in the US it seems you need some military application to get funding, but not so here in Japan. We make robots here to take care of the elderly, and our supercomputers are used to model the weather and for understanding earthquakes. the top super computers in the US are for modeling thermonuclear weapons. sick sick country.
Isn't it obvious? People choose Apple over Linux because they don't want to spend their evenings recompiling their kernal or whatever and memorizing arcane commands like:
mount-r -t iso9660/dev/device/cdrom
chmod a+x my_file
ls -l my_file
rpm -qpl my_new_file.rpm
That might look like a barrel of all night fun for some of you, but it's PITA goobly-gook to the majority of humankind.
Protein folding is important, however discovery of ETI ranks up somewhere along with; fire, wheel, tools, calculus.
Find a protein, you change many lives for the better.
Find ET, and you change the course of the human race forever.
We have the equivalent of ETI here on Earth. It's called the cuttlefish. Has it changed the course of the human race? Let's try to figure our this creature, or our own human minds, before dedicating significant resources to searching for a intergalactic bigfoot.
Upcoming NOVA program on the cuttlefish
Kings of Camouflage:Meet the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/
>Protein folding is important, however discovery of ETI ranks up somewhere along with; fire, wheel, tools, calculus.
Find a protein, you change many lives for the better.
Find ET, and you change the course of the human race forever.
We have the equilivant of alien intelligence here on earth, in the form on the cuttlefish. Let's figure that creature our before trying to find ANOTHER one.
NOVA Program
Kings of Camouflage: Meet the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/
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in the US it seems you need some military application to get funding, but not so here in Japan. We make robots here to take care of the elderly, and our supercomputers are used to model the weather and for understanding earthquakes. the top super computers in the US are for modeling thermonuclear weapons. sick sick country.
Isn't it obvious? People choose Apple over Linux because they don't want to spend their evenings recompiling their kernal or whatever and memorizing arcane commands like: /dev/device /cdrom
mount-r -t iso9660
chmod a+x my_file
ls -l my_file
rpm -qpl my_new_file.rpm
That might look like a barrel of all night fun for some of you, but it's PITA goobly-gook to the majority of humankind.
You could be, Mr./Ms. Anonymous Coward.
It's disheartening that society is dedicating massive resources to finding new life, while allowing Life on Earth to rapidly disappear.
Red List of Threatened Species
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
Find a protein, you change many lives for the better.
Find ET, and you change the course of the human race forever.
We have the equivalent of ETI here on Earth. It's called the cuttlefish. Has it changed the course of the human race? Let's try to figure our this creature, or our own human minds, before dedicating significant resources to searching for a intergalactic bigfoot.
I suggest reading Rare Earth before taking the search for ETI too seriously.
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/rare_earth_000209.html/
Upcoming NOVA program on the cuttlefish
Kings of Camouflage:Meet the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/
>Protein folding is important, however discovery of ETI ranks up somewhere along with; fire, wheel, tools, calculus. Find a protein, you change many lives for the better. Find ET, and you change the course of the human race forever. We have the equilivant of alien intelligence here on earth, in the form on the cuttlefish. Let's figure that creature our before trying to find ANOTHER one. NOVA Program Kings of Camouflage: Meet the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/