Any machine that can survive down there can survive in space.
Not necessarily. If the machine in question has an internal atmosphere (like a submarine), it will have a pressure on the inside of the hull pressing out. In water there is water pressing the hull together, and if that's the only thing holding it together, it'll fall apart in outer space.
That said, I get infuriated by the foreign students who come to the US, and spend all their time hanging with their countrymen, speaking their native language. Every country I've visited, even if only for a week, I tried to learn some of the language. I hung out with the locals, listened to them talk, ate their food, drank their drink, and tried to appreciate what makes their country unique. Yet again and again I see students come here, and cloister themselves from the language, culture, food, etc. It baffles me. When I get to go somewhere new, the best part is reveling in the newness.
While I agree in part with the sentiment, you've apparently never looked beyond the surface of the problem.
And since you're an American, you're likely to have been welcome with at least partially open arms in the countries you've visited in this way.
Having spent quite a bit of time in college, helping people from other countries settling in, learning the 'odd stuff', I've come to appreciate one thing in particular: White people are racist as hell. As are everybody else.
Example: Two Americans arrive at the same time. They've gone to the same college, they have the same friends back home, they're both equally social etc. They have the same classes here and they live next door to each other in the dorm. However one has Korean parents, which influences her dialect, the other one has white parents and no such "problem".
Took only a month and a half for the 'Korean' girl to feel completely left out, despite still being good friends with the white girl. Not her doing, but the doing of the native students.
I've seen how groups of Chinese students who are fluent in English are ostracised the moment they arrive at a dorm, simply because they are Chinese. I've seriously heard rumours started about one Chinese girl, 20 minutes after she arrived at a dorm. Rumours I know couldn't be true, as it would involve teleportation or time travel.
I've seen Indians and Pakistanis being frowned upon for having an accent despite speaking fluent English, followed by a loving embrace of Europeans who could barely string together the sentence "Hello world" without screwing it up.
Hell, I've seen people go "eew" at the idea of eating food from non-European cultures, followed by "oh, that sounds interesting" when introduced to the idea of lutefisk or surströmming.
My point is this: The reason foreigners tend to hang out with their countrymen and people from the same culture, is that other people go out of their way to make them feel unwelcome and unwanted.
Look, I realize that in the US you use guns to defend against other people, and at times large, ferocious animals, but in Australia they use guns to kill mosquitoes, because the fuckers are HUGE!
It's just a bunch of religious ramblings. They should throw the bible and other religious text on the bonfire as well.
However - my issue, and possibly Rackspace's, is burning the Rainbow Flag. They're burning the flag in hatred of homosexuals, and homosexuals are definitely protected under hate speech laws.
It's a shame I don't live in the US. It would be fun to test this church's true stance on free speech by arranging a burning of the Bible protest in their backyard. For good measure I'd burn an effigy of Jesus on the cross while I'm at it.
Actually the interesting way to push back against the burning of the Rainbow flag (representing homosexuals), would be for a group of atheist homosexuals to congregate in public, just across the street from the church, and burning a bunch of Bibles. If they really wanted to be provocative, they'd even burn an effigy of Jesus on the cross.
I mean - surely such free spirited church goers would have absolutely no problem with homosexual atheists doing such a thing, right? They'd probably defend their right to do so with blood if they had to.
The moment someone can come up with a system that can land a plane safely no matter what, THEN the pilots can be replaced.
Considering that the pilots themselves cannot "land a plane safely no matter what", you're putting up an unreasonable demand.
For one thing, your demand states that if the left wing falls off a plane, a pilot-replacement-system should be able to land it. Obviously this cannot be done.
Now, if you were to moderate your demand to being able to land a plane safely in the same conditions as a human pilot, you'd have my support and attention.
I would gladly take the additional risk and save a few bucks.
Alright. Do I also get a cut in the additional profits?
It's one thing to have a car or a bus crash on a road. Chances of it landing anywhere near where I live are minimal. But I have something like 10 planes flying overhead every hour.
You may save 5 bucks, but when a plane crashes any savings will be eaten up in destruction, and quite often a lot of the stuff destroyed doesn't even belong to anyone on the plane or the company operating it.
Well... some people are against GMO food sources, because "it's unnatural".
Me, I'm against it for other reason. Just look at Monsanto.
Do you REALLY want to live in a world, where you risk getting sued into oblivion for growing food in your backyard? What if you only plant stuff you know to be "all natural", and your neighbour is a bit liberal with his seeds? Suddenly you are growing patented plants without a license. Bam - you're screwed.
