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Post by Sinbad on Oct 25, 2009 5:21:24 GMT -5
I know, I was just giving a few examples for how our technology developed. What might sound strange and impossible today might be possible in the future. Just like fireworks, internet, antibiotics and CGI which are all possible today but which would have been thought completely impossible in the past.
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Post by alex on Oct 25, 2009 5:43:32 GMT -5
Fireworks were invented by the Chinese 2000 years ago.
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Post by Doubar on Oct 26, 2009 11:24:40 GMT -5
Hmm, I have to say I am very sceptical about that whole thing. I mean, sure, it is proved that we only use part of our brain. Most people don't even use half of the potential our brain holds, but that has nothing to do with mentally healing people or moving things or anything. I mean, I am no physicist so maybe I might be wrong there, but I cannot imagine the brain to generate enough electrical energy to affect it's surroundings because first of all it would affect itself and the body it is connected to before it would send a rubber lying 2 feet (or whatever distance) falling to the ground.  About the prayers-thing: most people forget to mention that this only worked with those people who knew that people were praying for them. With patients who hadn't been told people where praying, they got a normal rate of "healing" or feeling better that could easily be reasoned in coincidence. Bottom line is, that the body has a great potential and that it holds mechanisms to heal itself in a certain amount. But this whole thing does have limits. And about brains healing, Bryn: well, thing is, the surviving cells can re-organize and learn anew if parts of the brain get lost. The patient's age when being hurt, does thereby decide on how fast and to what amount the brain can re-organize itself. Healing however is very limited. If I am right, they just encountered, that there are some cells in the central nervous system that do indeed hold the potential to copy themselves and thus regenerate tissues (till now they always believed only the peripher nervous system could do that) but scientists do neither know how they can be activated nor if they do work at all. And seeing the results of strokes and paraplegia do clearly show that the body and central nervous system has no unlimited potential of healing itself. About the inventions: well, yeah, they are great. But just like Bryn said, they are different from what you, Sinbad, were originally aiming at. We are able to invent these things with our brains, but it's not our brain that "materializes" them. So technically though being a product of our intelligence they do not really count into the miracles thing, I would say.  |
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Post by stinky cheese man on Nov 17, 2009 2:49:00 GMT -5
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Post by Doubar on Nov 17, 2009 3:51:32 GMT -5
Awww, no. I missed the Leonids. Crap. But, uh well ... *looks outside the window* Even if I had not forgotten about them ... it's been all cloudy and rainy since Sunday anyway. *sighs*
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Post by stinky cheese man on Nov 17, 2009 5:25:03 GMT -5
Hopefully you'll have better chance next year, Doubar.  Well, 40 minutes and only saw one meteor. But I guess that is not bad, since there is a lot of light pollution on campus, and it was partly cloudy. But that was even better than the last meteor I saw. ;D |
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Post by Doubar on Nov 26, 2009 15:54:09 GMT -5
Huh, wow. I was just doing some research about nanism for a course tomorrow when I found this:  (source: www.egyptarchive.co.uk/html/cairo_museum_12.html ) It shows the magistrate Seneb and his family. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised since nanism is nothing new ... but still I was astounded to see this statue.  |
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Post by stinky cheese man on Dec 10, 2009 0:03:22 GMT -5
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Post by Doubar on Dec 10, 2009 5:04:52 GMT -5
Cool.  But such a perfect spiral ... would opt for menmade as well.  |
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Post by stinky cheese man on Dec 12, 2009 8:43:56 GMT -5
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Post by Doubar on Dec 13, 2009 8:35:35 GMT -5
Maww, me does so envy those who were able to witness that one ...  |
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Post by stinky cheese man on Dec 13, 2009 8:40:35 GMT -5
Maww, me does so envy those who were able to witness that one ...  "As for the Geminids, patient stargazers might've already caught its beginnings on December 6, but the meteor shower reaches its peak on the nights of December 13 and 14. For those disappointed by November’s Leonid show, the outlook for the current Geminid shower, which lasts until December 18, is good." "For optimal viewing, NASA pinpoints 12:10 a.m. EST/9:10 p.m. PST, and suggests going somewhere away from the “light pollution” of cities and towns, to an area dark enough to see the stars clearly. Keep your eyes roaming all areas of the sky to spot a meteor." |
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Post by Doubar on Dec 13, 2009 8:48:52 GMT -5
@mody: Well, because it's halftime for them already, and since we haven't had a clear sky for many days and the weather forecast doesn't sound all too good either, I suppose I won't see them ... yet again. *shrugs* And thus I envy all those who have already witnessed the gemini. Uh, btw.: *looks outside the window* SNOW! *squeals* |
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Post by stinky cheese man on Dec 13, 2009 8:54:11 GMT -5
@mody: Well, because it's halftime for them already, and since we haven't had a clear sky for many days and the weather forecast doesn't sound all too good either, I suppose I won't see them ... yet again. *shrugs* And thus I envy all those who have already witnessed the gemini. Aye, well maybe there would be Christmas miracle. |
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Post by Doubar on Dec 13, 2009 8:57:17 GMT -5
@mody: *smiles* Yeah, maybe. |
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But such a perfect spiral ... would opt for menmade as well. 
