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Speaking of mutations, from this book i've read, of the 100 or so mutations occuring at fertilization (or somewhere around that):
96 do nothing.
3 are potentially harmful.
1 is beneficial.
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Im just wondering what all of you think as to the future of human evolution as in:
-When a we will become a new species?
-What would our apperence be?
-What new traits may we develop?
-How we will interact with; each other/the planet/animal/rest of the universe
Hmm. Well, I dunno. Maybe a few eons later we'll be large, hairless, and with giant brains. That is, if we don't all wipe eachother out.
Maybe we'll even prosper and become a Type I, then II, then III civilization like those hypothesized by that, uh, guy whose name I can't remember.
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Oh no.
(explodes, destroying everything in a 15 mile radius)
... there goes the neighborhood.
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Ah, okay, thanks.
Now, if I was to drink heavy water and nothing but that, what would happen to me?
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I guess you make magnets. And besides, it's black and metallic. Of course it's going to look cool no matter where you use it.
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Out of curiosity, what's the density of deuterium oxide (heavy water)? Or even tritium oxide (radioactive heavy water)?
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Whatever you do, don't major in Liberal Arts. You'll end up in Starbucks.
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You're thinking of mass. That's just part of density.
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Or so say the pseudoscientific New Age thinkers.
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Actually, I took astronomy last semester as my elective course, that's when I had Mr. Calumpit. Was quite thorough, but that lisp.. that was the scary part. And yes, nerds like us love doing homework.
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I doubt they'll ever make kids remember very many specific things that exist outside of our own solar system' date=' except for maybe a few notable stars, galaxies and nebulas, and at most two or three particularly important or curious extrasolar-planets.
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I had a psychotic astronomy teacher named Mr. Calumpit, he was this short Filipino guy with a lot of hair and long arms and he spoke with a lisp. Made us all memorize the seven stages of cosmology (particulate, galactic, stellar, etc..) the names of quite a few random stars and galaxies, the types of stars and galaxies, and for some reason, stuff about UFOs.
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I'd think it'd be better to give planetesimals simple designation codes (or whatever they're called). I'd think it'd be nicer to let the astronomers from a million years in the future wait till they actually form planets before giving them names. Except for really pretty and wierd ones. We should name those .
Meh' date=' I'm eccentric beyond my years. Or senile. Whatever.[/quote']
Yeah, I guess that works. But how would we know if the astronomers in the distant future haven't already all been blown up? I think humanity is on the verge of a global catastrophe if we're not careful.
Besides. It'd be another thing for a new generation of schoolkids to memorize, haha.
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Thanks!
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[Previous message somehow dissapeared]
Oh, wait, my bad. I mixed that up. Gravity is only attractive, and antigravity is repulsive. Oops.
Anyway, as I was saying, buoyancy is just the tendancy of lighter objects to float atop denser ones, but that's only because the denser ones are pulled downward more by the attractive forces of gravity. The buoyant objects aren't being pulled up.
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Ah, I see. Okay. What other elements have been considered as a possible basis for life? Could germanium be, since it's in the same group as carbon and silicon?
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Like in the case of silicon. Why do scientists think it could serve as an alternative molecule to carbon for life?
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Why not get this all turned into a debate?
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Have they even given the planetesimal a name yet? Or at least considering it?
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What qualifies an element to serve as a basis for life?
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Ah, okay. Thanks.
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All the other subatomic particles that aren't protons, neutrons, or electrons -- like hadrons or bosons -- do they have a purpose? As far as I know most are short lived and decay into other more stable particles.
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"Intelligent" Design
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Me (a strong atheist) and a friend (a strong Christian) were having a small debate over AIM about evolution vs. "intelligent design". He emails me an article later saying that it "proves everything" and that "evolution is wrong". The article goes something like this:
I'm going to laugh now. Hahahaha.