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I Reading News Feeds from www.feeddistiller.com, for each subject i'm interested in, i tend to filt about to different subjects on different days. If i come up with a subject that's not there, i add it, only takes a minute to add a subject there, because of a funky google mash up to find rss and atom feeds.
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Silicon already betterCommercial silicon cells from SunPower already get 21% efficiency, the article gives a record for very specific for the type of thin film cell, which is by no means the most efficient in practice.
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Silicon already betterCommercial silicon cells from SunPower already get 21% efficiency, the article gives a record for very specific for the type of thin film cell, which is by no means the most efficient in practice.
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Re:What the what what?Barium is not a rare earth metal, its a Group 2 element, in the same column of the periodic table as calcium.
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Re:What the what what?Barium is not a rare earth metal, its a Group 2 element, in the same column of the periodic table as calcium.
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Re:BSIf Mars ever had chlorophyl containing life, it would have left and oxygen atmosphere which Mars hasn't got. The above AC is right Mars went dry after its first billion years or so, probably some time before earth evolved oxygen producing planet life.
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Re:BSIf Mars ever had chlorophyl containing life, it would have left and oxygen atmosphere which Mars hasn't got. The above AC is right Mars went dry after its first billion years or so, probably some time before earth evolved oxygen producing planet life.
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So many gamesThats is indeed a long compressive list, more games than i can remember, and more than made my feed
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So many gamesThats is indeed a long compressive list, more games than i can remember, and more than made my feed
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Re:around coliseum in rome streets?Electric Vehicles can quite simply to engineered for high speed, the higher the voltage on the motor the faster it goes, simple. The only additional consideration is cooling the motor. Batteries can easierly be made ultra thin and stacked to high voltage, enabling very high speed electric cars.
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Re:around coliseum in rome streets?Electric Vehicles can quite simply to engineered for high speed, the higher the voltage on the motor the faster it goes, simple. The only additional consideration is cooling the motor. Batteries can easierly be made ultra thin and stacked to high voltage, enabling very high speed electric cars.
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Its the graphics stupidWriting a computer game hasn't really got much more difficult, but the standard of graphics is constantly improving, without an easy way to produce the stacks of graphics needed by a modern computer game, the home brew developer is stuck produce games that are further and further behind the curve of professional game development.
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Its the graphics stupidWriting a computer game hasn't really got much more difficult, but the standard of graphics is constantly improving, without an easy way to produce the stacks of graphics needed by a modern computer game, the home brew developer is stuck produce games that are further and further behind the curve of professional game development.
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Re:What's the problem with building self-sustaininOnce you have a moon space, you can mining material from the moon, particularly silicon, aluminium, titanium and oxygen. And launch to space some 36 times more cheaply in terms of energy. The up front cost of a moon base is a lot, especially including the mining equipment, a smelter, and frabrication planets. But once you have one you can build earth satellites, and explore the other planets, many time more cheaply. Earth is dependent on satellites, and since its getting crowded in orbit, we will need space tugs and debris cleaners craft up earth orbit, to manage the earth satellite. We can do that a lot more cheaply, if we can mine and frabricate in space.
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Re:What's the problem with building self-sustaininOnce you have a moon space, you can mining material from the moon, particularly silicon, aluminium, titanium and oxygen. And launch to space some 36 times more cheaply in terms of energy. The up front cost of a moon base is a lot, especially including the mining equipment, a smelter, and frabrication planets. But once you have one you can build earth satellites, and explore the other planets, many time more cheaply. Earth is dependent on satellites, and since its getting crowded in orbit, we will need space tugs and debris cleaners craft up earth orbit, to manage the earth satellite. We can do that a lot more cheaply, if we can mine and frabricate in space.
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More Great Work from KeplerNASA's Kepler mission has so far found 2300 potential planets outside the solar system, and the mission has been extended to past 2016. Way to go Kepler!
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More Great Work from KeplerNASA's Kepler mission has so far found 2300 potential planets outside the solar system, and the mission has been extended to past 2016. Way to go Kepler!
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Re:NewsflashThe curracy conversion rate and the legal force to pay debt never were. But we thought it was mathematically safe from hackers, but not it seems open third party coin generator sites. Back to the old Drawing board for cyber currency.
