drndown2007

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by drndown2007 16y ago
Fantasic write up. I don't know if anyone has seen "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" (pretty good - I enjoyed it), but there is a part where the heroes enter a casino. Everything you could wish for was there and so no
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by drndown2007 16y ago
You're describing Minecraft (single player), though the exploration is landscape only -- not much else to find.
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Wish I could up vote this a hundred times. I also wonder what happened in the 70s. A big cultural change in 'white' America that was copied/amplified in 'Black' America? I can't put my finger on it either, but there really is something co
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by drndown2007 16y ago
This seems to be comparing apples and oranges. If your goal is fun, build an app. If your goal is money and freedom, build a business. Sure one _might_ morf into the other, but if you have a goal, work towards it, don't just hope to stum
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by drndown2007 16y ago
I think you take it too far. Yes, the powerful abusing the weak is not a healthy thing. But there is actually 'bad' in the world that should be suppressed. Unfortunately, there are people (you?) that are willing to say "we can't all agre
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New model of the universe fits data better than Big Bang(physorg.com)
129 points by drndown2007 16y ago|29 comments
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by drndown2007 16y ago
I'm smiling ear to ear about this one. I hope Righthaven gets taken down hard!
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by drndown2007 16y ago
This means nothing can ever be confirmed though -- you never know if you'll learn something later to disprove what you think you know now. Which in turn means a certain level of humility is required. To me, that's where science falls shor
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Agreed. The one that has me wondering how far off we might be is the idea that radioactive decay might not be constant: http://io9.com/5619954/the-sun-is-changing-the-rate-of-radio...
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by drndown2007 16y ago
A great article about how shaking our medical science is: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damne... And yet, surgeons and medicines have definitely helped me....
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by drndown2007 16y ago
This article is one example (pre-cognition as opposed to ESP, but in the same vein): http://hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/precognition-real-corn... I think it comes down to we don't know nearly as much about our little existence as we li
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by drndown2007 16y ago
"97 percent of all climatologists worldwide __assume__ that greenhouse gases produced by humans are warming the Earth"