Doug - who you calling a Dupe?
I came close to responding to Roger's original but was too busy
generating abstruse circular arguments to explain how recursion and
iterations are duals and picking on Owen for being able to refer
beautiful (but intelligent mind you) women at off to Wikipedia articles
on "the Halting Problem". But then you might not have read those either!
Meanwhile, in response to Owen's comment about "critters" that can
(maybe) handle interplanetary (if not interstellar!) conditions: my
favorite are the extremophilic Tardigrades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
- Steve
A (the only?) downside to not reading every FRIAM post. Sorry for the
dupe.
--Doug
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:26 AM, glen e. p. ropella
<g...@tempusdictum.com <mailto:g...@tempusdictum.com>> wrote:
Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/18/2013 05:36 AM:
> Thinking along the lines of Moore's law, extrapolating it
backwards. I
> love stories that are told across cosmological time scales:
>
>
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/
We have to give credit where it's due! ;-) Roger already posted this.
Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/16/2013 08:44 AM:
> I don't know if retrodicting an exponential growth curve back to
> it's origin is technically an extrapolation, but aside from that
> quibble this is very cute.
>
> Plot Moore's Law, it hits the origin in the 1960's when there were
> zero transistors on chips.
>
> "A similar process works with scientific publications. Between 1990
> and 1960, they doubled in number every 15 years or so. Extrapolating
> this backwards gives the origin of scientific publication as 1710,
> about the time of Isaac Newton."
>
> Now make some assumptions about the time of origin of various
> genetic complexities evident in the history of life on earth, and
> plot the growth curve for that. When was its origin?
>
>
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/
>
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381
>
> -- rec --
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