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Author Topic: Forced Education & Learning Thread.  (Read 4375 times)

Qloos

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Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« on: September 19, 2010, 06:58:52 pm »

After highschool, I had gotten a job.  Although my bank account grew in size, my education has not.

Thread Rules.

  • First poster chooses a subject, topic, computer program, skill or theory for me, (or anyone else for that matter.) to learn or practice.  The following week is then dedicated to learning that.
  • All other posters after the first may refrence learning sites or show off what they know about that subject.
  • No matter the level of ignorance displayed; ridicule will not be tolerated.
  • After this time next week, a new area of learning may be chosen.

Next poster: Start us off.
« Last Edit: September 19, 2010, 07:01:06 pm by Qloos »
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smjjames

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Re: Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2010, 07:02:06 pm »

Okay, then learn how to genetically engineer dinosaurs :)

Seriously though, you should expect wierd crap.
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Re: Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2010, 07:03:47 pm »

In case you don't think you can do that, try learning to program in BASIC.
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Re: Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2010, 07:06:53 pm »

Nope, the topic has already been selected: Genetic Engineering.
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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2010, 07:08:09 pm »

I could have said build a nuclear reactor since I was trying to make a point.....
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Re: Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2010, 07:15:21 pm »

This sounds brilliant.  Watching.
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Re: Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2010, 07:16:46 pm »

I could have said build a nuclear reactor since I was trying to make a point.....

Your point is taken, there's no need to go overboard with it.  If you had said that.  I would of began researching nuclear theory/fusion.

Currently, I'm looking at the Selective Breeding/Natural Selection, which would be the natural, (although slow) form of genetic engineering.

Starting on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGRbzO2sTs&feature=fvsr
« Last Edit: September 23, 2010, 07:46:06 pm by Qloos »
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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2010, 07:21:12 pm »

This sounds brilliant.  Watching.
Indeed. It's always great to keep learning, even after you leave school.
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Re: Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2010, 07:24:10 pm »

Apparently, it's not as hard as you'd think to do simple forms of genetic engineering.  There's a sortof group of them doing it in makeshift home labs.

Stuff they can do includes making bacteria glow green in certain conditions and making it produce other things.
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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2010, 08:12:57 pm »

If I recall correctly, a huge controversy over geneticly modified food has nothing to really do with the safety of geneticly modifying it at all.  But the fact that a geneticly modified product can be made sterile and then sold to poorer countries so that they are reliant on the product.
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Re: Forced Education & Learning Thread.
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2010, 08:14:16 pm »

This thread is a great idea. I think I'm going to follow suit, if you don't mind the company :) Though I'm still in university now, I've still got free time every now and then.

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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2010, 08:18:19 pm »

The company is encouraged.
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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2010, 08:40:39 pm »

Screw the food, engineer the humans.
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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2010, 09:07:06 pm »

You mind if I join? Someone suggest a topic for me for the week. I would also like to expand my mind.
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« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2010, 09:13:36 pm »

You mind if I join? Someone suggest a topic for me for the week. I would also like to expand my mind.

I think the idea is that everyone takes the same topic and learns about it =)

In a similar vein, it might be kind of cool to start a book club.  Hrm.
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