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WCDT 2071-75 (Dec. 5-9, 2011)
hobo386:
I'd put some of the other guys in the 6 foot range maybe, but even in real life maybe 1 in 3 guys is 6' tall, and Marten doesn't look much taller than most of the girls, so I peg him as being a little on the short side of average.
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 06 Dec 2011, 04:26 ---Hmm. If Hannelore is 5'10", then Sven is about 6'6". Sven is taller than the others, but I would have thought may be 6'3"-6'4".
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He looks around 6'3"-6'4" in that pic to me. But like I said, people seem to fluctuate in height quite a bit in this comic.
Border Reiver:
Gotta say that I was pleasantly surprised by Marigold's perspective on things.
snubnose:
What the heck is Momo reading ?!? :?
And I dont care how far it is to the stars, I just want a Star Trek style Spaceship with Warpdrive RIGHT NOW ! :-D
tjradcliffe:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Dec 2011, 09:28 ---If AI philosophers come to different conclusions from human ones, which is correct?
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Neither. As soon as we have a correct answer to something it ceases to be philosophy, and becomes science. Vast swathes of stuff that used to be considered philosophy are now sciences of one kind or another. The only sad thing about this is that philosophers sometimes forget it. Academic philosophy in the past 300 years has slowly transitioned from being about the world to being mostly scholastic: arguing about what this or that philosopher "really means" when they say that or this.
And as someone else pointed out about a relative born in the late 1800's: what we see today in terms of technological change is pretty tame compared to two generations ago. By the time my grandmother (born in 1884) was my age (almost 50) she'd seen electrification, heavier-than air flight, mass-produced automobiles, moving pictures, radio, the first global war and the first five years of the Great Depression. And women got the vote in there somewhere too (at least in Canada... your history may differ.) What I've lived through has been pretty tame in comparison, although the Moon landing may count as enough to trump the rest.
NotsoAverageJoe:
--- Quote from: Westrim on 05 Dec 2011, 15:04 ---Marigold's attitude is the reason that the discovery of a planet that is solidly in the habitable zone of its star is going mostly unnoticed today, a minor headline in the science section of news sites- if they have a science section- instead of front page news. Most of them will simply carry the AP report, which spends a good portion of its length repeating basic facts, like what a light year is. The cable news channels will mention it as a 30 second blurb every cycle, and the network news will spend about 15 seconds on it.
I don't like Marigold's attitude.
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I gotta go with Marigold on this one actually. yea, it might be interesting, buts its not something that affects my day-to-day.
I think that for those who follow the view that eventually science will give us the answer to everything; every discovery, no matter how major or minor, is amazing since its a step towards that ultimate "everything" answer.
If you follow the view that there is no end, that for every discovery, there's still another one over the horizon, then the hype factor gets toned down a bit, otherwise you'd risk stopping your pursuit of new knowledge once you (falsely, according to this view) think you've finally reached the ultimate answer.
I might be fascinated with things like that, but purely from an abstract standpoint. Practically, nothing about it actually affects me though, so i don't need to go around being a pretentious - - - - that feels the need to talk about nothing but that, like certain characters who are really starting to annoy me :)
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