pangolin or iguana

[StarWolf]

a pngolin wall
adapted from
http://good-wallpapers.com/pictures/...20Pangolin.jpg

[arochester]

Why pangolin or iguana? A pangolin is one thing. An iguana is quite different.

A pangolin is fairly "smooth". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_Pangolin.JPG

[whatthefunk]

Thats an iguana.

[oshunluvr]

Nope - cameleon

[StarWolf]

welll any how i guess ill have to find the true animal . its a nice robot pic :-)

[GreyGeek]

The folks over at openSUSE might like it!

[woodsmoke]

This whole discussion is a very precise example of why it is considered very important that first form biology students be very precise in their responses to questions concerning a central tenet of biology that DNA is the "information storage molecule" and therefore provides the blueprints that make a pangolin different from a iguana which is different from a cameleon from a robot. Precision! we need more precision!!

woodsticklerforprecisionsmoke

[Jonas]

This whole discussion is a very precise example of why it is considered very important that first form biology students be very precise in their responses to questions concerning a central tenet of biology that DNA is the "information storage molecule" and therefore provides the blueprints that make a pangolin different from a iguana which is different from a cameleon from a robot. Precision! we need more precision!!

woodsticklerforprecisionsmoke

Precisely!!

Nice wallpaper

[Snowhog]

a pngolin wall
adapted from
http://good-wallpapers.com/pictures/...t Pangolin.jpg

The 'robot' might be a good mascot for OpenSUSE after it gets assimilated by the Borg ("We are Borg Linux. Resistance is futile.")

[GreyGeek]

... we need more precision!!

An observation that has been frequently made is that of the evolution of science.

For almost 2,000 years math was stuck in Euclidean Geometry. Everything was described as lines, planes and solids, and expressed in ratios: AB is to EF as CD is to GH, etc..., where A and B were the endpoints of a line, etc.... Even limited to that it is amazing how Newton described his revolutionary three laws of motion in such terms. He was truly a genius. In the process, he developed fluxions and fluents; differential and integral calculus. His book on fluents was completed in 1671, and published in 1736. Meanwhile, Leibniz, nearly simultaneously, developed similar techniques, which are more closely related to what we used today than Newton's ideas, in 1673 and published them in 1684. Thus started the argument over who invented Calculus.

Regardless of who invented it, Calculus was the rocket that lifted mathematics, and man, off the Euclid's planet and cause the explosion in advances in Math, which are still going on. Such developments "trickled down" to Physics, and caused great advances in that field as well. The Physics advances "trickled down" to Chemistry, advancing that discipline. Advances in Chemistry "trickled down" to Biology, increasing its "precision" far beyond that of mere description and cataloging, and causing great advances to take place in that discipline as well.

Unfortunately, the "trickle down" seemed to have stopped there. The Psychological "sciences" have been hijacked by political influences on sociology.

[woodsmoke]

Thankee jonas.. I think...?

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

I assume you mean me, but the link is to the forum front page.

And it was a joke.

wood

[SecretCode]

I think jorgea's post was a random bot post. It uses some key words from the forum - actually just the site URL - and has meaningful sentences - but is otherwise nothing whatever to do with this thread.

I'm tempted to report first posts like this and recommend to our esteemed admins that the accounts be banned.

And here's another one from today that feels exactly the same (and it included a possibly promotional link):

Hey you. Prompt is no good.
I mean it became a bit better than it used to be, but still not perfect. Google translator is the only solution to the problem like that.
I use it all the time.
________________
link which I won't favour with repeating
download youtube

What say you, admins? Should we report dubious posts like this?

[GreyGeek]

Yes!

[SecretCode]

I shall be vigilant!