Didn't see the whole video yet, but in the beginning it is mentioned that nickel takes on a hydrogen nucleus to become copper. If this is indeed happening, it's possible it's affecting only one isotope within the nickel sample, so couldn't go from 62-Ni to 63-Cu? Would there be leftover radioactivity this way? (I'm not a nuclear physicist)
I used theory in the unofficial parlance suitable for social conversation . Scientific parlance is used in the work environment or during conversations with other scientists or Class XIX entities . Inserting hypothesis into social conversation gives the air of elitism and education which distances listeners who focus on content and don't spend their time nitpicking and being douchebags.
ERROR: Contraction used. This entity will commence self-destruct sequence by watching Fox and drinking C2H5OH.
If they are here, they're not the aliens, they're the drones. Send out a legion of drones who roam the galaxy and reproduce every so often to send out their own set of drones. Think of it as the Voyager mission with fleshy AI. If they report back, great, but the creators of the drones know well they will most likely all be gone before getting word back. The drones just take information and aren't necessarily as intelligent as their makers (usually a bad idea to make something that reproduces to many times your own number smarter than you if you can control it). So, bunch of boring data takers floating above. And yes, with probably advanced nanotechnology and other science wizardry. Interesting side note: if you read the account of Fire in the Sky author, Travis Walton, as detailed in "The Walton Experience" (totally different than the movie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walton_Experience), there is a part where he mentions trying to break a glass-like cylinder and is unable. I wouldn't be surprised (assuming this is all a true account and not made up), that it was made out of pure diamond.
Of course, the probability of all this is scant as there are other explanations that would make more sense. But, as a scientist, I feel it is wrong to dismiss it out of hand as bullshit without at least investigating it a little and setting aside my biases.
It's a great concept. Really. But why does it work? He mentions people put money into Mafia Wars on Facebook so they can be better than their peer. I don't think this kind of competitiveness with others is great for society. I think it actually makes us dumber and greedier and more superficial. If people are gonna compare themselves to one another, I hope it would be more along the lines of, "That guy has really found inner happiness. I hope to do that myself one day." It seems like the norm today is more like, "That guy has really found inner happiness. Let me find some reason to hate him. If I can't find one, I'll slash his tires."
Do we really need more stuff that conflates self-worth with measurable things, like salary, possessions, wife's bra size? I'm certain all the wishful thinking in the world won't stop this from happening, but at some point we are going to have to stop comparing ourselves to our peers in order to feel good. And while we're at it, stop mixing up ecstasy (not the drug) with happiness. Big difference...
Good points, all, 'cept for the AC who claims I'm talking out of my arse. Then again, on the Internet, no one knows if you're Ace Ventura.
Perhaps Japan was a bad example. There really is no good example of tax dollars being used to benefit the public directly through massive research projects, i.e., like DARPA without the "D." Perhaps "CARPA" - "Consumer Advanced Research Projects Agency." It's a little annoying to realize we can spend billions on getting people to the moon and figuring out a zillion ways to kill someone, yet the smog is giving me asthma, traffic sucks and public transportation is still lame (Japan IS better at this), our food supply is not robust (it's a chain of services only as strong as its weakest link), etc. It'd be great even if the military would spend its research man-hours figuring out better ways to teach and learn material, not just for their agents, but for every student. And then there's the levy system. Don't get me wrong, the indirect benefits of their research are great, but are we really better off benefiting from offshoots of military projects? All I'm asking is why can't we benefit from more directed research. (Note: of course research into defense projects is necessary - I'm not advocating cutting off military funding altogether).
Your #2 point sounds like a rainbow on an oil slick to me. The Japanese have been forbidden from having a military since WW2 and developed many, many consumer achievements. Why not cut out the middleman, i.e., the military when it comes to that?
You'll need free weights and a bench, at least. However, as for running, it gives this tidbit: "A recent study of cyclists at McMaster University, in Canada, found that those who exercised intensely for just 18 minutes a day (four 30-second bursts of all-out cycling separated by four minutes of active rest) experienced the same gains in performance as cyclists who pedaled continuously for two hours a day."
This can *possibly* mitigate global warming effects. Jury's still out, afaict. I agree with the sentiment of not fretting about the cause - let's just focus on realistic solutions!
Undergrads=investment Graduate Students=generators of IP Professors=managers Provosts,presidents,etc.=CEOs and boardmembers
Long gone is the Athenian ideal!
Protest by encouraging intelligent graduates to teach at community college! Education for the masses! Take a few community college courses yourself! Learn a foreign language! Start up groups that stimulate intelligent debate! Teach a class yourself!
University education is nothing more than fodder for the status quo and the universities know it and take advantage of it.
I was intrigued by how short the robot was compared to the children. I would imagine different results if the robot was larger or taller, especially compared to a child. I feel a better control would be to make the robot the children's height.
