Its not particle/antiparticle colision - quite the opposite:o)
Hawking radiation is when a virtual particle/antiparticle pair is created near a black hole, and one of them is "sucked in". The other one, well for lack of a better phrase, radiates outward:o)
He isn't getting the types confused - fusion (or at least dueterium/tritium fusion, which is what they actually do, not dueterium/dueterium as in your example) will give off a neutron.
But, as I said in a previous post, a big ol' layer of lithium will see to that, as well as give you some tritium back. And some alpha particles.
On an aside note, has anyone ever sat down and thought about the economic possiblity of 'harvesting' alpha partices from such places as current nucular power plants, ICBM silos etc, and then seting up a helium balloon vendor?:o)
What I had always assumed on the matter is that any fusion reactor would be encased in a big ol' layer of lithium. The idea behind this is that the lithium with soak up most of the neutrons, forming a neutron-heavy lithium isotope in the prosess. (Cant be bothered pulling out the trusty periodic table to give numbers here:o) This isotope will the decay quite quickly to give tritium (which is quite rare, *and* a fuel for fusion... so this is quite handy) as well as heat (which can be used to get even more electricity) and some other junk I can't recall off the top of my head. Oh yeah. sounds like it'd be an alpha particle, but I'm most likely wrong:o)
Of cource, I may be making that up or something weird - I really haven't had enough sleep.
He means the ratio of energy needed to kick-start the reaction, as well an energy needed to keep the thing from eating itself (such as the magnetic field) to the amount of energy the thing gives out.
and, to the best of my knowledge, this ratio has not reached 1:1 yet.
Well... Writing short hand, and spelling mistakes aside... Hmm. probably not too many.
I sure as hell don't, but I realize that the valididy of that statement might as well be zero. Um, I *do* know that it is quite hard to write as fast as a professor talks, and copying straight from a black board won't let you make up lost time:o)
NOw, the problem I see with *making* wormholes is that you need to infulence both ends... and because you can't infulence anything outside that funny light-cone thing you have, they *still* don't let your *net* travel become faster than light!
Now, naturaly occuring wormholes are another matter, but good luck finding one in our own back yard:o)
I think we are going to have to accept the fact that there is no 'correct' pronunciation of Linux.
Most (all?) words start out their lives oraly - Previously due to mass illiteracy, and now because the only new words seem to be slang.
The internet, however changed that. Due to its text based nature, new words that were spread by it basicly started their live's textually. (Ok, maybe Linus [The number of time i've seen 'linus' without capitals is disgusting - I may not be able to spell, but at least I try to punctuate properly] knew how it should be said way back when he first wrote it, and then maybe he didn't) So people made up their own pronunciations. I'm guilty of doing the same thing with names from, to pick an example completly at random, Tolken's 'Lord of the Rings': "Min-e-ath Tir-ath" anyone? Didn't think so.
On a competly aside note, can anyone please explain why the square brackets have a key all to themselves, while the more commonly used round ones have to share with nine and zero?
At exactly 11.45pm December 31 1999, deploy a crack team of commandos (ie two guys with crowbars and insulated bolt cutters) at the power substation that feeds the CBD. Also deploy an extraction team (ie 8 guys with crowbars, cutting tools and sacks) out side the largest bank in said CBD.
Now, I don't know about other citys, but here in Christchurch, New Zealand, the CBD is in the same place as all the good restaraunts, the red light district, and where all the crazy homeless people rant. It is also not too far from the citys biggest park, where no doubt there will be a lot of people...
At exactly Midnight, the commando team will have themselves in position to 'take out' the substation - by cutting every major cable they can see.
When the extraction team sees the lights go out they scream, run round in circles, and generally try to get as many people to start pillaging nearby stores as possible. Once this has started, they simply waltz into the bank, and take a little money. Not, not I say, clear it out. Simply take what they can carry. With any luck no one will be in any place to stop them, with the 'end of the world' and all that.
(Hopefully) by morning, it is realized that it was only the substation, and not the entire world, that died, and all that is left is to split the money 10 ways.
The perfect crime. Not, of course, that I recomend that anyone actually try this, or at least, not with out guns and more planning than my plain speculation...
Its Called Techocrasy - When the Geeks rule the world:o)
Ah, but if only it were so. You see, living in New Zealand (the way I do) you *very* quickly lose all interest and/or respect for traditional media, and well as all respect for politians. It would seem, to the only mildly educated observer, that people here only get a job in the media or in politics if they can't get a job anywhere better (ie, anyware else). Bottom line - We now have a country ruled by the stupidest and least qualifyed people to do so...
