In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation:
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.”
“Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.” —John Wilbanks is vice president of science at Creative Commons.
“Humans have a tendency to fall prey to the illusion that their economy is at the very center of the universe, forgetting that the biosphere is what ultimately sustains all systems, both man-made and natural - in this sense, ‘environmental issues’ are not about saving the planet—it will always survive and evolve with new combinations of atom—but about the prosperous development of our own species.” — Carl Folke is the science director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University
“The same mathematics of networks that governs the interactions of molecules in a cell, neurons in a brain, and species in an ecosystem can be used to understand the complex interconnections between people, the emergence of group identity, and the paths along which information, norms, and behavior spread from person to person to person.” —James Fowler is a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego
“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
“I take the easy way out by quoting another eminent scientist. In Cosmos Carl Sagan said, ‘We are made of star stuff.’ That simple statement does not encompass the physics of the earliest moments of the universe, but it encompasses its evolutionary history, from the formation of the first stars, which enriched the universe with additional elements, to the creation of planetary systems, and life and humanity on the planet Earth. Because it emphasizes our intimate and direct connection with the cosmos, it admits the possibility that others are, or have been, or may be, likewise connected.” —Jill Tarter is the director of the SETI Institute’s Center for SETI Research.
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.
considering the likely state humanity will leave the planet in if a catastrophic end is to come to pass I would say the only reasonable thing to pass on would be.
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.
no one who writes in long sentences will ever be taken seriously
I like: "handle your business, don't let you business handle you."
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.
no one who writes in long sentences will ever be taken seriously
I like: "handle your business, don't let you business handle you."
Agreed, however F=ma with a more summarised explanation gives lead to a great amount of discovery potential. I think for me, I'd definitely choose to pass on one of Newton's laws as they just gave way to all kinds of branches of physics.
So for me;
F=ma (+ explanation of exactly what that means) or Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
Just to accompany the silly quotes however; "What bus?"
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pussy coming from sucking down all that rancid sticky sperm from fat sweaty drunk and dirty diseased bums that live in your house you attract flies and you should be poisoned in your sleep by somebody with lots of money to give to me for killing your gross asshole with dynamite up your bug infested butthole you are gross and you eat and lick the insides of porta potties after they have been abandoned in the desert for years in the hot sun and you live in them too and thats why you have no reason to exist at all leave this planet you dont even speak and cohearent language you are dumb and nothing comes out of your mouth but sludge except cum from your dads herpe ridden dick that is so small it is too small a meal for even a tiny little ant you have every sickness in the world you contaminated sloth fuck you to death with an i beam you need to be raped and beaten within an inch of your life you shit faced asshole pig fucker you fuck pigs cause you are one you are to stupid to know the 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moan and groan as i stick needles into your eyes you dont need to see cause no one wants to see you you suck and you live in a man hole but you arent a man you are a worthless pile of shit carrying diseases and you love it i will burn you with a piece of molten sun go die i hate you leave this planet you are hated and loathed in every corner of the world even the penguins at the south pole hate you and want to kill you they wait day and night for you to step foot on their continent they will freeze you in a block of ice for an eternity if they even see you and i would drag you there naked over a dirt road but there is such a long line of people waiting to destroy you and your entire buttfucking excuse for a family they will just lynch all of you and rip their guts out and let them run into the street why dont you just save them the trouble and run into the street right now so as the cars can run you down into the dirt where you belong you are dirt you eat dirt that has poop in it you suck on exhaust pipes in your spare time you haven't the luck to do it long enough to kill yourself climb into my engine compartment so my cars fan can get a chance to cut your skankly green dick off so you cant reproduce and make this world even more unbearable for everyone else go eat dead bodies they are your only source of fucking food cause food wilts spoils and dies when around your rancid filthy body god hates you too you make my grass die when you walk down the street i should call the fucking cops they will arrest you for every crime in the book and you wont be able to run in that silly ass way that you do cause the cops will have helicopters and drop napalm on you it is worth losing a whole block if they can get you the cops have a picture of your ugly pus covered face in every car they own even the cops on tv have orders to shoot you full of holes on sight you cant hide you never learned how to hide you are too stupid to grasp the idea of hide and seek the kids never played with you in school because you dressed like a fucking slob hippy fuck from some worthless past decade they kicked you and teased you and made you suck their cocks even the school nurse filled hypos with acid and shot up your eyeballs as the teachers watched and laughed at you cause you were fucking dumb they tried to teach you but they couldnt you always had shit in your mouth so they couldnt understand you fucking rotting widerbeast cock eater i will smash your fucking face in with a crescent wrench the biggest and heaviest that they make and then stick your brain in a blender and feed it to fat people at jenny craigs and watch them puke cause your little brain isnt worth anything as food much less as garbage it is garbage but the garbage men will ignore it and pretend it isnt there when i put i out they wont take it cause it will ruin their truck those trucks cost alot of money and you owe everyone enough as it is you humongous scumpot buffalo anus chewing blister headed roach faced whore slime fuck get the fuck out of here i will run you out of town myself and i wont need marshall dillon to do it because you never heard of him because your tv sucks and gets shitty reception cause you are too stupid to attach an antennae to it they wouldnt even sell you one at the tv store cause you were to cheap to buy basic cable and you stunk so bad and had so many flies around you laying eggs in your hair you are a maggot nursery you scared off all the customers everything about you is totally sick your measly life is pathetic you suck and your whole family sucks go kill your self with a god damn chainsaw i will cut down the biggest tree in the world and let it fall on you and squash you into the fucking dirt you are fertilizer that plants and bugs dont even eat you are truly non scrumptious to even the lowest of all life forms if rocks were alive they wouldnt touch you either