Everyone is waiting for the silver bullet to fix our oil addiction, global warming, and our fragile electric grid. This kind of approach does all three of those things. By "incentivizing" solar power, you can make it cheap enough for John Q. Public to build you a distributed power grid. Keep this up and you can start decommissioning your dirtiest power plants and use the funds you were going to use for new power plant construction for improving the grid or additional incentives. The third aspect (global warming) doesn't get solved by this, but it gets reduced, and in theory if you do this enough you can start doing sequestration to actually reduce CO2 levels in the air.
IAATIR (I am a titanium implant recipient) and can still see the plate and screws in my collarbone through the skin. While I agree with your strength issue in certain cases, I had to keep my arm in a sling for weeks after the injury despite the repair (and would have been required to if I had opted against the surgery) and was ordered off of heavy lifting for 3 months. In other words, my repair didn't have to be THAT strong...and for many other repairs, this technology could be made to work today.
You never know about habitability...if the planet is tidally locked then there is a "twilight zone" around the planet between the day and night side that may have moderate temperatures. There could be subterranean water there capable of supporting single-celled life, though I would agree that advanced life as we know it is probably out of the question.
I see serious problems with the idea that the information on this paper is "lost" after 16 hours. We all know how hard it is to "lose" data on a hard drive. It seems to me that if a printer has printed on this paper, then some kind of indelible information is now stored on this paper.
How long will it be until this paper is thrown away and that data is then stolen?
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...but unless sterilization is part of the experiment, there will be far more than 6 in 520 days!
Everyone is waiting for the silver bullet to fix our oil addiction, global warming, and our fragile electric grid. This kind of approach does all three of those things. By "incentivizing" solar power, you can make it cheap enough for John Q. Public to build you a distributed power grid. Keep this up and you can start decommissioning your dirtiest power plants and use the funds you were going to use for new power plant construction for improving the grid or additional incentives. The third aspect (global warming) doesn't get solved by this, but it gets reduced, and in theory if you do this enough you can start doing sequestration to actually reduce CO2 levels in the air.
Once again, besides Velcro and Tang, what have we gotten from manned space flight?
Increased knowledge of how to evacuate Earth in case of catastrophe?
IAATIR (I am a titanium implant recipient) and can still see the plate and screws in my collarbone through the skin. While I agree with your strength issue in certain cases, I had to keep my arm in a sling for weeks after the injury despite the repair (and would have been required to if I had opted against the surgery) and was ordered off of heavy lifting for 3 months. In other words, my repair didn't have to be THAT strong...and for many other repairs, this technology could be made to work today.
In other other news, the Trekkies are all thinking about the photon torpedo due to arrive within the next 15 years.
...an African falcon or a European falcon?
His crop is already being irradiated...BY THE SUN. Idiots. Sheesh.
You never know about habitability...if the planet is tidally locked then there is a "twilight zone" around the planet between the day and night side that may have moderate temperatures. There could be subterranean water there capable of supporting single-celled life, though I would agree that advanced life as we know it is probably out of the question.
Yes, but where do you get a bathtub that big?
I see serious problems with the idea that the information on this paper is "lost" after 16 hours. We all know how hard it is to "lose" data on a hard drive. It seems to me that if a printer has printed on this paper, then some kind of indelible information is now stored on this paper. How long will it be until this paper is thrown away and that data is then stolen?