"Is science of any value?
I think the power to do something of value."
The Meaning of it All, Richard Feynman.
Feynman goes on to say "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.". This was brought to my attention a while back by a fantastic youtube video made by Vsauce, but it made we start wondering. Is science really of any value?
And as Feynman stated, i do think that the ability to do something is of power. We have done some really bad things, just look at the dark ages. This is a time period of one thousand years in which we did nothing, things literally just got worse and there was no progression. There are the crusades, pointless slaughter of thousands.
How many people died for the industrial and scientific revolution?
An estimated 500,000 people were killed in the nazi experiments, one thing that they discovered was how to treat hypothermia. Before this we had a very primitive idea as to how to treat this condition. It is because of them that we are able to save hundreds if not thousands of people a year.
People complain about genetic engineering and yes it can in some bad cases cause symptoms, here I wont be trying to disprove that, but less know about the green revolution. The green revolution is a grand example of this, it has allowed more people to be able to eat food, allowing the population of the world to rise. The production of things like IR8 we have been able to make places that normally wouldn't be able to grow large amounts of food to at least feed their population.
The point of all of this i guess is that science is not a perfect immediate answer, is a slow moving answer that after trying things all different ways progresses into a more perfect tomorrow.
I hate it when i hear people talk about how they wish people would go back to how we originally were, how that would be so much nicer and better for everyone. I wan to point out that for that to happen you would have to kill about 6,500,000,000 people, and every single one (almost) of them will fight for it with everything they have. So yeah that wouldn't be that great, plus you would lose so much.
So yeah.
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
yuck, feelings...
I was thinking.
What is the strongest of human emotion.
No that is the wrong question, which human emotion is the one that pushes us the farthest.
In most places you look, hear, ask or see its tends to be the same answers. Love, Fear and Hate.
First people think that love is because it is a strong emotion no matter how you look at it, and people will do lots of things for love. But if you dissect that feeling you find a lot of love is just other emotions. Fear, jealousy, sometimes Hate, and there is also Lust. So is Love really the strongest? It seems like Love is an emotion with strength, but the reason it is considered so strong is because it 'comes' with so many other emotions. And yes it can push us to do some crazy things, but often it is done for a different reason so for several reasons. So i have to say i don't think that love is the right answer.
The next most common emotion is Fear, and Fear is also a very strong emotion. I would say stronger than love, or maybe more pure. Fear is one of the most pure i think, if you are truly sacred, or Fearful of your life than you are going to dismiss just about all other feelings. Your muscles can give out, you let go of reason, put basically people tend to give up when they are very very afraid. But i don't think that Fear is the strongest because even if most people break down in Fear, there are those few people who preform better when under fear. We always hear about the extraordinary things that some people have done, even in the worst of times. Fear i think can push people to do even more crazy things than love but again people do one of two things with this emotions. One break down and do nothing, or two do the unthinkable. It is because of these things i think that Fear, even though it is a very strong and pure emotion, is not the strongest or most forceful.
Next on the common list is Hate, and for good reason. Hate, like Fear is an over overwhelmingly powerful emotion, and mind you here i am talking about real hate. The hate that makes you feel as though whatever it is you Hate is disgusting, utter filth. It should be removed, the feeling that whatever you feel this toward you want nothing less than pain for it. You give up your morals for this thing and want it to hate itself just as much as you hate it. Hate is strong and can be very pure, but it can never be the strongest and most pure because you have to have a reason why you hate them, and that must stem from something else, leaving Hate as a secondary feeling. Hate makes people do insane things, they give up reason, but i don't think that this has gotten people that far over all. So Hate cant take this title.
I want to point out that all of these are very strong emotions, and for all i know they are the most powerful, this is just how i look at them and what i think.
Now for what i think should hold this title of the strongest.
Curiosity.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Huff. I don't like people.
So I found this website claiming that over population wasn't a thing and that things would always be happy and good. And when I saw there was a comment ability I kinda went mad and wrote this.
Enjoy.
If you think that there will never be overpopulation than you could not be farther from the truth.
You say that you could fit everyone in Texas, and sure you could. But then for anyone to be able to work they would have to get in a plane and travel somewhere hundred maybe thousands away to be able to work. The analogy is completely useless and there is no reason to even bring it up.
