Yeah, too bad most adults don't have much imagination either... In fact, most adults don't seem to have matured past 8 years old... while most of my 6 year old Japanese students were quite well behaved... (Of course my 13 and 14 year old class was the worst of them all...)
That's still a positive result. You're saying that A affects B, even if the effect is less of B.
If you were trying to prove that A has no effect on B then it's going to be pretty hard to say for sure that there's no connection.
Of course, if you do find a connection you're going to have to explain it, it could just be coincidence (or a roundabout connection, like people who eat lobster might have bigger TVs than people who don't, that doesn't mean that lobster or TVs have much in common except that chances are the people who eat lobster have more money and buy bigger TVs...).
Ok, then I misunderstood. I thought when you said that there was no evidence for it that you were denying its existance. Of course there is plenty of evidence, just not very good evidence.
Of course we already know about brain waves, we can pick them up, we can use them to control computers. We still don't know much about them though. Perhaps they could be a conduit for telepathy?
Personally I think it's probable that some form of telepathy exists, at the same time, however, if someone says to me that they have telepathic abilities I think that they're probably in need of psychiatric counciling...
What was that thing where someone was being tested for telepathy and got every single answer wrong? It was only after they dismissed him as a kook that they realized that, statistically, getting every answer wrong was about as likely as getting every answer right, and the only way he could have done that is if he knew what the right answer was...
Real scientists don't deny that anything is possible. They will investigate the existance of something, find nothing, and say that it probably doesn't exist. Is there life on Mars? Possibly. Is there intelligent life on Mars? Probably not. Is there intelligent life on Mars who travel to Earth and abduct drunk farmers? Highly unlikely. But impossible? No. The only people to say that something absolutely isn't true are Polititians, the Media, and ignorant people. Any "scientist" who tells you that telepathy/God/intelligent martians/intelligent polititions don't exist is either being paid to believe that (in one way or another) or isn't a very good scientist.
A couple hundred years ago people thought that you could change lead into gold with chemicals and herbs. Then people began to realize that you couldn't change lead into gold with chemicals and herbs. People soon picked up on this and called alchemists idiots and kooks, and rightly so. Is it possible to change lead into gold? Absolutely, you have to rearrange the nucleous and electrons, but it's possible, just not feasible. We routinely make new elements out of other elements.
So, yeah, a couple hundred years ago people tought that telepathy was possible, then people began to believe that it wasn't. Does this mean it's impossible? Just because we don't know how it might work doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Perhaps it uses some kind of vibration in the fabric of space-time, perhaps it uses tiny particles that permiate everything.
Saying that there is no doubt that it doesn't exist is stupid, and would only show your ignorance.
The problem is not too much Sun it's too much heat. The reason the heat's there is that we've got greenhouse gasses. Were it not for the greenhouse gasses this planet would be a freezing ball of ice and rock. We have too much greenhouse gasses. Carbon dioxide is one of, if not the, biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect. Chloroplasts absorb and convert carbon dioxide during the light stage, however, during the dark stage they actually produce carbon dioxide. The overall effect of the two stages is that carbondioxide is reduced. If we reduce the amount of light being recieved by these plants the ratio might be altered and plants won't be able to absorb as much carbon dioxide as they currently do, perhaps even giving off more than they absorb. The plants will also not be able to make as much energy and will die. Decomposing plants give off more greenhouse gasses that'll just cause more of a problem than we currently do.
And don't say that moving the planet further out is going to make a difference, if Mars and Venus were switched they'd pretty much retain their current climates. Venus too hot for most solid metals, and Mars too cold and variable to sustain much gasseous carbon dioxide...
The shuttles aren't rebuilt each time, they're given complete, detailed inspections every time, and tiles are replaced. Comparing them to any kind of car is pretty pointless. I'd say, compare it to other rockets, like missiles, for example...
Something like, for every type of rocket, how many people died for each launching, I think the Shuttles would be pretty good in that comparison... Or, perhaps, compare it to other government jobs, like soldiers for example... Hell, I'd bet that astronauts beat even postal workers for lowest per-capita death rate. Or is that kill rate?
Deflecting them isn't the hard part, the hard part is finding it in time to do so...
Like trying to see a car coming at you at night, during the new moon, when it's overcast, with it's lights off, and you're deaf, and only have one eye, and your good eye is nearsighted, and you forgot your glasses, and the car could come from any direction, and there's potentially millions of cars, some which might hit you, some which might not...
