Its no coincidence that the Borg queen first appeared in the movie. - Its Hollywood that cannot tolerate the idea of a ship without a single master. It wasn't just a copout it totally destroyed and misunderstood the concept of what the Borg were. Of course the rot had already set in - an enemy vastly technically superior and overwhelmingly powerful reduced to one stupidly weak in a few short episodes - by not actually bothering to have any real substantial IT security. It was writing like that,which destroyed Star Trek in the first place. : )
> The question is meaningless, concept of big bang does not include a "before".
That is making the rather bold assumption that general relativity is correct. When you look as local spaces - at purely STL physics general relativity looks wonderful, but look into its FTL geometry though and the theory falls apart completely. The only theories that really work in the FTL are based on absolute frames - in most absolute frame models time itself doesn't exist except as a point and in that case time does exist before the big bang - but our universe doesn't..
The irony is that looking back at general relativity it does kind of have a primitive absolute frame - the time dimension itself - though it predicts a fixed fate with a fixed past and future, and a universe that self contradicts and doesn't exist - from the FTL perspective it does also predict that time could exist before the big bang.
The real problem isn't the FAA or the US its the UN and the stupid Outer Space Treaty. If everyone were to use that treaty for the purposes it as written for and wiped their arses on it the problem would be solved.:D
The real problem isn't the FAA its the UN and the stupid Outer Space treaty. If everyone were to use that treaty for the purposes it as written for and wiped their arses on it the problem would be solved.
Fun Facts : Coal is 1,000 to 10,000 more dangerous per unit energy than nuclear. Even taking the worst case figures from Chernobyl (50,000 dead) we would actually need a Chernobyl about every two weeks for nuclear to be as dangerous as coal.:D
Fun Facts : Because of the above & the anti-nuclear campaign CND and Greenpiece have themselves killed roughly 5 to 10 million people. That means that nuclear protesters have so far killed at least 10 to 20 times the number of people killed by nuclear weapons.
Always proof read before hitting submit!! - "A thousand words to say what could be said in a sentence." ''Come to think of it 100 years ago people like you, including many 'real' serious scientists were saying how heavier than air manned flight would never be possible.." "Way back in 1990 I did some theoretical design work on nano-tech assemblers - advocates then estimated that with funding assemblers were about 10 to 20 years in the future - they are still about 10 to 20 years in the future."
A thousand word to say what could be said in a sentence. I suppose amongst these future squawkers you would include Von Braun and his future visions of moon ships and humans living in space. Because 100 to 60 years ago people like you were saying exactly the same kind of thing about him. They were saying the world would never need more than five computers, that science and medicine had already reached a pinnacle. Come to think of it 100 years ago people like you including serious 'real' scientists were saying how heavier than air manned flight would never be impossible..
The only reason many futurist visions remain impossible is because they lack the funding. University funding is still based on the theory that we must focus our resources on better 'buggy whips' and 'horse carts' and that these new fangled 'horseless carriages' will never amount to anything. I've seen it at first hand - they repeat the same experiment a thousand times, but are afraid to try anything radical or new.. it might get criticised in peer review and they could loose reputation and money. Way back in 1990 I did some theoretical design work on nano-tech assemblers - advocates then estimated that with funding they were about 10 to 20 years in the future - they are still about 10 to 20 years in the future. Nano-tech actually got at least some of that funding but most of it got diverted off into more 'buggy whips' and improved 'horse carts'..
Also apply the 'homophobe rule', 'anyone who publicly exhibits as an extreme homophobe is almost certainly underneath a repressed homosexual'.. So anyone who publicly exhibits as an extreme paedo-hater is almost certainly underneath a repressed paedophile.. With recursive iteration (and guns all round) this could get interesting.
Ahh the amazing power of hindsight - or precognition.. The slightest change in starting circumstances can sometimes lead to such wildly different outcomes. -
".. imagine someone beating your skull in with a 2x4 while you were getting into your car in which you were going to get into a fatal 18 car pileup on the highway,.. causing you to die 20 minutes early.." ".. imagine someone beating your skull in with a 2x4 while you were getting into your car in which you were planning to cause a fatal 18 car pileup on the highway,.. saving XX lives.." The person with the plank still faces a life in jail or execution.. Time to call Pre-crimes division..
