(presumably built by a boy after she contributed some design ideas). Note that on the linked page she lists "Barbie ICB A Computer Engineer" _first_, which suggests she still hasn't seen the memo about how bad it is.
From the linked article: "Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s." "the average standing wood volume per acre in US forests is about one-third greater today than in 1952; in the East, average volume per acre has almost doubled."
You wrote: > After a while, space itself would expand meaning that the ruler will now be longer than what it was.
The expansion of space must be measured with respect to something. The usual idea is that space is expanding with respect to other properties of the physical world, e.g., the mean distance between electron and proton in a hydrogen atom. So, because your hypothetical ruler is made of atoms, the claim is that tomorrow it will take more of those rulers laid end to end to reach distant galaxies.
In contrast, one kind of "ruler" that _is_ changing when space expands is the wavelength of photons and other ultrarelativistic particles. If space expands by 1%, photon wavelengths increase by 1% (as measured w.r.t. your hypothetical 1 meter ruler made of ordinary material) and thus photon energies decrease by 1%. This change is the explanation for the redshift of light from distant galaxies.
> After a while, the space between the nucleus and electrons or within the nucleus itself will become too large, ultimately ripping apart for the fabric of reality itself.
I suspect you are referring to cosmological models that end with a "Big Rip". In these models, the amount of dark energy in a constant volume of space (as measured with an ordinary ruler) increases with time. Eventually, the density of dark energy becomes greater than the density of other kinds of energy, e.g., the binding energy of atoms. Then fluctuations in this dark energy will rip apart atoms.
Because the properties of dark energy are hard to measure, it is not yet clear how its density changes with time. The current so-called "standard model" of cosmology, Lambda-CDM, takes the density of dark energy as constant, and this assumption is consistent with our best current measurements. So, as far as we can now tell, we are not living in a "Big Rip" universe.
'...she later found her footage had been edited for the new film and overdubbed with one of the most controversial lines: "Is your Mohammed a child molester?"'
It sounds like she is in precisely the scenario you describe.
The first link in the summary leads to the Orlando Sentinel, which links to the full video from the Universidad de Huelva. That video estimates "400 kg, 0.6-1.4 m object, 40 m crater, 61000 km/h, 15 tons of TNT". The first three are SI units, the fourth closely related, and the fifth... well, "tons of TNT" dates from the 20th century so how can we call it archaic? It's the Orlando Sentinel who translates into those archaic English units for US-ers such as myself. In the second link in the summary Phil Plait goes so far as to translate the crater size into football fields, but perhaps we shouldn't fault him as that standard unit is neither "English" nor "archaic".
I'd like to nominate Dr. Thomas Neff (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/29/0157208/megatons-to-megawatts-program-comes-to-a-close) as more deserving.
>...what they think of ascorbic acid,... they'd avoid anything containing it. > Not a very good idea to completely shut out one of the most important amino acids from your diet.
Your rationale suggests that "reduce ten-fold" would always be equivalent to zero. It seems that "reduce nine-fold" would be equivalent to "divide by ten", right?
BTW, I have no problem with your conclusion, just with the rationale.
>Is she never going to carry ID? I guess she win't be driving, joining a club, getting a job or leaving the country. >All of these require carrying a numbered card which she refuses to do.
Generally you're right, but we're talking about Texas in this case. Texas may be a little more liberty-loving than most places.
Consider Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party candidate for president in 2004 and also a Texas citizen. In his book(1), he claims that by consistently refusing to _have_ any government ID, much less carry one, he can and does legally drive without licensing his car or himself. He also claims that this interpretation has been tested in Texas court in the 1940s.
Perhaps the other things you mention would still require an ID in Texas, though I've heard that crossing the Texas-Mexico border without ID happens a lot.:-)
(1) "Good to Be King: The Foundation of our Constitutional Freedom" ISBN 1-59411-096-4
Isaac Asimov quote from a column in Newsweek - Jan 21st, 1980
'There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."'
From Wikipedia: "According to Phillips' supervisor Freeman Dyson, a renowned physicist, and professor Harold Feiveson, who held the seminar, Phillips' design was not functional."
Slashdot Mirror
This page has a Two-Line Element Set, from which you can compute an ephemeris:
NORAD ID 40387
She has her own web site:
Susan Marenco
(presumably built by a boy after she contributed some design ideas).
Note that on the linked page she lists "Barbie ICB A Computer Engineer" _first_,
which suggests she still hasn't seen the memo about how bad it is.
>... it means giving up land that could otherwise be cultivated or developed. And that's something humans have never willingly done...
Perhaps you meant globally, and over many centuries. But in the US and since WWII you are wrong; we are willingly reforesting land that has previously been cultivated
From the linked article:
"Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s."
"the average standing wood volume per acre in US forests is about one-third greater today than in 1952; in the East, average volume per acre has almost doubled."
quantum key distribution
> 'a paper called: "It's All About The Benjamins: An empirical study...'
> 'cash the researchers offered, capping out at $1, ...'
Because they never offered more than one "George", their paper's title is clearly overstated.
Hi bhagwad,
I think your post needs some clarification.
You wrote:
> After a while, space itself would expand meaning that the ruler will now be longer than what it was.
The expansion of space must be measured with respect to something. The usual idea is that space is expanding with respect to other properties of the physical world, e.g., the mean distance between electron and proton in a hydrogen atom. So, because your hypothetical ruler is made of atoms, the claim is that tomorrow it will take more of those rulers laid end to end to reach distant galaxies.
