hour for hour, it is cheaper to fly from Nova Scotia to Cuba or Venezuela,etc than it is to talk on the phone,thats just the flying time.Need to find out about accomodations, food and travel.
Self employed, so making excuses and begging off for Jan/Feb is looking more optional, or the optimum option.
my mom was taken into "adult protection custody" , for jwalking, this is happening now, and she is held in the hospital in bridgewater ns, on.the locked ward and has
now had her cell phone taken for obsessivly calling and trying to be released
she does have alzhiemrs but canadas constituion specifies that people are allowed to take there own risks
held incomunicado for her own saftey
I got banned from the hospital grounds for
"acting up", no threats or foul language
the only reason trump got voted in, is because you have to bring your own pen
to write in putin and nobody thought of that in time
If she's meandering through traffic and doesn't know where she is, that's absolutely a case for taking her in. If she got hit by a car you could just as easy blame the government for "inaction".
as long as you start with hooloovoo the rest will fall right in place
The super-intelligent shade of blue, or more properly, Hooloovoo, is exactly what it says on the tin. Whether the creature is intelligent in general or just compared to other, lesser shades of blue is left ambiguous.
It can:
Refract in a prism (for special occasions).
Turn purple when disgruntled about something.
Meaningfully observe and interact with its surroundings, or it wouldn't be part of greater galactic society.
So we're looking at some kind of energy creature that behaves like light, and has to be blue for some reason. Though there isn't much literal anatomy to speak of, I would like to know if you could possibly build a creature out of material that can pass through glass, and have it be both intelligent and equipped with senses.
Yes, the electron box Feynman diagram contributes a self-interaction term to Maxwell's equations scaled to the fine structure constant to the fourth power. You can find it in the introduction to Griffiths. I believe it has been experimentally detected.
there is the possibility of a an apocoliptic outcome in something like this
, a slow boring apocoloipse where the plastic digesting bacteria mutate and evolve to the point that they no longer need there insect host, and then go on to
eat every last bit of plastic on the planet, the article does suggest that developing said bacteria on an industrial scale could be done.
From a biological perspective,plastic is a huge and ideal energy dense biological niche that is unused or defended, and nature, famously, abhors a vacume
when it comes to anything to do with the universe,what could very generously be called the "knowns" ,is still such an improbably tiny part of what we suspect might be out there as to disappear without effect
the only realy interesting fact, is that we are not detered by the missmatch at all
rock on telescope dudes
the very nature of our current record keeping, guarantees that a very great deal of anything bieng done now will vanish
papyrus will survive long after the inevitable neglect and bit rot destroy
our digital archives
The massive physical remains of our times ,accompanied by those most enduring of our written records, labels and logos, wont tax future investigators imaginations in figuring out what happened to us.
I personaly, have access to many bones, and have toyed with creating chimera skeletons, history is too deep, and people are too wierd to draw any conclusions, much of the time.
People always say this like it's somehow unique to bit rot, but only ancient Egypt really managed to preserve a substantial portion of their original records, and that's just because they won the geographic lottery in that regard. Pretty much every other field of history relies on copies that were made of the most popular works.
> papyrus will survive long after the inevitable neglect
This isn't inherently true of papyrus. Taken into a climate wetter than Egypt (in other words, pretty much any other climate where people actually live) it begins to disintegrate very quickly and needs constant maintenance.
A large portion of our records will be lost, such is the nature of things, but I'm going to bet that we leave a greater percentage of our works than any other civilization. We'll probably beat ancient Egypt, but we'll certainly beat everyone else. People are keenly aware of how ephemeral records are (digital or paper) and make concerted efforts to archive them in permanent storage.
A huge portion of Assyrian cuneiform was preserved due to the fact that fires ravaged their cities, baking their clay tablets, if I understand correctly. Most of it hasn't even been translated yet. The Assyrian Empire was in the early iron age though, and Egyptian records go much further back than that I think.
> Taken into a climate wetter than Egypt (in other words, pretty much any other climate where people actually live) it begins to disintegrate very quickly and needs constant maintenance.
For example papyrus was massively used in the roman empire and all those records have disappeared, only what had been copied and re-copied since then reached us.
Was Egypt able to keep their culture for so long, and build many structures and temples - simply because they could transmit ideas through time? Other cultures would be stuck relearning the same building techniques and religious ceremonies every generation and relying on faulty oral histories.
