Its a lot more involved than 1 + 1 = 2 as well as 1 particle + 1 particle = 2 particles as opposed to three.
Take the natural log "e" (2.718281828...) Why is it so many natural phenomena follow the natural log curve e^x as opposed to 2^x or some rational number? Is it merely a coincidence that physical systems follow what is basically a mathematical expression for a term that is its own differential?
And what does e^2Ïi = 1 the physical ratio of the circumference of a circle have to do with the natural log and imaginary numbers
The other thing is, even the "real" production is useless crap that has designed obsolescence.
They talk on the news about how holiday spending is going to be low and how much its going to hurt the economy. Do we really want an economy based on the sales of what amounts to Christmas toys?
Did you know that when the Core Inflation rate is calculated they disregard things like milk, bread and fuel? You know the stuff that people...need.
Vapour trails or contrails, by affecting the Earth's radiation balance, act as a radiative forcing. Studies have found that vapour trails or contrails trap outgoing longwave radiation emitted by the Earth and atmosphere (positive radiative forcing) at a greater rate than they reflect incoming solar radiation (negative radiative forcing). Therefore, the overall net effect of contrails is positive, i.e. a warming.[2]
Kinda sounds like BS to me... They are somehow different from normal clouds in that they trap more heat than they reflect?
Is that because of the condensation or the actual exhaust carbon particles? Maybe getting rid of the condensation will decrease the reflectivity while leaving the greenhouse gasses there.
And an extra little microwave energy on top of that..?
In the mean time we can try and educate the Luddites. The Nuclear industry is going through a period of revitalization, both foreign and domestic. Hopefully it keeps up, we have to grow to meet the demands as time goes on. Once we get to the point of no alternative it will be too late to start building new plants.
Other interesting facts include: The French have the cheapest energy on the planet right now because they kept up their investment in Nuclear energy though the 70s and 80s.
Fun Fact: You get more radiation from coal plants in the form of heavy metals found in coal fly ash than you get from a nuclear power plant. Super Fly
With second cycle fuel processing plants there is very little waste left over from the nuclear process.
People point to Three Mile Island as a big scary reason to avoid nuclear, but the fact of the matter is while the plant was tripped at TMI there was no radiological leakage. The safety measure in place made sure that there was no breach of containment. And that was a plant designed over 30 years ago, there has been much learned since then.
Sure Chernobyl sucked, but that was a plant poorly designed and operated.
The burning graphite moderator increased the emission of radioactive particles. The radioactivity was not contained by any kind of containment vessel (unlike in Western plants, Soviet reactors often did not have them[9]) Soviet Piece of Junk
Yeah... Modern, and even then western power plants don't have COMBUSTIBLE material in the CORE.
Both of the rovers are near the equator. Its just a build up of dust.
The phoenix lander was near the north pole. It was there checking for ice. The phoenix lander being in the colder region will actually be so cold it will have carbon dioxide freezing onto it. Its unlikely to wake back up in the spring...but possible.
The cool thing with the phoenix lander is it DID find ice and even saw snow.
Actually... there are many more millions of chickens and cows around because they are delicious than there would be otherwise.
If chickens and cows weren't useful to use we wouldn't raise them by the millions/billions. The animals that are endangered are the ones that are simply in the way of our farms. We cut down the rain forests filled with unknown species in the name of planting corn.
If we did find another habitable planet one of the first things we would do is work on clearing land for crops to grow.
After that once we get enough grazing land under control.... space cows.
It was my understanding that a store does not have the right to demand to see a customer's receipt much less detain them.
The only real exception to this that I know of is Sam's club, they will always check your receipt on the way out, but in order to be in their store you have to have a membership and therefore have signed your life away. But I think even then all they can really do is take away your membership.
Its a really difficult subject. Anything we do here would be bad. If we stay in Iraq we'll continue to lose the lives of Americans over and issue that was never ours to begin with. We should never have gone there to begin with, but now that we are there what can we do? The Iraqi government doesn't want us there, but there's a good chance that if we leave the whole country is going to collapse into civil war, that's probably true if we were to leave tomorrow, or not until 2010.
But again, staying there probably breeds more animosity from the locals and encourages people who were wronged to become terrorists.
Terrorists aren't any specific people, and I think the term is being thrown around as a boogey man, as an excuse to make up laws like the patriot act and tell people its ok to wire tap anyone at anytime, and give telecom companies immunity for breaching civil liberties at the order of the government.
