So this means the chance of seeing a hot chick get her shirt wet and reveal something will go down dramatically, but also means I probably wouldn't have that memory of a big hairy dudes ass crack either.
Gotta love that last line in TFA 'and the future is brown'. I think it is funny because even though I am considered caucasian, I have skin that is just as dark as many asians.
Hell no. Also, putting 1/2 TON of lead in a car helps not only the efficiecy but also the enviornment. I hear lead dissolved in acid actually makes for easier cleanup at minor fender benders too! Imagine the clean world we will have when we triple lead production to make all those hundreds of millions of enviornmental saving cars!
Sheesh - why is it so hard to look at ALL the facts and try and come up with a solution that is not just emotionally warm and fuzzy?
When you add that much weight to the car you are actually pumping more CO2 into the air. We get 70% of the electrical power in the US from fossil fuels and if you compare the pounds of CO2 released (from DOE) to get xKWh into your car battery and compare before and after the massive weight increase you would find that you don't gain that much efficiency by making it electric and the enviornmental impact is bigger
This substance is required for this to work and yet is involved in the death of many children every year - not to mention it can work it's way into your body from the enviorment easily. It's just not worth messing around with such harmful chemicals.
And we are on our way to modifying the attractive effect, there is nothing in the laws of physics prohibiting us from cycling the plates through an attractive then repulsive process, extracting force over distance (energy) in each cycle.
We would need something like a material that can have the index changed rapidly and with minimal energy input and sandwich it in a miniature piezo crystal system to convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy which poses many engineering challenges.
Though there will be losses in switching the system between attraction and repulsion, it seems probable that an infetesimal but real amount of power could be extracted in this way. Could be an interesting source of power for mems microdevices if it can be done.
If eventually the universe was completely described, what use would there be for science? I can think of a use or forty-two...
It would be good for one person's place in the history books to discover the Ultimate Final Secret of the Entire Universe, but boring as hell thereafter. Boring my left buttock. The brilliant minds who had devoted their lives to science would likely devote their lives to engineering. LOL That is like saying that now that we have *finally* figured out the -rules- of chess we are masters of the game and thus it is boring forever.
Figuring out the rules is just the first step. The set of all possibilities under those rules should be staggering to any level of intellect and experience.
The last alligator in the wild went extinct this spring. Enviornmentalists blame over use by humans of the highly successful drug family Alligacin. Wide spread infections have become possible, they claim, as they were adapted to alligtor immune system protiens by over use from humans wanting to use them from aliments ranging from a cut finger, to the common cold, to a stubbed toe.
Ok, I was a bit miffed when the U of MI laser article was posted http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/17/0656203 and there was talk of it wiping out entire solar systems with the sheer power, but now am getting a similar feeling here with harvesting lightning for energy. I guess I must have unusual pet peeves...
Physics 101 (skip if this is boring).
Power != energy. Power is the rate of change of energy. Energy is the total needed to do something. This means that if you have a very small amount of energy, but use it fantastically fast, the power is very large. The U of MI laser and a lightning bolt are similar in that the energy is not all that large compared to the power they develop (relative to everyday objects) - due to thier acting over a very short time period. In reality a lignting bolt probably has a few orders of magnitude more energy than a U of MI laser discharge while the laser has an order or two more magnitude more power.
According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning a typical lightning bolt has only 500MJ of energy, or the amount to power a 100 watt bulb for 57.9 days. Given that a Joule can be thought of as a watt second, a typical larger coal plant can produce 1000MW of energy or the same as two average lighting strokes per second. Even smaller power plants weigh in at 10-50MW. It is not feasible to capture lightning even 0.0001% of the time, not to mention storing and converting the power efficently. Therefore it is impractical to even try because there really isn't that much energy to gather.