Aren't there bacteria that eat anything? Perhaps it is oxidizing the metal and it's becoming gaseous and escaping through the vacuum jars somehow? If this one in Sevres is more famous, it was probably touched more and could have been transmitted by someone somehow.
Kind of a long shot, but first thing I thought of.
As if the money, time, and energy expended therein was used to its fullest potential. The number of hurdles humanity will have to leap over within this century on Earth is astounding and from that standpoint, trips to the moon are only useful for gathering up helium-3. In this scientist's opinion, extolling the side-benefits of bloated government expenditures toward defense and space (aside from communication satellites) is akin to saying how your house being flooded helped water your plants.
"Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'"
I found a threading issue with reprod(m,f). Someone set the priority way too high and it's creating a system-wide slowdown that's eating up a lot of resources. I'm thinking of de-prioritizing it to spend more resources in power management instead. Also, invoking reprod(m,m) and reprod(f,f) appears to halt other parts of the system inexplicably.
Please tackle these issues ASAP. They've apparently been around for a while, but since after fixing a lot of other stuff, they seem to be more of an issue.
What will happen? Will it rip the markers off their cells too? That sounds like it could have some bad consequences. If it indeed does, then some sort of filtration process or chemical reaction that kills the enzyme only will have to take place, making it even more costly. These are enzymes, so they will not be used up in the chemical reactions.
Make the thing drop-proof (at least 5 stories), heat proof, bug proof (for use in tropical climates, parks, and beaches), water proof (submergible), with some form of laptop water cooling system, dirt proof, sand proof (for the beach, of course), and everything else I forgot. Give it a good display, a drive bay that can be swapped with CD/BluRay/DVD, all the wireless stuff, including blue tooth, and make it come with a phone you can use to mirror the display wirelessly (assuming this is possible). Give it a huge solid state drive as well, like they have, and you have yourself an ultimate laptop that would probably cost less than a million.
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Thank you for saying flavor-aid. This is what was drunk at Jonestown. Not Kool-aid. That was drunk at the Funkytown massacre. So many afro wigs...
Didn't see the whole video yet, but in the beginning it is mentioned that nickel takes on a hydrogen nucleus to become copper. If this is indeed happening, it's possible it's affecting only one isotope within the nickel sample, so couldn't go from 62-Ni to 63-Cu? Would there be leftover radioactivity this way? (I'm not a nuclear physicist)
Why do we need defense spending when we have the SECOND AMENDMENT! Screw the nanny state! RON PAULEM 4EVR!
I used theory in the unofficial parlance suitable for social conversation . Scientific parlance is used in the work environment or during conversations with other scientists or Class XIX entities . Inserting hypothesis into social conversation gives the air of elitism and education which distances listeners who focus on content and don't spend their time nitpicking and being douchebags.
ERROR: Contraction used. This entity will commence self-destruct sequence by watching Fox and drinking C2H5OH.
If they are here, they're not the aliens, they're the drones. Send out a legion of drones who roam the galaxy and reproduce every so often to send out their own set of drones. Think of it as the Voyager mission with fleshy AI. If they report back, great, but the creators of the drones know well they will most likely all be gone before getting word back. The drones just take information and aren't necessarily as intelligent as their makers (usually a bad idea to make something that reproduces to many times your own number smarter than you if you can control it). So, bunch of boring data takers floating above. And yes, with probably advanced nanotechnology and other science wizardry. Interesting side note: if you read the account of Fire in the Sky author, Travis Walton, as detailed in "The Walton Experience" (totally different than the movie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walton_Experience), there is a part where he mentions trying to break a glass-like cylinder and is unable. I wouldn't be surprised (assuming this is all a true account and not made up), that it was made out of pure diamond.
Of course, the probability of all this is scant as there are other explanations that would make more sense. But, as a scientist, I feel it is wrong to dismiss it out of hand as bullshit without at least investigating it a little and setting aside my biases.
If this is in regard to "just deserts," then there is no misspelling.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/just-deserts.html
Good news for us, Elaine Benes, and Squidward:
http://www.mrsapedia.com/sea-sponge-antidote-to-mrsa/
I heard about this a while ago. I'm wondering when it'll happen.
It's a great concept. Really. But why does it work? He mentions people put money into Mafia Wars on Facebook so they can be better than their peer. I don't think this kind of competitiveness with others is great for society. I think it actually makes us dumber and greedier and more superficial. If people are gonna compare themselves to one another, I hope it would be more along the lines of, "That guy has really found inner happiness. I hope to do that myself one day." It seems like the norm today is more like, "That guy has really found inner happiness. Let me find some reason to hate him. If I can't find one, I'll slash his tires."
Do we really need more stuff that conflates self-worth with measurable things, like salary, possessions, wife's bra size? I'm certain all the wishful thinking in the world won't stop this from happening, but at some point we are going to have to stop comparing ourselves to our peers in order to feel good. And while we're at it, stop mixing up ecstasy (not the drug) with happiness. Big difference...
