Thread for the easily NERDgasmic...

coolraul07

Nerd, Geek, Techic, Trekker, etc. All are welcome to post their random brain dumps here.:bigsmile: :glasses: :bigsmile:

Let's get the ball rolling...

Was cleaning the kitchen and put TV on random channel for noise... happened upon a marathon of "Morgan Freeman's Through The Wormhole". Kinda sorta watched 2 eps.. Now more than ever, I'm convinced that Theoretical Physics departments at educational institutions worldwide are an Illuminati scheme to consolidate all the evil geniuses that are a single industrial accident away from becoming supervillians! I worry that we don't have enough busy work for them in the US, what with the shrinkage of NASA. I"m waiting for the breaking news report citing "World Domination" as a motive. Imagine crossing Val Kilmer's character from 'Real Genius" with Michael Keaton's character from "Falling Down"! <shudder>

Anyway, I digress... Unless the hounds!

jameseylefebure

100% Geek here - not so much on the Nerd side of things (bit stooopid for Nerdy) but well up on my geekness. Love my fantasy games/books and a HUGE horror nerd. I'm also one of the people who will worship Joss Whedon!!

FitBeto

I firmly believe there is no single divine being and all humans past drama - success - survival - intelligence - and technology all came from "aliens". The proof is everywhere, from Stonehenge to the pyramids, to underwater cities to Mayan ruins. Hieroglyphs, artifacts, depictions of "beings coming from the sky" in the bible and many ancient texts. Either way you put this, anything that comes from the heavens is "alien to this earth", but finding of "landing pads" and strategic magnetic placement of giant rocks on the earth all point to unparalleled knowledge given to humans but a superior race sitting among the stars. Just look between 1800 - now. The increase in technology is imaginable, compared to 0 bc to1700 ad. Thats over 2000 years. 200 years and we went from just discovering electricity to having devices the size of leafs to connect and talk to each other over thousands of miles in a second. No way we could have done this on our own.

coolraul07

I firmly believe there is no single divine being and all humans past drama - success - survival - intelligence - and technology all came from "aliens"....

Interesting theory. Myself, I have often wondered why there was so much engineering and technological advancement from ~3,000 B.C. through a couple hundred A.D. (Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc.) then an almost complete stop (worldwide) up to and thru the Dark Ages, and didn't seem to spark back up until around the time of moveable type. Imagine where we be technologically speaking if our momentum continued straight through to today. I once heard a theory that it was related to a shift from polytheism (various mythologies) to monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.), but I don't see the tie other than coincidence of timeframe.
I used to avidly watch "Engineering an Empire" and I noticed that I'm entralled by the pre-Dark Ages episodes, but the post-Dark Ages stuff is kinda like, "Meh."

sedwards9999

I think mankind has peaked when it comes to figuring out what can be done with the planet, its resources and the laws of physics.

Blastastic

xxghost

100% Geek here - not so much on the Nerd side of things (bit stooopid for Nerdy) but well up on my geekness. Love my fantasy games/books and a HUGE horror nerd. I'm also one of the people who will worship Joss Whedon!!

I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your shirt.

And yes, I suppose I would consider myself more of a geek than a nerd if we're being specific.

TheRightWeigh

I think mankind has peaked when it comes to figuring out what can be done with the planet, its resources and the laws of physics.

I pretty much totally agree...we only have a few more breakthroughs left in us....

MrsSardone

I firmly believe there is no single divine being and all humans past drama - success - survival - intelligence - and technology all came from "aliens". The proof is everywhere, from Stonehenge to the pyramids, to underwater cities to Mayan ruins. Hieroglyphs, artifacts, depictions of "beings coming from the sky" in the bible and many ancient texts. Either way you put this, anything that comes from the heavens is "alien to this earth", but finding of "landing pads" and strategic magnetic placement of giant rocks on the earth all point to unparalleled knowledge given to humans but a superior race sitting among the stars. Just look between 1800 - now. The increase in technology is imaginable, compared to 0 bc to1700 ad. Thats over 2000 years. 200 years and we went from just discovering electricity to having devices the size of leafs to connect and talk to each other over thousands of miles in a second. No way we could have done this on our own.

