ideas

This is probably a very impractical idea; could anyone here explain why. As I understand it (could be wrong) global warming is due to excess energy in the atmosphere. Could this not be collected (lots of wind farms and whatever) and then used to power one or more giga/tera/peta/whatever lasers...

I am wondering about something. I noticed when I am posting on this forum, that I have messed up and have had to fix some of my mistakes. I see the words as correct, but after I press send and review it, I realize I've made mistakes. Could this be dylexia? Can someone tell me symptoms and...

I just made an ASL interpretation video of Georgres Brassens' song, but it seems to me to be something to keep in mind here. French: Mourir pour des idées Mourir pour des idé's, l'idée est excellente. Moi, j'ai failli mourir de ne l'avoir pas eu', Car tous ceux qui l'avaient, multitude...

Seems as if a couple of these will come around once a month or so. Ironicly the last one dropped off a pamphlet about "Identifying the false religions" lol, I would like some ways to humorously mess with them when they come around. A couple of rules. 1) I don't want them to come inside. 2) I...

We've got series of mirrored web servers. I've been asked to come up with a way (either to build or to buy) to track the latency of each of the IP addresses on each web server. The preferable solution would be one that can download a page and click a link, timing the whole process. For the...

EDIT: I MEANT AOL MUSIC NOT YAHOO Not behind a firewall...other than Windows XP stuff that is. Could it be XP's SP2 blocking it? If so, what do I modify in the IE settings to allow? Anyone?

I'd like to do a lot better with next year's TAM-cam. There are three areas I'd like to consider. 1) the experience of folks not at TAM, viewing the pictures 2) the experience of folks at TAM being photographed 3) the experience of folks doing the logistics of set-up, tear-down etc...

Well even with the thorough defeat of ID in Dover, (YEAH!!!!!) you know some ID dolts are bound to come back with the whole it's science not religion argument. So I was hoping to get a list of different designers together to throw at said IDers that is bound to set them off and make them...

Logic The branch of philosophy that deals with the formal properties of arguments and the philosophical problems associated with them. The use of critical thinking, particularly binary yes/no thinking and inductive/deductive reasoning, as a means of testing ideas and debate. Reason In...

What in your opinion are the 5 most significant, valuable and impacting concepts in philosophy 1. to philosophers and 2. to the general lay public -- in order of importance? For example, people use Plato's allegory of the cave to describe perception of the world or the illusion of knowing...

Does anyone have a good summary of what the process is for turning philosophical ideas into physical reality? How do ideas like "capitalism" which may start in the mind or the mind may reflect the physical reality of people trading back and forth ----- how do those types of ideas become a...

#1 A tshirt showing God dressed in barbequeing gear basting a spit-roasted lamb, with the caption "Lamb 'o God!". Optionally, he might be slicing communion wafers off the lamb. #2 A tshirt showing the empty tomb, with a zombie jesus coming out, and the caption "Zombie Jesus!" . Optionally, an...

A flying plant that only has two leaves that double as fast flapping wings(like insect wings). It can fly from place to place to escape being eaten, or migrate for more sun and warmer climate when winter comes. Second plant is like the first except instead of two flapping wings/leaves it has a...

I'm lucky enough to have had some truly amazing teachers during my time in public schools. I was just thinking back on it, and I thought it would be neat to have a thread for people to share some of their good school experiences. Far and away the best teacher I had was Thomas Lenkart here in...

I need some advice. I am at the very early, distressed stage, of attempting to evaluate some of platos ideas. I am having trouble even identifying the ideas that are worth evaluating. Half the ideas I have provisionally identifed don't even make sense, eg (taken from the lecture notes...

I was wondering, many people say unfalsifiable ideas/theories are useless (and I'm inclined to agree), so does anyone have any ideas that would be considered useful , but are still unfalsifiable? Also, I'd like to see if there is a simple qualifier you can put on common ideas to make them...

Hey folks, I've been playing around with some ideas over the past few years on a sci-fi story set on a unique planet. It's always going to be one of those 'works in progress', I fear, but I have written a couple of short stories set in this society. If it's ever going to become something...

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/7959692.htm

I was thinking of ideas for a morality system that should work. The first things are a sort of commandment type thing... but they're not ordered by god, they're ordered by a human being simply for the reason that it benefits other human beings. 1.) Do not deceive - I've changed this from...

http://www.tiller.org/ William Tiller is a solid state physicist who seems to believe in just about every paranormal claim and tries to explain them with some vague pseudoscientific talk about "subtle energies." The following is exerpted from http://www.tiller.org/subtle-energies.html ...