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- cyberdork, on 12/02/2007, -1/+29Why is the ITER Fusion Reactor missing? It's the most expensive scientific project of our time next to the space station, with a running time of 30 years and a budget of $15 billion.
- sockpuppets, on 12/02/2007, -1/+18I bet you think spell checkers are evil too.
- inactive, on 12/02/2007, -3/+18"but it's a question with pretty serious philosophical ramifications."
Kill it with a baseball bat. - Malcx, on 12/02/2007, -1/+11I can't let you do that Dave.
- TheHayze, on 12/02/2007, -3/+13Dugg because science is A LOT more interesting then Religion ever will be. It leaves just so many questions unanswered that can be answered. What separates science from religion, from my view point, is that Religion says "This is how it happened. Believe it. Because it's true." There is no middle ground. No gray area to be left to say "Hey, this isn't true at all. For this reason." Whereas Science, on the other hand, says "This is true because of these experiments, and these proofs. Believe this science is correct because it has been proven to no doubt." It leaves so much unanswered, but it also leaves the possibility of it being answered through experimentation, and mathematical proofs.
Even if I don't understand the math behind these things, I trust it's true because so many DO understand the math, and can explain it to me. I dugg this article. - Mastema, on 12/02/2007, -1/+10If you create an intelligence that is based on that of a human, by the time you realize that it is in fact conscious in the same way that you and I are, pulling the plug on it would be beyond abortion. It would be in the realm of terminating an adult human intellect. That having been said, the blue brain project is only attempting to model the activity in a few cortical columns and is about as likely to wake up and demand human rights as a brain tissue culture in a petri dish, but give IBM a few more years and they will have the processing power to simulate all 10^17th neurons in the human brain. Go check out "Technological Singularity" in wikipedia. That way lies madness. And before I get yelled at about being a loony, let me state for the record that I'm not sure any of this will occur, I just don't see any technical limitation preventing it.
Ian - JLecker, on 12/02/2007, -2/+10I think I've already heard of the Blue Brain project, but it still sounds very cool. My only quesiton is, what happens if we simulate the brain so well that the program starts to think on its own? Do we just shut down the project? I doubt we're going to be anywhere near that point any time soon, but it's a question with pretty serious philosophical ramifications.
- nomadishere, on 12/02/2007, -3/+10The Dark Matter experiment is wicked
- GoingPostal, on 12/02/2007, -0/+6I am waiting for the results of the Blue Ball Project.
- Kitarist, on 12/02/2007, -1/+6Wow there are some amazing experiments. and yes ITER fusion reactor should also be there
- CapeKid, on 12/02/2007, -0/+5From what I hear, the results are still a little backed up.
- TheHayze, on 12/02/2007, -1/+6I will believe in a higher God if it is proven to me without a reasonable doubt. Or if it this God shows its' self to me, and the rest of the world. Either way, it has to be proven to me.
- drgmdp, on 12/02/2007, -0/+5you know, like flyng.. humans can't fly! we're all gonna die..
- drgmdp, on 12/02/2007, -0/+4that only adds wickedness to the subject
- DarkTranquility, on 12/02/2007, -0/+4Although it is over (analyzing the data is still ongoing), one experiment I think which was omitted was absolutely crucial to medical science now: The Human Genome Project.
It's really unbelievable that our genetic code has been uncovered. - TheHayze, on 12/02/2007, -1/+5... What does how much a person make a year relevent in terms of how that person thinks the universe was created?? Money is irrelevent in terms of the larger picture. I'm very confused on what you're stating, or trying to state here.
- ellecon, on 12/02/2007, -1/+5Yes, one cannot prove non-existence, which is why the burden of proof lies with the one claiming God's existence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- drgmdp, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3as if murder is something new...
- newprohibition, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3I liked these portions
"Venter doesn’t plan on designing those genes from scratch, however. He and his colleagues have been trawling the world’s oceans for microbes and sequencing their genes. Last April, they announced that they had raised the total number of known genes from 4 million to 10 million." "...Venter hopes to build microbes that can produce hydrogen gas or be an efficient source of solar energy. Some microbes could clean up dangerous pollution or fight global warming. To handle the staggering task of testing all of the potential combinations of genes, Venter and his colleagues are going to set up an army of robots to build a million synthetic organisms a day." - TheKillDoctor, on 12/02/2007, -1/+4I just want a brain to USB 3.0 interface
- TheHayze, on 12/02/2007, -2/+5Because no one can prove that a God exists, or had existed. So, in a logical stance, we cant prove he/she/it is a scientist. How can you prove something that its' self has not been proven??
