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lajoswinkler

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  1. They can, but not at our level. Murdering for fun - they do it, too. They do display malice, not just in captivity.
  2. Not exactly. Meat contains nerves. The danger is less prominent, but still... Not to mention parasites. Bleurgh, yes.
  3. Chimps are way worse. Imagine a 4 year old, physically fit, with huge canines, throwing a tantrum. That's a chimp. Young chimp, adult chimp, doesn't matter. Even disregarding the cultural evolution, humans possess a more developed neocortex. Our nature has made us susceptible to develop morality and actual societies, unlike chimps which live in some kind of proto-tribes. Chimps will never behave if left on their own. Only if you raise them in captivity you can expect some degree of our common sense, but they're like prepubescent humans. Look at this fellow. Chimps aren't monkeys, they're apes. Monkeys are small, they swing in trees and eat berries. Apes like chimps sometimes hunt them down just because they're evil. They will tear you apart if they want. They'll rip your arms, crush and chew your skull. This is how we began, too. It was actually responsible for the development of high morality and high compassion.
  4. There isn't amount of bleach that would make edible. It's toxic waste. As animals on the top of the food chain, we gather lots of nasty stuff inside of us. Heavy metals come to mind. Not to mention the danger of viruses and prions... Human body could be rendered into harmless goo, but the process is too expensive, and people don't just drop dead like flies, so it's not economically viable. Problems with cannibalsm (prions) have evolved into a sense of morality. Civilized people don't eat other people like they eat apples. Today's cannibalistic societies can truly be called inferior breed. Incredibly low average IQ, high aggression, poorly developed morality. I don't have problems with that. L-cisteine from a cow or a man, it's the same molecule. And it's not hair. It's L-cisteine, so your argument fails. It has nothing to do with cannibalism.
  5. If we define "most agressive" as having the worst temper that leads to uncontrolled deadly violence (which is more applicable than examination of culture and history), then it's probably the chimpanzee. They're horrible.
  6. You can make some truly incredible machines using this. http://powdertoy.co.uk Before Minecraft and redstone circuits became popular, this was "the game" for something like that.
  7. Whole animal? That would include: - central nervous system (potentially extremely dangerous and thus banned from selling because of mad cow disease) - bones (if you grind them well enough together with meat, the meat is virtually atomized into homogeneous paste) - hair (you can't process that in your stomach) - liquid tissues: blood, lymph (it spoils easily) - urine (toxins) - excrement inside colon (dangerous bacteria, toxins) Maybe there's more, but on top of my mind, this is it. It simply couldn't be done if you want healthy animal products. You'd get a poisonous, disgusting, smelly mush.
  8. Koliko nas uopće ima iz Hrvatske? Šaka jada, po svemu sudeći.
  9. It would be illegal, not to mention rude, to make money on this. Jeb is copyrighted by Squad.
  10. Really, still butthurt of Pluto? I'm looking forward to the day when first photos start coming online. I was too young to appreciate Voyager 2 in 1989, so this will be my second (Cassini-Huygens was the first) true experience of new space stuff.
  11. As in... the common cold? Viruses enter our cells. Viruses have radically different genome. What to merge? What parts? By how much? This isn't mixing colors in kindergarted. "Cancer" is an umbrella term, not an exact illness. There are cancers which are caused by viruses, directly and indirectly. HPV is one example of a virus that alters our DNA so that the cells can become cancerous.
  12. Good morning! Nice to see such khram! Me like!
  13. Our genome mostly is viral in origin, so...
  14. Learn how to knit or ask someone to knit a crochet Kerbal for you.
  15. Not that massive. You've forgot you live on Earth. If it was Justin Bieber, then it would be massive. I'd like to see Aldrin playing KSP. Now that would be fun, and a massive boost. It would go viral on YouTube.
  16. It's all answered here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en and it can be accessed by searching for: youtube 720p kbps, on Google.
  17. I'd be amazed if it was a torch lighter instead of just a model...
  18. No, all of the force does not come from expanding gas pushing against the nozzle. Some of it shoots straight out and never touches it. More in first stage atmospheric engines, less in final stage vacuum engines, but some of it just shoots out and contributes to reactive movement. No, actually very little would boil off. Number of hot particles in a room temperature water is quite low, and water molecules are highly polar, so only the topmost layer becomes kind of snowy; the rest is solid ice without appreciable inclusions. Nonpolar liquids with low molecular mass, like liquid nitrogen, oxygen, halogens, noble gases (except helium, which is impossible to solidify without pressure), they will form slush, and then fluffy ice as the slush bumps. You'd black out in a matter of seconds. A bit more than ten seconds if you're fit. Inevitable death in under 5 minutes or so.
  19. Also one thing to consider - the captain was not a very authoritative figure as portrayed in the media and novels.
  20. I guess you're not including "yarr", and other stereotype crap? Because that would be very inaccurate.
  21. I don't see how that could be possible. Even if I did, objects similar to coacervates (but on a much grander scale) would be basically impossible to imagine.
  22. They're primitive, and, rest assured, given the technological advancement we have, most of such tribes would become way worse than us. Most of them already are. They didn't share our global history. Our development of legally recognized human rights, that's nothing for them. Their world is a world of superstition. Don't fall for the "noble savage" stereotype that was introduced by romanticism in our culture. That's crap and isn't true. There's an interesting story of a tribe leader who went on a helicopter ride with Look at these guys. http://vimeo.com/19712297 That doesn't mean they should be destroyed. Far from that. It's a culture. I do think they need to be protected from us. They have a right to be left alone. If they want, they'll contact us. If we come to them, they will cease to exist. Microbes we carry around could wipe them out. People with chainsaws (mostly criminals and awful characters) would attack them, they'd attack others, leading to a social disaster. If we approach them, it means genocide.
  23. Brazil didn't even bother anymore. It was like watching the ball role from one end to another.
  24. Unless that machine has the ability to recycle waste using an energy source, it's nothing more than a fancy, glorified physical reaction taking place, like crystalization of the saturated solution. Once the solvent is gone and all of the solute is in crystals, everything stops. Kind of like something insane made of redstone in Minecraft. I highly recommend watching this video to everyone, to help with understanding how is life different from a simple chemical reaction. https://archive.org/details/mars_chemistry_looks_at_life
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