vjk2005

Hot tea in the Winter. Sarsaparilla in the Summer. Outside the house it's the one and only Coke.

The 'Retweet' button is Twitter's version of the Like Button, and it is for this reason they have disabled the ability to edit the tweet so as to mimic the 'single-click' behavior of Like buttons.

The right tool for the right job. Anonymity works in some areas, not so great in other areas. While many sites are shifting to real-world user IDs, I believe that is an extreme step and something like 'expiring comments' could be a better alternative to deal with the problems that come with anonymous comments » http://j.mp/cKstr2

Every time I see this video I get conflicting emotions - on the one hand I get depressed as it keeps reminding me that there's only one Steve Jobs and a mortal one at that, makes me wish we made more of him. But then on the other hand I realize a Steve Jobs born in this day and age would have cleaned out every last smidgen of privacy we enjoy, the business model of today, in typical Jobsian fashion - careful, calculated, precise and unstoppable. Then I'm just glad we aren't making more of him.

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IMO the only 'aliens' we'll ever meet will be humans who had left Earth for distant planets sometime in the future and whom Earth inhabitants have forgotten or fail to recognize for some reason(environmental adaptation causing inhuman features). A chance encounter in space will then be the 'meeting with the aliens' that many fantasize about.

As far as meeting intelligent species completely alien to our planet and our ecosystem, like the ones shown in Hollywood movies, I don't believe that's gonna to happen. Not now. Not ever.

The logic usually is that since space is vast, there's gotta be a planet somewhere that has similar environment like Earth and thus similar life forms inhabiting it. That's sound logic. My problem with that logic is... out of the 100 million+ species of life that are estimated to exist today and the countless ones that used to thrive over the last 4.5 billion years since the birth of our planet, only one... just one out of all those billions of species that existed over billions of years has developed far enough to type these words.

That's why when people say 'hey there are billions of galaxies out there, so we can't be the only ones' I ask them then that by the same logic, out of the billions of species that have existed on this planet there's gotta be more species like us doing the same things that we do? But there isn't. We are the only ones capable of doing things we keep hoping the aliens would do.

That's why I believe we are the only ones, on our planet as well as outside of it.

1. It's possible that right now we are living in a simulation that traps all our senses into believing this right here is 'reality'.

2. As long as there is even a single component of humanity(a physical brain, for instance) that remains in contact with today's world, humanity of the type depicted in your comment cannot fully accept "the virtual world" as reality.

For humanity to completely 'believe' that virtual world to be 'real', humanity will have to cut all ties to this world and live as 'pure' virtual entities. Not impossible, and as noted in 1, the 'reality' we accept and live with today was probably a 'virtual world' in some other 'reality'.