Posts by SpankyMcFlych

Anyone who takes time to line up to purchase a product is a chump.

I hope there aren't quite so many fake buildings.

I drive 10k - 15k kilometers a month and I see hundreds of wrecked cars/trucks every year, and multiple fatalities. On a thousand km trip I'll see 3 or 4 vehicles in the ditch almost guaranteed (with varying degrees of damage, from minor...

Quote:Originally Posted by Nenkitsune They can simulate the human brain but without external stimuli won't the "brain" just sit in a sort of coma state or something like that. I remember reading about experiments they did with...

... I don't understand the doubt in this thread. A simulation is an attempt to model something as accurately as possible. Our brains aren't magical, they're just a series of chemical processes. If a simulation of the brain is accurate...

I wonder how accurate the simulation is and if they have plans in place if it passes whatever threshold is required for the simulation to be a real thinking sentient being. Can't just pull the plug if the simulation turns around and says...

cool. I like how eve has ties to real world money so you can assign solid values to stuff like this. I tried eve for half a year or so but ultimately the divide between pvp and pve turned me off. The fact that a cheapo boat rigged for...

Am I the only person who thinks libraries shouldn't have to pay a cent, and that publishers should suck it up and deal? Libraries are there to educate the public. An educated public buys books. Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot...

Ah yeah, that sounds like more the thing. Not mining to bring back to earth, but to bring into orbit for space stuff. Put refinery's and manufacturing facilities in orbit and then bring materials to the refinery from space instead of...

The cool thing is the volumes that come into play with stuff like space mining. If they found some meteor made of gold 20m cubed, that's as much gold as has been mined through all human history. Find some asteroid made of solid iron...