there are some interesting alternative theories to spontaneous manifestation on earth. one being that meteorites carried bacteria of extraterrestrial origin to earth which gave rise to the first microorganisms to evolve on this planet. there has been support for this in the form of fossilized bacteria on…

speed of light is an issue. what we see when we look up at the night's sky is actually an image from millions of years ago. if someone were looking at us from one of those solar systems they would see our solar system as it was millions of years ago too. well before the invention of the internet by al gore.

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my comments on the sagan video are (i) i think that his estimate of F.l of 1/2 may be too large...i'd guess closer to 1/10...or even far more unlikely depending on the mix of chemical elements present...maybe 1/100 or 1/1000 - still resulting in a huge potential for life; (ii) the assumptions about technology may be…

diapers are too bulky and lumpy. what we need is the unibody aluminum iDiap...it's a fecal receptacle from a future as might be imagined by stanley kubrick.

my thoughts exactly. it's enough to really change perspectives. alien life need not be the province of nutjobs and tenure-starved academics anymore. it can be taught in schools as being highly likely. that makes a difference.

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stupid fish

the stuff of fish nightmares! literally. they do serve a biological purpose though, reining in the population of lazy fish.

agreed. wouldn't it be cool to look up at the sun and realize it's actually a living thing? or a civilization of living things...magneto-plasmaic biology.

i hear you - this is exactly why i've always preferred the nipple pointer on my thinkpads over trackpads. don't even have to move my finger at all. but i still think pointers are an endangered species. the reason we even have any need to move a cursor across the screen is due to the fact that the software is…

i feel the same way - using my trusty MX Performance mouse myself and used blackberries and webOS phones until this week - but the reality is that touch is the obvious future of computer interfaces. all these buttons and pointing devices really are defined by technical limitation. then, after touch, who…

that, or Dick Ass Balls Johnson.

maybe - it wasn't always around - so it could go away. it's actually kind of funny to think we are all used to a way of working with computers that's based on using a device to move around a pointer which we then use to interact with the interface. if anything, i think touch interface is more intuitive (ie, a baby…

the more i think about exoplanets the more it seems obvious to me that there just has to be alien life somewhere. i mean, if life 'manifested' on Earth because all the conditions were right...how could we possibly think Earth is the only place in the universe where those conditions would exist? i think even the…

the funny thing is that most long time computer users complained loudly about the GUI-centric shift that happened with Windows 95 back in the day. of course, they all got used to it after a while and came to like it just fine. the lesson being, so long as the new interface isn't buggy or horribly flawed, it will…

reminds me of the move from DOS/Windows3.X where you booted into DOS then loaded Windows to Windows 95 where DOS was just something you could access if you needed a command prompt. now it'll be the whole Windows desktop environment that can be used on occasion rather than the DOS prompt. in that way, i'd expect it…

they'll need to create an android overlay for a two line scrolling LCD display. "HTC Whence".

or they need to switch gears and start making other products. maybe VCRs.

chuck norris can launch windows 7 apps just by looking at them.