The thing is, astronomical images involve time exposures. Using the same
telescope you could see the thing directly if your retina were sufficiently
sensitive. Not going to happen.
The above involves speculation on my part. Also I am highly medicated.
---
Frank
Eric,
May I have leave to ask you a ==> really dumb question<==?
What does it mean to say that we have "seen" a black hole? It's a metaphor,
right? In the sense that saying that we have "seen" an electron is a metaphor.
And there is a lot of equipment that has been aggressively designed
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-microscopic-swimmers-visual-perception-group.html
Really paring down the classical flocking rules...
C
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Indeed, Gil,
I was just on the piont of writing to the list, because I was surprised at no
traffic on this stunner.
There is a photomontage I would love to have, which I think doesn’t exist yet,
but now can.
Full M87 in the visible:
http://hubblesite.org/image/2391/gallery
(which I guess is ab
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.html
^ now that is amazing. Keep kicking arse science!
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Everyone needs to understand---and soon---that the entitlement that allows
us to exist as a species is disappearing rapidly as climate catastrophe
continues to cascade. Everything else is noise.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:02 PM Nick Thompson
wrote:
> One of you said:
>
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> *and I can't help bu
> One of you said:
>
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> */and I can't help but wonder *why* individuals are so entitled to
> think they deserve anything at all other than the opportunity to exist
> ... if even that./*
>
I didn't say it but I will defend it. Probably in one (or two) of my
idiosyncratic ways:
1. I believe
One of you said:
and I can't help but wonder *why* individuals are so entitled to think they
deserve anything at all other than the opportunity to exist ... if even that.
Lurking in the back caves of my liberal bleeding heart lurks a troll who
responds badly to "entitlement" and its c
Steve writes:
< From my ALife days, "Life" is a lot of things at once, while being
roughly as simple as systems which increase negentropy in the flux of
free energy sources. Your "struggle for power" is perhaps a reflection
of the competition for better exposure to said "flux". >
In the sense that all causation is over-simplification, I can agree with you.
But in the sense that function is distinct from material (ends distinct from
means), I disagree. In particular, when we consider things like therapeutic
compounds, many different compounds can achieve the same (or si
Marcus wrote, in response to Glen:
> In the end, life is just a struggle for power.
I think this is technically accurate, but may carry a cynicism which
ignores some subtleties along the way? It invokes the image attributed
(I think) to Tennyson and perhaps exploited by Dawkins to provide
contra
Gary wrote:
> I'm not a big fan of "why" questions. I think "why" is just an excuse
> for not wanting to admit that we don't know "what" in sufficient
> detail. To misquote Yoda, "There is no Why. What, or what not.".
My framing of this is that "a well enough posed question has a
self-evident answ
I'm not a big fan of "why" questions. I think "why" is just an excuse for
not wanting to admit that we don't know "what" in sufficient detail. To
misquote Yoda, "There is no Why. What, or what not.".
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:09 AM Marcus Daniels wrote:
> On 4/10/19, 7:46 AM, "Friam on behalf o
Thank you Gary!
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 6:31 PM Gary Schiltz
wrote:
> I had a "Happy Hacking" keyboard when I last worked for a living, and
> loved it. The "light" version that I had doesn't have the Cherry switches,
> but it was still good for the price. As for hard drives, they are cheap as
>
In the end, life is just a struggle for power. As soon as one starts to think
in terms of entitled or not entitled (beyond rhetoric and tactics), it is just
taking your eye off the ball. Whether it is for the best or not is in the
end, subjective.
Btw, it's good you point out the concept of
The underlying thread seems to be the extent to which we are part of a fluid
and the extent to which that fluid's phenomena are distinct from those
phenomena generated by the individual parts, the humans. Individualist ⇔
socialist spectrum, the ontological status of groups (including whether y
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