I am an internet know-it-all with an advanced degree...ask me anything about health, fitness or life
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If this thread reaches 1,000 posts, will you still respond to questions asked since you typically stay away from threads with 1,000 or more posts?0
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1. Humans cannot grasp how long (and how little) 1 million years is...
1) Relativity isn't the question. We have between our ears incomprehensibly more computing power than the largest supercomputer ever made. The material that covers our mechanics is self repairing.. If we ever made something remotely as glorious, we would call it a marvel of engineering, certainly not happenstance. And that is only two of perhaps millions of marvels of the human body.
2) Why do parrots dance when they hear their favorite music?
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this is not relevant to health and fitness or life...nerd.Please compare and contrast LACP, UDLD, OAM as well as various port channels for network detection, aggregation and reliability. Specifically, please address the short comings of each for multihomed end nodes. Thanks!
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_incogNEATo_ wrote: »If this thread reaches 1,000 posts, will you still respond to questions asked since you typically stay away from threads with 1,000 or more posts?
yes, as it will still be awesome since it is from me. I would wager a bet that someone asks a question that garners a response that evokes butthurt and ends this thread before then, or it fades into Bolivia before then.0 -
1. I'm assuming this line of question is really a line of thinking for a non-religious acceptance of the theory of evolution vs. a diety created universe (and thus creation). That can be reconciled easily with the rhetorical statement that science is the study of how God did it.CJisinShape wrote: »1. Humans cannot grasp how long (and how little) 1 million years is...
1) Relativity isn't the question. We have between our ears incomprehensibly more computing power than the largest supercomputer ever made. The material that covers our mechanics is self repairing.. If we ever made something remotely as glorious, we would call it a marvel of engineering, certainly not happenstance. And that is only two of perhaps millions of marvels of the human body.
2) Why do parrots dance when they hear their favorite music?
2. Parrots have been shown to be intelligent creatures and music is cool.0 -
Since it is relevant to my paycheck, it is therefore relevant to my life.
P.S. The geeks shall inherit the earth!
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thefluffyone wrote: »
I think you should study human biology in more detail; the most marvellous thing about the human body is that it works at all given the sheer number of flaws in its "design"CJisinShape wrote: »the most brilliant marvels of engineering (the human)
And yet it does. Brilliantly.
I remember a documentary of scientists using the latest in prosthetics, robotics, and an impressive array of processors. It cost nearly $1 million dollars to build.
It couldn't walk.
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1) What did the snowman say to the other snowman?
2) How much weight does a woman have to bench press to be considered ok at the bench press?
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Snowmen can't speak.CJisinShape wrote: »1) What did the snowman say to the other snowman?
2) How much weight does a woman have to bench press to be considered ok at the bench press?
2 1x her lean body mass
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Snowmen can't speak.CJisinShape wrote: »1) What did the snowman say to the other snowman?
2) How much weight does a woman have to bench press to be considered ok at the bench press?
2 1x her lean body mass
1) He said, "Is it just me, or do you smell carrots?"0 -
Why oh why did Eve have to pick the apple? She made things hard for young ladies everywhere!0
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Can you make intuitive sense out of the fact that if you have 5 different non-replaceable items, say crayons, and you pick 3 of them, how many combinations do you get? you get 10. But, you can also get only 10 different combinations if you pick 2 from the 5. This seems counter- intuitive.0
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Seems like an odd argument. Humans can't build something that can do certain things humans can do, therefore the human body works brilliantly? Humans have built machines that can lift weights far greater than we can. We've built machines that can solve mathematical problems (and hence real life problems) that we could never hope to do ourselves. There are robots that can walk, run, and even dance (for $8000 or less). But I don't see how any of these things has any bearing at all on how well the human body works.CJisinShape wrote: »And yet it does. Brilliantly.
I remember a documentary of scientists using the latest in prosthetics, robotics, and an impressive array of processors. It cost nearly $1 million dollars to build.
It couldn't walk.
The human body does not work "brilliantly". If it was that great it wouldn't suffer from cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, polio, congenital heart defects, and the many other problems that cut people's lives short. If it was brilliant, the birth canal wouldn't be small enough to cause complications for so many infants, the spine wouldn't be so prone to injury, and the knees wouldn't fail for so many people. A brilliant design wouldn't have us breathe and eat through the same tube, give us low-resolution eyes that see upside down and have a blind-spot, put a man's testicles on the outside... I could go on.
