Recent content by Khantazm

Not necessarily. We don't know that we came from first-comers. We could have easily been the second-comers at the dawn of life, but outcompeted all the other comers. Also taking competition into account, you first have to become an organism at all, and that's a long way from a...

Those experiments were actually part of the base for my speculations, for which I apologize. Would you be aware of any place where those would be invited? I thought instead of starting an obsession I should discuss this with a professional, but I stumbled in excitement.

Or, "not another morality thread!" Sorry... but there's no harm in asking, right? :P People perceive actions as right or wrong based on (in part) what those whom they consider authority do or say in relevance to those actions.

Wut wut wut! How does it depend on scale and such? Please clarify! When I compare to the map-globe analogy, there would only be an increase in speed if there were a tunnel. By the way, does anyone know what shape matter tends to take under gravity in 4 (or 5) dimensions? Hypersphere?

Basically, I'm writing a story that involves beings of 5 spatial dimensions visiting Earth. And when I say "writing" I mean "putting thoughts down on paper as they come to me" or almost that, i.e. not much thought has gone into world-building. Mostly 5-dimensionality manifests in crazy...

So I figured that since I got some of ideas for this story from physicsforums, it would be fitting if it ended its days or found a new beginning here. Input: I'd like to know if this is in any way or form entertaining. I'm not a natural comedian, but something (possibly stupid) prompted me to...

Yeah, about that... As I say, it happened this summer. More specifically, in temperate climate of Central Russia. I can't go check it out, and happily there appear to be other explanations than crazy spiders. The webs looked very convincingly spider-y to my untrained eye. I remember stopping to...

It was this summer, in the morning, I was going down the hill to a river, through a sort of meadow, and noticed that everywhere I looked grass was covered with spider webs. I think it was mostly dry-ish tall grass with a... structure capable of supporting a web (don't know what it's called, but...

Okay, I don't understand why you'd be loyal to a place - it doesn't care, but anyway... I don't have this kind of spare money. I basically could donate $100-200 a month anywhere (I earn... or earned, since I just resigned and am looking for a job with a similar wage... $600-700), and anyway I'm...

@Astronuc: I don't quite get how your suggestion and the links are related. Plus (maybe I am cynical), it appears to me that it would be easier for Eritrean people to move to a less hellish place than do this thing. Speaking of native grasses, they plan to import a non-indigenous Indian cow, and...

Oh, okay. It'll never hurt to read another book anyway, although I do have some 300 on my wishlist right now. Now, say, for some hearsay evidence - aren't real estate prices some indication that there may be too many people per square kilometer of ground, especially, say, in some capitals...

Hey! ... er. Hey! Anyway, well, it might be confusing but I want to Save the World while interacting as little as possible with certain representatives of it (mostly people). In fact, I'd also ideally like my feat to take away as little as possible from my numerous hobbies. Am I making sense...

And then (10 years after the original game and a couple years after I got introduced to the franchise) I discovered (as my English improved, too), that it was all a reference to the Biblical story of the Flood, possibly intended as a historical explanation for it (although this notion is never...

On the othe hand, it demands more effort and intelligence (at least according to Michael Pollan). And according to some site where I tried to confirm what major global issues were, it is indeed much more useful to look after all of them, instead of focusing on a single one at a time, because...

@aquitaine: Forgive me if I'm overreacting and misrepresenting, but it appears to me that in several of your points you say that "we don't have a problem here yet, so let's not think about it". I mean if overpopulation, for example, is not a problem yet, it's going to become one, just based on...