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Interesting Viewpoint On Science By Carolyn Porco
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post Jan 4 2006, 06:06 AM
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post Jan 5 2006, 09:49 AM
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In my novels The world of Dumria the guies live on a planet where they have four fingers, and for this reason they use a base eight counting. (It is a general hypothesis that nearby everybody on Earth use a base ten because we have ten fingers)
The hell comes when the dumrians try to connect their internet network with ours. Because our computers are based on octets (eight digits, for obscure reasons probably contingently linked to the first teletype systems) when theirs are based on nonets (nine bits, which in their octal system, make three digits). When transmitting up to Dumria, no problem, but when transmitting down, eight nonets have to be translated in a set of nine octets.

Also for obscure reason linked to molecular evolution, our genes are coded in hexets. (specialists suppose that this is the result of an evolution of a former system based on only four bits). I found on this page tyhe description of a code using DNA (or equivalent) to code texts in the unicode UTF6 format! (caution: although this page deals with standard science, it is not really in the style of a science paper)

But these numerical considerations lead us a bit far of the original topic of seing science like a new religion!!!
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post Jan 6 2006, 08:17 PM
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How about this combination of religion and cosmonautics?


New church in once-atheist Baikonur readies for Orthodox Christmas

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10729300/

By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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- hendric   Interesting Viewpoint On Science By Carolyn Porco   Jan 4 2006, 06:06 AM
- - ustrax   QUOTE (hendric @ Jan 4 2006, 06:06 AM)http://...   Jan 4 2006, 09:33 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   This article is certainly thought-provoking and en...   Jan 4 2006, 10:30 AM
- - dvandorn   Ah, but Richard, science *does* offer us a sense o...   Jan 4 2006, 06:21 PM
|- - ljk4-1   "I have a terrible need of - shall I say the ...   Jan 4 2006, 06:45 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 4 2006, 06:21 PM)Ah, bu...   Jan 4 2006, 07:02 PM
- - dvandorn   Ah, but mathematics do *not* exist independently o...   Jan 4 2006, 07:33 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   hmmmm... dvandorn, I think we should first settl...   Jan 4 2006, 08:10 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jan 4 2006, 02:10 PM...   Jan 4 2006, 08:41 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 4 2006, 08:41 PM)Let...   Jan 4 2006, 09:00 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jan 4 2006, 03:00 PM...   Jan 4 2006, 09:29 PM
- - dvandorn   Oh, and FYI, the statement that all cultures have ...   Jan 4 2006, 08:52 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 4 2006, 10:52 PM)Oh, an...   Jan 4 2006, 09:25 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (tty @ Jan 4 2006, 03:25 PM)What exampl...   Jan 4 2006, 09:32 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 4 2006, 11:32 PM)Old Ge...   Jan 4 2006, 10:00 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   I grew up using old UK currency - 4 Farthings = ...   Jan 4 2006, 10:53 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   In my novels The world of Dumria the guies live on...   Jan 5 2006, 09:49 AM
- - ljk4-1   How about this combination of religion and cosmona...   Jan 6 2006, 08:17 PM

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