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This thread is for any unanswered questions you might have carried through your life til this point, or formulated right now! Rep for the most philosophical and amusing...


I wonder if we could answer some as well...

A question I have always thought of to start things off;

Will my child off-spring (theoretically speaking) be good at football if I force him to go on runs as a youngster and practice his skills every night, or will this turn him into Billy Elliot (also fine, as long as ballet dancers are paid well these days), or worse, a crazy Not606er like his dad?
 
Do what I see as being blue through my eyes actually recognised as yellow through someone elses and vice versa. Since we have both been told that to recognise something by a certain name, does it actually mean we are seeing the same thing?

Like if you gouged my eyes out and swapped them with another persons. And what is colour?
 
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Do what I see as being blue through my eyes actually recognised as yellow through someone elses and vice versa. Since we have both been told that to recognise something by a certain name, does it actually mean we are seeing the same thing?

Like if you gouged my eyes out and swapped them with another persons. And what is colour?
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<applause> Effort sir!

Here is a link to a Horizon blog on the research they conducted on that very subject. Interesting results! Essentially, colour is incredibly subjective!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/08/horizon.shtml
 
P.s
Near the bottom it said how wearing red had the psychological effect of reducing cortisol and thus stress levels, allowing for enhanced sports performance...


Can you imagine how bad your team would be if they had black stripes like us <laugh>
 
Privateandrewmalone. said:
This thread is for any unanswered questions you might have carried through your life til this point, or formulated right now! Rep for the most philosophical and amusing...


I wonder if we could answer some as well...

A question I have always thought of to start things off;

Will my child off-spring (theoretically speaking) be good at football if I force him to go on runs as a youngster and practice his skills every night, or will this turn him into Billy Elliot (also fine, as long as ballet dancers are paid well these days), or worse, a crazy Not606er like his dad?
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Hopefully the kid won't have to be forced, I loved football and cricket from the days I wore short trousers, after I started wearing long ones at 21 I loved it even more.
 
Am I born in a golden age? Is the future going to be a disaster, or am I going to miss out on the potential haven that will exist in a few hundred years from now? Am I lucky or not?

Guess we just gotta have fun while we can before we die. I don't know what's gonna happen after we die, so I might as well just do what I enjoy while it lasts, and hope there is maybe a Utopia awaiting me after death.
 
Albert's Chip Shop said:
Do all farts have a unique signature smell?

Great thread!!
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<laugh> I suspect it's probably dietary related (at least mine tend to take the odour of particularly smelly foods after recent consumption... <whistle>), so I'd imagine everyone's is different, but probably only to dogs...

I'm not aware of any scientific research into that area ACS! Scientists = prudes!
 
Tash. said:
Am I born in a golden age? Is the future going to be a disaster, or am I going to miss out on the potential haven that will exist in a few hundred years from now? Am I lucky or not?

Guess we just gotta have fun while we can before we die. I don't know what's gonna happen after we die, so I might as well just do what I enjoy while it lasts, and hope there is maybe a Utopia awaiting me after death.
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You won't have to worry about taking any warm clothes with you to where you're going.
 
Tash. said:
Am I born in a golden age? Is the future going to be a disaster, or am I going to miss out on the potential haven that will exist in a few hundred years from now? Am I lucky or not?

Guess we just gotta have fun while we can before we die. I don't know what's gonna happen after we die, so I might as well just do what I enjoy while it lasts, and hope there is maybe a Utopia awaiting me after death.
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Great questions Tash! I trust only you can really answer the first one, though. People will always look back on eras with fondness, even ones of economic depression and war. Actually living during the time has all the meaning you yourself can attribute to it. You might consider this a golden age now, or in the future. Will other people consider it thus?

I think, in reference to Moore's law, technology will soar for centuries after we're gone, but there has to be a limit because men have limits (until we evolve further... and I'm guessing you don't want to be around when the babes of the day are giant and green, have wings, and six tits to suckle the litter... Or maybe you do...). Either that or John Connor will be dodging bullets at some point and screaming in his batman voice for more ammo. Whether a super technology age is the greatest pinnacle of human kind however, is for you to decide. Being happy/content in the moment (or for as many moments of their existence as possible) might be the closest anyone will ever get to experiencing such a peak. Interesting to think about though!
 
