Does anyone else remember an issue of OMNI magazine from the early 1980s that discussed this? I think it may have been around 1982.
In that article, they estimated the roundtrip would take around 42 minutes, which I thought was a grand coincidence having just read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Have you sat in a Roadster? They're pretty uncomfortable. I'm only 5'10" and I felt claustrophobic in the driver's seat. Poor visibility and and hard to get into.
"The largest driver for resistance is the over-use of antibiotics in non-health care related fields, like industrial agriculture, and hand soap."
Honest question: I was under the impression that there is a significant difference between the antibiotics given to (e.g.) cows, and "antibiotic" hand soap. The first acts intracellularlyâ€"inside the cellâ€"while antibiotic soaps act on the whole cell itself. Two completely different mechanisms. One comparison I read said, about the risk of developing resistance to hand soaps, "it would be like developing a resistance to fire." Ain't gonna happen.
I appreciate that you so polite in explaining your sig to the troll. I have seen you sig for years, and the meaning was plainly obvious to me once I had seen a few other "Soviet Russia" jokes. Kudos to you.
Patrilineal endogamy [*] is not an Islamic doctrine.....
Thank you Jamuna for this interesting post. There is an awful lot of complaining on this site about how it has deteriorated over the years. Perhaps. But I still love reading Slashdot because there are still a lot of damn smart comments.
Is it too much to ask the Republicans to simply acknowledge the science? Then they could *join* a healthy debate with the Democrats.
I happen to agree with you that some (but not all) of the suggested solutions being proposed are untenable. But with the Republicans saying "wha wha wha - we can't hear you!!" it is difficult to have a reasonable discussion.
Your original post was marked "+3 Funny" when I first saw it.
So when I read it and saw your horrific hypothesis, I assumed you were joking - Poe's Law and all*.
But good lord! I think you actually believe it. Let me guess: Do you also wonder why Christians have a bad reputation?
Listen, do you have any idea how irresponsible this is? Because it sounds to me like you're suggesting that sick and ill people simply pray to Jesus and forego going to a doctor at all. WTF?
Grow up.
______ _______ *Poe's Law states: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
Serious question though: What size antenna would some(thing) need to hear our radio signals at a distance of 22ly?
I seem to recall from reading somewhere (Physics of Star Trek?) about this. The gist is that this is a non-trivial problem, requiring an antenna unfathomably wide to catch such a weak signal.
Maybe there's an occasional super neat hack, like galaxy/gravitational lensing. But there's no aiming that.
Anyway, maybe we'll catch someone knowledgable about this... Chime in!
I wish that someone knowledgeable about planetary formation could help me out here...
I seem to recall reading a theory many years ago (circa mid 1990s) about the expected/predicted pattern of planetary formation. That is, it was thought that planets would form from an accretion disc around a star in a mass-pattern that approximated a horizontal line from a Pascal Triangle. e.g.:
1 6 15 20 15 6 1
Translated to our solar system, you have the big gas giants Jupiter & Saturn in the middle, and smaller bodies Pluto and Mercury at the extremes. It's not a perfect model, but I've always felt that these gas giants that have been detected around other stars should also have a number of smaller planets in their systems.
But I have not seen reference to that idea again since then. I'm beginning to wonder if I imagined it, but I'm not that smart.
Thank you â€" thank you â€" thank you.
I'm fresh out of mod points, which is too bad. Your post is dead-on. The so-called "smart" comments from Christians are vastly outnumbered by smart comments from atheists.
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"The same journal has a study showing pot-smoking teens are 60% less likely to finish high school than ones who don't."
Wait a minute, I thought *everyone* already agreed that, due to its affect on brain development, teenagers shouldn't be smoking pot?
Having said that, I assume Colorado and Washington won't sell to under 21. But I don't know - am I wrong about that?
Does anyone else remember an issue of OMNI magazine from the early 1980s that discussed this? I think it may have been around 1982.
In that article, they estimated the roundtrip would take around 42 minutes, which I thought was a grand coincidence having just read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
According to Wikipedia, 53 million people...
Have you sat in a Roadster?
They're pretty uncomfortable. I'm only 5'10" and I felt claustrophobic in the driver's seat. Poor visibility and and hard to get into.
Let the car die a respectable death.
How do you pronounce "Kuiper?"
Is it like "cooper?"
Or is it like "kiper" - rhymes with hyper?
whoa, whoa…
I've been lurking on Slashdot since the 90s, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone compliment an editor. Wow.
