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Debussey owns several of his books :D
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Debussey owns several of his books :D
Brilliant man and a great populariser of science and physics...
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I don't agree with exploring thru robots...It would be better to use a Stargate...
I think it might take longer than 100 years to become a type one, although, we are showing signs that we can control the weather in some shape or form.
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Michio Kaku is a very brilliant physicist. I was reading one of his books the other day about time travel while in Barnes and Noble.
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Is he der Überdork?
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hes always on the science channel !! cool dude !!
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He is funny too :D
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Met the guy here in Dublin...
I even have a signed copy of his Hyperspace book... when a famous physicist is being ushered around after giving a lecture the semi-professional monster hunter always gets introduced.
My copy of Hyperspace reads: "Luke, good luck in any dimension... -Michio Kaku"
I've also had conversations with the guy who won the Nobel prize for creating a Bose-Einstein condensate, and one of the dudes who cloned Dolly the sheep.
Seems if you're doing the lecture circuit you just get bored braindead answering the same questions over and over again... suddenly the chance to speak with an amateur treasure/monster hunter can pique any skeptics interest.
The Luke
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Always reminded me of Carl Sagan. Conveying science to the general public has never been as important as it is now.
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Very, very interesting stuff. I was a big fan of the Transformers when I was a kid, and really dug the recent movie. The best part about it in some sense wasn't the special effects but the whole elaborate mythology they built into the plot about how these alien robots ended up losing their own planet and had to look elsewhere to live. It's pretty cool to think about how big this universe really is and just how small we are in it, and who knows what else is out there.
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Very, very interesting stuff. I was a big fan of the Transformers when I was a kid, and really dug the recent movie. The best part about it in some sense wasn't the special effects but the whole elaborate mythology they built into the plot about how these alien robots ended up losing their own planet and had to look elsewhere to live. It's pretty cool to think about how big this universe really is and just how small we are in it, and who knows what else is out there.
I saw that movie on the IMAX, killing some time in Toronto. You'd figure IMAX would have the best resolution, moviewise, right? Ha! When those robots started fighting I couldn't make out shit. I walked outa there and I'm sure there was 1/2 hours worth of movie I had no idea what was going on. >:(
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Debussey owns several of his books :D
He's a professor at City College, which just happens to be in the same university system as mine. Have friends who go there and City has turned out some great minds for a public university. Originally started because jews were not permitted to enroll in Columbia University.
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I saw that movie on the IMAX, killing some time in Toronto. You'd figure IMAX would have the best resolution, moviewise, right? Ha! When those robots started fighting I couldn't make out shit. I walked outa there and I'm sure there was 1/2 hours worth of movie I had no idea what was going on. >:(
Man you gotta see the whole thing through on DVD. It's long (like 2.5 hours or so), but if you dig the mythological aspects of it, you'll be in for a real treat. IMO, to appeal to 90% of audiences these days, that movie needed wayyyy more fight scenes and special effects, and less "story line", though I loved that story so I didn't mind.
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He's a professor at City College, which just happens to be in the same university system as mine. Have friends who go there and City has turned out some great minds for a public university. Originally started because jews were not permitted to enroll in Columbia University.
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Have you ever thought about entering some of his lectures, or at least taking some physics and/or math classes?
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And fuckers: His name is Michio Kaku, not Maku >:(
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Man you gotta see the whole thing through on DVD. It's long (like 2.5 hours or so), but if you dig the mythological aspects of it, you'll be in for a real treat. IMO, to appeal to 90% of audiences these days, that movie needed wayyyy more fight scenes and special effects, and less "story line", though I loved that story so I didn't mind.
you can bet the sequel will have more fight/robot scenes; the first was so expensive with the computer animation, and with a limited budget you can only show so many robots scenes. With the money rolling in, their budget will be even greater for the sequel.
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you can bet the sequel will have more fight/robot scenes; the first was so expensive with the computer animation, and with a limited budget you can only show so many robots scenes. With the money rolling in, their budget will be even greater for the sequel.
That'd be cool to see more fight scenes and also a greater variety of robots. Have you heard anything about the sequel? I heard a while back they were planning it to appear in theaters summer 2009, if production went fine.
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That'd be cool to see more fight scenes and also a greater variety of robots. Have you heard anything about the sequel? I heard a while back they were planning it to appear in theaters summer 2009, if production went fine.
All I've heard is that they're talking Constructicons and Soundwave so far on the Decepticon side!