nothing on this great planet will touch you at least it was great until you came along my job is to basicly eradicate disintegrate and annihilate you into total nothingness not even a trace of you has to be here or it will grow into another one of you and thats all this world needs is another bad sci fi horror show but i wont mind cause i will get to destroy you all over again yes and i will too so lets get fucking started shall we i wont show you any mercy cause you dont deserve any not even from god he is waiting also to kill the shit out of you he hates you he didnt even make you to begin with that was someone that broke into his house when he was out creating another universe cause you have ruined this one with your presence you are trash and you have ruined this whole universe and now we have to make spaceships to get the fuck out of here but we wont have to if you destroy yourself now do it scum or i will cave in your chest with a dozen industrial strength acme buggs bunny pneumatic jackhammers and rip out your insides and sell it to alpo for dog food but they will laugh and slam the door cause you are poison and filth and you have bad taste all one has to do is look ever so slightly into your trashy condemned piece of shit house and they will scream and run away your bed is full of bugs and lice and you sleep with bums from third world countries so you can ram their dirty cocks into your gaping sewer of a cunt the subway is cleaner than you are you are fucking fucked up man go to the cemetery and dig yourself a grave and i will throw your ass in and bury you alive and encase the whole area in super quick dry concrete to make sure you stay there then i will go to your house and i will microwave all your stinky smelly mangy pets and watch and laugh as they explode and cover the kitchen walls with blood i will piss gleefully all over your photographs of your ridiculous family cause they are mangy like the exploded dogs and cats you fuck in your bedroom i have to torch it all down to the ground to make it safe to live for other people that are unfortunate enough to live near you or even remotely pass through the area in sheer pain and agony you give them all nightmares you are so hideous and disgusting i will sell grenade launchers to your neighbors so they can so they can murder your brothers and sisters and anyone else who has anything to do with you whatsoever in the slightest tiniest bit at all ever i totally hate you dude or should i say dud that would certainly be more like it wouldnt it but you cant answer me because i have crammed poisonous lizards into your face and mouth you suck and are a lowlife and you and i but mostly i have the need to have every kind of pain known to man and unman and super man ultra man spider man cool man and the man inflicted upon you you need to suffer all the time everywhere everyday no matter which vacation spot you try to run away to i will find you i will punch your titties into your spine and paralyze you and drop you into a gigantic pool of hungry young maggots and carpet beetles but you deserve more than that cause you deserve nothing at all people never listen to you and ignore you because they are sick of the sound of your voice and i am too and i will run a sears roto tiller over your head over and over and take pictures of it and pass them around your school with pictures of both of your parents sucking and fucking giant prehistoric sloth beasts your dick looks like a dog dick only worse cause that would be offensive to all dogs everywhere and your cunt looks like a rotted hole in the side of a ten day old battlefield corpse i would put you on a space ship and blast you off to another galaxy but it will come back because the aliens will have nothing to do at all with you you arent even considered by them to be even the lowest of all life forms you are so fucking useless your destiny is to rot in your own mind and go crazy and torture yourself for an eternity with oh so brief periods of normalness so you can forget the torture you have suffered only to have it happen again a howitzer a blender chopping away at your genitals i will be at the controls and i will waste your family and spouse in front of you and have them raped into nothingness by alien beings from other planets and i will sell tickets and make a fortune so i can live in splendor you disgusting poor excuse for matter that you are i hate you completely and totally i kill you in my sleep and when i am awake and so did everyone else that ever lived ever since the beginning of all time known and unknown even the animals and plants hate you they would like to see you live in the streets and set on fire on a daily basis you bastard fuckhole starCaliber nazi piece of trash bitch fucker and sucker of all that is repugnant and surely not to forget as well all that is sickly and gross and disgustingly corroded with puke from a thousand drunken junkie slimeballs that live in bowling alleys to die a thousand million deaths isnt even enough for you either and your whore of a girlfriend that needs to have her head converted into a trash can for toxic waste that is all she is good for besides a lousy fuck you would have thought she couldnt fuck anything any more cause she fucks anything that moves including things that dont move like rocks and hammers and broken wine bottles but it doesnt have to be a wine bottle or even a broken bottle but she has had so many thousands of regular bottles up there she has gotten to the point where only broken wine bottles will fuck her she is a fucking slut mangy fat whoring bitch and soon even the broken wine bottles will have nothing to do with her then she will have to go back to rocks and when that peters out she will have you because trash fucks trash and begets even more trash that you screw also even though it is incest you bastarding whoring fucking shitty junk heap of unwanted broken plates with stupid brainless designs on them nobody wants likes or needs you go kill your head with a blast of ddt you are lower than the lowly hairy dangling dick of a sewer roach scummy gross idiot you are trash i will kick your god damn fuck ass all the way down the street i will sick rabid dogs on your butt you are so moldy they would rather die than bite you so why dont you just bite yourself i will even sharpen your teeth though you have none they rotted out of your skull a long time ago or should i say that your dentist felt sorry for them being trapped in that crummy head of yours that he yanked them out just before committing suicide because he could not believe that he even got close to your horrible ugly smelly mouth just to save some teeth but thats his job to save teeth and my job is to knock teeth in and we will start with you because you are first in someones mind when they think about whose teeth they would like to knock in with a steel bar covered with many countless unbelievably sharp edges so sharp that it doesnt even have to get near something to cut it completely and absolutely totally off the entire fucking face of the planet where no one can find it again not even god and he wont even bother cause i have told you he hates you and wants you to cease to exist he hates your furniture and your house it looks like every broken down ugly abandoned crack house combined even all the ones that the cops shut down and they are shutting them down because they are looking for you mother fucker and its only a matter of time before they find you and bring you to me so i can torment you and make you eat your dads testicles and lick the hot asphalt streets covered with oil and rocks and animal carcasses you will keep listening because what i say is the holy truth and fact and even scientists from everywhere say that yes you need to die and the sooner the better you sack of shit with dead smelly fish in it i will go into