Just about anyone has the ability to do great things. We all can learn, if taught correctly—some may need to learn more than others to get to the same place, but it’s possible for most people to learn almost anything. What sets the great people apart from everyone else, however, is motivation to take the necessary steps. Instead of sitting down and watching TV, they choose to do something that moves them closer to their goals. They’re driven to learn and, having learned, do.
I think that if you really, really want something, it will happen. And don’t just go off saying something ridiculous like, “Okay, I really, really want the winning lottery numbers”, because your heart’s not in it.
Certain physicists who failed to make it big in Mechanics or Electricity & Magnetism needed some way to get funding so they invented a completely fake field of physics to get grants and such and to torture college students.
The light from a star takes thousands of years to reach our eyes and by this time it is likely that the star has died. What if we are that light and ourselves, our planet, our sun and our universe have already died millions of years ago and all that we are now is just a projection. Nothing can be random, nothing is a choice, everything has already happened, everything is set out and one day our projection will fade.
Religious belief came into being because people did not understand the world. They did not know where we came from, where the world came from, and we needed answers to such questions. The gods arose out of our lack of knowledge. Mankind also needed moral codes and religion formalised them. But, I think, since then, we’ve learned a lot more about why we are here and who we are. And I think at some time we will be ready to put the Maker aside just like a child puts aside his toy when it grows up.
What if, long ago, an extremely advanced species came to Earth, created life, and spawned humanity, just to see what would happen—like an experiment. They provided the means to create a society and live in peace. And seeing the way humanity is now, maybe 2012 will be a cleansing, like an expiration date.
Think about it: scientists say that getting pulled into a black hole would tear you apart because of pressure and gravity but, honestly, how would they know? Obviously, someone would have to survive going through one to explain what happens. Call me crazy, but black holes have to lead to another universe or no one would be able to explain anything about them or somewhat understand them.
There is not a God, or any kind of higher power. “God” is just a characteristic in people. That characteristic shows more in some people than in others. If God created the universe, then what created God? The universe just is, always has been, and always will be. There weren’t planets at first, but particles. Those particles collided with each other and made more complex, bigger things. Collision of the particle happened so much that planets came along. If Adam and Eve were the first people on Earth, let’s say there were both the same race, they would have kids together. Their kids would have to reproduce with each other, and so on and so forth. This means that everybody would be mentally challenged, and everybody would be the same race. People say that race depends on where you live. Blacks have large noses, Asians have slanted eyes. How does the sun do this? If there was a God, why would he let there be so much evil in the world? Why would he let such bad things happen?
Take dogs for example. In the wild, they mostly scavenge for food and rarely eat anything good. They’re filled with disease, sleep in the cold and are at risk of injury or death from predators. But as pets, they are loved and cared for, fed good food and clean water, given places to play and explore safely, taken to doctors when they are sick, and generally live a much happier, healthier and longer life than they would’ve on their own in the wild. This doesn’t apply to all animals, but it does for many.
Whatever feeling of accomplishment you feel in sports will be eventually replaced by some idiot who feels the accomplishment magically doesn’t count. Doesn’t matter who wins the superbowl, someone else will win next year.
While growing up in the eighties, people tended to be suckers for all kinds of self-help groups, gurus and books.
One theory that kept going around amongst those folks, and even some who did not actively partake in self-help activities, was that everything happened because you wanted it to.
That theory went as far as saying that a blind person was blind because he or she did not want to see, and that all good health was in the will.
Using that theory, if those migraines would not go away, it was simply because you did not wish them away hard enough.
That same mode of thinking also included believing that nothing happens by chance, like winning the lottery because one really wanted to win, or if one broke a leg slipping on ice, it was because that person wanted to get hurt.
They say that in 2012 when the Mayan calendar ends, it marks the end of time. They also predict a “new” planet coming into our solar system and causing chaos. I say “new” because the Mayans say this planet has been here before, and will come again in 2012. What if this planet is so large that it will pull all of the planets towards it by their magnetic fields, aligning them in a row? Similar to a metal ball on a ring, sliding towards a big magnet that’s flying towards it. The magnet won’t change its course but will pull anything within its magnetic field that’s attracted to it closer… until they collide.
If evolution really happened then why did it stop. If we evolved from monkeys then why do monkeys stay monkeys and humans come from humans? Why would it just abruptly stop? Think about it.