First off the total energy in a lightning bolt is relatively small. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning it is only 500mJ on average which is equivelant to a 100 watt light bulb for 57.8 days. Given that a joule is equivelant to a watt second, this would mean that a typical larger coal plant can be around 1000MW of electrical output we are talking about a typical coal plant being equivelant to two continious lightning strikes. Of course, there are smaller power plants at the 50MW level, which output continiously only 10% of a lightning strike. Because you could only hope to capture lightning less than 0.0001% or less of the time, this makes any storage method irrelevant due to lack of power input.
Not to say that is not an impressive amount of power. I certanily wouldn't want even 0.0001% of any power plant output running through my body!
From TFA:
There may also be hundreds of undiscovered worlds in outer parts of our Solar System, astronomers believe.
Therefore while the 'hundreds of undiscovered planets' are technically in the Milky Way - it is totally misleading as it implies that that is all there is in the whole friggin' galaxy@!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_way we have about 200-400 Billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and neglecting that many may be binary systems where planets would have highly erratic and perhaps unstable orbits, and from TFA:
"Our observations suggest that between 20% and 60% of Sun-like stars have evidence for the formation of rocky planets not unlike the processes we think led to planet Earth," he said. "That is very exciting."
I might not have a BS degree in math but 20-60% of even 1% (a hypothetical % of single sun like stars in the Milky Way) of 200 Billion is far more than just a few hundred.
Sorry, sorry.. I take guilty pleasure in saying things so that people can't tell if I am kidding or not. It is a habit that has backfired a few times. Kind of like Lewis Black.
I guess the -beep-beep-beep- of the truck backing up with meaty flamebait wasn't loud enough.
Although it can't yet answer a lot of the more interesting questions about life in succinct terms, rational thought and scientific understanding must be ubiquitous and powerful tools to understand the universe with. \Something that is likely to happen on other planets with extra-terrestrials, the concepts seem so self evident. Unlike religious attempts to explain existence where we can't get 50% of the planet to agree.
Religon and rational thought can go together. The bible really is infalliable and contains nuthin' but true facts that can only be understood it it's native english. If only they could communicate as clearly as in the old days I'm sure the issue would be dead.
Everything all fits togher nicely as long as you only look at small bits at once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
Typically done by merging two or more exposure times into a single frame, it would allow you to see stars as well as bright objects at a reduced number of frames per second. You would also need smear rejection and other fancy features on the CCD to prevent bleeding of the bright portions. My guess is that features of interest are not dim so there would not be a benefit in using this technology.
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So this means the chance of seeing a hot chick get her shirt wet and reveal something will go down dramatically, but also means I probably wouldn't have that memory of a big hairy dudes ass crack either.
Since it's only application is on the iPhone...
Does this mean I am addicted?
2) Pee on more luggage.
3) If there is nothing worth stealing, swap with other bags or just F**K it up a bit. That will show em'
Gotta love that last line in TFA 'and the future is brown'. I think it is funny because even though I am considered caucasian, I have skin that is just as dark as many asians.
Sheesh - why is it so hard to look at ALL the facts and try and come up with a solution that is not just emotionally warm and fuzzy?
When you add that much weight to the car you are actually pumping more CO2 into the air. We get 70% of the electrical power in the US from fossil fuels and if you compare the pounds of CO2 released (from DOE) to get xKWh into your car battery and compare before and after the massive weight increase you would find that you don't gain that much efficiency by making it electric and the enviornmental impact is bigger
This substance is required for this to work and yet is involved in the death of many children every year - not to mention it can work it's way into your body from the enviorment easily. It's just not worth messing around with such harmful chemicals.
Since we have negative index materials that can reverse the casmir effect:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/06/1212259
And we are on our way to modifying the attractive effect, there is nothing in the laws of physics prohibiting us from cycling the plates through an attractive then repulsive process, extracting force over distance (energy) in each cycle.
