Re: Is the Internet making us stupid?
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 14:46
We can all stop whenever we want to...PicassoCT wrote:Just one more reply and then i quit
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We can all stop whenever we want to...PicassoCT wrote:Just one more reply and then i quit
Watching a porn channel on TV is quite obviously far more passive activity, as far as brain use goes, than looking through thumbnails and picking what to watch and deciding what to save and how to organize the saves. Same goes for other, more useful sides of internet.A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning.
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As the brain ages, a number of changes occur, including shrinkage and reductions in cell activity, which can affect performance.
It has long been thought that activities which keep the brain active, such as crossword puzzles, may help minimise that impact - and the latest study suggests that surfing the web can be added to the list.
Yes, they thought it might be a possibility, did the calculation, and calculated that it could not happen, and started exploding nukes for testing and you guys used two in the war (world war 2 was a nuclear war for a bit. You guys managed to test 2 nukes on japanese, first on some august 6, second on august 9, and Japan capitulated on august 14th. Thanks god you guys did not have a third nuke for testing, or at this rate 3 cities would have been destroyed).Panda wrote:Later on, everyone got scared of nuclear wars because scientists thought that something really horrible (much worse than what did happen) would happen if a nuclear bomb was set off. They thought that a bomb could cause a chain reaction in the atmosphere and set the world on fire.
dizekat wrote:Yes, they thought it might be a possibility, did the calculation, and calculated that it could not happen, and started exploding nukes for testing and you guys used two in the war (world war 2 was a nuclear war for a bit. You guys managed to test 2 nukes on japanese, first on some august 6, second on august 9, and Japan capitulated on august 14th. Thanks god you guys did not have a third nuke for testing, or at this rate 3 cities would have been destroyed).Panda wrote:Later on, everyone got scared of nuclear wars because scientists thought that something really horrible (much worse than what did happen) would happen if a nuclear bomb was set off. They thought that a bomb could cause a chain reaction in the atmosphere and set the world on fire.
It would of been truly moronic not to do that calculation. It's not like you could know something like that intuitively without calculating it, and only a true moron would trust the intuition that 'its impossible because it's impossible' and start blowing nukes without bothering to calculate. After the calculation was made, however, nothing stopped the testing of nukes of any type, including some truly enormous ones, during cold war. The fear of radioactive contamination did not stop the testing either, and as many nukes were tested total as could have been used in a world war.
Suppose there is an enormous ball made of frozen deuterium ice, and we explode a nuke on it's surface. Will it make enormously big thermonuclear kaboom or not? Don't know answer to this one for sure intuitively either, do you?
I was assuming his first language was one of those that does quotes differently... like Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Georgian, German, Icelandic, Lithuanian... and the list goes on...TradeMark wrote:Karl, why are you putting the first quotemark under? looks like typo, but you have done it 10 times by now...
Look! the Internet just made TradeMark smarter! Thread finished due to empirical evidence disproving initial hypothesis.TradeMark wrote:lol, why i have never seen that before... IMO people should write with english writing rules on an english board... i mean, ¿do you want to see all kind of styles in writing here or what? yeah... ¡sure!
hahahaSinbadEV wrote:Look! the Internet just made TradeMark smarter! Thread finished due to empirical evidence disproving initial hypothesis.TradeMark wrote:lol, why i have never seen that before... IMO people should write with english writing rules on an english board... i mean, ¿do you want to see all kind of styles in writing here or what? yeah... ¡sure!
you mean ÔÇ£ like this ÔÇØ ? yeah finnish too, but nobody really uses those, only in newspapers lol.dizekat wrote:Even UK English has 2 different quotations for open/close quote, it's just that nobody does it in practice when posting on intertubes. Or, for that matter, when using typewriter.
I think there's a setting in Office 2007 that makes matched "simple" quotes turn into the 66 and 99 kind.TradeMark wrote:you mean ÔÇ£ like this ÔÇØ ? yeah finnish too, but nobody really uses those, only in newspapers lol.dizekat wrote:Even UK English has 2 different quotations for open/close quote, it's just that nobody does it in practice when posting on intertubes. Or, for that matter, when using typewriter.