My husband loves Ancient Aliens too. I think it's good for a laugh.

homerjspartan

Nerd, Geek, Techic, Trekker, etc. All are welcome to post their random brain dumps here.:bigsmile: :glasses: :bigsmile:

Let's get the ball rolling...

Was cleaning the kitchen and put TV on random channel for noise... happened upon a marathon of "Morgan Freeman's Through The Wormhole". Kinda sorta watched 2 eps.. Now more than ever, I'm convinced that Theoretical Physics departments at educational institutions worldwide are an Illuminati scheme to consolidate all the evil geniuses that are a single industrial accident away from becoming supervillians! I worry that we don't have enough busy work for them in the US, what with the shrinkage of NASA. I"m waiting for the breaking news report citing "World Domination" as a motive. Imagine crossing Val Kilmer's character from 'Real Genius" with Michael Keaton's character from "Falling Down"! <shudder>

Anyway, I digress... Unless the hounds!

Michael Douglas. Falling down. Not Keaton.

My 2 cents -
I always get upset at the end of Aladdin. When he has to use his last wish to set the genie free. Why not hand the lamp to Jasmine?

sedwards9999

Oh, and Star Wars > Star Trek.

Tw1zzler

I think mankind has peaked when it comes to figuring out what can be done with the planet, its resources and the laws of physics.

I pretty much totally agree...we only have a few more breakthroughs left in us....

The Higgs Boson

toaster6

I firmly believe there is no single divine being and all humans past drama - success - survival - intelligence - and technology all came from "aliens"....

Interesting theory. Myself, I have often wondered why there was so much engineering and technological advancement from ~3,000 B.C. through a couple hundred A.D. (Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc.) then an almost complete stop (worldwide) up to and thru the Dark Ages, and didn't seem to spark back up until around the time of moveable type. Imagine where we be technologically speaking if our momentum continued straight through to today. I once heard a theory that it was related to a shift from polytheism (various mythologies) to monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.), but I don't see the tie other than coincidence of timeframe.
I used to avidly watch "Engineering an Empire" and I noticed that I'm entralled by the pre-Dark Ages episodes, but the post-Dark Ages stuff is kinda like, "Meh."

They all died off in the Dark Ages. You have to remember, something like 50 percent of Europe's population died off; there was a steep population decline all over the world (something like 2/3 of China's pop. and a third of the Middle East's pop. was wiped out if I am remembering correctly). A lot of people left then had to deal with a crushed economy and famine which in turn caused peasant uprisings. It's hard to innovate when you're a) dead and b) starving.

Nessiechickie

I study and do accounting for a living and I love it :glasses:
Play any kind of video/computer game I can get my hands on.
My favorite is Xbox360, Nintendo64, Runescape on computer. :happy:

coolraul07

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Michael Douglas. Falling down. Not Keaton.
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Doink! Thanks; will edit/correct.
<a few seconds later>
D'Oh! Too late to edit my OP. Oh well.

coolraul07

Oh, and Star Wars > Star Trek.

Demz dare iz fah-tin wurdz!

You're lucky that the Prime Directive prohibits me from interfering with the development of your backwater civilization! j/k

coolraul07

I pretty much totally agree...we only have a few more breakthroughs left in us....

The Higgs Boson

Interesting note: Both eps of "...Through the Wormhole" heavily referenced the Large Hadron Collider... yet neither ep mentioned the HB particle.

tikafly

Wham! Bam! Thanks for the shattering Nerdgasm.

wadedawg

Higgs Boson and string theory amaze me. I can watch shows about quantum physics all night. It blows my mind thinking about infinite parallel universes. One of the biggest mind-f's I have seen lately is how string theory only works when you accept that there are 11 dimensions in our universe, including time and the three spatial dimensions we perceive.

