Big Think

Nate Wagenhoffer commented on If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it? on January 16, 2008, 2:14 AM

I really think the best way to spend $100b would be trough a piecemeal system. By setting extremely lucrative initiatives, I believe the money would be utilized most efficiently. Private research would spend lets say $500 million to capture a billion dollar prize to find build nanotechs for disease or viable transportation systems. And if you ask people for fifty to a hundred useful ideas that industry will research if they see immediate retribution, the list will fill very quickly.

Nate Wagenhoffer commented on Has the Internet Helped or Hindered Literacy? on January 16, 2008, 2:01 AM

As being from the US, I believe that change to a language makes it more robust(obvious) and more semantically accessible to the intended audience. Now in most of these blogs the people have a specific audience. Furthermore this trend of blogging is a renaissance(very grandeur use of the word) for the written word. It has many people sharing random and/or poignant thoughts with the world. Will this lead to a new language, definitely not. But will it help adding to the language, certainly.

Nate Wagenhoffer commented on What do you think may have been before (or instead of) the "big-bang"? on January 16, 2008, 1:51 AM

I personally subscribe to the idea of an ever expanding universe that started with a white hole. I see no reason why at a certain point of expansion would all matter try to compact to a singularity. Maybe certain points would(maybe explains galaxy clusters), I think the mass would keep expanding.

Nate Wagenhoffer commented on If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it? on January 15, 2008, 9:14 PM

I really think the best way to spend $100b would be trough a piecemeal system. By setting extremely lucrative initiatives, I believe the money would be utilized most efficiently. Private research would spend lets say $500 million to capture a billion dollar prize to find build nanotechs for disease or viable transportation systems. And if you ask people for fifty to a hundred useful ideas that industry will research if they see immediate retribution, the list will fill very quickly.