By "real" do you mean that there really are ice crystals on Quoaor? So then " how long could things remain more or less intact," i.e. in crystalline form, before they degrade back to "normal" - i.e. a non-crystalline form?
Your restatement, though, gets my imagination running. Is your question whether the probably of another hit during the lifespan of the ice crystals close enough to 'a sure thing' that the ice crystals never really go away? (This presumes some initial hit, or other activity which leads to the formation of ice crystals, but I didn't bother to state that as it would jsut muddt the previous question.)
The possibility of a continuous presence of ice crystals on Quoaor as a result of regular collisions is f a s c i n a t i n g. Once we have enough information about the material density of the Kuiper Belt we could have a better estimate of that probability. To restate another poster, the time necessary for cosmic radiation to dissolve ice crystals into an amorphous form is millions of years. (Is this what you were asking with "how much time may be allowed to leave things as they are, following a collision..."?)
... I wonder if we can figure this out with our present models?
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Well if you can write down the DNA then you can make the DNA later (in theory) and You can simulate a cell's use of DNA (in theory).
Yes, and I contest both of those theories. I'll do so based on biophoton reserach, which implies that there likely is a more subtle mechanism at work than classical chemical forces at work.
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We are certainly the first species to be able to carry more information on our persons than is stored in our DNA.
I think this is pretty arguable, considering that our chemical DNA does an awful lot more than the digital representation does. Recordable and Usable are different animals, and I won't even fully step into the suggestion of genetic/instinctual memory.
Perhaps even more interesting is that at some point we may be able to store on our persons more information that accessible capacity of our brains.
See above.
Please not that I am not saying that we are not capable of (re)designing our selves and/or our world to be more than it is presently - but I don't think that our ability to record DNA molecule representations on a digital device is evidence of this. I think the interface to the data we store is a better indicator of our developmental state, as it indicates the state of our DNA (if our DNA 'made' digital devices, then they are a measure of it's growth).
So then the Quaoar scenario would seem to show that:
a) there is some continuous process of heat b) there is some form of radiation shielding c) there is another process at work that mimics/underlies what we see in heat (spin dynamics, sufficient gravitation, etc?)
I've said it before (but i can't find out how to see all of my past history of comments) - the traffic lights [will] go *in* in the cars. They will be integrated into the cars comprehensive feedback system. It's all stuff waiting for the correct/sufficient level of security to make such things viable against the designs of the malicious. In this way, a central traffic system will post regulating suggestions to a users car, to encourage an overall more smooth traffic flow.
...and if there isn't some consideration taken for the work of Masaru Emoto then any study is liable to be missing a few hints. He's suggesting that consciousness has a measure effect upon water. In most of the science world, that's Weird Shit, as we can only relate such phenomena to quantum mechanics.
Study existing art and practice making your own. Art and artistic ability are all about knowing what has already been done. Then amke anything in any medium. In order to become better at making art with computer apps you do not need to pracctice with computer apps. Use any medium you like. Really. The more you make thing in any medium the better you become at all the others.
I am not infavor of the proposition that the Sun must grow cold and go out because it seems to be a leader-argument to (or a side-effect of) all of what is know in the universe eventually fizzling in some greater or lesser death.
To be clear (for those who choose to use prejudice filters you can begin here) - I feel that the energy organization principle that we refer to as consciousness predates material formation, and so would not cease in the advent of a dissappeared life-envelope as we presently construe it. I'm also compelled by universe models of cyclical inversion.
Will stars fizzle out? Can we resucitate them? How long can we star/space-hop before the universe changes? what role will we play in that change? If there is an end to the universe, I will play all my bets on the fact that consciousness will be crafty enough to keep itself alive "up to the end." So what will it mean for consciousness to be involved in that? (Via string theory/etc) what do we know about how the universe may not 'end' but rather have some larger rhythm? Where are we not in terms of htat rhythm?
That was the result the recent Hawking recanting: information is not destroyed in a black hole, and is retained. Thus, even if all of the universe turned into some kind of big black hole, all the information of the universe would be retained. Perhaps life would continue to exist in some string-width envelope that contains sufficiently similar internal characterstics to our own universe?
Pretty much any projector you buy had a VGA/DVI input. I know most peopel don't go this route, but it is much classier, and doesn't cost much more than a good TV, if you shop around. It's also a must for peopel like myself show have bad physical reactions to CRT tubes.
I think it has something to do with the eccentricity of orbit, but I am nto precisely sure. The comments in a/. story about "the Earth's three moons" or somesuch go into detail on the difference between a moon and not-moons. Sorry, I'm not going to do that research for you, though.
What is different about what you said from the original post I questioned? You are essentially saying that any such bulges *probably* wouldn't affect things much, which as i said doesn't seem reasonable considering the amount of energy in the Sun. What I'm hoping to do is evoke someone to present an actual model.
That US politics is moving toward world politics. Bush can't win international support for the US presidency, but the fact that there is a general world opinion about him means that the position of the US president is becoming an international position.
I can see both sides of the arguements made here on/. - sonow I would like to know how we move toward a reasonable international body. I know the UN is out there, but I'm guessing their 'marketing' and such are not so well developed, as I have met few who had anything more than a curcory understanding of it.
