I was going to suggest the same thing -- two birds with one stone. I personally use Hugin for things like that. You take many high-res, overlapping photos. You can automatically match them up with autopano-sift and then use vertical and horizontal alignment points to stretch them out as you would prefer. If the results aren't close enough to use as an overlay as-is, if you had a hires modern map, you could load it and set the FOV to roughly match up with the FOV of your fully aligned pieced-together map, and then define control points between it and your map pieces. Optimization will then stretch the pieces to try to fit to your modern map while still being pieced together.
It was called 7th Sign. It was a spinoff of Three Kingdoms.
Heh, I was never keylogged, but I did have someone chat me up while watching me type my password over my shoulder when I was logging into a university unix account to check my email. The "friend" then proceeded to set up a bestiality porn site on my account as a prank.
Last I heard, he had become a Mormon missionary...
And while, yes, qbasic is slow, it's certainly fast and capable enough to get a full-blown software rendering 3d engine operational in on a 286.
Wireframe, sure. Or using QBasic to make PEEK and POKE calls (but if you're going to go that far, heck, you might as well right in assembly). But the per-pixel draw routes in QBasic on the 286 were abysmal, and even line draws were way too slow. I think it called a full screen refresh for each graphics call you made. I would know how slow it was; I wrote 3d engines on the 286, both true 3d and raycasting. The 286 could barely handle *compiled* 3d; A10 Tank Killer was about the best it got. True compiled 3d didn't get half decent until X-wing on the 386.
The slow performance of QBasic was the reason I begged my father to buy me Borland C for my birthday back in 7th grade. I was completely blown away by the performance increase. But I'm still glad I learned in basic, as going from "no programming" straight to C would be a pretty big jump. I remember that in my first C program I was hit by a persistent bug that required a #pragma statement to get rid of. I can't imagine if I hadn't known how to program at all before that point.
For my tastes, I prefer an MMO that goes out of its way to create as real a virtual world as possible.
So by that, do you mean "as aesthetically realistic as possible" (graphics quality, sound, perhaps physics), or something more than that?
BTW -- in terms of aesthetics, here's what to expect in games in a couple years.
EQ, EQ2 and WoW are good examples of fairly well fleshed out MMO worlds with good physics
What do you mean by "physics"? I've never thought of them as containing what would generally pass for a realistic physics model (say, PhysX, Bullet, Havok, etc) -- just pre-calculated special effects and the ultra-simple equations (like gravity). And there's big challenges involved in using real physics, in that physics is CPU/GPU intensive and for everyone to have the same experience and to avoid cheating, it needs to be run on the server (increasing hosting costs). Well... I have come up with one alternative, but it's not pretty (dispatching the calculations for each region or task to half a dozen random clients and then going with a majority-rules basis for whose results are correct). If you just rely on one client to do each of the calcs, they could use a hacked client that could rig them and cause all sorts of cheating. And if it's not random, you could end up with groups of hacked clients working together to vote the same rigged results.
This could work even in a serverless MMO, but it would require something like a Kademlia network.
"BTW, later in your post you said "screams out in pain"...how does one scream out in pain in a text based mmo?"
In text, of course.:) Something along the lines of, "(name) screams, "Oh dear God, make it stop!" There are various types of chat lines in a MUD. In this particular case, I forget whether it was done via the Shout line (global, everyone hears) or by Say (local, only those in the room hear).
Some of my fondest coding memories were programming for an LP mud.:) I loved the fact that wizards (coders) could literally have programming wars. For example, one wizard makes a dest ("destruct" -- basically, kicking off another player or wizard, with a lot of fanfare) that has a big leadup to it. So another wizard, tired of getting dested, writes a rapid counter-dest that kicks off the wizard doing the dest before it completes. So the first wizard writes an insta-dest that doesn't give the second wizard a chance to counter. So the second wizard writes an object that seeks out the first wizard's inventory, intercepts their commands, and if they try to start a dest against them, it instead turns the dest on its caster. So the first wizard writes an object that scans their inventory for objects to intercept the dest, and if it finds something that shouldn't be there, the object kills it off for them and then dests its owner. And on and on, back and forth.
