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I've always wondered about energy based life forms and it seems to me that it might not be so hard to have one spring up in a sort of small, closed environment randomly like the first life on earth. It need only to attain the ability to move passing energy at will.... And when exactly did the first life start to strive to keep itself alive?

Hmm... 2/-2 = -1... -2/2 = -1 2/2=1 -2/-2=1 What if you walked upsidedown on the top of a frozen lake and went icefishing for ducks?

I agree entirely...generally social status contributes greatly to environment. That is what I was trying to get at. How you will end up brain wise has alot to do with development in the early years and the teenage years, as that is when the brain is most effected and geared towards what it is taking in. If you survived on TV or gangfights, and not really taking much information in due to whatever cause, then that is what you are geared to do.

What is bit torrent: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~halm/newbie.html

And people walking next to each other. I find the thing about women and the cycles of the moon kinda romantic, in the poem sense, if you get me. In a kind of heartbeat of the earth sort of way.

Just a note: I showed SFN first. Na na. http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2084 It's a really cool show if you like fancy high-tech graphics and techno. Then again, who doesn't? Edit -- Check out PBS Frontline and the other online NOVAs. They are excellent documentaries.

Try it with tylonol disolved in water. It doesn't smell but it tastes horrible. And if you use alot, maybe your tongue will go numb

First of all, that white man keeping the black man down was a joke, thus the small print instead of my stating it with conviction. That is the generalizing I am talking about right there. That is the most BS blanket statement I have read on this forum. THAT is the reason I got mad. If I said "all white men are rednecks" that would be complete and utter crap. Although, after visiting Washington a few times I would be inclined to say "almost every single American I have met is a redneck." Don't get me wrong, I am an American citizen, and my last comment withstands me having lived in Cleveland, Oakley CA and Concord CA, and visiting San Fran wasn't much better. But I digress. I want to put this into perspective for you. Where you live it may be predominantly black people you describe as unmotivated. I could liken that thought to the native reserves near where I live where they have financial aid out the wazoo, but still live in carboard shacks and very few of them go to college, and many of them don't graduate highschool. But I know it is ONLY the reserve itself that promotes this. That amtosphere is depressing and hurts the people who live there. But every native I've met outside of that kind of environtment has been an educated, upstanding person, and many times, had a degree or two. When I hear anyone talk about an entire race of people in such a blanket manner such as the way you have, it makes me question their reasoning abilities. I would like to keep that kind of nonsense out of the forums. Much of the brain's development comes right before puberty and gears that person for the kind of processing they are liable to do for the rest of their lives. In a reserve or ghetto, the kind of stimulation that would "motivate" a person to want to learn and seek out more intellectually stimulating situations would most likely not be there, and thus a persons brain might not be receptive to that kind of thinking. I am a bit surprised at blike having started this thread, but I can understand what he was getting at, and this is quite off the beaten path. Believe me when I say, T_FLeX, your experience is not anything close to sample material for what blike was suggesting, and it sounded to me like prejudice. Edit-- I'm not suggesting you are an outright racist. But there was a bit of acid on your tongue in your original post. Just wanted to clarify. (talking to TF) Edit again-- I just reread your original post. You belong the south. I renounce my previous statement.

wierd... >_< edit... you did that in the quick response... this is the editor....>_<

Wow. You have no idea how many violent thoughts came to mind whilst reading your thread. I have abstained from writing them for fear of bannishment from the forum, but believe me, you should be happy you are not standing beside me at this very moment. First off, much of this has to do with wealth, secondly with culture and zero with race. Asians in the US are generally rich. Latinos and blacks are generally on the poor side. Culture follows wealth, education follows the culture that cherishes it. Not only do many Asian communities push their youth so much it leads to some of the highest suicide rates on the planet, many of the Asians who move to North America are probably among the wealthiest families on the continent. Or at least of the families we take notice of. Besides, I know so many idiots who are going to University and College... they are not intelligent at all, merely motivated. (Especially those politically motivated people who cannot see past the ends of their noses and have the most selective senses. Intelligent or not, their lack of insight into world and social dynamics appalls me, and yet they are motivated enough to reach high in the ranks of politically powered people.) Stop generalizing about "blacks" and "they." Friggin white people. Always tryin' to keep the black man down.

