Hi Just A Thought

IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
<div class="IPBDescription">About forum goers</div> Hi

Just wondering,
How many of you have some form of scientific training/background?
And fully understand the concept of nanotech and evolution?

Thanks

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  • TyphonTyphon Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1899Members
    edited December 2002
    Im guessing atleast 80% of people here are sci/tech/math guys/gals.

    me included.

    EDIT: YAY 500th post!
  • Mr_HeadcrabMr_Headcrab Squee&#33;~ Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9392Members, Constellation
    Well, im currently getting my MCSE, but throughout my childhood, nanotech facinated me...
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    /me = CS major

    and the concept of nanotech aint that hard

    but so what?

    this is SF

    not RL
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    OMG TT IS SO COOL HAHAHA

    Gosh i tot tt most of the ppl playing these games would be lamers with nothing betta to do and not really know wat going on in the gaming world they're involve in hahaha
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    edited December 2002
    <!--QuoteBegin--Thansal+Dec 18 2002, 11:38 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Dec 18 2002, 11:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->/me = CS major

    and the concept of nanotech aint that hard

    but so what?

    this is SF

    not RL<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    nope im just curious abt what sort of people play these games....

    not that im trying to add RL aspects into SF, (in fact i LOVE SF..been a fan of star wars and stuff for a long time) ....

    i'm jus... curious... lol
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Mr. Headcrab+Dec 18 2002, 11:33 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr. Headcrab @ Dec 18 2002, 11:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well, im currently getting my MCSE, but throughout my childhood, nanotech facinated me...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    biology fascinated me more....

    parents showed me a human dissection when i was 6 lol
  • BathroomMonkeyBathroomMonkey Feces-hurling Monkey Boy Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 78Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Bio major . . . . so I basically sit around and wonder why I suffered through Orgo if I had no intention of doing anything even remotely in the field . . .
  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    meh? structural engineering? Architecture? ....so alone....CAD?
  • MouseMouse The Lighter Side of Pessimism Join Date: 2002-03-02 Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    I'm half way through a Cert 2 in Multimedia
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--BathroomMonkey+Dec 19 2002, 12:34 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BathroomMonkey @ Dec 19 2002, 12:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Bio major . . . . so I basically sit around and wonder why I suffered through Orgo if I had no intention of doing anything even remotely in the field . . .<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    u majored in bio and now u're doing programming? hmmm...

    so what u working as now? lol
  • BathroomMonkeyBathroomMonkey Feces-hurling Monkey Boy Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 78Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    edited December 2002
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->u majored in bio and now u're doing programming? hmmm...
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Programming? Bah! I don't program!

    I do multimedia work . . . which is a Hell of a lot more interesting than dentistry, which is what I originally went to school for. Though I can't really remember ever being serious about it, which is why I've chosen to believe that I did it as some sort of dare . . .
  • LestatLestat Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8935Members
    I'm a baker and sometimes some of the stuff we churn out could be put down to bio engenering
  • Dauntl3ssDauntl3ss Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7737Members
    im just studying "allmen" as we call it in norway, so u can edduacte yourself to whatever you want, almost..

    Anyway, thats what i need to become a Civil Engineer.. Computer Civil Engineer even..
  • DoombringerDoombringer Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8679Members, Constellation
    Wen for comp sci in college but tanked on the programming part, decided to go for certification after that.

    Got my MCSA, going for MCSE. Fun stuff (yeah right <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)

    Computer techie guy all the way.
  • saint0zsaint0z Join Date: 2002-10-16 Member: 1505Members, Constellation
    omg dudes, you <b>don't</b> have a nanotech house?!?!

    /me watches his house build him a samich
  • ZifnabZifnab Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6062Members
    Engineering student at the University of Michigan.
    Undecided on which major... leaning towards declaring for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    I R IT Tech Support Peon.