the future and bring back the biggest most modern and destructive gun ever in the universe and jam your head down inside the barrel with my foot and just before you suffocate i will pull the trigger and the whole planet will cheer and they will make me king of earth and i will have all the pussy i want you asshole you will die and i will be thanked daily for the rest of time come on in i am ready i will kick your ass i will write about destroying you and it will be a best seller everyone wants to stick an axe in your chest and twist it they will look deep into your eyes and laugh until their sides split you are a walking comedy you are a hundred bad drivers you are so dumb stupid and pathetic you dont even know how to play candyland and even if you had candyland the company who makes it would find out cause all of a sudden all the other candyland games would stink when children opened them up and the company would take it back from you and slap you in the fucking face for even thinking that they made the game for you to even know about much less play it and all those poor kids with stinky candyland games that they got for christmas you have ruined christmas for them and santa clause will make a special trip from the north pole to fucking kill you and make you suck the caca out of his reindeers asses then he will call christ and he will fucking nail you to a cross and tell his dad to strike you with lightning every hour on the hour and call down vultures to eat away at your eyeballs you will die and i will be first in line to watch i will piss and defecate on your grave i will kick over your headstone and carve giant swastikas on it and spray paint your address on every wall and flat surface in the world so people can go to your house any time they want day or night and abuse you and torture and maim and burn and squash your little pecker and shove it in to your fucking mouth so you can choke on it and barf yourself inside out so i can pour salt on your insides and take a cheese grater to your balls you damn dirty dick licking dirt clod you slovenly dimwitted shitheaded shitkicker go suck a horses dick i will ravage your family with fire and bombs i will destroy your lives you are all fucking shitty and insignificant and have no use being you fucking sucking shithole fag licker of street gutters your mom lives in the gutter i will crush her damn head cause your brain is made by purina cause you have such a dog face from sticking your nose in poodle butts you bastard slime let me fucking rip you in half and drag you across the desert i want to drown you in my toilet and flush you down the pipes to the sewage treatment plant where you will probably fuck up the machines and nobody will be able to use their toilets anymore so they will have to tie you up and shit in your mouth you will get so constipated and we will shove a cork in your ass to make you explode all over the walls and we will make your children clean it up with their hair it is so matted and rotted anyway who will know the difference i will know the difference i can spot you and your kind from far far away even from another planet even if i was blind and on another planet you cannot hide anywhere and no one will let you anyway you are trapped there is no way out you will see my bullets coming towards you in slow motion yet you will not be able to escape and parts of your body will be shredded one by one and you will scream scream scream in such terrible agony i cant even begin to describe it without using up all time in the world but if you wake up my neighbors i will kick your fucking lame chicken ass in so just remember that when you wake up and find that your legs have been cut off and you feel like screaming you dumb slobbering idiot go suck an egg i fucking hate you to death you damn dirty urinal licker when are you going to put a shotgun in your disgusting mouth fucker head i will destroy you i will disintegrate you into a pile of ashes and dump you into an ashtray so everyone can stick their cigarettes out on your miserable ass you dirty bastard you will be hung and beaten with rusty iron chains the heaviest that they make then you will be staked out in the desert to dehydrate and decompose in the hot sun your eyes will boil away what the hell is going on here why are you even on this planet why do you exist at all you septic tank sucker i will tell you you mother fucker you exist so as i can torment you and spit on you and tell you how much you fucking suck you bastard you are so fucking ugly when you walk down the street people scream and run to the bomb shelters and get flame throwers to burn you to cinders you are their entertainment i will ruin you to the utmost of my endlessly praised and admired ability when it comes to the subject of your destruction and who is to do it my ability far exceeds the limits of your measly mealy little raoch nipple brain so i will have to show you i will give a sample to your head i will demonstrate my powers of annihilation on the members of your family i will make their lives a living three dimensional hell and i am not talkin walt disney either i will starve them and urinate and defecate on their crushed and mangled bodies and i will have the time of my life smashing you out of existence it will give me the utmost pleasure and people will think of me forever after as a living god for ridding the universe of your entity when people eat a hero sandwich they will think of me because i am the one living being that will stop at absolutely nothing to eradicate you into total anti matter and that is all that matters to me and everyone else they hate you i hate you the gods even hate you especially zeus he is just aching to pump countless bolts of lightning into your fanny he will bring back to life every roman gladiator and they will slaughter you one by one over and over again yes it will be a glorious undertaking the klingons will have their turn too and so will everyone else that has ever lived in fiction or nonfiction they will all pay me huge and ludicrous sums of money to get a chance to destroy you and i will have a penthouse and women and you name it mother fucker i will tear you and punch holes in your tongue with an awl ya baby i am just getting started so you will read and read on cause this is about you and all for you my knives are for you my guns are for you my bombs missiles grenades landmines every tool of destruction known to man is at my disposal it was all donated to me with a hand shake and a smile once they knew what i needed them for your time has come it is your end bayba hallelujah praise all the gods of war and destruction your dead mutha fuckah i will kill yer ass an dats garunteeed i have all the heavy weight muthas on my side we are talkin god and jesus and allah and zeus and apollo and adolf hitler and lizzy borden and charles manson and abe lincoln and bozo and ready kilowatt and sugar bear and the whole crew from the honey comb hide out and gi joe not those little ones either were talking bout scarface gi joe and evel knievel and ghengis cahn and captain kirk and godzilla and general destructo and spider man and the entire planet of the apes and charles bronson and mike tyson and secret sauce agent and william shakespeare and jabber jaw and madonna and fucking everyone man you are dead meat we will kill your ass you are fucked forever you cant deny your destiny i will see to that you big fat slob of a cock eater you i hate you to no ends to infinity even past infinity so fuck you i will light you on fire and dowse you with fucking gasoline and other such highly flammable liquids shit head i ache to fry you and boil you in tar i have all kinds of nifty things in store for you mutha let the lord be praised for giving me such powers of complete and total carnage and i even have his permission to do with you