Particles found to break speed of light

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Particles found to break speed of light

An international group of scientists have reported that numerous experiments over the last 3 years have shown neutrinos travelling faster than light.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/science-light-idUSL5E7KM4CW20110922

 

 

 

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Vastet wrote:7: They will

Vastet wrote:
7: They will still die. Life has been starved to death time and again, regardless of its efforts to prevent it.

Again, missing the point. The point is not the survival of life, but the survival of civilization.

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They can fight as much as they want, as they do today in much of Africa. But the ones who have food also have better weapons, so the desperation never amounts to much.

Not always. Guns are cheap. Taking over a land is easier than starving.

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Else how has North America held off the billions of starving Africans?

The Atlantic Ocean. What happens when the starving ones are the Americans, after their previously fertile lands evaporate into dust? You want to fight off the Yanks?

Trust me, they have way better guns than we do.

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And how has Europe managed it without an ocean to protect the border?

Mountains: Caucasus, Alps, Carpathians, Balkans, etc.

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Peacefully or desperately, they die regardless.

And if you find yourself among those dying?

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Cpt_pineapple

Cpt_pineapple wrote:

HumanVuvuzela wrote:

The bartender said "We don't like your type in here." A neutrino walked into a bar.

 

I think I have a slightly better re-wording of the first one:

The bartender said, "We haven't had your kind around here before." A neutrino walked into a bar.

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natural wrote:Cpt_pineapple

natural wrote:

Cpt_pineapple wrote:

HumanVuvuzela wrote:

The bartender said "We don't like your type in here." A neutrino walked into a bar.

 

I think I have a slightly better re-wording of the first one:

The bartender said, "We haven't had your kind around here before." A neutrino walked into a bar.

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1: I wasn't attempting to

1: I wasn't attempting to say the civilisation of Rome literally survived at any point in this discussion. I've constantly been attempting to drive home the fact that it existence and destruction and its influence had a profound impact on most or all of the societies of today. The very catholic takeover you mention was precipitated by Rome. As was everything that followed. There is a distinct Roman flavour to many civilisations today. Latin, an effectively dead language, is still practised in formality. Any attempt to deny the distinct and direct influence of Rome on today's societies is ridiculous.

2: No more than I believe I'm the same person I was 10 years ago. I'm guilty of using a bad analogy here though, and believe we'll backtrack too far if we proceed along this course in order to define its origin.

3: So we had a few hundred bad years, so what? We never approached extinction, and tonnes of information managed to survive it.
The dark ages were a bit more than the collapse of a civilisation too.

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There were plagues, a

There were plagues, a possible strike from a celestial object, a possible major volcanic event, and possible dramatic climate change beyond the capacity of the civilisation to contribute to or prevent. All that in combination with the largest and longest religious conflict in known history combined to set us back only a thousand years. At a time when the average person was completely ignorant compared to the average person today. Even religious fundamentalists today have, on average, a far greater understanding of natural sciences than the people of the time. The entire medical sciences were still archaic and run by priests and charlatans. Physics was in its infancy. Micro-anything didn't exist. Metallurgy was just learning about iron and bronze.
There are no parallel risks of a similar dark age today as there were after the fall of Rome, with the exception of nuclear technology.

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7->4: And you're missing MY

7->4: And you're missing MY point. Our civilisation is not necessary for the future of humanity. It can be replaced.

5+: Then where are the African hordes? Don't try and tell me water or mountains are an impassable obstacle. In order to defeat your proposed threatening farmer, if all I need is a little water or a rock to keep him back then I'll never have to shoot him to defend my habitat.

6: Then I'll die too. Though a mountain or ocean wouldn't stop me from migrating either, so it's hard to say. As long as I'm better armed and more resourceful than my competition, I still have a remote chance of survival, and my survival instincts wouldn't let me lay down. But I'd be fully aware of how fucked I was, and wouldn't be very optimistic.
My death is inevitable anyway.

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