24 Jul 2011, 9:37 am
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And I can out-Trek trivia anyone, any day.
Tribbles.
anything about tribbbles.
Seriously we should run a thread comapring and contrasting the effectiveness of ST with Social/cogintive Science as a valid model of approaching understanding culture and human behavior.
Meme.
24 Jul 2011, 11:22 am
memesplice wrote:
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Star Trek - especially Voyager shouldn't be taken seriously from a scientific standpoint.
1. Star Trek has more durability than social/cognitive science theories . They usually go in about ten year fad cycles.
2. Star Trek has arguably generated more socially useful technologies than most social/Conigitive science theories and research.-Sliding doors, mobile phines and ionic propulsion systems, not to mention that neat hypodermic used by Dr.Mcoy. Warp Drive may be possible but it has to be imagined first.
2.At a conceptual level Star Trek has generated more consumable socially useful ideology than the universities and other research groups.
3. Star Trek is not publicaly funded , it is a body of ideology expressed in easy to comprehend terms that returns a profit.Some research agencies cost over $150 million PA and most citizens don't even know what they do, or, that what they do is mostly speculative .
4. Star Trek is more interestig than most social and cognitive science literature and film. I would prefer to doa Ph.D in Star Trek than social science and would probably learn more about human nature in direct applicable terms than in another field.
Meme
If we were to look at it at that point of view. Then icarus would have invented the hang glider.
Tom.
24 Jul 2011, 11:26 am
memesplice wrote:
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And I can out-Trek trivia anyone, any day.
Tribbles.
anything about tribbbles.Seriously we should run a thread comapring and contrasting the effectiveness of ST with Social/cogintive Science as a valid model of approaching understanding culture and human behavior.
Meme.
Sorry but the entire planet doesn't share star-treck's quasi Christian ethos.
24 Jul 2011, 11:29 am
He would probably have made a better job of it than social/ cognitive scientists- "now if we all grip the desk with our legs and flap our arms at the same time..."
24 Jul 2011, 11:35 am
24 Jul 2011, 11:40 am
memesplice wrote:
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Sorry but the entire planet doesn't share star-treck's quasi Christian ethos.
You have a point there , I never thought of it being quasi Christian until you mentioned it.
I was really into the Vulcan logic religion so maybe I missed this . I guess Vulcans might argue at our current point in evolution it would have been necessary to invent Richard Dawkins had he not already existed?
Lol
Or we could banish the religious to religulus
Bad joke I know
24 Jul 2011, 11:50 am
I will start a thread Star trek, religion and the necessary invention of Richard dawkins?
25 Jul 2011, 4:28 pm
I liked that episode of Voyager quite a bit. It would have been very interesting if a species of sauropods ever achieved sentience and space faring capability. But there is no physical evidence for this ever having happened. Very cool idea for an episode of Star Trek though
AspieWolf wrote:
There is a theory that we are a genetically engineered race. Supposedly a combination of Martian, local hominids and the alien reptilian race that created us. It's not as far fetched as it sounds. In fact it even makes a lot of sense. Do a web search on this and David Icke.
Yes, it is