Anyone have any idea just where this webcam is pointing? Judging by the timestamp and the palm trees, I'm guessing Florida.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Good points, all, 'cept for the AC who claims I'm talking out of my arse. Then again, on the Internet, no one knows if you're Ace Ventura.
Perhaps Japan was a bad example. There really is no good example of tax dollars being used to benefit the public directly through massive research projects, i.e., like DARPA without the "D." Perhaps "CARPA" - "Consumer Advanced Research Projects Agency." It's a little annoying to realize we can spend billions on getting people to the moon and figuring out a zillion ways to kill someone, yet the smog is giving me asthma, traffic sucks and public transportation is still lame (Japan IS better at this), our food supply is not robust (it's a chain of services only as strong as its weakest link), etc. It'd be great even if the military would spend its research man-hours figuring out better ways to teach and learn material, not just for their agents, but for every student. And then there's the levy system. Don't get me wrong, the indirect benefits of their research are great, but are we really better off benefiting from offshoots of military projects? All I'm asking is why can't we benefit from more directed research. (Note: of course research into defense projects is necessary - I'm not advocating cutting off military funding altogether).
Your #2 point sounds like a rainbow on an oil slick to me. The Japanese have been forbidden from having a military since WW2 and developed many, many consumer achievements. Why not cut out the middleman, i.e., the military when it comes to that?
I found this from a publication in our "reading room" (bathroom) at work:
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/health-fitness/Get_Back_in_the_Game_printer.shtml
You'll need free weights and a bench, at least. However, as for running, it gives this tidbit: "A recent study of cyclists at McMaster University, in Canada, found that those who exercised intensely for just 18 minutes a day (four 30-second bursts of all-out cycling separated by four minutes of active rest) experienced the same gains in performance as cyclists who pedaled continuously for two hours a day."
Sounds promising, though I've just started.
Yes, learn the binary language of moisture vaporators, or if you can't cut it, go with binary loadlifters.
There's also the possibility of human-based global dimming:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/dimming.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
This can *possibly* mitigate global warming effects. Jury's still out, afaict. I agree with the sentiment of not fretting about the cause - let's just focus on realistic solutions!
Undergrads=investment
Graduate Students=generators of IP
Professors=managers
Provosts,presidents,etc.=CEOs and boardmembers
Long gone is the Athenian ideal!
Protest by encouraging intelligent graduates to teach at community college! Education for the masses! Take a few community college courses yourself! Learn a foreign language! Start up groups that stimulate intelligent debate! Teach a class yourself!
University education is nothing more than fodder for the status quo and the universities know it and take advantage of it.
I was intrigued by how short the robot was compared to the children. I would imagine different results if the robot was larger or taller, especially compared to a child. I feel a better control would be to make the robot the children's height.
Teflon flavor! Yum!
Aren't there bacteria that eat anything? Perhaps it is oxidizing the metal and it's becoming gaseous and escaping through the vacuum jars somehow? If this one in Sevres is more famous, it was probably touched more and could have been transmitted by someone somehow.
Kind of a long shot, but first thing I thought of.
As if the money, time, and energy expended therein was used to its fullest potential. The number of hurdles humanity will have to leap over within this century on Earth is astounding and from that standpoint, trips to the moon are only useful for gathering up helium-3. In this scientist's opinion, extolling the side-benefits of bloated government expenditures toward defense and space (aside from communication satellites) is akin to saying how your house being flooded helped water your plants.
"Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'"
Quickly! To Mars! Paris Hilton has escaped!
Just use it to power a microwave and make some curry! http://www.physorg.com/news5098.html
Don't you know what this means?! JESUS was a SHARK!
"We're gonna need a bigger ark"
MEMORANDUM
To: God
RE: Error found in reprod(m,f)
I found a threading issue with reprod(m,f). Someone set the priority way too high and it's creating a system-wide slowdown that's eating up a lot of resources. I'm thinking of de-prioritizing it to spend more resources in power management instead. Also, invoking reprod(m,m) and reprod(f,f) appears to halt other parts of the system inexplicably.
Please tackle these issues ASAP. They've apparently been around for a while, but since after fixing a lot of other stuff, they seem to be more of an issue.
Sincerely,
Humanity
What will happen? Will it rip the markers off their cells too? That sounds like it could have some bad consequences. If it indeed does, then some sort of filtration process or chemical reaction that kills the enzyme only will have to take place, making it even more costly. These are enzymes, so they will not be used up in the chemical reactions.
Make the thing drop-proof (at least 5 stories), heat proof, bug proof (for use in tropical climates, parks, and beaches), water proof (submergible), with some form of laptop water cooling system, dirt proof, sand proof (for the beach, of course), and everything else I forgot. Give it a good display, a drive bay that can be swapped with CD/BluRay/DVD, all the wireless stuff, including blue tooth, and make it come with a phone you can use to mirror the display wirelessly (assuming this is possible). Give it a huge solid state drive as well, like they have, and you have yourself an ultimate laptop that would probably cost less than a million.