Obviously there is something to see here. Us. Our sun was a member of a galaxy that was absorbed by the Milky Way. The evidence is in the fact that we do not orbit the center of this galaxy in the plane of its arms, but rather perform a wave-like motion alternatively above and below the center plane, passing through the plane in between peaks. A galactic collision could produce the effect noted in TFA, while simultaneously increasing interstellar gas and dust cloud densities, protecting the outer stars from the radiation produced (as well as forcing new star production) Yeah, this was in a slashdot story awhile back I think. It was pretty quickly debunked by Bad Astronomy:
[Opening paragraph in above link.] Note: I generally don't do a thorough debunking of pseudoscientific nonsense on the blog, and instead relegate that to the main site. But I decided to do this on the blog, knowing that more people would read it than if I put it on the main site and linked to it from the blog. So here it is. Bon appetit.
Yeah, let's wait, and wait some more. Don't worry, the next guys we elect will do something about it. Just like Congress cracked down on the administration when the democrats took control.
oh wait...
The only thing sitting on our thumbs is going to do is allow people to forget about this whole thing. If you want something to happen, start getting angry and DO something.
DU is also pyrophoric. ...and self sharpening, and has better penetration. The US doesn't refrain from using Tungsten because it comes from China. The US uses DU instead because it's better.
So.. it's less toxic than one of the world's most famous deadly poisons Ricin is a famous poison. Many people would consider Mercury to be another. Polonium 210 recently hit the news, I could consider that pretty famous too. Oh and we mustn't forget Cyanide. Could probably throw in Nerve Gas too.
But you know, I could still say that Depleted Uranium is less toxic than all of them.
To sum up your post in a different way: "The 2000lb JDAM bomb has a lower yield than one of the world's most famous nuclear weapons. That's really reassuring."
Fearmongering at its finest.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but didn't girls used to be wed and bedded at the age of 10 or 12 just a few centuries ago? Reaching puberty at the age of 12 doesn't seem so strange to me.
From the wikipedia page on puberty:
...the average age of menarche in various populations surveyed in the last several decades has ranged from 12.0 to 18.5 years. The earliest mean is reported for African-American girls and the oldest for high altitude subsistence populations in Asia. However, it is clear that much of the higher age averages reflect nutritional limitations more than genetic differences and can change within a few generations with a substantial change in diet. The median age of menarche for a population may be an index of the proportion of undernourished girls in the population, and the width of the spread may reflect unevenness of wealth and food distribution in a population.
...Nutritional factors are the strongest and most obvious environmental factors affecting timing of puberty. Girls are especially sensitive to nutritional regulation because they must contribute all of the nutritional support to a growing fetus. Surplus calories (beyond growth and activity requirements) are reflected in the amount of body fat, which signals to the brain the availability of resources for initiation of puberty and fertility.
Much evidence suggests that for most of the last few centuries, nutritional differences accounted for majority of variation of pubertal timing in different populations, and even among social classes in the same population. Recent worldwide increased consumption of animal protein, other changes in nutrition, and increases in childhood fatness have resulted in falling ages of puberty, mainly in those populations with the higher previous ages. In many populations the amount of variation attributable to nutrition is shrinking.
Although available dietary energy (simple calories) is the most important dietary influence on timing of puberty, quality of the diet plays a role as well. Lower protein intakes and higher plant fiber intakes, as occur with typical vegetarian diets, are associated with later onset and slower progression of female puberty.
Most flights are over a couple hours long, so why not just stuff passengers into cubicles and sedate them a la Fifth Element? Perhaps you could even make sections of cubicles in the plane capable of detaching and deploying a parachute in emergencies.
I don't think he could do that, even with miraculous powers. I know, the whole one-in-three business makes it kind of confusing, but I still just don't think it could be done. It can be done. Believe me, I've seen pictures.
I can describe it to you: Take your penis, now bend it towards your anus. If your penis is long enough, you'll be able to insert it. And there you go! You are now fucking yourself.
This was actually done at my highschool, here in British Columbia. Granted, it was only one week of first aid each year, but it's a start. You're also given the option to attend certification classes for first aid, if you want. [But you have to pay for it, and for highschool kids - it's pretty expensive.]
