Perhaps the moral equivalent, perhaps. But a landmine will remain lethal for decades, if not longer, and as far as I know there are none that have been deployed that can be easily turned off. Nor did those who placed them keep any real record of where they were for retrieval later.
There's little chance of a couple hundred killbots being left in place and active after a conflict ends. And hopefully they won't default into a kill children, puppies, and anything that moves mode. Plus they won't be as cheap an plentiful as mines either.
The truly deplorable part about landmines is that a civilian who wasn't even born before the conflict ended could be killed or injured by one 30 years after a peace treaty was signed.
Obviously I don't know exactly what they are thinking. But they are fairly intelligent killing machines. If you've ever seen one attack prey, it's rather obvious most attacks on humans are nothing like that. usually they swim up slowly compared to an attack.
They also don't have hands to check things out. They can grab stuff with their mouth to see how squishy it is though. Unfortunately for us, they were designed to be predators and not scientists. So a light bite can cause considerable damage to people. When you see images of survivors with shark bites on their torso, it's obvious that the shark wasn't trying to kill them. Mainly because there are teeth marks there instead of a shark mouth shaped section missing from their abdomen. Unfortunately limbs are not very resistant to these types of bites either.
I'm not saying that this is the case all of the time. But certainly a majority.
But their teeth are composed of calcium. A toothless shark isn't nearly as much of a threat. Especially considering most "shark attacks", on humans, are them just being curious as to what we are.
Life is dangerous! There are things out there that can kill you!
I purpose a new EULA for all newborns. They must acknowledge that being born will be hazardous to their health. I just haven't worked out the recourse if they refuse to acknowledge it. I'm pretty sure they can't go back where they came from.
Damn. I must be getting old. I thought it was referring to the Redstone rocket until I read a little further. My daughter plays minecraft, otherwise I wouldn't have even known what redstone was.
Or they can claim to have put bombs one school in the city, after they crash a subway train into a station, then use excavation equipment to rob a gold repository, to make it look like they planted the gold on a ship that they blow up in the middle of the harbor...
Screw that, it sounds too complicated. I'm just going to buy a bunch of gold, hire some hot looking lesbian pilots to spray sleeping gas on Fort Knox and then set off a nuke in the vault. I'm probably going to need a laser and a large Asian who wears a bowler hat with a chakram brim too.
I'd hate to wind up with brain-dead Conservatives like Ted Cruz in charge.
As opposed to what? Brain dead "Liberals" like Nancy Pelosi? Seriously, what passes for Liberal or Conservative these days is a bad joke. Damn near anyone, on either side, in politics has nothing on their mind other than how to get reelected and have more power. There's damn few issues that you can't find a politician switching opinions on once they're in office long enough.
I didn't RTFA, but I though this was already known. Dolphins can also stun and kill prey using sound . Mantis and Pistol shrimp, obviously, generate sound in a different way.
It's been a while since I've studied them, but I think they can generate a force equal to a.22 caliber round with those sound waves.
There are two types of Mantis shrimp attacks. The "spearers" and "smashers". The smashers have the fastest known attack of any animal known to us at the moment, and until recently the fastest known voluntary motion of any animal. Their clubbing appendages accelerate over 10,000g. Even if they don't directly strike their prey, the shock wave of the bubbles (created by cavitation) collapsing will kill their prey. If they don't miss, they first get hit by the shrimp and then again by the shock waves.
Mantis shrimp also have the most complex eyes of any known animal. Over all a really cool critter. I've kept them in aquariums, and they adapt well and will learn to recognize you after a short period of time and shed their shy nature. But they can be a nightmare if they end up in an aquarium as an unwanted hitchhiker. They usually kill the most expensive inhabitants first.
a tremendous amount of carbon is expended in the mining/refining and transportation of the nuclear fuel.Â
And solar, wind and hydroelectric are any different? The materials needed for those also needs to come from somewhere and refined. Then transported to where they'll be used.
Granted, the waste disposal issue needs to be figured out for nuclear. But hydroelectric, solar and wind have their own issues. Hydroelectric has the issue of environmental impact, and catastrophic failures from hydroelectric has killed and displaced more people than the other three combined.
While techniques for solar panel production have been developed to recapture the waste, how much of that is actually being used? Particularly in the Chinese plants? EoL Solar disposal is another issue. At the moment there aren't that many 25+ year old panels to worry about. But if solar becomes a sizable percentage of power generation, then better/easier disposal options are going to become vital. And rather than hundreds of nuclear plant to collect waste from, there will be tens of thousands, or more, residential installations.
