Random Thoughts 7

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The discussion in the "Random Thoughts 7" thread begins with a user expressing a desire to have the first civilian post. Participants reminisce about a missing member, Evo, and share their hopes for her well-being. The conversation shifts to humorous musings about chatbots and the origins of the term "robot," followed by reflections on pop culture, including reactions to Matthew Perry's passing. There are also light-hearted anecdotes about close encounters with deer while driving and observations on the challenges of transitioning from undergraduate to graduate studies. Overall, the thread captures a mix of nostalgia, humor, and personal experiences.
  • #1,801
What I’m saying is if an ocean is in the Goldilocks zone, the free atoms will form DNA. Isn’t that why they plan to drill Europa to see if life exists in it’s subsurface ocean?

No DNA equals no life.

“DNA does not form organisms” ??

“Organisms carry DNA around as one of their molecular tools for storing information to encode proteins.”

No. We are DNA. The DNA creates cells and unpacks into a organism.
 
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  • #1,802
skyshrimp said:
What I’m saying is if an ocean is in the Goldilocks zone, the free atoms will form DNA. Isn’t that why they plan to drill Europa to see if life exists in it’s subsurface ocean?
Europa is not in the classical goldilocks zone (something like Venus to Mars).
Europa is warm due to its interactions with it planet.

Free atoms would not be the first thing to form. It would probably be metabolic chemicals (as a product of geochemistry) along with molecules to make membranes.

skyshrimp said:
No DNA equals no life.
Soemw ould argue that RNA viruses (with no DNA) are alive.

skyshrimp said:
“DNA does not form organisms” ??
There are many components of living things besides DNA. They are all needed nut DNA the least (IMHO).
 
  • #1,803
Yes, but all those components were formed from the mitosis of the initial DNA. It formed the human brain.
 
  • #1,804
skyshrimp said:
Yes, but all those components were formed from the mitosis of the initial DNA. It formed the human brain.
No. Mitosis is cell division.
You should take a biology class.
 
  • #1,805
Children's clothes should have a "This way front" type print similar to how claymores have "Front towards enemy".
 
  • #1,806
A brisk 3-4 minutes walk occassionally. Not quite like the 10-minute brain reset, but this too Vilpas.
 
  • #1,807
Mayhem said:
Children's clothes should have a "This way front" type print similar to how claymores have "Front towards enemy".
There were rappers who wanted to rebel even more and it wasn't just the cap they wore backwards. They also put their pants on backwards. Only advantage to that is they could do a #2 without taking their pants down.
 
  • #1,808
Mayhem said:
Children's clothes should have a "This way front" type print similar to how claymores have "Front towards enemy".
Realize, some bed sheets have side-underside labels to help the person identify "side" and "head/foot". I do not remember the exact labeling of "head/foot"; I think it was "bottom" but cannot remember.
 
  • #1,809
symbolipoint said:
Realize, some bed sheets have side-underside labels to help the person identify "side" and "head/foot". I do not remember the exact labeling of "head/foot"; I think it was "bottom" but cannot remember.
I was surprised to see there are left- and right- handed socks and shoes. What's the difference?
 
  • #1,810
WWGD said:
I was surprised to see there are left- and right- handed socks and shoes. What's the difference?
If you're referring back to the labeling on the bed-sheets, that is for practical reasoning. It helps in quickly identifying which lengths. Easier to just check those labels than to try to compare the floppy lengths directly on the bed sheets.
 
  • #1,811
symbolipoint said:
If you're referring back to the labeling on the bed-sheets, that is for practical reasoning. It helps in quickly identifying which lengths. Easier to just check those labels than to try to compare the floppy lengths directly on the bed sheets.
Yes, I was just reminded of it from your post.
 
  • #1,812
It's amusing that I'm interacting with @fresh_42 on two different forums (PF and civicswatch.com) simultaneously.
 
  • #1,813
jack action said:
It's amusing that I'm interacting with @fresh_42 on two different forums (PF and civicswatch.com) simultaneously.
Schrödinger's webserver!
Greg Bernhardt said:
ok we should be on PF's server now.
 
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  • #1,814
Cross-referencing gives funny results if you click on the little arrow in quotations:

Greetings !

I thought about it. You're right LW Sleeth, it is
impossible to produce an absolute argument,
indeed. At first, my assumption was that since
existence itself is absolute - I can connect
absolute arguments with it and show how
it is paradoxical, amongst other things.
However, it is clear to me now that a deeper
contemplation about the necessary validity
of such arguments reveals a lacking of the ability
to prove such absoluteness, with the absoluteness
of existence itself not really being a factor in such
a proof.

BUT, what I'd like to point out is that my argument -
partially because it is so(for now) seemingly
independent from the particular properties of the
Universe and since it is seemingly so short and
basic - produces probably one of the most
powerful arguments ever formalized for anything
at all. Further more, there exists a possibility of
forming multiple other arguments (although, mine
appears to me like the best of which I'm aware
of so far), about the PoE, each of which was also
true throughout the ENTIRE human history including
the present day.

So, it would be necessary for any new claim
that "might" discredit the above explanation,
to also provide an alternative solution to existence
that will solve ALL of the apparent paradoxes,
at once. Otherwise, even discrediting one
apparent explanation/definition is completely
insufficient to cancel out the PoE.