My only complaint was that there was too much theory, and not enough practice. Half the week is spent preparing for an exam on what to do in such and such situation, what a first responder does, what the path of blood is through the body, etc. It's important, but not nearly as important in my opinion, as doing CPR drills to the point that everyone could do it with their hands tied while asleep.
The second app would be projecting a nude body onto everyone, or onto selected genders, with options for body type and when to do it..... Seeing as we're talking all fancy sci-fi here, how about/recording/ the bodies of people you meet? So you can save the 'image' of a person for later... Imagine the possibilities!
*Idea shamelessly stolen from Peter Hamilton's "The Night's Dawn Trilogy"
But it seems by assuming control of the car GM would also be assuming responsibility for the occupants of the vehicle and any other involved in a collision. No, I don't think it'll quite work like that. No automotive company with a sound mind would sell their cars if such a situation was true, especially considering the number of cars on the road, and the number of accidents. - BUT - what if in any crash involving a driverless car the fault for the accident automatically falls on the human driver until proven otherwise?
I know, guilty until proven innocent, but as unfortunate as it is, that's pretty much the only way I can see this adoption taking place and at the same time surviving all the lawyers.
So... yeah. I want one, I'm sure there's more than a few other slashdotters out there who also want one. But none of Samsung's links helped me find a store that sells the 2.5 inch 64GB drives. Does anyone know where these are being sold?
If you had RTFA, you'd probably have noticed it said this:
"Samsung says the drive can withstand an operating shock of 1,500Gs at.5 miliseconds (versus 300Gs at 2 miliseconds for a traditional hard drive). The drive is heartier in one other important way: Mean time between failure is rated at over 2 million hours"
Not only does NASA only launch when the weather is good, but the Space Shuttles themselves are about to go out of service.
Unless they launch other rockets from Cape Canaveral this building seems wholly useless; and even if they do, it still seems unnecessary considering the few problems NASA has actually had with lightning. [Mostly thanks to their proactive decision to not launch during lightning storms.]
Quite honestly, I'd have rather seen the money for this giant lightning rod go to one of the canceled science missions.
I'd rather see NASA spending their money on Mars. I'd rahter see NASA spending their money on Venus, the most earth-like and habitable planet in our solar system aside from Earth itself.
Let her play the DS after spending 30-60 minutes of time a day working on reading. No, do not do this. Reading should never be related to work. She should not be 'forced' to read for an hour if she wants to play her games. That turns reading into a chore, and she won't want to do it.
There's the RPGCodex... They generally have a negative opinion on every single RPG that comes out. Some people there bash RPG's just because they can, but there's plenty of intelligent posters who give clear reasons for why such and such RPG is not a very good RPG.
The most common complaint I've seen is probably "There are no consequences for your actions." Which, for the most part in computer RPG's, is true. You can waltz into someone's home, take all their stuff, and walk away without any problems. Or you can have the option of saving the king, or not saving the king, but with both resulting in the same outcome, creating a world that never changes with what you do.
Winning a battle doesn't mean you get everything you want... but it does mean you've prevented your enemy from getting the thing they wanted from you. I think that's actually called a stalemate.
Isn't it a bit like saying "The US Mint can print as many bills as they like!" ? What? No. It's not even close. What the crack are you smoking? To mint a coin you need physical materials. There's a finite amount of nickel and copper in the Earth, the supply is not limitless.
This, on the other hand, is completely different. An admin can almost literally wish 10 billion dollars worth of furniture into the game at a moments' notice. He could make a chair worth 5 cents or 5 trillion cents. Making another chair requires him to input a short character string. It's nothing like real life theft.
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Yeah, let's wait, and wait some more. Don't worry, the next guys we elect will do something about it. Just like Congress cracked down on the administration when the democrats took control.
oh wait...
The only thing sitting on our thumbs is going to do is allow people to forget about this whole thing. If you want something to happen, start getting angry and DO something.
But you know, I could still say that Depleted Uranium is less toxic than all of them.
To sum up your post in a different way: "The 2000lb JDAM bomb has a lower yield than one of the world's most famous nuclear weapons. That's really reassuring."
Fearmongering at its finest.
