Science n' Shiz Thread

[Katulobotomia]

Originally Posted by Bunglo

I'm not sure where you're getting the "malfunctioning" information from. As far as I'm aware, no one actually knows why we dream, lucid or not.

Well I'd call it malfunction when a persons mind is trapped inside something that it cannot see a way out for hours and cannot feel anything from the outside world or doesn't know where he is or how he got there.
It's like those people that have a condition where they fall asleep every time they take a sh#t (don't remember the name for the condition), but only that I wake up at a time I am supposed to not.

[Bunglo]

Ahhh, I see what you mean now.

[TheSavior111]

ok
thats kinda starting to sound like a coma without a coma.Anyway thats awesome i had a lucid dream that i was in the back seat of my fathers car and it was driving really fast but im the only one in the car no one else just me and the road was a dead end with no umm govermnent work in progress barriers u know and beyond was a very dark void so i tried to stop the car but i cant move i tried as hard as i could but i only moved one arm that was out of reach of the steering wheel so i ended up going down this dark void and waking up a few seconds after passing the "dead" end i was breathing really quickly can some one explain what happened back there?

[Katulobotomia]

This man predicts the 20th century.
Kind of scary when he starts to talk about the present day as if it was standing right next to him.....in 1964!

[Baracca Chewbama]

seems to me that hes saying there will be no more cities in the year 2000 because people will be able to talk and work with sattelite phones... but there are still cities in 2010 so hes kinda wrong isn't he?

[Onearmy]

Originally Posted by Katulobotomia

This man predicts the 20th century.
Kind of scary when he starts to talk about the present day as if it was standing right next to him.....in 1964!

Yeah... anyone could have predicted that and plus he was sort of wrong.

[Lord Justin]

Originally Posted by Onearmy

Yeah... anyone could have predicted that and plus he was sort of wrong.

I don't think anyone could have predicted worldwide instant communications by satellite, without being laughed out of town, in 1964, except someone with the intellectual clout of Clarke. He is one of the few people in history whose ideas of the future I would not only listen to but take pretty seriously, if he were still alive today making predictions. Another one would be Da Vinci.

Clarke basically wrote science fiction stories describing satellite communications, in detail, before most people even knew satellites could do that (was only being done by governments at that time).

But he was clearly wrong about cities disappearing due to instant communications, globalization and increased privacy and lonership. Cities are getting bigger and bigger, and I don't think they show any sign of stopping within the next 50-100 years.

So Clarke was right about some things. Which is better than 99.99999% of futurists who are right about nothing and whose whacky claims end up sounding foolish. Clarke's whacky claims end up being correct (or at least pretty darn close).