speed of excellence

[AntonioLao]

The physical speed of excellence is still set at the speed of light in vacuum, approximately 300 millions meters per second of time. On the other hand, the speed of electrical transmission of modern machineries is just a third of a percent of lightspeed, about 1 million meters per second. Although the improvement of automobile designs allows them to travel faster than 50 meters per second, urban road and interstate highway traffic designs limit speed to a maximum of about 35 meters per second. Increasing highway fatalities reduce further the limit to below 30 meters per second.

Today, since mechanical switchings were replaced by electromagnetic switching, the telecommunication technology has practically reached the speed of excellence. This impact ushered in the age of internet and wireless technoogy. However, a relevant universal question can be asked: Does light speed limit one universe from communicating with another? The answer is a resounding 'YES' for astronomers who knew that it takes 4 years for information traveling at lightspeed to reach the nearest stellar system in the vicinity of Alpha Centuri. Nonetheless, many people speaking the same language a meter apart or a cellphone apart still find it difficult to communicate. Sadly, for people speaking different languages have almost no communication at all. This suggests that the miind of excellence has yet to climb up to the first step of reaching the top.

[Graybeard]

Russell Hoban

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language ... even when they speak the same language?

George Bernard Shaw

The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

cool bananas ... greg

[AntonioLao]

Someone was telling a joke at a party, the crowd started laughing but one person at one corner was not. When this person got home and by chance to think over the joke again started laughing.

[labelwench]

Someone was telling a joke at a party, the crowd started laughing but one person at one corner was not. When this person got home and by chance to think over the joke again started laughing.

Perhaps 'Life' is the ultimate joke, and we just 'don't get it' until after the fact?

[AntonioLao]

You mean a dead man laughing or a dead man walking?

[Graybeard]

Dead Men don't walk ....... only the phantom, known as the Ghost who walks.




cool bananas ... greg

[AntonioLao]

Legend been told that the Phantom never die, but I always wonder how he can find the perfect mate for the perfect offspring each time with the perfect genes to carry on his legacy? Is the Phantom just a symbol for the good side of the human race fighting against the bad side?

[labelwench]

Nonetheless, many people speaking the same language a meter apart or a cellphone apart still find it difficult to communicate. Sadly, for people speaking different languages have almost no communication at all. This suggests that the mind of excellence has yet to climb up to the first step of reaching the top.
Originally posted by Antonio

While you gentlemen are fencing with Phantoms, I double back to the question of language(s), upon which most of our communication depends, oral and written. That so many diverse whole sets of symbols, words and phonetics should evolve is quite fascinating to me, and the ability that some few people have to become not only conversant but skilled in more than one language is an amazingly useful skill, IMO.

With such diversity of expression combined with the limits of individual experience, it's no wonder that our 'mix and match' attempts at communication often result in confusion instead.

Given the potential barriers that language may offer, the concept of life from elsewhere ever attempting 'communication' with our species is a thought that boggles my mind.

Our highly evolved species, (at least in our minds), may not even register as being far along in development, given our apparent inability to understand each other, even when speaking the same language.

Yet, diversity increases the odds of survival for most organisms.

The irony is not lost on me.....

[austintorn@aol.com]

And English even has millions of words, with many degrees of variation among synonyms, whereas, say, french, only has about 100,000 words.

[labelwench]

You mean a dead man laughing or a dead man walking?

Is it implicit that the dead man in question could not be doing both things at the same time?

If I encounter two men on the road, laughing, walking or both, how shall I determine the dead man from the other, as you raise the question?