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It may also be safe to assume from this that Equestria's gravity is significantly greater than that of Earth's. A greater gravitational pull could lead to a greater air pressure, and also explain the phenomenon and silly antics that occur in the show (IE sonic rainbooms, ridiculous catapult launches, etc.)

Actually, this could also explain the sonic rainboom as well. Whenever Rainbow Dash breaks the sound barrier, she is literally condensing water, causing it to boil instantaneously resulting in an explosion of water molecules which then act as prisms to create what we know as the Sonic Rainboom. 

SCIENCE 

I had a friend in the IB program. Our local high school didn;t have an IB program, so I've hardly seen him at all since middle school

 

Anyway, I vote science.

IB is a highly rigorous course. I hope the pay offs are as good as they say they are.

Any specific science topic?

Glad to have you back!

I know someone personaly who felt the same way as you. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. We all miss him greatly, and even the school had a service in his memory and honor.

What I mean to say is: Life is hard on everyone, but there are people in this world who care about you and want you to be happy.

I took the liberty of sending my contacts to you via skype. If you need to talk to anyone, or just need to vent somewhere, its there.

Social restructure anyone?

Calling Pluto a planet is like calling a meatball meat loaf

Silly Pluto, you cant be a planet

Then everything would be a planet

And this is why we all secretly want the Zombie apocalypse. Tell me Im wrong.

This is how my old high school taught, and let me just say this:

I hated it.

Where I am at now is more interesting. The classrooms are interactive. Instead of reading about cell structure in biology, we actually look at plant cells. Instead of discussing the history of architecture, we look at the design philosophy of Frank lloyd Wright and create 3D models in his style of architecture.

All students have laptops and access to electronic learning. Teachers dont teach new concepts, the computers do. Teachers take the concepts the students learn on the computers and come up with a lesson plan based on what they learned. This way, virtually no time is spent lecturing, and class time is used to practice the concepts learned

Students participate in collaborative projects, like the real world. Work in groups is encouraged. This is enabled with the technological access students have. Students can create and share documents, get fast communication, and organize events electronically.

Thats what my school does, and it is pretty unique. I wouldnt say its the best, but it is pretty good and I like it alot.

And with that, I leave you this

I can get behind most of this, I feel that people do tend to overcomplicate things just to make themselves appear more intelligent. I have a friend wh actually does just that and it is really hard to sift through his BS sometimes.

Im just going to hand out the TL;DR version of my response, given I am in Bio presently.

Your professor sounds like a bit of a prick.

While government in itself isn't evil, what exists today is rather excessive. The fact that the government can make decisions on things that directly effect your life disturbs me.

I totally agree that politicians are in this game for power and money. I could make the whole 'Politicians are people too' argument, and say that it is their career, but I would be lying to myself a bit. Politicians may intend good, but at the end of the day their success effects their paycheck, because making the law is their career.

(at above comment) The fish argument? Really, he tried to argue against that? People can go for a long time with out food. Trust me

"White people should be ashamed of their history"

Why do I want to punch someones face in right now?

Let me put it this way: Im German.

Everyone has something to be shameful of, but lets not let it define us as a people. And the honest truth is, the Europeans created everything that you enjoy in tis world. If you think that is something to hate because a few slaves were involved somewhere along the line, please take your butt-hurt elsewhere.

I am a futurist. I believe the betterment of mankind involves simple solutions to what we perceive to be complicated problems. Want to fix the economy? Stop wasting money. Want to stimulate growth? Lighten your grip on your people. Want to see the human race survive to 2552? Put some money in the space program god dammit XD.

I think I am getting off topic, considering I dont have time to sit down and actually analyse everything here. At first glance, however, I think I could get behind 85% of these statements given 1 ) your previous blog posts defining your concept of evil and B ) It is contemplative rather than argumentative which some people here aren't seeming to get.

Well, til then we gotta take care of earth itself amirite?

 

We live in a fragile world, everything we do will effect everyone and everything around us, so take consideration, it'll be a couple more centuries before we can say "Welp, we can still terraform another planet....right?"

of course! Keeping our earth in stable conditions will also prepare us for such a gross operation. If we are unable to sustain the environment here, how the hay will we be able to do it on another planet?

Eh, even with adequate funding, it's still a long ways off

I guess its one of those things that we will have to wait and find out

Possible? Of course. In my lifetime? Hell no.