Then there was the simply humorous aspects. A friend of mine had a dest where he would pick up a flower and contemplate whether the person being dested loved them. "(S)He loves me; (S)He loves me not. (S)He loves me."... and so forth, ending up on "(S)He loves me not." As they throw the flower away, the person gets kicked off the server. So I wrote a parody wherein, first thing, an object gets added to the inventory of the target to prevent them from quitting or counter-desting. A bumbling ogre version of my friend stumbles in and picks up the person being dested and starts pulling off limbs, doing the "(S)He loves me, (s)he loves me not" thing with them, and causing the person to randomly scream out in pain.
I used to occasionally disguise myself as the developer's board in the main development room. When people tried to interact with me, I'd manually make up responses. Occasionally I'd jump into other wizard's inventory or other things like that, perhaps making myself into a talking sword and having them wield me or the like. A neat feature was that you could "patch" objects to call any function that object possessed, including the objects that it inherited from. So changing things' descriptions or making them call actions was a snap.
I once wrote a program that would compile statistics about the most used words on the wizard chat line. When I informed everyone of it, all of the sudden, they started shouting out random obscene words over and over for days on end to try to get them high up on the ranking list.;)
At one time, I accidentally wrote an object that landed on the floor of the room everyone logged in to and which dested anyone the instant they logged in. This kicked off all but one player, who was in another room coding an area. I couldn't get in to tell them not to log out and to please dest all objects in the login room; if they logged out, we'd have to wait for a sysadmin to restart the server! So I connected in through the FTP server and uploaded some files in the area they were working with file names in all caps that would tell them what to do as soon as they LS'ed. Thankfully they did ls, noticed the files, and fixed the problem!
Which raises some good questions, re: lowest common denominator. The general question with MMO design isn't whether the focus should be grinding to gain more ability, or even whether the focus should be grinding in combat to gain levels; it's "what sort of variant of a common formula should be used". A MMO that doesn't stick to the standard tank/healer/damage dealer party formula gets considered as innovative. And, sure, there's usually some form of resource harvesting or crafting in addition to the fighting, but that's usually half-arsed, and even more of a grind.
Sure, there are exceptions. But not many. Second Life an obvious one, for example, but that's little more than a graphical chat room, and a couple steps away from being an interactive porn site.
Is it unreasonable to expect more diversity from MMOs? Or is the grind, and in particular combat grind, the only formula that will really work?
I'm curious as to what others think about the subject.
--- Google's rapid rise to the translation of business executives is a result of what Google released a complex problem, and its powerful computing power for reminding me. The data center, and its Web search, it may be now, when attacked with the network, is the world's largest computer. Google's machine translation technology is being used to push forward the limit. Last month, for example, it indicated that it was a combination of image analysis of the translation tools to enable a person, says that while walking in the German mobile phone menu, photos and immediately the English translation.... In the mid-90s, researchers began to favor a so-called statistical methods. They found that if they ate the computer or hundreds of thousands of millions of paragraphs and the translation of humans, it can learn how to make an accurate translation of the new text of speculation. Facts have proved that this technology requires large amounts of data and a lot of computing power, is the right of Google's alley.... Google's service is sufficient to convey the essence of news articles, it has become a quick translation of millions of people everywhere. ---
Okay, perhaps not spectacular... but compared to Babelfish:
---...Is anything the prompt possible to occur to the translation business's crown trapezoid's Google quick rise, when Google unties it when the complex question violence computing power. Perhaps the data central network it for the net search establishment now is, when attacks together, world large-scale computer. Google uses that machine to push in the translation technology limit. The previous month, for example, it said that it operates and the image analysis unifies its translation tool, allows the human to adopt a menu the handset picture and obtains one with German immediately English translation.... in the mid-1990s, researcher started to favor the so-called statistical method. They have discovered that if they have fed the translation which the computer thousands or the tens of thousands of paragraphs and their person cause, its possibly academic society does about what kind of guesses translator accurately the new text. _ it this technology, requests the huge large amount data finally and completely the calculated horsepower, is correct Google the alley.... The Google service is enough good expresses the news article the essence, and it has become translation quick origin tens of thousands of people ---
A person can get a hard drive with many times the capacity for well under $100.