Kudos.
…sorry about replying to myself, but WTF is with Slashdot's code? I previewed my comment and did not see all the gibberish in the middle. Apologies.
"The largest driver for resistance is the over-use of antibiotics in non-health care related fields, like industrial agriculture, and hand soap."
Honest question: I was under the impression that there is a significant difference between the antibiotics given to (e.g.) cows, and "antibiotic" hand soap. The first acts intracellularlyâ€"inside the cellâ€"while antibiotic soaps act on the whole cell itself. Two completely different mechanisms. One comparison I read said, about the risk of developing resistance to hand soaps, "it would be like developing a resistance to fire." Ain't gonna happen.
Are antibiotic hand soaps really a problem?
- jw
I appreciate that you so polite in explaining your sig to the troll. I have seen you sig for years, and the meaning was plainly obvious to me once I had seen a few other "Soviet Russia" jokes. Kudos to you.
Mod parent up. Someone may have already mentioned elsewhere on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Thank you Jamuna for this interesting post. There is an awful lot of complaining on this site about how it has deteriorated over the years. Perhaps. But I still love reading Slashdot because there are still a lot of damn smart comments.
- jw
Well, to be specific, I think you're talking about the representative from Colorado (Diana DeGette) who introduced a bill in November to do it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_cannabis_from_Schedule_I_of_the_Controlled_Substances_Act#2012_Bill
But really now - how likely is this to pass? I think not very. Anybody know anything I don't?
Link to the image? I'd like to see it!
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=gpg
Sorry, you're right - I was being lazy. I did look on Wiki for GPG, but not closely enough. The GNU Privacy Guard entry didn't jump out at me.
Don't you mean PGP, as in Pretty Good Privacy?
Otherwise, let me know what GPG is...
"700 question in 22 hours"
-->There's an app for that!
Is it too much to ask the Republicans to simply acknowledge the science? Then they could *join* a healthy debate with the Democrats.
I happen to agree with you that some (but not all) of the suggested solutions being proposed are untenable. But with the Republicans saying "wha wha wha - we can't hear you!!" it is difficult to have a reasonable discussion.
Your original post was marked "+3 Funny" when I first saw it.
So when I read it and saw your horrific hypothesis, I assumed you were joking - Poe's Law and all*.
But good lord! I think you actually believe it. Let me guess: Do you also wonder why Christians have a bad reputation?
Listen, do you have any idea how irresponsible this is? Because it sounds to me like you're suggesting that sick and ill people simply pray to Jesus and forego going to a doctor at all. WTF?
Grow up.
______ _______
*Poe's Law states:
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
Anyone else ever read Michael Chrichton's book Congo?
I remember thinking it was a little silly, but nowadays it seems like his most prescient novel.
Not a troll at all, and of course you're right. It was late last night & I didn't think that one through.
Serious question though: What size antenna would some(thing) need to hear our radio signals at a distance of 22ly?
I seem to recall from reading somewhere (Physics of Star Trek?) about this. The gist is that this is a non-trivial problem, requiring an antenna unfathomably wide to catch such a weak signal.
Maybe there's an occasional super neat hack, like galaxy/gravitational lensing. But there's no aiming that.
Anyway, maybe we'll catch someone knowledgable about this... Chime in!
I wish that someone knowledgeable about planetary formation could help me out here...
I seem to recall reading a theory many years ago (circa mid 1990s) about the expected/predicted pattern of planetary formation. That is, it was thought that planets would form from an accretion disc around a star in a mass-pattern that approximated a horizontal line from a Pascal Triangle. e.g.:
1 6 15 20 15 6 1
Translated to our solar system, you have the big gas giants Jupiter & Saturn in the middle, and smaller bodies Pluto and Mercury at the extremes. It's not a perfect model, but I've always felt that these gas giants that have been detected around other stars should also have a number of smaller planets in their systems.
But I have not seen reference to that idea again since then. I'm beginning to wonder if I imagined it, but I'm not that smart.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
- jw
>>Constant tax increases? Have you been asleep for 60 years? Federal income taxes are about the lowest they've been since before WW2.
I am out of mod points -- please mod parent up. Why isn't this point brought up more frequently?
Thank you â€" thank you â€" thank you.
I'm fresh out of mod points, which is too bad. Your post is dead-on. The so-called "smart" comments from Christians are vastly outnumbered by smart comments from atheists.
>> Peter King will sit down and STFU.
Oh, if only we could be so lucky. I, for one, am not quite that optimistic.