So by all means be happy to be alive, and be amazed that complex life exists. But don't delude yourself into thinking that the human body is some kind of marvel of engineering. If those scientists building robots had designed something like the human body, I think the designer would be fired for incompetence.
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thefluffyone wrote: »
Seems like an odd argument. Humans can't build something that can do certain things humans can do, therefore the human body works brilliantly? Humans have built machines that can lift weights far greater than we can. We've built machines that can solve mathematical problems (and hence real life problems) that we could never hope to do ourselves. There are robots that can walk, run, and even dance (for $8000 or less). But I don't see how any of these things has any bearing at all on how well the human body works.CJisinShape wrote: »And yet it does. Brilliantly.
I remember a documentary of scientists using the latest in prosthetics, robotics, and an impressive array of processors. It cost nearly $1 million dollars to build.
It couldn't walk.
The human body does not work "brilliantly". If it was that great it wouldn't suffer from cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, polio, congenital heart defects, and the many other problems that cut people's lives short. If it was brilliant, the birth canal wouldn't be small enough to cause complications for so many infants, the spine wouldn't be so prone to injury, and the knees wouldn't fail for so many people. A brilliant design wouldn't have us breathe and eat through the same tube, give us low-resolution eyes that see upside down and have a blind-spot, put a man's testicles on the outside... I could go on.
So by all means be happy to be alive, and be amazed that complex life exists. But don't delude yourself into thinking that the human body is some kind of marvel of engineering. If those scientists building robots had designed something like the human body, I think the designer would be fired for incompetence.
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You're not the one answering questions here. Please request to have your post removed.thefluffyone wrote: »
Seems like an odd argument. Humans can't build something that can do certain things humans can do, therefore the human body works brilliantly? Humans have built machines that can lift weights far greater than we can. We've built machines that can solve mathematical problems (and hence real life problems) that we could never hope to do ourselves. There are robots that can walk, run, and even dance (for $8000 or less). But I don't see how any of these things has any bearing at all on how well the human body works.CJisinShape wrote: »And yet it does. Brilliantly.
I remember a documentary of scientists using the latest in prosthetics, robotics, and an impressive array of processors. It cost nearly $1 million dollars to build.
It couldn't walk.
The human body does not work "brilliantly". If it was that great it wouldn't suffer from cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, polio, congenital heart defects, and the many other problems that cut people's lives short. If it was brilliant, the birth canal wouldn't be small enough to cause complications for so many infants, the spine wouldn't be so prone to injury, and the knees wouldn't fail for so many people. A brilliant design wouldn't have us breathe and eat through the same tube, give us low-resolution eyes that see upside down and have a blind-spot, put a man's testicles on the outside... I could go on.
So by all means be happy to be alive, and be amazed that complex life exists. But don't delude yourself into thinking that the human body is some kind of marvel of engineering. If those scientists building robots had designed something like the human body, I think the designer would be fired for incompetence.
To the answer-giver: Is the Google the best place to go for gifs?
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Yep...just make sure appropriate filters are on at work as NSFW gifs exist_incogNEATo_ wrote: »
You're not the one answering questions here. Please request to have your post removed.thefluffyone wrote: »
Seems like an odd argument. Humans can't build something that can do certain things humans can do, therefore the human body works brilliantly? Humans have built machines that can lift weights far greater than we can. We've built machines that can solve mathematical problems (and hence real life problems) that we could never hope to do ourselves. There are robots that can walk, run, and even dance (for $8000 or less). But I don't see how any of these things has any bearing at all on how well the human body works.CJisinShape wrote: »And yet it does. Brilliantly.
I remember a documentary of scientists using the latest in prosthetics, robotics, and an impressive array of processors. It cost nearly $1 million dollars to build.
It couldn't walk.
The human body does not work "brilliantly". If it was that great it wouldn't suffer from cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, polio, congenital heart defects, and the many other problems that cut people's lives short. If it was brilliant, the birth canal wouldn't be small enough to cause complications for so many infants, the spine wouldn't be so prone to injury, and the knees wouldn't fail for so many people. A brilliant design wouldn't have us breathe and eat through the same tube, give us low-resolution eyes that see upside down and have a blind-spot, put a man's testicles on the outside... I could go on.
So by all means be happy to be alive, and be amazed that complex life exists. But don't delude yourself into thinking that the human body is some kind of marvel of engineering. If those scientists building robots had designed something like the human body, I think the designer would be fired for incompetence.
To the answer-giver: Is the Google the best place to go for gifs?
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