As for colonizing other planets I would recommend starting a bizar new religion. The "New World" was settled by religous nuts (look at the Puritans) and were funded either by people kicking them the f*** out of England or by getting funding within the church. I bet the same idea would work here.
This sounds like a job for scientology! Plus we'll be eliminating many of our most annoying celebrities.
Where are you going to mount a solar cell on a laptop? Put it on top and you lose a lot of light when you open it, anywhere else it's inconvenient. I think WiFi people will have to stick with batteries.
Advertisers don't seem to get that I'm dead broke in college. I don't have the money to buy anything.
Let a fellow collegiate finish that thought "...except beer, lots and lots of beer."
Research is pretty clear that text based ads have a much higher rate of success than any other form of internet ad. You can't put an end to internet advertising, unless you want pay-per-view websites. Advertising is the only thing keeping tv and (most) internet free. I think adblock and commercial skipping with Tivo will force advertisers to find MORE obtrusive ways with which to advertise.
Good for Texas...Good for Texans That has to be the most inane slogan I've ever heard, but I'm sure the idiot majority will eat it up with a spoon.
Spin is a drain on the country. I wish someone besides John Stewart would come out on one of these news shows and call bullshit. All the pundits are just talking heads for their respective parties, spewing inane talking points 'til the cows come home.
Most college isn't about learning at all. It's about interacting with other people, getting wasted nearly every weekend, and getting enough C's in your classes so you can get a degree and hopefully find a job which pays better than working at Wal-Mart. Eliminating the physical university eliminates all the fun things about college and leaves you with the crap.
The roadways are flawed too, let's just dig them all up and start over with some type of hyper tubing system. In the mean time, it's back to horses while we get everything set up again. Sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully we won't screw things up again.
That's a non-sequiter, there may be some correlation, but it's certainly not directly linked to how well you do in life.
Some people drop out of school and become rock stars. Some people graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and end up bums on the street.
Agreeing with parent, students are going to find a way to dick around in class, especially if the class is boring. As such, I still have an extensive collection of TI-83 plus calculator games.
Unfortunately, teachers are sometimes a despised entity in the community. I know lots of people who think teachers are OVERPAID. Their arguments are of course ridiculous and I think anyone who believes this should have to stand in front of 50 teenagers and try to make them learn ANYTHING, let alone try to teach them something inherently boring like stats, econ, calculus, etc...
There aren't an infinite number of worlds. Space may be (close to) infinite, but matter isn't. The amount of matter in the universe is finite, as such, so are the number of stars and planets.
The point of sending up any type of message is in hopes that the receiving party will recognize it as something of extraterrestrial (from the alien standpoint) origin and will investigate. That's why we look for radio waves with non accounted for sequences. The aliens could be trying to send us a picture, or a string of characters, or whatever, but we probably won't ever know it. We will however know that it is not natural and will further investigate. We hope that other intelligent life will do the same.
They don't say that it's neccessary, but we can be certainthat life can exist if these things are there, that makes it the best place to look for life first.
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As for colonizing other planets I would recommend starting a bizar new religion. The "New World" was settled by religous nuts (look at the Puritans) and were funded either by people kicking them the f*** out of England or by getting funding within the church. I bet the same idea would work here.
This sounds like a job for scientology! Plus we'll be eliminating many of our most annoying celebrities.
Slashdot will tell you when they will start charging soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Should be any time now...
Where are you going to mount a solar cell on a laptop? Put it on top and you lose a lot of light when you open it, anywhere else it's inconvenient. I think WiFi people will have to stick with batteries.
Maybe because they're sick of being 40 years behind the rest of the world?
Advertisers don't seem to get that I'm dead broke in college. I don't have the money to buy anything.
Let a fellow collegiate finish that thought "...except beer, lots and lots of beer."
Research is pretty clear that text based ads have a much higher rate of success than any other form of internet ad.
You can't put an end to internet advertising, unless you want pay-per-view websites. Advertising is the only thing keeping tv and (most) internet free. I think adblock and commercial skipping with Tivo will force advertisers to find MORE obtrusive ways with which to advertise.
Go back to Switzerland, Hippie.
I was about to make the exact same joke. Had my post typed up already and everything.
While I'll grant that steam is a wonderful phase of water. I'll stick with ice thank you...preferably with some scotch over it.
Good for Texas...Good for Texans
That has to be the most inane slogan I've ever heard, but I'm sure the idiot majority will eat it up with a spoon.
Spin is a drain on the country. I wish someone besides John Stewart would come out on one of these news shows and call bullshit. All the pundits are just talking heads for their respective parties, spewing inane talking points 'til the cows come home.
Most college isn't about learning at all. It's about interacting with other people, getting wasted nearly every weekend, and getting enough C's in your classes so you can get a degree and hopefully find a job which pays better than working at Wal-Mart. Eliminating the physical university eliminates all the fun things about college and leaves you with the crap.
Phishing: Wallet Inspector
Stop Posting This Shit IN EVERY DAMN ARTICLE!
Thank you.
The roadways are flawed too, let's just dig them all up and start over with some type of hyper tubing system. In the mean time, it's back to horses while we get everything set up again. Sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully we won't screw things up again.
The revival of maggots is the story he's referring to. Maggots have been used for this type of stuff since the middle ages at least.
So that's how they built the pyramids, wooden robots!
Slashdot is on the screen in one of the pics of the laptop. Show yourself wooden laptop man!
As the reply from the other post says. The book Contact was published in 1985. Doesn't anybody read anymore?
I don't think this site (or even the hardrives it is storing this crap on) will still be around in a hundred years, let alone a thousand.
That's a non-sequiter, there may be some correlation, but it's certainly not directly linked to how well you do in life. Some people drop out of school and become rock stars. Some people graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and end up bums on the street.
Agreeing with parent, students are going to find a way to dick around in class, especially if the class is boring. As such, I still have an extensive collection of TI-83 plus calculator games. Unfortunately, teachers are sometimes a despised entity in the community. I know lots of people who think teachers are OVERPAID. Their arguments are of course ridiculous and I think anyone who believes this should have to stand in front of 50 teenagers and try to make them learn ANYTHING, let alone try to teach them something inherently boring like stats, econ, calculus, etc...
There aren't an infinite number of worlds. Space may be (close to) infinite, but matter isn't. The amount of matter in the universe is finite, as such, so are the number of stars and planets.
They stole this idea from Contact. The first layer of the signal was a list of the first so many prime numbers.
The point of sending up any type of message is in hopes that the receiving party will recognize it as something of extraterrestrial (from the alien standpoint) origin and will investigate. That's why we look for radio waves with non accounted for sequences. The aliens could be trying to send us a picture, or a string of characters, or whatever, but we probably won't ever know it. We will however know that it is not natural and will further investigate. We hope that other intelligent life will do the same.
They don't say that it's neccessary, but we can be certainthat life can exist if these things are there, that makes it the best place to look for life first.