State of the Game
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Ahhh, the fruits of my Saturday labors. The camper is cleaned, packed and parked (in the landlord approved location) and the lawn is mowed on both sides of the house.
It may not look like much, but my indoors outdoors luxury
Time to go get Chinese take-out and then play ED for the first time in days.
Tomorrow is monthly server updates day for work. Sometimes I dislike being in IT.
Nice ELW, is it a leaked screenshot from planned future ED/EDO DLC?
You can see the tiling. Pretty obvious.
BTW, @Rat Catcher I found your mushroom lollipop. What did yours taste ? Mine tasted purple with a violin aftertaste. I couldn't enjoy it much, ammonia is so annoying to breath.
I'm just checking out the new 'In-Ship' food replicators that came with Odyssey Update 6... Trust me FDev seem to be doing their very best to meet player expectations... Hopefully, perhaps by Update 20 we might be given ship legs to use them (and the coffee pot too!)
Yes but don't tell anyone, OK. Our little secret...
Beware of the dragons, they seem to spawn when you eat the shrooms.
You don't have to tell me, I was preventing Denton Torval Aisling (it's a long story) to be eaten by one !
Thankfully, I had my trusty spoon with me.
Its not quite "idyllic" but we do enjoy it.That looks idylic!
Enjoy all of your hard work cmdr.
My three weekly treadmill workouts are finally paying dividends getting that work done on a hot day like this.
Now I just need to keep my better half on the right road to recovering from her pneumonia and everything will get back to normal (IE: playing ED in all my spare time
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I shall have to ask my glaswegian friend, I am intrigued now!
Is that the secret fruity club, Lusty Peaches?
I might be thinking too much into this, but the machine on the right implies you have to insert a pizza. Is it the topping-adder machine?!
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A trussock is someone of limited intelligence, is unmotivated (lazy) and physically inept.
In the dictionary it says "an alternative word for a politician"....
That I could easily believe! There's a fair few in my home town on the south coast that isn't Brighton, but does begin with a B.
I've been to some gay bars in my time with friends who batted that way, and I have to say they were great actually - if you can cope with being visually undressed by the other team. Certainly not what I ever expected as a teenager anyway!
A trussock is someone of limited intelligence, is unmotivated (lazy) and physically inept.
In the dictionary it says "an alternative word for a politician"....
So, Scottish politicians?
Edit for quote 1 - I was smashed at the time which may have made me more liberal minded than normal!
I was kicked in the trussocks once , walked funny for a week.
it has to have a significant benefit to evolve something like a complex brain which is quite expensive energy-wise. if there is not enough benefit in it, it will not evolve. As far as consciousness goes, no one really knows yet, how it works, but it is expected to be an emergent effect. How much free will there is, is as well unclear - at lot is decided on a subconscious level and just "confirmed" later on, experienced as free will - it isn't clear so, if a conscious decision could be made to veto what was already decided on a subconscious level. Most is done and controlled by what I call the auto-pilot in our brain and that is non-conscious. a notion of the self doesn't require consciousness, a simple feedback loop of certain outputs back to input creates that notion already and is used for example for fine adjustments of motor functions.Thx, but I wasn't really referring to so high and late level of how evolution/DNA work.
Somehow I have a hard time describing exact focus and range of my question, but I will try again:
I am interested in impressions that people researching genetics and life on it's most basic, "molecular" or biochemical level of single cell have.
Does it struck you that all variables (inherited from physical/chemical properties, without getting into purposely vs accidentally) suggest that "popping" of organic matter, simple life, DNA that will start to self-organize into more and more sophisticated entities, eventually sentient animals is inevitable and should happen in other places in Universe with similar enough environment circumstances, or is it more like "damn, we had so much luck" because there was/is some early stage of developing life that actually is improbable enough to be repeatable even with very large number of tries, because any change of any factor of environment would prevent this process of happening and everything has to be EXACTLY like on Earth including the timeline of changes of features of "planetary womb" that our planet is for carbon based life forms?
And if you think reading this question is exhausting - writing it was much worse
From my point of view it is quite unlikely to get to such complex conscious life forms like on earth - there are so many factors which have to be just right to get to this. On the other side there is the argument of the many worlds out there - still, I think in a certain time window it is not very likely to ever have contact to a sophisticated alien life form. Not if we are too stupid to survive even lousy 3 million years as the genus homo. And eventually every such life form might have the same flaw - individualism has failed basically and this might happen to any such life form, that they are going extinct before they can really spread out in space.
it took so many steps on earth to get to this stage - some of them aren't even likely but exceptions. Primitive life might be common in the universe, sophisticated life not so imo. Over time there might be many, but having them in the same time frame, where they could actually get in contact to each other, is quite unlikely from my perspective.
Inevitable is nothing in evolution - it is a game of probabilities and chances - take sharks for example, they are pretty near to perfection and if they would get a larger brain, it wouldn't raise their survival chance and just be a burden because it would be more expensive to maintain - so they are likely to stay as they are - they are good enough.
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The part about sharks brought me to another reflection:
you seem to see evolution as a "game" oriented to favour exclusively DNA changes that serves gaining advantage in fight for survival.
If it was so, how come we have species like peacocks for example, where males are dragging their absurdly large fan of feathers around, that serves no other purpose then make "impression" on female birds.
I can't see any evolutionary advantage there - on the contrary, partner selection criteria of females seem to lead to choosing male birds that are more "handicapped" in their survival chances because of overgrown feathers that seem to have no other purpose then being superficial ornament and are a burden otherwise.
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