/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4884621
So why don't they attack phones? My phone can do more than what that guy's eye can do.

>>4866892
Insects, yes. Dinosaurs, no. Insects don't have lungs. The oxygen concentration of the air directly affects how large they can get.

>>4743376
This brings up a significant question IMHO. If others do most of the work and come up with the most ingenious ideas, and I'm the one who simply puts it together, am I the one deserving fame? A friend and I were arguing this about Elvis and Elvis's role in creating Rock and Roll.

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI9CvipHl_c
Both my image and link are trips into a black hole.

The singularity at the center of the black hole is an infinitely dense mass where physics as we understand it breaks down. The surrounding area is just space, but from afar it appears as a black envelope encompassing the black hole. This is because no light can escape upon getting that close to the black hole.

>>4716718
Well what's your time zone?

It's a love hate relationship.

>>4467904
The supplements I'm fine with. As for his ideas about when the singularity will hit, their obviously the product of his fear of death. I'd take everything he says with a grain of salt.

>>4417816
I don't like referring to transhumanism as a "movement" because that implies that the majority of people are "anti-transhumanism". Sure, science fiction often thinks up transhumanistic concepts that shock the public's sensibilities, but if people were really against supplementing the human condition then they wouldn't like prosthetics, drugs, or the dependence on modern technology (e.g. smartphones).

For the same reason it is hard to believe that there is an elephant in my apartment. I can't believe that which has no supporting evidence.

If we don't engineer ourselves while fighting the brute forces of natural selection then our genes will surely drift into a state of disease and dysfunction. Designing ourselves is the only alternative to survival of the fittest, and is preferable given our own power and the destructive nature of "survival of the fittest".

We must simply maintain a humility when redesigning ourselves else we risk wiping ourselves out due to our proven shortsightedness. One change to the majority of humanity, no matter how mundane, could result in our extinction.

>>3984851
So it increases the enjoyment of otherwise enjoyable tasks as opposed to producing happiness? In science terms, I need a catalyst?

>>3984938
The pic is from the webcomic Dresden Codak. Be warned, new comics come out biannually... if one is lucky.

>>3979910

I thought this too. He's slipping.

I liked this Kim.

>>3964519
Lower it down. I would assume you'd have large hovercrafts to stabilize the cable as it came through the atmosphere to the anchoring point. Not an intractable problem.

>>3948156
>The Sun
Sorry friend, but nuclear energy doesn't come from THE Sun. It comes from stars.

Now let's talk about how all energy comes from the Big Bang! :D

Thoughts?

>>3891869

Yeah, seriously.

Humans have goals and sometimes other humans get in the way of those goals. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with violence.

>>3843453
I blogged that last week. It had 300 views then. The next day it had a quarter of a million views. Now it has 4 million views.
>LsOo3jzkhYA

I watched well over 20 times.

>>3834327
>implying you need exactly as much sunlight as Earth

IMHO:
- We WON'T find life or the evidence of past life on Mars, Europa, or anywhere within the Sol system outside of Earth.
- We WILL discover life indirectly by observing an oxygen rich atmosphere on earth like exoplanets within the century.
- There WON'T be any intelligent life within earshot because intelligent life very rarely if ever gets off it's home planet before going extinct.

>>3804949

>>3803346
That would reduce ground level visibility, thereby defeating the entire reason the lights were put up.

All we can do is stop using street lights that shine in every direction in favor of lights with hoods, focusing all of their light downward. What reflects back upward from the ground can't be helped unless we construct a giant mirror dome over the urban area in question.

>>3799381
Because I can't knowingly say that ocean and space are on the same level when they just aren't, if I go by size, mass, and variability in conditions. Such as the 0 - 100'C 1atm oxygen/nitrogen planet which came out of space to partially form the ocean you and I know and love.

>>3799383
I agree with Mad here. Secure resources for modern electronics via undersea REE mining with a clear goal on obtaining more from the asteroids in the near future. Doesn't seem too bad.

Think of what? The Earth? That dumbass wallpaper?