genes. it takes 100,000 genes to make a human. it takes 100,000 genes to make a worm. ie the animals on the planet were reversed engineered from man. the other thing about genes are that they are computer programs. dear danielost, "proof of no god": the actual numbers are much lower. a human has about 25,000 genes http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/science/21gene.html?ex=1188014400&en=3758e41da905cb3c&ei=5070 <b
there is no scientific definition of "Race". It's purely a social construct. i totally agree. that's what I meant by saying: naturally, "race" is a soft definition, as any combination of genes is theoretically possible. also, i must admit i meant to write: "alleles" instead of "genes". sometimes the typing is faster than the thinking... I think the probl
I want to kill the piece of dog do do who invoked the council of nicea. good news for you! he's already dead.
Here is why I belive God created life. A car would never just randomly appear in the woods yawn. you are too intelligent for that kind of half-baked bollox. the likelyhood of a car appearing is zero. the likelyhood of god "making" a car appear is the same. The simplest of bacteria are like fairly advanced robots. yes. which is why it took millions of years for bacteria to evolve. have you read my
and the Gospels were written within the living memory of Jesus. Living memory is that time extending to when everyone who has known people who knew of a person or even have died actually, the gospel of john was written 90-120AD. the bible canon was assembled in the 4th century AD (council of nicea, 325AD). Please also see my earlier posts.
Well, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein (two fairly well known scientists) would disagree with you. Both were Deists (believed in God). "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of t
in Clarke's Songs of a Distant Earth haven't read it, though i think i shall i think cost is something hard to predict at this point. point taken. and incidentally free of religion i think that the matter of religion is key to the self-understanding of a human, and that all sorts of technology may be rejected on "religious grounds". i find it logical that like yehovah
denyasis, please allow me to elaborate... essentially the same across individuals there are a lot of sublte differences that can be very important. There are a large diversity of small changes in the DNA of most genes, that can manifest in single amino acid changes in proteins, which can affect functions like catalytic rates. these are called polymorphisms, and different "versions" of a gene are called "allel
we will NOT hijack this thread for another God debate. I like this thread. me, too. let's stay focused. i don't believe anything serious was meant by the comment 1. yes, therefore 2. and absolutely 3.!
I'll make this a new post, but it is also an extension of the previous one. In my mind, the question we have to answer much before we can even think of space colonization is: "what does it mean to be human?" i don't know if cybernetics or genetic engineering will force us to answer this question first, but i think we will get there. A third discipline will raise this question, later(?): neuroscience. Just like we do not need to fully understand the inner ear in order t
You would need parents, but that would defeat the purpose of the artificial womb in the first place. you don't need parents. the ship could simulate parents, or BE the parent. all of this could create interesting psychological situations, which would be great for writing a story. how does the first crew-member cope with narcissm? perhaps for that reason, several humans must be raised in the first place, as a skeleton crew? what if something goes wro
hi all, very interesting thread. I'd (obviously) like to chime in on some of the things that have been discussed. 1.1 my favourite idea of a "colony ship" isn't really a ship at all. its a small von neumann craft carrying -mostly- information. and some mining and production equipment and a smelter. perhaps some frozen DNA library, though that would be debatable. it would be small enough to accelerate to significant fractions of C, and with no need to worry about preserving life on
Also, you can line up ship production orders, even when the necessary technology is still being researched. why not technologies? i want to be able to click somewhere in the tech tree and have the research start automatically as soon as the resources are available. if intermediate technologies are required to lead up to where i clicked, they should then automatically be researched as needed. as it stands, i have to "earmark" funds for research, that then aren't used
This contract clause would prevent the swiss banker from ending up being the only one encouraging attacks on the galaxy's super power, which would not be good for his business, or his health. It would be much more likely for an annoyed super power to take steps to eliminate the swiss banker, since the swiss banker was carrying out the deceased empire's terrorism. By continuing like this the swiss banker is migrating from businessman to a terrorist himself. <b
Well, most important is the removal of the instaflip colonizing, everything else isn't that bad. i hear you! this has to be just about the MOST annoying part of the game right now. what's there to flip anyway? first i am forced to annihilate all life on a planet, and then the rocks flip on me?! come on! a) culture in a system must be reset to ZERO once the planet is wiped out. b) a newly colonized planet should have "cultural immunity"
It has a pale blue color Liquid O2 and solid O2 are clear substances with a light sea-blue color. so we are talking colors now? here is a quote from a nice, blue website for you: "Aside from O2, oxygen may be referred to as GOX in its gaseous form, and LOX in its liquid form." http://www.uigi.com/oxygen.html these guys are sell
danielost: there is no shame in being wrong- it's how we learn! everybody is wrong sometime. wisdom is acknowledging when we are wrong, and then trying to get it right. foolishness is denial of the need to learn. i wish i could learn everything! because i can't, i must stick to learning what i deem most important.
You can't get much more circular that a brain working hard trying to figure how the brain works. There is a level of truth here. Is it even physically possible for any one person to fully understand the brain? After all, a computer can't fully simulate and analyze the same computer. i agree with you here, to the degree of the individual. which does not mean that we cannot understand the function of the brain as a collective, and aide
before you can get these two elements to fuse together, you have to provide some sort of spark. like say from a match. precisely. which means that after the reaction, they are no longer elemental, but a compound. which changes their properties. a lot. which is why you can't chemically say that 2 H2 and O2 is like 2 H2O (notice the stoichiometry). rocket fuel isn't h2 o2 it is h2 o LOX is, like
and under the right conditions h2 o will blow up to. as long as it isn't water. sorry, H2O is always water.
So who exactly watching the "self" watching the firing of neurons which came to the conclusion that self is the construction of the brain? the fMRI, presumably. and the technicians and the research scientist. Also as with "I am a strange loop" aren't loops usually circular? no doubt, the circularity award goes to you. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" bor
you did get one thing wrong the soul doesn't live in the brain. it lives in the heart d'oh! *smacks forehead*
standard high-energy solid rocket fuel: primarily ammonium perchlorate powder (an oxidizer), combined with fine aluminium powder (a fuel). you mean you never heard of the rocket fuel hydrogen and oxygen mix. while we DO "run" on O2, we DO NOT "run" on H2. H2 is not part of our normal environment. while H2 and O2 can be used as a rocket fuel, it is not the standard fuel (too inefficient). also, O2 can be poisonous at high partial pressu
we run on rocket fuel, we need two poisons. everyday. please don't say that anymore. i don't know WHAT you eat, but if you eat rocket fuel, you're dead. standard high-energy solid rocket fuel: primarily ammonium perchlorate powder (an oxidizer), combined with fine aluminium powder (a fuel). as for the poisons, i can only speculate. but bear in mind: everything is a poison, if used in the r
Yet atheist even debate if "I" exist. In order for an atheist to deny the existence of God he must also deny his own existence. don't take this personally, but what a hair-bending bunch of bull! atheism != existentialism This is what happening with books like "I am a strange loop" which states that "I" is an illusion created by the brain. "I", if you mean the conception of a "self", it is inde
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