/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6482918
Extraterrestrial beings

>>4718328
>random
I'm going to explain something to you now, and I want you to listen carefully.
It's not a strange rule.
The -ed ending was, for the longest time, the strange thing.
This is about the strong/weak verb distinction.
At the beginning of the history of English, almost all verbs were strong verbs, meaning that they changed their stems to denote tense changes, which survives today in words like caught, bought, swam, swum. Weak verbs simply take an ending in the past tense.
Gradually, over time, the English language has simplified to the point where almost all verbs are weak verbs, any and all new verbs that come into the language come into it as weak verbs, there is only one definite article, all nouns have natural gender, and case distinctions have all but disappeared.
The only "weird" thing about English is its spelling, which is largely based on the pronunciation of older forms of the language along with some words that were modified to show their Latin origins like "debt".

Hey guys, I got a great idea. What if, okay, what if, we didn't make a post about every report we made, and instead just relied on the mods to deal with the issue we reported. You know, because telling people we're reporting them can derail on-topic threads. Or something, I don't know.

I like wikipediaing random articles.

Like I mean have you ever read the wikipedia page on Ketchup?

Fascinating, purely fascinating.

What if?

Get this!

We terraform the Sahara desert!

So, It actually has tolerable living conditions!

Uncertainty principle negates determinism and is therefore the only thing making free will even possible at all. Regardless of the underlying uncertainty or "randomness" of your choices, the fact that only you will know your choice after it's been made, and no one else can determine it, means it was uniquely your choice, i.e free will.

Alternatively if everything is deterministic then all of your choices can be calculated by anybody and thus we would all be automatons following a script, i.e no free will.

If an omnipotent god exists then there can be no free will either because all of your choices can be determined by god in advance. Which leads to the question if an omnipotent god creates beings knowing in advance all the choices they are going to make, then how is this god not entirely responsible for the behaviour of its creations?

GUYS! GUYS! GUYS I HAVE A PENIS THEREFORE I EXIST!

>>1662707
The is the point. I wouldnt go as far as trying to go from surface to space. But it would be a lot easier. Also, circular tracks with a launch path is an option in reducing "overall length". Having a mass driver would make the fuel weight requirements less which would be a godsend within itself. And even so, things on the ground are far easier to maintain than things at varying distance upward to 240,000 miles.

Mass drivers are more practical and more doable with our current technology.