Re: Uplift questions

2014-03-03 Thread William Taylor
Well, since I have joined this mailing list I can ask some questions that I've wondered about. I haven't read Heaven's Reach in a while, but I don't remember the book answering these questions. Maybe some list members might know. Spoiler warning to anyone who hasn't read Heaven's

Re: Uplift questions

2014-03-03 Thread Nick Arnett
Bluehost is el cheapo, yet reasonably reliable, web hosting. Nick On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:07 AM, William Taylor medieva...@aol.com wrote: Well, since I have joined this mailing list I can ask some questions that I've wondered about. I haven't read Heaven's Reach in a while, but I don't

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2014-03-03 Thread Damon Agretto
I just picked up KSR's 2312 and Jack Campbell's The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knights (sequel series to the Lost Fleet series). Haven't started reading them. I was re-reading Sword of Shanarra as MTV is threatening a new series al a Game of Thrones. It's turning into a slog (seemed much better when I

Domain Hierarchy

2014-03-03 Thread trent shipley
I once read a quote that went something like, No action against climate change has ever been taken that resulted in material economic injury to those who took the action. This lead me to think that despite the knowledge about climate change at a physical level, humans make decisions based on the

Re: Domain Hierarchy

2014-03-03 Thread David Hobby
On 3/3/2014 10:37 PM, trent shipley wrote: ... The second thing it made me think is that while it cannot be said that one science is more important than another, the discursive domains indexed by sciences can be ranked as more or less foundational or derived, or more pejoratively as reductionist

Re: Domain Hierarchy

2014-03-03 Thread trent shipley
I have a degree in Mathematics. I consider it more of an art than a science. Math is a linguistic game that fortuitously has practical applications. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: On 3/3/2014 10:37 PM, trent shipley wrote: ... The second thing it made