yet another brilliantly stupid idea brought to you by the Retardiste Internationale. Bringing the insanity since, well, like 4 months ago; it's the internet, things happen fast.
I was thinking that this would be perfect for coastal wind farms. Convert sea water to hydrogen and oxygen. Pipe O and H to the city. Convert to H2O and create power. Voila, power plant and desalinization plant in one.
Pearl harbor was hundreds of miles away from the US, hawaii wasn't even a state yet. 911 was the first attack on US soil since the war of 1812. I'd think that the president would get his ass out of that room and start making some decisions. You know, maybe force all planes down, maybe scramble the airforce, maybe even put the whole military on full alert?
You're so right with that. That's why I try to make a point of not buying anything I can remember seeing an ad for. That pretty much leaves me with Pabst Blue Ribbon and food from the local farmers market. Not that bad all in all.
I meant smart in a relative sense. and I never said experience, though that would be a correct term, I said influence, and I agree with you on the second opinion for my intellegence.
You'd only be more cognitively aware if you didn't have a negative influence in you're younger years.
and as for tests: the fact that they don't say much about intellegence was my point. I don't think I'm any more intellegent than the average. And I don't think it was only the lack of TV that gave me the edge on the tests. I'm white too.
That is the problem ain't it? I didn't get to watch TV, except he-man at the neighboors, until I was six. And you know what? I'm smart. Not a genius or anything, though the tests tell me different, but i'm a hell of a lot more cognantly active than anyone I know who didn't get the childhood TV treatment. Give the kids some LEGOs, only nice square ones mind you, and let their brain develop.
I would disagree somewhat, but only in scale. We *can* communicate with other species on a minimal level. Dogs often know their name, cats come when you tell them dinner is ready. I'm certainly not under the impression that this is any sort of communication system we should base contact with other "intellegent" races on, but we do have the ability to convey emotions or situations to some other species. The problem that I think we will run into with a species that is significantly different is that even the idea of emotion , as far as we understand it, will be foreign to them. Conversly, they will have a set of assumtions upon which they act, a semantic base if you will, that will make it nearly impossible for them to figure out how to communicate with us even on the level that we communicate with squirrels, for example.
I have a friend whose mother is a nurse and she has assured me that that kind of thing happens more than anyone would like it to. Not that once isn't too much.
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Don't worry, we have people on it as we speak.
About two thirds the mass of the moon.
Do you know the energy cost, how much oil it takes to get one barrel out of the ground, of current methods and future methods?
How much energy cost do military operations to secure oil supplies incur?
It's odd that this came up. I had mentioned this possibility in an earlier thread about the space elevator. I got this reply.
In short it will take about a hundred millionth of the earth's mass, or 5.4E16 kg, to have an effect.
To put that in some sort of perspective, it would be the equivalent of launching 54 trillion Blue whales into space.
yet another brilliantly stupid idea brought to you by the Retardiste Internationale. Bringing the insanity since, well, like 4 months ago; it's the internet, things happen fast.
Not anywhere close to the number that skyscrapers kill.
If one anectdote constitutes proof I need to reread my old science books.
I really hope I just missed your sarcasm.
Skyscrapers kill more.
I was thinking that this would be perfect for coastal wind farms. Convert sea water to hydrogen and oxygen. Pipe O and H to the city. Convert to H2O and create power. Voila, power plant and desalinization plant in one.
Pearl harbor was hundreds of miles away from the US, hawaii wasn't even a state yet. 911 was the first attack on US soil since the war of 1812. I'd think that the president would get his ass out of that room and start making some decisions. You know, maybe force all planes down, maybe scramble the airforce, maybe even put the whole military on full alert?
so how much mass do we need to send out to stop the earths rotation totally? Or even to significantly effect it.
I was thinking insightful.
You're so right with that. That's why I try to make a point of not buying anything I can remember seeing an ad for. That pretty much leaves me with Pabst Blue Ribbon and food from the local farmers market. Not that bad all in all.
Oddly Wikipedia would Disagree.
I meant smart in a relative sense. and I never said experience, though that would be a correct term, I said influence, and I agree with you on the second opinion for my intellegence.
You are retarded.
You'd only be more cognitively aware if you didn't have a negative influence in you're younger years.
and as for tests: the fact that they don't say much about intellegence was my point. I don't think I'm any more intellegent than the average. And I don't think it was only the lack of TV that gave me the edge on the tests. I'm white too.
you know what keeps geting me about all of this? "Around" 1420 sounds a hell of a lot like Pi with out the 3.
That is the problem ain't it? I didn't get to watch TV, except he-man at the neighboors, until I was six. And you know what? I'm smart. Not a genius or anything, though the tests tell me different, but i'm a hell of a lot more cognantly active than anyone I know who didn't get the childhood TV treatment. Give the kids some LEGOs, only nice square ones mind you, and let their brain develop.
Oh yeah, that'd get accepted.
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and if you check on what he wrote you'll note that the Archos DVM-4012 does not exist.
I would disagree somewhat, but only in scale. We *can* communicate with other species on a minimal level. Dogs often know their name, cats come when you tell them dinner is ready. I'm certainly not under the impression that this is any sort of communication system we should base contact with other "intellegent" races on, but we do have the ability to convey emotions or situations to some other species. The problem that I think we will run into with a species that is significantly different is that even the idea of emotion , as far as we understand it, will be foreign to them. Conversly, they will have a set of assumtions upon which they act, a semantic base if you will, that will make it nearly impossible for them to figure out how to communicate with us even on the level that we communicate with squirrels, for example.
I have a friend whose mother is a nurse and she has assured me that that kind of thing happens more than anyone would like it to. Not that once isn't too much.
I'd assume he was only talking about people who use the internet. Not that he would have correct numbers even assuming that, but it'd be closer.
From what I can find about 800 million people use the internet now. 5% of that would be 40 million.
yay math.
I'd say TubGoat is growing up quite well all considered; though I don't think he's seen the pictures, yet.
Hopefully they won't watch the news then. They'll probably think they're suppose to start killing people.
"oh, so this is how the humans communicate, through the spilling of the red bodily fluid."