In a 2D place, no, but if you had 2D intelligent beings in our 3+D space then you could, they'd have no mass to speak of but they would have area, and you can manipulate an object just interacting with the surface (fold a piece of paper without touching the edges).
Of course, the main problem is that, since they're thinner than an atom the edge would be so sharp it'd slice through anything, including the envilope...
Hmm, I wonder what would happen if it sliced through the nucleus of an atom... baboom! just think "One false move and the whole city gets it"
Exactly, if they were truly 2D then no matter how many you stacked on top of each other they wouldn't gain any width. If you managed to make a 2D animal (and figured out a way for it to ingest sustinance since having a tube all the way through would mean it'd be two entities (yeah, I've read flatland)) you could fold it up and store an infinate number in an envelope... If it were inteligent you could store an entire army inside an envilope and mail it to the country you're trying to invade...
Actually it's abbreviated to two digits and then dropped the leading zeros, two very common practices, just not generally done together. Why would you drop the leading zero for day and month but not for year? do you always write 06/06/06? Generally, no. So there shouldn't be anything wrong with dropping all the leading zeros to make 6/6/6. Ten years ago would be 6/6/96 since 9 is not zero.
I read them straight through, cover to cover, it would jump all over the place, on one page you'd be climbing a wall and find a bag in a crevice, then it'd ask you if you wanted to check through the bag or leave it where it was and on the next page you'd be drowning, and at the end it'd say you're dead, but then on the next page you're being chased by a lion.
Also, I didn't understand why they were called "choose your own adventure", yeah, I kept telling it what I wanted to do, but the next page never corresponded with what I told it.
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Yeah, too bad most adults don't have much imagination either... In fact, most adults don't seem to have matured past 8 years old... while most of my 6 year old Japanese students were quite well behaved... (Of course my 13 and 14 year old class was the worst of them all...)
That's still a positive result. You're saying that A affects B, even if the effect is less of B.
If you were trying to prove that A has no effect on B then it's going to be pretty hard to say for sure that there's no connection.
Of course, if you do find a connection you're going to have to explain it, it could just be coincidence (or a roundabout connection, like people who eat lobster might have bigger TVs than people who don't, that doesn't mean that lobster or TVs have much in common except that chances are the people who eat lobster have more money and buy bigger TVs...).
Ok, then I misunderstood. I thought when you said that there was no evidence for it that you were denying its existance. Of course there is plenty of evidence, just not very good evidence.
Of course we already know about brain waves, we can pick them up, we can use them to control computers. We still don't know much about them though. Perhaps they could be a conduit for telepathy?
Personally I think it's probable that some form of telepathy exists, at the same time, however, if someone says to me that they have telepathic abilities I think that they're probably in need of psychiatric counciling...
(and no, I can't spell)
It was a TV show or movie or something... I didn't say it was a reputable source or anything.
What was that thing where someone was being tested for telepathy and got every single answer wrong? It was only after they dismissed him as a kook that they realized that, statistically, getting every answer wrong was about as likely as getting every answer right, and the only way he could have done that is if he knew what the right answer was...
Real scientists don't deny that anything is possible. They will investigate the existance of something, find nothing, and say that it probably doesn't exist. Is there life on Mars? Possibly. Is there intelligent life on Mars? Probably not. Is there intelligent life on Mars who travel to Earth and abduct drunk farmers? Highly unlikely. But impossible? No. The only people to say that something absolutely isn't true are Polititians, the Media, and ignorant people. Any "scientist" who tells you that telepathy/God/intelligent martians/intelligent polititions don't exist is either being paid to believe that (in one way or another) or isn't a very good scientist.
A couple hundred years ago people thought that you could change lead into gold with chemicals and herbs. Then people began to realize that you couldn't change lead into gold with chemicals and herbs. People soon picked up on this and called alchemists idiots and kooks, and rightly so. Is it possible to change lead into gold? Absolutely, you have to rearrange the nucleous and electrons, but it's possible, just not feasible. We routinely make new elements out of other elements.
So, yeah, a couple hundred years ago people tought that telepathy was possible, then people began to believe that it wasn't. Does this mean it's impossible? Just because we don't know how it might work doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Perhaps it uses some kind of vibration in the fabric of space-time, perhaps it uses tiny particles that permiate everything.
Saying that there is no doubt that it doesn't exist is stupid, and would only show your ignorance.