I can see two(2) ways around this. -
1) Bloodyed revolution - Not really my favorite, but the one that gets most peoples attention when I mention it. I also generally use the phrase "First thing we do, we kill all the lawyers!" (Steve Jackson is a God:o) )
2) Slow intergration into existing govenment, perhaps resulting in the "Technology Party" - Probably the way things are going to have to happen. I can see no better way for a country to be run than a technocrasy. Well, I can - A technocrasy with the sole aim of making sure that humans (or what ever desends from humans) are around to witness the end of the universe, and (hopefully) beyond (don't ask - *I* can't help with this one:o) ). I'm trying to take the first step on this road - the step of trying to get everyone on this road:o)
Hmm. I've started to ramble here. Oh well, there goes my one point of karma to a "-1, Offtopic" but I don't care. As far as I can see, at least part of this is aplicable to the US of A...
Uh. What was this meant to be about again? Oh yeah . Media using Slashdot. Well anything that lets the voice of the inteligent/educated be heard is most likely a Good Thing (tm). And as for my own Political/Scientific Views... well, to be honest they are silly. No one is going to elect me or any of my ilk on the policy "I want the human race to be around until the end of the universe" - these people havent even figured out if our oil suply is going to run out soon, and I want them to be worryed about our Sun burning out...!
No, not at all. Stealing the slugbot isn't as useful as it sounds. Leave it unatended for a moment and it will start to wander home, thanks to its GPS. If you combine this with, say, encription protected home-base altering procedures, and a lack of an on/off switch, and all a stolen slugbot will be good for is scrap.
And in light of all the similaritys being drawn with The Matrix, I only have one thing to say. "Salt. Lots of salt"
I get tired of people using phrases like 'natural' in such contexts. 'Organic' is even worse for a buding Chemistry Geek such as myself. "Organic Soybeans"?! Do you know how much I would pay to see nonorganic soybeans?
Thats why I cannot understand it when enviromental activists tamper with geneticaly modifyed crop tests. Come on people! GE food isn't bad. Badly made GE food may be bad, but the tests are trying to find out if the modification a)has gone to plan, and b)has any unwanted side effects. Those are both Good(tm) things! Destroying GE crops just for the sake of it is no better than the luddites destroying... whatever it was the luddites destroyed. Um... you know. Early industrial thingys.
Who says it would stop there? Free Coke for a life time at the low low price of having a Coke ad tattoo'd into you forehead?
(Hmm... wait, I remember something like this actually happening. Or did I dream it? Some fast food franchise. But it didn't have to be your fore head. Um... help?)
Unfortunatly, "they" can often be confusing, due to the possiblity of being plural. A friend and I have started using the pronoun "En" for curcumstances in which gender is unknown.
Well... that and because its fun to have a pronoun noone else understands:o)
(Is it just me, or does "noone" look like it should be said "noony" ?)
Yes. My thoughts exactly. I am always very dubious when it comes to talk of nano tech, mainly because people never seem to adress what I see to be the main issues.
Firstly, that of temprature. It would be rather hard to build a sky scraper if every now and then pieces of your equipment went flying half way across the city because they were slightly hot, but nanobots will be fscked over by the thermodynamics in the substance their working in. OK, so if you have enough of them you wont care, but it still needs to be thought of.
Secondly, comminication. because these things are going to be so small, I'm damned if I can figure out a way to comunicate with them. Which means that you either have a "They only do one thing" situation, and I think you can see how that wouldn't be very favorable (How do you make them *stop*?!) or you... um comunicate with them in some way which mysteriously escapes me.
Thirdly, decomosition. Being so small, evry now and then one of them is going to fall apart for "no" reason: oxidized, reduced... whatever. Once again, if you have enough of them you don't care, but if you subsribe to the "They build each other then do stuff" ideal, an early casualty could be deasterous. (Of course, telling all the bots "that enough building each other, now start building this" is another matter - see above)
Forthly, making the bots versitile to build both one another and, say, human tissue could be difficult also. Currently we are hard pressed to do one or the other, but both at once?
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying NanoTech(tm) is only in the realm of fiction - These four problems (as well as countless others) are overcome every day inside our own body. But what I am saying is that I would be suprised to see useful nanotech inside.. mmm... 50 years? 100 years? I don't know. I always think of those oft quoted quotes when ever I try to give this sort of estimate (64K anyone?), but 50 years isn't too far out, I hope.
Oh, Btw, If any of this is complete BS, is most likely because its 6am and I'm just about to go to bed, not because I don't know what I'm talking about - generally, I do.
Sony makes Microsoft look like the free software operating system Linux
That line froze my blood. Somewhere, in the recesses of my mind, there is a little place that keeps the axioms. In its repotoir are "X is less than X+1", "Your name is Shawn", "Coffee is good" and "Nothing, *nothing*, could make Microsoft compare favorably with Liniux". Right now, I'm having trouble telling what is true.
But I still want a PlayStation 2. Partly due to the dozen or so Playstation games I own.
