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Most Horrible Busy Commute To Work
newtboyUm.....the number of humans is a MASSIVE problem, even if superhuman coordination can move them efficiently.
Side note, how did you live there for years and not know it's normally spelled Tokyo? ;-)
The number of humans isnt a problem. Its the apparent lack of discipline and/or supervision.
I lived a few years in Tokio, where the subway handles comparable numbers of people ... it's full, it's cramped, women are being fondled regulary by shitty perverts ... but besides that, general people mass management works.
Bumblebee (2018) - New Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures
My_design says...He must need her to help because she can run at superhuman speeds. At the 2:08 mark she must be going at least 45mph.
Girl can run...
Engineer Mark Rober exposes cheating arcade machine
entr0pyI've got to think this particular game is just plainly illegal, since even superhuman skill can never win (except for the 1 in 30 games that isn't in scam mode). But I guess prosecutors don't generally give a damn and no individual is harmed enough to make a civil case.
Maybe some clever lawyer could use this video as the basis of a class action case.
The only reason pinball machines weren't banned (or were legalized) in most U.S. jurisdictions way back in the day was because they were a game of skill. How do redemption machines like this (that are computer controlled to only pay out some percentage of the time) skate by the anti-gambling laws?
Bored to tears? Time to get out and shake it up!
StormsingerAt first I was going to make a snarky comment about the lack of grace in the choreography. Then I realized that anyone who can do all these acrobatics in spike heels is so far out of the norm that they are, for all intents and purposes, superhuman. Now I'm afraid to say anything even remotely derogatory about the video.
Great feel-good story about an armless street musician
PlayhousePals*quality soul! I'd hang out with him ...
He's in this, right?
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Were-the-superhumans
Great feel-good story about an armless street musician
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We're the superhumans
newtboyI hope they really are superhuman, so they can fight off the super bugs they'll be exposing themselves to.
*quality
Confederate Flag Parade in Georgia. Wait for it....
ChaosEngine"Rape" van?!? Jesus, newt, that's a bit much... and yeah, it was cooler. They turned the damn thing into a freaking tank half the time. Also, no confederate flag painted on it and not named for a general on team slavery, therefore cooler.
I will admit that the respective token women on the A-Team weren't a patch on Daisy.
Finally, what's with this nonsense about the A-Team being bad shots? Do you have any idea how difficult it is to fire an assault rifle at someone on full auto and not accidentally hit them? Look at this picture. Any idiot can hit the black section, but it takes almost superhuman marksmanship to unload a full clip into the white section!
The A-Team are like Batman. They could easily roll in and murder the hell out of everyone, but they choose the hard path. Want more proof?
Here's Murdoch (the least combat capable of the team) hitting a tire on moving target from a chasing car.... with a handgun and in one shot! And he does it in such a way that van does an epic roll and everyone inside is still ok. That's not just good, that's god like.
And while we're recapping 80s shows, Knight Rider was also better than the Dukes. </stirring>
Also, I love that this has turned into a discussion on the A-team vs Hazzard. It's exactly as much respect as those confederate flag waving douchebags in the video deserve.
Oh, you had me until your arguments WHY A-team was better.
Lets see...black 'rape' van better than a high flying, 'street legal' racing Charger? I respectfully disagree.
Better theme song, not to my ears, but both are good.
Peppard, better than Uncle Jesse, depends on the episode to me. Mr. T, OK, he's better than any single Duke character...but Murdock wasn't 1/4 the comedy relief of Roscoe P Coltrane, Enos, and Flash....and the Team had nothing to answer Daisy!
"I love it when a plan come's together", great line (I still say it all the time), but then again, so was "Luke, how come you didn't stop for me?" asked by Bo after diving in the window of the General at about 30 mph!
Then you have the military supermen that can't hit a person-ever VS the country boys that can hit moving targets from moving targets with arrows wrapped with dynamite and moonshine Molotov's! COME ON!
But all that said, 9/10 episodes of Hazard were basically the same story, Boss Hog is stealing something and the boys need to escape the crooked law to stop him. At least A-Team had more story variation, more explosions, and just as many car flips/jumps. Kind of an apple/orange thing to me. My 12 year old self was glad they were not on at the same time, no DVR back then.
What makes something right or wrong? Narrated by Stephen Fry
StormsingerMy god! It's like listening to myself think. With more detail.
In fairness to my uncle, I should point out that to the best of my knowledge, he's not at all a believer. His statement was coming from much the same viewpoint that you and I seem to share. It was that statement that started me thinking along these lines. I'm still not sure I'm willing to reduce my view of humanity to that level (that most need rules forced on them by imaginary superhumans before they'll behave well), but the older I get, the closer I come.