Wind probably has the least drawbacks. The last time I looked into it, residential unit were woefully poor. In the commercial units birds and people not wanting to see them are the biggest issues. However, as someone who has worked with fiberglass and carbon fiber, epoxy is not exactly something that you want to be exposed to without proper breathing and protective gear. Still, it's probably the easiest to contain.
In the original trilogy, I don't recall seeing the shields themselves, but both the rebels (on Hoth) and the empire (on Endor) protected their assets with large, ground-based shield generators. There are also references in the dialogue as well ("Switch your deflectors on - double front!").
It's been a while. But the shields really didn't appear to do a damn thing as far as I could tell. I remember the "double front" thing now that you mention it, but I'm not sure what those shields actually accomplished. Besides Luke, and the guy who Kamikazed the death star, was there a single rebel ship that didn't blow up instantly when it has hit?
I forgot about the shiles on Hoth until you mentioned it. But, the shields on Hoth did what exactly? Other than be an excuse for a battle in the snow, and to make some more merchandise to be sold. The empire didn't bombard the planet/base once the shields were down. The Walkers were still able to land, so it didn't stop them from reaching the surface.
So, no, I don't recall any shields in Star Wars.;-) You're right about the prequels though.
The system can sense when a shock wave generating explosion occurs near a target. An arc generator then determines the small area where protection is needed from the shock waves.
It then springs into action by by emitting laser pulses that ionize the air, providing a laser-induced plasma field of protection from the shock waves.
Perhaps I've blocked out much of the new Star Wars movies, but I certainly don't recall force fields in Star Wars. That always seemed more Star Trek to me. Calling something an "arc generator" sounds closer to arc reactor from Iron man. But I guess everything in the defense department is "Star Wars".
I grew up with the thought that global Nuclear war wasn't a question of "if" but "when" I spent a lot of my childhood lying in bed wondering when that next EBS "test" would be the for real deal or not
That used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid too. Now that I'm,ahem, middle-aged I've become somewhat jaded. I really hate to admit that I've become jaded (and middle aged). But you can only take so much before you either get desensitized to it, or become a basket case.
In my lifetime, we've been threatened by extinction due to nuclear war, biological war, "the neutron bomb", comet/asteroid impact, solar storms, the sun going nova, a nearby star going supernova, gravitational alignment of Jupiter, super volcanoes, AIDS, various plagues, global warming, impending ice-age, Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, the Christian apocalypse, global economic collapse, hyper inflation, communism, socialism, Jihad, artificial intelligence, alien invaders, running out of oil, the collapse of earths magnetic field, etc and so on.
The one thing that never gets mentioned is our own human stupidity. That's probably what frightens me the most. On the day the Rosetta probe was the first man made object to orbit a comet, the biggest story in the news was whether Kim Kardashian's ass was Photoshopped or not.
This is/. Obviously an AC posting something they read somewhere, on a blog by someone with mental illness, has to more accurate and truthful than anyone with firsthand experience. If you don't have a link to a citation proving otherwise, at least. Sorry, we're going to have to dismiss your anecdotal evidence.;-)
The good news is that if the structure is too unstable for them to enter, the roof will collapse a bunch of wet dirt and water laden plant mass onto the burning rubble. So it will be self extinguishing.
Yeah, like somebody can be the best husband/father, and a bank robber at the same time. Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop the guy from robbing banks.
That's a really strange analogy in this case. You are claiming that Google is the best search engine-husband/father. But it's skewing the results in its favor. The bank robbing thing is too far removed to make any sense to me. It sounds more like it is the best father/husband but lies to its wife and children. Which obviously is not the "best" You're complaining that what it's best at is not good enough.
So even if Google is skewing its search results, it is still the best option? I would think that the competition would have an easy time to doing a better job if this was such a terrible thing. Frankly, I don't care. They are a company and they need to pay for their expenses and turn a profit somehow. If I was paying to use Google, that would be one thing. But I don't. It's free.
Am much much more tired of the congress and all the idiot Republicans. Obama did a good job, I am not interested in hearing from people who think he didn't. 99 problems the US has and none of them are Obama.
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Perhaps the moral equivalent, perhaps. But a landmine will remain lethal for decades, if not longer, and as far as I know there are none that have been deployed that can be easily turned off. Nor did those who placed them keep any real record of where they were for retrieval later.
There's little chance of a couple hundred killbots being left in place and active after a conflict ends. And hopefully they won't default into a kill children, puppies, and anything that moves mode. Plus they won't be as cheap an plentiful as mines either.
The truly deplorable part about landmines is that a civilian who wasn't even born before the conflict ended could be killed or injured by one 30 years after a peace treaty was signed.