I have met few people with allergy situations that seemed to genuinely be as monstrous as most people take them to be. In most cases I have founda llergies seem to be related to obsessive cleanliness or dehydration. Obsessive cleanliness is a chronic condition and needs long-term remediation (ala homeopathy, which is also why homeopathy's iota dosages are effective). Outside of these cases I have not met a single 'allergic' person who was not set right, even immediately in the presence of their allergen, by drinking large quantities of water to flush their system.
And, people, in the U.S. do not reguarly drink unfiltered tap water. The regulations on it's safety do *not* work they way you think (they work on system averages, not max readings for any one source).
Also... am I the only one who feels that this is yet another post on world record supercomputing in a rather short space of time? IT seems like it is once every other week there's a new record, or report on a shot at one, or similar. Perhaps my memory is not so clear and I'm blowing it out of proportion - and I realize in this case the record has been seriously outstripped - but it still seems like a high number.
What does severity of the buldge have to do with topology? If the bulge was extending from the sun's mean surface to Mercury the toplogy would still be the same, wouldn't it?
So are you saying that hte buldge is not signficant enough to warrant a difference in fluid dynamical motion?
(Incidentally, I'd doubt that would be realistic, as it seems that anything with as much energy as the sun would allow for even small changes to catalyze larger effects.)
That would imply your mother is the Earth, which would be true in everyone's case. (and when you think about it - not that insulting of thing to say =)
I think disposing of radioactive waste off-planet is dumb! We made it here - and getting rid of it elsewhere will hurt us in the long run. Let's stop running from our problems, people! It seems silly that we're re-enacting Old Testament outcasting upon the 'sinful' radioactive material when we were the one's that 'led it down the path of sin' in the first place! Grow up! Stop Listening to your Science Priests! Four Cornered Time Cube Law is God!
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By "real" do you mean that there really are ice crystals on Quoaor? So then " how long could things remain more or less intact," i.e. in crystalline form, before they degrade back to "normal" - i.e. a non-crystalline form?
Your restatement, though, gets my imagination running. Is your question whether the probably of another hit during the lifespan of the ice crystals close enough to 'a sure thing' that the ice crystals never really go away? (This presumes some initial hit, or other activity which leads to the formation of ice crystals, but I didn't bother to state that as it would jsut muddt the previous question.)
The possibility of a continuous presence of ice crystals on Quoaor as a result of regular collisions is f a s c i n a t i n g . Once we have enough information about the material density of the Kuiper Belt we could have a better estimate of that probability. To restate another poster, the time necessary for cosmic radiation to dissolve ice crystals into an amorphous form is millions of years. (Is this what you were asking with "how much time may be allowed to leave things as they are, following a collision..."?)
... I wonder if we can figure this out with our present models?
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-shpoffo
Well if you can write down the DNA then you can make the DNA later (in theory) and You can simulate a cell's use of DNA (in theory).
Yes, and I contest both of those theories. I'll do so based on biophoton reserach, which implies that there likely is a more subtle mechanism at work than classical chemical forces at work.
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-shpoffo
We are certainly the first species to be able to carry more information on our persons than is stored in our DNA.
I think this is pretty arguable, considering that our chemical DNA does an awful lot more than the digital representation does. Recordable and Usable are different animals, and I won't even fully step into the suggestion of genetic/instinctual memory.
Perhaps even more interesting is that at some point we may be able to store on our persons more information that accessible capacity of our brains.
See above.
Please not that I am not saying that we are not capable of (re)designing our selves and/or our world to be more than it is presently - but I don't think that our ability to record DNA molecule representations on a digital device is evidence of this. I think the interface to the data we store is a better indicator of our developmental state, as it indicates the state of our DNA (if our DNA 'made' digital devices, then they are a measure of it's growth).
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-shpoffo
I don't see this becoming a reality for at least 15
Wow, 15 whole years who would think that we need to consider anythign that will happen that far in the future?!
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-shpoffo
So then the Quaoar scenario would seem to show that:
a) there is some continuous process of heat
b) there is some form of radiation shielding
c) there is another process at work that mimics/underlies what we see in heat (spin dynamics, sufficient gravitation, etc?)
additions, subtractions, comments (from anyone)?
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-shpoffo
I've said it before (but i can't find out how to see all of my past history of comments) - the traffic lights [will] go *in* in the cars. They will be integrated into the cars comprehensive feedback system. It's all stuff waiting for the correct/sufficient level of security to make such things viable against the designs of the malicious. In this way, a central traffic system will post regulating suggestions to a users car, to encourage an overall more smooth traffic flow.
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-shpoffo
Yea, follow the link in my post - that's why I included it.....
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-shpoffo
...and if there isn't some consideration taken for the work of Masaru Emoto then any study is liable to be missing a few hints. He's suggesting that consciousness has a measure effect upon water. In most of the science world, that's Weird Shit, as we can only relate such phenomena to quantum mechanics.
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-shpoffo
Destroying all the evidence is equivalent to killing all your opponents children.... Enacted by [Sir] William of Gates.