Just because Monsanto hasn't gone after people with a small garden, doesn't mean they aren't allowed to do so - if something is patented (and the patent is still valid), you are not allowed reproduce it without a license.
GMO is in a really strange legal space, because it's a life form. There is an intrinsic risk that it will escape into nature. This has some risks to the ecosystem, certainly, but it also means that you can be 100% "innocent" and still responsible for damages, simply because a seed ended up in your backyard.
Has nothing to do with pseudo-science or tilting at windmills.
So wait, we have two theories that describe different realms and no data for the intersection of the two realms, but people are trying to come up with a theory for the intersection?
We know that very very small objects exists (subatomic particles). We also know that very very massive objects exists (stars).
Usually the two are linear. The smaller an objects, the less mass it has.
Unfortunately there IS a crossover point. There are objects with a density of approximately 370,000,000,000,000,000 kg/m^3. These can be modeled with regular physics for 'large' objects, and they affect things far outside the realm of Quantum Theory (i.e. you can orbit a human around such an object). Get too much above this point though, and you end up with an object that seems to be smaller than the smallest subatomic particles (Quantum Theory) yet affects things that are far outside the realm of Quantum Theory - these items are commonly known as black holes.
How do they work? Well... they're insanely massive. And they're really tiny. As to what goes on inside them... we've no clue. We can't use Quantum Theory because it's too massive, and we can't use regular physics, because it's too small.
If a company is selling a rock, saying that it's extremely rare, and it turns out to be garden variety granite... has there been any actual harm? If John Doe buys something sold by ACME INC. today and thinks "I could improve upon that by..", looks into it, realizes that the item is patented and drops the idea - has there been any actual harm? What if the patent expired 10 years ago - has there been any actual harm?
School kids and college kids would be dropping like flies.
Why?
They aren't saying "if you sit down for 6+ hours a day, you will die when you're 24!" They ARE saying, "if you sit down for 6+ hours a day, all other things being equal, you are xx% more likely to die earlier, than someone who is only sitting down for less than three hours a day."
I'm not sure if I'm growing older and more bitter, or if people are getting stupider, but it seems as if people are getting stupider by the minute.
A long time ago I thought up what I thought was a funny little wordplay... now I'm starting to think it's true:
We don't live in the 21st century - we live in the twenty second century
The point being if something cannot be read or heard AND understood in 20 seconds or less, we don't care, and will make our own wild assumptions about what is true, even if it flies in the face of logic.
And that article is NOT linked in the summary in this particular story. Since there is only one article linked in the summary, it is obvious to anyone that that would be THE article in question.
That you happen to have dug up the actual report, something neither the poster nor the article write did, changes nothing. All the information I have posted and the grand parent wanted, was in the linked article, free to anyone to read.
and for how long the research was conducted ? what was the sample size ?
The article:
That's the sobering news from a new study that tracked more than 100,000 adults for 14 years. Researchers from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta followed 53,000 men and 70,000 women and asked them to fill out questionnaires about their physical activity.
So... yes. Obviously they completely left out the information you were missing. Especially the bit where they're expecting you to, you know, read the fucking article.
'likely to die'. gee. no relevant cause of death
The article:
Unlike most bad news, this one is best heard standing up: people who sit more than 6 hours a day are more likely to die earlier.
That's the first fucking paragraph of the article. So not only are you an idiot, you're also blind.
Your basic blimp uses as much fuel in a WEEK of operations as a 747 uses taxiing from the gate to the runway.
Yes. And just how much stuff can you move with that particular amount of fuel? In what time frame? What would be the total cost of that journey? And what could you move with a 747 in that time period?
I'm fairly certain that if you check the actual statistics of games being sold (the part that matters to publishers), you'll find that the vast majority of sales and games are coming from DRM'ed games.
In fact he is such an attention whore, that pretty much all the media describe him as secretive and difficult to find not to mention getting interviews with.
He's totally making fools out of these journalists, letting them service his whorish need for attention by hiding.
Hell, there are 2.3 million hits on google, when you search for "Julian Assange". He's completely outclassing Lady Gaga (79.7 million) and Paris Hilton (30.2 million), making himself the true king of attention whoring.
Hell, he's outclassing you, DesScorp, 100 times (22.500 hits). That just PROVES that he's an attention whore. I mean - there's no way in hell that he would get that many more hits than you without being an attention whore. Right?
Since Stockholm is Sweden's largest city, that would mean that if your claim is correct, Sweden would only have maybe 500 km track. A far cry from the 13,000 km that it actually has.