If you want to talk about police not doing their jobs, just look at the UK, at Rotherham - 1400 rapes over 10 years - mostly against young teenage girls. (I think mostly about 11 to 14 yrs old) Many were reported but the local police did more or less nothing. There were two basic reasons identified. - - Firstly many of the girls had been coerced or tricked into becoming 'prostitutes' - sex workers, so despite being underage their claims were dismissed automatically by police as untrustworthy.. - Secondly and maybe worse was extreme Political Correctness, the children were basically all white, the gang who were trafficking them and those who raped them were mostly Asian - and Islamic. Then there's a lovely guy called Jimmy Savile who the police protected over claims of abuse made over about 5 decades.. Then there are the police, politicians and businessmen who ran a huge ring abusing children taken in by social care - in orphanages. The list goes on..
I don't know about America but I have this horrible feeling that the UK police are gradually evolving into Darleks..
'multimillionaire' doesn't get you to be in the 1% not nearly. Its not just about wealth. (here's my definition) To be a true '1%er' you have to earn more than about $10 to $50 million per year and have holdings worth over 1 billion (in tax havens) and you pay less than about 1% tax on your total income..
The 'obvious' solution is simple, easy - suspend legal processes, incinerate the tax havens with nuclear weapons, send in special forces to hunt them down and squeeze them till they bleed..
A more realistic solution is a hell of a lot more difficult. The real problem is that these people have corrupted politics, they have infiltrated the tax system and the banking and financial regulators, they have enough money that the legal system is almost completely ineffectual against them. When the richest don't pay taxes it means that everyone else has to pay more taxes - it ultimately means that the tax system doesn't supply enough money and the whole county gradually begins to fall apart... Maybe what is needed is a military revolution - the only problem with that is that they have their fingers firmly in the militaries finances as well..
Yeah just like musicians should just be content with a small salary and let the people who make the CD's & sell the mp3's make the money. And just like footballers should be content with small salaries while their teams still rake in the millions or billions.
You want to look at the UK tech industry. Before WWII the UK was actually the most advanced tech nation on Earth, even by the 1980's still number two or three now well it isn't there any more. Why? hell of a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones was that inventors working for companies were poorly paid, frequently ripped off, and rarely made a benefit from their inventions. All great demotivators.
If an inventor makes millions or billions for a company he (or she) should at least get some reward for that..
Citations? for a work that's not yet even published? that may never be published even with a working machine? that might not be published even if I was on the peer review gravy train. If you supply the time machine and $10 billion - maybe. .
Turing Machine Equivalency - Let me spell it out. - All you need to do is to read pretty much any old book on the general subject of AI (eg written before 1990). Most of them will say at some point (paraphrasing)..in the past much AI research was based 'on the theory that the mind is a computer (a Turing machine)', they will then tell you that the model is now widely regarded as discredited because it failed/never succeeded.. The Turing model was only discredited because the scientists at the time couldn't make it work.. But in the 1970's and earlier no computer in the world was anywhere powerful enough to run a Strong AI. Like the man who flaps his arms up and down a few times then declares 'There I've proved that manned flight is impossible..' That's you as well.
Ok a lot wrong with Prometheus, lets make it shine like something beautiful.. Lets look at some really bad movies.
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. - (Never in all of history has such promising source material lead at such cost to such a bad movie. Wooden boards in place of actors, Space ships should not be cubes, 'brain the size of a planet' was not meant literally, original Slartibardfarst was funnier, directors should not be made out of packing cases, overall design, etc, etc.) Battlefield Earth. - (Travolta's Lament, Travolta's worst movie. ) Alien Vs Predator. - (Plot?, logic?, alien survival instincts? background story? Slow Stupid easy to kill aliens.) Ghost Rider.. - (computer SFX can be worse than string, tape, and used toilet rolls! SFX worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Half Bad, redeeming features. Alien 3 - (In total deviation from any logic or 'psychological' consistency on plot..) Star Trek, First Contact - (crappy misuse of time travel) Star Trek, Remake - (crappy misuse of time travel, NIS does not look anything like the interior of an advanced spaceship.) Star Trek The Search for Spock - (stretches credulity.) Star Trek Generations - (Just horribly wrong.) Terminator Salvation - (Good up to last 30 minutes, total plot fail. Sickening moral message at end.) Star Wars - Preludes 1, 2, 3 - (R2D2 and C3P0 stretch credibility, computer effects already look a little dated - slight visual unreality, Jar Jar Binks (worked in stories something went horribly wrong there). )
See now Prometheus looks pretty good.. (I was only going to write a couple of lines - verbal diarrhoea strikes again..)
