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TDludo wrote:
bigmoog wrote: the future, this is all about tomorrow, and what we will know :idea:
Yeah, of course. Scientific progress has always been an adventure into the unknown, there is no other way. And science is not good or evil, only people are with the applications. Science and ethics are different things...
That seems reasonable but test it with an extreme example - if a scientist worked out how to make a mobile phone into a lethal weapon, as a scientist his conscience would be clear in announcing the details but as a human he would know suddenly he would be arming most of the population of the wealthier nations.

That said I really 'king hate, loath and despise journalists that twist the fact that scientists don't know the outcome of an experiment to present it as admitting the worst outcomes are possible. I don't know who I'm going to meet when I walk down the street but with this logic I should expect to meet an axe-wielding murderer as I can't rule that out.

Mind you - scientists really need to communicate better, they can't simply blame the media…


Ooooh me arse hurts - must be all this sitting on fences
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People just seem to love doomsday scenarios. Go figure. :roll:
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There is a black hole....


...it's located in the E@stgate shop and it keeps swallowing my money up. :wink:
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Post by timer »

Chris Monk wrote:There is a black hole....


...it's located in the E@stgate shop and it keeps swallowing my money up. :wink:
:shock: :lol:


You are not alone ! :)
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timer wrote:
Chris Monk wrote:There is a black hole....


...it's located in the E@stgate shop and it keeps swallowing my money up. :wink:
:shock: :lol:


You are not alone ! :)
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...The wise.....are silent.....
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Even our local Catholic Preist admitted that almost all the Old Testament was merely storytelling. But was wriiten to show Gods Love .. :roll:
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bigmoog wrote:I despair I rilly do


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7613403.stm
I dunno BM, that kind of thing doesn't bother me so much as really, I can say there was a big bang and I can give a fair amount of detail 'bout it but really if I stated the universe was blown out of the nose of the Great Green Arkleseizure (H2G2) it won't make the big bang less of a good model nor affect my day-to-day much. More worrying I think is the hoodwinking that companies pull over consumers with a veneer of science and the fact that the leaders, current and potential, of the #1 world power believe in the supernatural of this ilk. Not that I would want to dis any believers in general if a body gets comfort from these beliefs while they're here fair enough because science doesn't have all the answers - though I would take the position that that's mostly because the questions science can't answer are bad questions - eg "why am I here?" if there isn't a reason in the first place science is stuck and the questioner can be left thiking science has failed rather than the need to have a reason is misplaced

must be on the blether-juice again!

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Interesting video for any astronomy (or alien hunter ) lovers :D
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another day closer to first contact


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7725584.stm



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Ok this is ridiculously late, but it's too beautiful not to post:
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 :D
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Michael66 wrote:Ok this is ridiculously late, but it's too beautiful not to post:
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 :D

Fantastic 8) 8) 8)
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After all the space stuff, here's a whistling orang utan: [link]
Sounds to me like he whistles the beginning of Nebulous Dawn, just at a higher pitch. The guy has taste. ;)
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New Scientist: Our world may be a giant hologram

excerpt:
"Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

The "holographic principle" challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true."


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