You wouldn't see anything at FTL speeds as even radio waves would come on as gamma radiation. If that doesn't kill you outright you can expect your clothes to no longer fit and your tan to turn a darker shade of green whereupon you smash the controls and die anyway.
Not only is a variable being ignored its nearly the central reason for all the hoopla in this story.
For all the millions of dollars wasted on major league players you would think that holding the main tool of the game properly would be a given but its not. Old timers from the dawn days of baseball knew this but it seems to have been forgotten sometime in the past 50 years. If these yahoos that call themselves pros really wanted to pound the ball they would learn how to hold the damn bat properly and not in such a way that it flexes excessively or breaks, both of which is an incomplete transference of the energy from batter to ball.
The bat has a grain like all wood and this grain runs along the side of the bat at 90 degrees to the label. Holding the bat with the label up or down causes this area of bat to be the main contact area. "With the grain" the bat is much stronger and stiffer transferring more of the batters' energy to the ball and of course flying further. "Across the grain" the wood is weaker and more likely to flex or break as the fibers deform. No one has ever broken a bat "with the grain."
In the bat breaking sequence you can clearly see the label is nearly square on to the direction of the pitch. The other vids aren't as easy to see the orientation of the bat but the excessive flex is telling.
This "researcher" needs to find a player who knows how to hold the bat properly and repeat said observations. Then he will discover what the old timers who played in cornfields knew a century ago.
This. A Galaxy Nexus and a Straight Talk plan. Coverage in my area is far better than the Verizon/Sprint/CDMA. Unlimited everything, no contract. I compared this route to my sons ATT/iPhone setup and at the end of 2 years I am ahead $1k, but use the same network and have a phone that is the equal of the much hyped Apple offering. Granted, ATT is only a 3.75G network, but it's fast enough for all I do. YMMV
Hey if you are going to start green-lighting destroying things that are a "pointless waste of resources" by all means let me start my list, I should warn you though that at least the first 1000 items are all going to be human beings.
I drive my vehicle because it suits my needs, without it I'm out of work, some ass wants to burn it is ASKING for a bullet in the face. Am I allowed to burn people's TVs because all they watch is Jerry Springer and "reality" shows?
Word!
TV in general and JS & 'reality TV' in particular, makes the brains dribble out of the ears.
Part of the problem is the 'S' in SUV, I dont have a SUV, I have an UV - Utility Vehicle. And yes I have a class B license too, I can drive trucks a lot bigger that 'Burb. If you condone the use of 'fire' the noun, I condone the use of 'fire' the verb.
Im surprised no one has mentioned the "Giant's Drink" game from "Ender's Game" by O.S. Card. It was an AI game that reprogrammed itself based on what each individual player was doing. Turned out to be a psych evaluation tool more than a game. Was in later books of the series the genesis of a universe spanning consciousness.
Jesus H Christ on a crutch! You want to lojack your kid? You are part of the problem instead of the solution. If your kid is so helpless she cant find her bus, it means either she rides the short bus or you wasted her first five years by failing as a parent to train her properly.
1.Teach your kid how to get on the right bus, and how deal with getting lost.
2.Send your kid to a school that is competent. If you can afford a high tech solution you can afford homeschooling or private school.
3.See #1. A gadgets battery can die, a name tag can come unpinned, school officials will make mistakes, but your kids brain cant fall out, shut off, or stop working.
And yes, I speak from experience. I have raised 7 to adulthood and working on 2 more, none of which got lost. And if your kid puts up enough resistance to being put on the wrong bus, the school will call you, at which time you get a free shot at giving the school an ass-chewing for not being smarter than the kid. (true story)
...is right twice a day.
Despite the common belief that the US government is way beyond screwed up, occasionally there is an outbreak of common sense. (Once you stop laughing about the words 'common sense' and 'government' in the same sentence, you can mod me up.)