We would need something like a material that can have the index changed rapidly and with minimal energy input and sandwich it in a miniature piezo crystal system to convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy which poses many engineering challenges. Though there will be losses in switching the system between attraction and repulsion, it seems probable that an infetesimal but real amount of power could be extracted in this way. Could be an interesting source of power for mems microdevices if it can be done.
And am awaiting the panel at Comic-Con.
and they would be actually be inside the chips. I can't see how they would pose a danger to anyone.
Puts away salsa
What?
Figuring out the rules is just the first step. The set of all possibilities under those rules should be staggering to any level of intellect and experience.
The last alligator in the wild went extinct this spring. Enviornmentalists blame over use by humans of the highly successful drug family Alligacin. Wide spread infections have become possible, they claim, as they were adapted to alligtor immune system protiens by over use from humans wanting to use them from aliments ranging from a cut finger, to the common cold, to a stubbed toe.
Physics 101 (skip if this is boring).
Power != energy. Power is the rate of change of energy. Energy is the total needed to do something. This means that if you have a very small amount of energy, but use it fantastically fast, the power is very large. The U of MI laser and a lightning bolt are similar in that the energy is not all that large compared to the power they develop (relative to everyday objects) - due to thier acting over a very short time period. In reality a lignting bolt probably has a few orders of magnitude more energy than a U of MI laser discharge while the laser has an order or two more magnitude more power.
According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning a typical lightning bolt has only 500MJ of energy, or the amount to power a 100 watt bulb for 57.9 days. Given that a Joule can be thought of as a watt second, a typical larger coal plant can produce 1000MW of energy or the same as two average lighting strokes per second. Even smaller power plants weigh in at 10-50MW. It is not feasible to capture lightning even 0.0001% of the time, not to mention storing and converting the power efficently. Therefore it is impractical to even try because there really isn't that much energy to gather.
Not to say that is not an impressive amount of power. I certanily wouldn't want even 0.0001% of any power plant output running through my body!
Therefore while the 'hundreds of undiscovered planets' are technically in the Milky Way - it is totally misleading as it implies that that is all there is in the whole friggin' galaxy@!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_way we have about 200-400 Billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and neglecting that many may be binary systems where planets would have highly erratic and perhaps unstable orbits, and from TFA:
"Our observations suggest that between 20% and 60% of Sun-like stars have evidence for the formation of rocky planets not unlike the processes we think led to planet Earth," he said. "That is very exciting."I might not have a BS degree in math but 20-60% of even 1% (a hypothetical % of single sun like stars in the Milky Way) of 200 Billion is far more than just a few hundred.
Therefore, you must be safest when driving in addition to using your phone.
In fact, you are probably helping prevent cancer in innocent bystanders as well...
But where am I going to get enough oxygen to burn it all?
of any number that can't be expressed as a fraction....
I guess the -beep-beep-beep- of the truck backing up with meaty flamebait wasn't loud enough.
Actually I was refering to this comment: http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=32;t=000448;p=1
Although it can't yet answer a lot of the more interesting questions about life in succinct terms, rational thought and scientific understanding must be ubiquitous and powerful tools to understand the universe with. \Something that is likely to happen on other planets with extra-terrestrials, the concepts seem so self evident. Unlike religious attempts to explain existence where we can't get 50% of the planet to agree.
Religon and rational thought can go together. The bible really is infalliable and contains nuthin' but true facts that can only be understood it it's native english. If only they could communicate as clearly as in the old days I'm sure the issue would be dead. Everything all fits togher nicely as long as you only look at small bits at once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging Typically done by merging two or more exposure times into a single frame, it would allow you to see stars as well as bright objects at a reduced number of frames per second. You would also need smear rejection and other fancy features on the CCD to prevent bleeding of the bright portions. My guess is that features of interest are not dim so there would not be a benefit in using this technology.
Just a bit of repackaging for the 'Adult' market and I wouldn't bat an eyebrow at seeing these in my spam filter.
How can you complain when you can get 2000 calories for $6?
What do you mean I can't have more air?