 

We haven't even been sending landers to Mrs for very long, and it will be much longer before we can get enough equipment there for any large scale operations. While warming up the planet is possible from space (although I think a greenhouse approach would take and impractically long time), doing other things isn't. We can't just make the planet technically habitable and call it good; for it to truly be habitable, there would need to be an ecosystem in place as well. Waiting for one to evolve on it's own would take many billions of years, so the (relatively) more practical approach would be to take plants and animals there, which has its own problems, the main one being a way to get significant amounts of biomass to Mars.

 

Of course, we could take the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri route. Choose University and take Eco Eng as your free tech. Build your first base somewhere with either lot's of minerals around, or somewhere with high altitude. If you have minerals, mine it up and spam colony pods, if you have altitude, divide it between solar collectors and mines, build more bases in the high altitude. With all the energy you're getting, it's easy to open up the Soc Eng window, throw some extra energy to your labs, and quick tech to Adv Eco Eng, and then you have full access to terraforming options, no matter the circumstances

You bring up some fair points, we have not been very involved in the space exploration world recently, but an increase in funding by a mere penny off the tax payer dolar could pay for this, and an operation to colonize Mars and the moon could begin and end in the next 50 years.

Establishing an Ecosystem would require both natural evolution and some human intervention. We would have to bring species best suited for the environment with us and then populate the planet accordingly. From there its a "keep the thermostat constant and keep your fingers crossed" kind of deal, similar to what you suggested. The transportation of biomass would require some evolution in the realm of space transit, which I will adress in another topic on another date.

And of course, Sid Meyer's games remain the greatest strategy games Ive played, give or take a few live action rounds of Halo Wars and Starcraft II.

Thanks Comarade! Always glad to make friends on here!

I really think there are plenty of resources still to be used on Earth, probably enough to last a good 1000+ years but I'm really only guessing. Oil might be the exception.

 

So while I do think exploring space is awesome and exciting, I think we should be solving the problems of the Earth right now. I mean we're in the middle of what could be Global economic collapse and constant riots all throughout the middle east. And I think there's so much left for us to learn about on this planet

Space is the solution to earths problems. Earths resources are limited where as the abundance of space can provide for the human race for eons.

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We will be in space in the next 50 years. I would bet my left testicle on it.

I feel like injecting my thoughts here

I am... Mixed in terms of the concepts of Science and Religion. I do attend mass regularly, I am active in my church, but at the same time I consider myself a man of science and I am a student of Physics. It is to the best of my understanding that Religion and science do not conflict, but rather they serve eachother rather well. One must understand that Religion can not and is not a way of describing the universe. Religion can never tell you how gravity works or how animals evolved, but it can give you a sense of purpose and direction. Science on the other hand is excelent for describing the what, when, where, and how of our universe. The place we live is best described in the language of science, and even then it is limited. Science can never tell you what your purpose is, or at least not one that is spiritually satisfying. Religion will always change as science does; we continue to learn about the universe that God created. He created the atoms and the animals and gravity and all the wonders of he universe, and likewise he has a purpose for us. Our purpose is to learn as much as we can about his creation, and protect and preserve it to the best of our ability with the knowledge we acquire through scientific endeavors. We should be thankful for what he has given us and do our best to sustain it.

There is my two bits for you. Take it as you will

Amen brother!

I cant dream at all ;_; I havent dreamt in months, that or I cant remember anything by the time I wake up.

Lucid dreaming is a bit harder that just thinking about it. It takes weeks or practicing dream recall and training your subconscious how to recognize a dream. There is lots of reading about it on the interweb. Give it another go!

Communism - Is it too high a concept for humans?

More or less, to a certain extent.

Its at a tear between this and Terraforming it seems

Okay this is very, very, very important. Do these printers print things on the molecular level? I mean, could you print a nuclear bomb with this? Or just a model nuclear bomb because it doesn't have real plutonium.

 

I see this thing being the end of the human race.

No I dont see nuclear weapons being printed out any time soon, but it is able to print other very small objects, such as electronic circuits.

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This is actually the only reason that Uranium is our current nuclear fuel source. Back in the Cold War Era, the united states deliberated over utilizing Thorium or uranium as a fuel source. They chose uranium, because the biproduct could be used for nuclear weapons. Thorium, on the other hand, produces no hazardous or radioactive biproduct.

Green energy is an interesting topic, but it all depends on what kinds of energies you are talking about. This will be something I address in another post. Be sure to follow the blog if this sort of thing interests you! (shameless self advertisement)

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