"sounds like an hilarious and deliberately forged meaning. A basic understanding of what you are going to vote and the consequences of your choice for others in years to come should be well into possibilities of educated people, moreover they have the right to be informed and it's their duty t...
" Unfortunately, it's not true, and this is the point." How is it not true? Seems self evident. "You don't have idea :) [hr] Edit: This reminds me an Italian classic of literature: IT: E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle. - Dante Alighieri FR: et nous pûmes sortir et revoir les étoi...
16357 What? There are plenty of people who have complete fluency in two languages. My own (American-born) mother speaks perfect Hebrew, and my dad has a Mexican-born friend who speaks perfect English. They clearly aren't hard to find, probably much less so on the internet. Maybe I expressed myself ...
Sagan is a highly overrated figure. While he may have made contributions to science, he also popularized an egotistical, elitist version of it: "Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works." There's a straight path lea...
16357 I would still like to note that Space Engine will not be used by the average person - it will be used by a subset of the population that is already very interested in science, technology, and cosmology. Those people will have heard every famous Sagan quote already, many times The average SE u...
"The reason is that not so famous quotes are very difficult to translate in other languages, unless we can use those from famous papers and works, which are very likely translated by professional translators and can be much easily recovered in a public library, for example. As you can guess I'...
16318 "I conclude therefore that this star [supernova] is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself - one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world." - Tycho Brahe I thought the po...
A bit too much cliche in this thread... if I were to include anything from really famous people, it would only be one of their lesser known quotes. (Nothing from Sagan, he's an overrated blowhard.) So now that I've got my crotchety old man complaints out of the way: "I conclude therefore that t...
I have a couple questions involving the online web serial Worm: 1. One character creates "a projectile so hyperdense that its gravitational field pulled cars behind it" to fire at an opponent. Is it possible for something to have enough mass to overcome Earth's gravitational field for, say...
15963 I imagine a serious attempt at scanning everything would proceed differently. That's right. Your PC would overload and crash, if not outright melt :P Come on dude, stop complaining about everything. If there is a mistake or limitation, it has a reason to be there. Who's complaining? Going ove...
This can be easily calculated. Take your scan time, divide on number of cores and Ghz, and you'll see the scanning performance. Then multiply on supercomputer specs... I had answered this several times on this forum and on the old one. Scanning the single galaxy would take millions of years even fo...
This can be easily calculated. Take your scan time, divide on number of cores and Ghz, and you'll see the scanning performance. Then multiply on supercomputer specs... I had answered this several times on this forum and on the old one. Scanning the single galaxy would take millions of years even fo...
The star browser doesn't seem capable of much, with a search for all stars within a mere 100 light-years taking twenty seconds on my excellent laptop. But would it be possible for a supercomputer to scan every single celestial body in Space Engine within a reasonable time frame? It would be great fu...