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Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote](examples: Hawaii and Maine (I'm not sure - *is* Maine a Blue state?[/quote] Being from maine, I can assure you that we're.. kind of purple? We have a democrat governor, voted for Obama, but we have 2 republican senators and we love them because they're awesome (snowe and collins). I've personally voted for both republicans and democrats on the same ticket, and I hold pretty strong ideological views. I guess you could say both our democrats and

Reply to Seems Fitting for the Posts of Late... in Everything Else Sins Forums

maybe maybe but really I think we've kept things pretty civil for the subject matter, at least in the threads I've been following!

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

And to drive that last post home, you have to remember that if religion is correct but you aren't willing to follow the bible completely, than you can't be certain that anything you experience or think is real. Anything might be an illusion or a test of your beliefs. You'd have absolutely no way to determine appropriate action to take because the world for you would no longer be based on rational processes or on documented beliefs and value systems. You'd literally be a luna

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]The earth is 4 billion years old....pffft. Why not 3 billion or 5 billion? And this is another myth bandied as fact![/quote] We have found numerous geological records (rocks) dating back as far as 4.5 billion years. As with your argument about the age of the universe, an all powerful god could deceive us in any we he deemed necessary and as such this evidence is probably meaningless to you. Read the following link for an analysis and breakdown of sci

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote] In 1953 the Miller Urey experiment was conducted..you know the one in which they tried to similate the Earth's primitive atmosphere and producing the chemical building blocks of life by sending an electric spark through a mixture of gases! While the experiment failed, it is still featured in school science textbooks, in videos, etc. as an icon of evolution. [/quote] I should certainly hope it isn't upheld as an icon of evolution as the origins of lif

Reply to What the hell? in Strategy Sins Forums

The only way I could see it work is that scouts are cheap, have low and don't require research. They also build fast. I suppose you could try to overwhelm someone with scouts if you did it quicky... take out constructors and then focus fire on individual ships. If the opponent gets a fleet you're in trouble though. Likewise if they start building defenses. You'd still need your cap to take out theirs of course. Here are some numbers f

Reply to Light Frigate vs Long Range Frigate Strategy in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]All HCs have Very Heavy armor, not Heavy. Light Frigs such as Cobalts do very bad damage vs Very Heavy Armor, while HCs do good damage against Light Frigs. In short, if you got schooled by a guy using Cobalts, he must have outnumbered you and outplayed you, because the light frigs vs HCs is very much in the HCs favor.[/quote] He did outnumber me. I was fighting him near a world where he was pumping out cobalts. The guy was quite convinced that destr

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Mule? They are infertile? You can't use an infertile organism as argument. They can't breed and its a dead end.[/quote] Sorry for the misunderstanding, the mule is an example of the offspring of two distinct species that can still interbreed, not an example of a species that has arisen through speciation. If you read the other link (I know, its long) you'll find brief overviews of case studies of species near speciation. I'm not sure what kind of e

Reply to Light Frigate vs Long Range Frigate Strategy in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]You're right and I should clarify. LF are good against cruisers but not Heavy Cruisers. LF are given a 50% boost in firepower against heavy armor only and that is Light Carriers, Repair/guard, and Support.[/quote] I have to add that Advent HCs apparently only have heavy armor. I got absolutely schooled by a guy using Cobalts to counter my HCs.

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]What that means? They know that Darwin's theory contradicts what data we are able to gather. They try to salvage that by shortening the time, but that means instead of evolve through long periods of time, now it has to happen in a hurry. Evolution has not been reproduced nor observed (changing from one specie to another). If evolution can't be observed in microorganism, how do you suppose it happened with creatures that has many cells? If this is a puzzle, there are too many missi

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Where is proof for evolution? I was not presented with any proof when I was in college; maybe you can help me out.[/quote] Ah now here's a topic I know a little about :) Evolution in a nutshell: Resources are scarce. Self replicating matter will replicate to use up all possible resources. When there are not enough resources in a given area to support the amount of matter (life) that wants to duplicate, some of the organi

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]If i knew about Frank Drake's formula when i was trying to prove that We are NOT alone for a thesis (statistical analysis in maximized or optimal computational environments -- sort of virtualization about AI potentials based on speculative conditions, btw) in '00, i think i deserve being perceived as being logic or respected for opinions, buddy.[/quote] Yeah sorry I didn't mean to be offensive. I took courses in logic as part of my comp sci degree, so I was

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]My proof may seem esotheric or speculative, but i highly doubt it can be entirely false.[/quote] Ok first off stop talking about "proof." You're not using deductive logic, even informally (or any other kind of logical {in the technical sense} reasoning either). Anyways, currently, the rest of the solar system is more or less worthless to us right now. If the moon had valuable materials that we could get at easier than we c