In contrast, one kind of "ruler" that _is_ changing when space expands is the wavelength of photons and other ultrarelativistic particles. If space expands by 1%, photon wavelengths increase by 1% (as measured w.r.t. your hypothetical 1 meter ruler made of ordinary material) and thus photon energies decrease by 1%. This change is the explanation for the redshift of light from distant galaxies.
> After a while, the space between the nucleus and electrons or within the nucleus itself will become too large, ultimately ripping apart for the fabric of reality itself.
I suspect you are referring to cosmological models that end with a "Big Rip". In these models, the amount of dark energy in a constant volume of space (as measured with an ordinary ruler) increases with time. Eventually, the density of dark energy becomes greater than the density of other kinds of energy, e.g., the binding energy of atoms. Then fluctuations in this dark energy will rip apart atoms.
Because the properties of dark energy are hard to measure, it is not yet clear how its density changes with time. The current so-called "standard model" of cosmology, Lambda-CDM, takes the density of dark energy as constant, and this assumption is consistent with our best current measurements. So, as far as we can now tell, we are not living in a "Big Rip" universe.
>...heartbleed vulnerability ...Where were all the "eyeballs" before that?
Inside the NSA.
From the first-linked article:
'...she later found her footage had been edited for the new film and overdubbed with one of the most controversial lines: "Is your Mohammed a child molester?"'
It sounds like she is in precisely the scenario you describe.
The first link in the summary leads to the Orlando Sentinel, which links to the full video from the Universidad de Huelva. That video estimates "400 kg, 0.6-1.4 m object, 40 m crater, 61000 km/h, 15 tons of TNT". The first three are SI units, the fourth closely related, and the fifth... well, "tons of TNT" dates from the 20th century so how can we call it archaic? It's the Orlando Sentinel who translates into those archaic English units for US-ers such as myself. In the second link in the summary Phil Plait goes so far as to translate the crater size into football fields, but perhaps we shouldn't fault him as that standard unit is neither "English" nor "archaic".
I'd like to nominate Dr. Thomas Neff (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/29/0157208/megatons-to-megawatts-program-comes-to-a-close) as more deserving.
A correction to your terminology:
Exposure decreases _quadratically_ with distance and _exponentially_ with time.
> ...what they think of ascorbic acid,... they'd avoid anything containing it.
> Not a very good idea to completely shut out one of the most important amino acids from your diet.
BTW, ascorbic acid is not an amino acid.
Hi Shavano,
In this post you wrote:
> Let's be clear about this. Silk Road operators had a guy killed.
And in another post you wrote:
> These guys are also murderers.
While I think your main point is correct, that Ross Ulbricht is (allegedly) a thug, I also think we should be clear that (probably) nobody actually died. Ulbricht is accused of paying bitcoins to have two people killed, but neither "hit" was carried out. See
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf
bottom of page 23, for a summary of one "hit", and
https://ia601904.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.238311/gov.uscourts.mdd.238311.4.0.pdf
starting on page 6, for a step-by-step account of the other.
Nevermind: increase or decrease ten-fold means nine times. Got it. Duh.
Hello tragedy,
Your rationale suggests that "reduce ten-fold" would always be equivalent to zero. It seems that "reduce nine-fold" would be equivalent to "divide by ten", right?
BTW, I have no problem with your conclusion, just with the rationale.
Do you have statistics that support your honesty?
> it's like the ad in the top right corner of the page
I agree.
> So what? They've gotta make money.
I already paid them money, by subscribing, so that I'm not shown ads.
Now they're showing me an "article" that, as you said, is like an ad.
> People detest change.
I detest not getting what I believe I paid for.
>This is an obvious prank, and is unlikely to cause any harm...
Isn't that just what CBS executives said before airing War of the Worlds?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)
>Is she never going to carry ID? I guess she win't be driving, joining a club, getting a job or leaving the country.
>All of these require carrying a numbered card which she refuses to do.
Generally you're right, but we're talking about Texas in this case.
Texas may be a little more liberty-loving than most places.
Consider Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party candidate for president in 2004 and also a Texas citizen.
In his book(1), he claims that by consistently refusing to _have_ any government ID, much less carry one,
he can and does legally drive without licensing his car or himself. He also claims that this interpretation
has been tested in Texas court in the 1940s.
Perhaps the other things you mention would still require an ID in Texas, though I've heard that crossing :-)
the Texas-Mexico border without ID happens a lot.
(1) "Good to Be King: The Foundation of our Constitutional Freedom" ISBN 1-59411-096-4
Isaac Asimov quote from a column in Newsweek - Jan 21st, 1980
'There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."'
Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c93xs/antiintellectualism_has_been_a_constant_thread/
> any idea where in "upstate NY" they're being kept?
From the first link in the post you're replying to:
"For now, the two telescopes and some spare parts are still in their clean room at ITT Exelis, in Rochester."
> there have been signs that they are trying to build a nuclear weapons but no concrete evidence
Sounds like you didn't RTFA.
Hello Johann Lau,
I think you are responding seriously to a post that was not meant to be taken seriously. In case you are not familiar with the phrase, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
for the reference behind the GP's humor.
You wrote:
>...we can't keep people from being able to build nukes
>... the design is obvious enough
If you mean that many of today's governments could assemble
a team of scientists and engineers that could build a working
bomb, then yes, I agree.
But "obvious"? I've never tried to build a nuke myself,
but I'm skeptical that a working design is obvious.
I'm also wondering if you're familiar with this anecdote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aristotle_Phillips
From Wikipedia:
"According to Phillips' supervisor Freeman Dyson, a renowned physicist,
and professor Harold Feiveson, who held the seminar,
Phillips' design was not functional."
Hi Mikael,
You might be interested to know that this theorizing
is at least as old as 1896. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius
paragraph "Greenhouse Effect", and footnote 3.