anything i want he has washed his hands of you and left you to me for whatever and i will too you walking talking bag of used cat litter you fucking whore you will take anything up your pussy your cunt is a fucking vacuum cleaner that only sucks up things that are dirty and rusted and covered with mold and puke you suck on popsicles made from frozen diarrhea you never eat anything else but fecal matter except maybe maggots and some other shit like that shit you know what the fuck i mean your the one that does it not i you fuckin cocksucker do you understand now why i hate you of course not you are too fucking retarded you are a nitwit a dufus and a simple and complete moron i will grind you against the roughest and harshest substances known to exist and i will put them on my black and decker belt sander and run it back and forth across your body but lets start with your ugly face so i wont have to look at it while i finish the job and this job pays well too even though i would gladly do it for free the thought of actually receiving truck loads of moola for doing something that i enjoy as much and even more than anything else makes me do it with that much bigger a smile on my face and even more warmth in my heart and laughter laughter laughter it is hilarious to watch you in such pain and to know that i am the sole perpetrator of your torture and punishment you were mistakenly brought into this world now you must you will and you are right now even as i speak and shove this skewer up your filthy ass suffering the consequences of your actions that were of course made by no thought of your own but i dont care do you hear me i dont fucking fucking care you are dead and thats all that matters and thats all that you even need think about cause thats all that your tiny mind can handle just you leave the how and why and what to me i will do a good job blowing you away you have the best turning you into the dirt that you are cause i hate you and i want you dead to all the universe and everything in it no one will ever find your remains they will be spread all over the galaxy it will take a five year mission an ten thousand dr whos to find you but they wont find you and do you want to know why ha ha ha ha ho ho he he ha because thats why because they fucking dont care either and they never ever will ever thats why you dick head they hate you i told you you idiot everyone hates you everyone is on my side you havent got a prayer not even a chance in millions you have no hope of escaping they are all waiting everything that is nasty and painful awaits you patiently cause every possible combination of torture and torment will be inflicted upon you we have the biggest super computers in the world working day and night coming up with new and interesting ways of fucking with you physically and mentally as well with others we might have overlooked you just name it sooner or later it will happen to you it is all heading in your direction it has one and only one target in mind and that is of course you who the fuck else you dummy what did you think that there was someone else do you think i would go through all this trouble for someone else ha ha bullshit you are so fucked and hated that there is only one of you to destroy it would be nice if we had exact copies of you to kill along with yourself but unfortunately we dont but we do have the immediate members of your family on ice so that when we are finished with you we can have a big party and start up on them yes sir it will be a blast what me and my cronies will do to them will turn your stomach but then again maybe it wont cause we will just do to them what we did to you we might change the order a bit for variety but so what who cares where you are concerned no one does thats who you are a bad fuck kill yourself and save us the trouble you will try that and it wont work cause you were meant to be destroyed by me and me alone and if i want others to join in on the fun who hate you too thats my god damn business so fuck off you big fuckin weenie i will roast you and feed you too baseball fans but they will take just one bite and go running to the john to throw up and shit all kinds of diaherrea out of their asses and you will be there to catch it too with your mouth wide open begging and pleading for more caca to be heaved in your direction and will it ever be heaved in your direction we are talking about dump trucks and forklifts and bulldozers and every other kind of heavy machinery available to man yes their wheels will roll over you relentlessly crushing and mangling your body so your own mother wont recognize it but all she will have to do is look at that filthy butthole of yours and she will recognize you immediately cause she has spent so much time with her tongue up there how many times a day does she scratch and claw at your pants to get you to give her an opportunity to reach way up your butthole and grab hold of mounds of hot shit that she can spread all over her naked body and then lay outside in the hot sun and bask in the stink and masturbate with dead rattlesnakes i will tell you how many times none thats how many because all she has to do is ask and you gladly have her do it and teach your sisters to do it and your dad cause you and your whole family are fucking sick they need to be put away they need to be taken to a field and bombed by lowflying aircraft from every nation in the world we will test nerve gas on your family we will shoot you up with gallons of toxic drugs and watch and laugh as you peel off your skin and eat it yes why dont you just consume yourself that will be easy enough we will cook one of your arms over an open fire and let you eat it then we will do the same to your other arm and your legs and when thats all done and you are nothing but an even more useless torso we will just shoot you and use you as shark bate mother fucker full of shit that you are i will kick your ass i will fuckin kill you man you god damn homo fucking ass sucking living rot i hate you i will tar and feather and burn you pump a thousand pounds of compressed air into you until you fucking explode dont you realize dont you fucking get it i know your dumb and stupid and you are a moron and that is why i am drilling it into your head this is my job we have already covered that the only thing you need do is just listen to me listen to me because i am right listen to me because you have no mind of your own listen to me because you are searching for destruction but you dont have to search i am more than willing to bring it to your front door you asshole i am your armageddon man i am dominos pizza guaranteed fresh hot free delivery to you the one i hate what more can you ask for than to have the same service delivered to your crazy fucked up and smelly loved ones but you dont need to ask this is just what i am talking about you are so dumb this is a fucking package deal not only do we wipe you out but we wipe everyone out that has anything to do with you we have a list and we are checking it twice we will decide who will get slaughtered and fried mutha fuckah jam jam jam on it you will die thats all there is to it theres no tell in which one of us will do it so get this shit head yer fukin history baby go get the fuck out of here you are a scum and suck fuck off eat shit go jump on the slow boat to china and when you do get to china we will be right there to blow your fucking head to smithereens got it you bastard you piece of turd you amount to nothing not one iota ziltcho zero nada the big circle we will sell your children to satanists to use in their rituals we will make tapes of it so that the torture of your children can be seen and enjoyed by millions on the geraldo show your annihilation will be the hippest and most popular saturday morning entertainment for all the kids who you went to school with