Top 25 Science Questions...

[SVT Cobra]

top 25

> What Is the Universe Made Of?
> What is the Biological Basis of Consciousness?
> Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?
> To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?
> Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?
> How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended?
> What Controls Organ Regeneration?
> How Can a Skin Cell Become a Nerve Cell?
> How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant?
> How Does Earth's Interior Work?
> Are We Alone in the Universe?
> How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?
> What Determines Species Diversity?
> What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human?
> How Are Memories Stored and Retrieved?
> How Did Cooperative Behavior Evolve?
> How Will Big Pictures Emerge from a Sea of Biological Data?
> How Far Can We Push Chemical Self-Assembly?
> What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing?
> Can We Selectively Shut Off Immune Responses?
> Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality?
> Is an Effective HIV Vaccine Feasible?
> How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
> What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
> Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?

Always bugs me how we do not know things like this, and it ties your brain in knots when you try to firgure it out, makes me wonder if the a system can really understand itself, or only run what it is programmed to do...

okay bad example, but its tired and im late...so I just thought i'd post this on here becuase it was pretty interesting...

 

[suicidalpigeon]

you lost me at question #1.

 

[Rudee]

I'm still working on the Caramel secret.

 

[amdhunter]

I'd rather know what Jessica Alba looks like naked and spread like butter, than any of those questions.

But thats just me I guess.

 

[So]

> How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
> What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
> Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?

1. Makes assumtions, but, whatever.
2. That's a political question, not scientific. Uranium can replace cheap oil, and if we decided to do it today, in a big way, ten years from now, it'd be done.
3. Who is malthus?

the rest of the questions are damn good.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

thomas malthus?

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: So

> How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
> What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
> Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?

1. Makes assumtions, but, whatever.
2. That's a political question, not scientific. Uranium can replace cheap oil, and if we decided to do it today, in a big way, ten years from now, it'd be done.
3. Who is malthus?

the rest of the questions are damn good.

yeah those stuck out in my mind also...sort of stupid ones to be on there

 

[Schadenfroh]

You can turn skin tissue into nerve tissue?

 

[Mrvile]

I gave up on question 1.

Nice ones though.

 

[SVT Cobra]

ELphoenix just sent me a PM....and I agree...this should be on the list...

"if women can have multiple orgasms, why cant men?"

 

[Murphy Durphy]

>Why Do People Capitalize The First Word Of Every Letter?

 

[Schadenfroh]

> What Is the Universe Made Of?

Rossie O'donald

> What is the Biological Basis of Consciousness?

42

> To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?

42

> Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?

maybe

> How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended?

Ask Cher

> What Controls Organ Regeneration?

The organ repair man at your local music store.

> How Can a Skin Cell Become a Nerve Cell?

transplant it, probably wont work or look pretty but you can make anything fit

> How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant?

Very Carefully

> How Does Earth's Interior Work?

Elvis rocking the core

> How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?

Didnt Q from star trek discuss this?


i am too lazy to continue

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Murphy Durphy
>Why Do People Capitalize The First Word Of Every Letter?

becuase they are actually links on the original article page to essays that try and explaint those topics...which are the title of the essays....

so if you'd bothered to read the link...ud know why











pwned 😉

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: So

> How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
> What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
> Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?

1. Makes assumtions, but, whatever.
2. That's a political question, not scientific. Uranium can replace cheap oil, and if we decided to do it today, in a big way, ten years from now, it'd be done.
3. Who is malthus?

the rest of the questions are damn good.

The Malthusian Solution to the problem of overpopulation :thumbsup:

 

[everman]

It really remind you of how little we really know. We barely even know how our own planet works, let alone our bodies.

 

[EarthwormJim]

42

 

[Farbio]

they forgot the neverending conundrum of how many licks does it take to get the center of a tootsie pop?


otherwise, damn good list and i enjoyed the reads, thanks!

 

[Mucho]

Thomas Malthus's observation that in nature plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive, and that Man too is capable of overproducing if left unchecked. Malthus concluded that unless family size was regulated, man's misery of famine would become globally epidemic and eventually consume Man.

I never accept that hypostatise.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Mucho

Thomas Malthus's observation that in nature plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive, and that Man too is capable of overproducing if left unchecked. Malthus concluded that unless family size was regulated, man's misery of famine would become globally epidemic and eventually consume Man.

I never accept that hypostatise.

Actually, he's right. It's only logical.

Plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive because... it's a cruel world out there. Since we're top of the food chain, we don't really have to worry about that. Nearly all our offspring survive(In Western nations).

Of course it is entirely possible for us to "overproduce" and overwhelm our planet. We're not there yet, although we're getting closer. It makes sense that an object of limited mass can only support so many people.

But on the other hand, such regulation would never happen since it is against human nature.

 

[her209]

What killed the dinosaurs?

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: her209
What killed the dinosaurs?

yeah...that should go along with the begginging of our universe....it doesnt really fit under what our universe is made of...also what is outside of it? if you follow patterns in science, which is sually what everything is, there would have to be something outside of it, but becuase we do not, or cannot comprehend what is outside, it makes me think that our whole way of thinking is wrong, just like all those 1600BC philosophers that thought the earth was the center....so we shall see, or our great great great greatx10 grandchildren....

personally the origin of the universe is the most interesting question to me, it seems that if we unlock that door, many more will be left to be unlocked, but at least we will open up all those small doors that we have now, like why is there life, the planet why am i sitting here right now, what the hell is my life type of thing....

i have always believed in the red shift, and the theory of interconnect universes by portal like tubes that could explain black holes and other unknown matter...so we are on the right step i believe....

but of course in history there is always someone who comes along and proposed something completely out of there that evryone says is crazy becuase it goes against everything, and he turns out to be right....so who knows...

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I'd rather know what Jessica Alba looks like naked and spread like butter, than any of those questions.

But thats just me I guess.

lol

 

[archcommus]

Whenever they talk about scientists and physicists that discover this kind of stuff, I always wonder, who are these people? What do they study in college and who do they work for?

 

[shoegazer]

Originally posted by: her209
What killed the dinosaurs?

bolide impact. (meteor or comet)

the book Night Comes to the Cretaceous sums up most of the research very well and is an excellent read.

 

[archcommus]

Good read, some interesting stuff.

The quantum stuff is eerie. The stuff describing how computers work so similarly to nature is also eerie. It makes me wish I would've been born a thousand years from now so I could experience what the world will have then (well, assuming it's good).