Since when is capacity the key factor in disk performance? Do your game installs take up hundreds of GB?
If you want good average disk performance, get cheap-per-GB SATAs to store your music and videos, but get something fast for your root and/or gaming partitions.
Now, whether the OP actually cares about disk performance, that's another story...
The notable downside is the fact that since you're destroying the tubes, this is inherently a primary cell -- no recharging that! But it's still an interesting concept. I wonder what the conversion efficiency is. And for that matter, how much energy it takes to make CNTs relative to the output energy.
One of my favorites was from Danny Hillis, a pioneer in parallel computing. "I went to my first computer conference at the New York Hilton about 20 years ago. When somebody there predicted the market for microprocessors would eventually be in the millions, someone else asked, 'Where are they all going to go? It's not like you need a computer in every doorknob!"
Years later, Hillis went back to the same hotel. He noticed that the room keys had been replaced by electronic cards you slide into slots in the doors. There was indeed a computer in every doorknob..
The IOP has issued a clarification: "We regret that our submission has been seized upon by some individuals to imply that IOP does not support the scientific evidence that the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is contributing to global warming.
IOP's position on global warming is clear: the basic science is well established and there is no doubt that climate change is happening and that we should be taking action to address it now. "
You going to be spreading that statement around whatever forums you post on also? After all, you seem to care so strongly about what the IOP has to say, after all.
It may also interest you to know that IOP members weren't made aware of the original statement, and in fact it was a single subcomittee of anonymous individuals who made it in the IOP's name. The Energy subcommittee at that, not the Environmental Physics subcommittee. And does anyone else find the irony delicious that the IOP is refusing to disclose who was on the committee that made the statement while demanding more openness?
Back in middle school, we had a typing class on a bunch of apples 2es. I got numbers ranging from 300 to a thousand or so words per minute. Of course, that was because I realized that it counted "words" based on how many spaces you typed, so if you held down the space bar, then backspaced, then held down space again, and so forth, then erased the whole thing and typed in the message you were supposed to type correctly, you'd get a huge score.
Indeed. Everything becomes brittle at those temperatures. Of course, it's going to take serious energy to mine ice anyway, so you will have a source of heat. What you also will need is insulation (assumedly of the metal foil variety, since only thermal radiation matters, not conduction to an atmosphere or convection).
That would be very interesting indeed! I suppose that would require that it be patchy rather than uniformly distributed. Because it's certainly not taking up even a couple percent of the north pole image that they showed in a manner that's that thick and relatively pure; there's just too much area for that compared to their cited mass figure.
But the moon is a lot more difficult than Mars in many respects. Two days of night on most of the moon, more radiation, less diverse surface minerals, etc.
As for the ice issue: 600m metric tons at the "north pole". They say it's within green circles that look to take up something like 4% of the image. The area covered is down to 80N. The moon's circumference is 6790 miles. I'm too lazy to do the exact math, but that means that the area covered here is something like 550,000 square miles. That means that the area taken up by the green circles is something like 22,000 square miles, so about 27,000 metric tons per square mile. Mini-SAR measures to a depth of "a few meters"; let's say 10 feet. That would work out to about 100 grams of water per cubic foot in those areas. A cubic foot of regolith has a mass of something like 75 kilograms, so that would be about 0.13% water.
I've long speculated that should our modern society continue in the way it's going, humans will develop better resistance to things like whiplash, since traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among children and one of the leading causes of death for people of breeding age.