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]The odds that 2 or more unrelated 'life-forming' events in a single galaxy are an order of magnitude above that. And the odds of 2 or more intelligent life forms developing within the time frame and distance to interact with each other is even more unlikely, by many more orders of magnitude.[/quote] To step away from my singularity argument for a sec, the most accurate equation we currently have is the Drake equation. http://en.wikipedia.or

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

Ah I see your point Zyx, and its a hard one to argue against since we only have out planet to look at as a reference. My understanding of the principles of evolution suggest that in any environment resource rich enough to sustain life, said life will use as much of the resources as possible as fast as possible. Why? Because genes that survive get passed on. That is to say, if there are genes that make one better at getting resources for survival and procreation, one is

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Yep, but it is still a huge amount if Alien X has a life-span of 25,000 years -- is able to continually push the edge of THEIR own singularity factors -- have been "lucky enough" to receive more than 5 senses through whatever local evolutionary mutations -- can actually travel beyond FTL -- are coming from our past or will develop faster than us in our future -- mastered intra-dimensional accessibility... etc.[/quote] As for this, anything that can be known will

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

Zyx it sounds like you're talking about the singularity as a knowable state of knowledge that is basically considered the limit of what we believe we can know and could be able to do with enough resources, time, and research. This is not the singularity. Instead, it is the point at which the rate of knowledge accumulation approaches infinity. When a society reaches singularity, it gains all possible knowledge in an incredibly short period of time. Not "most knowledge,"

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

Zyx I don't understand what you're trying to say. I think you disagree with Kurzweil, but I can't understand your english/grammar. What point are you trying to make? The singularity hypothesis basically argues that any society with scarce resources and competition will continue to develop better and more efficient ways to exploit all possible resources.. thus, we see the trend towards human augmentation. Up until the point where there is simply no way to gain further i

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Sins Forums

ok first off, we aren't even able to detect earth-like planets and we won't be until sometime in the next decade (new telescope going up). Second, without an example of non carbon based life, we have no idea what chemical signals to look for to be certain of life. This problem has already arisen, as the chemicals predicted by certain theories have been found to be produced through non living mechanisms. Likewise, even if we did find something we thought was evidence of life,

Reply to Turning Point in a Game. in Strategy Sins Forums

What you describe is a problem inherent to every RTS. In short, humans are very very good at exploiting weaknesses in strategy, allowing us to defeat much larger and seemingly more powerful opponents. This is usually rewarding, particularly when it feels like we made smart decisions and "outsmarted" our opponent. The problem is 2 fold.. first, it is virtually impossible to create a game where abilities aren't exploitable.. and such a game would probably be boring. Seco

Reply to YAMT (Yet another marza thread) in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Of course it is OP. The opponent has to strategise, but the MB user DOES NOT need to do anything other then click a button. There is NO skill, strategy, tactics etc. involved with using MB. Thats why it is imbalanced.[/quote] I disagree. The marza alone or even with a supporting fleet isn't overpowered, because the counter to one marza is quite easy for any race. I think the real problem is that the damage from multiple marzas stacks, and countering m

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

My only input is for multiplayer. There should be a game mode where alliances are allowed but ultimately only one player can win. As it is now, playing with unlocked teams is just asking for a few people to form an alliance at the beginning and, once one alliance has the majority of players in it, to steamroll the rest for an easy and unfair win. Requiring that only one player can win encourages backstabbing and forces players to use alliances strategically. Trade agre

Combat and movement in Strategy Sins Forums

I have noticed that if you issue a move command to a mixed fleet that includes support only ships (no guns) and then direct the fleet to attack a target, the support ships will continue flying to the original destination.. leaving the fleet behind. Likewise if you issue queued attack commands, the non combat ships tend to fly through all queued targets instead of staying with the fleet. This obviously is not ideal. I most often find guardians and carriers wandering off...</p

Reply to Enforcers vs. other two in Strategy Sins Forums

Nah I love my advent but the destra is a very expensive and difficult ship to bring to a fight. Typically you won't have researched plasma upgrades at all until after you start pumping out destras, and at the point you can get destras, it is only another temple or two before you can start doing armor increase research. Do that instead and your illums are nearly as good armor wise as base level destras, plus you already likely have laser research high and that helps both your bombe

Reply to YAMT (Yet another marza thread) in Strategy Sins Forums

Yeah that's why I said don't nerf it. Also reducing damage falls along the "damage" axis of strategy and thus I wouldn't suggest it (it only creates other balance problems). Any solution has to fall outside of the damage axis. Other forms of direct counter would work, as would extending the range on existing counters (possibly making them less effective at distance?). I wouldn't want to make the counter too effective though... my real problem isn't that the marza is go