"These short-lived, hydrogen-like atoms consist of an electron and a positron, a positively charged antiparticle."
I would think that an anti-proton and a positron (anti-electron) would be a "hydrogen-like atom." Why is the mating of an electron and an anti-electron considered an "atom?"
And what force is keeping them from just annihilating each other? Why do they hook up and hang out, even for a brief time?
I read about this on fark and got confused but came here to ask. So please, smart people of Slashdot, explain this to me.
I don't mean to come off as some sort of Chicken Little or something, but I worry sometimes about scientists getting a little careless. Certainly this research is awesome and I'm all for it, but I hope that there is someone in there really giving some thought to keeping these new lifeforms from getting out and killing everything on the Earth. Scientists often have the attitude that what they are working on is awesome and good and poses no danger to anyone. "These life forms can't possibly hurt us, so why contain them?!" So they take them home on their shirts and the things evolve and bad things happen.
Again, I don't want to rain on the awesome parade or anything, but I hope that someone in there is giving this some thought and maybe, once they get somewhere, they'll start taking precautions to contain this new life.
I don't care about any of this HD format stuff. I've got an HDTV but I'm not going to plunk down hundreds of dollars on something that may, or may not, be the format for the next ten years.
Until Star Trek II comes out on one of the formats. Then I buy a player the next day.
I'd like to mod you "unlikely" but I can't. I'll just add to the posts which say that there will be no major public uproar. I personally think the government corporations are putting something in our bottled water.
What's always bothered me about that is that in the first movie Marty says, "This sucker's nuclear?" and Doc replies, "No this sucker's electric, it only needs the nuclear reaction to provide the 1.21 gigawatts..." (Paraphrased from memory)
So what did Doc mean by it being electric? At the time I thought it was using an electric motor for propulsion. But then in the third one it suddenly always had an internal combustion engine and that's where it gets its propulsion.
Also, do they expect me to believe that the ICE is what provided forward propulsion while the car was flying? Sure sure, the lightning strike took out the hover circuits or whatever, but there must be some way to make whatever engine that was just push the car forward along the ground...
I have a cell phone and I've made it clear to my friends that my cellphone exists for me to be able to place phone calls. It's always off when I'm not calling someone so they just go straight to voicemail and in a week or so when I want to make a call I get their message. After a year of people wondering why I wasn't calling them back they all came to understand.
And so I get to have a cellphone without people calling me all the time.
I also have no friends anymore, but I think that's unrelated.
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If based on majority vote, it isn't the lowest common denominator, it's the largest common denominator. A thing to be marveled at!
Unlike our current gods who are all very much real and worth dying for!!!!!
You are standing in a field, facing East. A river runs East and West to the North of you and a path runs to the South and East.
"These short-lived, hydrogen-like atoms consist of an electron and a positron, a positively charged antiparticle." I would think that an anti-proton and a positron (anti-electron) would be a "hydrogen-like atom." Why is the mating of an electron and an anti-electron considered an "atom?" And what force is keeping them from just annihilating each other? Why do they hook up and hang out, even for a brief time? I read about this on fark and got confused but came here to ask. So please, smart people of Slashdot, explain this to me.
I don't mean to come off as some sort of Chicken Little or something, but I worry sometimes about scientists getting a little careless. Certainly this research is awesome and I'm all for it, but I hope that there is someone in there really giving some thought to keeping these new lifeforms from getting out and killing everything on the Earth. Scientists often have the attitude that what they are working on is awesome and good and poses no danger to anyone. "These life forms can't possibly hurt us, so why contain them?!" So they take them home on their shirts and the things evolve and bad things happen. Again, I don't want to rain on the awesome parade or anything, but I hope that someone in there is giving this some thought and maybe, once they get somewhere, they'll start taking precautions to contain this new life.
There's a galaxy only two and a half light years from here? It's suddenly feeling awfully crowded...
I'm not quite sure.
I don't care about any of this HD format stuff. I've got an HDTV but I'm not going to plunk down hundreds of dollars on something that may, or may not, be the format for the next ten years. Until Star Trek II comes out on one of the formats. Then I buy a player the next day.
Does this mean you won't be my myspace friend?
I have a feeling that this will have negative effects if we take it too far.
I'd like to mod you "unlikely" but I can't. I'll just add to the posts which say that there will be no major public uproar. I personally think the government corporations are putting something in our bottled water.
What's always bothered me about that is that in the first movie Marty says, "This sucker's nuclear?" and Doc replies, "No this sucker's electric, it only needs the nuclear reaction to provide the 1.21 gigawatts..." (Paraphrased from memory) So what did Doc mean by it being electric? At the time I thought it was using an electric motor for propulsion. But then in the third one it suddenly always had an internal combustion engine and that's where it gets its propulsion. Also, do they expect me to believe that the ICE is what provided forward propulsion while the car was flying? Sure sure, the lightning strike took out the hover circuits or whatever, but there must be some way to make whatever engine that was just push the car forward along the ground...
I got a chuckle, but I'm not modding you funny for fear of getting moderated UNAMERICAN.
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I have a cell phone and I've made it clear to my friends that my cellphone exists for me to be able to place phone calls. It's always off when I'm not calling someone so they just go straight to voicemail and in a week or so when I want to make a call I get their message. After a year of people wondering why I wasn't calling them back they all came to understand. And so I get to have a cellphone without people calling me all the time. I also have no friends anymore, but I think that's unrelated.
Perhaps you should direct some of this anger at the police who reacted the way that they did. Had they not, you would not have been so put out.
it's amazing that people are jumping on the linux bandwagon. What with the warm, welcoming, and supportive arms of the linux community!