From what I understand ancient civilizations rarely kept records of things that could be easily transmitted by speech. It seems to me that most practical skills are better taught this way anyway.
They didn’t have manuals and grimoires of building techniques, flora and fauna. Most of the texts were either religious or for bookkeeping. This was true of Egypt as well. Almost everything on display today is about death rites.
Of course it might be that these records were just fewer and eventually lost.
Probably not, at least not significantly. AFAIK most people couldn't read, it was mainly the clergy and nobility as in most ancient civilizations.
Egyptian culture persisted because Egypt persisted. The Nile provided immense prosperity and sustained the country for millenia. Once we get to modern antiquity, they had a massive trade operation with Rome which sustained them for a thousand years.
Culture can persist and be transmitted without written record. Most cultures operated this way, at least initially.
Remember that universal literacy did not exist until just a few hundred years ago. Most people throughout history were not taught to read. Their stories were recorded by the clergy in writing for posterity, but on a day to day basis, they were passed down by word of mouth.
I might be wrong about this one but AFAIK the heiroglyph script we associate with Egypt was a lost language for a long time. It was a ceremonial language known only by the priests and it was forgotten after the last dynasty. Until the Rosetta stone was discovered, all of that writing was effectively lost, unreadable until modern times.
You've never played the "telephone game" in school? Passing information verbally from one person to another (whether standing next to you or to the next generation) is famously inaccurate, even when everyone is trying to ensure correctness.
The main difference is the sheer scale at which it is happening.
Paper records are relatively easy to store, and created as part of day-to-day operations. If something is written down on paper, they just have to put it in a box rather than throw it away. Is it already archived because the law says you need to keep it 10 year or something? Then it has a pretty decent chance of surviving as long as nobody takes the effort to clean out old records. Sure, paper can get damaged by fire, water, mold, insects, and a lot of other stuff, but in general if you leave it alone it'll be perfectly readable 100-200 years down the line without anyone actively trying to. Some yellowing and a smudge on the paper? No big deal, still perfectly readable.
Digital records are different. The physical mediums commonly used rapidly degrade, so survival past a few decades is doubtful. Even if it does survive, are you still going to have the equipment to read it? And if you have the equipment, are you even able to connect it to a modern machine? And don't expect to just reconstruct it: the specifications are even harder to find! In other words, for a digital record to survive in an easily-accessible format someone has to copy it to a new physical medium every few years.
Assuming you can read the disk, how are you going to interpret it? Most records aren't stored in ascii. You're going to need software which is able to parse whatever complicated format is being used - which is now horribly outdated. And that format and software wasn't designed for fault tolerance either: a single bit flip can prevent a file from being opened, or completely corrupt its content. It's going to require expert-level knowledge to retrieve it.
Some Zip-drive from 2000 containing a WordPerfect file? Probably doable 25 years later if you really want to, but it's going to be a challenge. Another 25, 50, or 75 years? Forget it.
And that's the best-case scenario. These days everything is stored in The Cloud, which means it'll just randomly disappear one day because they don't feel like keeping it. Mass deletion is trivial and happens without anyone noticing. If you're very lucky your records will last until a few years after your death, but even that is far from guaranteed. 200-year-old records retrieved from the cloud by archivists? Not going to happen.
tight-lipped, thats a definitive symptom of bieng probed by the aliens, ovipositors.
Main reason for the space force getting orbital is just this. With the aliens getting frisky,man oh man, what a mess you
got 0G, 1G, 2 G,3g,up to 5G and they are talking 6 of em, beaming the virus strait from 8 chan into your pre frontal cortex.
given some sort of excrmption from time the chance of any human or group of humans getting it right are still zero, nobody is that good, so the only plausable way to do it, is to just aproximate the number, which we then might as well get on with congradulating ourselves with a job well done, me first I so great,now you ,and you
,and well everybody so great now
There is no such thing as "herbicides"
they are semi targeted biocides and are not maintaing there effectivness or targeted enough to prevent unacceptable
"collateral" damage.
Biology supports this as there are very few parallels to be found in nature for this kind of defence/offencive use of
chemicals in multi cellular life.Which is a great big hint as to the true cost benifit equation over, reproductive time
scales
Many single celled life does of course use
chemical deffensive/offensive products, yeast and various algae capable of powerfull effects on many life forms.
Then there are venoms,but those are mechanicaly targeted.
Nature evrn invented the "tazzer" as a weapon/deffence,in electric eals.
Ignoring the vast and tested data set that is present in nature is dumb.
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