I also expect to see women able to have children later and later into life. Before, your odds of surviving that long and having a healthy enough diet and good enough medical care were so low that there was no point for your body to be able to have children that late in life. There's now a dramatically larger population of women who are physically still capable of having children except for the fact that they're post-menopausal than there were in historic times. So I expect to see that number slowly creep up over time.
Like always, science coverage in the news is done poorly. There's no way to tell just from the article what's really going on. This could just be enhanced absorption for traditional solar cells. On the other hand, it could be nanowire antennae. And the questions you need to ask are dramatically different for each. In the former case, the question is, "What is your conversion efficiency for light that *does* hit?" And in the latter case, the question is, "How have you implemented self-assembled nanoscale rectifiers?"
Nanoantennae are a very interesting approach to dealing with solar. They can be tuned to absorb ranges of frequencies of radiant energy at extreme efficiency. The downside they've had with them so far is that you get AC in the THz range, which can't be effectively harnessed. So they're working to get self-assembled nanoscale rectifiers in the antennae.
What is that, proof by red herring ghost reference? That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand (the 2035 glacier-typo). Secondly, the IOP isn't 36,000 physicists; it has 36,000 members, but only a fraction of those are physicists: "Our diverse membership ranges from university students through qualified professionals employed in all sectors of the economy to the retired community.". Third, physicists != climate scientists. Fourth, 1 != many dozens. Fifth, thank god that the UN is investigating these ridiculous denier claims, because most of them are patent nonsense. Despite you citing the UN now, in a couple months, I fully expect to hear you saying, "Who cares what the UN has to say; they're just trying to clear their name" or something of that nature.
Einstein used the peer review process. He didn't assert a cabal of Newtonian conspirators faking international consensuses and rigging who gets into journals and who doesn't in order to install a socialist world order.
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I was going to suggest the same thing -- two birds with one stone. I personally use Hugin for things like that. You take many high-res, overlapping photos. You can automatically match them up with autopano-sift and then use vertical and horizontal alignment points to stretch them out as you would prefer. If the results aren't close enough to use as an overlay as-is, if you had a hires modern map, you could load it and set the FOV to roughly match up with the FOV of your fully aligned pieced-together map, and then define control points between it and your map pieces. Optimization will then stretch the pieces to try to fit to your modern map while still being pieced together.
It was called 7th Sign. It was a spinoff of Three Kingdoms.
Heh, I was never keylogged, but I did have someone chat me up while watching me type my password over my shoulder when I was logging into a university unix account to check my email. The "friend" then proceeded to set up a bestiality porn site on my account as a prank.
Last I heard, he had become a Mormon missionary...
And while, yes, qbasic is slow, it's certainly fast and capable enough to get a full-blown software rendering 3d engine operational in on a 286.
Wireframe, sure. Or using QBasic to make PEEK and POKE calls (but if you're going to go that far, heck, you might as well right in assembly). But the per-pixel draw routes in QBasic on the 286 were abysmal, and even line draws were way too slow. I think it called a full screen refresh for each graphics call you made. I would know how slow it was; I wrote 3d engines on the 286, both true 3d and raycasting. The 286 could barely handle *compiled* 3d; A10 Tank Killer was about the best it got. True compiled 3d didn't get half decent until X-wing on the 386.
The slow performance of QBasic was the reason I begged my father to buy me Borland C for my birthday back in 7th grade. I was completely blown away by the performance increase. But I'm still glad I learned in basic, as going from "no programming" straight to C would be a pretty big jump. I remember that in my first C program I was hit by a persistent bug that required a #pragma statement to get rid of. I can't imagine if I hadn't known how to program at all before that point.
For my tastes, I prefer an MMO that goes out of its way to create as real a virtual world as possible.
So by that, do you mean "as aesthetically realistic as possible" (graphics quality, sound, perhaps physics), or something more than that?
BTW -- in terms of aesthetics, here's what to expect in games in a couple years.
