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Yes, but that's only because people fail the simple basics of proper scientific criteria. Both on the scientists' side and the public's. The public going much further than a glancing check at the scientific soundness of everything they deal with would be unfeasible. I think there was a recent study ...

No.. It doesn't take faith to recognize that science is rationaly airtight, as an empirical protocol. The only faith in science is solipsism. Making the rational "best guess" that it is in fact electrons that channel the information in one's computer as he types away, rather than fairies, isn't a ma...

Why is photoshop undesirable? You need only use the brush tool and freehand it, or use the shapes tool which has circles and other basics shapes.. I did this in about 2-3min back when I was first reading about polywell and trying to get my father to explain the basics to me. The square and circle ar...

I saw the Doc's talk on videos.google.com. I can't recall exactly how I heard about that, though. I think it might have been one of those "Should Google go nuclear?" headline link on some news webpage.

gblaze - http://tinyurl.com/

Incidentaly that's the same link as alexjrgreen mentioned

Hadn't someone emailed the webmaster at http://www.falstad.com/vector3dm/ , who replied that he'd add it to his magnetostatics applet?

Increasingly high bandwidth will certainly allow for widespread telepresence.. In fact (and forgive the off topic reference) some govt representatives could definitely use it.

Mike Holmes wrote:I sometimes think that Schopenhauer was having fun with us, the sum total of his work a grand jest.
Mike

That was my first impression too! Hehe.. tricky old coot..

That's "The art of always being right", isn't it?
It is. Yep, good reference book, even if it's a bit repetitive sometimes.

please dont even get me started on the intelligent design bullshit, which has nothing to do with my opinion anyway. My opinion is based on the need for survival of our western society. Drugabuse is one of the many things that can contribute to its downfall. Other societies seem to be having less of...

Skip, saying some permutation of chemical compounds is legal and another not, is anthropomorphism. That's not ideological infection. There's no Intelligent Design-like signature written on the side of chemical compounds that says "drug, bad".

I've often pondered over how universal the physics we've established. How is it we're positive all the observations we've made on earth would also occur elsewhere. We've flubbed up like that before with that whole air-resistance-falling thing. None of it's for sure. It's a continuous work in progre...

Can you really make reliable predictions beyond 10 years or so?

Isochroma wrote:Last edited by Isochroma on Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:02 pm; edited 12 times in total

Someone's trying pretty hard...

Very cool, but unfortunately it's still 15-20 years away by one of the researchers' own admission. With some luck, some shortcuts will be found by then.