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Einstein still rules :roll: As if we could expect anything else with relativity being now the basis of our measurement units. What we really need is a new concept, not just alternative theory of the same thing. Perhaps it is still too early for that? Maybe we should wait till they start teaching re...

G'day In a way I was sharing the reading that I do. Bystander has the opinion that I do not read the links that I post. He is mistaken Regardless Since no one reads the links that I post then there will be no more. As for being public, I do not mind the links that I post been critisied thats part o...

Well, you know, some things are knew since I retired. But thank you for you esteemation. You retired before 1950? You must really be old. And aren't you supposed to be on tenure from St. Petersburg Accademy of Astrophysics, Cosmology, Song and Dance in Ottawa? Perhaps I meant tenuous .. when one ge...

Ah Comrade, like you, and as you say, I also like to know many things, like why do you not read carefully my posts? If doing so you had done so you would easily see I am in Ottawa on tenure, longing to return to St. Petersburg. But your questions, so many, like is said in Russia, "are you KGB ...

I have to wonder why someone would mis-spell a word in a post then correct the mis-spelling pointing out the error prior to actually submitting the post Yes, I found that quite odd, myself. Perhaps equally as baffling is that our esteemed Professor Emeritus doesn't seem to know what a Turing test i...

Sputnick emulates Andy Kaufmann. It's entertaining to some for a short time, but soon it wears thin and he is voted off one show by the cast and off another by the viewers. What stinks stinks. Но мне интересно, почему человек из Оклахомы не лучше говорить русский. Ah yes, the western way, to assert...

Whatever flavour of BBT/LamdaCDM or its alternate wins out, the winner will be decided by converging simulations. The state of the math used in modern physics has become complex that the only way to do any theoretical work or to explain observations is with computer simulations. That's why it's so ...

Machine intelligence? Definitions of intelligence include 'understanding'. According to definitions 'understanding' involves knowing the truth. A machine can only be programmed to sort information, it can never 'know the truth' .. as that concept seems to be beyond most human minds.

Understand I not your question. Perhaps you write it me in Russian? Но я любознательон, почему чанадец от Оттава претендуя быть русским. Где ваш патриотизм. (Forgive my Russian, I'm not well practiced in it, or Cyrillic.) :wink: Perhaps you could tell us at what school you are "Professor Emeri...

Ah those Canadians! So funny! We could use of them more on apod .. but apod has excellent humour too, yes? Sputnick beeps again. Yes, so funny. I slap my knee!

bystander wrote: But I'm curious, why is a Canadian from Ottawa pretending to be a Russian. Where's your patriotism.

Understand I not your question. Perhaps you write it me in Russian?

I think I've figured out that mishkin is an AI specifically programed to use English terribly so that we forgive his logical flaws and figure him as a real person. :? http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08072.jpg "GREETINGS HUMANS. I AM THE PSEUDO-TRON 2000." Ah, so sad am I to be...

G'day Mishkin Smile No the thought is modern era. Since the life forms without photosynthesis evolved first. Haroldskivitch (I use your name in the eastern form affectionately) The 'ancient' I wrote of I wrote not degrogatorilly of. Those writings set down that first their were oceans, and then lig...

So wrong you are. Sputnik beeps not to irritate the world, simply to announce the Russians and Soviets were not simple minded potato farmers drunk all the time on vodka as was the propaganda. We too had our high culture, For instance, "I'm a ramblin' man" was a popular folk song for hundr...

G'day mishkin Your right. But! the point is the similar use of photon energy from HS as from Photosynthesis. There is a school of thought that says that life started at the bottom of the oceans via Chemosynthesis then evolved photosynthesis. Ah yes, a very ancient belief is this one, found in many ...

I know little of St. Petersburg. I am curious now though; I'll look it up. It might just get added to my ever-growing lists of places I want to see. Presently is hottest tourist destination for Europe. When you come we will share some wodka, yes! Will show you our science complex where we transmute...

harry wrote:G'day Mark Swain

If there is money to be made. Why not?

We humans love to do that.

Once we use that up.

We look for other planets.

hey! I hear Earth is a great place for that.

Exactly. We have enough oxygen in our atmosphere to run our automobiles for another 10 or 15 years at least.

G'day Chemosynthesis similar to photosynthesis only requires Hydrogen sulphide a natural compound that comes out of vocanoes. Imagine the possibilities on Io the moon of jupiter, being the most volcani planet/moon in the solar system. Right here on our planet earth life forms depend on sulphur as t...

http://www.seva.net/vascarg/newspaper/sputnik40.html --- So Sputnik beeped to irritate the world as the world tried to listen to its radios, so all the world would know the Soviets had achieved orbit. That was 1957. In 1958, the popular song Beep Beep (a.k.a. The Little Nash Rambler ) was released ...

As stars and their solar systems spiral slowly towards and then into a Black Hole's gravity well time slows, but evolutionary processes proceed (or appear to proceed given current knowledge) at their normal rates. If living beings were headed toward a black hole they themselves would experience tim...

The above phrase, used in the caption for "M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble", needs elaboration. What colors represent what elements? Does a given color always represent the same element in all astronomical photographs? Is there a basic astronomical color reference page? I like the colors;...

These findings and their certainties should surprise no one.

Ha Ha. Spinny minds at APOD. Ha Ha Ha. Such a sense of humours.

No we do not know what Dark Matter Dark Energy is, or even if they are. However, it is fun to imagine what and if they are.

Elementary, my dear Watson.