Seriously. When I got a Mac with a hard drive and a disk drive, that was the bomb! I didn't have to swap 2 floppys in and out four times each just to copy a program.
Well, all y'all must be young. Really young. When I hear: "Old Apple computers," I'm thinking Mac Classic, Mac SE II, Apple 2. To my mind, that guy is wearing a bunch of modern Mac computers.
Based entirely on the headline:
1. How do cats committ suicide?
2. No wonder cat owners in the 1600's were believed to be witches.
3. How can you tell a kitten is schizophrenic? Ans: A CAT scan.
4. If common cat parasites cause schizophrenia, I better get an uncommon cat.
5. He got a common cat parasite and jumped off a ledge. Fortunately, he landed on his feet.
Sorry, but there is no such thing as an "Unnecessary Giant Monster Movie."
Now that you said it, yes. On my own, I thought they looked like salmon fillets cooked on the grill. I thought that because I like salmon fillets cooked on a grill. If I liked spaceships more than salmon, the pictures would look like spaceships.
So, does the article actually state the reason I hate the smell of sulfur? It talks about how I detect the smell of sulfur, but I don't see where it lives up to explaining the reason I hate the smell.
True enough! Schettino was able to "trip" his way out long before every one of his passengers! :)
Well, what the heck, I'll put in my two cents worth: Sully saved every one of his airplane passengers when they crashed in water. Schettino did not manage to save all of his boat passentgers when they crashed in water.
If you would not mind learning, perhaps somewhere around five years old, and then carrying with you into maturity the knowledge that you are the only extant member of Homo sapiens sapiens, that you were created in a lab by cloning a long dead version of you, perhaps with some missing bits of DNA filled in from other long dead individuals, then it is ok for you to belive it is ok to clone a Homo sapiens neandarthalensis.
I am a big fan of science, technology, and cloning. Despite that, I do not feel it reasonable to clone an intelligent, self-aware being, for the simple reason that one can not ask that self-aware being's permission to be created prior to its creation. To be clear, I am talking about asking the permission of the resultant clone, a clearly impossible thing to do, as the clone would have to first be created in order to ask its permission.
Why do I think cloning a sheep is ok but cloning a Neandarthal is not ok? In the same way that I feel it is ok to raise sheep, take their wool without permission, and eat lamb, but it is not ok to raise intelligent beings (in an owned flock / herd / etc: I am not talking about raising my own children), take things from them, etc.
Raising children raises an interesting point: I did not ask my childrens' permission to be created prior to creating them. So why would I feel that permission would be necessary to create a clone? Well, I think that a self-aware being created in the same manner as all of its peers, and who has peers, and who has a shared history with those peers, and who has a place in the world that is consistent with its peers would very likely give permission to be created. The individual thus created would be no more nor less likely to experience grave psychological trauma than any other individual. An individual created in a manner completely differently from every other individual, who was created just so a different species could learn about it, who would have no peers or just a few similarly created peers, would not be assured of giving permission to be created.
Again, ask yourself if you would be content to be the only member of your species, created by a different species to find out all about you. You might initially think: "Sure, glad to help," or "Why not? At least I'll be alive." Now think about it a little further. Who will you date? What will you do for fun? What if you can't communicate well with the species that is studying you (what if Neandarthal man can't speak, or has a very limited capacity for speech?). How will you feel after 15 years of being observed, of not really being a part of society? After 20 years? 30? 50?
Please note: cloning a group of Neandarthals in order to "create peers" is nonsense. You are simply creating more individuals who would have no real place in society. Having a few other clones would not truly help. My use of "peers" really refers to an entire society.
If you aren't willing to grow up as the only member, or one of a few members, of Homo sapiens sapiens to be studied by a different species, perhaps you should not be too quick to ask that of a Homo sapiens neandarthalensis.
OH MY GOODNESS!! It all makes sense now!! Now I understand why the Earth's equatorial zones, areas that experience all most no axial tilt, have no life. No wonder that we have only barren wastelands from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn.