This is a very interesting question that I've thought quite a lot about during my life (to myself, not in any sort of professional capacity).
The conclusions that I have come to (so far) are:
I think that, yes, religion in general terms IS a significant (but it is a stretch to say the ONLY) restraint on a pretty large number of people. Which is a prospect that I personally have a negative and pessimistic reaction to, similar to what it sounds like you do.
However, I think that there are lots of mitigating circumstances. First, many different religions currently provide that restraint to people. And in the past, many many more religions provided it to even more people. Many of those different religions have been very very different. Some have been near polar opposites. That proves that if your goal is restraining people from being utterly evil, and someone suggests that religion has made or is making a noble effort towards that (like your uncle), the positive aspects they are cheering for are not unique to any single religion, or dogma, or whatever.
If one accepts that many many diverse and completely different religions can potentially have the positive effects that we're looking for, then the actual source of those effects can not be something specific to any one religion. Instead, it has to be something that is held in common by all such religions.
Religions are so diverse and different, it might be hard to imagine something that they have in common. No specific god is held in common, even though all the Abrahamic religions might arguably share that aspect. Not even the simple idea of a god or gods or creator is far from universal; Buddhists revere no god.
Yet I believe that there is one easily overlooked thing that all religions DO have in common. Humanity. They all come from flawed but usually well-meaning people.
However, atheists hold that humanity in common with religions as well. And that makes me believe that if we understand humanity better, either through psychology, or empathy, or whatever, we can achieve the positive effects of religions without the religions themselves. Certainly without the stone-age dogmatic nonsense -- which tends to have arguably as many if not more BAD effects as good. This actually gives me great hope for humanity; rather the opposite to the conclusion that I came to originally when pondering the question.
There may always be people who have no empathy, and for whom nothing would serve to restrain them from what humanity at large would easily identify as great evil. No religion will handle such individuals any better than no religion ... so I guess I don't lose any sleep over that.
A New Level Of Archery Skills
StormsingerIt -is- too unbelievable, in my view. Which is more reasonable, that some kid has managed to ignore everything anyone knows about archery (after thousands of years) and create an entire new style that, among other superhuman capabilities, makes things like armor useless, or that he's learned some video trickery.
My money's on the latter.
LOL I was thinking the exact same thing.
This is almost too unbelievable. But if it somehow is legit, then this dude has seriously gotta don a Hawkeye or Green Arrow costume and take up the vigilante gig.
The Amazing Randi busts "Magnet Man"
J-RothmannGerman Channel ProSieben - Galileo featured Miroslaw Magola who promotes Telekinesis. Real Magneto, X- Men, Miroslaw Magola's telekinesis is achieved by projecting a portion of his consciousness in the object that he want to move.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku : THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind.” And his quest to promote: “Telepathy. Telekinesis. Mind reading. Photographing a dream. Uploading memories. Mentally controlled robots.”
Kaku claims all of “these feats” have already been achieved. “These feats, once considered science fiction, have now been achieved in the laboratory, as documented in THE FUTURE OF THE MIND,” Kaku’s website declares.
Kaku notes that his “book goes even further, analyzing when one day we might have a complete map of the brain, or a back up Brain 2.0, which may allow scientists to send consciousness throughout the universe.” Miroslaw Magola alias "Magnetic Man," ( Magnet Mann ) known form Stan Lee's Superhumans - MInd Force who allegedly exhibits telekinetic powers aired on History and Discovery Channel born in Poland and now living in Germany. He claims he can lift objects off the floor, transport them through the air and force them to stick to his body - all using the power of his mind .
He was investigated by Prof. Dr. Dr. Ruhenstroth-Bauer and Dr. Friedbert Karger of the Max Planck Institute and Dr. David Lewis (psychologist), a neurophysiologist at MindLab, one of the United Kingdom's leading neuro-research centers and Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, professor of Physics at St. Petersburg State Technical University in Russia and Alexander Imich from USA. More [url redacted]
Zawash
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Bionic arm gives cyborg drummer superhuman skills
ZawashFrom the article:
For Barnes, the device needed to be able to take cues from the human body. The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles. By tensing his biceps, Barnes controls a small motor that changes how tightly the prosthetic arm grips the drumstick and how quickly it moves, vital skills for a drummer.
The researchers then added another layer of complexity: a second, autonomous drumstick on the robot arm (see photo). This second stick, controlled via its own motor, uses a microphone and an accelerometer to sense the rhythm Barnes is playing, as well as music from any nearby musicians. An algorithm then produces a new beat with a complementary rhythm and melody, modelled on the music of jazz greats like John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.
With this extra artificial intelligence, human and machine combine to make Barnes a kind of "superhuman drummer", Weinberg says.
Sweet, but how does he control it?