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4 months agoNo. I didn’t see the others.
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To hurry or leave.
But my mental picture is a donkey in a trailer…
3·4 months agoWhy don’t we take care of each other as decent people? Why do we have to decide who is more worthy? We have too many money-grubbing billionaires. Maybe if we watched out for each other, we wouldn’t have to worry about what the other guy is doing.
Maybe it wouldn’t work, but it would be nice to try. Look what happened in 1914:
3·4 months agoKukla, Fran and Ollie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie?wprov=sfti1
51·4 months agoWhat is not my absolute favorite joke. He tries really hard when he plays.
What’s on second, Who’s on first, and I Don’t Know’s on third.
Thanks for the added information!
111·4 months agoNo orcing way…
Whaddaya orcing know…
I can sort of see it.
Yes. It was trendy, and then dropped. I think of it “Walking Dead” fever. Sort of like the attraction of the CSI series, hospital shows, cops shows, etc.
91·5 months ago
Skynet is a self-aware artificial intelligence system that becomes the main antagonist of
the Terminator franchiseEarth.
6·5 months agohttps://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/gjfq-k9dv
Abstract
When a photon traverses a cloud of atoms without scattering, how much time does it spend as an atomic excitation? To address this question, we used the cross-Kerr effect to weakly probe the degree of atomic excitation caused by a transmitted resonant “signal” photon by measuring the phase shift induced on a (separate, off-resonant) “probe” beam, postselected on cases when the signal photon is transmitted. The time integral of this observed phase shift, properly normalized and averaged over many runs in which the photon is detected after transmission, is the excitation time of interest, in a weak-valued sense. We measured mean atomic excitation times ranging from (−0.82±0.31)𝜏0 for the most narrow band pulse to (0.54±0.28)𝜏0 for the most broadband signal pulse, where 𝜏0 is the non-post-selected excitation time, given by the scattering probability multiplied by the atomic lifetime 𝜏sp . Across a range of pulse durations and optical depths, our results are consistent with the recent theoretical prediction that the weak value of the atomic excitation time caused by a transmitted photon equals the group delay experienced by the light. Our experimental results show that negative times are not limited to describing the shift in the peak of a reshaped wave packet (as resulting from group delay), but they also provide the appropriate description of the weak-valued time the photon spends as an atomic excitation.
Atomic excitation refers to the process where an electron in an atom absorbs energy and moves to a higher energy level or orbit.
61·5 months agoYour question is broader than you think.
For one culture to have an idea and share it to others isn’t uncommon. Pyramids are in Egypt and Mesoamerica. Giants exist in many cultural myths (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giants_in_mythology_and_folklore) as are ghosts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghosts).
You see, an idea that’s communicated is a meme.
" A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
If you’re considering spirit as a soul
https://www.planksip.org/the-concept-of-the-soul-in-ancient-philosophy-and-soul-1763067454225/
TL;DR: So, why does it exist across cultures? It’s a meme.
“Roots” was among the first widely read works of fiction to offer a detailed account of the Middle Passage, the horrific transatlantic journey to America endured by enslaved Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries.
“Prior to its release, the impact of slavery was easy to diminish or deny by those that benefited the most from that system,” said Annastasia Williams, bookshop director at The Bottom bookstore and cultural organization.
#include <grammar>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int programmer;
if (programmer > -1) { cout << "Programmers be owning your language. "; }
cout << “Plonk! Fnord!”;
return 0; }
Frodo lives, but Annie’s dead.
602·5 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. It is a prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means “trembling” and comes from the Fore word kuria or guria (“to shake”).[3][4] It is also known as “laughing sickness” due to abnormal bursts of laughter from the patients.
It was spread among the Fore people via funerary cannibalism.
Mad cow for people.
Trump Tooter?