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Re:NewsflashThe curracy conversion rate and the legal force to pay debt never were. But we thought it was mathematically safe from hackers, but not it seems open third party coin generator sites. Back to the old Drawing board for cyber currency.
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Re:Trade offHa, but the usual trade off, in making cells immortal, is making to organism much more prone to cancers.
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Re:Trade offHa, but the usual trade off, in making cells immortal, is making to organism much more prone to cancers.
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Gaming MugCyberdog present, a space invaders mug/tv cup. It came complete with Sherbet UFOs falling into the cup, and scoreline: 19780033144 I Googled the scoreline, and read deeply from the book of numbers. And lo barry wrote a page to match the scoreline.
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Gaming MugCyberdog present, a space invaders mug/tv cup. It came complete with Sherbet UFOs falling into the cup, and scoreline: 19780033144 I Googled the scoreline, and read deeply from the book of numbers. And lo barry wrote a page to match the scoreline.
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Re:No they can'tThats incorrect, physicist know that there must have been some like the Higgs below 1TeV, and the LHC runs at 7 TeV, soon to be 14 GeV. Even with those 7 TeV divided into 3, (its the quarks that interact not the whole proton, actual its 3+3*(1+1/alpha_strong+1/apha_strong^2...Higher terms), because of the gluons in the proton). But the interaction energy is about 2 TeV per quark, so the LHC can look for a Higgs all the way to 2 Tev, evidential 4 TeV.
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Re:No they can'tThats incorrect, physicist know that there must have been some like the Higgs below 1TeV, and the LHC runs at 7 TeV, soon to be 14 GeV. Even with those 7 TeV divided into 3, (its the quarks that interact not the whole proton, actual its 3+3*(1+1/alpha_strong+1/apha_strong^2...Higher terms), because of the gluons in the proton). But the interaction energy is about 2 TeV per quark, so the LHC can look for a Higgs all the way to 2 Tev, evidential 4 TeV.
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Re:Meat and caveman psychMod that up, that would be my first guess for the social anthropology of it. Now if you bothered to get some real data, and not fake data just to match your prejudices you'd be a real scientist. Actually its a tough art just to remove the subconscious prejudices that led you to look for answers that match your own theory. But deliberate faking unforgivable.
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Re:Meat and caveman psychMod that up, that would be my first guess for the social anthropology of it. Now if you bothered to get some real data, and not fake data just to match your prejudices you'd be a real scientist. Actually its a tough art just to remove the subconscious prejudices that led you to look for answers that match your own theory. But deliberate faking unforgivable.
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Re:Why can't the US just give them a bad Concorde?Er, because Concorde was made by the British and French, the word Concorde being french for treaty. As a brit I not that proud of Concorde (better than a DeLoren though), seeing as it was never profitable and its one crash ground the whole fleet for good. But a plane far in advance of it time it was.
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Re:Why can't the US just give them a bad Concorde?Er, because Concorde was made by the British and French, the word Concorde being french for treaty. As a brit I not that proud of Concorde (better than a DeLoren though), seeing as it was never profitable and its one crash ground the whole fleet for good. But a plane far in advance of it time it was.
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Re:Creepy BookDon't know how you can creep Claude Shannon's theory, are you confusing it with the Mass Destruction song by Faithless?
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Re:Creepy BookDon't know how you can creep Claude Shannon's theory, are you confusing it with the Mass Destruction song by Faithless?
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Re:antimatterYes, but the goverments can complete for years to make a treaty for the control of it. It a take years before any useful technology can use it, Meanwhile how many antiprotons are there up there? Enough to take a kilogram payload to alpha centuar, in tens of years? Anything less is useless.
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Re:NoI like to bring hope, And to my knowledge a 'perpetual intelligence machine' has not been proved possible or impossible under the known laws of physics. Julian Baubour in the Cosmological Anthropic Principle, has demonstrated that different amounts of computation can be done in the universe accord to the class of cosmological model. E.g. GR with a cosmological constant 0, finite amount of computation in infinite time, but at no point those computation stop, machines can keep getter move efficient to squeeze the dregs out of the free energy in the universe for every, slowing to a finite sum, but never stopping. However in a collapsing universe with cosmological constant 0, the sum works that a infinite ammount of computation can be done in finite time, in themodymanic possiblity the computers reinvent themselves to be ever faster, preforming an infinite ammount of computation in finite time. Look it up if you what. There are a lot of dark energy models, which leaves the question unanswerable, until we know what dark energy is.
