I don't really know how many people are going to want to play with their gadgets as though they were silly putty, but this strikes me as something that would greatly enhance a device's resistance to wear, tear, drops, and falls. I could see this having applications in particularly rough environments, if nothing else.
It's just a touch disheartening to read this study telling me that I've been paying out the anus for antidepressants for months when I could have just been eating sugar pills. That's fantastic. All this just makes me want to take a lead pill, if you get my meaning. But no, instead I'm going to go for a 2 mile walk, which was also prescribed by my doctor because it will raise my seratonin levels... but will it really? Or am I just going to think that my seratonin levels are rising and it is actually making some kind of a difference in the whacked out way my brain operates? I wonder what Darwin would think of depression, it seems rather incongruous with "survival of the fittest" to be pumping all us clinically depressed folks full of drugs (that may or may not actually be doing anything!) and encouraging us to go on living, and one day pass on our genes. Well, I'm sure the pharmaceutical companies are happy about that, anyways. Keep crankin' out those depressed folks, and we'll keep thinking up fancy names for our expensive placebos!
At least this finally makes some sense out of Naked Snake's whole "walk around to recharge the battery" thing. Does this device generate enough power to operate a soliton radar?
Will this reduction in voltage and increase in energy efficiency reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip? It would be nice to have a powerful laptop that I could actually use in my lap (without fear of roasting my dangly bits).
It may have already been said, but even so it bears repeating that space exploration is critical to the survival of the human race. No matter what we do, Earth will not be here forever.
One would rarely find themselves in a situation where they need to distinguish one white house from millions of extremely similar white houses. It is for this reason that naming that particular building "The White House" works. If everyone lived in a white house with nearly identical construction, and each of these houses were regularly referred to as a "White House", naming one of them "The White House" wouldn't be of much use.
A star with planets is a sun. A rock of sufficient mass orbiting a planet is a moon. Our sun is not the only sun, and our moon is not the only moon. Astronomers and other scientists, who study several suns and several moons, typically choose to specify our sun by calling it Sol, and our moon by calling it Luna. "The moon" and "the sun" is far too ambiguous when you are dealing with millions of suns and moons.
It could be argued that the singularity of a black hole is an impossibly dense star. In which case, it would still be a solar system. However, it would only be a solar system if it had planets orbiting around it. It is highly unlikely that a black hole would have planets orbiting it, as the planets would have insufficient mass to keep from simply falling in to the black hole, that is to say the overwhelming mass of the black hole would place the barycenter of the black hole and any accompanying planet well inside the event horizon, and the orbital velocity that would be required to prevent simply being sucked in would be nigh unthinkable. A pair of black holes orbiting each other would be a binary system, just like two stars orbiting each other.
We're pretty used to referring to Sol as "the sun" but the truth is, a sun is a thing and there are many of them. It is silly to call ours THE sun, because it clearly isn't. In actually, it is ONE OF the suns. Sol is our sun's Latin name. Similarly, Luna is our moon's Latin name.
Will the Hubble Space Telescope once again become the most important scientific tool for space exploration? Why yes, but, the real question is... will it blend?
I think at that point, where you are investing in a 30" LCD monitor for your PC, you might as well just buy an LCD HDTV. Most of them have all the ports this monitor has including VGA, DVI, and HDMI. Plus the bonus of a built in HD tuner. Many of them also look quite a deal slicker, and are easily wall mountable. I use my 32" Westinghouse LCD HDTV as a second monitor all the time, and it works a treat.
Um... I think the idea is to run warm water through the tubes to defrost the road, not spray warm water all over the road. Spraying water all over the road in the dead of winter would be super retarded.
If 357,000 miles is "VERY VERY close" then I am practically inside Angelina Jolie's vagina, considering my proximity to her and what I assume you propose for varying degrees of closeness.
I walked into a local independent game shop the other day, just as they unboxed 6 new Wii consoles that had arrived that day. I asked "Do you have any Wiis in stock?" and an employee stepped in front of the stack of Wiis and said "Nnnnnnooooo.... th..these aren't for sale. I mean they are, but we sell them online. No one wants to pay the $450 we are asking in the store." Frickin' jerkwads.
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I don't really know how many people are going to want to play with their gadgets as though they were silly putty, but this strikes me as something that would greatly enhance a device's resistance to wear, tear, drops, and falls. I could see this having applications in particularly rough environments, if nothing else.
