Only 7 million years from now, for all you long range planners.
Yes, which would be only about 70 Ice Ages we'd have to survive first. The Neanderthals only survived a few ice ages, and they were stronger and smarter than us, but according to every documentary portrayal I've ever seen, they were very dirty and unkempt, so I think the odds are with us.
Drive a bus at.99C. Have the back row stand and sit. Then the next row stand and sit, then the next, so you get a wave going from the back of the bus. If you get people doing the wave fast enough, the wave may exceed the speed of light while the transport mechanism does not.
The first principle of relativistic physics is that at relativistic speeds you cannot simply add relative velocities -- you need to use the Lorentz Transformation (which will never give you a velocity greater than c). Experiments in particle accelerators have born out these equations.
Faster-than-light communication is still, unfortunately, completely impossible, and it will take one big-ass change in our understanding of physics to have any hope of ever acheiving it.
Yeah, and a big-ass change in our understanding of physics would be completely unprecedented.
I have a better plan. The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (I just googled CO2 exhale rate and they sound legitimate) estimates the average person exhales 1 kg/day of CO2. Assuming the world population is 6.7 billion people, this leads to ~2.45 billion metric tons of CO2 a year.
Interesting possibility. I suppose if the militia in Darfur could just step up its efficiency a bit, it would be entitled to collect Richard Branson's money. Where's Mao Zedong now that we really need him?
I suspected all along that the IPCC panel had to tie back into communism somehow.
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic. A head of state who actually reads scientific climate studies, and openly questions Al Gore's sanity...
Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President? A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. ... Q: Isn't there enough empirical evidence and facts we can see with our eyes that imply that Man is demolishing the planet and himself? A: It's such a nonsense that I have probably not heard a bigger nonsense yet. Q: Don't you believe that we're ruining our planet? A: I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can't. I don't see any ruining of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don't think that a reasonable and serious person could say such a thing.
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Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic.
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u t-ipcc-panel.html
A head of state who actually reads scientific climate studies, and openly questions Al Gore's sanity...
Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President?
A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists.
Q: Isn't there enough empirical evidence and facts we can see with our eyes that imply that Man is demolishing the planet and himself?
A: It's such a nonsense that I have probably not heard a bigger nonsense yet.
Q: Don't you believe that we're ruining our planet?
A: I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can't. I don't see any ruining of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don't think that a reasonable and serious person could say such a thing.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/02/vclav-klaus-abo