Anything can cause "earthquakes" The interior of the moon was mapped when astronauts placed seismic detectors at the various apollo landing sites. But the moon has no known natural earthquakes, so the engineers shipped along a "scientific grenade launcher" that was activated after the astronauts had left, producing artificial earthquakes that the other sensors picked up, revealing the core structure. Additionally used Saturn booster stages were intentionally crashed into the moon along with the dicarded lunar lander. Literally thousands of tiny earthquakes happen on earth every day, most are too tiny to be felt by humans, but seismometers can pick them up. The main problem with extraterrestrial analysis is that you need sensors at multiple sites on the surface but even if the world is dead you can make enough of a disturbance to find out core structure.
Because everyone knows its more important for a president to have a good personality rather than havve policies that are good for the country. I have no doubt that bush is a likable guy, that doesnt mean he was best qualified for the job, and it certainly doesnt mean hes not running the country into the ground now.
SARS fatality rate:14-15% AIDS fatality rate:90% when untreated Regardless of how its transmitted, it should be a bigger deal. Its not like people go through life without having sex, you can go longer than without breathing, but there are only 6 degrees of seperation between you and anyone else on the planet, so if you have sex with six diferent partners, and they all had sex with six different partners, etc. P{retty soon everybody has it. "Its not important because its transmitted sexually" is a load of crap. Its important because it kills alot of people.
Except that planes travel 10 times faster and cars travel at approximately the same speed but without a scedule. When trains travel faster than cars (in the US) and go places planes dont, or cant economically they will catch on again. For example commuter rail like VRE in virginia is popular because it goes where planes cant. If VRE went 150 mph it would be even more popular.aned of course the obligitory If the US invested as much in rails as it does in roads, rails would be much more viable. For example, the actual rails in the railroad are all privately owned wherease the roads for cars are all publicly owned. If the money for roads came from an increase in the gas tax rather than from income tax, people would flock to rails.
Um no. Aids deaths this year were 3 million people. Why is this not front page news every day in every country? When SARS killed like 200 people it was front page news for months. 3 frickin million people died last year from AIDS. There is no excuse that this should not be the single most important item on anyones agenda. If terrorists killed 3 million people last year what would the media do? Theyd be apoplectic. Tom Brokaw would have a seizure on screen. People need to get their priorities straight.
What I meant by that statement was that the total time between the first use of fossil oil and the time it runs out is about 200 years (1850-2050) Of course, its not as grim as all that, alternatives will be and have been found, its just that theyre more expensive than pulling oil out of the ground.
Even assuming that oil were somewhat renewable, the rate of growth of consumption of oil far outstrips the renewal rates. At the rate were going now, we will have used all the available oil in about 200 years. Either way the oil was formed, its taken millions of years to get to where we are now, so its still nonrenewable no matter what formed it.
OK, I would consider myself pro nuclear, but I sure as hell wouldnt want plutonium batteries floating around. Forget the fact that if somone decided they wanted to build a nuclear bomb they could just buy some batteries: Plutonium, regardless of its radioactivity is one of the most poisonous substances known to man. Why dont you consider a radioisotope generator that uses something other than plutonium, mmmkay?
For all of you people saying guns prevent crime, we need guns to prevent dictatorship etc, I have one word for you: IRAQ. Nearly every single male (and most females) over the age of 10 in iraq have a fully automatic AK-47 somewhere in their possetion. Did this prevent sadam from coming to power? Did this topple saddam? Did this prevent widespread looting , kidnapping, murder etc in the immediate aftermath of the war? No it did not. Clearly the solution is not simply: give everyone guns. The solution is: give the right people guns and take the guns away from the whackos.
Turn Around time. Thats what its all about. If you can carry 300 passengers from paris to Japan in 2 hours, and a normal jet can do it in 8 hours, ideally your hupersonic jet can make 4 times as many trips, although in reality it would probably be around 2-3 more trips. If your super jumbo 7x7 can carry 700 passengers, your supersonic jet can carry 900 passengers in the same amount of time. Net to the airline, 200 paying customers. If this covers the extra fuel that the supersonic jet uses, then its economically viable, if not too bad. This is why we dont have prop planes going from the US to japan. Prop planes are alot cheaper and more efficient, but they only go about 300 mph, so you can run twice as many runs with a jet as with a prop plane.