Ok, sorry to be so sarcastic, and maybe I should read the actual article first. I do think that the rotation of the Earth and the presence of an atmosphere which can moderate incoming heat as well as redistribute it through the effects of wind are two really big sources of climate moderation. Recycling of gases and chemicals through volcanic and tectonic activity also affect climate. So does the amount of land mass, depth of oceans, ocean currents, glacial cover, etc. Frankly, I wonder if this computer might be suffering from a lack of good and/or complete data to run the simulation. Tidally locked planets would appear to be in trouble. Low axial tilt planets? I bet there are all kinds of areas on a low axial tilt planet that are still moderate enough to support life.
Thank-you. Well, that seems pretty close to the theatrical version. Not exact, but closer than the stuff nowadays with all sorts of characters that weren't even there the first go 'round. I appreciate the information.
Oh, guess I was punk'd by George Lucas. I do have a rectangular box that says Star Wars Trilogy THX Widescreen Edition, with Darth Vader's face on it. Just Darth. The back of the box reads: "The appeal of Star Wars has gone beyond anything I could have ever imagined. I am pleased that for the final video release of STAR WARS in its original version, we can present it with the best sound and picture quality yet available, thanks to THX Digital Mastering."
Rats. I figured that was just some clean-up of the video and audio, without any additions. His use of the term "original version" made me think it was the "original version." So, how is this one changed?
It is times like this that I am overjoyed to have a widescreen collector's edition VHS set of Episodes IV, V, and VI that was the last release of the original theatrical version. No updates, no extras, no nothing. Who knows, I might one day unwrap it and watch one of them!
As a biology undergrad, we were doing field work in Costa Rica, observing the behavior of leaf cutter ants. We tagged a few with liquid paper so that we could follow them as they went into and back out of their colony. Several of the ants we tagged were soon carried out by other ants and thrown onto the ants' rubbish pile.
I can take it or leave it when it comes to plot in this type of movie. Not against having a plot, but I am ok without it.
Wow! I thought I wanted to see Sucker Punch, but now I REALLY want to see Sucker Punch. I love cliched action scenes, explosions, and scantily clad lolitas.
"Eventually, even the universe itself will come to an end . . . there will be nothing left of the universe but darkness, emptiness and absolute cold." I believe that should state: "nothing left of the universe but darkness, emptiness, absolute cold and a restaurant staff getting ready for their next seating, in approximately 3 hours before now."
I am concerned about the anti-Mars approach. When anti-Mars contacts Mars, a rather incredible explosion/release of energy will begin. I suspect at some point, that explosive force will repel the remains of anti-Mars and Mars in opposite directions. Even if only a 1/4 of Mars is left to bash into us, we are doomed. And if 1/4 of anti-Mars hits us, well, doomed.
This was a problem with inital photon torpedos, which kept the matter in one half and the anti-matter in the other half, separated from the matter and hull by a magnetic field. Most of the matter and antimatter weren't involved in the explosion, because the intial explosion along the border propelled the antimatter away from the matter. Federation engineers developed new torpedos with pockets of antimatter in magnetic shields that were completely surrounded by matter. Much higher explosive yield for the same mass of antimatter.
It is possible to add fuel and restart a star's fire: it happens from time to time in binary star systems where one star is feeding off the other, or so I have read. I strongly doubt it could happen in a star system with planets anywhere near the size of our planets: our sun accounts for 98% of the matter in our entire solar system, so Jupiter and Saturn combined would be adding almost nothing. Perhaps in a system with a gas giant that bordered on being a star, but I don't know.
That was kind of my point. Those of us who don't know much about Neanderthals assume a lot. Plus, even our archaeological sources and interpretations of them are incomplete. So, making a decision about a person based on their having a certain type of DNA is pretty silly. I am reminded of all the pseudoscience employed for many years to endorse the fallacious idea that black people were genetically inferior to white people.
