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the greatest comment ever! I will not stop laughing for a long while. You made my day Juicy.

Phi is right: there are conflicts. There is a tendency nowadays to privatize almost everything, but IMHO it is very dangerous. The private sector does not function on the basis of democracy. The goal of profit-only is not the same as the goal of wealth-for-all. Profit-only conducts to slavery. And profit-only may drive to war. These are very sad perspectives. Our generation should act more wisely.

Actually I am losing my hear and a part of my skull has become reflective. But that was not what my prof was intending to say.

Hi Pan. There is an evident lack of interest, isn't it? Our Milky Way galaxy makes a full round each 225 million years. from this site: http://www.universetoday.com/23870/the-milky-ways-rotation/ (emphasis mine) A quick calculation, since its oldest possible formation was about 13,2 billion years ago, gives a result of about 58 rotations, considering a regular rotation rate. These other galaxies the OP speaks about are so young that they had time to make only a few rotations. How is that possible?

shhht, you are ruining my project.

That was too complicated for my poor mind. Could you rephrase it otherwise?

Well a random mutation arises from a living entity. Random string appears from "nowhere" or how do you call the right beginning of the procedure. I suppose there must be a way to put the difference into mathematics. Maybe you could use colors to make the difference, red for mutations & blue for the others. That is if you want to keep track of the origins. Color could be represented by a 2nd number. Maybe it gets too complicated and is simpler without differentiation...I don't know. _________________ edit After some thinking, the color idea will make a mess. Forget it. Better keeping things simple. You can make it complicated afterwards.

The probability for Homo Sapiens to extinct is linked to the probability for him to loose its intellectual faculties. If humans for some inexplicable reason come to loose their intelligence, they will go extinct rather quickly. IMHO only medicine can save us, colonizing other planets has only the meaning to escape the planet we are currently destroying. In short, my answer to the OP is yes.

My professor told me "ce n'est pas penser qu'il faut faire, c'est réfléchir" I don't know how to translate that. -------------------------------------- Something like "You don't have to think, you have to ponder"

It is said in the article that they don't know if it is a rocky planet. from NASA.

You are supposing that inside the mechanism of evolution there is a "clic" that recognizes the correct from the incorrect. The correct is the word that fits the dictionary. I don't know if evolution works like that. Because if it were the case, the incorrect would be discarded in the first place and the whole thing would have stopped at generation 1, since not a single word would be correct at this time. --------------------------------- Maybe you should do the following: insert random strings, as long no word from the dictionary arises, nothing happens. After some time, a word will appear from randomness, that will be generation 0: the start. Then you must make this word reproduce itself, with mutations. All the errors will be discarded. Only the right words will survive. At the same time, don't stop the first step: words appearing from random may continue to appear and create new "generation zero's". And look at what is happening.

Offer that to me and I will not return.

Lovelock would ask if this planet has an atmosphere. Because if it has no atmosphere, the chances of finding any form of life life there are very weak, following his hypothesis.

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So you read Schrodinger: what was his answer to the question?

Brisbane? So you are from the antipodes. This Internet is truly amazing.

I didn't know that expression. I knew U.T.T. (Under The Table). What industry?

Right. Interesting is the parallel with tax haven countries: excerpts from the wiki article (emphasis mine) And indeed some countries clear as water like Luxembourg (number 11) are listed winner on the transparency record. One may notice also Singapore (5) & Switzerland (9). See below http://www.gizmag.com/transparency-international-corruption-perceptions-index/20730/picture/149956/ My personnal view is that wonderful wealthy peacuful countries live on tax evadations from corrupted other countries.

No problem, I appreciate your concern. which is not a bad thing. Re-reading my own post I found it could be misunderstood.

I ment that he is not penitent, he is pertinent. Penitence is his excuse. A truly penitent would have say sorry I was wrong I will never do that again. Newts choosed to show he knows something in some random subject to attract attention on his favorite subject where he thinks he is right.

Where exactly?

I begin wondering maybe all this is simply a trick to bring some publicity to the University.

You ment "pertinent", surely.

from this link That's awesome.

Interesting. It looks like corruption is a cultural factor: all modern occidental cultures have a best score against oldest eastern or even mediterranean culture. from your link