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-Shpoffo
Study existing art and practice making your own. Art and artistic ability are all about knowing what has already been done. Then amke anything in any medium. In order to become better at making art with computer apps you do not need to pracctice with computer apps. Use any medium you like. Really. The more you make thing in any medium the better you become at all the others.
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-shpoffo
I am not infavor of the proposition that the Sun must grow cold and go out because it seems to be a leader-argument to (or a side-effect of) all of what is know in the universe eventually fizzling in some greater or lesser death.
To be clear (for those who choose to use prejudice filters you can begin here) - I feel that the energy organization principle that we refer to as consciousness predates material formation, and so would not cease in the advent of a dissappeared life-envelope as we presently construe it. I'm also compelled by universe models of cyclical inversion.
Will stars fizzle out? Can we resucitate them? How long can we star/space-hop before the universe changes? what role will we play in that change? If there is an end to the universe, I will play all my bets on the fact that consciousness will be crafty enough to keep itself alive "up to the end." So what will it mean for consciousness to be involved in that? (Via string theory/etc) what do we know about how the universe may not 'end' but rather have some larger rhythm? Where are we not in terms of htat rhythm?
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-shpoffo
That was the result the recent Hawking recanting: information is not destroyed in a black hole, and is retained. Thus, even if all of the universe turned into some kind of big black hole, all the information of the universe would be retained. Perhaps life would continue to exist in some string-width envelope that contains sufficiently similar internal characterstics to our own universe?
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-shpoffo
Pretty much any projector you buy had a VGA/DVI input. I know most peopel don't go this route, but it is much classier, and doesn't cost much more than a good TV, if you shop around. It's also a must for peopel like myself show have bad physical reactions to CRT tubes.
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-shpoffo
I think it has something to do with the eccentricity of orbit, but I am nto precisely sure. The comments in a /. story about "the Earth's three moons" or somesuch go into detail on the difference between a moon and not-moons. Sorry, I'm not going to do that research for you, though.
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-shpoffo
What is different about what you said from the original post I questioned? You are essentially saying that any such bulges *probably* wouldn't affect things much, which as i said doesn't seem reasonable considering the amount of energy in the Sun. What I'm hoping to do is evoke someone to present an actual model.
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-shpoffo
That US politics is moving toward world politics. Bush can't win international support for the US presidency, but the fact that there is a general world opinion about him means that the position of the US president is becoming an international position.
/. - sonow I would like to know how we move toward a reasonable international body. I know the UN is out there, but I'm guessing their 'marketing' and such are not so well developed, as I have met few who had anything more than a curcory understanding of it.
I can see both sides of the arguements made here on
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-shpoffo
I have met few people with allergy situations that seemed to genuinely be as monstrous as most people take them to be. In most cases I have founda llergies seem to be related to obsessive cleanliness or dehydration. Obsessive cleanliness is a chronic condition and needs long-term remediation (ala homeopathy, which is also why homeopathy's iota dosages are effective). Outside of these cases I have not met a single 'allergic' person who was not set right, even immediately in the presence of their allergen, by drinking large quantities of water to flush their system.
And, people, in the U.S. do not reguarly drink unfiltered tap water. The regulations on it's safety do *not* work they way you think (they work on system averages, not max readings for any one source).
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-shpoffo
a little dose of kNOw Research
Also... am I the only one who feels that this is yet another post on world record supercomputing in a rather short space of time? IT seems like it is once every other week there's a new record, or report on a shot at one, or similar. Perhaps my memory is not so clear and I'm blowing it out of proportion - and I realize in this case the record has been seriously outstripped - but it still seems like a high number.
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-shpoffo
What does severity of the buldge have to do with topology? If the bulge was extending from the sun's mean surface to Mercury the toplogy would still be the same, wouldn't it?
So are you saying that hte buldge is not signficant enough to warrant a difference in fluid dynamical motion?
(Incidentally, I'd doubt that would be realistic, as it seems that anything with as much energy as the sun would allow for even small changes to catalyze larger effects.)
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-shpoffo
Can anyone share an insight as to how a virus uses the host's matabolism to make proteins?
thanks
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-shpoffo
That would imply your mother is the Earth , which would be true in everyone's case. (and when you think about it - not that insulting of thing to say =)
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-shpoffo
They create a bulge, they shouldn't tangle up field lines.
But wouldn't the buldging material create different fluid effects, which could magnetohydrodynamically alter the Sun's field?
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-shpoffo
No more radioactive waste.
I think disposing of radioactive waste off-planet is dumb! We made it here - and getting rid of it elsewhere will hurt us in the long run. Let's stop running from our problems, people! It seems silly that we're re-enacting Old Testament outcasting upon the 'sinful' radioactive material when we were the one's that 'led it down the path of sin' in the first place! Grow up! Stop Listening to your Science Priests! Four Cornered Time Cube Law is God!
....and don't take this post too seriously.....
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-shpoffo
It will be different, but it will also incrase our capabilities of risk management for those situations.
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-shpoffo
- Apple hard is a good thing, and I can give a test case that illustrates this.
- Apple hard is a bad thing, and I can give a test case that illustrates this.
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-shpoffo