/sci/ - Science & Math

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Addition came out 3 minutes ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-y86El_Dwk

Pro-choice congresswoman, wife of a Space Shuttle commander, against the "No child left behind" thing.

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1046977-U.S.-Congresswomen-Gabrielle-Giffords-has-been-shot-in-Tucs
on-AZ.

RIP Gabrielle Giffords, you may not have been that great, but at least you were not a tea partier.

I remember when I first heard about this... I was going to tell /sci/, but I was too busy pic related'ing.

>>2168379
Much love to our spacebros. Something of value was lost that day.

>>2102713
Clearly, I am not unique. It's actually one of the things which bothers me. I am not unique. I am a meat Popsicle like anyone else. I have neurological oddities which make me distinct but not unique. I am a human being. Everything I've ever done, thought, or said could in principle be done, thought, or said by anyone else. In many cases, I know that I'm merely continuing the work of those who have come before. I spend a significant amount of time and effort retracing the steps of those who have come before.

One must not confuse uniqueness for distinctiveness.

I prefer Moon personally. Far superior sci-fi; though, sunshine hits me hard. I wish I could edit it, reshoot it, anything to get rid of Pinbacker and the pseudo-supramundane ending.

Mace for the win.

>>2053673
What you're identifying, perhaps correctly, perhaps incorrectly, is pretension. It's that air some people give off when they presume superiority.

The thing about it is, most of the population at this point seems to be of the prevalent belief that the human condition as it stands is desirable, unalterable, or sacred. When it comes to the transhumanistic view point, this belief is as offensive as the belief in God. Additionally, people who hold such a fundamentally wrong view of technology's place in transforming life are hobbled by their belief. They suffer from a lack of imagination which limits their potential; thus, they remain at a disadvantage when engaging against a well-informed practicing transhumanist.

tl;dr: some transhumanist have worked to become better than human and some humans become offended when transhumanist start to demonstrate superiority in domains of discourse considered taboo or impossible.

>>2013079
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."

I will watch c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. I have already seen such things in my mind, and I know they are real. I know they can be built. Now. No compromise, no uncertainty, no question about it. We have the technology. What is lacking is the will to use it.

William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.