CERN isn't experiencing troubles from radical religious factions, and implementing a similar program for the NIF should not be too different. In terms of a more global perspective, resource management is becoming the next important issue (although yes, I know that it is not the only one) and people will begin to gravitate away from such radical religious groups once it becomes evident that such fanaticism is not going to effect the international cooperation needed. This is what happened during African decolonization and during the end of the Cold War: when an ideology outlives its usefulness, it will begin to die out, as Keynesian economics is beginning to do here in the US.
I think we've moved past the old Cold War era modus operandi: nuclear weapons are no longer necessary nor considered as an indicator of power. Military spending in that area has decreased drastically since the Reagan era. Essentially, we've reached a point where "kick[ing] each others ass as best as we can afford" is no longer a profitable venture and is, in fact, a great way to lose the economic support and favor of the international community. What we need is some CERN-scale collaboration on this so that we can possibly help to alleviate the energy strains on the global populace.
because then we'd have Carol Browner on everybody's back about people stealing NIF technology for the purpose of getting energy in this crisis of ours. I hope that with the current budget we'll be able to keep up funding for this potentially fruitful venture...shows more promise than ethanol ever did.
I enabled ssh access on all the computers in my house, and I use scp to get files from their computers, upload it to mine where I mess around with it and then upload it to their computer in place of the document they had saved. scp [file/path/on/your/computer] user@location:[path/on/their/computer]
Also, if you ssh into someone's computer, use the 'say' command to have their computer start talking to them. Or, use osascript to get iTunes to start playing an annoying song really loud.
Space isn't a complete vacuum. There is still movement and the occasional molecule, but for all practical purposes, it "is" a vacuum. There is still a temperature though.
I see what you're saying, but what about the lack of deceleration that the parachute would provide? If you didn't have enough deceleration from the initial parachute, then the sky crane would have to provide a lot of thrust to overcome the momentum...but then....that's what the retrorockets would be for....I think my only hope is to abandon my current thread of thought and wait for someone to take pity on me and mod me up for being "funny" or at least "interesting"...please?
Obsfucated physics is a great way to get people to fund your project. If they don't know the plausibility but it looks like it works, then you have a good idea.
I know that Mars's gravity is only about 40% of Earth's, and its atmosphere is less dense. So would a parachute even work? It doesn't seem that a less dense atmosphere would be able to generate the air resistance needed to keep the rover up in the air, especially with all the gas the crane needs as fuel to generate the thrust necessary to hold the rover in the air. I don't know the exact physics of it, but just in terms of a balance of forces, this does not seem extremely plausible.
"A potential boyfriend could look at my genome and say, 'I don't know if this relationship is meant to be,' " said John Halamka, a participant and the chief information officer of Harvard Medical School, who has a 15-year-old daughter."
That's from the Telegraph article. Based on what we know of DNA at this point, personality traits are not determinable (to a certain, realistic extent) by genomes. Thinking of this sort is technology mixing with science, which just leads to idiotic comments such as this. Is it supposed to be a "futuristic projection?" Seriously...
I agree. It's just that esoteric humor can lose some people, which I think is why XKCD hasn't reached the level of popularity as, say Cyanide and Happiness.
"New Yorker" humor isn't really humor at all. They're just comfort-cartoons, pictures that people expect to see in the New Yorker because they "belong" there, not because they're funny. I miss James Thurber...
While XKCD is my favorite webcomic that I've been following for quite a long time, I have to admit that Munroe's humor lies more in his ability to crack inside jokes with the nerd in all of us. Katz tries to appeal to the more general public (it's his job at the New Yorker). I think Munroe is funnier, especially here, but his esoteric humor might lose some votes.
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CERN isn't experiencing troubles from radical religious factions, and implementing a similar program for the NIF should not be too different. In terms of a more global perspective, resource management is becoming the next important issue (although yes, I know that it is not the only one) and people will begin to gravitate away from such radical religious groups once it becomes evident that such fanaticism is not going to effect the international cooperation needed. This is what happened during African decolonization and during the end of the Cold War: when an ideology outlives its usefulness, it will begin to die out, as Keynesian economics is beginning to do here in the US.
I think we've moved past the old Cold War era modus operandi: nuclear weapons are no longer necessary nor considered as an indicator of power. Military spending in that area has decreased drastically since the Reagan era. Essentially, we've reached a point where "kick[ing] each others ass as best as we can afford" is no longer a profitable venture and is, in fact, a great way to lose the economic support and favor of the international community. What we need is some CERN-scale collaboration on this so that we can possibly help to alleviate the energy strains on the global populace.
because then we'd have Carol Browner on everybody's back about people stealing NIF technology for the purpose of getting energy in this crisis of ours. I hope that with the current budget we'll be able to keep up funding for this potentially fruitful venture...shows more promise than ethanol ever did.
I enabled ssh access on all the computers in my house, and I use scp to get files from their computers, upload it to mine where I mess around with it and then upload it to their computer in place of the document they had saved. scp [file/path/on/your/computer] user@location:[path/on/their/computer] Also, if you ssh into someone's computer, use the 'say' command to have their computer start talking to them. Or, use osascript to get iTunes to start playing an annoying song really loud.
Space isn't a complete vacuum. There is still movement and the occasional molecule, but for all practical purposes, it "is" a vacuum. There is still a temperature though.
So would Apple's Intel processors finally be able to reach that 4 GHz mark?
How many times is LucasArts going to fit that line in?
I see what you're saying, but what about the lack of deceleration that the parachute would provide? If you didn't have enough deceleration from the initial parachute, then the sky crane would have to provide a lot of thrust to overcome the momentum...but then....that's what the retrorockets would be for....I think my only hope is to abandon my current thread of thought and wait for someone to take pity on me and mod me up for being "funny" or at least "interesting"...please?
Obsfucated physics is a great way to get people to fund your project. If they don't know the plausibility but it looks like it works, then you have a good idea.
I know that Mars's gravity is only about 40% of Earth's, and its atmosphere is less dense. So would a parachute even work? It doesn't seem that a less dense atmosphere would be able to generate the air resistance needed to keep the rover up in the air, especially with all the gas the crane needs as fuel to generate the thrust necessary to hold the rover in the air. I don't know the exact physics of it, but just in terms of a balance of forces, this does not seem extremely plausible.
So they'd just better hope the SPCA doesn't get wind of this and start protecting the dog's right to genetic privacy as well...
"A potential boyfriend could look at my genome and say, 'I don't know if this relationship is meant to be,' " said John Halamka, a participant and the chief information officer of Harvard Medical School, who has a 15-year-old daughter."
That's from the Telegraph article. Based on what we know of DNA at this point, personality traits are not determinable (to a certain, realistic extent) by genomes. Thinking of this sort is technology mixing with science, which just leads to idiotic comments such as this. Is it supposed to be a "futuristic projection?" Seriously...
I agree. It's just that esoteric humor can lose some people, which I think is why XKCD hasn't reached the level of popularity as, say Cyanide and Happiness. "New Yorker" humor isn't really humor at all. They're just comfort-cartoons, pictures that people expect to see in the New Yorker because they "belong" there, not because they're funny. I miss James Thurber...
While XKCD is my favorite webcomic that I've been following for quite a long time, I have to admit that Munroe's humor lies more in his ability to crack inside jokes with the nerd in all of us. Katz tries to appeal to the more general public (it's his job at the New Yorker). I think Munroe is funnier, especially here, but his esoteric humor might lose some votes.