You have to be an AC to post this brainless crap. Shes the creator? Are you even on the same planet as the rest of us? No teacher in any public school for the past 50 years has had an original thought. Everything they 'teach' is a pre-thought thought, carefully written in a textbook, and a matching teachers book, vetted by a battery of federal and state bureaucrats. Teachers don't teach, they regurgitate facts and figures, and expect you to do the same, with no original thought or examination. Ask yourself, are science teachers scientists? Are economics teachers economists? Are math teachers mathematicians? Hell no they aren't, they are indoctrination specialists.
If this is a college level issue, even worse. You paid out of your own pocket for that knowledge, its yours.
BTW, you paid for the public schooling too, its called taxes.
Nuclear power is a safe and viable alternative to fossil fuels. PERIOD!
I wholeheartedly agree!. Because even the biggest fuel/air bombs cant get that many at once. On the other hand, even if the target scatters like roaches, you can still warm enough of them to have a body count in the seven figure range.
Ok, I'm slightly worried now. I have to read Slashdot to know about local events? Living in RPB, I had just retreated to my lair for an afternoon nap when the electricity flickered briefly, didnt think much about it since I have battery back-ups for all my goodies. House was warmer when I woke 2 hours later, I guess they don't make back-ups for A/C's? (Air Conditioners, not Anonymous Cowards)
One a side note, why does every tiny little event require a 'terrorists didn't do it' disclaimer? Is this really the first thing that folks think when there is a minor inconvenience? Geeze, if you are that skeered better build a bunker.
I agree with he figure of 100 hours a month being a high number. However, your second assertion is incomplete. If the local grocery store did convert from storefront to warehouse, the energy and manpower wasted on 'look pretty' would be saved. Delivery of the orders would represent a vast increase in fuel saving due to organization. I know far too many people who make individual trips to various stores and places then back home each time, rather than an efficient circuit, unlike a delivery route.
Another poster asserted that mechanics and road builders would be out of business due to decreased traffic, but with tens of thousands of bridges and hundreds of thousands of miles in roads in need of desperate repair, it will be decades before they catch up and by then nature will have damaged even more. I for one welcome a surplus of mechanics. The least apt will go out of business first and the good ones will charge a more reasonable rate, say $45/hr rather than the $90+/hr now.
I think that the real gains from universal broadband coverage would be efficiency. Efficiency in information delivery (read the soup can label in your shorts rather than an air conditioned store while blocking the aisle). Efficiency in movement of goods (delivery routes vs running all over town) Efficiency of infrastructure (roads and bridges repaired/replaced as needed rather than decades too late [I-35?]) Energy efficiency (warehouses use a fraction of the power, and which stores several times more product, than a brightly lit climate controlled store does)
Thats just off the top of my head, Im sure there will be even more.
Im wondering at the practical applications of this and how much it will have to be hidden or at least above the human zone (from the floor to about 7') I imagine extreme blackness would cause an effect similar to "The Blindspot" of sic-fi space travel. In effect the eye/brain would not 'see' the blackness and pull the visible edges together in an optical illusion.
Case in point - I was once in a room that had contained a fire. The walls, floor, ceiling, and windows were all coated in a soft black soot that was perfectly uniform and ate all the light. The effect was very disconcerting and disorienting. None of the normal visual cues of highlights, textures, or reflections existed. Only the open door gave a reference point so that you didn't feel like you were floating in a void.
The article posits several uses, but can you imagine a person clothed in this black in full sunlight? Could we even see them? or a building covered in it? or a car? Sight requires a least some photons to hit the retina. Anyone?
I know I sound repetitive, its 0430 and didn't want to lose the train of thought to sleep.
Does anyone remember the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes"? This is a story as old as time, only the names have changed. More of a continuing observation on human (mis)behavior, than anything else.
DHS and the TSA were never meant to actually prevent harm to any citizen, but rather as a transfer of power from the citizen to the government. In that context, the ineptitude, mismanagement, harassment, failures, and the 'kill the messenger' attitude, begin to make a kind of sense. Much as any despotic entity throughout history, exposure of any kind is met with intimidation or violence, and a monolithic facade is presented.