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Re:Fairyland
Abso-bloody-lutely. Thats all your learn, From Games like Borderlands. But to the question of self-fueling feed back loops here, there a really isn't one, and if there is its not symbotic. Games teach the board people (in varying ammounts). Corporations make games. People make games, (but rarely can sell them, if there not Corporations). Computer Games are often the antipodetheis of real life for participatents, and rarely offer teaching much practical. Many Corporations, play ultra cricket, over stepping the mark, selling shit to sucker buyers, and making the buyers ever dumber for there next product. Thats life funny I may say, but without money your gay, dying from your far bosses glaze. As for AI's what sets the goals on the AI's that Wikia is probably going to make in the X many years I do not know. But I'll doubt they'll get any of Azimov's laws solidly built in. And probably very little in privacy settings. 3D Shooter Games - Summary of Recent News Items.
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Solar Energy is Free so it would be unethical...Wow at a last a useful link to put on my free energy page.
A capitalist would I think argue with, cost+financing of the solar cells, payment for the workers installing them, plus profit, before setting the price. But even capitalists offer lose leaders for advertising.
But if a urban council, own the land, then they is a strong case for providing useful services free to the public. How often people need public phone charging I don't know. Since mobile have become popular that the public pay phone is an endangered species, so are free charging points needs. Discuss...
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Solar Energy is Free so it would be unethical...Wow at a last a useful link to put on my free energy page.
A capitalist would I think argue with, cost+financing of the solar cells, payment for the workers installing them, plus profit, before setting the price. But even capitalists offer lose leaders for advertising.
But if a urban council, own the land, then they is a strong case for providing useful services free to the public. How often people need public phone charging I don't know. Since mobile have become popular that the public pay phone is an endangered species, so are free charging points needs. Discuss...
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Re:Freeze your headThey don't start freezing you until you're dead. You can coldly deny the threat of death as much as you like, but cryonics don't start freezing until you've gone so the temperature doesn't matter. On the chemical side though chemical reaction normally fall as e ^ - something * temperature, so the lower temperature they long the brain lasts, temperature spreads and equalises around a substance while a chemical might miss places.
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Re:Freeze your headThey don't start freezing you until you're dead. You can coldly deny the threat of death as much as you like, but cryonics don't start freezing until you've gone so the temperature doesn't matter. On the chemical side though chemical reaction normally fall as e ^ - something * temperature, so the lower temperature they long the brain lasts, temperature spreads and equalises around a substance while a chemical might miss places.
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Re:Freeze your headDon't forgot that Cryonics assumes arbitrary good future technology, within physical possibility. Its a some day, not a next week. Better freezing and preservation, might make it sooner, but to make the head recoverable, you need it to have possible recognisable from the frozen state, the weighting on each of the synaptic inputs to the neurons, and where the neuron connected to. That information can survive a lot of fracturing, and a lot of other damage. With identically or neither identically neuron weighting it is if not you identical to what was you, by classical AI and theory of the Brain function. Although if quantum entanglement or the neuron itself does deep computation than firing on the sum of it inputs, then additionally structure in the Brain need to be recoverable. I've very much enjoyed TP books, more than that when you read a good author you get and idea of a mind behind it which is as deep an empathy as any. Enough to hope they hold his mind some way to be recoverable in the future.
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Re:Freeze your headDon't forgot that Cryonics assumes arbitrary good future technology, within physical possibility. Its a some day, not a next week. Better freezing and preservation, might make it sooner, but to make the head recoverable, you need it to have possible recognisable from the frozen state, the weighting on each of the synaptic inputs to the neurons, and where the neuron connected to. That information can survive a lot of fracturing, and a lot of other damage. With identically or neither identically neuron weighting it is if not you identical to what was you, by classical AI and theory of the Brain function. Although if quantum entanglement or the neuron itself does deep computation than firing on the sum of it inputs, then additionally structure in the Brain need to be recoverable. I've very much enjoyed TP books, more than that when you read a good author you get and idea of a mind behind it which is as deep an empathy as any. Enough to hope they hold his mind some way to be recoverable in the future.