It's just a touch disheartening to read this study telling me that I've been paying out the anus for antidepressants for months when I could have just been eating sugar pills. That's fantastic. All this just makes me want to take a lead pill, if you get my meaning. But no, instead I'm going to go for a 2 mile walk, which was also prescribed by my doctor because it will raise my seratonin levels... but will it really? Or am I just going to think that my seratonin levels are rising and it is actually making some kind of a difference in the whacked out way my brain operates? I wonder what Darwin would think of depression, it seems rather incongruous with "survival of the fittest" to be pumping all us clinically depressed folks full of drugs (that may or may not actually be doing anything!) and encouraging us to go on living, and one day pass on our genes. Well, I'm sure the pharmaceutical companies are happy about that, anyways. Keep crankin' out those depressed folks, and we'll keep thinking up fancy names for our expensive placebos!
At least this finally makes some sense out of Naked Snake's whole "walk around to recharge the battery" thing. Does this device generate enough power to operate a soliton radar?
Will this reduction in voltage and increase in energy efficiency reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip? It would be nice to have a powerful laptop that I could actually use in my lap (without fear of roasting my dangly bits).
That would be incredibly sad, and show to the rest of the world just how narrow minded the American people are. I hope that doesn't come to pass.
Does anyone else feel like a huge nerd for knowing what the Kobayashi Maru is?
I for one welcome our new leafy, rat eating overlord...but... does it blend?
I'm glad someone got the reference! I can't begin to fathom what the people who modded my post "Troll" were thinking.
We all know about the Face on Mars, but I wonder if they will finally find the Butt on Mercury?
I for one welcome our new cyborg farming overlords.
It may have already been said, but even so it bears repeating that space exploration is critical to the survival of the human race. No matter what we do, Earth will not be here forever.
One would rarely find themselves in a situation where they need to distinguish one white house from millions of extremely similar white houses. It is for this reason that naming that particular building "The White House" works. If everyone lived in a white house with nearly identical construction, and each of these houses were regularly referred to as a "White House", naming one of them "The White House" wouldn't be of much use.
A star with planets is a sun. A rock of sufficient mass orbiting a planet is a moon. Our sun is not the only sun, and our moon is not the only moon. Astronomers and other scientists, who study several suns and several moons, typically choose to specify our sun by calling it Sol, and our moon by calling it Luna. "The moon" and "the sun" is far too ambiguous when you are dealing with millions of suns and moons.
You find me a single solar mass black hole and I'll be inclined to believe you.
Violent diarrhea maybe...
It could be argued that the singularity of a black hole is an impossibly dense star. In which case, it would still be a solar system. However, it would only be a solar system if it had planets orbiting around it. It is highly unlikely that a black hole would have planets orbiting it, as the planets would have insufficient mass to keep from simply falling in to the black hole, that is to say the overwhelming mass of the black hole would place the barycenter of the black hole and any accompanying planet well inside the event horizon, and the orbital velocity that would be required to prevent simply being sucked in would be nigh unthinkable. A pair of black holes orbiting each other would be a binary system, just like two stars orbiting each other.
We're pretty used to referring to Sol as "the sun" but the truth is, a sun is a thing and there are many of them. It is silly to call ours THE sun, because it clearly isn't. In actually, it is ONE OF the suns. Sol is our sun's Latin name. Similarly, Luna is our moon's Latin name.
Am I the only person who is not surprised that planets might form from a planetary nebula?
Psh. 2007 is soooo last week.
Will the Hubble Space Telescope once again become the most important scientific tool for space exploration? Why yes, but, the real question is... will it blend?
This is only going to lead to millions of college students slipping a 50" cock into the professor's lecture while he isn't looking.
I think at that point, where you are investing in a 30" LCD monitor for your PC, you might as well just buy an LCD HDTV. Most of them have all the ports this monitor has including VGA, DVI, and HDMI. Plus the bonus of a built in HD tuner. Many of them also look quite a deal slicker, and are easily wall mountable. I use my 32" Westinghouse LCD HDTV as a second monitor all the time, and it works a treat.
Um... I think the idea is to run warm water through the tubes to defrost the road, not spray warm water all over the road. Spraying water all over the road in the dead of winter would be super retarded.
If 357,000 miles is "VERY VERY close" then I am practically inside Angelina Jolie's vagina, considering my proximity to her and what I assume you propose for varying degrees of closeness.
I walked into a local independent game shop the other day, just as they unboxed 6 new Wii consoles that had arrived that day. I asked "Do you have any Wiis in stock?" and an employee stepped in front of the stack of Wiis and said "Nnnnnnooooo.... th..these aren't for sale. I mean they are, but we sell them online. No one wants to pay the $450 we are asking in the store." Frickin' jerkwads.