Next if you think overpopulation isn't a thing than you are telling me that infinite people could live on earth. Because that can't happen. Now that's an extreme but in truth the earth could support even a comparatively small number like 100 billion. As of writing this there are 7.148 billion people here. And right now it hasn't gotten so bad that the population has started to decrease, no I fact it is growing faster now than ever. If you look at a world population over time, we all know it's exponential but really look at it, an you will see that 100 years ago the world population wasn't even two billion. That means that the population growth over all of human history up till that point was amost two billion (1.8). And since than, in one hundred year we have more than tripled it. Some people have it good, namely in the west, so why on earth would they give it up. People are incredibly mean to each other, so what you are talking about is a utopia, and even if we could all be perfect we would still eventually have to large a population to support it be it in five years, fifty years a hundred or a thousand it would eventually happen unless we leave the planet but that's another conversation. Really you have less to worry about than it getting to crowded and more about being killed in war or dehydration, starvation, addiction or something else stupid. So your argument that it isn't true is wrong. Simply look at India or China. There are to many people there. He'll forget about Texas realistically ever one could live in America and it would work. But we would have to get rid of the 'natural' parts of this country which I personally wouldn't care at all, but others would and you would have to go through hell changing their minds or forcing it through. Then come the problems or rounding up everyone and movin them here. And figuring out how you would feed them all. And provide everything from housing and clothing to giving them water and disposing of their waste.
It would actually be a lot better to split the population into say populations of one billion each and movin to one place and setting up there. That would work for a bit, especially if each group worked one one thing more than others and than traded. But alas something like that just wouldn't happen if you looked at the technicalities.
So you're wrong, over population is a thing, but it's not because we are running out of things or space (don't get me wrong, that will happen too at some point, just not yet.) but because things aren't perfect and people don't want to share.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
this is a review for the movie The frankenstein Theory
This movie is as some other reviews have said, is alright, neither great nor bad.
i would recommend watching this movie if you have nothing else to do and you want to see a movie that tries to use real facts and insert them into a plot. And for that matter it actually does a relatively good job. On the other hand the guy that is supposed to be a scientist does a lot of stupid things.
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The following contains spoilers, you have been warned.
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I know that this is supposed to end badly for the people and it is under horror so that is understandable, but based on the way the film ends it would have been alright for the movie to end without all of the dying. And i know that at the end we are not totally sure is the girl is dead or not. but that said it is reasonable to assume she is never heard from again.
Now the scientist tries to 'talk' to the monster, however they could have and should have just all gone and greeted him when he was at the hut and it was day time.
had they done this and one of them not been hiding in the hut then it is very very likely that it would have turned out better for all of the members. Another thing that would have helped them is had they removed a lot of their clothing then it would have made the monster feel more at ease.
think about your dog. when you show them someone new and that person is covered up and semi hidden then the dog is much more likely to bark. but if the person is not hiding anything and showing the dog what is there then it is less likely to bark. this is the same for the monster, if he had not left the girl in there and told her not to make noise, and instead told her to come with him and just stand back and not do anything then it is very very reasonable to assume that it would have worked out. OR it would show that the monster didn't have intelligence and instead was a mindless killer. I like to believe that it would have worked out in their favor had they done this.
Another thing is it was soooo easy for them to find the creature. Though it could be said that the monster found them, this also leads to the assumption that it had some form of intelligence.
Over all i think that they wanted all of the people to die and built around that rather than try to make the story end how it really feels how it should end.
that is why it is meh rather then good or better.
i would recommend watching this movie if you have nothing else to do and you want to see a movie that tries to use real facts and insert them into a plot. And for that matter it actually does a relatively good job. On the other hand the guy that is supposed to be a scientist does a lot of stupid things.
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The following contains spoilers, you have been warned.
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I know that this is supposed to end badly for the people and it is under horror so that is understandable, but based on the way the film ends it would have been alright for the movie to end without all of the dying. And i know that at the end we are not totally sure is the girl is dead or not. but that said it is reasonable to assume she is never heard from again.
Now the scientist tries to 'talk' to the monster, however they could have and should have just all gone and greeted him when he was at the hut and it was day time.
had they done this and one of them not been hiding in the hut then it is very very likely that it would have turned out better for all of the members. Another thing that would have helped them is had they removed a lot of their clothing then it would have made the monster feel more at ease.
think about your dog. when you show them someone new and that person is covered up and semi hidden then the dog is much more likely to bark. but if the person is not hiding anything and showing the dog what is there then it is less likely to bark. this is the same for the monster, if he had not left the girl in there and told her not to make noise, and instead told her to come with him and just stand back and not do anything then it is very very reasonable to assume that it would have worked out. OR it would show that the monster didn't have intelligence and instead was a mindless killer. I like to believe that it would have worked out in their favor had they done this.