The way it seems with alien 3 was that someone didn't like the original script, and so replaced it with the abomination we know. Sigourney Weaver may have had something to do with it - originally she wasn't going to do Alien3 and so the original wasn't going to include Ripley. The main characters included Newt and I think Hicks - and the story was basically set on Earth about 18 years after the film 'Aliens' ends. The bio-division basically catch an alien inside a host, take it to Earth, it escapes, and soon the whole Earth soon gets taken over and the remains of humanity have to evacuate.. In a fourth part (I think) the humans find a way to exterminate the aliens and retake the Earth. There still exists a modified version published in the 'Aliens' comics series.. I once had a comic with the original version, but its been out of print (I think) since Alien3 came out.. Be worth a lot of money now.:(
In a Mars ship (with long term multi-year missions) maybe electric motors might be a better option than hydraulics. Heavier but with better extended reliability (no fluid to run out of), less complexity, -leading to lower overall weight considering maintenance costs. Other alternatives might include - water hydraulics, pneumatics, vacuum pneumatics, even steam..
BTW if you wanted to know the secret to Strong AI - and its pretty easy to find in the old books - its that the mind is a Turing Machine.. So the real inventor if there is one is Alan Turing...:)
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The two biggest carcinogens on Earth are probably sunlight and oxygen.... (need to buy a new keyboard)
The to biggest carcinogens on Earth are probably sunlight and oxygen....
Its no coincidence that the Borg queen first appeared in the movie. - Its Hollywood that cannot tolerate the idea of a ship without a single master. It wasn't just a copout it totally destroyed and misunderstood the concept of what the Borg were. Of course the rot had already set in - an enemy vastly technically superior and overwhelmingly powerful reduced to one stupidly weak in a few short episodes - by not actually bothering to have any real substantial IT security. It was writing like that ,which destroyed Star Trek in the first place. : )
> The question is meaningless, concept of big bang does not include a "before".
That is making the rather bold assumption that general relativity is correct. When you look as local spaces - at purely STL physics general relativity looks wonderful, but look into its FTL geometry though and the theory falls apart completely. The only theories that really work in the FTL are based on absolute frames - in most absolute frame models time itself doesn't exist except as a point and in that case time does exist before the big bang - but our universe doesn't..
The irony is that looking back at general relativity it does kind of have a primitive absolute frame - the time dimension itself - though it predicts a fixed fate with a fixed past and future, and a universe that self contradicts and doesn't exist - from the FTL perspective it does also predict that time could exist before the big bang.
Your a snivelling anonymous coward so shut up.
The real problem isn't the FAA or the US its the UN and the stupid Outer Space Treaty. If everyone were to use that treaty for the purposes it as written for and wiped their arses on it the problem would be solved. :D
The real problem isn't the FAA its the UN and the stupid Outer Space treaty. If everyone were to use that treaty for the purposes it as written for and wiped their arses on it the problem would be solved.
I think the point is that this money was earned in America - it was moved abroad to avoid paying taxes on it..
Fun Facts : Coal is 1,000 to 10,000 more dangerous per unit energy than nuclear. Even taking the worst case figures from Chernobyl (50,000 dead) we would actually need a Chernobyl about every two weeks for nuclear to be as dangerous as coal. :D
Fun Facts : Because of the above & the anti-nuclear campaign CND and Greenpiece have themselves killed roughly 5 to 10 million people.
That means that nuclear protesters have so far killed at least 10 to 20 times the number of people killed by nuclear weapons.
Always proof read before hitting submit!! -
"A thousand words to say what could be said in a sentence."
''Come to think of it 100 years ago people like you, including many 'real' serious scientists were saying how heavier than air manned flight would never be possible.."