From the wikipedia page on puberty:
...the average age of menarche in various populations surveyed in the last several decades has ranged from 12.0 to 18.5 years. The earliest mean is reported for African-American girls and the oldest for high altitude subsistence populations in Asia. However, it is clear that much of the higher age averages reflect nutritional limitations more than genetic differences and can change within a few generations with a substantial change in diet. The median age of menarche for a population may be an index of the proportion of undernourished girls in the population, and the width of the spread may reflect unevenness of wealth and food distribution in a population.Much evidence suggests that for most of the last few centuries, nutritional differences accounted for majority of variation of pubertal timing in different populations, and even among social classes in the same population. Recent worldwide increased consumption of animal protein, other changes in nutrition, and increases in childhood fatness have resulted in falling ages of puberty, mainly in those populations with the higher previous ages. In many populations the amount of variation attributable to nutrition is shrinking.
Although available dietary energy (simple calories) is the most important dietary influence on timing of puberty, quality of the diet plays a role as well. Lower protein intakes and higher plant fiber intakes, as occur with typical vegetarian diets, are associated with later onset and slower progression of female puberty.
Actually... you could be onto something here.
Most flights are over a couple hours long, so why not just stuff passengers into cubicles and sedate them a la Fifth Element? Perhaps you could even make sections of cubicles in the plane capable of detaching and deploying a parachute in emergencies.
I can describe it to you:
Take your penis, now bend it towards your anus. If your penis is long enough, you'll be able to insert it. And there you go! You are now fucking yourself.
Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.
But what is that in Volvo stacks?
Uh... I'm sure I'm not the only one with this question, but what celebrity reference is this article supposed to be referencing?
This was actually done at my highschool, here in British Columbia. Granted, it was only one week of first aid each year, but it's a start. You're also given the option to attend certification classes for first aid, if you want. [But you have to pay for it, and for highschool kids - it's pretty expensive.]
My only complaint was that there was too much theory, and not enough practice. Half the week is spent preparing for an exam on what to do in such and such situation, what a first responder does, what the path of blood is through the body, etc. It's important, but not nearly as important in my opinion, as doing CPR drills to the point that everyone could do it with their hands tied while asleep.
On the flips side, most of the people I have talked to that claim to not like Halo, have never played it. ; P
*Idea shamelessly stolen from Peter Hamilton's "The Night's Dawn Trilogy"
Two girls, one spaceship?
I wonder how this kind of technology would be affected by shockwaves.
I know, guilty until proven innocent, but as unfortunate as it is, that's pretty much the only way I can see this adoption taking place and at the same time surviving all the lawyers.
So... yeah. I want one, I'm sure there's more than a few other slashdotters out there who also want one. But none of Samsung's links helped me find a store that sells the 2.5 inch 64GB drives. Does anyone know where these are being sold?
If you had RTFA, you'd probably have noticed it said this:
.5 miliseconds (versus 300Gs at 2 miliseconds for a traditional hard drive). The drive is heartier in one other important way: Mean time between failure is rated at over 2 million hours"
"Samsung says the drive can withstand an operating shock of 1,500Gs at
Just thought I'd point out, Halo 3 isn't even available on PC. Perhaps you were thinking of Halo 2?
Not only does NASA only launch when the weather is good, but the Space Shuttles themselves are about to go out of service.
Unless they launch other rockets from Cape Canaveral this building seems wholly useless; and even if they do, it still seems unnecessary considering the few problems NASA has actually had with lightning. [Mostly thanks to their proactive decision to not launch during lightning storms.]
Quite honestly, I'd have rather seen the money for this giant lightning rod go to one of the canceled science missions.
There's the RPGCodex... They generally have a negative opinion on every single RPG that comes out. Some people there bash RPG's just because they can, but there's plenty of intelligent posters who give clear reasons for why such and such RPG is not a very good RPG.
The most common complaint I've seen is probably "There are no consequences for your actions." Which, for the most part in computer RPG's, is true. You can waltz into someone's home, take all their stuff, and walk away without any problems. Or you can have the option of saving the king, or not saving the king, but with both resulting in the same outcome, creating a world that never changes with what you do.
This submission reminded me of an old Canadian public service announcement:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EouPjJLub2c
Oh, and don't forget to watch this one
This, on the other hand, is completely different. An admin can almost literally wish 10 billion dollars worth of furniture into the game at a moments' notice. He could make a chair worth 5 cents or 5 trillion cents. Making another chair requires him to input a short character string. It's nothing like real life theft.
Your trolling score: 3/10