They just need to advertise it as the hip new hangout spot for goths!
Cemeteries make great hangout spots for more than just goths. For my friends and I in high school, the favorite spot to meet and talk and spar (we were all kind of martial arts nuts) was the local cemetery, and none of us were or are goths. The graveyard just provided a nice quiet place to have fun without worrying about bumping into little children or elderly folks like we would in the park. The grounds were better and more pleasantly kept than in the park, as well. We made sure not to disturb graves or markers, especially while sparring (we reserved that for open areas where anyone was yet to be planted), and so local authorities and the groundskeeper never had a problem with us being there.
When home from college, some of us still meet there and chat, though we don't spar quite as much anymore.
Grave markers can make for interesting reading, too.
Flag planting by proxy? Will the robot then walk over to the U.S. flag and tear it down?
Who cares if they tear one down? There would still be 5 others... unless of course the Japanese send 6 flag-tearing robots to do the job.
Oblig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeFcSq7Mxg
We have the same system with DC++ here, including support from ResNet, though the minimum share level is 5GB. Problem now is that since the system is tolerated by the admins, to cover their own skins (understandably) file sharing has been restricted to non-copyrighted files, with violators being permanently banned from DC++. As such it's hardly used anymore except for finding things like Linux distros without cutting into internet bandwidth allotment, and sneakernet's becoming more popular again.
I find it amusing that xkcd bothers to define -40 degrees Celsius as, "Spit goes 'clink.'" I know it's trying to offer intuitive ways to make the switch without having to reference Imperial units, but -40C and -40F are exactly the same.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I very well may be; I'm not overly familiar with the Drake equation), but doesn't that broadcasting time apply mainly to before a civilization has the technology to broadcast? What about when they still broadcast, but in such a way that their signals don't pollute deep space? Is that taken into account?
So if a sufficiently advanced civilization (like ours) eventually develops radio technology that doesn't get far beyond their own planet, could this severely limit how much we would detect from other planets in the way of radio signals?
No, the display is not necessarily an exhaustive list of ALL things named Enterprise. Although who knows why they picked the shuttle prototype instead of SS2....
Written from the perspective of someone living several millenia ago about a sci-fi show depicting the modern world:
"The problem isn't the weakness of the science, actually. It's the weakness of the sociology! It's inconceivable to me that a creation like the automobile wouldn't radically transform human culture and society into something unrecognizable. There are technologies of great medical intervention that get trotted out regularly, yet we still are told that people would be quite satisfied with a 70-year life span, more or less. I won't even mention computers."
I wonder if we can really call the sociology weak. It's true that they have great technological advances, but would that really change human nature that much? I leave it to the reader to figure out for themselves whether or not there have actually been major sociological changes over the past few thousand years that were driven solely by technological advancement. And since Star Trek is only a few hundred years in the future, compare today's society with that of the 18th century. Are the changes really that pronounced? Would today's human culture be unrecognizable to someone living in 1709?
The more technology advances, the more people stay the same.
I disagree. The whole ship could be remote controlled by FTL subspace communication, which is available in that universe.
Not exactly. In Star Trek, maximum subspace radio speed is only 199,516 times the speed of light. So it would take roughly 183 days to send a message to a remote controlled ship on the other side of the galaxy. Even just controlling a ship on the other side of Federation space (which is only about 10,000 light years across) would take about 18 days. I suppose those limitations could be partially made up for with good future AI, but significant human interaction would be almost completely removed from exploration as a result. When that happens, half the point of exploration is lost as we turn over our desire to explore and learn to robots.
In fact, you can see the tracks of the astronauts in the latest images of the Apollo 11 landing site returned by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Um, maybe it's just me but I don't see any footprints in the LRO image of the Apollo 11 landing site. Perhaps you're referring to the footprints in the Apollo 14 image? Those footprints go quite a long ways away from the LM and due to the pixelation of the image it's hard to tell just how well-preserved they might be that close to the descent stage.
Show me an epic, any epic or tale from any author or society...
that starts out with disassembled termites.
Drat you and your comment! My sleep deprived mind, in a state leaving it very vulnerable to suggestion, and has taken what you said and written something incredibly stupid. Well, here it is...
