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Illuminator
Join Date: Jan 2006
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You'll never guess what I found when I googled 'tachyon,' over my lunch break:
http://www.uisca.org/en/content/Area...ybernetics.asp Wow! I couldn't make this stuff up!
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Master Poster
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Anonymous Unimportant Place (not a secret Scorpion training facility for Shosuro ninjas)
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Ooh, looks like a job for the Quantum police again
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Abiogenic Spongiform
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Wait...
Cybernetics is the "body-mind-spirit system"? And here all this time I thought it was the process of replacing, repairing, or augmenting bodily functions with technological (mechanical and/or electrical) systems. So, the movie "Cyborg" was really about the body-spirit-mind system? |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jan 2006
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For reference:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
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Quantum Cybernetics would be the, "study of an indivisible and perhaps elementary entity of communication and control, typically involving regulatory feedback, in living organisms, in machines, and in combinations of the two, for example, in sociotechnical systems." ![]() Think of it, the quantized particles of communication and control (probably involving biofeedback) could be called conons.
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Abiogenic Spongiform
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Jimbo07:
Or even better... CYBERTRONS!!! More than meets the eye...
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Bierland. I mean , germany.
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Tadam Quantum police here !
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Omnes Blessant Ultima necat "I want, and this is my last and most dear wish, I want that the last of the king be strangled with the guts of the last priest" (Jean Meslier / 1664-1729 / Testament) A very early french atheist, a catholic priest in life. |
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Re: PhD in Quantum Cybernetics.
I would like to receive my doctorate in Quantum Cybernetics as soon as you can send it. Please make it out to the name "Mr Nachos Zepellin". I enclose a sum of money of a foreign denomination sufficient to cover the costs of the certificate and postage. Sincerely, Nachos Zepellin Sydney, Australia
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I've emailed him for a program. PS, is it just me, or have I wandered into an alternative universe? |
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"Reci bobu bob a popu pop." - Tanja "Everything is physics. This does not mean that physics is everything." - Cuddles "The entire practice of homeopathy can be substituted with the advice to "take two aspirins and call me in the morning." - Linda "Homeopathy: I never knew there was so little in it." - BSM |
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
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You can get software these days that generates this stuff.
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Student
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Fredericton, NB
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It's just you. At least that what my future self said after sending a cybernetic quantum tachyon message from the future. Oh, and don't worry about that growth. It's going to kill you next week anyway.
<rant>I think this kind of willful stupidity is the worst thing. It just gets my blood riled when someone like this actually makes money.</rant> |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Good morning.
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"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier... A belief's a dangerous thing. People die for it. People kill for it." Rufus, the 13th apostle, Dogma "You can't prove air." Sylvia Browne www.StopSylvia.com John Kardel |
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Master Poster
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Why do I feel like the Cybermen are behind all this
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Reading, UK
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As someone who's actually in the Cybernetics department at the University of Reading, I can state pretty authoritatively that Cybernetics is the `study of systems in man, machine and animal' (as originally defined by Wiener).
One of the main principles in the study of feedback and how to apply it to systems to get the result you want (hence Kybernetes/Steersman). Very little is about replacing bits of yourself with metal, contrary to popular belief ![]() Oddly enough, we don't consider the "body-mind-spirit system" because it's utter bollocks. |
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There is no statement, no matter how monumentally stupid, that someone, somewhere, won't accept as Holy Truth On homeopathy: "I 100% agree with you [that a smaller and smaller physiological effect will be observed in increasing dilution until 24X is reached, at which point there is absolutely no effect.]" Dr A. Sheikh. |
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Join Date: May 2003
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Tachopuncture.
How does one train tachyons to penetrate the vict-, er, patient in the right places? How does the patient know she has been punctured by tachyons? And since in the Wild, Wild World of Woo™ tachyons are involved in time travel, how is this aspect integrated into the whole acupuncture experience? |
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Muse
Join Date: May 2003
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Ooh! And what if... what if, as of yet, no tachyon has been proven to physically exist?
I don't think the theory of special relativity precludes particles with v>c, it just requires special properties. However, like any other mathematical construct, is there a physical analog? |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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They also offer:
Tantra - Sacred sexuality for singles 101. Why am I not suprised ![]() http://www.uisca.org/en/content/Degr...ingles-101.asp |
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Master Poster
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The faith of a skeptic is always in doubt Ninja weasel courtesy of http://www.cheeseweasel.net I-con 31 - March 30 - April, 1, 2012 - There is no place like home - Stony Brook http://www.iconsf.org/ |
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Student
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I can see a great marketing angle in this. Pay $500 today and lay down on this table. Then tomorrow when you're gone, I'll fire up the tachopuncture machine and fire the tachyons backwards through time to today. Trust me. I promise to do this tomorrow. Really. Would I lie?
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Muse
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Nuernberg
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Tachopuncture - surely if you puncture a taco (mispelled, obviously) all of the contents run out over your shirt?
I'm sure that would get RoadToad angry? YBW |
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I was planning to study Clairvoyance in school, but as I knew I would fail the exam, decided against it. And thanks to SkepticJ: We'd outgrown the fables, I knew. The sun isn't Apollo's chariot, of course, it's a star that began burning when a god said "Let there be light". Man was not created from clay by Zeus, he was created from clay by Yahweh. Hades didn't restore Euridice to life, please. That would be absurd. Jesus did, of course, restore Lazarus to life.... What morons we were before. How wise we are now. - Dale McGowan |
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Bufo Caminus Inedibilis
Join Date: Nov 2002
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You know, I have an uncle who used to teach at CSULA. During his tenure there as a professor, they were trying to decide which profs to keep and which to let go, mainly because of budget cuts, and a lack of continuing funding. This hit his department particularly hard, and it's unfortunate, because he taught Spanish Language and Culture. (Oddly enough, he knows Gabriel Garcia Marquez personally. Sorry, I liked Death in the Time of Cholera better than One Hundred Years of Solitude.)
And then, we get this bullsh**. We have schools that are losing money for serious and necessary research, and yet, there's sufficient money for this sort of f***ed up nonsense? And then we wonder why Johnny Can't Read. Yeah, I'm not happy. But it's got nothing to do with tacos. |
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Banned
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Debunking Ninja
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Combine words from two different fields and create your own woo ************!
Algorithmic Astrophysics Cartographic Endocrinetics Mycological Optics Datum Volcanics It's hours of fun for the whole family! |
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Ha ha ha ha.... Stupid signature size limit. |
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Philosopher
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Bufo Caminus Inedibilis
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