They do have a point though. It's quite possible that we could end up with an industry that is capable of producing flawless cuts of synthetic meat that cost much more than slaughtering the real thing. Fraud could become a real problem if the technology gets good enough but stays expensive.
1 billion electron volts = 1.6*10^-10 Joules/particle 1 trillion electron volts = 1.6*10^-7 Joules/particle. The energy of each individual particle is tiny by comparison with things that most people encounter but there are trillions of them whizzing around the LHC its self and that adds up quickly.
To create a particle like the Higgs boson, the collision energy needs to at least equal the mass of the particle you're trying to create. The higher energy collisions in the LHC increase the odds of finding the Higgs because of this. THe mass of the Higgs isn't known. However, the more collisions we do at higher energies, the thinner the range of masses the Higgs can be.
I would think that after all that has happened in the last decade, people would stop being so surprised when our bloated government abuses its power *again*.
The same point as releasing the source code of software. Most people won't be able to do anthing with it but there's much to be gained from those who can make heads or tails of it. There is no harm in releasing the data. As a scientist myself, I can not see anything good coming from withholding this kind of data.
More importantly we need to find a way to do so that is cheap or even profitable to the United States, China, India and other high CO2 emission countries otherwise meaningful reductions in emissions will be difficult. Combinations of technologies like Coal + Algae diesel or Nuclear + water thermal cracking + Fischer-Tropsch.
Did they ever solve the problem that older, flexible, OLED displays had that caused visual distortion as the OLED display was bent or is this still an issue?
Geobacter Is capable of doing precisely what you describe. The bacterium extends electrode like pili into its environment and degrading various materials ranging from hydrocarbons to Uranium salts. However, Geobacter creates an electrical current in a very different way than these algae batteries would. The algae battery looks like it uses the cellulose as a supportive structure in rather than using biological processes to generate an electrical potential.
This for me is evidence that low order life will be pervasive elsewhere, which makes me wonder why we haven't heard from the high order life forms?
The conditions under which primitive life can exist are numerous. The same can't really be said of intelligent life. Bacteria can live in cracks over a km under the surface; animals and the like can't. Space is huge. 4.26 light years to Alpha Centauri alone. Signals degrade, civilizations collapse. There's a lot of things that likely make contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life a very rare occurrence.
This is what we get for not sending the proper equipment necessary to excavate material from beneath the surface. An asteroid can dredge up material that is buried and send it out of the martian system; our simple robots can't yet.
As a iochemist, it was my understanding that the habitable zone was already known to extend out toward Mars. Although really, I'd say that the concept of a habitable zone needs to be expanded anyway considering the possibility of life in the Jupiter system. I believe that it is becoming increasingly clear that there isn't just a single habitable zone around a star like our sun but also pockets of habitable space underneath the surface of various moons and terrestrial planets like Mars.
I think you're entirely correct. From what I have seen, most of the denial of AGW is actually resistance to heavy government intervention. Since most of the proposals for dealing with AGW involve significant government economic control, there is a tendency for people to link AGW with big government and act accordingly. If you think about it, someone who is very much against government intervention would likely tend toward scepticism. The problem as I see it is that there is such a great divide between the two political ends of the spectrum that they aren't willing to agree on even the simplist of things let alone anything like AGW.
I think that most of the problem lies in the fact that the debate has become politicized. One side tends to use the issue of anthropomorphic global warming as a bat to attack capitalism and the other side attempts to pretend that all is well and that there is some massive conspiracy behind AGW. The problem is politics not science.
Plasma knows neither good nor evil, it kills them all the same. Further, these plasmas probably destroy a good deal of the oils in your skin as well. Which probably means that if you sterilized your hands too much using non-equilibrium plasma you are more likely to have dry, rough skin.
It isn't the expectation of a flat space-time at quantum scales that is the problem, it is the infinities and negative probabilities that are the trouble. Relativity is wrong at some level; this much is pretty well established. The real tricky part is welding our understanding of space-time with quantum physics in a signle theory without breaking everything.
"String theory" is actually a collection of several competing theories and this theory appears to be another version. I can't really say for sure as the presentation on the theory seemed to me to be rather limited.
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They do have a point though. It's quite possible that we could end up with an industry that is capable of producing flawless cuts of synthetic meat that cost much more than slaughtering the real thing. Fraud could become a real problem if the technology gets good enough but stays expensive.
1 billion electron volts = 1.6*10^-10 Joules/particle
1 trillion electron volts = 1.6*10^-7 Joules/particle.