Oi! The wysiwyg only works with the Orbitz style set. Not only does it not appear in the user CP, it is disabled when I switch back to Photon! Oh yah, and the attachment icon that appears in the thread browse areas is messed up in Photon. Edit - And whoever designed Orbits must have a 1900x1600 resolution. >_< Edit again - What is going on with the less than and greater than signs? Look < >

It was very enjoyable though, and invokes much interest. I'm getting the book as soon as I can find and pay for it; in hardcover of course. I am most interested in the part about quantum level physics concerning time. You read so much about particles jumping the time barrier and moving in and out of our measurable time/space.

Squintz, where do you work? Firewalls, millitary connections, propoganda... Toys R Us right?

Don't get me wrong however, I too scoffed at the ending of M3.

I don't think the last movie was leaving itself open to sequels.. just the theme of repetition. You could say sequals for any movie. Jurrasic Park for instance. Besides, Reloaded rocked M1.

No thoughts?

I came to the conclusion whilst taking a hot shower. You actually are feeling cold. The cold receptors that have been heated are losing heat to the nearby cells that are not as hot. Even though the water may not be very warm, if the cold receptors are very warm compared to the cells around it, they can still give enough heat away to make you feel cold in that area. Yes, no?

Don't hate the playa. Hate the game. (ie society, if you believe the matrix is a load of crap and yet still burns it up in the box office.) You do, Sayo, make some good points, but there were still certain scenes in Reloaded I quite enjoyed, phylosophically speaking. Such as the architect's room, where it was suggested that the cycle could not be broken. That was again suggested at the end of the third movie. And the way the camera went through the screens in that scene suggested the same thing, as it didn't matter where you revisited the situation. There is also more than one way one could read the religious references in the trilogy, either applying the references to the movie, or the movie to the references. In the case of things like the licence plates on the highway scene, I think these were merely supposed to be "nifty," and not supposed to mean much of anything. The fact that they were willing to pay that much of detail to this movie impressed me, and showed they cared about the movie at every level: visuals, sound, action, plot and all the underlying facets of movie making. It's just too bad not every movie strived to do this, because if they did, the movie industry would offer much more than a source of revenue for its participants (Yeah, I know how you're going to reply to that statement so b011ux, they still put effort and expense into those last two).

http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa110303.htm Either way, I am buying the tetralogy. If you include the animatrix... would that make it a triskaidecalogy, or a waste of time? j/k I love the Matrix with all my body.

What books do y'all recommend on the origins of the universe, string theory and quantum physiscs?

High-school english was a joke. Not only did it ruin perfectly good books for me, it was completely useless. I learned more about ... english on my lonesome. And I hated how there was a supposed right and wrong answer in interpreting poetry. That's a laugh. As if the authors wrote the answers to the final exams. I know that when I write poety there are many times at least 3 meanings to any one phrase and any one of them can be valid. The same can be said for stories as well. As for reading, I can barely afford liquor, let alone reading material. I suppose I could always read the labels on the bottles... Plus, finding the time is becoming increasingly difficult. However, I will make a point of hunting down and buying "The Elegant Universe."

I saw the Nova on "The Elegant Universe" ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html )and I got a couple questions on Branes. They say collisions between branes may have caused the big bang, 1) but how did they cause the big bang, 2) did the branes bounce off of each other or could they have passed through each other 3) and what would happen with continuous contact between branes? Also, it is very chaotic at the quantum level. Could this be the whole cause of the existance of everything? I mean, could everything we see be a biproduct of waves caused by the brane collisions and small pieces of matter/energy only be ripples? That would make sense to me seeing as we can only travel along the waves in space/time, much like tiny ripples in an ocean. !! Then gravity could be the cumulation of the amplitudes of the waves of matter !! Kindof like a low frequency wave, where the effects are less apparent compared to electro-magnetism. No matter where my brain goes, I always come to the conclusion that time is caused by flux. Time is chaotic at the quantum level is it not? So are ripples in spacetime. The show also mentions how the small curled up dimensions occupy each of the "points in space." And he did say it as if there was a certain number of points in space. What is that about? There may be points in time as well then; I know this has been discussed before and the fact that there is a definite "point in time" intrigues me. It is strange to think that spacetime has a definate resolution.

I've read of that before. So if a particle has a chance to go somewhere, it will? What does that tell us about the source of the particle? How and where does the particle split?

I have a perfect Dudde emoticon. http://www.xsunderground.com/thechilde/

I concur. Where did she get the idea she was despised and not wanted? Seems overly emotional to me.