What I want to know is:
Do you think rocks change color like chameleons out of there own free will?
The Turk!
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Pigs are intelligent but I've never heard of them inventing anything
I'm sure FOS has a theory about how pigs have invented stuff.
It will be presented, and met with much sarcasm. FOS will try to explain to us, by way of his genius, that pigs are incredibly smart, and, if it weren't for us pesky humans, they would rule the earth.
He will also explain, with much verbosity, how the pig and rock are related, and we will all gasp after reading his posts, realizing he is the one true master of knowledge.
Rocks Anne! You don't have to put on the red light!
Aug 21, 2015
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hossyman wrote:
Pigs are intelligent but I've never heard of them inventing anything
Careful around pigs. They'll squeal on you!
they invented methane.
Aug 21, 2015
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#48
The problem is how to define intelligence. We naturally want to frame it in terms that make us look good but does the universe care about us? So if intelligence is the ability to think then we score well. But if intelligence is the ability to survive a long time then rocks will outdo us by millions of years. And it if it wasnt for this 'rock' orbiting a star there would be no life and no us. So FOS is right.
Aug 21, 2015
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#49
I would have never thought that the Turk would generate so much talk about rocks.
wickiwacky wrote:
The problem is how to define intelligence. We naturally want to frame it in terms that make us look good but does the universe care about us? So if intelligence is the ability to think then we score well. But if intelligence is the ability to survive a long time then rocks will outdo us by millions of years. And it if it wasnt for this 'rock' orbiting a star there would be no life and no us. So FOS is right.
Yeah, rocks are superior to humans. They have survived. You're so smart (but not as smart as a rock).
Aug 21, 2015
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#55
The names of the players who were inside the Turk is well known. They were all pretty strong players.
Aug 21, 2015
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#56
I think it is rumored that Gunsberg was operating it at some point. Or that might have been one of the other chess automatons.
batgirl wrote:
The Turk is interesting. This discussion is inane.
Aren't pretty much all discussions here inane?
Some of my best friends are rocks; some are very gneiss. Of course they've evolved, but prefer the term metamorphosed.
This guy, always talking schist.