the others had any posts. Ii wonder how many of our "users" are computer generated.
screwy, even. whacky. wild.
slashdot = stagnated
Can you tell us what Slashdot was like back in the day when you first joined?