At least until control is absolute, then it no longer matters. Read the sig.
Oh, I dont know... Hook 2 fingernails into the seam of the fabric on one side of the clasp, and the thumbnail into the seam on the other side. (Make a "C" close it to an "O") Viola! unhooked! Mastered this technique a couple of decades ago.... Oops told on myself didn't I?
Most people don't know enough about the law or fair use to say...
And that is what is wrong with the American justice system today. This country was founded on the idea that a (truly) free people would require few laws and would therefore be knowledgeable of the laws in their entirety. (Since they were to be self-governing) Unfortunately, a long time ago politicians, the vast majority being lawyers themselves, realized that more laws would benefit them and their lawyer brethren.
Doubt me? How many pages alone is the federal tax code again? (it's 13,458 pages in total)
The only real solution to these shenanigans is a re-vamp of the entire legal system top to bottom. But I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.
First off, if you'd have read the article, you'd have noticed this is about observing terrestrial radiation, not solar radiation.
And where do you believe terrestrial radiation comes from? The sun. What is being measured and observed is terrestrial re-radiation, with solar radiation as a control and baseline.
There's an old saying that goes: "There's plenty more fish in the sea"
Now there's a "red herring" argument! I believe that quote refers to dating.
Now that's just one of the classic bullshit arguments invented by someone who had no Idea. I don't blame you, many have fallen for it, but it's just plain wrong.
Ok, you got me there. Shot my mouth off with out doing the research. Mea Culpa.
Even better: Use Biofuel for your energy needs.
But at what cost? http://www.iisd.org/media/2006/oct_25_2006.asp And doesn't the burning of any hydrocarbon based fuel release carbon? Not to mention that there is some question as to the actual origin of "fossil fuels". They may be naturally occuring.
from which to measure and study so called global warming. Or more accurately, solar radiation fluctuations and its effects on its satellites (the moon and earth).
The overwhelming arrogance of some people to believe that mere humans and our assorted activities have a major impact on the (average) mass of the atmosphere of about 5,000 trillion metric tons, is astounding in the extreme. A single volcanic eruption spews more "greenhouse gases" and particulates into the atmosphere than all human activity for a decade. And yet the worst that happens (globally)are beautiful sunsets for a couple of years then its gone.
The most logical and common sense reason for climate temperature variations is that great, bright, flaming ball of fusing hydrogen in the sky. Which, by the way, is known to be variable in its output. So putting a sensor array on the moon, away from the influence of human activities , will finally settle this matter once and for all, so we can get on with more important matters. Like fair taxes http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer, or ending genocide http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes, or who will be the next "American Idol".
Oh, and if you really want to reduce CO2 emissions, plant a few trees or flowers, they love the stuff.
The answer to your question is... Government Indoctrination Centers aka Public Schools. For over a hundred years dumbing down the populace and training them to be good little citizens who never question authority. 1984 anyone?
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Otherwise, it's morally deceptive at best and legally fraudulent at worst. That's the pithy answer.
We will soon be searching for monopoles in the asteroids which will lead to our first encounter with the Pak.
You wouldn't see anything at FTL speeds as even radio waves would come on as gamma radiation. If that doesn't kill you outright you can expect your clothes to no longer fit and your tan to turn a darker shade of green whereupon you smash the controls and die anyway.
