Happiness

People are happy when they think that the things they accomplice are hard to do.

Space in Space

How much space have you occupied in your lifetime?

 let me clarify this question:

suppose there is a second dimension filled with very dense foam
, and everywhere you walk the foam disappears. the foam is not disturbed by anything other then yourself (not your cloths nor your belongings). now when you die we see how much foam is gone in the other dimension

To be exact we have to tackle some more problems. for instance what happens to the foam for an astronaut.
So we need to take the foam in the entire universe. but if the foam is relative to earth it would not be correct for a person traveling to the moon. so we need to take the foam relative to our sun? my idea was to put it relative to the center of all mass in the universe. If you would hang still in that exact point you would not start to move because all mass of all the stars and planets pulls at you from all sides with exactly the same force.

Now to calculate how much volume this is is hard to say. We could try to determine an upper limit. for instance take the surface of the earth for a height of 170cm. that would probably be a nice upper limit don't you think?
I don't think so, cause we are on the earth and the earth moves with an approximated speed of 107km/h aroun the sun. this means that each second our body moves 28 meters. thats approximately: 28m x 1.8m² = 50.4m³

So at minimum we use up 50.4m³ of foam every second. but the universe is expanding. This implies that this value will probably be a lot higher. So its hard to put a number on it. Lets instead try to imagine how this foam hole would look. We harden the foam, drill a hole and fill it with tin. Remove the foam, how does it look?

We rotate with the earth rotation, so that causes a circular stretched over 1 day around the sun. So we get 356 circles stretched over an other circle with radius the distance from earth to the sun. the little circles with tilt back and forth on the pace of the seasons. and all that stretched in the relative speed of our solar system to the relative center of the universe.

Conclusion: getting the exact number is near impossible, and the form would be a stretched double spiral where the smallest spiral is tilting axes back and forth about 2 times over the big spring period.

Hope you could follow :p

small optimalizations

ever think about those little adjustments that could make thing so much eazier.

For instance Microsoft could make a little patch for windows xp to allow those handy explorer functions.
when you copy something that he tells you that there already is a folder there with that exact name, do you want to merge folders?

in the same area you have this other improvement. when you rename a file but there already is a file with that name he should as you if you wan to replace the file or if you want to continue editing the name, he should however do something more then just notify you that the file is there and go back to the old filename.

Another funny thing i keep noticing is that teachers always ask the wrong questions. they ask for instance: who can't read the blackboard. While they should ask: who can read the blackboard?, and students that don't put up there hand are either sleeping or can't read the board. A teacher should know that students are lazy, so you always have to ask questions where the answer will be yes so they have to do something.

Future of humans

Ever thought what technology will bring?

this is my view:

current technology is working on improving speech recognition, controlling computers with your mind (already possible BMI), ...     List of emerging technologies
basically computer human interface is getting more and more important.

but what will the future bring?
i think the first step is detecting advanced tasks by computers in our mind, so we can think what it should write, in contradiction to what we now already can do is move the cursor from letter to letter, but this is a quite slow process.

next will be the other way around. suppose we can remove an vertebra from our back and replace it with a synthetic one. one that can have an computer cable connected to it so we can intercept signals going to our body and instead send them to a computer. great improvement of game motion :)

Now an other step in technology would be simulating human beings. (this would only work if my assumption that: humans are completely physically determined, in other words, we don't have a spiritual part or soul.
Imagine we had a really advanced scanner system that can scan things to the atom. and a really advanced computer system that can simulate billions and billions of atoms including interactions between them. Do you think we could scan a human and simulate him? If so, this poses a gigantic ethical problem, the human would live in virtual reality, if we were smart enough to scan some air and food first he would be alive in a virtual reality. Does that mean when we cut power to the computer that we killed a person?

Ok one step further now: suppose we had advanced robots, that we can speak to and do what we ask of them. (some like the ones in the movie "I robot"). we ask them to make sure a certain computer has power always. suppose we scan the complete solar system with all humans in it. And simulate it, so we all live virtually. We could life as efficient as the energy that is necessary to simulate us. No more diseases no more violence. We could instruct the computer to stop any human that tries to kill. we could live in total peace BUT at what price, our complete freedom would be gone, what would we work for? we would have put ourselfs in somesort of virtual simulation where you think and feel completely the same as normal life.

this probably would not become mainstream since a lot of people would detest the idea of being only virtual.
It does offers some great things though. when we get the robots to build a computer on a very distante planet we could travel there at the speed of light since it would only be the simulation information to be send.
further more we could then rebuild ourselves at the other end. Put back atom by atom part by part.

an other improvement would be eternal life.
an other would be: no more over population, although we would have to increase the power of the computer more and more to keep simulation all the different computer.

a disadvantage would be if a computer gives up, it should be totally secured with 20 backups cause we are dealing with human lives here. we are still dependent on the physical computer that simulates us.

last step in the technological advancement would be to make sure we are no longer dependant on physical matter. This is where it starts to get hard imagining it all. we could try going to an other dimension that is more secure.

Did we just ascend?

–verb (used without object)

1.	to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.

2.	to slant upward.

3.	to rise to a higher point, rank, or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level: to ascend to the presidency.

4.	to go toward the source or beginning; go back in time.

5.	Music. to rise in pitch; pass from any tone to a higher one.

Gay people will die out?

I don't mean this disrespectful and its not for any time soon but, if you think your up to it, try to follow my reasoning.

First lets talk a little about natural selection. I think most people don't really get the fine idea of natural selection so I'll try to explain it in layman’s terms. If you think you got a good understanding of natural selection you can skip to the (*).

Let suppose there are a population of 2 eyed creatures who have offspring. now every time they have a new offspring small things can change, like the child looks something like the parents but not completely like the one or like the other. So lets suppose they have 2 kids. Both are "deformed", one has 1 eye the other 3 eyes. Now you have to imagine this in prehistoric times, where there are a lot of predators and where people over 30 are scares. The one with 1 eye will have less chance of survival since he has one eye less and can't see the enemy coming that good. less chance of survival means in average he will live less long than his average 2 eyed brothers. this also means there is a bigger chance of him not causing any offspring.

Now for the other one with 3 eyes we can say the absolute opposite. he will see the enemy coming coming very well. So he has a much higher chance of survival and will have more chance on offspring.

To conclude this: When there is a creature with only 1 eye, we can label this as a negative adjustment. while 3 eyes is a positive adjustment. Over millions of years the number of 3 eyed creatures will grow in the population and the number of 1 eyed creatures will die out. Or what we call natural selection, good adaptations stay bad ones die out.

(*) Secondly we can say that in modern society there is virtually no natural selection any more since we take care of handicapped people. Causing over million of years we probably wont change much anymore.

Finally about the gay people. It paradoxical that gay people didn't get selected out over time since they have no offspring so they don't distribute there genes to the next generation. But this is not the case since gay people were not accepted, most of them lives normal lives with a family and offspring, if they were happy or not is not to the point.

But now that they are getting accepted and that they can live the life they want with a partner of the same gender they will not have any offspring anymore. That means in the event that the current situation stays over million of years, gay people will die out.

Can you follow my reasoning? Again I don't mean this disrespectful nor do i believe I'm right, i just think its worth considering and enlightening to get new insights.