Another thing is it was soooo easy for them to find the creature. Though it could be said that the monster found them, this also leads to the assumption that it had some form of intelligence.
Over all i think that they wanted all of the people to die and built around that rather than try to make the story end how it really feels how it should end.
that is why it is meh rather then good or better.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Back to blogggggging and back to drawwwwwwing
so yeah this was a science blog, but i have come to see that science is not everything.....
I'm just kidding, however i do want to get better at drawing so what i think i am going to do now with this here blog is I'm going to start filming my self drawing something and i am going to then post a link here that goes to my video that is on YouTube.
now i will also talking about sciences and stuff that i find cool (like one bellow) every now and then but i want to have a lot of it be the drawing.
so yeah it should be fun to see where this goes.
(drawing link)
here is a link to a really cool thing that I found on the webs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547908/EVE-online-sees-biggest-battle.html
its awesome, this sort of thing makes me really really happy, because it shows that video games are becoming more important and integrated into every day life.
I'm just kidding, however i do want to get better at drawing so what i think i am going to do now with this here blog is I'm going to start filming my self drawing something and i am going to then post a link here that goes to my video that is on YouTube.
now i will also talking about sciences and stuff that i find cool (like one bellow) every now and then but i want to have a lot of it be the drawing.
so yeah it should be fun to see where this goes.
(drawing link)
here is a link to a really cool thing that I found on the webs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547908/EVE-online-sees-biggest-battle.html
its awesome, this sort of thing makes me really really happy, because it shows that video games are becoming more important and integrated into every day life.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
A Jumbo Shrimp
The following sentence is true.
"'Take some more tea,' the March hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"'Take some more tea,' the March hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.'
'You mean you can't take less,' said the Hatter. 'It's very easy to take more than nothing.'"
(Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Lets look at this Shall we?
This bends what you think, and it may have more behind it than one would see right away.
First the March is saying this earnestly which means that he is not trying to deceive Alice. This implies that this form of thinking is normal and natural to him. As this is a bent form of though you can draw from this that he is somewhat off the deep end, tainted. Alice however does not think this way, as proved when she replies that she cant take more, she is pure, unknowing and untainted. Now as the March is not trying to deceive her, this implies that those who have been tainted try to taint those around them without knowing it, they are just acting 'normal' in a 'strange' environment. When Alice says that she has had nothing yet this also proves Alice is the incarnation of purity. The Hatter who is also off than tells Alice that she cant take less but it is very easy to take more than nothing. Here the Hatter is warping Alice's thought, this is changing the subject as well.
Though it maybe it was never been about the tea and rather about contorting the mind of a pure being.
The previous sentence is false.
Though it maybe it was never been about the tea and rather about contorting the mind of a pure being.
The previous sentence is false.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Human design...
Just about everything is bad about it.
So yeah we humans are kinda really not 'well made' if we were made.
For example lets look at what we are oh so proud of, our brain.
Yes it is awesome and amazing but it is so inefficient that it almost brings tears to my eyes. For one just look at human birth, we have to be born prematurely just so that our females don't die in childbirth most of the time.
We cant do anything as a newborn where as other baby animals are able to do lots of things like walk and take care of themselves hours or a day after their birth. We on the other hand will die if you don't hold our neck the right way.
This is where love comes from but ill talk about that some time else.
The reason all of this is a thing is because our neurons that make up the human brain and most other animals as well, is extremely under evolved in comparison to almost everything around it. For example you know dinosaurs had the same kind of neurons make up their brains as we do. They have been the same all the way back to some of the first creatures that had neurons. The problem with the way our brain works is that every neuron that sends a message the, the neurons around that one get the message but it is not clear, it is jumbled. That said they still try to make sense of what that means, so there is both energy miss used and time that is lost. A computer can send a clear message to some other bit of the computer without it getting sent to wrong places and them trying to do something with the wrong thing.
Just imagine that you are on your computer, you make a file you didn't want to and you decide to move that file to your trash. As soon as you move it to the trash, the file comes back out of the trash and suddenly your computer starts to run an application. Or you go to put your computer to sleep but instead your computer starts to back up. It doeskin make sense as to why if you are Creating the thing you would make it with so many flaws. This shows that if a god wanted to create a being in his own image he would have totally reworked the way the brain does things.
I might do things like this more some time in the future, we will see.
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