In conclusion, it would appear that it is very
unreasonable, to say the least, not to accept the
PoE, despite it's probabalistic rather than absolute
nature. It appears to be based upon the most
CERTAIN claims in human history. A lot more than
any scientific theory so far.

"Does dice play God ?"

Live long and prosper.
 
  • #1,815
Whenever I click on "Your content" in the menu, the server says that it checks if I am human. No further investigation, just a break. It feels like the server concluded: "I have checked several of your previous posts. They are so stupid that you have to be human."
 
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  • #1,816
Kind of funny that they found in this town, the same person owns both the Spy and the Counter-Spy shops.
 
  • #1,817
I really wonder if this was his real name ...

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  • #1,818
fresh_42 said:
I really wonder if this was his real name ...

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Sounds like Johnny B. Good.
 
  • #1,819
nuuskur said:
I missed a memo or something. E=mgh, ## E = mgh ##,
<br /> E = mgh<br />

In some of my past posts the displaymode tex environment doesn't even include the tex brackets at all, they're replaced by some br /br thingamajig. As a result, the tex doesn't render. Is the ## still functional ?

edit: and again, it renders properly in preview, but as I post it, it's replaced by some br nonsense. :nb)
As far as I know, the double pound signs (#) do work to render LaTeX. Sometimes you need to refresh your page to see it.

It has something to do with pages that have no LaTeX coding and consequently don't activate the MathJax plugin, but upon refresh, the plugin does its scan and renders what you entered.

It also looks like tex tags are converted to displaying break tags ie "< br / >" without the spaces, and the itex tags are just ignored.
 
  • #1,820
I like the one in the TV show Better Call Saul:

It's Saul Goodman --> It's all good, man!
 
  • #1,821
jedishrfu said:
As far as I know, the double pound signs (#) do work to render LaTeX. Sometimes you need to refresh your page to see it.

It has something to do with pages that have no LaTeX coding and consequently don't activate the MathJax plugin, but upon refresh, the plugin does its scan and renders what you entered.

It also looks like tex tags are converted to displaying break tags ie "< br / >" without the spaces, and the itex tags are just ignored.
The double hashes do code Latex.
 
  • #1,822
I would like to make a cloud chamber to view cosmic rays, but with a refrigerated base that I could just switch on, rather than using ice.
 
  • #1,823
I'm disturbed by what I've seen on TikTok recently. I've seen cows, lambs and pigs beaten and stabbed just to move them along. It's disgusting. They're very sensitive animals.

I do like meat, but the cows (and other animals) should be treated correctly with humane care. Animals are at our mercy.

There really needs to be surveillance monitoring them 24/7. They shouldn't know when they are being executed. I've seen footage of them lined up for execution. What we do to them daily is akin to what Hitler did to the Jews in concentration camps.

As a meat eater that loves animals, something really needs to be done about it.
 
  • #1,824
skyshrimp said:
There really needs to be surveillance monitoring them 24/7. They shouldn't know when they are being executed. I've seen footage of them lined up for execution. What we do to them daily is akin to what Hitler did to the Jews in concentration camps.

As a meat eater that loves animals, something really needs to be done about it.

 
  • #1,825
I often wonder about practices and aspects of life common today, that will soon disappear or change radically.

Driving a car. At some point soon self-driving technology will be preferred, and kids from then on may almost never drive. It strikes me that the idea of driving a car instead of just riding in one, will be intimidating and seem dangerous.

Owning a car seems to be largely on the cutting block.

Relationships. EGAD! The dating scene is a nightmare. Meeting in person is a dying art. It is called Friendship Recession. And if someone's entire reality is through the digital universe, and with AI coming along fast, even online relationships seem doomed. Why talk with a real person when an AI can love and adore you?

On a more mundane level - gassing up and changing the oil will disappear if we go all electric. No air filters or spark plugs or fuel injection to worry about.

And I really wonder about the arts and music. A lot of people think AI has killed or will kill art and music for people. And the same with actors and singers. Will anyone even pursue skills like playing an instrument? I can imagine that seeming very primitive one day. Why would a person do this when our ever-present companions can do it all so much better?

And what will people do? How will they spend their time. It is hard to imagine.
 
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  • #1,826
Ivan Seeking
It's happening.
(I did not yet read past your first sentence...)
 
  • #1,827
symbolipoint said:
Ivan Seeking
It's happening.
(I did not yet read past your first sentence...)
What's happening?
 
  • #1,828
Wonder how Nassim Taleb of "Fooled by Radomness" fame will respond to the discovery of Benjamini-Hochberg n controlling the family-wise error rate. I only read the paper, which won a prize in 2024, very lightly.
 
  • #1,829
Ivan Seeking said:
What's happening?
Exactly so or nearly as much.
 
  • #1,830
symbolipoint said:
Exactly so or nearly as much.
What's coming is more the point. I've always been able to imagine what the world will be like in 20 years. Now, I have no idea.
 
  • #1,833
Ivan Seeking said:
What's coming is more the point. I've always been able to imagine what the world will be like in 20 years. Now, I have no idea.
I can't tell what will happen 3 years down the road. Alvin Toffler in overdrive.
 
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Screenshot 2025-10-26 at 10.38.02 AM.webp
 
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