Having just (about) been converted to linux, I really can't see why it took me so long. So far, as far as I can tell, it has now been developed to the point where the difficulty of installation is not really any greater than win9x.(And this is coming from a person who has reinstalled Windows about 3 times.)
In fact, the more I look at it, the more it seems to be a case of Big Brother vs An Infinite Number of Monkeys. And I mean that in a _good_ way.
Infact, I only wrote this so I could call Linux progamers monkeys:o)
Slashdot Mirror
At the first sign of tampering, it sends a masive electrical current through the body of the car - if anyone happens to be grounding it...
"A prosess whereby fundemental particles interact with one another via application of one of the four fundemental forces"?
Prior art could be a bit of a bitch though :o)
I recomend someone actually trying to patent this though. but only to try to draw attention to the problems with current patent law :o)
Hawking radiation is when a virtual particle/antiparticle pair is created near a black hole, and one of them is "sucked in". The other one, well for lack of a better phrase, radiates outward :o)
But, as I said in a previous post, a big ol' layer of lithium will see to that, as well as give you some tritium back. And some alpha particles.
On an aside note, has anyone ever sat down and thought about the economic possiblity of 'harvesting' alpha partices from such places as current nucular power plants, ICBM silos etc, and then seting up a helium balloon vendor? :o)
Of cource, I may be making that up or something weird - I really haven't had enough sleep.
and, to the best of my knowledge, this ratio has not reached 1:1 yet.
I sure as hell don't, but I realize that the valididy of that statement might as well be zero. Um, I *do* know that it is quite hard to write as fast as a professor talks, and copying straight from a black board won't let you make up lost time :o)
Now, naturaly occuring wormholes are another matter, but good luck finding one in our own back yard :o)
Most (all?) words start out their lives oraly - Previously due to mass illiteracy, and now because the only new words seem to be slang.
The internet, however changed that. Due to its text based nature, new words that were spread by it basicly started their live's textually. (Ok, maybe Linus [The number of time i've seen 'linus' without capitals is disgusting - I may not be able to spell, but at least I try to punctuate properly] knew how it should be said way back when he first wrote it, and then maybe he didn't) So people made up their own pronunciations. I'm guilty of doing the same thing with names from, to pick an example completly at random, Tolken's 'Lord of the Rings': "Min-e-ath Tir-ath" anyone? Didn't think so.
On a competly aside note, can anyone please explain why the square brackets have a key all to themselves, while the more commonly used round ones have to share with nine and zero?
Imagine thusly:
At exactly 11.45pm December 31 1999, deploy a crack team of commandos (ie two guys with crowbars and insulated bolt cutters) at the power substation that feeds the CBD. Also deploy an extraction team (ie 8 guys with crowbars, cutting tools and sacks) out side the largest bank in said CBD.
Now, I don't know about other citys, but here in Christchurch, New Zealand, the CBD is in the same place as all the good restaraunts, the red light district, and where all the crazy homeless people rant. It is also not too far from the citys biggest park, where no doubt there will be a lot of people...
At exactly Midnight, the commando team will have themselves in position to 'take out' the substation - by cutting every major cable they can see.
When the extraction team sees the lights go out they scream, run round in circles, and generally try to get as many people to start pillaging nearby stores as possible. Once this has started, they simply waltz into the bank, and take a little money. Not, not I say, clear it out. Simply take what they can carry. With any luck no one will be in any place to stop them, with the 'end of the world' and all that.
(Hopefully) by morning, it is realized that it was only the substation, and not the entire world, that died, and all that is left is to split the money 10 ways.
The perfect crime. Not, of course, that I recomend that anyone actually try this, or at least, not with out guns and more planning than my plain speculation...
And I want a cut of the profit :o)
Sorry. That *was* uncalled for.
Ah, but if only it were so. You see, living in New Zealand (the way I do) you *very* quickly lose all interest and/or respect for traditional media, and well as all respect for politians. It would seem, to the only mildly educated observer, that people here only get a job in the media or in politics if they can't get a job anywhere better (ie, anyware else). Bottom line - We now have a country ruled by the stupidest and least qualifyed people to do so...
I can see two(2) ways around this. -
1) Bloodyed revolution - Not really my favorite, but the one that gets most peoples attention when I mention it. I also generally use the phrase "First thing we do, we kill all the lawyers!" (Steve Jackson is a God :o) )
2) Slow intergration into existing govenment, perhaps resulting in the "Technology Party" - Probably the way things are going to have to happen. I can see no better way for a country to be run than a technocrasy. Well, I can - A technocrasy with the sole aim of making sure that humans (or what ever desends from humans) are around to witness the end of the universe, and (hopefully) beyond (don't ask - *I* can't help with this one :o) ). I'm trying to take the first step on this road - the step of trying to get everyone on this road :o)
Hmm. I've started to ramble here. Oh well, there goes my one point of karma to a "-1, Offtopic" but I don't care. As far as I can see, at least part of this is aplicable to the US of A...
