Serza5 wrote:So < was told rather fast that < isn't getting that job < went to interview for yesterday
< wonders what feedback you got.
Keane wrote:< visited the white house yesterday while a large protest crowd came marching through.

< loved it, <'s a big supporter of the NoDapl movement
< hasn't really followed the whole thing, what is precisely the issue with that pipeline?
Ambidextroid wrote:< was thinking to <'s self and came to the thought that school has in many ways replaced evolution in humans. While many animals must spend thousands of years developing and inheriting generic instincts to pass on crucial information, we can simply teach people everything they need to know through language.
This brings up the idea: if every human on earth's minds where wiped at once, would we essentially become cavemen? If nobody knows how to read or speak, is there any way anybody would or even could learn to from scratch? < doubts it, which makes it strange to think that all of this information and ability to teach others exists only in the "fragile" state of the minds of the human race.
You can teach them, but you can't make the species smarter, unlike evolution. As for your thought experiment, it all depends on your definition of wiping one's mind. We don't even know what our mind really is, so you're gonna have a hard time basing something on it. If you simply meant losing all ability to read or speak, a group of smartasses could always design a machine that generates speech based on manual input. If you're gonna take listening from them too, or just erase all knowledge of any languages, then they'll probably start coming up with new ones, just like language was created in the first place.
Ray502 wrote:< has been thinking about black holes in general. < hasn't learned much about them except the basic information. This is just outrageous speculation, but what if somehow, a black hole in the future threatens our galaxy? Is it theoretically possible for one to arrive from so many light years away? And if one does close in but still light years away, would the strength of its pull become so strong, it could suck up the Kuiper Belt and worse, our solar system?
< believes large black holes don't really travel.
Fifo wrote:< would love to sleep late and wake up early
< is sick of <’s sleep schedule (22:30-7:00)
< thinks it’d be better like this: 23:30-5:30
Hoodcom wrote:< would rather sleep in.

< too!
Hoodcom wrote:< is also rather glad that < doesn't have to drive daily again, < never liked driving.
< says you have a nice car to drive though!
Ambidextroid wrote:As far as < knows the only reason you can see images on a screen rather than just a big grid of red, green and blue specks or just a blur is because our cones detect the levels of RGB light which tricks our eyes into seeing a colour that is not there. < was trying to imagine things from the point of view of an animal with a different degree and spectrum of visibility. Do you think there could there be an animal with such accurate eyes that a monitor would not work on them, as they can distinguish between each pixel? Or how about an animal with just as accurate eyes as us, but a monitor looks like a dull blur of red green and blue patches due to their eyes not blending the colours? < wonders...
< says you could imagine animals with any kind of vision if you wanted to. I guess the first one would require a much higher density of cone cells or much larger eyes, but the second one could not possibly see the actual lights without a more accurate vision,
by definition.