If all you need is a fingerprint, then everyone will be wearing gloves soon. We leave fingerprints everywhere! New crime of the future: Person gets your fingerprint of a glass or a door or some other public place and racks up a mint. Say what you will about credit cards, at least you dont leave yoru credit card number, expiration date and billing address on every surface you touch. Theres something to be said about slightly insecure systems. The less secure something is the less easy it is to steal, since people are more suspicious of insecure systems then they are of supposedly "secure" systems. I can see a day where your credit card number is quantum encrypted on a microchip implanted in yoru skull. And the ability to dispute charges will no longer exist of course, because the system is unbreakable! Except for the short, easily memorizable password needed to unlock the quantum encryption. We can seethis already with identity theft. Now that youre identifiable by a number (instead of in person, as in the old days) anyone with access to that number is you, and everyone believes that its you, because the system is supposed to be secure.
"We still think free choice is best for companies, the individuals and the government," said Luiz Moncau, Microsoft's marketing director in Brazil. "There is the risk of creating a technology island in Brazil supported by law."
You can live on an island, but you drown in the ocean.
Paraphrasing stowell: "Weve supplied over a million pages of documentation to IBM, we dont know why they want more."
Well I can supply you with a million pages of documentiation, just give me a laser printer and plenty of toner. They havent provided a single page of documentation that supports their case.
China doesnt need foriegn Aid. The total US budget for forieggn aid is like 13 billion dollars. The US trade defecit with china is about 115 dollars. Thats 115 biullion dollars that go to build new chinese factories, start new chinese industries and go into chinese taxes. Chinas military spending is about 50 billion dollars a year. So youre right, it is being done thgouth international "aid" but that aid is in the form of people voluntarily buying products made by chinese companies.
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No, we destroyed them with all our seismic noise and "Underground" atomic bomb tests.
Anything can cause "earthquakes" The interior of the moon was mapped when astronauts placed seismic detectors at the various apollo landing sites. But the moon has no known natural earthquakes, so the engineers shipped along a "scientific grenade launcher" that was activated after the astronauts had left, producing artificial earthquakes that the other sensors picked up, revealing the core structure. Additionally used Saturn booster stages were intentionally crashed into the moon along with the dicarded lunar lander. Literally thousands of tiny earthquakes happen on earth every day, most are too tiny to be felt by humans, but seismometers can pick them up. The main problem with extraterrestrial analysis is that you need sensors at multiple sites on the surface but even if the world is dead you can make enough of a disturbance to find out core structure.
Because everyone knows its more important for a president to have a good personality rather than havve policies that are good for the country. I have no doubt that bush is a likable guy, that doesnt mean he was best qualified for the job, and it certainly doesnt mean hes not running the country into the ground now.
SARS fatality rate:14-15%
AIDS fatality rate:90% when untreated Regardless of how its transmitted, it should be a bigger deal. Its not like people go through life without having sex, you can go longer than without breathing, but there are only 6 degrees of seperation between you and anyone else on the planet, so if you have sex with six diferent partners, and they all had sex with six different partners, etc. P{retty soon everybody has it. "Its not important because its transmitted sexually" is a load of crap. Its important because it kills alot of people.
Except that planes travel 10 times faster and cars travel at approximately the same speed but without a scedule. When trains travel faster than cars (in the US) and go places planes dont, or cant economically they will catch on again. For example commuter rail like VRE in virginia is popular because it goes where planes cant. If VRE went 150 mph it would be even more popular.aned of course the obligitory If the US invested as much in rails as it does in roads, rails would be much more viable. For example, the actual rails in the railroad are all privately owned wherease the roads for cars are all publicly owned. If the money for roads came from an increase in the gas tax rather than from income tax, people would flock to rails.
The poor people could just get information from the internet..... Oh wait.... ;-)
Um no. Aids deaths this year were 3 million people. Why is this not front page news every day in every country? When SARS killed like 200 people it was front page news for months. 3 frickin million people died last year from AIDS. There is no excuse that this should not be the single most important item on anyones agenda. If terrorists killed 3 million people last year what would the media do? Theyd be apoplectic. Tom Brokaw would have a seizure on screen. People need to get their priorities straight.
