L. Marcus Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... Have they been weaponized yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Re: The Last Word Long, long ago. WW2 electronics were just about all tubes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... Apparently, arteries were named such because people thought they conducted air ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Re: The Last Word In a way they do. They do carry oxygen enriched blood to the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Re: The Last Word Yes, but when the first dissections were made, the veines collapsed when the blood drained from them. But the arteries -- and the aorta in particular -- have a much sturdier wall, so when the blood drained, they just became full of nothing. So the Ancients (of four hundred years ago) thought they were tubes for air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Re: The Last Word A pneumatic circulatory system? Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Re: The Last Word Sounds like a job for the Mythbusters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word My understanding is that the first guess for the function of the brain was that it was to cool the blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word maybe I'll get me a glass of some hydrogen oxide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Will Durant quotes: "education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance" "education is the transmission of civilization." "it may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country." [George Bush anyone?] "science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom" "every science begins as philosophy and ends as art" Me, ergo: the "progressive discovery of our own ignorance is the transmission of civilization" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Re: The Last Word so noone likes my quotes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... What quotes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... What quotes? above, silly. http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1900984&postcount=15535 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Claims of the superiority of philosophy over science are necessarily rooted in the philosopher's denial that testability and reproduceability are the only valid criteria for assessing the success of an idea. "It ain't what you don't know that kills you. It's all them things you do know that ain't so." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word There ya go, sonny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word It is better to be alive and wrong, that dead and right. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Claims of the superiority of philosophy over science are necessarily rooted in the philosopher's denial that testability and reproduceability are the only valid criteria for assessing the success of an idea. *chuckle* ... and lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word Time for a knock down, drag out Science vs Philosophy fight? Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... More like low-intensity guerilla warfare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word I always found gorillas to be kinda placid. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word Guerilla = little war Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word Midgets at war? Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word Time for a knock down, drag out Science vs Philosophy fight? Doc No need, philosophy (lovers of wisdom) wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word What about the sophists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: The Last Word What about the sophists? there are two ways the word is defined: specific to Ancient Greece or the general use of the term. Which were you meaning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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