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Sep 07, 2005 13:42

THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE.

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swamp_king September 7 2005, 06:28:00 UTC
psp :(
The DS is way cooler!

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retrogradeorbit September 7 2005, 07:05:25 UTC
I am a big Nintendo fan, but even I have to admit the PSP eats the DS for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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swamp_king September 7 2005, 08:49:33 UTC
well.. sure the psp has a whole lot of extra wacky stuff you can do with it, but if you compare them purely from a gaming point of view, the DS has a lot more going for it... but then again i too am a huge nintendo fan and i guess i am a little biased... i firmly believe the GCN is way better than the PS2

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sammitysamsam September 7 2005, 11:38:10 UTC
While I think the PSP outdoes the DS technically (that screen is sooo nice) it doesn't really seem to be exciting me games wise. The DS on the otherhand has got tons of games I want (I wont bother giving out a long list unless anyone really wants me too). Plus the whole stylus thing opens it up to a lot more variety (and how cute does Nintendogs look!)

The music and movies thing on the PSP is cool though but not something I think I would use that much (especially how the UMD's cost about as much as a DVD). I guess its just different strokes for different folks. It will be interesting to see how the PSP goes. It has only just come out so there's a good chance it could come good game wise.

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tokenjewgirl September 7 2005, 07:10:21 UTC
i'll go to your birthday party if you make sure you come to mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i will not let a pathetic thing like lack of health stop me this time
gah it may be a big jew day though.
i think i should do a tim.

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slushpup September 7 2005, 08:10:55 UTC
i think the jew days are the 3rd and 4th oct.?

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dr_spangle September 8 2005, 00:57:10 UTC
yes i've posponed my sydney trip! my mum is coming here at christmas time anyways. so there's really no need to go there at that point (apart from seeing ben + whatnot).

yeah, this time you'd better be health. the embodyment of it. as i assure you, the day after you certainly wont feel like it. heh.

JEW DAY BLAZH. that's all i have to say on that matter.

oh! by the way i am the biggest fuckwit ever and i should be shot.

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tokenjewgirl September 8 2005, 08:15:44 UTC
i call and i call and i call
even though i have a gaping wound on my hand from my bloody and painful reminder of why i shouldnt run. curse my fat.

now if you will excuse me i have wounds to dress and blood to get out of what i was dressed in.

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retrogradeorbit September 7 2005, 07:12:06 UTC
1. Remember cosmology is full of theories, not facts. It's also full of inconsistencies that cosmologists cannot solve. Most scientists subscribe to those theories, but that does not make them right.

2. I am totally jealous of your PSP purchase.

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dr_spangle September 8 2005, 03:51:25 UTC
i'm not particularly talking cosmology in specific, just science in general. when it comes down to it our entire phisical and chemic sciences are based on our theories coinciding with experimental results. this doesn't particularly make them 100% correct. [this of earlier scientists and theories, and how they thought they had proven them][to an extent they had, but just on the wrong scale. as things became more specific, they were disproved] so who's to say that our current system is the one that will be around in 100s/1000s of years? Aristotle's belief of the "four elements: earth, fire, air and water" was around for thousands of years ( ... )

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captain_loogie September 11 2005, 00:51:01 UTC
the whole concept of GUTs is an interesting one, mainly because, as you suggested, cosmology at that stage is simply expanding beyond the bounds of any concievable testability. one book i read decried this trend by pointing out that in order to generate enough force to determine if the weak and strong nuclear forces conflated at some point we would have to construct a particle accelerator the size of the solar system. if we wanted to include gravity in that mix, it would have to expand to the size of our galaxy. and unless the governments of the world radically alter their particle physics funding programs, this looks unlikely to occur anywhere in the middle to distant future. and what exactly is science that essentially has no chance of ever being tested? is it still science? discuss ( ... )

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dr_spangle September 13 2005, 02:25:08 UTC
science can't exist without theory backed up by experiment. and even so a physical theory is always provisonal, no matter how many times the results of an experiment agree with the theory, you can never be certain that the nest time the result will not contradict the theory. science is the art of disproving older theories ( ... )

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the_plinth September 7 2005, 10:02:22 UTC
Hahah, WHAT A BRILLIANT MOUSTACHE THAT WAS.

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disasterplan September 7 2005, 08:00:44 UTC
Dammit, I return from my travels early on October 9th.

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dr_spangle September 8 2005, 00:57:36 UTC
how early?

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disasterplan September 8 2005, 03:57:14 UTC
Just in time for work. :|

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