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by thret 12y ago
For a wonderful fictional piece on the same theme, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(novel)
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by thret 12y ago
We might be able to model certain experiments with greater accuracy than real life (because there would be no noise).
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by thret 12y ago
If we are part of a simulation, any and all kinds of afterlife are possible (although admittedly still improbable).
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by thret 12y ago
He still talks to dead people if that helps! His brother in the show, Peter Krause went on to star in Parenthood. Parenthood grows on you, I originally started watching it for Lauren Graham but it's become one of my favourites.
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by thret 12y ago
Bane, the video from that article is awesome: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/video/titles/12590/...
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by thret 12y ago
Done, thank you. Shipping is even free to Australia.
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by thret 12y ago
How do you buy a real set without a license, aren't they illegal almost everywhere? OTOH you can make a decent set from scratch. I've always wanted a professional set though.
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by thret 12y ago
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more c
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by thret 12y ago
Yes, and I can assure you that you are in safe hands. Six Feet Under has one of the most satisfying endings to a TV series I've ever seen. You may cry (manly tears) but you will not be disappointed.
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by thret 12y ago
I enjoy swimming and diving and scuba as much as the next guy, but I can't say I'd appreciate people watching me from below while I did those things.
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by thret 12y ago
'While the capsule did not carry any people, some artifacts were on board, including a sample of lunar soil, part of a dinosaur fossil and a recording of the Mars movement from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.”' Wait, what? Does anyon
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by thret 12y ago
Even good - even great - writers need an editor. When you already know what you have written it can be easy to miss what is actually there.
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by thret 12y ago
IANA expert but: http://australiangovernmentbonds.gov.au/etbs/list-of-etbs/
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by thret 12y ago
Like everything to do with the Bible, considerable research has been put into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source
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by thret 12y ago
It would be pretty cool if the game actions could effect the environment too - global warming, pollution, nuclear disasters, that kind of thing.
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France in the year 2000 (pictures from 1899)(publicdomainreview.org)
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by thret 12y ago
Yes, but it does specify that 'he' was used for both male and female at the time 'she' was introduced in Middle English.
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by thret 12y ago
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-she1.htm 'he' was already genderless. 'She' was introduced to signify female, and 'he' become masculine by comparison. Perhaps in introducing 'she&
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by thret 12y ago
www.codecademy.com is okay I feel. I imagine you will want to get into websites/mobile apps, that kind of thing? The truth is, the programming books I read in the beginning are all out of date now, I wouldn't know what to recommen
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by thret 12y ago
A bit OT but this reminded me of Maxwell's demon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
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by thret 12y ago
It's just a ploy to grab headlines and appear relevant, nothing will come of it.
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by thret 12y ago
This is conjecture. We don't really know how many billions of years it takes to spontaneously evolve life. Panspermia may well be a much simpler vector.
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by thret 12y ago
Surely this was sufficiently interesting for someone to attempt to replicate it for the purpose of entertainment?
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by thret 12y ago
If you've fooled around with lock picking you quickly learn that brand-new locks are quite hard. The more wear a lock has, the more tiny mechanical defects it has, the easier and faster it is to pick. Repeated attempts to pick a new lo
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by thret 12y ago
This is comparable to the number of atoms in the universe. Pretty large! We will never see an accidental collision.
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by thret 12y ago
One aspect of Basic Income that seems to be forgotten quite often is the absence of guilt. The poor no longer need to feel guilt or shame about welfare, it's a right they share with everyone else. Those who don't need it can spend
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by thret 12y ago
Umm, hardcore Diablo 1, 2 & 3 (3 before the expansion protected paragon experience). You die, you lose everything. The good old days of farming in D2 at 98+ only to have a PK enter the game and declare hostile... that's something l
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by thret 12y ago
I like the bottle-opener zipper, it would not be out of place on fishing apparel.
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by thret 12y ago
Someone's probably managed to choke to death on every popular type of treat. http://www.health-benefits-of-dark-chocolate.com/death-by-ch... "In 1910 a young woman dies while trying to share her chocolate with her
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by thret 12y ago
There was an electric fence at the end of my street as a kid. My friends and I played with it quite a lot :) I was shocked with it dozens of times, we all were, and only once did it really hurt. I couldn't walk for a few hours. For som

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