Posted on 02/19/2025 5:28:20 AM PST by Red Badger
CAN YOU REMEMBER BACK THAT FAR?................
0:50 VIDEO AT LINK.
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I recall using the quadratic equation in a practical matter a couple of times.
It was not common. I used trigonometry a lot more.
Now, calculators and computers are so much easier to use...
I fear for the gradual hypertrophy of the human mind.
However, our memory seems to have hypertrophied as literacy increased.
We are tool-users, who shape our environment to our needs. It is who we are. I hope our tools do not destroy us...
Maybe it is common for tools to eventually destroy tool creators and users... Fermi Paradox is a possibility.
I would rather we become “the old ones” in science fiction mythology. God’s instruments used to populate the universe with life, as we escape Earth to create a new heaven and a new earth as part of God’s plan.
Back in the Stone Age, when calculators were new, and programmable (HP-65), our Calculus professor would not allow them in class at all................
“Fermi Paradox is a possibility.”
Fermi’s Paradox had a hilarious fatal flaw.
It assumed that advanced technological civilizations would never figure out how to hide themselves as “nature” or “background noise” or “planets” or “moons” when that is the obvious and wise choice.
It also assumed that such civilizations—having mastered the art of camouflage—would never figure out how to “hack” the speed of light and space-time so they could travel anywhere they wanted as quickly as they wanted.
Only stupid species like humans would send out electromagnetic signals signaling their location.
Only stupid species like humans would claim “the science is settled” and the speed of light can never be “beaten”.
The “paradox” would be like Native Americans in the West convinced no white men could ever find them because they were many hundreds of miles from the ocean.
We were taught about the new ice age. That the Russians would eventually take us over without firing a shot, and that margarine was much much better than butter.
You listed numerous potentially fatal flaws to the Fermi Paradox.
They are all possible.
Another strong possibility: we are alone in the universe.
We have not found any evidence of other civilizations. It may be by design, it may be there aren’t any. It may be there are none close enough in time or distance to be discoverable.
There are numerous very unlikely events that resulted in our civilization. The odds may simply add up to the point other civilizations are highly unlikely, even over billions of years, and the size of the universe.
That in about 15 years we would all have flying cars.
That adults are smart and we should always listen to what they say and obey them. Even when I was in 2nd grade I figured out that there were some very stupid adults.
Glad I beat the global warming teachings.
Would be expelled for challenging it.
I don't. Atrophy, on the other hand...
I think all that is proven is that our senses are very limited.
It is our ignorance that fuels the Fermi Paradox.
Thanks for correcting the obvious blooper...
Lack of coffee? Brain f@rt? Bad memory..
As I recall, I searched for the proper word, atrophy, and the search engine gave me hypertrophy. Thats my story, and I am sticking to it....
I appreciate the correction. Nicely done...
I think all that is proven is that our senses are very limited.
It is our ignorance that fuels the Fermi Paradox.
Humility is in short supply, but needed.
In 1964, a special guest spoke to my school about the dangers of smoking marijuana. She said she witnessed the death of a young man who had smoked marijuana and she saw him in his hospital bed, he was foaming from his mouth. I tell you the truth, that was her actual message.
I am the best at Humility in the entire world! In fact, I am so good at Humility, that I wrote books about it. I offer a 12-volume set... autographed, of course!
I don’t know, I didn’t pay much attention. Probably a good thing…..
i was told that i would go blind...
but i stopped when i needed glasses.
....and didn’t get hairy palms...................
Ronald Reagan won the election because he was a famous actor.
Wilson Good was a better candidate than Frank Rizzo.
FDR was a great President.
FDR was a great President.
That was for two terms, we didn’t know the guy was going to hang on to the job like a Pope!
Woodrow Wilson was a "good guy".
that made me start humming “Pop Goes the Weasle”
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