especially the neilsons who teased you and hit you and beat on you and called you names and who hated you and made you eat their shit and suck their dicks they will all watch you fry and take part in call in surveys of what to do to you next it will be fun it will be a fun family entertainment extravaganza for us all and not only on a sunday morning either but on every day of the week like morton downey jr like the six o clock news like reruns and wheel of fortune pat sajak will crucify you on the wheel himself and spin it and vanna white will menstruate all over your spinning body you will get so sick from spinning that you will puke in one long gigantic barf that will leave you completely hollow and your organs and guts will be all over the set and we will stomp on them and mash them with our feet and then feed it to snails also of course long sharp burning white hot shards of tempered glass will be dropped on you from the top of a skyscraper while you are chained to the street so cars carrying gleefully stoked to the max passengers can play havoc with your ugly deformed zitty pestilent stinky rancid moldy body you trashy bottle fucking masturbating necrophilic your torture will give all of us who hate your miserable ass such a rip roaring good time budwieser will be drunk dry and then after we are drunk we will drive dozens of large older and incredibly heavy and cheap automobiles recklessly into your home your mother and father will cover the bottom of our vehicles your kids will eat the glass of our headlights and your girlfriend your girl friend will be train fucked and i mean we will tie her down and literally drive a roaring mile long amtrak up her gaping hole what you have the nerve to call her pussy we will be on a cunt hunt when we find the cunt we will shoot her and cut her fucking head off and stuff it in a trash bin behind a seven eleven where it will rot and decay into a mound of dust and all the poor decayed maggots who died thinking they had found a meal but they found poison instead you bastard how dare you bring that on poor innocent maggots fuck you you will pay you bastard you will pay with your services as a being to be hated and destroyed fucking fuck you fuck fuck you and fuck you to death fucking die die die die die i hate hate hate you i hate all of you come to me i will crush you into and right through the pavement i will beat you with my fists until nothing is left not even the tiniest morsel of your being will escape me i will pound you into the dirt until the earth splits in half i will torment you till the sun is reduced to a single ice cube wandering around the universe aimlessly in search of a freezer i will take you out to space and toss you into a fucking black hole let carl sagan deal with your pitiful shit i wont have it any more do you fucking understand me you slovenly wretch of a human being but you arent a human you are a cheap imitation a poorly informed imposter your are dead meat and youre mine mine to destroy mine to obliterate mine to throw into the depths of the deepest hottest inferno yah mutha you are mine and i am lovin it you dont know just how bitchin it is to have your very own torture toy it is great and thats all you need to know cause i will tell you what ever the fuck i want to if i want to tell you to bite your tongue in half or i will mash your balls in a vise hey thats my business not yours so fuck off and do what i tell you and without delay either cause if you postpone any of my enjoyment by god forbid procrastinating i will beat the shit out of you and cut your little sisters titties off got that clown idiot jerko you better because i am not laughing mother fucker i hate you and i always will hate you forever and ever and we are not talking just until the cows come home or until hell freezes over or when the fat lady sings we are talking forever man you suck and stink and smell and i will kill you you are a worthless piece of trash the worst thing ever to happen to gods universe and you are dead meat all of us feel the same way and we wont rest because fucking with you is how we get our jollies and our jollies are very important to us you bastard go die i hate you now you fuck go back to the beginning of this story the best story that has ever been written or ever will be fuck the bible as it has nothing on this fine piece of work and start all over again or i will kill the shit out of you i didnt think you would obey me thats why i love to fuck with you because you are a never ending inspiration you piss me off so much all the time i always have energy to kill and maim you i have endless credit with the swiss banks and all the worlds defense departments to get as many weapons as i need want or could ever ask for to obliterate your poor pathetic weenie into dust space dust because thats where i would have to put it deep into space so deep.
Actually makes me think. Superstring theory - the idea that everything is made out of minuscule strings - may in first thought seem to be better knowledge to impart than Atomic hypothesis... but since everything will be wiped out except that single sentence, maybe the Atomic hypothesis is better than the former in getting our descendant to utilize our sentence? (a.k.a. it seems simpler)
If all scientific knowledge were somehow lost, it might not be good to provide people with a shortcut into current knowledge. While, it's certainly interesting to try to pack as much important stuff into once sentence as we can, I think anything we told humanity would do more harm than good.
“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
This. Seriously. This sentence could possibly advance civilization by 1000 to 1500 years.
"Build a giant monument to the great Sablar and you will know that you have made it sufficiently huge when there is no more war or hunger as your reward, but build it too slow and you will suffer".
Poor postapocalyptic society. They would just keep going..
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
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
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.
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.
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:
“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
historical? I thought he was talking about mathematics (integration) heh
On January 12 2010 18:40 IdrA wrote: the problem with religion is that they say "and these crackers are jesus' body" and you say "orly?" and they say "fuck you eat the crackers"; science says "we evolved from monkeys" and you say "orly?" and then science can show you the path of evidence and logical reasoning that lead to that conclusion.
On April 25 2011 00:16 loazis wrote: We are what we believe.
This
Or just "Live before dying", all life form got to understand how short and fragile life is
By the way
“The same mathematics of networks that governs the interactions of molecules in a cell, neurons in a brain, and species in an ecosystem can be used to understand the complex interconnections between people, the emergence of group identity, and the paths along which information, norms, and behavior spread from person to person to person.” —James Fowler is a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego
This is so wrong in my point of view. We've gone past that ages ago.
On January 12 2010 18:40 IdrA wrote: the problem with religion is that they say "and these crackers are jesus' body" and you say "orly?" and they say "fuck you eat the crackers"; science says "we evolved from monkeys" and you say "orly?" and then science can show you the path of evidence and logical reasoning that lead to that conclusion.
The epistemological problem of the natural sciences is yet to be solved. The whole inductive process is logically unexplained, unlike the deeply reasoned epistemologies of religions.