Not only is a variable being ignored its nearly the central reason for all the hoopla in this story. For all the millions of dollars wasted on major league players you would think that holding the main tool of the game properly would be a given but its not. Old timers from the dawn days of baseball knew this but it seems to have been forgotten sometime in the past 50 years. If these yahoos that call themselves pros really wanted to pound the ball they would learn how to hold the damn bat properly and not in such a way that it flexes excessively or breaks, both of which is an incomplete transference of the energy from batter to ball. The bat has a grain like all wood and this grain runs along the side of the bat at 90 degrees to the label. Holding the bat with the label up or down causes this area of bat to be the main contact area. "With the grain" the bat is much stronger and stiffer transferring more of the batters' energy to the ball and of course flying further. "Across the grain" the wood is weaker and more likely to flex or break as the fibers deform. No one has ever broken a bat "with the grain." In the bat breaking sequence you can clearly see the label is nearly square on to the direction of the pitch. The other vids aren't as easy to see the orientation of the bat but the excessive flex is telling. This "researcher" needs to find a player who knows how to hold the bat properly and repeat said observations. Then he will discover what the old timers who played in cornfields knew a century ago.
This. A Galaxy Nexus and a Straight Talk plan. Coverage in my area is far better than the Verizon/Sprint/CDMA. Unlimited everything, no contract. I compared this route to my sons ATT/iPhone setup and at the end of 2 years I am ahead $1k, but use the same network and have a phone that is the equal of the much hyped Apple offering. Granted, ATT is only a 3.75G network, but it's fast enough for all I do. YMMV
What if terrorists are in the administration of every school district and are indoctrinating our children?
Umm, they already are. Except they aren't Muslim terrorists.
Word! TV in general and JS & 'reality TV' in particular, makes the brains dribble out of the ears. Part of the problem is the 'S' in SUV, I dont have a SUV, I have an UV - Utility Vehicle. And yes I have a class B license too, I can drive trucks a lot bigger that 'Burb. If you condone the use of 'fire' the noun, I condone the use of 'fire' the verb.
Im surprised no one has mentioned the "Giant's Drink" game from "Ender's Game" by O.S. Card. It was an AI game that reprogrammed itself based on what each individual player was doing. Turned out to be a psych evaluation tool more than a game. Was in later books of the series the genesis of a universe spanning consciousness.
Jesus H Christ on a crutch! You want to lojack your kid? You are part of the problem instead of the solution. If your kid is so helpless she cant find her bus, it means either she rides the short bus or you wasted her first five years by failing as a parent to train her properly. 1.Teach your kid how to get on the right bus, and how deal with getting lost. 2.Send your kid to a school that is competent. If you can afford a high tech solution you can afford homeschooling or private school. 3.See #1. A gadgets battery can die, a name tag can come unpinned, school officials will make mistakes, but your kids brain cant fall out, shut off, or stop working. And yes, I speak from experience. I have raised 7 to adulthood and working on 2 more, none of which got lost. And if your kid puts up enough resistance to being put on the wrong bus, the school will call you, at which time you get a free shot at giving the school an ass-chewing for not being smarter than the kid. (true story)
...is right twice a day. Despite the common belief that the US government is way beyond screwed up, occasionally there is an outbreak of common sense. (Once you stop laughing about the words 'common sense' and 'government' in the same sentence, you can mod me up.)
The computer will be ruined by the decomposing body soup of the nerd killed and dumped into the capsule by a lesser nerd.
Dont any of you people watch "Bones" on FOX?
You have to be an AC to post this brainless crap. Shes the creator? Are you even on the same planet as the rest of us? No teacher in any public school for the past 50 years has had an original thought. Everything they 'teach' is a pre-thought thought, carefully written in a textbook, and a matching teachers book, vetted by a battery of federal and state bureaucrats. Teachers don't teach, they regurgitate facts and figures, and expect you to do the same, with no original thought or examination. Ask yourself, are science teachers scientists? Are economics teachers economists? Are math teachers mathematicians? Hell no they aren't, they are indoctrination specialists. If this is a college level issue, even worse. You paid out of your own pocket for that knowledge, its yours. BTW, you paid for the public schooling too, its called taxes.
Not if you travel in an arc to the position the earth will be in time/space in 40 years.
