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What a horribly unhealthy thing to have at your work. I know I'd eat too much crap food if it was just THERE and free all the time while I was coding.

I like the idea of the weekly catered lunch though, good way to get everyone together to talk informally. I bet they get some good little breakthroughs and a-ha moments during or stemming from those lunches

>> ^Mcboinkens:
You realize that list had no content, right? It was a list of items with no details. Anything can add a new topic to it since you don't need any actual research. When's the last time you heard about a breakthrough because of the ISS? That was my point. I support the ISS, but to tear into a budget because it is "useless" can definitely be applied to NASA as well.
Reviewing the list, it pretty much just covered anything possible "under microgravity conditions". How practical is that? Are we really planning on going to other planets at the moment? We can't even go back to the moon, and that's what my whole point was. Shift funds to what is the most useful. I would much rather have an upgraded Hubble or even new version of the hubble. Studying how viruses work in space isn't particularly useful when we have no reason to be in space to begin with, and so on.
EDIT: so that it doesn't seem like I am talking out of my butt, take a look at one of their "accomplishment" powerpoints: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/168741main_AIAA_2007_ISSProgress.pdf
It's pretty easy to see that it's mostly fluff, and I realize that its an old document, but it was the top result and I was lazy. It talks a lot about what they WANT to do, or what they did, but nothing really came of it.

WTF are you talking about a list with no content? Did you even read ANY of the 720 reference linked in the wiki? And do you realize scientific discoveries take time? Oh you know, we're just running a lab IN SPACE. Let's give it a few years after it's finished assembling before we let our ridiculously shortsighted negativity take over, ok?

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"...and that's why I am afraid of ice"

Therapist: "well I think we had a few breakthroughs today, but unfortunately that is the end of our session"

As an example Einstein is thought to have had bi-polar along with many other great physicists. Others were autistic or had something like Aspergers.

I think the key is that these individuals are able to look at society or normal rationalizations from a different aspect or with "rose-tinted glasses" and other "colors". It helps to look at a problem from a new perspective. This is also why many people DO use drugs, to force this perceptual change on the brain chemically. It's not an accident that it works in many cases. It's also not an accident that it fails as well.

For every breakthrough there is someone that is lost to their own delusions; forever trapped in a mind that can't understand reality. This is arguably the one thing humans have never gotten right: seeing reality as it is. Or, we refuse to see it, due to our biologically imposed psychology.

This is the most fascinating and the most unique aspect for humanity and humans: we not only can vary GREATLY on how we view reality, but we can describe it to each other with understanding and in great detail.

This is where Psychology as a field must tread lightly. For if we destroy every last shred of what we "think" is an error or a mistake due to our majority imposed societal and cultural norms, we may destroy one of our greatest attributes. Luckily, many have realized that even the most "normal" of us are delusional by default. As this is the only way we have to perceive what we know as reality.

We see reality through a lens and a filter; all of us. That lens can be warped, colored, broken, or very sharp. Likewise, our filter can do what it pleases and give us information with accuracy or lie to us with false or even made up information. It typically follows what evolution has designed for us: to be efficient, to be successful. We are a machine that uses a vast search engine that makes Google look like an elementary addition problem and memory that is amazingly powerful and yet it requires very little room to store it's information; and with both of these, together, our mind creates us. It brings our nodes, memories, and present perception together to give us sentience. We perceive a continuity to this existence that does not exist; yet, it's easy to see why you don't notice this, for what can you notice if you have no memory of it? That is our view, our window--it is a delusional one by definition as it does not SHOW reality, but only approximates it and it can vary greatly.

However, evolution while responsible for what we are, most likely did not have a design in play for true sentience. In that one miscalculation, humanity was born.

That and this is who we are.

Competitive dog shows... interesting... what happens if you win? Does cancer get cured? Does the Large Hadron Collider make a breakthrough?

I don't quite agree with this sentiment. I say These catastrophic incidents happened because of greed and narrow self interest, but not because taking risk is bad.

I was brought up from the old world with accompanying mentality. A conservative mentality where most old world societies such as North Africa, Middle east, Scotland/Ireland, India and Fast East identify with. We prioritize tradition and stability. We don't like new things nor do we like failures. We criticize those who experiment, and blame them for failing.

And in most of these countries we subjugate women and value the strength of community more than the individual liberty. There's no significant technological or social breakthrough because nobody wants to take a risk, and want to keep things the way they are.

So I don't know. Is risk such a bad thing? It's okay to take risks as long as you're prepared to take on the consequences. And that requires thought and self reflection of your own available resources. But when in an institution that blindingly drives you towards profit and huge outcome, you are bound to take big risks you probably cannot handle.

>> ^vaporlock:

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I hope I remember the right video. Fixed.

So, that song actually has a rich and dynamic past, not the least of which was its critical role in Spike Lee's breakthrough film, Do the Right Thing

>> ^AdrianBlack:

I watched it, and I still disagree. I prefer to accept what King himself said as to where he gets his ideas rather than from a probie that doesn't really know.


Hahaha, what are you Stephen King's agent? You're obviously biased.

Let's see... both stories are about a man who has chronic OCD and believes he needs to do his rituals in order to save the world. If he stops, something really bad will happen that will cause the end of the world.

The psychologist obviously thinks the man is just suffering from a bad case of OCD and tries to rationalise with the patient to "prove" it's all in his head. But the patient says it's more than that; it's like a disease that can be transmitted to which the psychologists scoffs: "OCD is a mental illness, not a disease. It cannot be transmitted from person to person".

The patient (while not cured) eventually makes a small "breakthrough" and leaves never to see the doctor again. But now the psych has the OCD symptoms and learns the patient wasn't lying and it wasn't all in his head. Now the psych is the one who has to do the OCD rituals to save the world which drives him insane.

One was written prior to 2002 (Patterns) and one was written in 2008 (N). If you don't see the obvious similarities you are a moron mate. Good day