AntiBody

Hi GalCivII Devs! I love your game, and I have bought, or pre-ordered all parts of GalCivII. And I would do it again! Here is my idea: explain the industry and research values on mouseover! You have done that for influence and morale already. Why not go all the way and do the same for research and (the) production(s)? It seems to me that should be simple to do, and it goes a long way towards making things more transparent, i.e. easier to manage. <br/

well i guess that prooves alien intelligence exists, since if there are no aliens, they would not be able to contact us thus prooving their intelligence!! that REALLY wasn't the point.

Aliens will never make contact otherwise they would have to pay for all the free movies and music their getting from us now! somebody, I don't know who, said this: "the best sign for extraterrestrial intelligence that we have is that they haven't tried to contact us."

if i am not mistaken, gravity is "faster" than light. if string ("M") theory turns out to be correct, it is also the only force that can be used to probe other dimensions. while i don't anticipate intelligent life to be communicating with gravitational waves, much less so in a "hard science" setting, it would allow to circumvent the speed of light. that being said, i think communication in the EM spectrum would be the first choice for a fleet or perhaps within a solar system.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein sorry, i just had to...

Bellack, i also would love to ask you some questions? like stanley, i am thrilled to be able to speak to someone who experienced an NDE, which is a first for me. i have many questions, many of them technical, but i think important to assess the situation. -What kind if operations was this? -Was your life threatened by clinical parameters (heart failure, etc.)? -if your life was threatened, for how long (how long did resuscitation take)? -what kinds of anestheti

if i wanted to stick to known science it is science fiction , right? there is always some give and take involved, and if the story is to play in the far future, who can say what technologies humankind will possess? on the other hand, i personally prefer estimates that are not too conservative, lest we get AI that is operated by cassette tapes or somesuch. a great example for this are star wars operation panels. all blinking lights and

here's another one for brown dwarf detection: gravitational waves. predicted by quantum gravity, there are efforts underway to measure them even now. or at least, to build the necessary apparatus. anyway, i would think a brown dwarf careening through the galaxy might cause some gravitational waves, which should be detectable without delay. this is in addition to the gravitational lensing mentioned before.

how about wormholes for communication? one might envision a scenario where one could open a wormhole to anywhere in the universe, which would allow for instantaneous communication. however, because of some physical principle, these wormholes wouldn't be stable, therefore prohibiting travel through it. or, they may only allow certain types of EM radiation to pass through, or life just couldn't survive the stresses of passing through, or whatever. it might suffice for transfer of information. <br/

90& of us are foolish idiots who are blinded by faith. fortunately, belief in the existence of a supernatural entity is graded Again, not bad not bad at all. just not owed to religion. Perhaps, the realm of consciousness outside of our bodies is in these higher spacial dimensions?</di

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish i guess i actually should have looked it up let me poke back: are you sure "42" qualifies as a PHRASE?

Stanley: Scientists tell us universes may indeed exit that have more than 3 spacial dimensions. It is utterly impossible for the human mind to comprehend or visualize more than 3 spacial dimensions. OUR universe presumably has 11-13 spatial dimensions, DEFINITELY more than 3. As for comprehension, we can and must utilize the tool of mathematics. And considering we are the technological super power o

"goodbye- and thanks for all the fish"?

Philosophy is the pursuit of truth, using pure logic, because the senses can be fooled. Yes, but the mind can be fooled, too. Are you familiar with Kant? My point being, there are those who will hold forth a belief and call it "philosophy". However, these modernist so-called philosophies are not using these beliefs to pursue truth. in your eyes, who was the last "true" philosopher? <div class="

What tech is this by the way? I don't remember this one. (maybe I never researched it in my games) it is civil service the steam engine one is pretty good, too. funny how great minds can go so wrong.

That's what I said. 90-120AD is still within living memory. what i meant to say is that all "disciples" who know jesus personally were dead before the gospel of john was written.

Not really. I sit behind the computer e-mailing and do lots of boring office crap ah, administration... thankfully, i don't have to do too much of that, though it seems no job can do without at least some files& forms. my favourite civ4 quote: "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" -unknown

occam's razor for a more exhaustive explanation, please go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor The simplest explanation is the right one? it is key that it incorporates and explains ALL known information/effects. if a theory can do that, it is likely to be true. there is a similar quote from Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". -Albert Ei

Antibody, how old are you and do you have a PHD? What do you do for a living? I am 29 and am 2 months away from a PhD in neuroscience. i also have a BSc-equivalent in biochemistry (earned abroad) and a MSc in molecular and cell biology. i admit i am sometimes not too patient, when somebody challenges the very basics of my trade. to me, it is kind of like someone saying: "no, the earth is a disc!". what to do? how old are you and what is your backgro

very interesting read! thanks for sharing!

Rynx214: welcome to the mud-pit! There is nothing more absolutely certain than that GOd exists. Here is my proof, the most basic of proofs: "If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, then it must be true because we exist." strong words. interestingly, i cannot see the word of "god" anyhere in your descartes quote. to my knowledge, philosophy has since moved away from concepts such as "absolute" or "objective" truths. your "proof

so lets see if i got this right. the cell membrane is formed by a water bubble. why don't you come out and say it you have no idea of how life formed and started on earth. sorry, you got it wrong. the cell membrane is formed by lipids. the compartment surrounded by a membrane can be simplified as "bubble". why don't you come out and say it: YOU have no idea of how life formed and started on earth. god offers no explanation. sc

looks the same to me. but because i don't have a doctorate or something that must mean that i am wrong. and some idiot with one must be right. but then that idiot seems to be able to look at life and say it was all an accident. the fact that there couldn't be the type of life that we know on this earth unless we had a moon. the fact that there couldn't be the type of life that we know unless we were in the orbit that we are in. <br/

How is the likelyhood of a car randomly appearing without human intervention zero (despite millions and billions of years) when apparently it is possible that bacteria can form after a million years without a "something" (God) creating said bacteria? You seem to defeat your own argument. no. you obviously don't have the first idea of how evolution works. i don't blame you. your high-school biology curriculum probably sucked. <div class="Article_

genes. it takes 100,000 genes to make a human. it takes 100,000 genes to make a worm. ie the animals on the planet were reversed engineered from man. the other thing about genes are that they are computer programs. dear danielost, "proof of no god": the actual numbers are much lower. a human has about 25,000 genes http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/science/21gene.html?ex=1188014400&en=3758e41da905cb3c&ei=5070 <b