Posts by LtCmd.Lore

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LEGO MMORPG OMG!!!

by 5go in

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/02/25.

lego is going to make a on line role playing game based on all of their lego sets.

not only that but you can customize them any way you like and then order the custom set you built online..

LtCmd.Lore

If it plays anything like the Lego Star Wars games, it should be pretty cool!

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The evolution & creation dilemma? Its driving me mad

by Mr. Majestic in

my mind has been twisting for a few months now.

i suppose i am trying to fill the void left by the faith ive lost.

but i am trying to make sense of what is.

LtCmd.Lore

I feel that mans intelligence and his brain is the same brain that man had many moons ago and if it were true that we evolved rather than created would we not be more advanced than what we are today ? If we advanced this much just in the last hundred years then why would we not be more advanced over a million year period.

Leolaia makes an excellent point. And in fact, there are still groups of humans alive TODAY that live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. It works, so they don't need to change:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_people - These people don't even comprehend math.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuti

If left alone, there's no reason to believe that these people will change in the next hundred, thousand, or hundred-thousand years..

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The evolution & creation dilemma? Its driving me mad

by Mr. Majestic in

my mind has been twisting for a few months now.

i suppose i am trying to fill the void left by the faith ive lost.

but i am trying to make sense of what is.

LtCmd.Lore

I reccomend you watch these videos. http://richarddawkins.net/growingupintheuniverse
You can download them for free.

Yeah they were made for children, but this is stuff that we SHOULD have learned as children but didn't.

If you don't have high speed internet, I suggest you buy them, since they're 100MB each. It's only $20.00 for the whole series.

Lore - W.W.S.D?

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SciFi Prophecies

by LtCmd.Lore in

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friends

there have been a lot of science fictions films, series and books.

well, the genre has been around for a while now, so we get to look back at some of our past films and books, and see if they have proven true, or false.. .

asteroid belt:false and true.

There have been a LOT of science fictions films, series and books. Well, the genre has been around for a while now, so we get to look back at some of our past films and books, and see if they have proven true, or false.

The Hypospray: TRUE

It's that little medical device that injects liquids into the human body. But instead of a needle, it uses air to force the stuff right through the skin. We weren't supposed to invent this technology until somewhere around the 22 century, but we got around to it a little early.
Behold! The Jet Injector.

Flat-Screen monitors: TRUE

As depicted in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. They had to use a projector for the effect, but sure enough, by 2001 they were in use.

Intelligent Computers:TRUE

In that same film, there was a computer who beat a guy at chess. This was achieved in 1997 by the computer Deep Blue.

Colonization of the moon: FALSE

2001 came and went and we still haven't colonized the moon.

Communicator: TRUE

In fact, this one is SO true, that it's almost false. Our modern cell phones are MUCH more compact than those bulky things that Kirk carries around.

Warp Drive: ????.

We don't have it yet... and that's to be expected, we're not supposed to invent warp drive until the year 2063. We shall see if that one comes true.

Artificial intelligence: ????

Well, it's too late for Space Odyssey, 2001 has come and gone and we still don't have sentient computers. But it's not to late for Star Trek.
In fact according to Ray_Kurzweil We should have computers with the same Processing Power as the human brain, and by 2040 computers will be advanced enough that they can improve on themselves.
That's a few hundred years early for Star Trek. But 2029 is RIGHT on target for Ghost in the Shell, which takes place in 2030.

Tollerance: TRUE

A major theme in most sci-fi, mainly star trek, is the acceptance of other races, cultures, species, lifestyles and opinions. Since it was written at a time bigotry was rampant, this is a pretty impressive jump. We're not QUITE at the level of Star Trek, but at the rate we're going, by the 24th century most of our remaining prejudices should be gone.

Asteroid Belt:FALSE and TRUE

You know the game Asteroids... and Battlestar Galactica, and Star Trek, and pretty much EVERY space travel movie there is... they go through an asteroid belt, and the asteroids are literally slamming into each other, and it's almost impossible to successfully navigate your way through.
In fact the ability to navigate an asteroid belt is generally considered to be evidence of an AMAZING pilot.

Well that's just not the case. The asteroid belt is not the slightest bit dense. They do slam into each other, but it only happens every couple million years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt#Collisions

Some movies get it right though, like Space Odyssey.

So, any of you guys know of any sci-fi prophecies that have come true, or failed?

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Not interested in marriage/romance?

by LtCmd.Lore in

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friends

okay, so the site is full of people talking about their husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, ex-wives, ex-husbands, ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends, childhood crushes, current crushes, future crushes, favorite positions, etc.. .

by the very nature of rejecting marriage, there's very rarely an occasion to voice our disinterest in romance.

we just kind of sit their silently while everyone else talks about their sexual and romantic preferences.. i'm sure i'm not the only one here, so how about it?

LtCmd.Lore

I am curious to know why you ruled out all three as if they automatically all go together?

I didn't intend too. Notice I said: "How many of you are simply not interested in, or are opposed too, romance, sex and/ormarriage?"

You can have one without the others, or two without one.

You can be interested in marriage and romance, but not sex.

You can be interested in sex, but not romance or marriage.

You can be interested in romance and sex, but not marriage.

And so on...

Personally, I'm not interested in any of the three. But I don't think they are necessarily interdependent. (They are generally connected, but it's not required.)

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Not interested in marriage/romance?

by LtCmd.Lore in

jw
friends

okay, so the site is full of people talking about their husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, ex-wives, ex-husbands, ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends, childhood crushes, current crushes, future crushes, favorite positions, etc.. .

by the very nature of rejecting marriage, there's very rarely an occasion to voice our disinterest in romance.

we just kind of sit their silently while everyone else talks about their sexual and romantic preferences.. i'm sure i'm not the only one here, so how about it?

LtCmd.Lore

Okay, so the site is full of people talking about their husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, ex-wives, ex-husbands, ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends, childhood crushes, current crushes, future crushes, favorite positions, etc.

By the very nature of rejecting marriage, there's very rarely an occasion to voice our disinterest in romance. We just kind of sit their silently while everyone else talks about their sexual and romantic preferences.

I'm sure I'm not the only one here, so how about it?
How many of you are simply not interested in, or are opposed too, romance, sex and/or marriage? And maybe: What do you think made you feel that way?

Lore - W.W.S.D?

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