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babyrainbow
9y ago
>If you're a luxury car maker, you're already feeling this.. I am not sure. If I want a luxury car, I am going to get a Porsche. End of story.
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babyrainbow
9y ago
>I expect that you can provide examples of this http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fda-drug... So when an authority says that something is safe, and later turn out not to be so, isn't the
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babyrainbow
9y ago
You are entirely missing the point. The point is that both sides are prone to spouting bullshit (or selective truths) (for what ever reasons), so no side should be forced to silence...
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babyrainbow
9y ago
>why not question everything? Because the point of belief is not finding truth (Doubt it ever was), but finding peace, comfort and may be a sense of community and togetherness..
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babyrainbow
9y ago
> Many atheists take the word of scientists with as much blind faith as christians take the word of their pastor. Can't agree more with this. This is exactly why there should be a stage available to ask all kinds of questions withou
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babyrainbow
9y ago
> it gives them a stage on which to present their bullshit and manipulate people a lot easier. My question is, if it can be shown as bullshit, I mean, if you are 100% confident that it is bullshit, what is there to loose? > manipulate
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Is nudity bad for grownups? Does the law that prevents public exposure has any legitimate use?
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babyrainbow
9y ago
> a gift to the anti-science crowd... How can this be a gift if science can answer the all the questions of "anti-science" crowd? Or may be deep down, we not really sure about our answers?
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Actually not. In church you are supposed to have faith. Not so much so in science.
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babyrainbow
9y ago
I like this. Let us encourage people everywhere to ask more questions. We need it badly.
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babyrainbow
9y ago
No. Isn't the problem with optical computers is that we don't have a way to switch light using light only. I though maybe this will enable to do something like that..because it says that light through a medium affecting a physical
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Can please try to explain the basics? How will such a machine to add two numbers look like?
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babyrainbow
9y ago
>alto University researchers show that in a transparent medium each photon is accompanied by an atomic mass density wave. The optical force of the photon sets the medium atoms in motion and makes them carry 92% of the total momentum of l
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Is it yet possible to build the basic logic gates, using light only?
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babyrainbow
9y ago
> everyday human belief like "vaccines cause autism".. A bit funny that you have to tell this, considering where this originated from..
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Can't agree more with this [1]. I think human beings, as a whole, is like a lazy teenager who would rather stretch from his chair to get the remote control from the floor, risking a fall or sprain, than actually get up and pick it...
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9y ago
> we can work on to get out of oil's malthusian trap. Say all cars on earth ultimately ends up converting to electric. That is a lot of batteries, right? To produce and to dispose. Any idea how that is going to affect the environmen
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9y ago
>but it's also not helpful to play a finger-pointing blame game every time there's an accident.. It sure is helpful if it can prevent loss of human life in the future, even it slows down the "progress" a bit and some
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babyrainbow
9y ago
But what specific thing does the SSME's had to do that Merlins doesn't? In your race car example, you can differentiate it from a daily driver that the F1 car has to endure tremendous accelerations, cornering and down forces actin
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babyrainbow
9y ago
>but the astronauts know the risks when they sign up. You should see this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2421662/
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babyrainbow
9y ago
> so much as the ability to execute a controlled landing of the first stage... Pardon me if I am wrong here. But it seems to me that you are suggesting that most of the damage that a rocket sustains, that makes it not fit for reuse, does
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Actually, No.. https://www.quora.com/Havent-other-space-companies-thought-o...
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babyrainbow
9y ago
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2421662/ The Challenger Disaster(2013) : Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 disintegration. Your comment reminded, specifically this part
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9y ago
How much refurbishing goes into preparing a previously used rocket before it is reused? What technological breakthrough of recent times has made this sort of quick inspection and reuse possible, that was not possible earlier?
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babyrainbow
9y ago
> The world might be ready for a "Well, that sucked. Let's move on" type mindset.... "Well, that sucked (that people are dead)?, but let us move on (like nothing has ever happened?)", is that the mindset you want
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babyrainbow
9y ago
> When the inevitable human fatalities are realised, we will see that everyone involved had done their best: Have you seen the movie called "the challenger disaster". If not, you should see it. It might helps to gain a bit of p
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Those are not mutually exclusive..
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babyrainbow
9y ago
The comment I was replying was about the general "toxic communication" from these people..Not about this specific mail...
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Have no idea who the guy is but.. > it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life... Sure. But the counter point is that it is also going to limit what you can learn (and hence achieve) if you are only willing to
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babyrainbow
9y ago
Sure. But sometime, you can take away only that. but the loss will be all yours. I mean, somebody can give you a block on gold unpolished and unwrapped. Sure, you can say, "How dare you give me that gold unwrapped! There is no way I am
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