The energy of each individual particle is tiny by comparison with things that most people encounter but there are trillions of them whizzing around the LHC its self and that adds up quickly.
To create a particle like the Higgs boson, the collision energy needs to at least equal the mass of the particle you're trying to create. The higher energy collisions in the LHC increase the odds of finding the Higgs because of this. THe mass of the Higgs isn't known. However, the more collisions we do at higher energies, the thinner the range of masses the Higgs can be.
I would think that after all that has happened in the last decade, people would stop being so surprised when our bloated government abuses its power *again*.
It's not the rest of the world's jo to restrain our leaders. It is OUR JOB to restrain our leaders.
Yes blame Obama. He picked Biden as his running mate and he isn't any more innocent in regard to the actual treaty than Bush was.
I think you've got that backwards. It's our government doing the undermining:
Self defense its self is politically incorrect these days...
The same point as releasing the source code of software. Most people won't be able to do anthing with it but there's much to be gained from those who can make heads or tails of it. There is no harm in releasing the data. As a scientist myself, I can not see anything good coming from withholding this kind of data.
More importantly we need to find a way to do so that is cheap or even profitable to the United States, China, India and other high CO2 emission countries otherwise meaningful reductions in emissions will be difficult. Combinations of technologies like Coal + Algae diesel or Nuclear + water thermal cracking + Fischer-Tropsch.
more money
200 says that congress will still act like congress and won't turn down a chance to regulate even more.
Did they ever solve the problem that older, flexible, OLED displays had that caused visual distortion as the OLED display was bent or is this still an issue?
Geobacter Is capable of doing precisely what you describe. The bacterium extends electrode like pili into its environment and degrading various materials ranging from hydrocarbons to Uranium salts. However, Geobacter creates an electrical current in a very different way than these algae batteries would. The algae battery looks like it uses the cellulose as a supportive structure in rather than using biological processes to generate an electrical potential.
The conditions under which primitive life can exist are numerous. The same can't really be said of intelligent life. Bacteria can live in cracks over a km under the surface; animals and the like can't. Space is huge. 4.26 light years to Alpha Centauri alone. Signals degrade, civilizations collapse. There's a lot of things that likely make contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life a very rare occurrence.
This is what we get for not sending the proper equipment necessary to excavate material from beneath the surface. An asteroid can dredge up material that is buried and send it out of the martian system; our simple robots can't yet.
Gas bubbles found in the meteorite have a composition that is very much like the atmosphere on Mars. The gas inclusions don't resemble those of Earth.
As a iochemist, it was my understanding that the habitable zone was already known to extend out toward Mars. Although really, I'd say that the concept of a habitable zone needs to be expanded anyway considering the possibility of life in the Jupiter system. I believe that it is becoming increasingly clear that there isn't just a single habitable zone around a star like our sun but also pockets of habitable space underneath the surface of various moons and terrestrial planets like Mars.
I think you're entirely correct. From what I have seen, most of the denial of AGW is actually resistance to heavy government intervention. Since most of the proposals for dealing with AGW involve significant government economic control, there is a tendency for people to link AGW with big government and act accordingly. If you think about it, someone who is very much against government intervention would likely tend toward scepticism. The problem as I see it is that there is such a great divide between the two political ends of the spectrum that they aren't willing to agree on even the simplist of things let alone anything like AGW.
I think that most of the problem lies in the fact that the debate has become politicized. One side tends to use the issue of anthropomorphic global warming as a bat to attack capitalism and the other side attempts to pretend that all is well and that there is some massive conspiracy behind AGW. The problem is politics not science.
Plasma knows neither good nor evil, it kills them all the same. Further, these plasmas probably destroy a good deal of the oils in your skin as well. Which probably means that if you sterilized your hands too much using non-equilibrium plasma you are more likely to have dry, rough skin.
It's still trespass. The weak password defense is irrelevant.
It isn't the expectation of a flat space-time at quantum scales that is the problem, it is the infinities and negative probabilities that are the trouble. Relativity is wrong at some level; this much is pretty well established. The real tricky part is welding our understanding of space-time with quantum physics in a signle theory without breaking everything.
"String theory" is actually a collection of several competing theories and this theory appears to be another version. I can't really say for sure as the presentation on the theory seemed to me to be rather limited.
If I wanted to compare all religion to viruses and malware, I wouldn't have mentioned the extreme sects in particular.