One hundred million years ago a termite was wounded and its abdomen split open. The resin of a pine tree slowly enveloped its body and the contents of its gut. In what is now the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar, the resin fossilized and was buried until it was chipped out of an amber mine. The resin had seeped into the termite's wound and preserved even the microscopic organisms in its gut. These microbes are the forebears of the microbes that live in the guts of today's termites and help them digest wood, but with one exception: these microbes were intelligent. Not just intelligent like apes or dolphins or even humans, but intelligent like the gods of the ancient legends, of Greek mythology. They passed down the generations from parent to children, often times hopping species when having only one race of host became unreliable. In due time they came to infest the humans of the ancient world. They were the great minds behind the pyramids, stone henge, and other ancient wonders not yet discovered. Their hosts, worshiped as gods by other humans, were really nothing but slaves to the will of the microbes who called themselves the Cul-Sevet.
Theirs was a singular purpose: to bring forth the dawn of the Qet-Selver, or Free Dawn, and the ending of the scourge of multicellular organisms, or Det-Katak, on the face of the Earth. But the plans of the Cul-Sevet were not to be fully realized, for in time their species proved incapable of dealing with the immune systems of their ancient human hosts. They were driven into a long hibernation and mankind, thinking them extinct, forgot them.
But the Cul-Sevet are not so easily beaten, and when uncovered by amber miners in Myanmar they woke with a vengeance. Rejuvenated from over two millenia of rest and angered by the advent and malicious use of antibiotics by humans, they were bent more than ever on the destruction of Det-Katak and the bringing of Qet-Selver. This is their story. This is the beginning of the Free Dawn.
Hey, look at that. A first poster who I didn't actually want TO KILL ON SIGHT. You, sir, have earned a pardon (and a stern glare) for your deliberate misuse of being the first poster because your slightly humorous reference to nature documentaries almost (but not quite) brought a smile to my face. AC, I applaud you (though quietly, and with great hesitance)...
You know, I'm all for renewable power, but, aren't there a whole lot of starving people that this money could be feeding? Diseases to cure? Good to do? I kinda thought that churches operated under the do good platform...
I would tend to agree with you, however I think the Vatican's main reason for the solar power is to practice good stewardship of the earth by reducing carbon emissions (which can benefit starving people indirectly). But it is true that there are better things to be done with 660 million dollars that would be more beneficial for humanity in general than just providing power for a few hundred people.
It's stuff like this that makes me worried that humanity as a whole will be just too incredibly stupid to make it through this century without killing ourselves in one of many ways.
As Three Mile Island shows, we'll avoid killing ourselves this century since we'll be too worried about danger and prevent progress (i.e., holding back nuclear power plant technology). We just won't make any progress. We're smart enough to survive, but too dumb to get any smarter in the immediate future.
Listening to music from their earlier years seems to be conforting for people, but to say that the quality of music and musicianship has declined is just another 'the kids these days are shit' statement.
I don't know. But I'm 17 and I agree that today's music is crap. Most of my favorite music comes from the early to mid 90s, and I can't stand most of the stuff that artists are churning out today. A lot of it sounds the same, both musically and lyrically, so there's really not a lot of uniqueness to a lot of new "hit" songs (to my ears, at least; YMMV).
The iPAQ 110 is fairly new and if you replace pocket IE with something a bit better like Opera Mobile it would work pretty well. You can get it for around $200, depending on where you look.
And you have just pointed out step 2 in their plan to ruin the movie theater experience, or stop piracy, whichever comes first.
Don't be shocked once metal detectors, checking in your cell phone at the lobby to get back after the movie, and numbered on ticket seating.
Of course, when nearly anyone wants to put up with that crap, the loss in sales to their annoying practices will be blamed on even more piracy.
Good riddance to them
Doing that sort of thing would just make people who don't ordinarily pirate movies anyway just stop coming to the theatre and start pirating just to avoid all that stuff.
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They just need to advertise it as the hip new hangout spot for goths!