Uh. What was this meant to be about again? Oh yeah . Media using Slashdot. Well anything that lets the voice of the inteligent/educated be heard is most likely a Good Thing (tm). And as for my own Political/Scientific Views... well, to be honest they are silly. No one is going to elect me or any of my ilk on the policy "I want the human race to be around until the end of the universe" - these people havent even figured out if our oil suply is going to run out soon, and I want them to be worryed about our Sun burning out...!
Oh. and I'm ranting again. Oh well :o)
And in light of all the similaritys being drawn with The Matrix, I only have one thing to say. "Salt. Lots of salt"
I get tired of people using phrases like 'natural' in such contexts. 'Organic' is even worse for a buding Chemistry Geek such as myself. "Organic Soybeans"?! Do you know how much I would pay to see nonorganic soybeans?
Thats why I cannot understand it when enviromental activists tamper with geneticaly modifyed crop tests. Come on people! GE food isn't bad. Badly made GE food may be bad, but the tests are trying to find out if the modification a)has gone to plan, and b)has any unwanted side effects. Those are both Good(tm) things! Destroying GE crops just for the sake of it is no better than the luddites destroying... whatever it was the luddites destroyed. Um... you know. Early industrial thingys.
Ok. I feel better now. Thankyou.
(Hmm... wait, I remember something like this actually happening. Or did I dream it? Some fast food franchise. But it didn't have to be your fore head. Um... help?)
Well... that and because its fun to have a pronoun noone else understands :o)
(Is it just me, or does "noone" look like it should be said "noony" ?)
No. Not inversely proportional - they are just both rare, and thusly both traits in one individual even more so.
Yes. My thoughts exactly. I am always very dubious when it comes to talk of nano tech, mainly because people never seem to adress what I see to be the main issues.
Firstly, that of temprature. It would be rather hard to build a sky scraper if every now and then pieces of your equipment went flying half way across the city because they were slightly hot, but nanobots will be fscked over by the thermodynamics in the substance their working in. OK, so if you have enough of them you wont care, but it still needs to be thought of.
Secondly, comminication. because these things are going to be so small, I'm damned if I can figure out a way to comunicate with them. Which means that you either have a "They only do one thing" situation, and I think you can see how that wouldn't be very favorable (How do you make them *stop*?!) or you... um comunicate with them in some way which mysteriously escapes me.
Thirdly, decomosition. Being so small, evry now and then one of them is going to fall apart for "no" reason: oxidized, reduced... whatever. Once again, if you have enough of them you don't care, but if you subsribe to the "They build each other then do stuff" ideal, an early casualty could be deasterous. (Of course, telling all the bots "that enough building each other, now start building this" is another matter - see above)
Forthly, making the bots versitile to build both one another and, say, human tissue could be difficult also. Currently we are hard pressed to do one or the other, but both at once?
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying NanoTech(tm) is only in the realm of fiction - These four problems (as well as countless others) are overcome every day inside our own body. But what I am saying is that I would be suprised to see useful nanotech inside.. mmm... 50 years? 100 years? I don't know. I always think of those oft quoted quotes when ever I try to give this sort of estimate (64K anyone?), but 50 years isn't too far out, I hope.
Oh, Btw, If any of this is complete BS, is most likely because its 6am and I'm just about to go to bed, not because I don't know what I'm talking about - generally, I do.
I thought WipeOut3 was out now. ::runs into the other room, fires up his playstation:: Yep thats a WipeOut3 alright.
Unless of course you intend to play WipeOut3 on your Playsation2, which while possible, would be kinda like playing Doom on your PIII...
That line froze my blood. Somewhere, in the recesses of my mind, there is a little place that keeps the axioms. In its repotoir are "X is less than X+1", "Your name is Shawn", "Coffee is good" and "Nothing, *nothing*, could make Microsoft compare favorably with Liniux". Right now, I'm having trouble telling what is true.
But I still want a PlayStation 2. Partly due to the dozen or so Playstation games I own.
Having just (about) been converted to linux, I really can't see why it took me so long.
:o)
So far, as far as I can tell, it has now been developed to the point where the difficulty of installation is not really any greater than win9x.(And this is coming from a person who has reinstalled Windows about 3 times.)
In fact, the more I look at it, the more it seems to be a case of Big Brother vs An Infinite Number of Monkeys. And I mean that in a _good_ way.
Infact, I only wrote this so I could call Linux progamers monkeys
>Not 'micro', by any means. I thought 'micro' was supposed to mean that you can't see it.
Hmm... no, micro is just one of those SI prefixy things. I do belive though, that a femtoprosessor would fit the bill though.