Baby Godzilla now has a toy to play with.
From TFA:
the remote-controlled robot is 60 centimeters long and can be configured into a form resembling the letter I as well as one resembling the numeral 3.
Perhaps tomorrows episode of Sesame Street will have Godzilla as a guest star.
Brought to you by the letter "I" and the number "3".
How do you know what a shark is thinking?
Obviously I don't know exactly what they are thinking. But they are fairly intelligent killing machines. If you've ever seen one attack prey, it's rather obvious most attacks on humans are nothing like that. usually they swim up slowly compared to an attack.
They also don't have hands to check things out. They can grab stuff with their mouth to see how squishy it is though. Unfortunately for us, they were designed to be predators and not scientists. So a light bite can cause considerable damage to people. When you see images of survivors with shark bites on their torso, it's obvious that the shark wasn't trying to kill them. Mainly because there are teeth marks there instead of a shark mouth shaped section missing from their abdomen. Unfortunately limbs are not very resistant to these types of bites either.
I'm not saying that this is the case all of the time. But certainly a majority.
Sharks don't have bones either...
But their teeth are composed of calcium. A toothless shark isn't nearly as much of a threat. Especially considering most "shark attacks", on humans, are them just being curious as to what we are.
Look at the US. It took less time to bread out intelligence
Well, we do have a lot of wheat here.
Seventy-second trimester abortions it is then.
Life is dangerous! There are things out there that can kill you!
I purpose a new EULA for all newborns. They must acknowledge that being born will be hazardous to their health. I just haven't worked out the recourse if they refuse to acknowledge it. I'm pretty sure they can't go back where they came from.
I predict we'll find proof of life by 2024. And definitive proof in 19 to 29 years. Her numbers are off by a year according to my "calculations".
Damn. I must be getting old. I thought it was referring to the Redstone rocket until I read a little further. My daughter plays minecraft, otherwise I wouldn't have even known what redstone was.
Or they can claim to have put bombs one school in the city, after they crash a subway train into a station, then use excavation equipment to rob a gold repository, to make it look like they planted the gold on a ship that they blow up in the middle of the harbor...
Screw that, it sounds too complicated. I'm just going to buy a bunch of gold, hire some hot looking lesbian pilots to spray sleeping gas on Fort Knox and then set off a nuke in the vault. I'm probably going to need a laser and a large Asian who wears a bowler hat with a chakram brim too.
I'd hate to wind up with brain-dead Conservatives like Ted Cruz in charge.
As opposed to what? Brain dead "Liberals" like Nancy Pelosi? Seriously, what passes for Liberal or Conservative these days is a bad joke. Damn near anyone, on either side, in politics has nothing on their mind other than how to get reelected and have more power. There's damn few issues that you can't find a politician switching opinions on once they're in office long enough.
Â"Look for the girl, with the sun in her eyes - & she's GONE..." - John Lennon
FTFY. If you're going to go for a cover version, William Shatner covered it six years earlier than Elton John, and Shatner's version was funnier.
It's been a while since I've studied them, but I think they can generate a force equal to a .22 caliber round with those sound waves.
There are two types of Mantis shrimp attacks. The "spearers" and "smashers". The smashers have the fastest known attack of any animal known to us at the moment, and until recently the fastest known voluntary motion of any animal. Their clubbing appendages accelerate over 10,000g. Even if they don't directly strike their prey, the shock wave of the bubbles (created by cavitation) collapsing will kill their prey. If they don't miss, they first get hit by the shrimp and then again by the shock waves.
Mantis shrimp also have the most complex eyes of any known animal. Over all a really cool critter. I've kept them in aquariums, and they adapt well and will learn to recognize you after a short period of time and shed their shy nature. But they can be a nightmare if they end up in an aquarium as an unwanted hitchhiker. They usually kill the most expensive inhabitants first.
a tremendous amount of carbon is expended in the mining/refining and transportation of the nuclear fuel.Â
And solar, wind and hydroelectric are any different? The materials needed for those also needs to come from somewhere and refined. Then transported to where they'll be used.
Granted, the waste disposal issue needs to be figured out for nuclear. But hydroelectric, solar and wind have their own issues. Hydroelectric has the issue of environmental impact, and catastrophic failures from hydroelectric has killed and displaced more people than the other three combined.
While techniques for solar panel production have been developed to recapture the waste, how much of that is actually being used? Particularly in the Chinese plants? EoL Solar disposal is another issue. At the moment there aren't that many 25+ year old panels to worry about. But if solar becomes a sizable percentage of power generation, then better/easier disposal options are going to become vital. And rather than hundreds of nuclear plant to collect waste from, there will be tens of thousands, or more, residential installations.