EQ, EQ2 and WoW are good examples of fairly well fleshed out MMO worlds with good physics
What do you mean by "physics"? I've never thought of them as containing what would generally pass for a realistic physics model (say, PhysX, Bullet, Havok, etc) -- just pre-calculated special effects and the ultra-simple equations (like gravity). And there's big challenges involved in using real physics, in that physics is CPU/GPU intensive and for everyone to have the same experience and to avoid cheating, it needs to be run on the server (increasing hosting costs). Well... I have come up with one alternative, but it's not pretty (dispatching the calculations for each region or task to half a dozen random clients and then going with a majority-rules basis for whose results are correct). If you just rely on one client to do each of the calcs, they could use a hacked client that could rig them and cause all sorts of cheating. And if it's not random, you could end up with groups of hacked clients working together to vote the same rigged results.
This could work even in a serverless MMO, but it would require something like a Kademlia network.
"BTW, later in your post you said "screams out in pain"...how does one scream out in pain in a text based mmo?"
In text, of course. :) Something along the lines of, "(name) screams, "Oh dear God, make it stop!" There are various types of chat lines in a MUD. In this particular case, I forget whether it was done via the Shout line (global, everyone hears) or by Say (local, only those in the room hear).
Some of my fondest coding memories were programming for an LP mud. :) I loved the fact that wizards (coders) could literally have programming wars. For example, one wizard makes a dest ("destruct" -- basically, kicking off another player or wizard, with a lot of fanfare) that has a big leadup to it. So another wizard, tired of getting dested, writes a rapid counter-dest that kicks off the wizard doing the dest before it completes. So the first wizard writes an insta-dest that doesn't give the second wizard a chance to counter. So the second wizard writes an object that seeks out the first wizard's inventory, intercepts their commands, and if they try to start a dest against them, it instead turns the dest on its caster. So the first wizard writes an object that scans their inventory for objects to intercept the dest, and if it finds something that shouldn't be there, the object kills it off for them and then dests its owner. And on and on, back and forth.
Then there was the simply humorous aspects. A friend of mine had a dest where he would pick up a flower and contemplate whether the person being dested loved them. "(S)He loves me; (S)He loves me not. (S)He loves me."... and so forth, ending up on "(S)He loves me not." As they throw the flower away, the person gets kicked off the server. So I wrote a parody wherein, first thing, an object gets added to the inventory of the target to prevent them from quitting or counter-desting. A bumbling ogre version of my friend stumbles in and picks up the person being dested and starts pulling off limbs, doing the "(S)He loves me, (s)he loves me not" thing with them, and causing the person to randomly scream out in pain.
I used to occasionally disguise myself as the developer's board in the main development room. When people tried to interact with me, I'd manually make up responses. Occasionally I'd jump into other wizard's inventory or other things like that, perhaps making myself into a talking sword and having them wield me or the like. A neat feature was that you could "patch" objects to call any function that object possessed, including the objects that it inherited from. So changing things' descriptions or making them call actions was a snap.
I once wrote a program that would compile statistics about the most used words on the wizard chat line. When I informed everyone of it, all of the sudden, they started shouting out random obscene words over and over for days on end to try to get them high up on the ranking list. ;)
At one time, I accidentally wrote an object that landed on the floor of the room everyone logged in to and which dested anyone the instant they logged in. This kicked off all but one player, who was in another room coding an area. I couldn't get in to tell them not to log out and to please dest all objects in the login room; if they logged out, we'd have to wait for a sysadmin to restart the server! So I connected in through the FTP server and uploaded some files in the area they were working with file names in all caps that would tell them what to do as soon as they LS'ed. Thankfully they did ls, noticed the files, and fixed the problem!
Which raises some good questions, re: lowest common denominator. The general question with MMO design isn't whether the focus should be grinding to gain more ability, or even whether the focus should be grinding in combat to gain levels; it's "what sort of variant of a common formula should be used". A MMO that doesn't stick to the standard tank/healer/damage dealer party formula gets considered as innovative. And, sure, there's usually some form of resource harvesting or crafting in addition to the fighting, but that's usually half-arsed, and even more of a grind.
