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This is not a question for debate at all; there is a flat, factual answer to it. What we call "sound" is just how the brain interprets and understand the rapid compression and decompression of air traveling in waves. "Sound" does not exist except where there is an eardrum (or other sensory device) to detect those waves of compression and interpret them as what we call "sound." "Sound" is not a real thing; it is what we call the way our brain perceives compression in the atmosphere around us. So no, a tree that falls does NOT make a sound unless there is something around to sense and interpret as "sound" the vibrations it causes.
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Yes. The creation of machines to simplify our work, or to do it altogether, freed up a great deal of time which people are instead able to spend on other pursuits ranging from art to philosophy to research... How many inventions, works of art, and important breakthroughs would have never happened if the people who made them had been tied up with chopping wood, drawing water, farming their own food and hand-washing clothing?
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Not as long as money exists. Whenever somebody has something that other people want, there's going to be purchasing and bartering. Remember when water used to be essentially free and the only bottled water was for "rich people"? Water itself has gone from "post-scarcity" to a commodity which is being more and more hoarded and controlled. Will oxygen also be one day? Hmm. Maybe on extra-terrestrial colonies and spacecraft, if not earth itself. They do already have oxygen for sale in some places.
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Yes. I've already seen some interesting arguments suggesting that the theories of relativity may need reform, and that the speed of light may not be an immoveable law. There have also already been some successes in teleporting atoms by somehow matching their resonances.
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A cat. Cats are deeply interesting and intriguing. I want to know how their minds work and know what it's like to be one.
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Seriously, I worry about that a lot. In nature when animal populations get out of control, a disease or disaster tends to happen to bring the population down. The human population is obviously radically out of control. 50 years from now? I see higher sea levels, more extreme/violent weather, a lot of famine and epidemic disease... Not cheerful, but it's the honest answer. I fully expect all of that.
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Well, I'd choose now. But if I had to choose a different time, then the Romantic Era (1820-1880) is very appealing because of the brilliant artistry of that time and the attitudes about art.
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About 1/4 Norwegian, and smaller fractions of German, Czech, Native American (Muskogee/Creek and Cherokee), Irish, French, Scottish, and English.
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Pirate Ninjas. Better yet, Pirate Ninja Zombies. Or even better, Ghost Pirate Ninja Zombies.
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Ice cream. I'm an ice cream kind of person. I tend toward Ben & Jerry's most of the time, but recently I discovered "Haagen-Dazs Five" which is really fantastic in its natural simplicity. I have literally five pints of that in my freezer right now.
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Star Wars: Hard to pick between IV (A New Hope) and V (The Empire Strikes Back). HP: Probably Goblet of Fire. LOTR: Return of the King.
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I dunno. But a girl called me "tiger" once, which COMPLETELY melted me. Total swoon!
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Star Wars.... or maybe The Empire Strikes Back? Definitely one of those two, no question about it, just not sure which is #1.
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The wonderful girl who is right for me and truly loves me. She is mythical. :-p
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I don't really think negatively of people like that. Everybody is of value. And the people I just don't get along with, or people who really do seem to have a nasty streak, I simply don't associate with them. So the honest answer is: nobody. I avoid that type of people and put them out of my life.
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It's extremely hard to pick one. I can't do that. But Briauna Mariah and Bridgette Colette are probably my two favorites because both are unusually, exceptionally gifted, creative, and gorgeous. But man, I *LOVE* working with Liisa and Cori and Trista and Amanda and Mackenzie and Jen Page and Sarah and Katy... I work with a whole lot of really amazing and beautiful models, and I just can't really pick a favorite.
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Although I kind of prefer neither, I'm really not against either. But if I'm picking one, I'd say piercing. I'm assuming we're not even counting totally mainstream piercings (ears and belly button). So I'll say, for slightly less conventional piercings, that I always thought a single eyebrow piercing is actually kind of sexy, and a tiny sparkly nose piercing is nice.
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The link only goes to advertising spam -- as I had guessed it probably would. If you were a real person, you could post the photos on Flickr or even create a gmail account just for that purpose and email them to be. I'm not signing up for any accounts anywhere I don't already have one; if you want to reach me, try one of those two methods.
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"Look, I understand you have experienced a loss, but this relationship just can't work. I mean, you're a cat. I'm black. I'm not going to be hurt again."
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Dave Ward’s Bio
Photographer and graphic designer in Bellingham, WA.
