sporkologist

Cannibalism is unethical too, until it's a matter of life and death.

Why work 40 hours a week for someone else and sleep at night, when you can work 16 hours/day 7 days a week for 10 years for yourself, and age a lot in the process?

This is one of the most beautiful things I've seen on the internet lately. Thank you!!

Hey I'm just trying to keep my prostate healthy.

Safety devices would negate the exceptional risk he's undertaking, and make it not so remarkable. That's why "walking a tightrope without a net" is remarkable. As to the sinking ferries situation, yeah those should be safer, but no one on a ferry is proud of risking their life on their daily commute.

They look like a representation of amplitude vs. time on a graph, if they look like anything. The art presented is very nice, but it's an artist's interpretation. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Go to Vegas, then hire Saul Goodman to handle the rest.

Cooked meat can have a crunchy burned exterior, which indicates wonderful tasty easily-digestible protein, great for our energy intensive brains.

As long as humans fight for resources, there will be conflict.

So we need to have fun with war, to make it stop? Not quite understanding you.

Play and sport are fine-tuning the animal for survival (eating, or avoiding being eaten, or finding a mate). It's practice.

Meanwhile, science is trying to determine what thing causes what other thing.

Not sure why you are bringing philosophy into this. Science seems to be simply trying to determine cause and effect.

> UAV

There are a lot of customers there these days.

I heard that was done in the Monty Python movie because of needing to save money by not getting a real horse. So that kinda makes it even funnier.

Mechanisms on this scale would seem relatively easy to test and compare. He's trying so hard to sell all the positive qualities of his propellors..... if they are so awesome, wouldn't they be easy to sell?

We won't know for several years, so in the meantime we'll all just worriedly try to reduce our general cognition through natural and artificial means.

> I've done a lot of research on the subject at hand

It would be quite informative for the subject at hand for you to show your research results, if those results contradict OP findings

If he cancels, I'd understand.

If he decides to do it, it will be awesome.

e.g. Our arms are levers. Bacteria flagella are rotary bearings. Etc.

Probably: 0.1 lbs thrust from the frog, and 359,999.9 lbs thrust from the rocket

New-age pablum. Everything is art now?

> First, you need a foundation of knowledge and skills. You can't be Picasso if you can't handle brushes. Second, you need to use those skills to express something that is both deeply personal and that resonates with an audience.

This applies to all skill sets, not just art.

> Making art is not an artist's job. It is an artist's life. This is why it is exciting. But it also creates anxiety, and second-guessing. Putting your passion on display can be scary. How do you know what is your true passion? What if your work is ignored, derided or misunderstood?

OMG Fred from Accounting isn't expressing his inner angst the right way.

Puhleeze.

edit: I've been a professional artist, musician, and engineer for 30 years. IMO the author is mixing up a career with artistic expression.

(trademarks and copyrights) ≠ (patents)

I found a niche at the intersection of art, music, engineering, and manufacturing. I basically said to myself in 2005, "What am I better at than anyone else?" and proceeded to build my niche into a viable business. At this one thing, I'm confident (not because of my own evaluation, but the judgment of my target market) that I've found something I'm very good at that's worth pursuing. Yes this is very general advice, but it worked for me.... hope it sheds some light.

Subversively inspirational.

> If I just accepted myself as me

Mistake #1. You have to visualize yourself as temporarily overweight, then go about exercising/changing your diet (you know, more fiber, less carb's) to reach that new set-point.

Measure your caloric intake, and your weight every day. If your intake is less than your standard metabolic activity, you'll lose weight. It's that simple.

> I feel like, eventually, people just end up settling and stop fighting to better themselves.

Don't do that! Yes the majority of people do that, but that doesn't mean you have to as well. I have too many old healthy people in my family to fall into that trap.

My father in law is 80, he lifts weights every day, and can quote Shakespeare to you all day long. I hope to be half that awesome at that age.

Imagine Michele Bachmann requiring Congresspeople to undergo a "patriotism" test, and surveilling them to make sure they are "patriotic".

That's how I read it. "I and my millions of dollars and world class team only came in second in an extremely competitive race, and I want everyone to know how that was a wake up call for me to not be so ambitious, because ambition can be poisonous. So here are some other philosophical writings about how to be happy with what you have and not be ambitious."

> How can one know not to get burned without getting burned?

Maybe, someone, let's say, a parent or guardian, telling you that touching a hot stove will burn you, and you taking this seriously.

The tone of his post seemed to me to indicate that he was generally insensitive, and only the death of a loved one could snap him out of it. If he had enough empathy, he would have learned more early on that he should be more aware and respectful of others' feelings.