I say we let Paul Davies do it.
I had him as a professor in College and he was brilliant. Just the kind of scientist I'd like to represent us to the aliens.
Plus, he's likely put more thought into it than anybody else on the planet.
You know, there are other sources of energy.
Fossil fuels are simply the first ones discovered because they're really really easy to use. You just basically set them on fire.
Now, using this energy source and the advances that it has allowed we will progress to using more complicated but much more long-lasting sources of energy.
Don't worry, our population will keep going up.
Exactly. I'm Jewish and I've gone to sites to read Mein Kampf and The Turner Diaries. That doesn't make me a white-supremacist, just someone who thinks its important to understand your enemies.
Unfortunately, the Russians have become obsessed with nationalism since Vladimir Putin came to power. Big, impressive national projects have become more important than simply improving the quality of life for the poorest segments of the population.
This is utter drivel written by someone who has never actually studied anthropology or the cultures that they are talking about.
American Indians had no particular reverence for nature in any way. They had a regular habit of burning down forested land because the resulting prairie allowed them an easier hunt for their specific prey.
The concept of American Indians being "in harmony with nature" can be traced directly back to their solidarity movement in the late 17th century. They needed something specific to differentiate themselves from "the White man" and so they invented this.
Read a book. And stop listening to the utter crap that is our popular culture.
How come such a huge percentage of the people being sued by the RIAA are penniless, single parents living on government assistance? Or elderly grandmothers? Or cute puppies and kittens?
Quite frankly, it defies all the laws of probability!
By randomly suing IPs that they found online, how can they possibly be finding so many?
I love it when people write posts that have no content or argument other than calling the other poster an idiot. It really strengthens my faith in how insightful online discussions can be.
Congratulations on on sticking together old, well-proven scientific theories with a new one that has not been even close to sufficiently examined, and seems to be more based on politics than anything else.
There's no conspiracy. It just the same thing that people have been doing for thousands of years: predicting doom, gloom, and the end of the world to hype the hell out of their pet theory for attention and money.
Like the population explosion, like the Y2K bug, people with agendas take a small thing and blow it all the hell out of proportion to get themselves on the 6 o'clock news. They've been wrong every single time before, and they're wrong now.
The Democrats don't even seem to want to do anything against the war in Iraq, which is opposed by practically everyone in the nation. And you think they're gonna do something more radical like this?
Please, they're too busy getting rid of the Republican pork and putting in their own.
Exponential growth levels out in nature because it reaches the limit of the resources.
This will by definition someday happen to human technological progress.
However, also by definition, we have no idea what the limits of the resources are. In this case they are basically the resources constrained only by the physical laws of the universe.
Before we ever hit that barrier, out civilization could quite possibly reach heights that we today would consider a "Singularity."
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I say we let Paul Davies do it. I had him as a professor in College and he was brilliant. Just the kind of scientist I'd like to represent us to the aliens. Plus, he's likely put more thought into it than anybody else on the planet.
Can't you just give her a cell phone and call her if she gets lost? I'm sure she'll be able to tell you what cross streets shes on.
You know, there are other sources of energy. Fossil fuels are simply the first ones discovered because they're really really easy to use. You just basically set them on fire. Now, using this energy source and the advances that it has allowed we will progress to using more complicated but much more long-lasting sources of energy. Don't worry, our population will keep going up.
You, sir, are an asshole.
When we get together and form our own backbone, won't this organization be a corporation? Isn't that basically the definition of a corporation?
Exactly. I'm Jewish and I've gone to sites to read Mein Kampf and The Turner Diaries.
That doesn't make me a white-supremacist, just someone who thinks its important to understand your enemies.
Hey don't knock theoretical physics. Someday they'll finally invent faster-than-light travel and then we can get all the Orion slave girls we want!
No you can't.
An individual can't change the government.
Except possibly by committing 100% of their time to it, which is not possible for most.
The only thing you can do is move.
What exactly makes you think that a revolution will help in any way?
Meet your new boss, same as old boss. But with bigger guns.
Since when the hell is this new?
Didn't you get the memo?
Nobody is "normal" anymore.
Everybody is either too fat or two thin.
I for one welcome our new Frankenfood overlords.
Really, I do.
Thankfully the world doesn't work that way.
Actually, no.
Intel is producing chips at 45 microns.
That is 45,000nm.
So making lines at 60nm, is a BIG DEAL.
This is utter drivel written by someone who has never actually studied anthropology or the cultures that they are talking about.
American Indians had no particular reverence for nature in any way.
They had a regular habit of burning down forested land because the resulting prairie allowed them an easier hunt for their specific prey.
The concept of American Indians being "in harmony with nature" can be traced directly back to their solidarity movement in the late 17th century. They needed something specific to differentiate themselves from "the White man" and so they invented this.
Read a book. And stop listening to the utter crap that is our popular culture.
These things are about as close to Asimov's robots as my toaster is to my PC.
These are not the kinds of robots that would need the 3 laws.
Yeah, thats one thing I don't get.
How come such a huge percentage of the people being sued by the RIAA are penniless, single parents living on government assistance? Or elderly grandmothers? Or cute puppies and kittens?
Quite frankly, it defies all the laws of probability!
By randomly suing IPs that they found online, how can they possibly be finding so many?
I love it when people write posts that have no content or argument other than calling the other poster an idiot. It really strengthens my faith in how insightful online discussions can be.
Congratulations on on sticking together old, well-proven scientific theories with a new one that has not been even close to sufficiently examined, and seems to be more based on politics than anything else.
There's no conspiracy. It just the same thing that people have been doing for thousands of years: predicting doom, gloom, and the end of the world to hype the hell out of their pet theory for attention and money.
Like the population explosion, like the Y2K bug, people with agendas take a small thing and blow it all the hell out of proportion to get themselves on the 6 o'clock news. They've been wrong every single time before, and they're wrong now.
You're kidding, right?
The Democrats don't even seem to want to do anything against the war in Iraq, which is opposed by practically everyone in the nation.
And you think they're gonna do something more radical like this?
Please, they're too busy getting rid of the Republican pork and putting in their own.
Here's a brilliant solution: don't buy shit you don't have the cash for.
You'll find that the worst xenophobes will hire anybody if they can save a few bucks.
Really? How much exactly do these robots cost?
Is it more than about $3 an hour, including maintenance?
And do they reproduce themselves?
Cuz, you've got some strong competition there.
LOL. How about I just show you an AI?
Exponential growth levels out in nature because it reaches the limit of the resources.
This will by definition someday happen to human technological progress.
However, also by definition, we have no idea what the limits of the resources are.
In this case they are basically the resources constrained only by the physical laws of the universe.
Before we ever hit that barrier, out civilization could quite possibly reach heights that we today would consider a "Singularity."