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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #75 on: March 23, 2011, 10:06:17 PM »
Quote from: Spectere on March 23, 2011, 08:05:12 PM
It really annoys me when people talk about searching for "planets with the conditions to support life."  I literally want to scream "AS WE KNOW IT" immediately after I hear someone say that.  The assumption that any other interplanetary life has to have the exact same structure and makeup as Earth life is beyond arrogant.

Agreed good sir...we are a spec of dust in this great big universe.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #76 on: March 23, 2011, 11:59:01 PM »
Quote from: Spectere on March 23, 2011, 08:05:12 PM
It really annoys me when people talk about searching for "planets with the conditions to support life."  I literally want to scream "AS WE KNOW IT" immediately after I hear someone say that.  The assumption that any other interplanetary life has to have the exact same structure and makeup as Earth life is beyond arrogant.

Please.  Every life form from any planet loves ice cream, pina coladas, and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #77 on: March 24, 2011, 11:50:02 AM »
Quote from: Jupi on March 23, 2011, 11:59:01 PM
"How Stella Got Her Groove Back."

Implying I'm not alive much?
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #78 on: March 24, 2011, 12:37:18 PM »
The thing about pina coladas is true though, I mean I hate pinapple juice and cream of coconut but I'd drink pina coladas everyday if I could. So delicious.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #79 on: March 24, 2011, 04:02:46 PM »
Quote from: Spectere on March 23, 2011, 08:05:12 PM
It really annoys me when people talk about searching for "planets with the conditions to support life."  I literally want to scream "AS WE KNOW IT" immediately after I hear someone say that.  The assumption that any other interplanetary life has to have the exact same structure and makeup as Earth life is beyond arrogant.

Well, like in all science the "as we know it" part is implied. The main conditions we're looking for is liquid water and a consistent source of energy, which are two things that all known life on Earth, and thus all life known to us, needs. If we knew a kind of life that required different conditions, we'd look for those conditions as well. It's not arrogance so much as ignorance. No one's saying that places like Mercury or Pluto are completely barren of life, just that we don't know how life could evolve in those places. Which really means that there's no point speculating about exoplanets supporting life until we know how alive our own solar system is.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #80 on: March 24, 2011, 10:10:35 PM »
Quote from: annon on March 24, 2011, 04:02:46 PM
Well, like in all science the "as we know it" part is implied. The main conditions we're looking for is liquid water and a consistent source of energy, which are two things that all known life on Earth, and thus all life known to us, needs. If we knew a kind of life that required different conditions, we'd look for those conditions as well. It's not arrogance so much as ignorance. No one's saying that places like Mercury or Pluto are completely barren of life, just that we don't know how life could evolve in those places. Which really means that there's no point speculating about exoplanets supporting life until we know how alive our own solar system is.

Well yes, but the way that it's worded does little but spread that ignorance like wildfire.  I'll bet that if you walked into a restaurant and asked people if we were alone in the universe, many people would answer with a definite "yes."
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #81 on: March 24, 2011, 10:41:51 PM »
Quote from: Spectere on March 24, 2011, 10:10:35 PM
Well yes, but the way that it's worded does little but spread that ignorance like wildfire.  I'll bet that if you walked into a restaurant and asked people if we were alone in the universe, many people would answer with a definite "yes."

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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #82 on: March 24, 2011, 11:13:50 PM »
My CPU fan will not stop making this horrifically annoying sound (almost sounds like a wire is hitting the fan, but I checked all around it and didn't see anything).

It's no good.


It was a goddamn mobo fan, had to ghetto rig a zip line to pull the wire out of it.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #83 on: March 28, 2011, 01:11:54 AM »
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #84 on: March 28, 2011, 11:16:42 PM »
I find it funny that I talk to ulti all the time and he never comes here. What the hell man.

I'm enjoying Firefox 4 so far. Feels a bit slower then Chrome, so I might convert to it one of these days. Still, I love how my bookmarks are arranged on this.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327/0602176

I also wonder how common this would be.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #85 on: March 29, 2011, 06:37:30 AM »
Apparently FF4 is still completely unusable on 64bit systems.  :/ It completely crashes out almost instantly on my computer.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #86 on: March 29, 2011, 04:03:04 PM »
Well, it is in Beta, but that's really odd.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #87 on: March 29, 2011, 08:49:29 PM »
Quote from: Bobbias on March 29, 2011, 06:37:30 AM
Apparently FF4 is still completely unusable on 64bit systems.  :/ It completely crashes out almost instantly on my computer.

I use Firefox for Netflix and other online videos.  I have yet to have a problem with it, aside from 3.6 being a slow hunk of shit (4.0 is much better).

Quote from: MortifiedocAlot on March 29, 2011, 04:03:04 PM
Well, it is in Beta, but that's really odd.

Not anymore.  It's been out for about a week.
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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #88 on: March 29, 2011, 11:05:31 PM »
I've only had FF4 for an hour or two now, but so far, I likes.

So do my doggies.  In fact, they're fighting over it. 




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Re: You couldn't ask for a lamer topic!
« Reply #89 on: March 30, 2011, 12:25:10 AM »
Quote from: Spectere on March 29, 2011, 08:49:29 PM
I use Firefox for Netflix and other online videos.  I have yet to have a problem with it, aside from 3.6 being a slow hunk of shit (4.0 is much better).

Yeah, it was insane how slow 3.6 was, enjoying 4.0 much more.

Also, I evidently cannot get onto Facebook and Imgur. Unsure what that's all about.
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