Cemeteries make great hangout spots for more than just goths. For my friends and I in high school, the favorite spot to meet and talk and spar (we were all kind of martial arts nuts) was the local cemetery, and none of us were or are goths. The graveyard just provided a nice quiet place to have fun without worrying about bumping into little children or elderly folks like we would in the park. The grounds were better and more pleasantly kept than in the park, as well. We made sure not to disturb graves or markers, especially while sparring (we reserved that for open areas where anyone was yet to be planted), and so local authorities and the groundskeeper never had a problem with us being there.
When home from college, some of us still meet there and chat, though we don't spar quite as much anymore.
Grave markers can make for interesting reading, too.
Intel thanks you, people of China, for the gift of your body's water....
He said "ouch" at the end. He must have died as he was typing it.
Flag planting by proxy? Will the robot then walk over to the U.S. flag and tear it down?
Who cares if they tear one down? There would still be 5 others... unless of course the Japanese send 6 flag-tearing robots to do the job.
Oblig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeFcSq7Mxg
We have the same system with DC++ here, including support from ResNet, though the minimum share level is 5GB. Problem now is that since the system is tolerated by the admins, to cover their own skins (understandably) file sharing has been restricted to non-copyrighted files, with violators being permanently banned from DC++. As such it's hardly used anymore except for finding things like Linux distros without cutting into internet bandwidth allotment, and sneakernet's becoming more popular again.
I find it amusing that xkcd bothers to define -40 degrees Celsius as, "Spit goes 'clink.'" I know it's trying to offer intuitive ways to make the switch without having to reference Imperial units, but -40C and -40F are exactly the same.
...but what if you tried scanning a live human with this? Might it tell you who the tastiest person in the room is?
Correct me if I'm wrong (I very well may be; I'm not overly familiar with the Drake equation), but doesn't that broadcasting time apply mainly to before a civilization has the technology to broadcast? What about when they still broadcast, but in such a way that their signals don't pollute deep space? Is that taken into account?
So if a sufficiently advanced civilization (like ours) eventually develops radio technology that doesn't get far beyond their own planet, could this severely limit how much we would detect from other planets in the way of radio signals?
No, the display is not necessarily an exhaustive list of ALL things named Enterprise. Although who knows why they picked the shuttle prototype instead of SS2....
Written from the perspective of someone living several millenia ago about a sci-fi show depicting the modern world:
"The problem isn't the weakness of the science, actually. It's the weakness of the sociology! It's inconceivable to me that a creation like the automobile wouldn't radically transform human culture and society into something unrecognizable. There are technologies of great medical intervention that get trotted out regularly, yet we still are told that people would be quite satisfied with a 70-year life span, more or less. I won't even mention computers."
I wonder if we can really call the sociology weak. It's true that they have great technological advances, but would that really change human nature that much? I leave it to the reader to figure out for themselves whether or not there have actually been major sociological changes over the past few thousand years that were driven solely by technological advancement. And since Star Trek is only a few hundred years in the future, compare today's society with that of the 18th century. Are the changes really that pronounced? Would today's human culture be unrecognizable to someone living in 1709?
The more technology advances, the more people stay the same.
I disagree. The whole ship could be remote controlled by FTL subspace communication, which is available in that universe.
Not exactly. In Star Trek, maximum subspace radio speed is only 199,516 times the speed of light. So it would take roughly 183 days to send a message to a remote controlled ship on the other side of the galaxy. Even just controlling a ship on the other side of Federation space (which is only about 10,000 light years across) would take about 18 days. I suppose those limitations could be partially made up for with good future AI, but significant human interaction would be almost completely removed from exploration as a result. When that happens, half the point of exploration is lost as we turn over our desire to explore and learn to robots.
In fact, you can see the tracks of the astronauts in the latest images of the Apollo 11 landing site returned by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Um, maybe it's just me but I don't see any footprints in the LRO image of the Apollo 11 landing site. Perhaps you're referring to the footprints in the Apollo 14 image? Those footprints go quite a long ways away from the LM and due to the pixelation of the image it's hard to tell just how well-preserved they might be that close to the descent stage.
Try gluing it down...
Drat you and your comment! My sleep deprived mind, in a state leaving it very vulnerable to suggestion, and has taken what you said and written something incredibly stupid. Well, here it is...