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
ezpz there is only one thing they should know to learn everything else
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." - Adam Smith
On January 12 2010 18:40 IdrA wrote: the problem with religion is that they say "and these crackers are jesus' body" and you say "orly?" and they say "fuck you eat the crackers"; science says "we evolved from monkeys" and you say "orly?" and then science can show you the path of evidence and logical reasoning that lead to that conclusion.
The epistemological problem of the natural sciences is yet to be solved. The whole inductive process is logically unexplained, unlike the deeply reasoned epistemologies of religions.
Not to get too off topic here but you clearly don't understand that epistemology means the study of knowledge. Thus making a sentence such as "unlike the deeply reasoned study of knowledge of religions." make no real sense. Needs a bit of re-phrasing so we can actually figure out what your trying to say.
Ontopic: Presuming they can understand the sentence and that everyone knows it by default, mine would be "Grouping together and sharing a pool of knowledge and resources in a fair manner will make the group exponentially stronger as both the group and knowledge/resource pool gets larder."
I would probably go with Einstein's "There are two things infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the first one.": I think that was him, no?
Meh, I read the op and actually found it interesting topic but of couse it turns out that 95% of everyone who left a reply so far tired and failed horribly to be funny. TL is rather disappointing now days...
On April 25 2011 02:32 NotSupporting wrote: Meh, I read the op and actually found it interesting topic but of couse it turns out that 95% of everyone who left a reply so far tired and failed horribly to be funny. TL is rather disappointing now days...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Hm, there are two different possibilities: only one big "society" remains, or several different ones among the world. In the first case, let's say they have basic survival knowledge, so to help there in mathematics: "Start with 1+1 = 2. Read the following only when you've reached the limits of this absolute truth : + Show Spoiler +
That's actually false
"
In the second case, they will first of all need to survive against the other societies, so: "Rush > Fast expansion > Safe Expansion > Rush"
Oh I'm happy someone posted the poem "if", it was the first thing that came in my mind ^^ (My hypothetical future son will have it hung on his room's wall for sure :D )
if its absolute ignorance they had then its..... "desease comes from dirt and uncleaness, so use alchol to treat wounds" cause it originally took civilisation 2000 years to find that out.
On April 25 2011 03:14 funk100 wrote: if its absolute ignorance they had then its..... "desease comes from dirt and uncleaness, so use alchol to treat wounds" cause it originally took civilisation 2000 years to find that out.
We don't use alcohol to treat wounds... The sentence should be "wash your hands before anything else".
Never be satisfied with an explanation that can't be proven with publicly observable and repeatable data, be skeptical always but never closed minded, always be willing to examine new answers to old questions, and try to be less of a bunch insufferable murderous assholes than we were.
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.
Fix F=ma by dP/dt and we good
Also I think i would be suffice to say gravity is linearly proportional to mass and inverse squarely to distance and let them figure it out
Seriously though, if it was a science sentence I would go with what Feynman proposed, but if it was a general feel-good philosophical thing, I would say something like "Treat others like you would like to be treated yourself."
If all knowledge was lost, which if you think about it languages are knowledge, and you were to pass it on to another human, for that person to not have any actual knowledge of our society they would have to be an infant. Therefore this is honestly the dumbest question I've ever read. In my humble opinion, I honestly think this is just some bullshit created by some guy who wanted to make his field of expertise seem more important than everything else on the planet.
Well how about this for an answer, don't tell them anything. Look how shitty the human race is. Would you really want to recreate it?
On April 25 2011 04:45 Desirous wrote: If all knowledge was lost, which if you think about it languages are knowledge, and you were to pass it on to another human, for that person to not have any actual knowledge of our society they would have to be an infant. Therefore this is honestly the dumbest question I've ever read. In my humble opinion, I honestly think this is just some bullshit created by some guy who wanted to make his field of expertise seem more important than everything else on the planet.
Well how about this for an answer, don't tell them anything. Look how shitty the human race is. Would you really want to recreate it?
Dude....it's richard feynman you are talking about, and when you think about it,physics IS one of the,if not, most important field in science. After all,the laws of physics govern the universe in the grand scheme, not biology or anything.
On April 25 2011 04:45 Desirous wrote: Well how about this for an answer, don't tell them anything. Look how shitty the human race is. Would you really want to recreate it?
Not saying anything will probably result in the human race being the same all over again. Instead you should write something that helps them become something that you think is "better".
Personally I don't think you can say that the human race is "shit" but you can't say it isn't either, we don't know any other alien civilizations so we lack a frame of reference. Sure there's poverty, crime and war but it could be ALOT worse.
On April 25 2011 04:45 Desirous wrote: If all knowledge was lost, which if you think about it languages are knowledge, and you were to pass it on to another human, for that person to not have any actual knowledge of our society they would have to be an infant. Therefore this is honestly the dumbest question I've ever read. In my humble opinion, I honestly think this is just some bullshit created by some guy who wanted to make his field of expertise seem more important than everything else on the planet.
Well how about this for an answer, don't tell them anything. Look how shitty the human race is. Would you really want to recreate it?
Dude....it's richard feynman you are talking about, and when you think about it,physics IS one of the,if not, most important field in science. After all,the laws of physics govern the universe in the grand scheme, not biology or anything.
For any lifeform, understanding of biology and thus means to ensure their own survival is the most important. To be able to calculate how old the light from one of the stars on the sky is going to save a lot less lives compared to being able to cure diseases.
If it's on-topic then it would be the Germ Theory. That single theory is responsible for about 75% of the lives saved in the modern era. After we learned about germ theory, then infectious disease deaths plummeted even before the invention of antibiotics.
On April 25 2011 04:45 Desirous wrote: If all knowledge was lost, which if you think about it languages are knowledge, and you were to pass it on to another human, for that person to not have any actual knowledge of our society they would have to be an infant. Therefore this is honestly the dumbest question I've ever read. In my humble opinion, I honestly think this is just some bullshit created by some guy who wanted to make his field of expertise seem more important than everything else on the planet.