I hope I'm not the only person who, at first glance, thought he said Romulans...
And while you're at it, no repeated characters either. Time to break out the chinese input program!
I thought the UN banned landmines? Or was it an addition to the Geneva Conventions? Either way, I thought landmines were illegal for use in war...
The problem is not too much Sun it's too much heat. The reason the heat's there is that we've got greenhouse gasses. Were it not for the greenhouse gasses this planet would be a freezing ball of ice and rock. We have too much greenhouse gasses. Carbon dioxide is one of, if not the, biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect. Chloroplasts absorb and convert carbon dioxide during the light stage, however, during the dark stage they actually produce carbon dioxide. The overall effect of the two stages is that carbondioxide is reduced. If we reduce the amount of light being recieved by these plants the ratio might be altered and plants won't be able to absorb as much carbon dioxide as they currently do, perhaps even giving off more than they absorb. The plants will also not be able to make as much energy and will die. Decomposing plants give off more greenhouse gasses that'll just cause more of a problem than we currently do.
And don't say that moving the planet further out is going to make a difference, if Mars and Venus were switched they'd pretty much retain their current climates. Venus too hot for most solid metals, and Mars too cold and variable to sustain much gasseous carbon dioxide...
Ok, fine, fine, it'll enable them to predict things coming out of Sun, but will it tell us if Java will ever be open source?
Also, many Indians speak English...
I thought it was Libraries of Congress... I guess I'm a bit behind the times...
The shuttles aren't rebuilt each time, they're given complete, detailed inspections every time, and tiles are replaced. Comparing them to any kind of car is pretty pointless. I'd say, compare it to other rockets, like missiles, for example...
Something like, for every type of rocket, how many people died for each launching, I think the Shuttles would be pretty good in that comparison... Or, perhaps, compare it to other government jobs, like soldiers for example... Hell, I'd bet that astronauts beat even postal workers for lowest per-capita death rate. Or is that kill rate?
Nobody's ever died in the other Shuttles either, therefore, by your logic, they should be safe...
She's hiding, obviously.
Deflecting them isn't the hard part, the hard part is finding it in time to do so...
Like trying to see a car coming at you at night, during the new moon, when it's overcast, with it's lights off, and you're deaf, and only have one eye, and your good eye is nearsighted, and you forgot your glasses, and the car could come from any direction, and there's potentially millions of cars, some which might hit you, some which might not...
True... so: #sudo killall keylogger&&sudo apt-get remove keylogger
;)
simple enough
How about just not saving your password?
Now our ISPs can block everything from said countries to eliminate spam once and for all...
In a 2D place, no, but if you had 2D intelligent beings in our 3+D space then you could, they'd have no mass to speak of but they would have area, and you can manipulate an object just interacting with the surface (fold a piece of paper without touching the edges).
Of course, the main problem is that, since they're thinner than an atom the edge would be so sharp it'd slice through anything, including the envilope...
Hmm, I wonder what would happen if it sliced through the nucleus of an atom... baboom! just think "One false move and the whole city gets it"
Exactly, if they were truly 2D then no matter how many you stacked on top of each other they wouldn't gain any width. If you managed to make a 2D animal (and figured out a way for it to ingest sustinance since having a tube all the way through would mean it'd be two entities (yeah, I've read flatland)) you could fold it up and store an infinate number in an envelope... If it were inteligent you could store an entire army inside an envilope and mail it to the country you're trying to invade...
Of course not, but logically there's no reason not to, logically it's obvious. Which, of course, shows the problem with thinking in pure logic...
Oh, and the question was why do it for the month and day, but not for the year. Not why do it for the year.
Actually it's abbreviated to two digits and then dropped the leading zeros, two very common practices, just not generally done together. Why would you drop the leading zero for day and month but not for year? do you always write 06/06/06? Generally, no. So there shouldn't be anything wrong with dropping all the leading zeros to make 6/6/6. Ten years ago would be 6/6/96 since 9 is not zero.
I read them straight through, cover to cover, it would jump all over the place, on one page you'd be climbing a wall and find a bag in a crevice, then it'd ask you if you wanted to check through the bag or leave it where it was and on the next page you'd be drowning, and at the end it'd say you're dead, but then on the next page you're being chased by a lion.
Also, I didn't understand why they were called "choose your own adventure", yeah, I kept telling it what I wanted to do, but the next page never corresponded with what I told it.