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RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) - 12/14/2012 9:14:46 AM

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I will forever now think of you as Wile. E.

Thank you.

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RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) - 12/14/2012 10:06:37 AM

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Hmmm, I would think Johannes Kepler would be the one to be considered the inventor of the geosynchronous satellite as he created the mathematics to describe orbital mechanics.
But, I will acknowledge that Clark was the first to use the concept in popular literature.

If you really want to sprain your brain, look at the dynamics of five body stable orbits... "Kepler Rosette". Think five planets orbiting an empty center.. complicated but should be stable if you could set it up.

LaGrange should get some credit too. His showing where the zero stress points around a larger body's orbit have lead to so many stories about space stations. (If you don't put your station on a LaGrange point, you will continuously have to burn fuel to keep tidal forces from ruining your orbit and sending the station crashing or flying to the big black.)

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RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) - 12/14/2012 12:35:14 PM

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pre post human.

suck on it.

I am pretty sure, that after the singularty, there will be an App for that.

I am another prepared post human.

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RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) - 12/15/2012 3:21:38 AM

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I am pretty sure, that after the singularty, there will be an App for that.

I'm not sure I want to plug that app into my digitized brain without having a backup copy.

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RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) - 12/15/2012 5:02:09 PM

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You're missing the third group (which appears to be the group that questionnaire was aimed at)

Methinks someone got a less than Prematurely Posthuman

Wiki helped me with three of my answers - I figure that was part of the whole techie thing :)

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RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) - 12/15/2012 8:26:08 PM

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I haz...

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49/60 Acquired Aptitude, 47/60 Active Adaptability and 44/60 Affirmative Attitude!

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RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) - 12/15/2012 8:43:18 PM

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Ready for Renaissance*

34/60 Acquired Aptitude, 32/60 Active Adaptability and 26/60 Affirmative Attitude!

*Edited to spell "Renaissance" correctly

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