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I saw that movie on the IMAX, killing some time in Toronto. You'd figure IMAX would have the best resolution, moviewise, right? Ha! When those robots started fighting I couldn't make out shit. I walked outa there and I'm sure there was 1/2 hours worth of movie I had no idea what was going on. >:(
Probably had an issue with the special effects being digitally generated, and then transferred to IMAX film.
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No data, no mention of collecting data. Nothing wrong with imaginative and creative thinking in science but that guy is living proof of a man's ability to pile speculative intriguing bullshit ceiling high and to then present it to the public, straight faced, as "science." Gee, I wonder why anyone would do that. ::)
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No data, no mention of collecting data. Nothing wrong with imaginative and creative thinking in science but that guy is living proof of a man's ability to pile speculative intriguing bullshit ceiling high and to then present it to the public, straight faced, as "science." Gee, I wonder why anyone would do that. ::)
This has a lot to do with presenting very complex ideas as simply as possible for easy consumption by the masses. Get the audience interested and then they can choose to pursue the finer details.
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That shit is boring. I'm about 2 things: pussy, pizza and beer. Fuck space.
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PURE GENIUS
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That shit is boring. I'm about 2 things: pussy, pizza and beer. Fuck space.
Your kids has a bright future ::)
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He's a professor at City College, which just happens to be in the same university system as mine. Have friends who go there and City has turned out some great minds for a public university. Originally started because jews were not permitted to enroll in Columbia University.
CUNY is great....Brooklyn College and Baruch are probably the best
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I mostly agree with what he says but I don't think he said one thing that wasn't obvious to anyone who isn't living in some aliens fantasy world (where's figgie?!).
I also thinks he likes to cash in on the UFO craze :D Which is all good, making money is no shame :D
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This has a lot to do with presenting very complex ideas as simply as possible for easy consumption by the masses. Get the audience interested and then they can choose to pursue the finer details.
Disagree. He's all about sensationalizing topics which don't need dumbing down to begin with, he's building fantasy on speculative supposition with a baseless QED attitude, and ignoring things which don't support his fantasy. This is the sort of pop science which might engage a child, but the general adult public should be more savvy. The dude is a bullshit artist.
Always reminded me of Carl Sagan. Conveying science to the general public has never been as important as it is now.
Whatever he's conveying, it ain't science. He'd be a chapter in Sagan's "Demon Haunted World." Carl Sagan will arrive shortly to slap yo head for you.
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Carl Sagan will arrive shortly to slap yo head for you.
I have arrived. Where's warrior_code?
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He mentioned the elite, and alluded that the NWO is the transition to the Type 1 civilisation.... He has had conversations with the Elite then he must be on good standing with them, and agrees this is the way to go....My question is do the vast population of i don't know, over 5 billion people in poverty have a place in this Type 1 civilisation or are they in the way? Will many of you that is in the middle class have a place? Will our economy last, will our sovereignty last as a nation? Do we as citizens have a right to vote on entering this phase or are we too stupid and ignorant and unintelligent? What are the moral implications of entering into this arena? What are the costs? Are these valid questions or we not qualified to ask them?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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Fear transition to a type1 "civilisation" = muslims.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Fascinating, Captain.
But the nipper is still a bullshitter.
I have arrived. Where's warrior_code?
SIC! SIC'M CARL!
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That shit is boring. I'm about 2 things: pussy, pizza and beer. Fuck space.
cmon falcon we know you dont mean that, say fuck anything that is a much bigger creation than me or you is absolutley foolish
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cmon falcon we know you dont mean that, say fuck anything that is a much bigger creation than me or you is absolutley foolish
bump for broadstreet to open up to knew thought patterns :)
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Hmmm...
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CUNY is great....Brooklyn College and Baruch are probably the best
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Disagree. He's all about sensationalizing topics which don't need dumbing down to begin with, he's building fantasy on speculative supposition with a baseless QED attitude, and ignoring things which don't support his fantasy. This is the sort of pop science which might engage a child, but the general adult public should be more savvy. The dude is a bullshit artist.
Whatever he's conveying, it ain't science. He'd be a chapter in Sagan's "Demon Haunted World." Carl Sagan will arrive shortly to slap yo head for you.
what I meant to say was he conveys scientific thought to the general public, similar to how Carl Sagan did with Cosmos or what Richard Dawkins does. The more people who are awe inspired by looking at the stars or through a microscope at a fungal culture the better.