"Way back in 1990 I did some theoretical design work on nano-tech assemblers - advocates then estimated that with funding assemblers were about 10 to 20 years in the future - they are still about 10 to 20 years in the future."
Stupid SD interface!
A thousand word to say what could be said in a sentence. I suppose amongst these future squawkers you would include Von Braun and his future visions of moon ships and humans living in space. Because 100 to 60 years ago people like you were saying exactly the same kind of thing about him. They were saying the world would never need more than five computers, that science and medicine had already reached a pinnacle. Come to think of it 100 years ago people like you including serious 'real' scientists were saying how heavier than air manned flight would never be impossible..
The only reason many futurist visions remain impossible is because they lack the funding. University funding is still based on the theory that we must focus our resources on better 'buggy whips' and 'horse carts' and that these new fangled 'horseless carriages' will never amount to anything. I've seen it at first hand - they repeat the same experiment a thousand times, but are afraid to try anything radical or new.. it might get criticised in peer review and they could loose reputation and money.
Way back in 1990 I did some theoretical design work on nano-tech assemblers - advocates then estimated that with funding they were about 10 to 20 years in the future - they are still about 10 to 20 years in the future. Nano-tech actually got at least some of that funding but most of it got diverted off into more 'buggy whips' and improved 'horse carts'..
For true redundancy safety three is good but four is even better. Or if you want near total redundancy safety six. . . .
Urr.. Android?
Like. you don't exist. Citation needed ... or I don't believe you are real..
Also apply the 'homophobe rule', 'anyone who publicly exhibits as an extreme homophobe is almost certainly underneath a repressed homosexual'..
So anyone who publicly exhibits as an extreme paedo-hater is almost certainly underneath a repressed paedophile..
With recursive iteration (and guns all round) this could get interesting.
Ahh the amazing power of hindsight - or precognition.. The slightest change in starting circumstances can sometimes lead to such wildly different outcomes. -
".. imagine someone beating your skull in with a 2x4 while you were getting into your car in which you were going to get into a fatal 18 car pileup on the highway, .. causing you to die 20 minutes early.." .. saving XX lives .."
".. imagine someone beating your skull in with a 2x4 while you were getting into your car in which you were planning to cause a fatal 18 car pileup on the highway,
The person with the plank still faces a life in jail or execution.. Time to call Pre-crimes division..
If you want to talk about police not doing their jobs, just look at the UK, at Rotherham - 1400 rapes over 10 years - mostly against young teenage girls. (I think mostly about 11 to 14 yrs old) Many were reported but the local police did more or less nothing. There were two basic reasons identified. -
- Firstly many of the girls had been coerced or tricked into becoming 'prostitutes' - sex workers, so despite being underage their claims were dismissed automatically by police as untrustworthy..
- Secondly and maybe worse was extreme Political Correctness, the children were basically all white, the gang who were trafficking them and those who raped them were mostly Asian - and Islamic.
Then there's a lovely guy called Jimmy Savile who the police protected over claims of abuse made over about 5 decades.. Then there are the police, politicians and businessmen who ran a huge ring abusing children taken in by social care - in orphanages. The list goes on..
I don't know about America but I have this horrible feeling that the UK police are gradually evolving into Darleks..
'multimillionaire' doesn't get you to be in the 1% not nearly. Its not just about wealth. (here's my definition) To be a true '1%er' you have to earn more than about $10 to $50 million per year and have holdings worth over 1 billion (in tax havens) and you pay less than about 1% tax on your total income..
The 'obvious' solution is simple, easy - suspend legal processes, incinerate the tax havens with nuclear weapons, send in special forces to hunt them down and squeeze them till they bleed..
A more realistic solution is a hell of a lot more difficult. The real problem is that these people have corrupted politics, they have infiltrated the tax system and the banking and financial regulators, they have enough money that the legal system is almost completely ineffectual against them. When the richest don't pay taxes it means that everyone else has to pay more taxes - it ultimately means that the tax system doesn't supply enough money and the whole county gradually begins to fall apart... Maybe what is needed is a military revolution - the only problem with that is that they have their fingers firmly in the militaries finances as well..