Wind probably has the least drawbacks. The last time I looked into it, residential unit were woefully poor. In the commercial units birds and people not wanting to see them are the biggest issues. However, as someone who has worked with fiberglass and carbon fiber, epoxy is not exactly something that you want to be exposed to without proper breathing and protective gear. Still, it's probably the easiest to contain.
I'm supposed to be getting OUT of prison... that guy sat on my face and everything..
You're in the wrong line dumb ass.
Expensive junk science project for an expensive junk agency.
holocaust is the name of the new VR headset from Samsung?
In the original trilogy, I don't recall seeing the shields themselves, but both the rebels (on Hoth) and the empire (on Endor) protected their assets with large, ground-based shield generators. There are also references in the dialogue as well ("Switch your deflectors on - double front!").
It's been a while. But the shields really didn't appear to do a damn thing as far as I could tell. I remember the "double front" thing now that you mention it, but I'm not sure what those shields actually accomplished. Besides Luke, and the guy who Kamikazed the death star, was there a single rebel ship that didn't blow up instantly when it has hit?
I forgot about the shiles on Hoth until you mentioned it. But, the shields on Hoth did what exactly? Other than be an excuse for a battle in the snow, and to make some more merchandise to be sold. The empire didn't bombard the planet/base once the shields were down. The Walkers were still able to land, so it didn't stop them from reaching the surface.
So, no, I don't recall any shields in Star Wars. ;-) You're right about the prequels though.
The system can sense when a shock wave generating explosion occurs near a target. An arc generator then determines the small area where protection is needed from the shock waves.
It then springs into action by by emitting laser pulses that ionize the air, providing a laser-induced plasma field of protection from the shock waves.
Perhaps I've blocked out much of the new Star Wars movies, but I certainly don't recall force fields in Star Wars. That always seemed more Star Trek to me. Calling something an "arc generator" sounds closer to arc reactor from Iron man. But I guess everything in the defense department is "Star Wars".
I grew up with the thought that global Nuclear war wasn't a question of "if" but "when" I spent a lot of my childhood lying in bed wondering when that next EBS "test" would be the for real deal or not
That used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid too. Now that I'm ,ahem, middle-aged I've become somewhat jaded. I really hate to admit that I've become jaded (and middle aged). But you can only take so much before you either get desensitized to it, or become a basket case.
In my lifetime, we've been threatened by extinction due to nuclear war, biological war, "the neutron bomb", comet/asteroid impact, solar storms, the sun going nova, a nearby star going supernova, gravitational alignment of Jupiter, super volcanoes, AIDS, various plagues, global warming, impending ice-age, Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, the Christian apocalypse, global economic collapse, hyper inflation, communism, socialism, Jihad, artificial intelligence, alien invaders, running out of oil, the collapse of earths magnetic field, etc and so on.
The one thing that never gets mentioned is our own human stupidity. That's probably what frightens me the most. On the day the Rosetta probe was the first man made object to orbit a comet, the biggest story in the news was whether Kim Kardashian's ass was Photoshopped or not.
This is /. Obviously an AC posting something they read somewhere, on a blog by someone with mental illness, has to more accurate and truthful than anyone with firsthand experience. If you don't have a link to a citation proving otherwise, at least. Sorry, we're going to have to dismiss your anecdotal evidence. ;-)
Their firefighters are going to love that.
The good news is that if the structure is too unstable for them to enter, the roof will collapse a bunch of wet dirt and water laden plant mass onto the burning rubble. So it will be self extinguishing.
Yeah, like somebody can be the best husband/father, and a bank robber at the same time. Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop the guy from robbing banks.
That's a really strange analogy in this case. You are claiming that Google is the best search engine-husband/father. But it's skewing the results in its favor. The bank robbing thing is too far removed to make any sense to me. It sounds more like it is the best father/husband but lies to its wife and children. Which obviously is not the "best" You're complaining that what it's best at is not good enough.
So even if Google is skewing its search results, it is still the best option? I would think that the competition would have an easy time to doing a better job if this was such a terrible thing. Frankly, I don't care. They are a company and they need to pay for their expenses and turn a profit somehow. If I was paying to use Google, that would be one thing. But I don't. It's free.
I don't see why people who can't immediately see a use for something are so quick to jump to the conclusion that their isn't one.
You must be new here. ;-)
Am much much more tired of the congress and all the idiot Republicans. Obama did a good job, I am not interested in hearing from people who think he didn't. 99 problems the US has and none of them are Obama.
That must be some very tasty Cool Aid.