I think asking a question like "why?" when faced with the universe if quite irrelevant and anthropomorphic.
Kind of like studying nature and trying to ask yourself why animals were "made" that way.
I ponder that for the longest time there was nothing. Until there was something. But asking "why?" seems kind of irrelevant. I woudl guess the answer is associated with thermodynamics and a tendency to increase entropy, and not decrease.
Yawn.
Can we at least have some evidence with our SCIENCE ?
How about the obvious fact that we have no idea how big the universe is. That all we see is THE VISIBLE universe. So hence there is a limit to how far we can observe / interact (speed of light). What if the laws of Physics change depending on which region of this immensely vast universe we exist in. Seem A LOT more reasonable that sci-fi multiverses.
I am ripping my hair out trying to get Farcry 2 to even RUN !
At the same time I'm playing Crysis (EA) and Dead Space (EA) on Maximum quality.
Both games are absolutely excellent.
I can't wait for Mirror's Edge.
Seems to me EA is helping keep PC games alive right now.
Boxx computers are selling machines with 4 cpu slots. Every server chip has 4 cores. Thats 16 cores in a machine that isn't event worthy of mention of Slashdot.
This Cray sounds like a half decent render farm, so what ?
Write back when Intel has finally manufactured 128 cores on one chip.
Now that would be newsworthy.
I think it's more likely life started in some BIG place, where there was a lot of raw materials to mix, a more stable environment and 6 billion more years to come about than on the early Earth.
Your example of the lottery is incorrect. No matter how many people enter a lottery, there is alway a winner. Not so with the origins of life, which I would say is more like throwing consecutive 6's on a dice. The more throws or people throwing, the more likely it will happen.
I think thats a very negative opinion.
There are companies like RED camera. A totally new startup with a big idea. That are totally taking on the previously big names and are changing the market from the high end down.
For all the reasons you mentioned above the existing US car manufacturers are dinosaurs who have been pushing SUV up to this point and still have no electric cars on the market.
I agree 100%
It is a very unlikely occurance however you frame it.
Hence my theory is that the greater you can increase the chances of this unlikely event happening then the more realistic the probablity of it happening.
I believe that reproducing complex hydrocarbons formed in space in huge galaxy sized nebulas. These seeding grounds have all the materials and time for a unique event like this to happen. And once it happened in the universe, it would spread exponentially, using comets, supernova etc...
I'm sorry. But if you will believe in unsubstantiated fiction and label it as reality, then you are going to find a lot of facts that will seem to have the sole purpose of destroying your immature childish beliefs.
Ooh, China is soo Evil.
We would never spy on people using the internet in the US...
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!
Between my ISP, RIAA, and the Goverment I am amazed my email even reaches me.
"There is NO evidence that Republicans are trying to disenfranchise anyone"
Are you frickin' retarded ?
Tax cuts for the rich.
Corporate special interests, big oil, War machine.
ALL THE REPUBLICANS DO IS RAPE EVERYONE ELSE AND EXTRACT AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE FOR THE RICH.
Yeah, the rednecks 'might' all go out and buy hdtv's but since rednecks are the white poor of this country, and the US economy is tanking, it is much more likely they will go out and buy cheap ass digital set top boxes.
Hell, who knows, maybe it will inspire a whole wave of trailer park theatre ? - joke
For those folks who love XP but are hankering for a newer appearance there is a new black color scheme called Royale Noir. It's pretty svelte, easy on the eyes and has a cool reflection highlight. I've been very happy with it and it works without any additional plugins since it's an offical Microsoft apperance.
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/
duh, it ain't Blu-ray it's HD television prices
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It's the expense of upgrading to a HD (1080P) TV that is I'm sure holding most people back.
There is no point buying blu-ray unless you have a HD set. 1080P sets are expensive. Crisis solved, no need to hock your blu-ray player yet.
Hugo Chavez and Castro are your examples of a uneducated public ?
How about BUSH and erm, BUSH ! Fool
The US has voted in this world class criminal twice and his father.
