*shrug*
goddidit.
goddidit.
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.
Extreme examples to counter that with, but I suppose I should take up smoking and heavy drinking. After all, we're adaptable.Blue Herring wrote:
People have been sitting to shit for a long time. The interesting thing about organisms is adaptability; I doubt we're hurting ourselves by sitting to crap.
i dont see what youre trying to accomplish with that counter example
Sitting to defecate = a proven carcinogen and a liver killer?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Extreme examples to counter that with, but I suppose I should take up smoking and heavy drinking. After all, we're adaptable.Blue Herring wrote:
People have been sitting to shit for a long time. The interesting thing about organisms is adaptability; I doubt we're hurting ourselves by sitting to crap.
Seriously?
no shit . . .
I suppose the difference there would be that one is a large ingestion of toxic chemicals while the other is probably just a matter of shape and form. Yeah, over time I'm sure our species could adapt to it, but you'd be a goner. I don't think there's much risk to angling yourself wrong whilst crapping.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Extreme examples to counter that with, but I suppose I should take up smoking and heavy drinking. After all, we're adaptable.Blue Herring wrote:
People have been sitting to shit for a long time. The interesting thing about organisms is adaptability; I doubt we're hurting ourselves by sitting to crap.
"Extreme examples."Poseidon wrote:
Sitting to defecate = a proven carcinogen and a liver killer?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Extreme examples to counter that with, but I suppose I should take up smoking and heavy drinking. After all, we're adaptable.Blue Herring wrote:
People have been sitting to shit for a long time. The interesting thing about organisms is adaptability; I doubt we're hurting ourselves by sitting to crap.
Seriously?
Do I have to spell it out?
e-x-t-r-e-m-e-e-x-aw fuck it.
Boiling frogs.
You don't boil frogs. You saute them in white wine with butter and garlicBlue Herring wrote:
Boiling frogs.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Well you mainly do it to torture them.Jay wrote:
You don't boil frogs. You saute them in white wine with butter and garlicBlue Herring wrote:
Boiling frogs.
Ahh, i cBlue Herring wrote:
Well you mainly do it to torture them.Jay wrote:
You don't boil frogs. You saute them in white wine with butter and garlicBlue Herring wrote:
Boiling frogs.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
RTHKI wrote:
i dont see what youre trying to accomplish with that counter example
The point WAS to state that "doing something that's bad for you isn't harmful, since your species is an adaptable organism" is fallacy. The point WAS NOT to say that sitting to poop is as harmful as smoking or heavy drinking. You gotta look at things from different angles.RTHKI wrote:
which there was like...no point at all in giving
And no, I'm not going to stop sitting to poop any more than I'm going to throw away my tumor-causing cell phone.
Well, my point wasn't "doing something bad for you is okay" either. My point was something like the way we crap, despite what we were originally built to do(squat), after a long period of time sitting to crap, I doubt that it matters anymore. Same reason we stand upright and standing on all fours is actually difficult, despite what we once were undoubtedly stood on all fours.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
RTHKI wrote:
i dont see what youre trying to accomplish with that counter exampleThe point WAS to state that "doing something that's bad for you isn't harmful, since your species is an adaptable organism" is fallacy. The point WAS NOT to say that sitting to poop is as harmful as smoking or heavy drinking. You gotta look at things from different angles.RTHKI wrote:
which there was like...no point at all in giving
And no, I'm not going to stop sitting to poop any more than I'm going to throw away my tumor-causing cell phone.
Politics is what has and will keep us in LEO for some time to come.Poseidon wrote:
Good article from NASA's chief Charles Bolden on American plans post-space shuttle program, why the Constellation program was canned and how America will work with Russia for LEO operations. Also mentions that the ultimate goal is to, of course, get Americans into deep space.http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nasas-cha … d=13620479I always divide it into two things. One is access to space, access to Low Earth Orbit, and the other is exploration of space or exploration beyond Low Earth Orbit.
What will be significantly different from the way we've always done it before is that NASA will no longer procure vehicles and operate them for Low Earth Orbit activities. We are going to completely rely on our partners to do that work.
We'll still have oversight in terms of safety and engineering and the like, but we are not going to over-prescribe what they do and how they do it. They know that we want them to be able to carry humans and cargo to the International Space Station and other places, and we're just going to sit back and let them tell us when they need our help in determining how you do that.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 143159.htm
!!!ScienceDaily (June 3, 2011) — Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And so the famous paradox: how can we know reality if we cannot measure it without distorting it?
An international team of researchers, led by University of Toronto physicist Aephraim Steinberg of the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, has found a way to do just that by applying a modern measurement technique to the historic two-slit interferometer experiment in which a beam of light shone through two slits results in an interference pattern on a screen behind.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Very cool lowing
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
go canada
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 104014.htm
And maybe legions of biochem students will have to learn maths up to qm now. "A vector is an arrow! How can a vector be a function aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah"
Extremely neat. Stern & Gerlach eat your heart out.ScienceDaily (June 4, 2011) — Do the principles of quantum mechanics apply to biological systems? Until now, says Prof. Ron Naaman of the Institute's Chemical Physics Department (Faculty of Chemistry), both biologists and physicists have considered quantum systems and biological molecules to be like apples and oranges. But research he conducted together with scientists in Germany, which appeared recently in Science, shows that a biological molecule -- DNA -- can discern between quantum states known as spin.
And maybe legions of biochem students will have to learn maths up to qm now. "A vector is an arrow! How can a vector be a function aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah"
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Sweet justice. I got tired of seeing the life sciences majors taking "math/physics for housewives" (as everyone called it--essentially algebra, vice calculus-based curricula).Spark wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110331104014.htmExtremely neat. Stern & Gerlach eat your heart out.ScienceDaily (June 4, 2011) — Do the principles of quantum mechanics apply to biological systems? Until now, says Prof. Ron Naaman of the Institute's Chemical Physics Department (Faculty of Chemistry), both biologists and physicists have considered quantum systems and biological molecules to be like apples and oranges. But research he conducted together with scientists in Germany, which appeared recently in Science, shows that a biological molecule -- DNA -- can discern between quantum states known as spin.
And maybe legions of biochem students will have to learn maths up to qm now. "A vector is an arrow! How can a vector be a function aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah"
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
ive met him. and take physics at u of t.Spark wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110602143159.htm!!!ScienceDaily (June 3, 2011) — Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And so the famous paradox: how can we know reality if we cannot measure it without distorting it?
An international team of researchers, led by University of Toronto physicist Aephraim Steinberg of the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, has found a way to do just that by applying a modern measurement technique to the historic two-slit interferometer experiment in which a beam of light shone through two slits results in an interference pattern on a screen behind.
Holy balls, massive solar CME days ago.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunea … blast.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunea … blast.html
NASA wrote:
This not-squarely Earth-directed CME is moving at 1400 km/s according to NASA models. The CME should deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of June 8th or June 9th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the CME arrives.
I need around tree fiddy.