Comments by "" (@HigherPlanes) on "TED" channel.

  1. yawn
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  2. mmm brains
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  3. Christian Bell pretty good privacy, an encryption protocal, pretty much what they talked about in the video you just watched.
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  4. Everyone should learn to use PGP, especially these days. Not hard if you can read and follow instructions.
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  5. @1989Gez1989 I didn't get as confused. The 8 legs kept throwing me off.
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  6. The most extraordinary star in our galaxy is far from the most extraordinary star in the universe.
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  7. Take all this with a grain of salt. If there is alien life out there, and they are supremely intelligent, no one can say for certain that they would create a dyson sphere; that is a hypothetical born out of a human mind. BTW- they call it a dyson sphere because it's bullshit any way you look at it.
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  8. Michale Cremo can show you hundreds of examples of evidence that shows modern humans were around as far back as 600 million years ago, but because science is as dogmatic as religion and because the evidence threatens evolutionary theory, the information is filtered out so you'll never know about it, unless you're reading this.
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  9. Why do you guys keep talking about moot? What is moot? I'm confused.
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  10. Can you speak two ranguages?
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  11. People don't realize how hard this is if you don't own a yoyo
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  12. ror
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  13. +Jeff Nylund Sad and true, but as long as the internet is around we have a fighting chance.
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  14. +63M1N1 LMAO
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  15. If theories of the universe were the size of a grain of salt, I could fill countless salt shakers. Nobody has a finger on it, not the church, not science, not the government, nobody. I'll tell you what though, if you view the universe thru your own personal filter and extrapolate your own theory, it makes you that much more authentic. I hadn't heard of Douglas Adams though. I like his theory. I firmly believe that the universe is stranger than you CAN suppose.
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  16. Stephen Hawking is overrated. He fails to realize that the human neocortex, the process of billions of years of complexity is, in fact, one of the most densely packed areas in the known universe. If we're such insignificant chemical scum, why should any of these theories matter? Insignificant scum can't come up with significant theories. It's an intelligence test folks! And why should anyone listen to David Deutsch or Hawking anyway?
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  17. Yes, what I meant is that the neocortex is the most complex place in the known universe. therefore how can Hawkings refer to that as chemical scum. That's a joke. But I'm not arguing against curiosity and creativity. But I think it's important to not be lead astray by big claims and such. I'm all for personal experience.
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  18. I read Dr. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog. I'd love his take on singularities. It used to be that science had one singularity. It was called the big bang, and essentially what science is saying is give us one free miracle and we can run it from there. But the theory of special relativity introduced the concepts of black holes. And what do black holes have in the center of them? Well, a singularity. That's an admission of total intellectual defeat lol.
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  19. Now everyone's going to have to buy three iPods. I bet jobs and this clown are working together.
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  20. @Pianofy Yea I completely agree- as a matter of fact, sit your ass down unless you're applauding the solution to world hunger and animal cruelty.
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  21. @DomB413 No, that's your job buddy.
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  22. This is pretty cool
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  23. No, that would be virtual reality.
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  24. @ierig The irony is that you're making big claims on youtube, people are going to take you as seriously as you take James Hansen.
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  25. @sherart I totally believe that we can manipulate matter with our mind. Actually, we do it all the time. Think about the simple action of moving your hand. But with this stuff, you're not moving objects with thought alone. Electrical impulses from your brain are being transferred into little electrical detectors on the headset. It's a bit misleading. In the example where the guy made the cube disappear, the program makes the cube disappear, the electrical signal from the guys brain triggers it.
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  26. It's even worse than that- How's it gonna be, fucked in the ass, or fucked in the face?
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  27. first
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  28. This lady is one of the most ill-prepared speakers to ever grace stage of TEDtalks. She actually believes that the audience chooses the programming. What a hoot. If the Nielsen ratings reflect our social conscience, it's because someone higher up on the food chain made it that way. I mean, for heavens sake, she thinks "power" is one of the primal instincts. Power? TV is just a drug, that's why we watch it. The programmers know this. You zone out, breath deepens, pupils dilate. Drug.
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  29. Marshal McLuhan did extensive research on the effects of TV on human biology. Look him up.
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  30. I gotta admit, the visual mic thing is super outstanding! If it were me, I would not let the government put its dirty hands on it.
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  31. Why would you scare Leo by telling him that cookie monster wants to take his cookies? That's fucked up. That's all we need, some whacked out robot going around killing people who try to take his cookies.
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  32. ultimately, everything is energy, so whatevs
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  33. This might come as a surprise, but evolution is only possible because the universe is not perfect- It has a built in variance. And through the unfolding of life, evolution cashes in on this variance by selection a particular example of a species that is better suited to survive in the immediate environment.
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  34. common sense
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  35. The future of early childhood education is this + home schooling. The hell with public schools.
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  36. I love honey
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  37. I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati. But if bees die, where am I gonna get my honey?
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  38. 52 dislikes? Really? I didn't know terrorists watched TEDtalks
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  39. Money doesn't lead to happiness. The best that we can all hope for is that these rich parasitic and psychopathic 1% don't make life extremely uncomfortable for the rest of us. Basically, take your billions, pick one corner of the Earth, and leave the rest of humanity alone.
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  40. There's one fundamental law that nature obeys that man breaks every day. That law is this... Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. And when something does, it becomes subject to this law and it dies off. An ocean, a rain forest, a human body are all co-operatives. A redwood tree doesn't take all the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. There's a term for something in the body when it takes more than it's share. We call it cancer.
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  41. yes, the tail is a counter balance device.
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  42. Exactly my point. It was a very subtle sarcastic comment. This whole video is freaking obvious.
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  43. He has a handsome mustache
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  44. I don't know if I'm being the bearer of bad news, but I don't think there is a sustainable way to feed 7 billion people. I think the question is are we going to crash or have a soft landing.
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  45. It's rare that two complete strangers on youtube agree on any topic. Now I feel like humanity is evolving in the right direction.
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  46. Okay. Explain to me why you think I'm bullshitting you.
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  47. Indeed
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  48. I don't think anyone no Earth should go hungry either. And I'm familiar with hydroponics, I've been a hobbyist over ten years. The only point I'm really trying to get across is that the way we're going now is killing the planet which means we're killing ourselves.
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  49. I'm basing it on different sources of information. One book that comes to mind is End Game by Derrick Jensen. This is the thing... because of agriculture and the importation of resources, we have a huge population explosion. Agriculture, which is killing the planet, and the importation of resources, is non-sustainable. Sustainability has to remain local. The question is, can a locally sustained society feed the 7 billion people created by agriculture.
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  50. Maybe we're not forgetting how to listen. Maybe we just reached the peak of human intelligence and we are now on a intellectual decline. Or another possibility could be that because there's some much horse shit being handed down through the government and media that as a defense mechanism, the human brain responsible for attention is being deactivated.
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