When you dream at night, you don’t usually remember reality, you have independent memories that don’t exist in you perceived reality. Also, have you ever had a dream within a dream? You wake up in your dream, then you wake up again to your “reality”. And, dreams sometimes seem to last hours, days even, while only seconds/minutes pass in the “real world”. So, how can you say that we aren’t dreaming right now? Dreaming at night is just dreaming within this dream. Then when do we wake up, you ask? That’s what we perceive as death. And when you “die” you will wake back up into the real world, which you don’t know about now, because you are just dreaming, dreaming that you’re reading this, and your memories of your “life” are just part of this dream.
I think there is no God. Churches were created by the government to control society and calm people down and stop so much violence. We have no evidence that God is real, so why believe and waste our valuable time going to church, praying, donating money, etc. I think if we all just be moral, the earth would become a better place, with no need to mention God. They do this so we fear in him, and fear doing bad things. Just think about it, is it really possible that the Earth was created just because God said “let there be…”. I don’t think so. Take a moment to think about it.
When you die, you find out that life is one long dream and that everything you did didn’t matter. For ten minutes, you talk to god, then some random person gives birth to you again and it starts all over, repeats one hundred times, then you go to heaven or hell.
In an age of email and on-demand video content delivery, the only reason postal services still deliver physical letters and traditional scheduled, linear TV programming is still broadcast is because of older generations who still rely on them and are unable or unwilling to learn to use newer, better systems.
In Korea, it is a common belief that going to sleep with a fan running in the same room will cause people in that room to die. The media reports on death by fan, and the police declare it as a cause of death sometimes. In other countries it is understandably mocked as nonsense, but perhaps we, the rest of the world, are wrong, and there is something different about the air in Korea. Perhaps it’s heavier, or somewhat toxic, and when it’s blown towards someone, it concentrates it near their face, suffocating or poisoning them.
When you’re young, very young, like a baby, you have primitive needs. Food, drink, sleep, toilet. That’s your life. As you get older your needs start to change—things like education and friendship are added in. That is your life—but if it’s constantly changing, isn’t life a lie?
We all know the danger of a black hole: they eat everything around it! That’s why they’re dangerous! The second one shows up, you’re in deep trouble, so you better hope one doesn’t show up!
Like, one time, in this movie, the spacemen were in their station, and someone did something stupid and a black hole appeared. It probably was when he fired that proto-ton missile into the engine of the bad guy’s ship. And they had four hours to close it or the universe would be eaten up.
And now I hear there’s this huge black hole in the middle of our galaxy! I’m glad I’ll die before it swallows Earth. It’d suck to be pulled into a black hole. You’d never get out! But this Large… Headron… Controller thing in Switzerland is scaring me! Scientists say that they might make a bunch of little black holes with this thing! Don’t they know what that means? It means more than holes in their cheese! HA! But seriously, that’s scary! I don’t want to be destroyed because someone is making black holes with science!
Petrol or diesel contains magic and when poured into a car it makes it run. Because the trees that create the petrol and diesel are also magic. So nature is magic. So the world is magic. Of course it’s true.
When you feel like you’ve done something or seen something before, either you’ve really seen it or it’s been in a dream of yours. There is no way that we can have such a strong remembrance of something if it hasn’t happened to us.
Bug sprays and repellents actually attract insects, which causes you to apply more and more in the hope of ridding yourself of the winged pests. Soon you run out and buy more, thus making the repellent companies quite rich.
With the availability of various high quality ebook readers, ebooks are finally becoming a commercially viable form of reading with a number of advantages—you can carry hundreds or thousands of them with you in a tiny device, you can search the books, you can rapidly look up words in a dictionary without having to have a physical dictionary with you, etc. It is also advantageous for the publishers. Aside from the small initial investment of formatting the text for publishing as an ebook, there are no publishing costs. They don’t have to buy paper and ink or run their printing presses. This breakthrough should drop the cost of books.
The problem is, many publishing companies have instead increased the price of ebooks over the cost of paperbacks, and in some cases, hardcovers. Some are so extreme as to have paperback versions for $6 and ebooks for $20.
I suggest this is because they don’t really want ebooks to succeed. They’re well established in the old ways of publishing. They have all their printing equipment they spent millions on and they don’t want to give it up. Additionally, ebooks, if allowed to succeed, end up making the publishing companies irrelevant as all it takes to publish a book now is for authors to make deals directly with the large ebook distributers, which is very easy and generally requires no up front costs.
Email is basically an envelope with wings that flies through a mysterious “internet” to another computer. Sometimes these emails get lost while in flight, which is why they never reach the recipient.
All of these theories have been placed here to make us think we’re crazy for thinking these things. Really this is an elaborate conspiracy to make us stop questioning the world as it is presented to us.
The fact that this was approved just goes to show that they’re trying to trick us.