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Not necessarily. If the machine in question has an internal atmosphere (like a submarine), it will have a pressure on the inside of the hull pressing out. In water there is water pressing the hull together, and if that's the only thing holding it together, it'll fall apart in outer space.
Keep in mind - you said ANY machine.
While I agree in part with the sentiment, you've apparently never looked beyond the surface of the problem.
And since you're an American, you're likely to have been welcome with at least partially open arms in the countries you've visited in this way.
Having spent quite a bit of time in college, helping people from other countries settling in, learning the 'odd stuff', I've come to appreciate one thing in particular: White people are racist as hell. As are everybody else.
Example: Two Americans arrive at the same time. They've gone to the same college, they have the same friends back home, they're both equally social etc. They have the same classes here and they live next door to each other in the dorm. However one has Korean parents, which influences her dialect, the other one has white parents and no such "problem".
Took only a month and a half for the 'Korean' girl to feel completely left out, despite still being good friends with the white girl. Not her doing, but the doing of the native students.
I've seen how groups of Chinese students who are fluent in English are ostracised the moment they arrive at a dorm, simply because they are Chinese. I've seriously heard rumours started about one Chinese girl, 20 minutes after she arrived at a dorm. Rumours I know couldn't be true, as it would involve teleportation or time travel.
I've seen Indians and Pakistanis being frowned upon for having an accent despite speaking fluent English, followed by a loving embrace of Europeans who could barely string together the sentence "Hello world" without screwing it up.
Hell, I've seen people go "eew" at the idea of eating food from non-European cultures, followed by "oh, that sounds interesting" when introduced to the idea of lutefisk or surströmming.
My point is this: The reason foreigners tend to hang out with their countrymen and people from the same culture, is that other people go out of their way to make them feel unwelcome and unwanted.
Look, I realize that in the US you use guns to defend against other people, and at times large, ferocious animals, but in Australia they use guns to kill mosquitoes, because the fuckers are HUGE!
It's just a bunch of religious ramblings. They should throw the bible and other religious text on the bonfire as well.
However - my issue, and possibly Rackspace's, is burning the Rainbow Flag. They're burning the flag in hatred of homosexuals, and homosexuals are definitely protected under hate speech laws.
It's a shame I don't live in the US. It would be fun to test this church's true stance on free speech by arranging a burning of the Bible protest in their backyard. For good measure I'd burn an effigy of Jesus on the cross while I'm at it.
I mean - it's the same thing, right? Right?
Actually the interesting way to push back against the burning of the Rainbow flag (representing homosexuals), would be for a group of atheist homosexuals to congregate in public, just across the street from the church, and burning a bunch of Bibles. If they really wanted to be provocative, they'd even burn an effigy of Jesus on the cross.
I mean - surely such free spirited church goers would have absolutely no problem with homosexual atheists doing such a thing, right? They'd probably defend their right to do so with blood if they had to.
And an honest commentator would have put (WARNING: POLITICIAN!) behind the name.
On Google you lazy ass idiot.
Considering that the pilots themselves cannot "land a plane safely no matter what", you're putting up an unreasonable demand.
For one thing, your demand states that if the left wing falls off a plane, a pilot-replacement-system should be able to land it. Obviously this cannot be done.
Now, if you were to moderate your demand to being able to land a plane safely in the same conditions as a human pilot, you'd have my support and attention.
Alright. Do I also get a cut in the additional profits?
It's one thing to have a car or a bus crash on a road. Chances of it landing anywhere near where I live are minimal. But I have something like 10 planes flying overhead every hour.
You may save 5 bucks, but when a plane crashes any savings will be eaten up in destruction, and quite often a lot of the stuff destroyed doesn't even belong to anyone on the plane or the company operating it.
That was quite a jump you just made.
I never said "we should never do it". I said "the patent system doesn't work for living organisms". Quite a different thing.
Is that why the oil wells keep catching fire?
Well ... some people are against GMO food sources, because "it's unnatural".
Me, I'm against it for other reason. Just look at Monsanto.
Do you REALLY want to live in a world, where you risk getting sued into oblivion for growing food in your backyard? What if you only plant stuff you know to be "all natural", and your neighbour is a bit liberal with his seeds? Suddenly you are growing patented plants without a license. Bam - you're screwed.
Just because Monsanto hasn't gone after people with a small garden, doesn't mean they aren't allowed to do so - if something is patented (and the patent is still valid), you are not allowed reproduce it without a license.