Well how about this for an answer, don't tell them anything. Look how shitty the human race is. Would you really want to recreate it?
Dude....it's richard feynman you are talking about, and when you think about it,physics IS one of the,if not, most important field in science. After all,the laws of physics govern the universe in the grand scheme, not biology or anything.
For any lifeform, understanding of biology and thus means to ensure their own survival is the most important. To be able to calculate how old the light from one of the stars on the sky is going to save a lot less lives compared to being able to cure diseases.
What he means is if you understand physics, you can understand chemistry which means you can understand biology, but if you only understand biology you cannot understand physics.
And understanding biology is not required for a species to survive, just as you don't have to understand gravity to stay put on the earth.
"Lose yourself in the music, the moment, You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime,"
Assuming the desire to experiment, I would not leave motivational tidbits. What we need is to instill the industrial age. Once it begins, humanity will tech up quickly.
So,
Do not be a jack of all trades - specialize as soon as it is feasible.
I wouldn't leave any specific piece of technical information. I would just try to avoid anything like the dark ages, or the Inquisition, or book burnings in China - occasions where large amounts of knowledge, or opportunities to gain knowledge, were lost.
Assuming they could understand me, and they would heed my words, I would say something along the lines of, "Never look down upon the person who seeks to know more and question, for that one is the only hope for the future."
"Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will go on believing it is an idiot its entire life" - Albert Einstein
On April 25 2011 06:42 arQ wrote: In the words of C. Hitchens:
Don't keep the faith.
Damn it, you beat me to it.
I like this too though: Richard Dawkins: "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
On April 25 2011 06:31 aztrorisk wrote: "The Universe favors disorder"
-Hehehe, thats the one thing I remember from AP Chemistry.
Actually the universe favours order. That's atleast what I learned. Otherwise everything would be total chaos, and we wouldn't revolve around the sun in a peaceful manner, having a calm and rythmic solar system etc right?
And back on topic. I'd say:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful"
On April 25 2011 06:42 arQ wrote: In the words of C. Hitchens:
Don't keep the faith.
Damn it, you beat me to it.
I like this too though: Richard Dawkins: "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
That Dawkins quote is one of my favorites of all time, so great.
On April 25 2011 06:31 aztrorisk wrote: "The Universe favors disorder"
-Hehehe, thats the one thing I remember from AP Chemistry.
Actually the universe favours order. That's atleast what I learned. Otherwise everything would be total chaos, and we wouldn't revolve around the sun in a peaceful manner, having a calm and rythmic solar system etc right?
And back on topic. I'd say:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful"
Time to plant down some atheism in the future
I'd say that the fact that life exists as a whole, is just the universe favourting disorder.
It would be much easier and much more logical if everything had just stayed as gas and raw material.
The world is a mistake. You are a mistake. Your beliefs are a mistakes and so is your faith. Everything you do is a mistake, it was never suppose to happen at all the universe blatantly fucked up and you and everything you can and can't see if the result. No mater what you think, who you are, what you look like, what you talk like, what color your skin is, its a mistake, because you shouldn't even be here. You will make mistakes, and you will make a fuck ton load of them in your life time. Evaluate these mistakes and you will become a better person as long as you don't strive for perfection, because if the world was perfect you and everything else wouldn't exist.
I see a lot of people would give a sentence about not believing in religion but in science... I'm not sure it would make any sense for them ? To start with, if it is a new born society, giving them a good hint about science should by itself prevent the very concept of religion to appear. However, as this is the main point of this thread, let's suppose they base their way of thinking/living/developing on this sentence which "was given by a "superior and unknown being" to guide them". How would it be any different from our actual religions ? Thus, nothing could be more confusing for their post-modern philosophers than a "Golden Rule" saying exactly not to believe in it. That being said, a pure scientific explanation could cause another problem : as explained above, an "out-of-nowhere golden rule" could be very much assimilated to, for example, our ten commandments (no, not the ones from TL !!). Therefore, an "atheist" (let's call it ascientist) movement is bound to appear someday, because people will forcefully doubt of that saying. And then what will happen ? The scientists, to defend The Sentence, would only be able to say "but it's true because it has always ruled us and can explain everything !", while the ascientists could wisely answer "No, it rules us because we decided to, and is "explanative" only for those who believe in, so it can't be proved and prevent us to find real explanation for everything". From then on, Science will collapse and loose its influence, a lot of different Pseudosciences will appear and gather all the lost minds in need of Understanding with their Pseudoexplanations, while Ascience will start with hipsters, become the new fad, and eventually be taught in high school. And at this point, they're soon to be fucked and will try to find a cool Sentence for the future society, which would logically be significantly worse than the one we gave them. To conclude, I'd like to start a poll, because I never did this and it looks fun. + Show Spoiler +
Poll: What to think of this ?
You should never create a poll again (3)
60%
We should still give them a moral but non-religious teaching (1)
20%
We should use inverted psychology and tell them to have Faith (1)
20%
We shouldn't say shit (0)
0%
The 10 Commandments were given by an ancient society which destroyed itself (0)
0%
Don't know don't care (or TLDR) (0)
0%
5 total votes
Your vote: What to think of this ?
(Vote): We should still give them a moral but non-religious teaching (Vote): We should use inverted psychology and tell them to have Faith (Vote): We shouldn't say shit (Vote): The 10 Commandments were given by an ancient society which destroyed itself (Vote): You should never create a poll again (Vote): Don't know don't care (or TLDR)
On April 25 2011 05:50 Barca wrote: "Lose yourself in the music, the moment, You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime,"
On April 25 2011 04:45 Desirous wrote: If all knowledge was lost, which if you think about it languages are knowledge, and you were to pass it on to another human, for that person to not have any actual knowledge of our society they would have to be an infant. Therefore this is honestly the dumbest question I've ever read. In my humble opinion, I honestly think this is just some bullshit created by some guy who wanted to make his field of expertise seem more important than everything else on the planet.
