RE: Why did God get rid of the Trilobites?
October 23, 2021 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2021 at 12:04 pm by Ferrocyanide.)
(October 23, 2021 at 12:15 am)Jehanne Wrote:(October 22, 2021 at 11:30 pm)Fireball Wrote: Plato was a quite uninformed individual. I wonder what he would think now, matriculating through the US educational system? Smart, but with lack of basic facts is a handicap.
Question is, "Would he be supportive of CRT?"
Cathodic ray tubes? They are a pretty good bit of technology. The performance of the phosphor was much superior to the LCD type screens. The laptops of the time had LCD and their turn on and turn off time was quite slow. So, if you move your mouse, there was a trace of the mouse on an LCD screen.
LCDs had other problems as well, like light leakage, viewing angle was limited, limited color gamut.
Eventually, they improved LCD to the point they became acceptable and started to be used for desktops and TVs.
Plasma TVs was a nice one as well.
A fun thing to do is see the effect of a magnet on the electron beam.
(October 22, 2021 at 10:37 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(October 22, 2021 at 6:25 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Why did God get rid of the Trilobites?
Because he chose the process of trial and error in which he just creates animals to destroy them over and over again for billions of years, just so he can create humans after wiping out 99.99% of all animals that ever lived.
I know, a very stupid and inefficient process for a supposedly intelligent creator, but also keep in mind that he is perfect.
I have heard it said that Plato argued passionately that the planets must go around the Earth in perfect circles due to the perfection of God.
I don't know if Plato said that. I mostly know about his 2 documents about Atlantis.
I do know that the philosophy of the greeks was preserved by europeans and so, Earth-centrism was presented by the catholic church as absolute truth and that the Moon and other planets, the Sun were all perfect spheres.
When Galileo invented his telescope and saw some details of the Moon, the craters, it was difficult for the catholic church to accept this.
I think he also believed that the Earth revolved around the Sun for some reason.
Eventually, it was discovered that Saturn and Jupiter have moons orbiting them. This was at a time when the believed that everything orbits the Earth.
I think Nicolaus Copernicus was next on the shit list of the Catholic church for also declaring heliocentrism.