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Re:Data sharingI agree that sharing data is a good thing in general, but in this case, it wasn't a reanalysis of the same data but a second set of data from a different detector, DZero, at the Tevatron, this the original data coming from the CDF detector. The contradiction between the data isn't resolved, but presummably this was some systematic error in the data from the CDF.
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Re:Data sharingI agree that sharing data is a good thing in general, but in this case, it wasn't a reanalysis of the same data but a second set of data from a different detector, DZero, at the Tevatron, this the original data coming from the CDF detector. The contradiction between the data isn't resolved, but presummably this was some systematic error in the data from the CDF.
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Re:Obligatory He-3 rantTrue He-3 need a much higher temperature than D-T. The coulomb repulsion is four times bigger, so roughly 4 times the temperature. But the advantage is that all the energy is released in charged particles, protons and alpha particles, which could be steered in a magnet field to produces thrust. A D-T fusion rocket would lose nearly 90% of its energy as neutrons, while a He-3 fusion rocket, would get nearly 100% thrust. A Daedulas type star drive isn't exactly easier through, it need to laser fuse pellets of He-3 fuel. And steer them in an immensely strong magnet field. The NIT is getting close to laser fusion, but neither is ready yet.
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Re:Obligatory He-3 rantTrue He-3 need a much higher temperature than D-T. The coulomb repulsion is four times bigger, so roughly 4 times the temperature. But the advantage is that all the energy is released in charged particles, protons and alpha particles, which could be steered in a magnet field to produces thrust. A D-T fusion rocket would lose nearly 90% of its energy as neutrons, while a He-3 fusion rocket, would get nearly 100% thrust. A Daedulas type star drive isn't exactly easier through, it need to laser fuse pellets of He-3 fuel. And steer them in an immensely strong magnet field. The NIT is getting close to laser fusion, but neither is ready yet.
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Re:Phase 1I think the threat is bit bigger than just world of warcraft. Much as the world would be much happier if all the war was inside computer games. There is a lot of real war out there, and also lot of espionage. I hope they not doing any hacking in to American networks, or businesses.
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Re:Phase 1I think the threat is bit bigger than just world of warcraft. Much as the world would be much happier if all the war was inside computer games. There is a lot of real war out there, and also lot of espionage. I hope they not doing any hacking in to American networks, or businesses.
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Re:sleezeballBut its a highly useful app to have, immediately giving buyers access to a lot of old games. Perphaps thats the problem, without the new platform, needing new applications and new games, development dries ups. Originality is hard to find in the modern world, as are places to be original. But conversions, and translations are just as much useful work. I don't see how you can label a programming a sleezeball just for translating from open source projects. One thing open source was definitely not created for was to close off similar development. I'd agree literal, line for line coping of someone else work and selling it as your own is illegal. But you can't call 'based off some other work' sleeze, unless you want every person have start from caveman level.
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Re:sleezeballBut its a highly useful app to have, immediately giving buyers access to a lot of old games. Perphaps thats the problem, without the new platform, needing new applications and new games, development dries ups. Originality is hard to find in the modern world, as are places to be original. But conversions, and translations are just as much useful work. I don't see how you can label a programming a sleezeball just for translating from open source projects. One thing open source was definitely not created for was to close off similar development. I'd agree literal, line for line coping of someone else work and selling it as your own is illegal. But you can't call 'based off some other work' sleeze, unless you want every person have start from caveman level.
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The only device that can see raw cosmic raysThis is the only device in the world, that can measure cosmic rays before they enter the atmosphere. Measuring the primary protons and nucleii from cosmic rays, before they break up in showers of secondary particles. I doubt actually though that it will measure dark matter, as dark matter is neutral and won't interact with the magnetic fields in the AMS.
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The only device that can see raw cosmic raysThis is the only device in the world, that can measure cosmic rays before they enter the atmosphere. Measuring the primary protons and nucleii from cosmic rays, before they break up in showers of secondary particles. I doubt actually though that it will measure dark matter, as dark matter is neutral and won't interact with the magnetic fields in the AMS.
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