Exactly, for example, ordinary toilet paper has poor tensile strength, resulting in many a brown finger for some. Let's hope this will stop with our new, stronger-than-steel paper. On the downside we may expect a few more red fingers. Gross.
This is hardly surprising given that the source for most paper is wood, and wood has the highest tensile strength of any building material known to man based either on weight or cross sectional area. Heh heh heh heh, you said, "Wood".
I saw a documentary on portable windows once. Apparently, you can buy a special type of paint from a company specializing in various gadgets and novelty items. When you use this paint on a surface, it instantly becomes a hole. This hole can then be moved around easily. There was no mention of elves using this technology, but wiley coyotes use this invention quite frequently.
The real problem with SUVs in Europe is that nearly all parking is sized for cars, and often for compact or economy models at that. Same problem in some American cities, like L.A. Most garages have around 90% compact spaces and 10% "regular" spaces. Then a Tahoe or Excursion comes and parks in a compact space and the two spaces on either side stay empty because you couldn't even fit a motorcycle in them due to the overlap.
I'd estimate that MAYBE one in 10,000 SUV owners have EVER used their vehicle under the off-road conditions for which it was originally designed. And even then 99% of the time they're back home shuffling kids to soccer and groceries from the store. actually, they took the original design (a truck) and added kid hauling and grocery hauling capabilities to it, usually at the expense of the original truck capabilities. They put smaller motors in them, since they never go off road anyway, and they wanted better gas mileage. They also added all sorts of fragile electronics that detract from the vehicle's ruggedness. They also made them narrower, lower to the ground, and other things for comfort purposes. Half the time these things don't even have 4-wheel drive any more. Good luck taking any of them off road, that's not what they were designed for. They are designed for the same thing as a minivan, but they can re-use the truck frames and other parts, which makes them cheaper to produce. That's all. Plus, they avoid the negative image of a minivan or station wagon, while performing the same functions.
Sean Carroll conceded that this might just be a coincidence, but pointed out that a natural explanation for this discrepancy would be if it represented a structure inherited from our universe's parent. It could also be that that is the direction the cosmic fork, twirling the noodles is spinning.
Occam's Razor indeed. The article (yes I know, I read it... I'm sorry) basically says that they measured all of the background microwave radiation they could find and found out that there is more in one direction than another. Then someone said, "Hey, I bet our universe's parent universe has something to do with this." If this happened pretty much anywhere that I have ever worked, that guy would immediately be slapped.
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Not only that, but you'd think the slashdot comments would refer to the book, which is the topic of the post, but instead you get comments regarding the technical subject of the book.
Rarely would you ever read a counter point to the reviewer such as, "In my opinion, the book offered X..."
I think, at worst, there will be massive die-offs within many species, including humans, but in the end I'm confident that we're an adaptable species that will overcome that hurdle if it does come to pass. Even if ALL the humans die off, we're just another species. People always seem to imply that the end of the human race is the end of the world, but it isn't. SOMETHING will live on. Maybe the new residents will turn out to be smarter than us...
Don't forget weather. Everybody needs a million ways to tell what it's like outside at every instant. I think it reminds people of the freedom of the sunlight and breeze, even when they are confined. It makes living in a cube more bearable.
If they are running Windows, they are already taking the chance of running a malware infested computer. You don't have to download free/beer software for that. It just increases the chances even more.
No one ever remembers The 13th Floor because it came out the same time as The Matrix. It deals with exactly this subject and is the reason that every so often I go someplace I've never been before... Just to make sure.;)
He/she might be thinking "I wish this @#$@ing robot arm thing would quit stuffing those @%#$ed marshmallows in my mouth!" I'd think it'd be more like The Terminal Man. In it, they discuss the addiction to the stimulation. If you could have a marshmallow whenever you wanted (a good thing) just by thinking about it, eventually you'd just never stop thinking about it.
Speaking from experience, it is because the grant money is better. If you say you need money to research brain/machine interfaces for prothetic limbs to help disabled people, you are more likely to get it than when you say you need the research to give yourself/your_cyborg_army superhuman appendages to be used for world domination. You have GOT to be kidding! Getting government grants to find military applications for otherwise harmless things is a staple of the defense program. If you have an answer to "How many Commies/Terrorists can it kill", you've got grant money.
So go ahead and build your cybernetic superhumans to do your bidding, but you might have to sign a contract that says you'll do the bidding of the US government, too.
Why would they even NEED to communicate all that way. It's not like any events that happen 100,000ly away from each other would have any affect whatsoever on each other. I mean, why would ET care if Barak or Hillary wins? By the time anything they did could affect him, he'd have been dead for 99,900 years.
I read (on Yahoo News, actually) that he currently owns around 4.3% of the Yahoo stock (worth $1 Billion) and he's planning on acquiring $2.5 Billion worth. So how exactly is 10% going to allow him to boss the Board of Directors around? He still doesn't have a majority. Not even close. Is anyone else agreeing with him, or is he just blowing hot air?
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A quick impression of the first man to ever land on the sun: "Ow, ow! Shit, FUCK! It's HOT!"
I saw a documentary on portable windows once. Apparently, you can buy a special type of paint from a company specializing in various gadgets and novelty items. When you use this paint on a surface, it instantly becomes a hole. This hole can then be moved around easily. There was no mention of elves using this technology, but wiley coyotes use this invention quite frequently.
Occam's Razor indeed. The article (yes I know, I read it... I'm sorry) basically says that they measured all of the background microwave radiation they could find and found out that there is more in one direction than another. Then someone said, "Hey, I bet our universe's parent universe has something to do with this." If this happened pretty much anywhere that I have ever worked, that guy would immediately be slapped.
Not only that, but you'd think the slashdot comments would refer to the book, which is the topic of the post, but instead you get comments regarding the technical subject of the book.
Rarely would you ever read a counter point to the reviewer such as, "In my opinion, the book offered X..."
Don't forget weather. Everybody needs a million ways to tell what it's like outside at every instant. I think it reminds people of the freedom of the sunlight and breeze, even when they are confined. It makes living in a cube more bearable.
If they are running Windows, they are already taking the chance of running a malware infested computer. You don't have to download free/beer software for that. It just increases the chances even more.
Yeah, but you can't make saving throws in real life.
No one ever remembers The 13th Floor because it came out the same time as The Matrix. It deals with exactly this subject and is the reason that every so often I go someplace I've never been before... Just to make sure. ;)
How long have you held on to that handle just to make that particular comment?
Try linking a real link instead. http://code.google.com/apis/earth/
So... to put this into a car metaphor, it's kind of like hitch-hiking?
So go ahead and build your cybernetic superhumans to do your bidding, but you might have to sign a contract that says you'll do the bidding of the US government, too.
Why not? We do it on Mars.
Why would they even NEED to communicate all that way. It's not like any events that happen 100,000ly away from each other would have any affect whatsoever on each other. I mean, why would ET care if Barak or Hillary wins? By the time anything they did could affect him, he'd have been dead for 99,900 years.
I read (on Yahoo News, actually) that he currently owns around 4.3% of the Yahoo stock (worth $1 Billion) and he's planning on acquiring $2.5 Billion worth. So how exactly is 10% going to allow him to boss the Board of Directors around? He still doesn't have a majority. Not even close. Is anyone else agreeing with him, or is he just blowing hot air?
Diamonds are forever. He should have stored his money in HARD currency. Precious metals and gems.