One hundred million years ago a termite was wounded and its abdomen split open. The resin of a pine tree slowly enveloped its body and the contents of its gut. In what is now the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar, the resin fossilized and was buried until it was chipped out of an amber mine. The resin had seeped into the termite's wound and preserved even the microscopic organisms in its gut. These microbes are the forebears of the microbes that live in the guts of today's termites and help them digest wood, but with one exception: these microbes were intelligent. Not just intelligent like apes or dolphins or even humans, but intelligent like the gods of the ancient legends, of Greek mythology. They passed down the generations from parent to children, often times hopping species when having only one race of host became unreliable. In due time they came to infest the humans of the ancient world. They were the great minds behind the pyramids, stone henge, and other ancient wonders not yet discovered. Their hosts, worshiped as gods by other humans, were really nothing but slaves to the will of the microbes who called themselves the Cul-Sevet.
Theirs was a singular purpose: to bring forth the dawn of the Qet-Selver, or Free Dawn, and the ending of the scourge of multicellular organisms, or Det-Katak, on the face of the Earth. But the plans of the Cul-Sevet were not to be fully realized, for in time their species proved incapable of dealing with the immune systems of their ancient human hosts. They were driven into a long hibernation and mankind, thinking them extinct, forgot them.
But the Cul-Sevet are not so easily beaten, and when uncovered by amber miners in Myanmar they woke with a vengeance. Rejuvenated from over two millenia of rest and angered by the advent and malicious use of antibiotics by humans, they were bent more than ever on the destruction of Det-Katak and the bringing of Qet-Selver. This is their story. This is the beginning of the Free Dawn.
Hey, look at that. A first poster who I didn't actually want TO KILL ON SIGHT. You, sir, have earned a pardon (and a stern glare) for your deliberate misuse of being the first poster because your slightly humorous reference to nature documentaries almost (but not quite) brought a smile to my face. AC, I applaud you (though quietly, and with great hesitance)...
You know, I'm all for renewable power, but, aren't there a whole lot of starving people that this money could be feeding? Diseases to cure? Good to do? I kinda thought that churches operated under the do good platform...
I would tend to agree with you, however I think the Vatican's main reason for the solar power is to practice good stewardship of the earth by reducing carbon emissions (which can benefit starving people indirectly). But it is true that there are better things to be done with 660 million dollars that would be more beneficial for humanity in general than just providing power for a few hundred people.
Try DVD Decrypter to rip disk images. Handy little program.
It's stuff like this that makes me worried that humanity as a whole will be just too incredibly stupid to make it through this century without killing ourselves in one of many ways.
As Three Mile Island shows, we'll avoid killing ourselves this century since we'll be too worried about danger and prevent progress (i.e., holding back nuclear power plant technology). We just won't make any progress. We're smart enough to survive, but too dumb to get any smarter in the immediate future.
Listening to music from their earlier years seems to be conforting for people, but to say that the quality of music and musicianship has declined is just another 'the kids these days are shit' statement.
I don't know. But I'm 17 and I agree that today's music is crap. Most of my favorite music comes from the early to mid 90s, and I can't stand most of the stuff that artists are churning out today. A lot of it sounds the same, both musically and lyrically, so there's really not a lot of uniqueness to a lot of new "hit" songs (to my ears, at least; YMMV).
The iPAQ 110 is fairly new and if you replace pocket IE with something a bit better like Opera Mobile it would work pretty well. You can get it for around $200, depending on where you look.
And you have just pointed out step 2 in their plan to ruin the movie theater experience, or stop piracy, whichever comes first.
Don't be shocked once metal detectors, checking in your cell phone at the lobby to get back after the movie, and numbered on ticket seating.
Of course, when nearly anyone wants to put up with that crap, the loss in sales to their annoying practices will be blamed on even more piracy.
Good riddance to them
Doing that sort of thing would just make people who don't ordinarily pirate movies anyway just stop coming to the theatre and start pirating just to avoid all that stuff.
Yeah, this is old news. The TV Classics section has been up for a long time already.
And the females would all be strong, beautiful, and deadly.
This is /. People here have no hope with current women, much less genetically engineered super women.
"No, Kirk, you can't get away. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
With any luck Ricardo activated a genesis device shortly before dying and we'll soon have a nearby M-Class planet to study...