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mike1290
United States88 Posts
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Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
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JTouche
United States239 Posts
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
tahts halo | ||
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Atheros
United States84 Posts
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
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AimForTheBushes
United States1760 Posts
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Sablar
Sweden880 Posts
Poor postapocalyptic society. They would just keep going.. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On April 25 2011 00:18 Esper[mb] wrote: The unexamined life is not worth living I thought it was actually the unconsidered life | ||
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AfecksN
United Kingdom53 Posts
I don't think placing scientific knowledge would work very well in the long term. As if there was the destruction of the entirety of human knowledge, then if this sentence was found it would be seen as some kind of holy scripture passed down to man from god. And if that happened... Well go read the book "foundation". That has a great example of the dangers of science becoming a religion. Though if we are assuming the sentence would be seen as historical rather than religious then this would be the best: “You can make sense of anything that changes smoothly in space or time, no matter how wild and complicated it may appear, by reimagining it as an infinite series of infinitesimal changes, each proceeding at a constant (and hence much simpler) rate, and then adding all those simple little changes back together to reconstitute the original whole.” —Steven Strogatz is a mathematician at Cornell University | ||
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Sesameskeet
United States1 Post
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
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Deja Thoris
South Africa646 Posts
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nemY
United States3119 Posts
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ilj.psa
Peru3081 Posts
On April 24 2011 23:51 rackdude wrote: All objects in motion stay in motion unless acted upon by another a force, a force being related to the acceleration by F=ma where m is a quantity called the "inertia", the tendency for an object to no change its motion, and while this motion is changing, realize there is an equal and opposite force acting upon the other object (though the acceleration may not be the same due to the difference in masses), and from this we can see that there is a force thus us with mass are accelerated to the earth by using the equation F = G m m / r^2 that is the force of gravity that operates at the large scale attracting large mass objects like planets and stars and creates most of the macro scale movements we see in the sky. Hopefully that will give them a foundation to start physics from. Either that or the definition of the derivative and how to think about calculus would send the civilization thousands of years forward. hopefully they would know what is 'r ', 'm' and the value of G is :O i'll go too with the atomic hypothesis | ||
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On April 24 2011 23:51 rackdude wrote: All objects in motion stay in motion unless acted upon by another a force, a force being related to the acceleration by F=ma where m is a quantity called the "inertia", the tendency for an object to no change its motion, and while this motion is changing, realize there is an equal and opposite force acting upon the other object (though the acceleration may not be the same due to the difference in masses), and from this we can see that there is a force thus us with mass are accelerated to the earth by using the equation F = G m m / r^2 that is the force of gravity that operates at the large scale attracting large mass objects like planets and stars and creates most of the macro scale movements we see in the sky. Hopefully that will give them a foundation to start physics from. Either that or the definition of the derivative and how to think about calculus would send the civilization thousands of years forward. All human knowledge has been lost, that includes writing. They wouldn't understand very much of that sentence anyways, since they have no knowledge to reference. To do maths properly you need a system of counting and writing, they wouldn't have that, only spoken language. The point of the sentence is to convey alot of important information in very simple terms. The reason one about atoms would be so useful is that atoms are the simplest language in the universe, they are what everything is made of, if you understand atoms, you can figure out everything else. | ||
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HansMoleman
United States343 Posts
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Sablar
Sweden880 Posts
On April 25 2011 00:48 JTouche wrote: "Absolute truth is the only worthy pursuit and your only weapon to combat true corruption." Fighting over some absolute truth seems almost as destructive as my huge monument. On a more serious note I might go for something along the lines of the golden rule. Even if people mistake it for some greater power that is dictating ethics I still think it would do a lot of good for any society. | ||
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Maxwell3
United States88 Posts
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ilj.psa
Peru3081 Posts
On April 25 2011 00:58 AfecksN wrote: So much pseudo-philosophy in this thread :/ I don't think placing scientific knowledge would work very well in the long term. As if there was the destruction of the entirety of human knowledge, then if this sentence was found it would be seen as some kind of holy scripture passed down to man from god. And if that happened... Well go read the book "foundation". That has a great example of the dangers of science becoming a religion. Though if we are assuming the sentence would be seen as historical rather than religious then this would be the best: historical? I thought he was talking about mathematics (integration) heh | ||
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