You think it is all CGI? Think again! Now that the show is completed we have a full sized Battlestar in orbit, dozens of Mark II Vipers, and even more Raptors. Why is this? We have come to believe over the past ten years that CGI has gotten so good that it looks real. Nay, I say. The so-called effect houses cannot come up with anything better than clay animation. So they trick their shareholders by building full sized battlestars, star destroyers, starships, transformers, etc., just so that their artists look good!
In most science fiction, teleportation works by digitizing the person being transferred, destroying the original, and creating an identical duplicate at the new location from the digital copy. To everyone but the person being transported, it would appear to have worked, but that person would be killed as soon as the original is destroyed, and a copy who thinks he’s the original will appear at the destination. He may be identical in every way and completely believe he’s the original, but he is a separate person and the person who entered the teleporter is dead.
This would also apply to “transfer” of one’s consciousness into a new body. It wouldn’t be a transfer, really, but a copy of one’s memories into a new brain, with the original being killed. It’s a new, separate person who believes he’s the original.
Every year that we get snow, the country invariably grinds (or slides) to a halt. To pass a driving test here, all we have to do is master the “ten to two” steering wheel position and mirror, signal, manoeuvre.
In other countries—most notably Finland, amongst many others—people who wish to take full control of over a tonne of metal capable of speeds well in excess of 100 MPH must prove that they understand the basic physics of such a feat first. They must undergo intensive high speed skid-pan training and master evasive manoeuvres before they are allowed anywhere near a public road. They also, by law, have to have a set of winter tyres for their cars so that they can actually drive properly. This means that not only are the drivers actually much more worthy of throwing their huge, heavy, potential murder machines past each other, they are actually capable of driving on snow and ice and they have decent tread on their tyres. Drivers are also expected by law to take refresher tests when they hit a certain age to ensure they are still mentally capable of driving safely and well.
Here, the majority of drivers use the kerbs to guide themselves into parking spaces, couldn’t tell you what “opposite lock” means, wouldn’t have a clue if their car is front or rear wheel drive (and so aren’t able to adapt their driving style successfully to suit the conditions) and are allowed to drive right up until they decide it would be a good idea to drive up the wrong side of the motorway to visit Mabel (who died ten years ago)—how on earth are we as a country expected to cope with mildly slippery conditions? Most people here drive about on their “slippy ditchfinder” bargain tyres and basically haven’t fit a clue how to control a car. If we actually had to learn to control a car properly and our cars had decent treaded tyres on to suit the seasons then it would all go much more smoothly!
We now know that Mars used to have liquid water on its surface—the landscape of the whole planet has been sculpted by flowing water at some point in its past. If you have a look for “Mars anomalies” on any Internet search engine you will see odd things strewn about its surface spotted by the rovers that still trundle over its surface gathering data. Some of the things look spookily like building materials, such as bricks, etc. Satellite imagery has shown other strange things that look like structured areas and straight lines that could be ancient ruins.
Just imagine what it’s like there for a minute—if these things are ruins of ancient civilisations, things mist be extremely spooky there… Wind whipping up red dust swirling around barely exposed ancient ruins as the sun sets majestically over a freezing cold Martian mountain, plunging the quiet planet into pitch darkness with only the sound of breeze sprinkling dust over lonely rocks.
Mars could have been the home to intelligent life. Perhaps it could have experienced its “Goldilocks” era many thousands—maybe millions—of years before the Earth? There is a volcano on Mars called Olympus Mons that is bigger than any other known in the whole of the solar system—it’s actually much bigger than Mount Everest! Imagine if that bad boy went off!? It could easily have destroyed any livable atmosphere and kick-started the planet’s death. There are seemingly hundreds of thousands of cavelike areas across the surface of Mars and a certain period of its year the atmosphere is full of Methane gas—a sure sign of life. The life could be bacteria that can thrive in seemingly inhospitable areas under the surface of Mars—or, could the intelligent life whom once inhabited the surface have colonized beneath the surface, away from the deadly solar winds and plummeting temperatures?
Whatever played a part in the demise of the planet was perhaps predicted by the civilisations and some survived under the surface. There could be networks of cave systems and ecosystems unimaginable to us—the inhabitants could all have evolved heightened senses to survive in the darkness. There’s a lot to think about there anyway—what do you guys think?
In science fiction, cyborgs are biological creatures enhanced by implanting electronic components. Aside from the implantation, most humans are already cyborgs in that our knowledge, processing capacity, navigational skills and other abilities are already tremendously enhanced by electronic devices. The only difference is that they are still external for the time being.