Yeah just like musicians should just be content with a small salary and let the people who make the CD's & sell the mp3's make the money. And just like footballers should be content with small salaries while their teams still rake in the millions or billions.
You want to look at the UK tech industry. Before WWII the UK was actually the most advanced tech nation on Earth, even by the 1980's still number two or three now well it isn't there any more. Why? hell of a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones was that inventors working for companies were poorly paid, frequently ripped off, and rarely made a benefit from their inventions. All great demotivators.
If an inventor makes millions or billions for a company he (or she) should at least get some reward for that..
Citations? for a work that's not yet even published? that may never be published even with a working machine? that might not be published even if I was on the peer review gravy train. If you supply the time machine and $10 billion - maybe. .
Turing Machine Equivalency - Let me spell it out. - All you need to do is to read pretty much any old book on the general subject of AI (eg written before 1990). Most of them will say at some point (paraphrasing) ..in the past much AI research was based 'on the theory that the mind is a computer (a Turing machine)', they will then tell you that the model is now widely regarded as discredited because it failed/never succeeded..
The Turing model was only discredited because the scientists at the time couldn't make it work.. But in the 1970's and earlier no computer in the world was anywhere powerful enough to run a Strong AI. Like the man who flaps his arms up and down a few times then declares 'There I've proved that manned flight is impossible..' That's you as well.
The whole argument is summed up here - especially look in the section '9 Common Objections' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Stupid typo correction - NIS should be NIF (National Ignition Facility). :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ok a lot wrong with Prometheus, lets make it shine like something beautiful.. Lets look at some really bad movies.
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. - (Never in all of history has such promising source material lead at such cost to such a bad movie. Wooden boards in place of actors, Space ships should not be cubes, 'brain the size of a planet' was not meant literally, original Slartibardfarst was funnier, directors should not be made out of packing cases, overall design, etc, etc.)
Battlefield Earth. - (Travolta's Lament, Travolta's worst movie. )
Alien Vs Predator. - (Plot?, logic?, alien survival instincts? background story? Slow Stupid easy to kill aliens.)
Ghost Rider.. - (computer SFX can be worse than string, tape, and used toilet rolls! SFX worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Half Bad, redeeming features.
Alien 3 - (In total deviation from any logic or 'psychological' consistency on plot..)
Star Trek, First Contact - (crappy misuse of time travel)
Star Trek, Remake - (crappy misuse of time travel, NIS does not look anything like the interior of an advanced spaceship.)
Star Trek The Search for Spock - (stretches credulity.)
Star Trek Generations - (Just horribly wrong.)
Terminator Salvation - (Good up to last 30 minutes, total plot fail. Sickening moral message at end.)
Star Wars - Preludes 1, 2, 3 - (R2D2 and C3P0 stretch credibility, computer effects already look a little dated - slight visual unreality, Jar Jar Binks (worked in stories something went horribly wrong there). )
See now Prometheus looks pretty good.. (I was only going to write a couple of lines - verbal diarrhoea strikes again..)
The way it seems with alien 3 was that someone didn't like the original script, and so replaced it with the abomination we know. Sigourney Weaver may have had something to do with it - originally she wasn't going to do Alien3 and so the original wasn't going to include Ripley. The main characters included Newt and I think Hicks - and the story was basically set on Earth about 18 years after the film 'Aliens' ends. The bio-division basically catch an alien inside a host, take it to Earth, it escapes, and soon the whole Earth soon gets taken over and the remains of humanity have to evacuate.. In a fourth part (I think) the humans find a way to exterminate the aliens and retake the Earth. :(
There still exists a modified version published in the 'Aliens' comics series.. I once had a comic with the original version, but its been out of print (I think) since Alien3 came out.. Be worth a lot of money now.
In a Mars ship (with long term multi-year missions) maybe electric motors might be a better option than hydraulics. Heavier but with better extended reliability (no fluid to run out of), less complexity, -leading to lower overall weight considering maintenance costs. Other alternatives might include - water hydraulics, pneumatics, vacuum pneumatics, even steam..
BTW if you wanted to know the secret to Strong AI - and its pretty easy to find in the old books - its that the mind is a Turing Machine.. So the real inventor if there is one is Alan Turing... :)