Oh, and watching something about magnetars and pulsars the other day I saw it theorized that magnetars generated their immense magnetic fields because they were filled with a spinning liquid so non-viscous that it had a zero coefficient of friction. Kind of messed with me for a bit there.

nbhobbes

One show I really like is with Michau Kaku called SciFi Science. He goes arround looking at science fiction movies and figures out ways to make them in real life.

LittleMissNerdy

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SoDamnHungry

We can argue all night, but almost everything is a scheme of the Illuminati.

MattTheWaterRat

I think mankind has peaked when it comes to figuring out what can be done with the planet, its resources and the laws of physics.

I pretty much totally agree...we only have a few more breakthroughs left in us....

Blasphemy

MattTheWaterRat

I firmly believe there is no single divine being and all humans past drama - success - survival - intelligence - and technology all came from "aliens". The proof is everywhere, from Stonehenge to the pyramids, to underwater cities to Mayan ruins. Hieroglyphs, artifacts, depictions of "beings coming from the sky" in the bible and many ancient texts. Either way you put this, anything that comes from the heavens is "alien to this earth", but finding of "landing pads" and strategic magnetic placement of giant rocks on the earth all point to unparalleled knowledge given to humans but a superior race sitting among the stars. Just look between 1800 - now. The increase in technology is imaginable, compared to 0 bc to1700 ad. Thats over 2000 years. 200 years and we went from just discovering electricity to having devices the size of leafs to connect and talk to each other over thousands of miles in a second. No way we could have done this on our own.

Check out this web page:
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/

Btw, it is amazing what one can build up to with a few postulates.

tomomatic

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chrome_princess

My 2 cents -
I always get upset at the end of Aladdin. When he has to use his last wish to set the genie free. Why not hand the lamp to Jasmine?

GENIUS!

mrincredible93

Ancient Aliens on the History channel or H2 has me thoroughly convinced...

Anyone have any theories on who the villian is in the upcoming Star Trek Into the Darkness movie? I've already been advised that "John Harrison" is JJ's version of "John Smith"...it means he's not telling. I personally think Gary Mitchell is a decent bet.

jeckalynne

100% Geek here - not so much on the Nerd side of things (bit stooopid for Nerdy) but well up on my geekness. Love my fantasy games/books and a HUGE horror nerd. I'm also one of the people who will worship Joss Whedon!!

^^^omg yesssss

nbhobbes

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Awesome and thnks!

coolraul07

Higgs Boson and string theory amaze me. I can watch shows about quantum physics all night. It blows my mind thinking about infinite parallel universes. One of the biggest mind-f's I have seen lately is how string theory only works when you accept that there are 11 dimensions in our universe, including time and the three spatial dimensions we perceive.

It was interesting growning up reading Marvel comic books and later in life finding out that a lot of what they write (gravitons, gluons, multiversal theories, etc.) was based on real-life physics. A lot of people think of comic books as "Wham-Bam-Zowie" kiddie stuff with expository language ("Stop, vile villian!"), but some books get really deep in the sciences, especially physics. Those writers did some serious research too because it's not like WikiPedia and Google were readily available in the 80s-90s! :glasses:

Oh, and watching something about magnetars and pulsars the other day I saw it theorized that magnetars generated their immense magnetic fields because they were filled with a spinning liquid so non-viscous that it had a zero coefficient of friction. Kind of messed with me for a bit there.

Sounds like liquid helium. ZERO viscosity. So low that if you were able to pour a glassful, it would flow completely over the top and out of the glass!
Pulsars creep me to *kitten* out! How can something so big spin so... damn... fast!

Oh, and black holes get all the press! Why no love for quasars?! </supressed perverted response>

wadedawg

People have heard of black holes for years, even if they don't really understand what they are. Quasars are a brand of televisions to most people.

Quasars are amazing to me, simply because they are so distant. Also because they have decided that they are (or were) super massive black holes at the center of distant galaxies consuming massive amounts of stellar material.