He has utterly butt fucked the US into oblivion and your taking pot shots at Chavez ? You fool.
Though the whole point of this thread is that life didn't emerge from the 'primordial soup' (unlikely event) but emerged out amongst infinite fields of complex hydrocarbon (almost infinitely more likely).
Considering the sheer amount of space & time proposed by the exogenesis theory, and lack of any experiment evidence and improbability of life emerging here. It make a lot more sense that the origins of basic organic molecular life are in space.
I beginning to believe this is a secret conspiracy to ruin Windows and benefit Apple.
That's my only explanation for these ads and how completely crap Microsoft has become (even though they have the BEST and most popular OS out there - XP)
How can you label something Junk unless you know what it is for ?
Have they experimented with removing all the Junk dna and tried to develope an animal like this ?
It seems totally absurd that nature would leave intact 95% of our dna as junk.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA)
Isn't this like a 5 year old kid running into a library and designating 95% of the books as junk, because they do not understand it.
Much like memory, I'm sure that although much of this dna may not be necessary on a day to day basis, it co-exist to support other more important dna in a more complex and interconnected manor.
by not providing reasonably priced mid-range computers ie. $1000 core 2 duo or core 2 quad machines. Makes me sad to think of all the families that forked out $1000 extra because they thought they had to have a mac to get email or use wikipedia. Also what is green about building a pc into a monitor only for it to be redundant the next year ? Pc towers are easy to repair and upgrade, taking advantage of easy to find cheap components (or high end if you like).
They seem to act like a monopoly in all their business practices eg. iTunes ipod exclusivity, their purchase of Final Cut and Logic Audio and subsequent closure of windows versions - which resulted in nearly all post production houses being full of these machines.
As you can tell I'm a pc evangelist. I am the only person I know who uses one. My shit runs a lot faster than theirs.
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Seems Kurzweil is getting a bit old for this tech stuff. He's starting to sound like my grandfather trying to describe the internet.
I think asking a question like "why?" when faced with the universe if quite irrelevant and anthropomorphic. Kind of like studying nature and trying to ask yourself why animals were "made" that way. I ponder that for the longest time there was nothing. Until there was something. But asking "why?" seems kind of irrelevant. I woudl guess the answer is associated with thermodynamics and a tendency to increase entropy, and not decrease.
Yawn. Can we at least have some evidence with our SCIENCE ? How about the obvious fact that we have no idea how big the universe is. That all we see is THE VISIBLE universe. So hence there is a limit to how far we can observe / interact (speed of light). What if the laws of Physics change depending on which region of this immensely vast universe we exist in. Seem A LOT more reasonable that sci-fi multiverses.
Don't kid yourself. Young fans are going to laugh their asses off at this dinosaur.
oh dear. Someone needs a life.
I am ripping my hair out trying to get Farcry 2 to even RUN ! At the same time I'm playing Crysis (EA) and Dead Space (EA) on Maximum quality. Both games are absolutely excellent. I can't wait for Mirror's Edge. Seems to me EA is helping keep PC games alive right now.
Boxx computers are selling machines with 4 cpu slots. Every server chip has 4 cores. Thats 16 cores in a machine that isn't event worthy of mention of Slashdot. This Cray sounds like a half decent render farm, so what ? Write back when Intel has finally manufactured 128 cores on one chip. Now that would be newsworthy.
I think it's more likely life started in some BIG place, where there was a lot of raw materials to mix, a more stable environment and 6 billion more years to come about than on the early Earth. Your example of the lottery is incorrect. No matter how many people enter a lottery, there is alway a winner. Not so with the origins of life, which I would say is more like throwing consecutive 6's on a dice. The more throws or people throwing, the more likely it will happen.
I think thats a very negative opinion. There are companies like RED camera. A totally new startup with a big idea. That are totally taking on the previously big names and are changing the market from the high end down. For all the reasons you mentioned above the existing US car manufacturers are dinosaurs who have been pushing SUV up to this point and still have no electric cars on the market.
Hence a universe of raw ingredients would be statistically a more likely place for basic life to start that on the earth.