All that being said there are some people out there who are fanatically against our way of life, but a standing army isn't going to do anything to suppress these people, it is probably their best recruitment tool. What we need is good old fashioned espionage. People on the ground penetrating these groups and gathering intel, and maybe once in a while capping someone in an ally with a silenced pistol, it got us through the cold war.
It does take time for these kinds of networks to be built up, it takes time to recruit people who are willing and able and for these people to gain the trust of their targets, but I strongly believe this is the only way to combat a decentralized enemy.
Take the alleged group from PA, who got caught with a video of them playing around with guns at Circuit City, they were infiltrated by an agent who wore a wire and pretended to sell them weapons. (I'm not entirely sure these guys are terrorists otherwise they might have been smarter than to bring there video to a big box store, but I digress, the point is the agent did his job)
Then some of you may wonder, why would actual spies be any better than wire tapping? Well actual spies cost a lot of money, and they aren't going to go around willy nilly looking in my sock drawer with out a really good reason. The spy would have to seek me out, befriend me, gain my trust and after all that only have to come to the conclusion that while being a smart mouth, Im not a threat.
IMHO, as we ramp down troops, we should start ramping up spies, cheaper and more effective.
Boeing aircraft are assembled in Washington, but the Chinese have decreed that 20% of the content of any aircraft has to be manufactured in China or they wont buy them. That doesn't even touch on other manufacturing sites.
In the town im from one of the two main manufacturing plants are continually working on finding ways to move manufacturing overseas, and many of these are military controlled parts.
Google actually sells advertising which is pretty useless IMHO, but they do it providing a service, not an actual manufactured product.
Pharms provide good service they are moving more and more toward the useless crap category, they love stuff like viagra and claritin and pretty low impact products.
Microsuck? They are hit or miss, i dunno.
By and large we are a retail and service based economy.
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Aren't there many stories of farmers who would set up antennas to steal power by induction from high voltage lines that run across their fields?
Happy people in an airport? Fat chance.
MAC: Can't even get negative attention.
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that last bit is supposed to be e^( 2 pi i) pi symbol didnt go through
Its a lot more involved than 1 + 1 = 2 as well as 1 particle + 1 particle = 2 particles as opposed to three.
Take the natural log "e" (2.718281828...) Why is it so many natural phenomena follow the natural log curve e^x as opposed to 2^x or some rational number? Is it merely a coincidence that physical systems follow what is basically a mathematical expression for a term that is its own differential?
And what does e^2Ïi = 1 the physical ratio of the circumference of a circle have to do with the natural log and imaginary numbers
The unemployment rate isn't about measuring untapped talent, its about telling everyone how many people cant find a way to put food on the table.
The other thing is, even the "real" production is useless crap that has designed obsolescence.
They talk on the news about how holiday spending is going to be low and how much its going to hurt the economy. Do we really want an economy based on the sales of what amounts to Christmas toys?
Did you know that when the Core Inflation rate is calculated they disregard things like milk, bread and fuel? You know the stuff that people...need.
That's funny, whenever I think of Oz I think of a nightclub in New Orleans.
We should microwave _all_ the bad kinds of clouds then.... what could go wrong?
Vapour trails or contrails, by affecting the Earth's radiation balance, act as a radiative forcing. Studies have found that vapour trails or contrails trap outgoing longwave radiation emitted by the Earth and atmosphere (positive radiative forcing) at a greater rate than they reflect incoming solar radiation (negative radiative forcing). Therefore, the overall net effect of contrails is positive, i.e. a warming.[2]
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Kinda sounds like BS to me... They are somehow different from normal clouds in that they trap more heat than they reflect?
Is that because of the condensation or the actual exhaust carbon particles? Maybe getting rid of the condensation will decrease the reflectivity while leaving the greenhouse gasses there.
And an extra little microwave energy on top of that..?
Guess I meant to reply to the post before yours.
In the mean time we can try and educate the Luddites. The Nuclear industry is going through a period of revitalization, both foreign and domestic. Hopefully it keeps up, we have to grow to meet the demands as time goes on. Once we get to the point of no alternative it will be too late to start building new plants.
Other interesting facts include: The French have the cheapest energy on the planet right now because they kept up their investment in Nuclear energy though the 70s and 80s.
Nuclear is not especially unsafe.
Fun Fact: You get more radiation from coal plants in the form of heavy metals found in coal fly ash than you get from a nuclear power plant. Super Fly
With second cycle fuel processing plants there is very little waste left over from the nuclear process.
People point to Three Mile Island as a big scary reason to avoid nuclear, but the fact of the matter is while the plant was tripped at TMI there was no radiological leakage. The safety measure in place made sure that there was no breach of containment. And that was a plant designed over 30 years ago, there has been much learned since then.
