monkey doctor #3
monkey doctor #2
I like these kinds of projects—the owl doctors were good too. A while ago I tried to scour the internet for photos of monkeys to represent each doctor (well, some are technically apes, but "monkey doctor" is more fun to say)...here's #1, more in followup comments
That's true, but I got the idea that the article was talking about a more blatant type of slavery as opposed to just being stuck with lower economic and social status. And though both are bad, I think most people would agree that actual slavery is a lot worse in a bunch of different ways.
Well, in our world I think people are a lot more uncomfortable with using big-brained animals like apes and dolphins for purposes like food or medical research (see the recent suspension of grants for research on chimpanzees), and I imagine the same would be true of physical labor even if they could be useful for it.…
Never mind, this was for an earlier version of the article, the clips work for me now.
"M4gaston is describing what it would take to crumble a single crystal planet in place using some kind of harmonic frequency effect. Unfortunately that would just destroy the perfect crystal and remove the planet from its position as one of the 8 wonders of the galaxy."
I never got a chance to play Deus Ex (too bad since I heard great things) because there wasn't a version for Mac OS X...the main character was a cyborg rather than fully machine right? Were there any characters that were human minds but totally converted into software in there?
Cross-species empathy seems to be something that has arisen in all sorts of different large-brained animals, from primates to cetaceans to parrots. As long as posthumans are able to feel this sort of empathy (again barring the unlikely event they are engineered to be sociopaths), and as long as their ability to reason…
This article leaves out the possibility of mind uploads (wikipedia link, so see here for how to get around today's blackout) who would be just as "human" mentally and emotionally as we are (at least at first, before they started tinkering with their simulated brains), despite being a form of AI. To me this is actually…
I don't think this idea makes sense either, you can't convert kinetic energy in the form of heat into any form of directed energy that can do work without putting at least that amount of work energy into the system from the outside—if this wasn't true, you could violate the second law of thermodynamics and create a…
Yes, but the anti-marriage equality faction is dying out and the younger generation is much more supportive of equality. And limiting the right to marry is far less dramatic than believing it's OK to enslave others, I think you'd find only the tiniest fraction of homophobes and theocrats out there who would endorse…
Yes, but the article seemed to be suggesting a very open and widespread enslavement (either of humans by posthumans or posthumans by humans), not just the illegal underground version.
Make sure you really keep your left eye focused on the cross rather than even subtly glancing at the guy. You might also want to try it with the static versions here (where the cross is on the left, so you have to close your left eye instead of your right as in the video) to get the hang of it...keeping your right eye…
I don't really see slavery making a comeback, honestly. They may not be biologically human, but if they can talk and think and have emotions much like ours, I don't really see how most of the population that's learned to find the concept of enslaving other humans morally repellant would be cool with it in the case of…
That second one is great, do you know anything about where it comes from?
OK, I think I understand now. The phrase "lag behind" seemed unclear to me, but then I realized you could think in terms of the Earth's center of mass being accelerated towards the moon (a centripetal force towards the center of mass of the system which both Earth and moon are circling around) and since the far side…
My point about the planet re-forming was simply about the fact that binding energy involves all the pieces having the escape velocity so they escape to infinity (did you know that about binding energy?), if they don't have the escape velocity then in an idealized situation where the planet is isolated they'll fall…
It's true that the gravitational binding energy calculation involves the assumption that the planet is completely pulverized, and that every little bit achieves the escape velocity so that the bit's don't re-coalesce later. So, blowing a planet into asteroid-sized chunks, and perhaps chunks which fly apart for a long…