Inside every electronic device, and some other complex machines, are many tiny people whose job it is to control the machine with miniature cranks, pulleys and levers.
Computers have the most—thousands of specialists, one (or more!) for each task the computer is capable of doing.
iPods? Dozens of extremely talented mini-musicians with a vast selection of instruments at their disposal, always at the ready to play whatever song you select.
Cameras are full of realistic painters who each take a section of the image and, very quickly, create the complete image for you.
The anonymity of the internet lets people be who they really are with little fear of repercussion. The majority of people online behave in a very rude manner, which suggests that most people are secretly jerks, they’re just too afraid to behave that way in person.
This is not an argument in favor of banning anonymity, simply an observation.
It’s almost too weird, but you made this up in your head. You want this to be, you made it. You read this because you made it up. You made up all that is said, all that you see, all there is… You are alone, but you create what you experience. You make people say what you make up. And if you don’t agree, it’s your head that made that up.
At some point before our universe existed, scientists, in an attempt to simulate the origin of their own universe, built a powerful supercomputer capable of running a realtime or greater than realtime simulation of a universe, from its origin, on to the creation of life and civilization on planets within it. We exist within that simulation.
It is a common belief that some people are naturally better at certain things—whether it be art, sports, math, etc.—than other people. I posit that it is experience, rather than genetics, which causes this, and that at birth, everyone of the same basic intelligence is fairly evenly matched in all areas. As they grow up, the things they and the people around them do affect their interests, which makes them focus more of their time in a certain area, which in turn causes them to be more skilled in those areas. So there is nothing “natural” about it, just time and effort.
Through a greater understanding of higher dimensions, we would be able to instantaneously travel between any two points in our third-dimensional understanding of the Universe.
Everyone who has prototyped their own circuit knows that the circuit will continue to work as long as you don’t let the good smoke out. As soon as you release all the necessary smoke the circuit will no longer function.
When playing a video normally, media player applications load a certain amount of data into RAM ahead of time as a buffer to prevent skipping during playback. However, as soon as each frame has been played, it gets removed from RAM to free up space for more future frames.
So, when you suddenly want to rewind, it’s suddenly nowhere near as smooth, because it has to hunt down all the data on the hard drive again, frame by frame, and that takes considerably longer, since it doesn’t even seem to try building up a buffer when rewinding.
The Chinese cyber attacks were not, as is being claimed, an attempt to silence dissidents and/or steal intellectual property from American corporations, but were intended to push users away from using Internet Explorer, whose vulnerabilities were used to facilitate the attacks. France and Germany have already issued warnings to their citizens, telling them to stop using Internet Explorer.
We now have technology that our kids will use many years in the future. It is there, ready at warehouses, but companies still have stock of things we use these days. They can’t let the new, innovative things out into the public because of all the money they invested into the current technology. Imagine how much easer and safer and cleaner life would be if the day after tomorrow replaced today!
I often hear people saying that they don’t “get” art, and as a result they think it’s a stupid field to get into and that anyone who wants to create art as a career must be stupid. The reason for this is because of the expanse of postmodernism into the art field, where abstract art or art created with little skill is considered the best there is, while fine, detailed, skillfully crafted art is considered “tight”, “rigid” trash by other artists. Therefore, what is often portrayed to the public as great art makes no sense to them, and they conclude that artists are crazy people who make crap and try to sell it for an absurd amount of money, and they miss out on all the good art that’s available.
The reason for TV sitcoms with live audiences recorded for the laugh track is because it lets the writers not have to be funny—they just flash the laughter light whenever it’s supposed to be funny, causing the audience at home to laugh along as well so they don’t feel left out, then look back and think “boy, that was funny”, even though if there hadn’t been a laugh track they probably would’ve stopped watching halfway through because it really wasn’t funny at all.
If your computer, phone or other electronic devices slow down or stop working, hitting or throwing them will teach them a lesson and they will speed back up and start working again.
Whenever you turn a corner or close your eyes, the world around you ceases to exist. The only part of the world that exists is that which is currently in eyeshot. Whenever you move, the world you no longer see ceases to exist and the world you now see pops into existence.
People, too, only exist whenever you can see or hear them. When someone walks past you, they really have just popped into existence, walked in front of you, and then disappeared as soon as you look away from them again.
As a kid, I always thought that the ground and roads were like a giant moving belt. Instead of people walking forward across the ground, the ground is moving beneath them!
Yet, somehow, everyone has their own “belt” that somehow interconnects with everybody else’s, which how is people are able to move independently of each other. Call me crazy, but I think I am on to something here!