Ok, I'm slightly worried now. I have to read Slashdot to know about local events? Living in RPB, I had just retreated to my lair for an afternoon nap when the electricity flickered briefly, didnt think much about it since I have battery back-ups for all my goodies. House was warmer when I woke 2 hours later, I guess they don't make back-ups for A/C's? (Air Conditioners, not Anonymous Cowards) One a side note, why does every tiny little event require a 'terrorists didn't do it' disclaimer? Is this really the first thing that folks think when there is a minor inconvenience? Geeze, if you are that skeered better build a bunker.
Another poster asserted that mechanics and road builders would be out of business due to decreased traffic, but with tens of thousands of bridges and hundreds of thousands of miles in roads in need of desperate repair, it will be decades before they catch up and by then nature will have damaged even more. I for one welcome a surplus of mechanics. The least apt will go out of business first and the good ones will charge a more reasonable rate, say $45/hr rather than the $90+/hr now.
I think that the real gains from universal broadband coverage would be efficiency. Efficiency in information delivery (read the soup can label in your shorts rather than an air conditioned store while blocking the aisle). Efficiency in movement of goods (delivery routes vs running all over town) Efficiency of infrastructure (roads and bridges repaired/replaced as needed rather than decades too late [I-35?]) Energy efficiency (warehouses use a fraction of the power, and which stores several times more product, than a brightly lit climate controlled store does) Thats just off the top of my head, Im sure there will be even more.
Great, more space junk. Thanks pal.
Case in point - I was once in a room that had contained a fire. The walls, floor, ceiling, and windows were all coated in a soft black soot that was perfectly uniform and ate all the light. The effect was very disconcerting and disorienting. None of the normal visual cues of highlights, textures, or reflections existed. Only the open door gave a reference point so that you didn't feel like you were floating in a void.
The article posits several uses, but can you imagine a person clothed in this black in full sunlight? Could we even see them? or a building covered in it? or a car? Sight requires a least some photons to hit the retina. Anyone? I know I sound repetitive, its 0430 and didn't want to lose the train of thought to sleep.
DHS and the TSA were never meant to actually prevent harm to any citizen, but rather as a transfer of power from the citizen to the government. In that context, the ineptitude, mismanagement, harassment, failures, and the 'kill the messenger' attitude, begin to make a kind of sense. Much as any despotic entity throughout history, exposure of any kind is met with intimidation or violence, and a monolithic facade is presented.
At least until control is absolute, then it no longer matters. Read the sig.
Oh, I dont know... Hook 2 fingernails into the seam of the fabric on one side of the clasp, and the thumbnail into the seam on the other side. (Make a "C" close it to an "O") Viola! unhooked! Mastered this technique a couple of decades ago.... Oops told on myself didn't I?
Doubt me? How many pages alone is the federal tax code again? (it's 13,458 pages in total)
The only real solution to these shenanigans is a re-vamp of the entire legal system top to bottom. But I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.
from which to measure and study so called global warming. Or more accurately, solar radiation fluctuations and its effects on its satellites (the moon and earth).
The overwhelming arrogance of some people to believe that mere humans and our assorted activities have a major impact on the (average) mass of the atmosphere of about 5,000 trillion metric tons, is astounding in the extreme. A single volcanic eruption spews more "greenhouse gases" and particulates into the atmosphere than all human activity for a decade. And yet the worst that happens (globally)are beautiful sunsets for a couple of years then its gone.
The most logical and common sense reason for climate temperature variations is that great, bright, flaming ball of fusing hydrogen in the sky. Which, by the way, is known to be variable in its output. So putting a sensor array on the moon, away from the influence of human activities , will finally settle this matter once and for all, so we can get on with more important matters. Like fair taxes http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer, or ending genocide http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes, or who will be the next "American Idol". Oh, and if you really want to reduce CO2 emissions, plant a few trees or flowers, they love the stuff.
The answer to your question is ... Government Indoctrination Centers aka Public Schools. For over a hundred years dumbing down the populace and training them to be good little citizens who never question authority. 1984 anyone?