I agree 100% It is a very unlikely occurance however you frame it. Hence my theory is that the greater you can increase the chances of this unlikely event happening then the more realistic the probablity of it happening. I believe that reproducing complex hydrocarbons formed in space in huge galaxy sized nebulas. These seeding grounds have all the materials and time for a unique event like this to happen. And once it happened in the universe, it would spread exponentially, using comets, supernova etc...
I'm sorry. But if you will believe in unsubstantiated fiction and label it as reality, then you are going to find a lot of facts that will seem to have the sole purpose of destroying your immature childish beliefs.
Couldn't a virus or rna strand be considered the first life ? Cell walls coming later.
Ooh, China is soo Evil. We would never spy on people using the internet in the US... ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! Between my ISP, RIAA, and the Goverment I am amazed my email even reaches me.
"There is NO evidence that Republicans are trying to disenfranchise anyone" Are you frickin' retarded ? Tax cuts for the rich. Corporate special interests, big oil, War machine. ALL THE REPUBLICANS DO IS RAPE EVERYONE ELSE AND EXTRACT AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE FOR THE RICH.
Agreed. I'm not paying taxes to those bigoted idiots. America will not survive another republican raping.
Yeah, the rednecks 'might' all go out and buy hdtv's but since rednecks are the white poor of this country, and the US economy is tanking, it is much more likely they will go out and buy cheap ass digital set top boxes. Hell, who knows, maybe it will inspire a whole wave of trailer park theatre ? - joke
For those folks who love XP but are hankering for a newer appearance there is a new black color scheme called Royale Noir. It's pretty svelte, easy on the eyes and has a cool reflection highlight. I've been very happy with it and it works without any additional plugins since it's an offical Microsoft apperance. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/
It's the expense of upgrading to a HD (1080P) TV that is I'm sure holding most people back. There is no point buying blu-ray unless you have a HD set. 1080P sets are expensive. Crisis solved, no need to hock your blu-ray player yet.
Hugo Chavez and Castro are your examples of a uneducated public ? How about BUSH and erm, BUSH ! Fool The US has voted in this world class criminal twice and his father. He has utterly butt fucked the US into oblivion and your taking pot shots at Chavez ? You fool.
Though the whole point of this thread is that life didn't emerge from the 'primordial soup' (unlikely event) but emerged out amongst infinite fields of complex hydrocarbon (almost infinitely more likely). Considering the sheer amount of space & time proposed by the exogenesis theory, and lack of any experiment evidence and improbability of life emerging here. It make a lot more sense that the origins of basic organic molecular life are in space.
I beginning to believe this is a secret conspiracy to ruin Windows and benefit Apple. That's my only explanation for these ads and how completely crap Microsoft has become (even though they have the BEST and most popular OS out there - XP)
How can you label something Junk unless you know what it is for ? Have they experimented with removing all the Junk dna and tried to develope an animal like this ? It seems totally absurd that nature would leave intact 95% of our dna as junk.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA) Isn't this like a 5 year old kid running into a library and designating 95% of the books as junk, because they do not understand it. Much like memory, I'm sure that although much of this dna may not be necessary on a day to day basis, it co-exist to support other more important dna in a more complex and interconnected manor.
The republicans also search out retards to breed for their special caste of dynastic leadership retards.
by not providing reasonably priced mid-range computers ie. $1000 core 2 duo or core 2 quad machines. Makes me sad to think of all the families that forked out $1000 extra because they thought they had to have a mac to get email or use wikipedia. Also what is green about building a pc into a monitor only for it to be redundant the next year ? Pc towers are easy to repair and upgrade, taking advantage of easy to find cheap components (or high end if you like). They seem to act like a monopoly in all their business practices eg. iTunes ipod exclusivity, their purchase of Final Cut and Logic Audio and subsequent closure of windows versions - which resulted in nearly all post production houses being full of these machines. As you can tell I'm a pc evangelist. I am the only person I know who uses one. My shit runs a lot faster than theirs.