GMO is in a really strange legal space, because it's a life form. There is an intrinsic risk that it will escape into nature. This has some risks to the ecosystem, certainly, but it also means that you can be 100% "innocent" and still responsible for damages, simply because a seed ended up in your backyard.
Has nothing to do with pseudo-science or tilting at windmills.
We know that very very small objects exists (subatomic particles). We also know that very very massive objects exists (stars).
Usually the two are linear. The smaller an objects, the less mass it has.
Unfortunately there IS a crossover point. There are objects with a density of approximately 370,000,000,000,000,000 kg/m^3. These can be modeled with regular physics for 'large' objects, and they affect things far outside the realm of Quantum Theory (i.e. you can orbit a human around such an object). Get too much above this point though, and you end up with an object that seems to be smaller than the smallest subatomic particles (Quantum Theory) yet affects things that are far outside the realm of Quantum Theory - these items are commonly known as black holes.
How do they work? Well ... they're insanely massive. And they're really tiny. As to what goes on inside them ... we've no clue. We can't use Quantum Theory because it's too massive, and we can't use regular physics, because it's too small.
Here's an even better one, courtesy of David Michell
Define "no actual harm".
If a company is selling a rock, saying that it's extremely rare, and it turns out to be garden variety granite ... has there been any actual harm? ..", looks into it, realizes that the item is patented and drops the idea - has there been any actual harm? What if the patent expired 10 years ago - has there been any actual harm?
If John Doe buys something sold by ACME INC. today and thinks "I could improve upon that by
Why?
They aren't saying "if you sit down for 6+ hours a day, you will die when you're 24!"
They ARE saying, "if you sit down for 6+ hours a day, all other things being equal, you are xx% more likely to die earlier, than someone who is only sitting down for less than three hours a day."
I'm not sure if I'm growing older and more bitter, or if people are getting stupider, but it seems as if people are getting stupider by the minute.
A long time ago I thought up what I thought was a funny little wordplay ... now I'm starting to think it's true:
The point being if something cannot be read or heard AND understood in 20 seconds or less, we don't care, and will make our own wild assumptions about what is true, even if it flies in the face of logic.
And that article is NOT linked in the summary in this particular story. Since there is only one article linked in the summary, it is obvious to anyone that that would be THE article in question.
That you happen to have dug up the actual report, something neither the poster nor the article write did, changes nothing. All the information I have posted and the grand parent wanted, was in the linked article, free to anyone to read.
Did you even make it past the first paragraph?
The article:
So ... yes. Obviously they completely left out the information you were missing. Especially the bit where they're expecting you to, you know, read the fucking article.
The article:
That's the first fucking paragraph of the article. So not only are you an idiot, you're also blind.
Yes. And just how much stuff can you move with that particular amount of fuel?
In what time frame?
What would be the total cost of that journey?
And what could you move with a 747 in that time period?
Yes. Very true
Because if the general public doesn't care about something, then NOONE cares. Ever. At all.
What general gaming public?
I'm fairly certain that if you check the actual statistics of games being sold (the part that matters to publishers), you'll find that the vast majority of sales and games are coming from DRM'ed games.
Yes, really. But mostly because you don't know how to read:
But I'm sure you have a great explanation as to why the parent isn't allowed to hope, Iran isn't as crazy as they seem?
Seriously, is it really that difficult to READ? Or are we supposed to just take things completely out of context?
See how easy it is to take things out of context and make it seem like you're an idiot?
I would like to state that I, too, am not a racist.
That being said, I much prefer chocolate ice cream over vanilla.
In fact he is such an attention whore, that pretty much all the media describe him as secretive and difficult to find not to mention getting interviews with.
He's totally making fools out of these journalists, letting them service his whorish need for attention by hiding.
Hell, there are 2.3 million hits on google, when you search for "Julian Assange". He's completely outclassing Lady Gaga (79.7 million) and Paris Hilton (30.2 million), making himself the true king of attention whoring.
Hell, he's outclassing you, DesScorp, 100 times (22.500 hits). That just PROVES that he's an attention whore. I mean - there's no way in hell that he would get that many more hits than you without being an attention whore. Right?
Very true, except for the part where it's blatantly false.
If you want to see the extent of the railways in Sweden have a look here: http://www.sj.se/content/1/c6/12/64/53/0807-SJ-WorkshopA4_webb.pdf
And it has some 13,000 km track.
By comparison the Stockholm Metro has some 110 km track.
Since Stockholm is Sweden's largest city, that would mean that if your claim is correct, Sweden would only have maybe 500 km track. A far cry from the 13,000 km that it actually has.