Well how about this for an answer, don't tell them anything. Look how shitty the human race is. Would you really want to recreate it?
God forbid an old guy, popular/renowned in fields of science besides his own (Physics), makes an anecdotal introduction to a chapter in a book.
On April 25 2011 00:34 Impervious wrote: “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
This quote is really good! It pretty much sums it up.
If I remember right, Feynmann's response was something like "Everything around you, including yourself, is made up of tiny little bits called atoms, that come in many different forms"
Obviously altered slightly so it was grammatically one sentence:
"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
I feel like it would be extremely appropriate.
Alternatively, but mimicking the same sentiment: "We weren't as great as we thought we were, and neither are you, so don't fuck up like we did, or you'll get laughed at by the next generation."
On April 25 2011 10:09 RisingTide wrote: Obviously altered slightly so it was grammatically one sentence:
"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
I feel like it would be extremely appropriate.
Alternatively, but mimicking the same sentiment: "We weren't as great as we thought we were, and neither are you, so don't fuck up like we did, or you'll get laughed at by the next generation."
Or this one by Morris Bishop:
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings! Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Also the names of Emory P. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Dukes, and Oscar Baer of 17 West 4th Street, Oyster Bay
I can't take this thread seriously at all! It's full of SC2 jokes and Meme's.
I can't remember the source, but I read they found 5000 year old rocks with messages left for future generations. "Humanity must live in perfect harmony with nature" or something in the lines of that.
"PS: There are no gods in the sky" besides that wouldn't change any belief, because it hasn't today.
"If you ever get the chance to move country, do it see the world before you die, meet people from every culture, study abroad if you can, it will be a journey to find yourself for who you are and to find your true home"
Feynman's answer, about the atomic and molecular nature of matter, is probably the most important bit of scientific fact. If you look hard enough at atoms or molecules you will discover quantum mechanics, pick up chemistry along the way, and then be in an excellent position to learn things that (in our history of science) were discovered prior: optics and electrodynamics, statistical mechanics, and so on.
It turns out it took physicists an awfully long time to really treat atoms as very real things (this is why Einstein's paper on Brownian motion was so significant).
You could argue that a simple statement of the scientific method would be more important, though -- maybe something like this:
"The best way to learn about and gain control of the world around us is to make systematic, quantitative observations and look for patterns in them; an even better way to learn about any particular phenomenon is to arrange circumstances such that you can measure that phenomenon in isolation, without interference from anything else, so that its unique properties can be deduced."
Not one sentence but it's a line, and I will shave my head and grow a beard so I can say it when my child leaves for school. I will take a picture and then post it on future Reddit.
"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this" (hands child a sword).
EDIT: Perhaps I will never tell my child what that means, and leave him (EDIT: or her...) to figure it out for himself.
The OP states that only scientific knowledge is lost, but what is scientific knowledge? You could tell them something like: The earth isn't flat. An object's mass attracts things to it, the sun has the most mass, we are attracted to the earth's mass.
however if you're going for general life ones the classic fight club quote would be: You have to know, not fear, that some day you are going to die. Until you know that and embrace that, you are useless. -Tyler Durden
On April 25 2011 02:26 ValiantGood wrote: "Don't hold true anything that cannot be supported by observations or physical evidence."
You're going to have to elaborate just a bit:
"Don't hold true anything that cannot be supported by observations or physical evidence except for this sentence, which you should just take my word for."
I don't know what sort of information I would attempt to send to the first post-cataclysm generation. I think folks like Feynman probably have a better idea about that sort of thing than I do. I would go with the old:
"Ratio of a circles circumference to its radius, not its diameter" or the classic "For love of fucking god everyone use metric, kill any man who utters the words foot-pound"
“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
This. Seriously. This sentence could possibly advance civilization by 1000 to 1500 years.
agreed! (incidentally I just attended a talk by Steven Strogatz this past week on self-organization... he's a cool guy!)
On April 25 2011 06:31 aztrorisk wrote: "The Universe favors disorder"
-Hehehe, thats the one thing I remember from AP Chemistry.
Actually the universe favours order. That's atleast what I learned. Otherwise everything would be total chaos, and we wouldn't revolve around the sun in a peaceful manner, having a calm and rythmic solar system etc right?
And back on topic. I'd say:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful"
Time to plant down some atheism in the future
I'd say that the fact that life exists as a whole, is just the universe favourting disorder.
It would be much easier and much more logical if everything had just stayed as gas and raw material.
edit: ok I hope you're being sarcastic but the guy you quoted.... loooooool. atheist AND doesn't know science? seriously? @ you and the guy you qutoed: what???
On April 25 2011 12:19 SavageReborn wrote: "Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. "
All atrocities in history were committed by large organizations that thought they were doing the right thing, usually with religious or nationalist motivations.
"If you are reading this sentence then you are most likely trying to rebuild the world after it was destroyed by the Gracken who brought armageddon upon us all for our failure to believe in him and we must implore you not to make the same mistake we did."
"TL.net general forum users are likely liberal and athiest. Do not argue with them. Any cleverly formulated argument and logical conclusion will be ignored, and then you will be banned."
On April 25 2011 00:32 micronesia wrote: If all scientific knowledge were somehow lost, it might not be good to provide people with a shortcut into current knowledge. While, it's certainly interesting to try to pack as much important stuff into once sentence as we can, I think anything we told humanity would do more harm than good.
"jeez what a douche" is what they'd think of you :p
I really enjoyed the commentary for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because Hunter S. Thompson was deliberately evasive, annoying and generally uncooperative in his classic style. Finally, at the end of the movie, the interviewer was able to coax some words of wisdom out of him for the younger generations. He said only the following:
EPT
"