Sure Chernobyl sucked, but that was a plant poorly designed and operated.
The burning graphite moderator increased the emission of radioactive particles. The radioactivity was not contained by any kind of containment vessel (unlike in Western plants, Soviet reactors often did not have them[9]) Soviet Piece of Junk
Yeah... Modern, and even then western power plants don't have COMBUSTIBLE material in the CORE.
Done and done.
Its a fun place, look me up if you happen by again. I'll buy you a beer.
Sorry off topic... but "Free Pittsburgh"?
I just moved there, I dont seem to have any more limitations on my rights than usual.
If the dust is electrostatic, why not set up the same polarity for the solar panels, no moving parts required.
Both of the rovers are near the equator. Its just a build up of dust.
The phoenix lander was near the north pole. It was there checking for ice. The phoenix lander being in the colder region will actually be so cold it will have carbon dioxide freezing onto it. Its unlikely to wake back up in the spring...but possible.
The cool thing with the phoenix lander is it DID find ice and even saw snow.
This really brings "News for Nerds" to a whole new level....
The could move here, or start building their own.
Sealand
Actually... there are many more millions of chickens and cows around because they are delicious than there would be otherwise.
If chickens and cows weren't useful to use we wouldn't raise them by the millions/billions. The animals that are endangered are the ones that are simply in the way of our farms. We cut down the rain forests filled with unknown species in the name of planting corn.
If we did find another habitable planet one of the first things we would do is work on clearing land for crops to grow.
After that once we get enough grazing land under control.... space cows.
It was my understanding that a store does not have the right to demand to see a customer's receipt much less detain them.
The only real exception to this that I know of is Sam's club, they will always check your receipt on the way out, but in order to be in their store you have to have a membership and therefore have signed your life away. But I think even then all they can really do is take away your membership.
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It boggles the mind how different people can all look at the same facts and draw completely different conclusions from them...
I mean I've got my opinions which are obviously the correct ones, but there are so many other opinions too...
I'm all for the right to bear arms.
Its a really difficult subject. Anything we do here would be bad. If we stay in Iraq we'll continue to lose the lives of Americans over and issue that was never ours to begin with. We should never have gone there to begin with, but now that we are there what can we do? The Iraqi government doesn't want us there, but there's a good chance that if we leave the whole country is going to collapse into civil war, that's probably true if we were to leave tomorrow, or not until 2010.
But again, staying there probably breeds more animosity from the locals and encourages people who were wronged to become terrorists.
Terrorists aren't any specific people, and I think the term is being thrown around as a boogey man, as an excuse to make up laws like the patriot act and tell people its ok to wire tap anyone at anytime, and give telecom companies immunity for breaching civil liberties at the order of the government.
All that being said there are some people out there who are fanatically against our way of life, but a standing army isn't going to do anything to suppress these people, it is probably their best recruitment tool. What we need is good old fashioned espionage. People on the ground penetrating these groups and gathering intel, and maybe once in a while capping someone in an ally with a silenced pistol, it got us through the cold war.
It does take time for these kinds of networks to be built up, it takes time to recruit people who are willing and able and for these people to gain the trust of their targets, but I strongly believe this is the only way to combat a decentralized enemy.
Take the alleged group from PA, who got caught with a video of them playing around with guns at Circuit City, they were infiltrated by an agent who wore a wire and pretended to sell them weapons. (I'm not entirely sure these guys are terrorists otherwise they might have been smarter than to bring there video to a big box store, but I digress, the point is the agent did his job)
Then some of you may wonder, why would actual spies be any better than wire tapping? Well actual spies cost a lot of money, and they aren't going to go around willy nilly looking in my sock drawer with out a really good reason. The spy would have to seek me out, befriend me, gain my trust and after all that only have to come to the conclusion that while being a smart mouth, Im not a threat.
IMHO, as we ramp down troops, we should start ramping up spies, cheaper and more effective.
Boeing aircraft are assembled in Washington, but the Chinese have decreed that 20% of the content of any aircraft has to be manufactured in China or they wont buy them. That doesn't even touch on other manufacturing sites.
In the town im from one of the two main manufacturing plants are continually working on finding ways to move manufacturing overseas, and many of these are military controlled parts.
Google actually sells advertising which is pretty useless IMHO, but they do it providing a service, not an actual manufactured product.
Pharms provide good service they are moving more and more toward the useless crap category, they love stuff like viagra and claritin and pretty low impact products.
Microsuck? They are hit or miss, i dunno.
By and large we are a retail and service based economy.