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Mine was given me by a friend for a game called "strike force" a multiplayer wargame played in teams. The reason was I'm rubbish and would blunder around somehow not dying and killing other players mostly by accident. The name also works for my poker name and seems unique as a user name so I use it everywhere. Good Question...

Don't look. If you don't want inner peace the chances are, your near enough anyway.

I now have inner peace. "Bullshit" I hear you cry that's just mystical mumbo jumbo. So you're a Buddhist now? Nope. Buddhism is only relevant if you're from the culture it was intended to teach. No I'm just a bloke who has had his knowledge, of the world and how it relates him, switch flick to understanding. I had four similar switches to flick for this to happen; 1. The illusion of control. Ironically Kung fu panda helped me flick this switch cheers Buddha 2. The illusion of understanding. This forum's responsible for me flicking this switch big up thanks guys. 3. Living in the moment. Again Kung fu panda, partly, and "inow" in questioning his name thanks mate. 4. Expectations. This was and still is the trickiest for me . The flick of this switch needs constant re-flicking. I've got my dog tatty and my friend charly to thank for this one. The mantra I use, when someone has annoyed me because of my expectation, to re-flick this one is "that's just me in a different skin so why not smile at me". Hope this post helps you flick a switch or two... This is a really tricky concept to get past people. Jesus understood this and as he only managed to flick 13 peoples switches or disciples he wasn't wrong. No he wasn't divine he was using the bible or god as his metaphor for the mass'. Plus those that don't get it have a different reason to be nice. We just need some creative minds to find that elusive mass metaphor. If you do get it then god is unnecessary. For a decent society all you really need is a lot of happy people

This must take a huge percentage of it's brain to process.

My head hurts I give up...

I'm going to regret this but wtf they are different types of wave sound, is a compresion wave, requires matter to travel. THIS is in very fundamental text books on physics. I find it very difficult to read, it takes a lot of concentration so I tend to rely on other ways to input information and so have watched every tv program I could find and listened to every audiobook I could find. Whats your excuse?

I'm sorry to bang on about this and yes when all is said and done it's not really important, it won't help seti in any way at all, but its been bugging me all day. IF this is the extra filter needed for a more realistic number, and thus lessen the fermi question's importance, then what number can we assign to it???

sort of my point please read the last post of page 1 this guy has almost hyjacked the post by pushing it into a 2nd page. (edit) Sorry airbrush I thought I was replying to appolinaria

still?? whats the point of going any further????

I would never say simple it's function's pretty much cover it and may still do but it's deffinately not laughable.

So isn't this the extra function the equation needs. Time in terms of the intellegent life to have time to devolope technology to send the signal and the disconect of the relative time frame?

sorry my fault I was editing sorry my fault I was editing (edit) lmao

Ok I was being flippant sorry you are clearly intelligent but I’ve been you as a layman I had one these Idea’s. This was partly qm’s fault, Imo, because to the layman it seems that so much is still unknown. In reality it pretty much knows everything about the observable universe from now right back to 0.0000000001 (this numbers from memory feel free to correct anyone) of a second from the very beginning of the universe. My mistake is forgetting the Knowledge pyramid is essential for understanding and I simply haven’t spent a significant percentage of my life in complete dedication in first building the pyramid and then adding height my hat is most definitely off to you Scientist’s.

Carefull guys this is a very large wall, someone's going to get hurt

Ok thanks. It was the fermi paradox that lead me to think that the equation needed an extra function to make the number more realistic wrong again.

I did struggle with that question yes it does seem to but surely as the question is a search for intellegent life then a distinction should be made between the two.

It stikes me that the one thing Drake forgot in making his equation is the moon and the stability it provides. Surley this must be factored into the equation as time is very much a factor in the evolution of life let alone intelligent life.

Here here, I to am an atheist and I to think my moral compass is generaly pointing in the right direction. The one thing I take from the bible is Imo the only rule we need live our lives by "Do unto others etc".

Yes I can see your point It's very difficult to describe in english what maths has to say as illustrated by an armstrong and miller skit in which a prof is trying to describe his theory to a layman. (edit) sorry for the English reference here but I'm English what can I say??

Of cource your completly correct however science is seriously undervalued and is due in some way to this disconect. We need, I think, a Steven Fry like carracter who is capable of understanding the science but is magically able to use our language to create understanding. A rather large task I know but I think our society would benefit if science had a larger part to play.

Whilst watching a program by the bbc's panorama series called "finding the higgs". I realised just how arrogant I've been on this forum, but just how much is this due to our culture? My sister has a phd and I remember a conversation she had with a friend of mine, where she had to defend herself against his ridicule in terms of "peer reviewed work". At the time this meant little to me, as I was trying to have my say. Now though with my experience on this forum it strikes me that science itself is partly to blame in as much as the "language" science uses, which is open to specious ridicule and argument and therefore in day to day life is easily dismissed. Programs like this are essential Imo in educating the mass' and eliminate idiots like me postulating with little or no real knowledge. Does this however in a way create the confusion in a recent bbc program called "a night in with the stars" presented by Prof Brian Cox in which I thought he explained that Pauli's principle means that every atom in the universe has a different energy level or spin and that changing the state of one atom would change that of every atom in the universe. This wasn't the case so I imagine this is a case of making it understandable to as many as possible. In conclusion: I think, programs of this sort is needed for education and understanding but science needs a language closer to that of us idiots...

maybe there's an app for the iphone, not looked as I avoid apple products like the plague.

I have to admire your persistance but not your understanding of what THEORY means. At best this idea can be considered a hypothesis, which in science would be tested and IF it conforms to ALL the known evidence THEN it would be considered a THEORY not before.