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Today, 05:01 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Dyson swarm or interstellar colonisation — which would logically be done first? in Life in Space

Planet-based populations were not my main concern. Planets can't dodge, but space habitats are just large spacecraft. Tow them where you need them,...

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Today, 04:57 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

Well, whatever. The point was that it's not science.

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Today, 04:46 AM

Mudskipper started a thread 'Ghost in the machine' a false dichotomy? in Science and Technology

I don't agree that matter, and things made of matter are just machines...I think the 'ghost in the machine' is some sort of false dichotomy. It...

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Today, 04:41 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

as there wasn't much else option, wasn't it just 'thinking'?

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Today, 04:38 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

Bunkum. We knew plenty about the world. We just didn't know how or why the world worked the way that it does. So we just made up our own explanations...

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Today, 04:31 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Best scenario for sending Jupiter into the Sun? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Yes, I said that they were. But the powers that be of the West weren't always against it as strongly as we are today. In some instances it was...

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Today, 03:30 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

Also making a strong wheel is going to take some development.

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Today, 03:25 AM

astrotimer replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

It was the first step to science. Some one did not just wake up one morning and said I got and idea and I will call it science. If you wanted to...

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Today, 02:44 AM

KaiYeves started a thread Thread Titles That Would Make Good Titles for Other Things in Fun-n-Games

Every now and then, I see a thread title that I think would make a good title or name for something else (a rock band, an album, a detective story,...

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Today, 02:28 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

Maybe. And maybe not. Show me an example of such a zombie (other than me before coffee!), and some hard evidence that it truly has no...

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Today, 02:28 AM

swampyankee replied to a thread Best scenario for sending Jupiter into the Sun? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Yes, I'm quite aware of that, and quite a few incidents of max extermination of an ethnic group (the Carthaginians by Rome, Armenians by the...

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Today, 02:24 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

Sleds and dragging poles were used for many thousands of years before the wheel was invented. Heck, Aztecs HAD the wheel, and yet didn't make the...

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cjameshuff replied to a thread Second explosive in Science and Technology

Alchemists had standardized procedures for producing mineral acids including nitric acid by the 13th century. It's unlikely nitroglycerin was the...

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Today, 02:17 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Dyson swarm or interstellar colonisation — which would logically be done first? in Life in Space

I can't quite follow your logic. Are you saying that a competitor is the ONLY reason for colonizing other stars quickly? And what advantage would...

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Today, 02:14 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

Maybe the first step to testing a new food, is to rub it on the skin...then rub it on the tongue...etc......or maybe just feed it to the unpopular...

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Today, 02:10 AM

swampyankee replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

They may have observed what animals ate, but they may also have eaten small samples, and suffered the occasional instances of severe pain or watched...

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Today, 01:53 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Slit pupils in Science and Technology

I read that cats aren't very good at processing visual information about, say something moving behind a fence, where as humans cane easily do...

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Today, 01:51 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

I don't agree that matter, and things made of matter are just machines...I think the 'ghost in the machine' is some sort of false dichotomy. It seems...

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Today, 01:44 AM

swampyankee replied to a thread Slit pupils in Science and Technology

It probably gives cats better night vision, but their visual acuity and color vision are both inferior to many other animals, including humans.

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Today, 01:39 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

yes, but when humans moved to a new area of the world where there were different plants, they may have used animals/dogs to test the new foods...

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Today, 01:23 AM

swampyankee replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

People ate before they domesticated dogs. If I remember, field biologists found that many animals showed behavior that indicated that grazing,...

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Today, 01:14 AM

swampyankee replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

I believe they've found that some animals make mental maps of space. Why not mental maps in time? In any case, consciousness is not well-defined....

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Today, 12:27 AM

profloater replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

To see the sun does not require consciousness, but to model it does, I think

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Yesterday, 10:49 PM

PetersCreek replied to a thread Adventures in DIY in Off-Topic Babbling

I still have a lot of wiping to go but the tile is set and grouted: Trim will be next...but will wait until after vacation.

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Yesterday, 09:32 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

I have wondered how people first determined which plants were edible, and which were poisonous....did they use dogs maybe? If a dog ate it and...

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Yesterday, 09:25 PM

astrotimer replied to a thread Is scientific method obvious? in Science and Technology

The formal scientific method probably but people have experimenting since we were humans, Try strange plant or animal if you do not die that is food...

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Yesterday, 09:25 PM

Heid the Ba' replied to a thread He might have been born in Kenya . . . in Off-Topic Babbling

Exactly. Once Niewiadoma couldn't drop them on the final climb there was going to be a Dutch winner. It would but I can't see a Dutch win,...

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