Sure, there are exceptions. But not many. Second Life an obvious one, for example, but that's little more than a graphical chat room, and a couple steps away from being an interactive porn site.
Is it unreasonable to expect more diversity from MMOs? Or is the grind, and in particular combat grind, the only formula that will really work?
I'm curious as to what others think about the subject.
English, with Google Translate:
--- ... In the mid-90s, researchers began to favor a so-called statistical methods. They found that if they ate the computer or hundreds of thousands of millions of paragraphs and the translation of humans, it can learn how to make an accurate translation of the new text of speculation. Facts have proved that this technology requires large amounts of data and a lot of computing power, is the right of Google's alley. ... Google's service is sufficient to convey the essence of news articles, it has become a quick translation of millions of people everywhere.
Google's rapid rise to the translation of business executives is a result of what Google released a complex problem, and its powerful computing power for reminding me. The data center, and its Web search, it may be now, when attacked with the network, is the world's largest computer. Google's machine translation technology is being used to push forward the limit. Last month, for example, it indicated that it was a combination of image analysis of the translation tools to enable a person, says that while walking in the German mobile phone menu, photos and immediately the English translation.
---
Okay, perhaps not spectacular... but compared to Babelfish:
--- ...Is anything the prompt possible to occur to the translation business's crown trapezoid's Google quick rise, when Google unties it when the complex question violence computing power. Perhaps the data central network it for the net search establishment now is, when attacks together, world large-scale computer. Google uses that machine to push in the translation technology limit. The previous month, for example, it said that it operates and the image analysis unifies its translation tool, allows the human to adopt a menu the handset picture and obtains one with German immediately English translation. ... in the mid-1990s, researcher started to favor the so-called statistical method. They have discovered that if they have fed the translation which the computer thousands or the tens of thousands of paragraphs and their person cause, its possibly academic society does about what kind of guesses translator accurately the new text. _ it this technology, requests the huge large amount data finally and completely the calculated horsepower, is correct Google the alley. ... The Google service is enough good expresses the news article the essence, and it has become translation quick origin tens of thousands of people
---
A person can get a hard drive with many times the capacity for well under $100.
Since when is capacity the key factor in disk performance? Do your game installs take up hundreds of GB?
If you want good average disk performance, get cheap-per-GB SATAs to store your music and videos, but get something fast for your root and/or gaming partitions.
Now, whether the OP actually cares about disk performance, that's another story...
The notable downside is the fact that since you're destroying the tubes, this is inherently a primary cell -- no recharging that! But it's still an interesting concept. I wonder what the conversion efficiency is. And for that matter, how much energy it takes to make CNTs relative to the output energy.
One of my favorites was from Danny Hillis, a pioneer in parallel computing. "I went to my first computer conference at the New York Hilton about 20 years ago. When somebody there predicted the market for microprocessors would eventually be in the millions, someone else asked, 'Where are they all going to go? It's not like you need a computer in every doorknob!"
Years later, Hillis went back to the same hotel. He noticed that the room keys had been replaced by electronic cards you slide into slots in the doors. There was indeed a computer in every doorknob..
The IOP has issued a clarification: "We regret that our submission has been seized upon by some individuals to imply that IOP does not support the scientific evidence that the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is contributing to global warming.
IOP's position on global warming is clear: the basic science is well established and there is no doubt that climate change is happening and that we should be taking action to address it now. "
You going to be spreading that statement around whatever forums you post on also? After all, you seem to care so strongly about what the IOP has to say, after all.
It may also interest you to know that IOP members weren't made aware of the original statement, and in fact it was a single subcomittee of anonymous individuals who made it in the IOP's name. The Energy subcommittee at that, not the Environmental Physics subcommittee. And does anyone else find the irony delicious that the IOP is refusing to disclose who was on the committee that made the statement while demanding more openness?
Back in middle school, we had a typing class on a bunch of apples 2es. I got numbers ranging from 300 to a thousand or so words per minute. Of course, that was because I realized that it counted "words" based on how many spaces you typed, so if you held down the space bar, then backspaced, then held down space again, and so forth, then erased the whole thing and typed in the message you were supposed to type correctly, you'd get a huge score.
