I love that he's wearing a TechTV shirt.

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Yeah this was towards the end of TechTV. This show was taped in L.A. which was after G4 bought TechTV and let most of the people go and shipped the rest to Los Angeles. This is why there is no Leo or Patrick who both wisely bailed out when before the move.

I'm with you legacy. I really enjoyed TechTV, then G4 came along and destroyed such a good thing...

I'm just voting because it's genuinely funny.

Still doesn't change the fact that I hate the show and the G4, and wish original TechTv was back... Grrr...

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Classic. I love Adam. I hate the new format of the show though, how they have an Abbot & Castello style "Double Act" going on, where Morgan gets to be the straight. Adam's a cool guy and shouldn't be made to play the fool all the time.

To be honest I haven't watched a whole lot since Comcast bought out TechTV and merged it with G4. What the hell was Paul Allen thinking? Vulan Ventures was doing good with the old ZDtv properies.

Michio Kaku is the man who planted the seeds in my mind for my fascination and love of physics. My first exposure to him was on the program "Big Thinkers" on the network ZDtv (later known as TechTV), back in the mid 1990's. I've read everything I could get my hands on that he had anything to do with ever since.

Of course, I can't in all fairness give him full credit for my "intellectual awakening"; I think it is more likely that he was just in the right place at the right time. He got lucky. But even knowing that, there lingers quite a bit of fondnes for having my sense of wonder ignighted by his ideas.

So, of course later, when I found out that he was getting involved in the Singularity movement (this film touches upon that), you could say my hardon hasn't subsided since.

(I split the following up into a few posts because it was too large.)

I don't claim to be an expert, or an authority on this stuff. I will say that I've been fascinated by it on a personal level for over ten years. It started back in the ZDtv days (before TechTV), when Michio Kaku was on an episode of Big Thinkers. I read anything I can get my hands on, and watch all material that comes my way.

Take the following for what it's worth, I'm not trying to proselytize an agenda, just share some of my private thoughts.

I've got a number of analogies I could use here for describing the entire (11 dimensional) universe. Two of my favorites are a VHS tape and hologram baseball card. They both kind of work the same way in so far as how they relate to the thought experiment. I'll explain both.

In the case of the VHS tape, it has your favorite movie on it. You know it word for word, line for line. You've seen it a hundred times. But no matter how many times you watch it, the story will always end the same way. But, from the point of view of the characters (I'm talking in a 4th wall sense; the characters themselves, not the actors playing them), have no idea what will happen next. In fact, the same was true for you the first time you saw the movie. There may have been some foreshadowing, but hell, there's some of that in real life too.

The point is, with the tape, you can fast forward, rewind, pause, browse the timeline however you choose. But the characters are oblivious to this. You aren't really manipulating their timeline, you're just browsing it for your own perspective. If you eject the tape though, you're holding the entire timeline. You've collapsed their universe into a 3 dimensional object. It only has a 4th dimension when you put it in the VCR. When you watch it. But even during the novel first experience of the initial viewing, the end of the story was there. It was always there, predetermined at the end of the tape.

On to the baseball card for a moment. Now, given various factors in the developing process, that hologram card has a lot more information than what you can see at one time, flat on. You have to tilt it one way or an other to get a different view -- to access more of the data. And yet, viewing the different angels don't create that data. Knowing they're there doesn't make them exist. It only makes you aware of them. Holding the card, you still hold all the potential that image has all at once, in that one object, even if you can't be privy to it all at once.

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"Virginia high school art teacher Stephen Murmer was recently fired for "ass painting" in this segment on Unscrewed with Martin Sargent from TechTV. Sorry, Stephen."

http://www.nbc12.com/news/state/5164052.html (link was part of the description)


As for me, I have only done prints of my hands and feet.

I’ve put politics because the guy was fired over his butt prints. Having taught in a school system I can assure you it is politics.