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[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

You listen to too much Coast to Coast!

What's that?

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

What's that?

You don't know Art Bell or George Noorey(sp)??

Leave.Thread.Now!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

You don't know Art Bell or George Noorey(sp)??

Leave.Thread.Now!

No, I don't. Who are they?

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Yep. I have, and I don't necessarily totally disagree with it. Have you ever seen "What the bleep do we know?" It's a really cool documentary that kind of elaborates on something like this. I really don't believe aliens have been travelling to Earth. At least not now. I mean, if they are, I think they've already done it. I'm open to a lot of things, it's just that I can't see why other intelligent life forms would be travelling here, or even know of our existence. And if by chance they have, I just think it's already been done.

I never heard of what the bleep do we know. But the main point Fermi was making was why have we found no sign yet of them. Even if they came and left, we would have found some sign. But he also calculated, being Fermi, roughly how long it would take them to do so if they wanted to. I think the figure was like 50 million years? I forget, but it was insignificant compared to the total age of the galaxy.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

But he also calculated, being Fermi, roughly how long it would take them to do so if they wanted to. I think the figure was like 50 million years? I forget, but it was insignificant compared to the total age of the galaxy.

How was he able to calculate how long it would take an alien craft to get to Earth?

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

I never heard of what the bleep do we know. But the main point Fermi was making was why have we found no sign yet of them. Even if they came and left, we would have found some sign. But he also calculated, being Fermi, roughly how long it would take them to do so if they wanted to. I think the figure was like 50 million years? I forget, but it was insignificant compared to the total age of the galaxy.

I liked "What the bleep do we know". I thought it was interesting. Well, no one really knows anything about ET intelligent life forms. We can only come up with our own thoughts about them, if they even exist.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

How was he able to calculate how long it would take an alien craft to get to Earth?

In a matter of speaking. What he did was calculate how long it would take a civilization to colonize the entire galaxy, even assuming they couldn't go faster then light. Fermi was very famous for his back of the envelope calculations. He calculated within one OoM the power of the first atomic bomb by dropping pieces of paper and seeing how far the blast blew them.

[Animate]

I'm becoming more and more of a snob when it comes to technology. I love technology, no question of that; I'm just starting to cringe whenever nontechnical people try to talk like they know what they are talking about. Its easier to just tell people "you wouldn't understand even if I tell you" than to try to dumb it down.

Prime example, my current interest is cell phone technology since I have a new phone. Cell phone customers are friggin idiots! I hear people complain about something going on with their handset and my initial response is...that sounds like a network problem and nothing is wrong with the phone itself, especially when others are experiencing similar things with different handsets.

I have to go watch the iPhone 4 vs EVO youtube thing to make myself feel better now. lol

[Drolefille]

Ok so I'm thinking about a Droid phone. Any reason why I shouldn't? Anything wrong with Droid 2 from Motorola/verizon? Any other suggestions?

So sick of my Samsung piece of crap.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Ok so I'm thinking about a Droid phone. Any reason why I shouldn't? Anything wrong with Droid 2 from Motorola/verizon? Any other suggestions?

So sick of my Samsung piece of crap.

The Incredible or the Droid X....who is your service provider?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

The Incredible or the Droid X....who is your service provider?

I have AT&T right now, but my contract's up soon and the guys with iPhones in my office can't even get signal. The Droid users, original Motorola Droid that is, do well. (Verizon)

I want a smart phone, but I don't need the level of an iPhone or even the DroidX which seemed like it had more features than I needed for a price I'm not wanting to pay.

No Blackberry. I'd like an app phone.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I have AT&T right now, but my contract's up soon and the guys with iPhones in my office can't even get signal. The Droid users, original Motorola Droid that is, do well. (Verizon)

I want a smart phone, but I don't need the level of an iPhone or even the DroidX which seemed like it had more features than I needed for a price I'm not wanting to pay.

No Blackberry. I'd like an app phone.

Hmm...not too much in between

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Hmm...not too much in between

Well just comparing, I was looking at the website and the Droid 2 looked about right? I think? But the Droid X, was probably too much.

[DaemonSeid]

@ Drolefille I can understand because of the size and it does have a lot going on but check out the Droid 2 and see what happens...


Netflix and HBO seem like a great fit. They're both forward-looking, subscription-based services with an critical bent, and it would seem a natural fit to offer HBO's original content on Netflix. At least, that's how Netflix sees it--but HBO seems to disagree.

Netflix has said in the past that they'd love to partner with HBO. Said a Netflix spokesman, "We would love to do a deal with HBO. Compete with us or collaborate with us, but we'd much rather work with them." HBO has evidently chosen to compete, rather than collaborate.

Bloomberg reports that HBO is planning to offer streaming video exclusively through its own HBO Go service, which launched a few months back. HBO Go is currently available on PC and Mac, free to existing customers, but the company says it plans to launch an app on Apple's iPad as well as other mobile devices.

This seems like a shortsighted view on HBO's part. The network claims there's "a value in exclusivity," and that people will pay more for it, but there's also a value in not making customers use twelve different streaming video apps. HBO may simply not want to open up HBO streaming to non-HBO subscribers, but that may have little effect besides losing the company revenue from Netflix.

It's especially odd, considering Netflix has a deal with Epix, run by HBO's owner, Viacom, to stream many of the movies that also play on HBO. There's a precedent here--why not at least make older, off-air shows available on the biggest and best streaming site around? Of course, HBO may see the Netflix-Epix partnership as a potential competitor already, despite diplomatic responses like "it's been more of a complimentary service than a competitor."


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this would have been awesome if they could have hooked up. And since I already have HBO, I am hoping they dont charge MORE for their app usage

Meanwhile Verizon wants you put FIOS on your iPad, but...you can't use it outside of your home

[cheerfulgreek]

Over the weekend, Mr. and I...well, I (he fell asleep, he's not a trekky like me ) had a Star Trek marathon saturday night and these are just some of the episodes I really enjoyed. I just like putting together the pieces that make up each episode. I also eventually fell asleep, so I just finished watching the episode I dozed off on. I think I've seen this one a million times. One of my favorites. "Eye of the Needle". This was the episode where the Voyager crew discovered a small wormhole leading back to their own alpha quadrant of the galaxy. After communicating through it, they were surprised to see that it led not to the alpha quadrant they knew and loved but to the alpha quadrant of a generation earlier. The two ends of the wormhole connected space at two different times. I really like this episode, because I can honestly say that this is another one of those instances in which the Voyager writers got it right. It's just that if wormholes exist, they would be kind of like time machines. Oh, and this reminds me of the wormhole in The Next Generation where a Ferengi ship was lost. I just think that there are so many possibilities when it comes to the universe. Wormholes are like curved space, and curved space itself opens up a lot of possibilities. Oh, and what I really found interesting about our Star Trek marathon was that I noticed that almost all the episodes involving time travel or temporal distortions also involve some catostrophic form of energy release. I don't know if anyone remembers "The Naked Time". I just love that one, because that's the episode where the Enterprise was thrown back three days following a warp core implosion. I once watched an interview on Stephen Hawking and he was just saying that he's convinced that time travel is impossible, and apparently he's got the math to back it up. I dunno, I guess I would kind of have to agree with him in a sense, it's just that I think that until we have a theory of quantum gravity, we'll never be able to figure out if wormholes really exist, or even if time travel is really possible.