How did we manage before....

[Y Fan Wen]

I thinks it’s simply numbers (vast numbers of stars we can’t even get our minds around) and simple probability.

I read an interesting way to try and grasp the size of the universe. There are 250 billion stars in the Milky Way, plus or minus 150 billion. Every 100 years or so there is a supernova event in it. It releases a distinctive burst of radio waves which we can detect. These bursts are detected at the rate of one a second coming from all the other galaxies in the universe. So, count up how many seconds there are in 100 years, and it gives the size of the universe in galaxies..

 

[Ley253]

Hmmmm.You cant get what you want from the merchants, because the computer that controls stock says so! E Bay is a good source of cheap and very nasty goods, or quality goods at high prices, with rip off "postal" charges to add spice.In the case of the letter, in my time at least, a typewritten letter, unless business, would have been considered an insult, so I doubt the print at PO would have worked.
There are some good parts of the internet, TFF for one, but, in all honesty the bad far outweighs the good, and will always do so.

 

[ARW]

As mentioned when solar flares start again electrics as we know it are fried, in the history of the earth it’s very unusual that we have gone so long without them. With out internet or the tv, the only thing left working will be my old leyland

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Siop Fawr?

Yes! Shame really.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I thinks it’s simply numbers (vast numbers of stars we can’t even get our minds around) and simple probability.

But "probably" is a human concept with defined variables, does it apply in space or even relevant?

 

[davieh3350]

Some dopey young woman on television news this week complainng that the app on her phone hat she relied on for contraception had let her down and she was pregnant.
There s a generation growing up who will not be able to function without the internet.

Neighbour said that teenage pregnancies were going down as they were sexting instead of going out and doing it for real.

 

[glasshouse]

What have the Romans ever done for us ?

the aqueduct

 

[manhill]

The internet and all this technology is all good and well until we have another solar storm like the one in 1859 known as the carrington effect, all electronics would be knock out, no internet, any thing with a micro processer will be fried! reliance on all this technology will one day be our down fall.

If we'd stayed with valves instead of chips we'd be ok!

 

[Ley253]

What have the Romans ever done for us ?

Under floor central heating.Bath houses, Roads. Cement.

 

[Walter R]

Ok but apart from the aquaduct, underfloor heating,bath houses, roads and cement, what have they done?

 

[Walter R]

But "probably" is a human concept with defined variables, does it apply in space or even relevant?

Wowww, that's deep and heavy man..

 

[Muck Spreader]

Ok but apart from the aquaduct, underfloor heating,bath houses, roads and cement, what have they done?

Their bridge building isn't what it used to be.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Broad Statement but I think people were happier . Life has become a race to get there , Where ever they think that is
First thing I would do is ban car horns

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Wowww, that's deep and heavy man..

No not really, humans want a defined answer or a theory at best as an explanation, the concept of "we don't know the fecking answer " is unacceptable!

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

No not really, humans want a defined answer or a theory at best as an explanation, the concept of "we don't know the fecking answer " is unacceptable!

Of course it’s completely unnacaptable. It’s what’s make us human to advance ourselves. I wouldn’t apologise for that. I’d celebrate it

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Of course it’s completely unnacaptable. It’s what’s make us human to advance ourselves. I wouldn’t apologise for that. I’d celebrate it

If the answer is unknown then say so, do not "create" an answer (look where that has gotten us in history ) but by no means stop looking for the correct answer.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

the aqueduct

Under floor central heating.Bath houses, Roads. Cement.

Indeed the Romans were outstanding civil engineers, as were other ancient civilisations like the Greeks, Mayans and Egyptians.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

If the answer is unknown then say so, do not "create" an answer (look where that has gotten us in history ) but by no means stop looking for the correct answer.

Science by its very nature is built is unproven theories that are either substantiated or dismissed by experimental evidence to prove or disprove the theory, and re-iterate, over and again.

 

[sawdust]

Plus I dont think we have sen anything yet ! The net is young and will be capable of MUCH more in the future

Might have been made over 30 years ago, but be afraid...

 

[Osca]

Isaac Asimov, a well known author, anticipated the arrival of email, but fell far short in 1966 where you would type out a letter, take it to the post office where it would be fed into a machine, transmitted over the phone system, printed out at the receiving po and delivered.

Not so very far short. FAX, surely?
I remember being amazed at the first FAX message I saw; couldn't get my head round a printed message coming to us over the phone. Not everyone had this high-tech stuff, of course, so I think there were places that would FAX stuff for you.

I was even more amazed a few hours later when the sheet carrying the printed message had turned completely black and useless, like fairy gold...