Thank you for saying so, but I've been using that image for ten years without spotting its provenance, so I consider myself rather slow, actually.
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Thank you for saying so, but I've been using that image for ten years without spotting its provenance, so I consider myself rather slow, actually.
Today I learned Baba yetu is a mashed up version of the Lord's prayer in Swahili:
http://ministrants.com/lords-prayer/the-lords-prayer-in-swahili/
And: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2015/08/the-swahili-of-baba-yetu.html
http://ministrants.com/lords-prayer/the-lords-prayer-in-swahili/
And: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2015/08/the-swahili-of-baba-yetu.html
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TIL the narrator from The Wonder Years was one of the two crooks in Home Alone.
Ye-eah!
I'm a bit surprised you didn't know that after all this time.
I was never much impressed by the composition and just happened upon this tidbit of information.
Personally I'm more surprised about the fact of there being a thread on the supposed euro-centrism of the game of Civ, but none whatosever on the increasingly Christian-themedness of the game, which started with the Lord's prayer/Apostolic Palace in Civ4, and now includes apostles and missionaries. What will IS think about this?
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Let them play Civ II: Test of Time. The "make people happy" improvements in the Lalande scenario include museums, hologaming arcades, and observatories.
yung.carl.jung
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I hate that soundtrack. Worst ever
Thank god I'm not the only one. Baba Yetu was memed into oblivion, but I never cared for it at all.
Snerk
Smeghead
I think it's exceptionally good. Even after a million times.
TIL that there is a bonus to having a horrible cold: I'm dizzy, achy, I've got no energy, and I've been living on cranberry juice and cough medicine (no, I do not have any chicken soup in my pantry).
But at least when I clean the cats' litter box, for once I can't actually smell it.
But at least when I clean the cats' litter box, for once I can't actually smell it.
Ferocitus
Deity
TIL that the Grotthuss mechanism could be another means by which
signals are transmitted between separate regions of the brain.
Chemical pathways are far too slow to explain some fast signals
that have been observed.
The Grotthuss mechanism is a way that protons can be transmitted along
very fine tubes where water molecules are restricted in movement,
unlike in larger volumes. In exceptionally fine "microtubes" water
can act like solid ice even at temperatures of > 100C.
And WTH! Grotthuss published his ideas in 1806, many years before
electrons and protons were even discovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism
signals are transmitted between separate regions of the brain.
Chemical pathways are far too slow to explain some fast signals
that have been observed.
The Grotthuss mechanism is a way that protons can be transmitted along
very fine tubes where water molecules are restricted in movement,
unlike in larger volumes. In exceptionally fine "microtubes" water
can act like solid ice even at temperatures of > 100C.
And WTH! Grotthuss published his ideas in 1806, many years before
electrons and protons were even discovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism
Interesting.
But that is still a chemical reaction.
Chemical reactions are something sensed and also identified by human observers, thus they aren't themselves outside the mental-material plane (ie aren't a dichotomy of material vs mental, cause you are the observer and you don't pick info on them without your point of view and your senses/mind).
It can also be worded thus: we don't know if matter is actually something non-mental. Those notions only exist in this form cause we think.
o_O
I only wanted to address that Ferocitus said that chemical reactions are too slow to explain some things (no idea if that is true) and then talked about this mechanism, by saying that this mechanism is also a chemical reaction (electricity in the brain is a chemical reaction, which is also proton transfer, which is also this mechanism BTW (sort of), unless I'm missing a detail).
I didn't inted to go meta and totally existentialist o_O.
I only wanted to address that Ferocitus said that chemical reactions are too slow to explain some things (no idea if that is true) and then talked about this mechanism, by saying that this mechanism is also a chemical reaction (electricity in the brain is a chemical reaction, which is also proton transfer, which is also this mechanism BTW (sort of), unless I'm missing a detail).
I didn't inted to go meta and totally existentialist o_O.
Ferocitus
Deity
Interesting.
But that is still a chemical reaction
True, it is still a chemical reaction. I didn't mean to imply it was anything but that in my slipshod description.
BTW: I'm also not implying that it is the mechanism whereby "consciousness" arises, which some people have proposed previously.
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