Stuff that's pretty cool

[theholycow]

That's pretty cool.

[Barrrf]

Originally Posted by Aachener

What is it? A timer?

[Andrew]

errybody would be drag racin

[Aachener]

Originally Posted by Barrrf

What is it? A timer?

Exactly!

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[stonehenge]

Badass graffiti

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

[Cez★]

http://mashable.com/2012/09/28/starry-night-mosaic/

[Aachener]

[shootermcgavin003]

goddamn huge pic cezor

[Cez★]

i know. gets rezised though

[stonehenge]

saw this in the "WTF" subreddit but I thought it was more cool than wtf:

[shootermcgavin003]

pretty wtf to me

[Barrrf]

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswir...-universe.html

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (known more colloquially as NASA) doesn't make traditional video games - they're far too busy trying to debug the universe itself. However, that hasn't stopped them from looking to games as a resource tool from time to time - and now as a possible explanation for our very existence.

As it turns out, there's an entire school of thought that says the real world just might be a simulation, and if so, it might work with rules very similar to the ones that govern the universe of Grand Theft Auto - something not entirely foreign to Liberty City radio listeners...

In a recent interview with Vice, NASA scientist Rich Terrile discusses the prospect, based on the rapidly accelerating ability of computers to simulate massively complex environments and systems:

"Right now the fastest NASA supercomputers are cranking away at about double the speed of the human brain," says Rich. If you make a simple calculation using Moore’s Law (computer processing power doubles around every two years), you’ll find that these supercomputers, inside of a decade, will have the ability to compute an entire human lifetime of 80 years—including every thought ever conceived during that lifetime—in the span of a month."

Rich goes on to liken the universe's design architecture to that of Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City:

"The natural world behaves exactly the same way as the environment of Grand Theft Auto IV. In the game, you can explore Liberty City seamlessly in phenomenal detail. I made a calculation of how big that city is, and it turns out it’s a million times larger than my PlayStation 3. You see exactly what you need to see of Liberty City when you need to see it, abbreviating the entire game universe into the console. The universe behaves in the exact same way. In quantum mechanics, particles do not have a definite state unless they’re being observed. Many theorists have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how you explain this. One explanation is that we’re living within a simulation, seeing what we need to see when we need to see it."

Of course this raises the question, is there another universe like ours out there somewhere, running on better hardware?

[theholycow]

Dude, fuck those assholes, I prefer really existing.

[Barrrf]

The nerd in me has always thought that might be a possibility.

[shootermcgavin003]

the other universe may be...........but the not existing shit is stupid

[theholycow]

I've considered it before, and variations thereof, but I don't fucking like hearing it from eggheads who put actual math and shit into it.

[shootermcgavin003]

its a pointless arguement how could you tell if you did or didnt. fucking matrix bullshit and if it was like that wouldnt you rather take the blue pill and live happy in the matrix.

[stonehenge]

Originally Posted by nekkidhillbilly

pretty wtf to me

it's the facehugger/egg from Alien(s)

[shootermcgavin003]

no shit

[theholycow]

Originally Posted by nekkidhillbilly

no shit

Keep digging.

[shootermcgavin003]

[Cez★]

Originally Posted by Barrrf

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswir...-universe.html

thats some interesting shit

reminded me of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_physics

[DIATOMIC]

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[theholycow]

I don't think they understand how books work.

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Puyehue volcano erupts...Chile

photo by Claudio Santana

[Barrrf]