I totally agree with you, oh, and ABORTIONS FOR ALL! there, that ought to get things started.
What I meant by that statement was that the total time between the first use of fossil oil and the time it runs out is about 200 years (1850-2050) Of course, its not as grim as all that, alternatives will be and have been found, its just that theyre more expensive than pulling oil out of the ground.
I mean from when we started to when it will run out, not from now until it runs out, thats about 50 years.
Yes they did, why dont you ask an iraqi
Even assuming that oil were somewhat renewable, the rate of growth of consumption of oil far outstrips the renewal rates. At the rate were going now, we will have used all the available oil in about 200 years. Either way the oil was formed, its taken millions of years to get to where we are now, so its still nonrenewable no matter what formed it.
OK, I would consider myself pro nuclear, but I sure as hell wouldnt want plutonium batteries floating around. Forget the fact that if somone decided they wanted to build a nuclear bomb they could just buy some batteries: Plutonium, regardless of its radioactivity is one of the most poisonous substances known to man. Why dont you consider a radioisotope generator that uses something other than plutonium, mmmkay?
For all of you people saying guns prevent crime, we need guns to prevent dictatorship etc, I have one word for you: IRAQ. Nearly every single male (and most females) over the age of 10 in iraq have a fully automatic AK-47 somewhere in their possetion. Did this prevent sadam from coming to power? Did this topple saddam? Did this prevent widespread looting , kidnapping, murder etc in the immediate aftermath of the war? No it did not. Clearly the solution is not simply: give everyone guns. The solution is: give the right people guns and take the guns away from the whackos.
What about police officer cell phones? If im trying to rob a bank, can I use this to tell when the cops are coming?
Just remember, if you stop spending money like sheep, the terrorists win, but if you give up your freedoms in exchange for "security" they dont.
Turn Around time. Thats what its all about. If you can carry 300 passengers from paris to Japan in 2 hours, and a normal jet can do it in 8 hours, ideally your hupersonic jet can make 4 times as many trips, although in reality it would probably be around 2-3 more trips. If your super jumbo 7x7 can carry 700 passengers, your supersonic jet can carry 900 passengers in the same amount of time. Net to the airline, 200 paying customers. If this covers the extra fuel that the supersonic jet uses, then its economically viable, if not too bad. This is why we dont have prop planes going from the US to japan. Prop planes are alot cheaper and more efficient, but they only go about 300 mph, so you can run twice as many runs with a jet as with a prop plane.
Theyre all on Kazaa
If we can shield pacemakers from EMP, why cant the machines shield sentinals from emps in the matrix?
If all you need is a fingerprint, then everyone will be wearing gloves soon. We leave fingerprints everywhere! New crime of the future: Person gets your fingerprint of a glass or a door or some other public place and racks up a mint. Say what you will about credit cards, at least you dont leave yoru credit card number, expiration date and billing address on every surface you touch. Theres something to be said about slightly insecure systems. The less secure something is the less easy it is to steal, since people are more suspicious of insecure systems then they are of supposedly "secure" systems. I can see a day where your credit card number is quantum encrypted on a microchip implanted in yoru skull. And the ability to dispute charges will no longer exist of course, because the system is unbreakable! Except for the short, easily memorizable password needed to unlock the quantum encryption. We can seethis already with identity theft. Now that youre identifiable by a number (instead of in person, as in the old days) anyone with access to that number is you, and everyone believes that its you, because the system is supposed to be secure.
You can live on an island, but you drown in the ocean.
Well I can supply you with a million pages of documentiation, just give me a laser printer and plenty of toner. They havent provided a single page of documentation that supports their case.
Wow, terrible spelling, Sorry about that, I wrote this just after I woke up.
China doesnt need foriegn Aid. The total US budget for forieggn aid is like 13 billion dollars. The US trade defecit with china is about 115 dollars. Thats 115 biullion dollars that go to build new chinese factories, start new chinese industries and go into chinese taxes. Chinas military spending is about 50 billion dollars a year. So youre right, it is being done thgouth international "aid" but that aid is in the form of people voluntarily buying products made by chinese companies.
Actually A biplane made out of kite material and used bycycle parts by two bycycle repairmen is an invention.