    I'd like to do my MCSE etc etc, but I don't have the cash. Or the time. Or the time AND cash <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    So I'm stuck doin basic support, trying to get a decent job doing it.
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    going to do my medical degree in univeristy of melbourne next yr <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    AND I WANT TO lol
  • airyKairyK Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11126Members
    well im in highschool soon getting my A+ cert. i have plans of going to college for computer science-



    Eric
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--NoImagination+Dec 19 2002, 12:11 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (NoImagination @ Dec 19 2002, 12:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->And fully understand the concept of nanotech and evolution?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    This does not require a very high level of education. Evolution I learned in my 7th year (though I must admit I found it quite boring, hence I might've missed something). Read more about it a few years ago.
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Perhaps i should haf removed the word "concept".

    LOL I meant the nitty gritty details. .

    I haven't done hard-core phy for some time so ive forgotten stuff abt nanotech, but evolution i meant understand how it WORKS. (like know the material on alleles(BTW how do u pronounce tt? I hear diff pronunciations all the time), inheritance, RNA/DNA structure n synthesis, blah blah blah)

    I was more of referring to the stuff of higher end science, not really the things u pick up here and there... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--NoImagination+Dec 19 2002, 12:36 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (NoImagination @ Dec 19 2002, 12:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Evolution doesn't really care about how the changes are made though. It's more interesting why changes are made. That can be explained quite easily like Darwin did (changes that enhance the creature in a positive way increase the chance for survival, which means a higher chance to spread the DNA to the next generation blah blah).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well, Darwin has one theory, that's mighty hard to prove but seems sound nonetheless. And thats called.... NATURAL SELECTION!!!! (fires up HL for another 6 hour session).

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm a bit surprised no one came up with that earlier (I blame the church for that one).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Came up with that earlier in this thread or before Darwin?

    If it's the latter, we must be aware that in the past people were really...erm...stUbborn? (remember how they put Gallileo under house arrest for suggesting that the earth revolved ard the sun?) I guess no one really bothered to challenge the Creationist theory, and even when they did, no one really believed them. Even now we're still running round in circles concerning the debate.

    Either way, without the Evolutionist theory, we wun haf this wonderful game to play. (BTW I noticed that on the main page it says NS normally takes place through conflict.... but i think it occurs just as often, if not, through differences in ability to mate/find-food/evade. What do u guyz think?)

    But back to the main topic before we get tossed into the lands of OT: Who are the guyz playing NS? (Or lurking ard the NS forums)
  • Green_TurnipGreen_Turnip Join Date: 2002-12-17 Member: 10985Members
    For anyone interested... Michael Crichton has a new novel out based on nanotech gone awry. Basically, a group of nano-machines gets out and starts multiplying itself... so on and so forth.

    I'm sure it will be a good read. Crichton does a great job of mixing real-world science with a bit of science fiction.
  • Grunt2002Grunt2002 Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10677Members
    I'm a SQL Database developer and admin (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) for the central computing hub of a state government so yeah, another techie here.

    Although I'd rather be playing NS all day.....
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Green_Turnip+Dec 19 2002, 02:24 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Green_Turnip @ Dec 19 2002, 02:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->For anyone interested... Michael Crichton has a new novel out based on nanotech gone awry. Basically, a group of nano-machines gets out and starts multiplying itself... so on and so forth.

    I'm sure it will be a good read. Crichton does a great job of mixing real-world science with a bit of science fiction.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    what the name of the book?
  • sendersender Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8337Members
    /me == physics major.

    w00t, quantum + relativity is the win.
  • PhydeauxPhydeaux Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10771Members
    Another physics major here. As a matter of fact, I may be working with a professor next semester who is focusing on nanotech.
  • AbzalonAbzalon Join Date: 2002-12-04 Member: 10477Members
    edited December 2002
    I can't seem to delete my post so I'm just gonna gun it down <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Cruelest_AngelCruelest_Angel Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3825Members
    Hate to break the trend, but I'm studying social science, I'm also a total philosophy nerd, but I've been playing games since I could walk (litteraly), and trolling forums is fun <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    Sophomore in high-school, but I take CS and math (I really, really hate math at this point) classes at the U of I.

    Also, I think the fact that everyone here is either some sort of scientist or techie, or is in some kind of learned profession is becuase we have the sense to join the forums and be attached to this game. Many of the actual playerbase you see on the pubs consists mainly of llamas and people that happened to notice NS floating about with all the other Half-Life mods out there.
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