January 5

[evay]

Originally Posted by Gatac

Actually, Sa'ar, one thing that gives me great solace as an Agnostic/borderline Atheist is that if something goes wrong, I do not have to rationalise it.

Yep. Shit happens. Sometimes shit happens to good people. And there's nothing you can do but cope. I don't find "solace" per se in my atheism, but for me it's the most sensible, logical explanation for everything. Occam's Razor.

In fact, here's another answer to the question: I believe that we'll eventually figure out the origins of the universe, and that they will be scientific and natural, and have nothing whatsoever to do with any deity or omnipotent power. It clearly won't happen in my lifetime, but I think it will someday happen.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Kira

(I believe that we will have genetically-based cancer therapies in the next ten to twenty years that will be far more specific and effective than current chemotherapy

A good thing, if it happens. It's been my impression that chemo is almost as deadly as the cancer it's supposed to cure.

[NeoMatrix]

Short Answer: God

What? You thought I would say that the Matrix? Where would you get that idea from?

[Kira]

Originally Posted by mudshark

A good thing, if it happens. It's been my impression that chemo is almost as deadly as the cancer it's supposed to cure.

Urge... to ramble... rising....

It involves creating viruses that can only replicate in (and destroy) cancer cells. Oncoviruses, as they're called, are to current chemotherapy as carpet bombing is to a precise guided missile. It's very cool, if I do say so myself.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

It involves creating viruses that can only replicate in (and destroy) cancer cells. Oncoviruses, as they're called, are to current chemotherapy as carpet bombing is to a precise guided missile.

Haven't you got that backwards?

As a chemist, I'm obliged to plug photodynamic therapy, especially if someone comes up with a pH-sensitive drug so you don't have to sit in the dark for three hours after the treatment.

Science threadjack well under way.

[Kira]

Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

Haven't you got that backwards?

I take no responsibility for analogies made before the sun's up.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Fair enough. I don't really get going until after 9AM either.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

Fair enough. I don't really get going until after 9AM either.

:shock: :shock: You've got going by 9:00? Egad!
EDIT: This isn't meant to be sarcastic :wink:

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Not by choice. Inconsiderate people schedule meetings and classes and labs then.

Hell, last semester I had to be at school at 8 to ride herd on students. On a Friday, no less. I had to leave my apartment no later than 7:30ish to make it on time.

This is not fun when the sun isn't up. One of the curses of living at higher latitudes. It's hard to get out of bed when it's still dark outside. I'm just luck I'm not female and don't have to spend hours primping beforehand.

[Chancellor Valium]

I know about trying to wake up in the dark too, lol. Admittedly, England is a bit lower down than Canada, for which I am very grateful. If I want to be cold, I go to Scotland. For summer :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Kira

I take no responsibility for analogies made before the sun's up.

Before sunrise he's your son.

[Kira]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

You've got going by 9:00? Egad!

Actually, today was a late morning because I was lazy and stayed in bed listening to my cd alarm for an hour. Normally, and especially when the sunrise is earlier, I'm up at 6:30 and out the door by 8, 7 if I'm going to the gym.

[evay]

You are all such whining amateurs. Some of us have to be awake and rolling at five a.m. in order to be at work on time. In June and July I get up at dawn, but otherwise my alarm goes off well before sunrise. (which really sucks in April and September, when said sunrise is at 00 mark 20 and I'm driving directly into it.)

[Kira]

The benefits of living two minutes away from work, I guess.

[Alexia]

5am? :shock: *faints* evay...you're a nutter :wink: I'm so not a morning person :wink: Even when I get up and drive into work I haven't really woken up till 11am with the help of a few cups of tea...

They don't need to worry about me falling asleep at the wheel. I already am when I get in the car :wink:

[Gatac]

evay, you have my sympathies. I did the "5 AM to work" thing for three months in Basic and two months more recently, and it was horribly every time. I have to get up at 6 two days a week for university, which is bad enough. The worst part is walking through the dark, arriving at the lecture and listening for two hours while the sun rises outside. You just want to jump up, run outside and throw yourself at the next soft spot to sleep some more. I show my true colors when I have time off; 10 AM, no sooner. (Though that doesn't equate more sleep; I stay up longer in the evenings.)

Gatac

[Celeste]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Before sunrise he's your son.

That's it! Now I have the urge to go watch The Lion King. Thanks Zeke.

[Hotaru]

Originally Posted by Gatac

Though that doesn't equate more sleep; I stay up longer in the evenings.

Yeah, I'm like that too. Weekdays I go to bed at 11 and am up at 7. Weekends I go to bed at 3 and am up at 11. Equal sleep time, yet I feel more refreshed.

[MaverickZer0]

In response to the whole AI/free will debate.

Here is a link that displays the OPPOSITE of my point of view:

http://mmco.megaman-network.com/analyses/freewill.shtml


And here is a link that displays, in fact, my very own point of view:

http://maverickz3r0.tripod.com/

Erm...ignore the first paragraph if you want.

Given that these use Mega Man as correlation, it is one of the few good video games to draw reference from. I would go on, but frankly, my wrist is sore from all that.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Weekdays I go to bed at 11 and am up at 7. Weekends I go to bed at 3 and am up at 11.

Last night: asleep at 5AM, awake at 2:30. Stupid jet lag.