I have looked. The number of times gray literature is cited is dwarfed by the frequency non-gray literature is cited.
You're talking small in absolute terms. I'm talking small in percentage terms. It's a massive, massive report.
Well, the yellowcake was a lie...
Indeed. Everything becomes brittle at those temperatures. Of course, it's going to take serious energy to mine ice anyway, so you will have a source of heat. What you also will need is insulation (assumedly of the metal foil variety, since only thermal radiation matters, not conduction to an atmosphere or convection).
That would be very interesting indeed! I suppose that would require that it be patchy rather than uniformly distributed. Because it's certainly not taking up even a couple percent of the north pole image that they showed in a manner that's that thick and relatively pure; there's just too much area for that compared to their cited mass figure.
But the moon is a lot more difficult than Mars in many respects. Two days of night on most of the moon, more radiation, less diverse surface minerals, etc.
As for the ice issue: 600m metric tons at the "north pole". They say it's within green circles that look to take up something like 4% of the image. The area covered is down to 80N. The moon's circumference is 6790 miles. I'm too lazy to do the exact math, but that means that the area covered here is something like 550,000 square miles. That means that the area taken up by the green circles is something like 22,000 square miles, so about 27,000 metric tons per square mile. Mini-SAR measures to a depth of "a few meters"; let's say 10 feet. That would work out to about 100 grams of water per cubic foot in those areas. A cubic foot of regolith has a mass of something like 75 kilograms, so that would be about 0.13% water.
These are very rough calculations, of course.
I've long speculated that should our modern society continue in the way it's going, humans will develop better resistance to things like whiplash, since traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among children and one of the leading causes of death for people of breeding age.
I also expect to see women able to have children later and later into life. Before, your odds of surviving that long and having a healthy enough diet and good enough medical care were so low that there was no point for your body to be able to have children that late in life. There's now a dramatically larger population of women who are physically still capable of having children except for the fact that they're post-menopausal than there were in historic times. So I expect to see that number slowly creep up over time.
I'm waiting for the meta study that shows that studies on video games leading to anger make video gamers angry.
Like always, science coverage in the news is done poorly. There's no way to tell just from the article what's really going on. This could just be enhanced absorption for traditional solar cells. On the other hand, it could be nanowire antennae. And the questions you need to ask are dramatically different for each. In the former case, the question is, "What is your conversion efficiency for light that *does* hit?" And in the latter case, the question is, "How have you implemented self-assembled nanoscale rectifiers?"
Nanoantennae are a very interesting approach to dealing with solar. They can be tuned to absorb ranges of frequencies of radiant energy at extreme efficiency. The downside they've had with them so far is that you get AC in the THz range, which can't be effectively harnessed. So they're working to get self-assembled nanoscale rectifiers in the antennae.
Says a person marked "+3 Insightful", when the GP who was no more offtopic was marked "-1 Offtopic".
I rest my case.
36,000 physicists are worried.
What is that, proof by red herring ghost reference? That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand (the 2035 glacier-typo). Secondly, the IOP isn't 36,000 physicists; it has 36,000 members, but only a fraction of those are physicists: "Our diverse membership ranges from university students through qualified professionals employed in all sectors of the economy to the retired community.". Third, physicists != climate scientists. Fourth, 1 != many dozens. Fifth, thank god that the UN is investigating these ridiculous denier claims, because most of them are patent nonsense. Despite you citing the UN now, in a couple months, I fully expect to hear you saying, "Who cares what the UN has to say; they're just trying to clear their name" or something of that nature.
Einstein used the peer review process. He didn't assert a cabal of Newtonian conspirators faking international consensuses and rigging who gets into journals and who doesn't in order to install a socialist world order.
The Internet today is pretty much identical in everyway to the Internet I used before anyone knew who Al Gore was.
You used ARPANET? You browsed www before Mosaic?