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Provost Zakharov Sat Dec 18 07:27:24 2010 No.2220156 [Reply] [Original]

"The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say "It cannot be done."

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:29:24 2010 No.2220158 Well, I'm one hell of a skeptic researcher, and while I'm not a pessimist, I'm no optimist either. What now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:32:10 2010 No.2220167 >>2220158 f(op's statement is false<or>you're lying) yes

Provost Zakharov Sat Dec 18 07:33:24 2010 No.2220170
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The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain. What it can do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them. Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There are no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance, we can in theory splice the native plants' talent for nitrogen fixation into a terran plant.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Dec 18 07:34:24 2010 No.2220173 File: 32 KB, 255x254, zhakarov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:36:33 2010 No.2220177 SMAC citations. Need new pants.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Dec 18 07:39:24 2010 No.2220184 >>2220170 I can't be the only one that thinks this looks like a future version of Michio Kaku.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:39:24 2010 No.2220185 skeptic yes. pessimist no. Also Provost Zakharov is the best leader alpha centauri ever had. LONG LIVE THE UNIVERSITY!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:42:24 2010 No.2220191 File: 32 KB, 163x194, Deirdre.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:43:24 2010 No.2220193 File: 32 KB, 401x271, 0c9e9773-86ff-4e4f-98e4-f7b572d35f7c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2220184 It would be awesome if Kaku led a faction...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:46:24 2010 No.2220197 I'm a pessimist. I keep telling myself it's never going to work until I stumble on the proof. Then I go to a conference and spend an hour telling everyone how this is probably a dead end path. Repeat next year.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:47:24 2010 No.2220198 >>2220191 Fuck you and your hive mind, Skye.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Dec 18 07:51:24 2010 No.2220201 File: 38 KB, 577x488, itotallysentanemailtokaku.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2220193 This may be interesting to witness.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:52:24 2010 No.2220202 >>2220197 :)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:53:24 2010 No.2220204 >>2220201 new operation at hand?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:54:24 2010 No.2220207 You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but may we ask this question--will we too catch the planetdeath disease?

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Dec 18 07:54:24 2010 No.2220208 File: 34 KB, 390x344, 1272570775818.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2220204

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:54:24 2010 No.2220209 >>2220198 Watch what you say about her, she's the best friend the university has! Seriously, she kept giving me level 4 research in exchange for my level 2's. More than Miriam would do.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 07:58:24 2010 No.2220222 >>2220209 Deidre has always been kind of an ass to me. Well, not as much as Santiago or Miriam, but they are real bitches.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 08:01:24 2010 No.2220230 File: 114 KB, 360x540, University_of_Tokyo_-_faction_leader.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2220193 You DO know that Alpha Centauri faction files are really easy to edit?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 08:01:24 2010 No.2220231 File: 20 KB, 640x480, miriam.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2220193 Someone should cast him to make a live action series based on SMAC.

Anonymous Sat Dec 18 08:01:24 2010 No.2220233

>>2220209
The fuck bitch? When I play as Zakharov I am practically light years ahead of everyone else technologically. What I do get from other factions is some delicious energy funds in exchange for some research I did 20 turns ago. Also all Miriam gets reasonably quickly are copters, nothing else.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 08:05:24 2010 No.2220238 Both types of scientists were instrumental to science's and natural philosophy's success. >>2220170 There is too a gene for trunks.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Dec 18 08:07:24 2010 No.2220245 File: 73 KB, 1144x735, 1266424402402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2220231

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