- lukeev, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2With extra wicked sprinkles on top.
- ellecon, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2Between Dark Matter,genes, and potential created consciousness I wonder how significant a role we humans of the middle world actually play in the grand scheme of things.
- JousterL, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2It's a very... optimistic article. I'd love to believe that the state of our science is such that these projects are proceeding like that, but thanks to lobbyists I'm sure these groups have had to fight for every inch...
- powerjg, on 12/02/2007, -1/+3You know they have been trying to do that for 15 years now and nothing has come of it.
- eldridgea, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2Article on one page:
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/the-6-most-im ... - DrShotgun, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2Blue Brain + Artificial Life.
End of humanity? - witooo, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1LOL... Spell checks are the best and i disagree with you mwoody but i must confess am not fearless on this subject. I believe in the possibility of things going terribly wrong... creating unknown particles, mini-black wholes, etc. I think we should continue with these experiments but i also think the risks may be greater than we suspect... so it does worry me Jahweh.
- ericthesalmon, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1They're probably going by estimated particulates spit into the atmosphere, the part of the eruption that affects the global ecosystem.
- dys2k7, on 12/02/2007, -1/+2ITER is based in France, thus boycotted by US media
- Jahweh, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1if it shouldn't be bent, it would not be possible to bend. accidents have always happened when advancing into the unknown, something every single human does every day, stop worrying haha
- newprohibition, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1There is also a team of 2, who are planning on simulating a human brain through BOINC and distributed computing
http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ - Ajenthavoc, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1NO DISASSEMBLE!
- inactive, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1Kurzweil was right
- ericthesalmon, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1I agree, and if ITER works it'll be a whole lot more significant than the space station ever was.
- siwasher, on 12/02/2007, -0/+0In the section on The Earthtime Project, it's stated that the volcanoes possibly responsible for the P-T Extinction were "a million times bigger than Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing enormous clouds of dust and gas into the sky and covering the ground with 2 million square miles of molten lava." Now, nobody has ever mistaken me for a math whiz, but can that be right? Mount St. Helens covered the ground with 23 square miles of lava, so to be a million times that, wouldn't the prehistoric volcanoes have had to cover 23 million square miles instead of 2 million? Just asking.
- mhmdkhamis, on 03/02/2008, -0/+0Dugg because science is A LOT more interesting then Religion ever will be. It leaves just so many questions unanswered that can be answered. What separates science from religion, from my view point, is that Religion says "This is how it happened. Believe it. Because it's true." There is no middle ground. No gray area to be left to say "Hey, this isn't true at all. For this reason." Whereas Science, on the other hand, says "This is true because of these experiments, and these proofs. Believe this science is correct because it has been proven to no doubt." It leaves so much unanswered, but it also leaves the possibility of it being answered through experimentation, and mathematical proofs.
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http://game.paramegsoft.com/ - drgmdp, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1"The force is strong with you, please wait a few minutes before commenting again."
WTF - Jahweh, on 12/02/2007, -2/+2God made the universe, it's his science lol
why does everybody assume god is not a scientist... - Mohrba769, on 12/02/2007, -0/+0The Blue Brain project looks interesting and could mean that we can actually create artifical life, and the dark matter experiment looks promising, i would like to actually see dark matter interact with atomic particles
- Dotmeister, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1Yeah 'cause everyone knows that "It's peanut butter jelly time! It's peanut butter jelly time! Woooh! Woooh! Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!"
- Ibox, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1fukit if it makes my car go, then do it!
- chaos7, on 12/02/2007, -5/+5needlessly multiple paged
- drgmdp, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1what can you dooo
- lloydruberus, on 12/02/2007, -2/+1How can the experiment prove that there is an experimenter? Can a bacterium "know" that it is being observed and manipulated from afar? Our realm of perception is limited, just because we cannot see it, doesn't mean it cannot exist.
- Mdog011, on 12/02/2007, -3/+2how to you prove something so complex to someone who makes less than 100 grand a year?
- DeadRooster, on 12/02/2007, -2/+1Andromeda Strain?
- sockpuppets, on 12/02/2007, -2/+1Let me put on my banana suit first.
- mattycoze, on 12/02/2007, -2/+1What the hell is that article talking about - Blam that piece of crappy article!
- Bokista, on 12/02/2007, -2/+1What about two drunk girls in college?
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