11th May 2009, 11:28 AM
Captain Rush shouted "Yo Joe!" during that trailer.
What's next? Thundercats?
The movie specifically said "black hole" both times. In any case, a singularity is just another word for black hole. It can't "mean anything".
That was a very bad example of evolution. Painfully stupid. It's not like we have the ENTIRE history of our genetic lineage in our DNAs, and anything trying to "activate" what we do have would create horrible piles of living goo that would die within minutes. In fact, how would the transition even go that smoothly even if we had a fully viable genetic history? Some of our genes ONLY activate during certain points of our lives, like during infancy, to facilitate our slow change into adults. There's also a few "fatal" genes that activate well into adulthood that just never had selective pressure to be bred out, namely because we reproduce at a younger age well before their fatal influence could have a selective pressure, and because in generations past we were lucky to live past 30.
What's next? Thundercats?
The movie specifically said "black hole" both times. In any case, a singularity is just another word for black hole. It can't "mean anything".
That was a very bad example of evolution. Painfully stupid. It's not like we have the ENTIRE history of our genetic lineage in our DNAs, and anything trying to "activate" what we do have would create horrible piles of living goo that would die within minutes. In fact, how would the transition even go that smoothly even if we had a fully viable genetic history? Some of our genes ONLY activate during certain points of our lives, like during infancy, to facilitate our slow change into adults. There's also a few "fatal" genes that activate well into adulthood that just never had selective pressure to be bred out, namely because we reproduce at a younger age well before their fatal influence could have a selective pressure, and because in generations past we were lucky to live past 30.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)