The conclusion I always come to is we're lucky to be born where we are because, through most of history, it was no uncommon for a man to die before his 30's, and even 50 years ago a man dieing at 50 wasn't a shock.

Now, average life expectancy is up in the 80's, and will probably be much higher by the time I'm an old man. It's amazing how fast we've grown in the last 100 years.

I think the fall of the Roman Empire saw us fall back hundreds, maybe thousands, of years in our progress.
 
Tash. said:
The conclusion I always come to is we're lucky to be born where we are because, through most of history, it was no uncommon for a man to die before his 30's, and even 50 years ago a man dieing at 50 wasn't a shock.

Now, average life expectancy is up in the 80's, and will probably be much higher by the time I'm an old man. It's amazing how fast we've grown in the last 100 years.

I think the fall of the Roman Empire saw us fall back hundreds, maybe thousands, of years in our progress.
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In some respects, perhaps. But the empires that absorbed territory also absorbed practices, and many of the things one would associate with progress were actually maintained for centuries beyond whatever point in time you ascribe the actual "fall" of the empire to (a mate of mine did their dissertation on the topic). I mean the reason we have so many of their writings is because conquering factions decided to preserve them (and the writings we have lost have mainly been due to lost locations etc rather than discrimination of text). Furthermore, victories against the Romans were not orchestrated by pastoral nomads, as a channel 4 documentary would have you believe, but by educated leaders thoroughly versed in Roman tactics (some of them were even taught by the Romans themselves) and disciplined soldiers. In practically every way imaginable Roman life and lessons have permeated the vast ages between us, from engineering to medicine. My lecturer at Uni, no joke, was asked by Obama to go over to America to help with their financial crisis because he's a foremost expert on the roman economy!

In my opinion, one of the most powerful lessons the Romans (and many civilizations before them) have taught us, is the importance of strong leadership to effectively equate themselves with the most powerful entity (ie God). It instills longevity and projects success, as well as forcing fear upon populations to remain loyal to the supreme power. This is still happening in many of the powerhouses of world politics like China/USA, and will no doubt continue to happen despite the "rationality" people will always claim they have.
 
Privateandrewmalone.:3773216 said:
Tash. said:
The conclusion I always come to is we're lucky to be born where we are because, through most of history, it was no uncommon for a man to die before his 30's, and even 50 years ago a man dieing at 50 wasn't a shock.

Now, average life expectancy is up in the 80's, and will probably be much higher by the time I'm an old man. It's amazing how fast we've grown in the last 100 years.

I think the fall of the Roman Empire saw us fall back hundreds, maybe thousands, of years in our progress.
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In some respects, perhaps. But the empires that absorbed territory also absorbed practices, and many of the things one would associate with progress were actually maintained for centuries beyond whatever point in time you ascribe the actual "fall" of the empire to (a mate of mine did their dissertation on the topic). I mean the reason we have so many of their writings is because conquering factions decided to preserve them (and the writings we have lost have mainly been due to lost locations etc rather than discrimination of text). Furthermore, victories against the Romans were not orchestrated by pastoral nomads, as a channel 4 documentary would have you believe, but by educated leaders thoroughly versed in Roman tactics (some of them were even taught by the Romans themselves) and disciplined soldiers. In practically every way imaginable Roman life and lessons have permeated the vast ages between us, from engineering to medicine. My lecturer at Uni, no joke, was asked by Obama to go over to America to help with their financial crisis because he's a foremost expert on the roman economy!

In my opinion, one of the most powerful lessons the Romans (and many civilizations before them) have taught us, is the importance of strong leadership to effectively equate themselves with the most powerful entity (ie God). It instills longevity and projects success, as well as forcing fear upon populations to remain loyal to the supreme power. This is still happening in many of the powerhouses of world politics like China/USA, and will no doubt continue to happen despite the "rationality" people will always claim they have.
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Wow, can take the man out of the ancient history degree but can't take the ancient history degree out of the man :p
 
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