Magnus Manske wrote:
Mark Williamson schrieb:
There are many different encyclopedias. If I write "Encyclopedia of All the Molecules in Jimbo Wales' body, with a detailed biography and label for each", does that mean each article in there deserves a spot in Wikipedia?
Of course! We can pipe these articles into my map software, and render Jimbo for future generations to come! :-)
Ah, the wiki approach to human cloning.
--Michael Snow
But really, how many people would be interested in cataloguing molecules of an individual's body? I think it would be better done by nanotechnology of some sort, but it would be difficult to get very far because beyond the outermost layer, there is very little information you could get without some sort of invasive procedure (digestive system, perhaps, but this still excludes important organs). ;p
Mark
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:35:16 -0800, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Mark Williamson schrieb:
There are many different encyclopedias. If I write "Encyclopedia of All the Molecules in Jimbo Wales' body, with a detailed biography and label for each", does that mean each article in there deserves a spot in Wikipedia?
Of course! We can pipe these articles into my map software, and render Jimbo for future generations to come! :-)
Ah, the wiki approach to human cloning.
--Michael Snow _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
On Jan 20, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:
But really, how many people would be interested in cataloguing molecules of an individual's body? I think it would be better done by nanotechnology of some sort, but it would be difficult to get very far because beyond the outermost layer, there is very little information you could get without some sort of invasive procedure (digestive system, perhaps, but this still excludes important organs). ;p
Well, Jimbo has already given a lot to the project, maybe he's willing to make the ultimate sacrifice?
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:35:16 -0800, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Mark Williamson schrieb:
There are many different encyclopedias. If I write "Encyclopedia of All the Molecules in Jimbo Wales' body, with a detailed biography and label for each", does that mean each article in there deserves a spot in Wikipedia?
Of course! We can pipe these articles into my map software, and render Jimbo for future generations to come! :-)
Ah, the wiki approach to human cloning.
-Bop
Mark Williamson wrote:
But really, how many people would be interested in cataloguing molecules of an individual's body? I think it would be better done by nanotechnology of some sort, but it would be difficult to get very far because beyond the outermost layer, there is very little information you could get without some sort of invasive procedure (digestive system, perhaps, but this still excludes important organs). ;p
What goes on in the digestive system is constantly changing. This implies that in describing the "Encyclopaedia jimboensis" one must take into account what he included in his last meal. The project should probably be based on a time after defecation. This avoids having the encyclopedia describe him as full of shit.
Ec
Perhaps it could simply exclude those parts of him which weren't, well, part of him? ie, that would be gone soon. It shouldn't be that hard to simply ignore them. Although, if it's an accurate description, I don't see why we shouldn't note that he was full of shit at the time of the cataloguing process.
Mark
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:59:51 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
But really, how many people would be interested in cataloguing molecules of an individual's body? I think it would be better done by nanotechnology of some sort, but it would be difficult to get very far because beyond the outermost layer, there is very little information you could get without some sort of invasive procedure (digestive system, perhaps, but this still excludes important organs). ;p
What goes on in the digestive system is constantly changing. This implies that in describing the "Encyclopaedia jimboensis" one must take into account what he included in his last meal. The project should probably be based on a time after defecation. This avoids having the encyclopedia describe him as full of shit.
Ec
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