I think the inertial damper is inherent to the Alcubierre concept. It is, after all, not your ship that is accelerating, but a space-time bubble surrounding your ship, which stays at rest relative to the surrounding space.
This hints at the core problem. The mythical free market only works when a) information and b) power is symmetrically distributed between seller and buyer. Which is, frankly, more utopic than pure Marxism.
And letting the free market, i.e. the people who stand to gain financially from selling speed to kids, decide who needs it is surely the better idea, no? Seriously, the US are undertaking an experiment drugging their kids to fit them into the mold of perceived normality that is pretty much unprecedented on a historical scale these days. If anything, the DEA is at fault for not smacking down on the current prescription practices.
It ceases to be a good thing when you have to deplete fossil aquifers to feed your plants, though. Or when you grab up all the freshwater upstream, leaving the guys downstream with dust.
Given that for any one calory worth of food we consume, we use about 10 cal worth of fossil fuels for its production and transport, I'd say that this paradigm shift will be upon us in force shortly, whether we want it or not.
Watts and "scientific evidence" in one sentence? You owe me a new keyboard. Thanks, though - no better way to start the day in the office than with a good laugh.
Dude, in the interest of your own sanity, just give it up. Roman_mir is so far out of his tree these days that the squirrels are sending out search parties. Going for the whole "police is not a legitimate government function" just marks the transition from simply batshit crazy to stark raving lunatic.
No offense, but I get the feeling that the USA is great in taking up a good idea, performing a reductio ad absurdum in real life by back-assward implementation and then declaring it unworkable in general. See federalism, legal person, etc. In other places, such things tend to work better, mostly.
You gotta get into the mindset of those fundamentalists. You see, if you read the bible "literally", it becomes abundantly clear that "wine" means "grape juice". Or something. Ah, well - as long as they didn't inject their bullcrap into the teaching, let em be.
No highspeed cameras, but here you go - disposal of a couple of 1000 pounds of sodium metal by dumping it into a lake. Old newsreel footage from a time when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them....
Well, that is a shame. I am living in Germany. I was a bit exaggerating - supermarkets here do have self-service meat sections with shrinkwrapped meat in styrofoam trays. Most of them do also have a butcher section with an actual butcher behind a counter that hands you your meat, though. And there are lots of small old-fashioned butcheries. Mine can still tell me what farmer raised that cow and on what it was fed. And that is in one of the larger cities around here, not exactly a smalltown butchery in the countryside. You are missing out on something there, sorry. No offense intended, but losing that would feel like a loss of a bit of culture to me.
Gotta admit, I am not familiar with the workings of large scale composting facilities. In a small garden-style compost pile, you gotta be careful with the amount of paper though. Meat - while probably compostable from a biochemical point of view - was right out, as it attracts rats and worse.
I used to work on rational design of lead compounds, way back, when mammoths still roamed the earth. More on the side of structural studies on possible protein targets, though.
This is exactly why Libertarianism tends to be so appealing to nerds. It's premised on the idea that everything in life can be solved by inserting variables into a simple formula. It's also premised on the idea that they've actually figured out what that formula is.
The definition of nerd seems to have changed. In times of yore, a nerd would have been the one to realize that there is no simple formula, but instead a huge, ill-defineable system of differential equations - and to take pride and enjoyment in trying to solve it. Simple formulas used to be for the jocks...
There's a systemic problem right there - in what sane system does meat come with a styrofoam tray and plastic wrapping? My meat comes wrapped in paper by a butcher. Paper and trimmings goes into the normal trash for hauling away - meat ain't for composting anyway. Probably has less of an economic impact than recycling the plastic and styrofoam. Anyway, on the whole composting thing - organic stuff just rots in the waste dump anyway, so I have some doubts if it even makes sense. I used to compost myself when I had a garden, there it makes sense.
Actually, I gotta add "1.5 ????", since extraction and isolation of ppm amounts of 3He from regolith is far from feasible at the moment. One can hope, though.
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I think the inertial damper is inherent to the Alcubierre concept. It is, after all, not your ship that is accelerating, but a space-time bubble surrounding your ship, which stays at rest relative to the surrounding space.
This hints at the core problem. The mythical free market only works when a) information and b) power is symmetrically distributed between seller and buyer. Which is, frankly, more utopic than pure Marxism.
And letting the free market, i.e. the people who stand to gain financially from selling speed to kids, decide who needs it is surely the better idea, no? Seriously, the US are undertaking an experiment drugging their kids to fit them into the mold of perceived normality that is pretty much unprecedented on a historical scale these days. If anything, the DEA is at fault for not smacking down on the current prescription practices.
It ceases to be a good thing when you have to deplete fossil aquifers to feed your plants, though. Or when you grab up all the freshwater upstream, leaving the guys downstream with dust.
Given that for any one calory worth of food we consume, we use about 10 cal worth of fossil fuels for its production and transport, I'd say that this paradigm shift will be upon us in force shortly, whether we want it or not.
Watts and "scientific evidence" in one sentence? You owe me a new keyboard. Thanks, though - no better way to start the day in the office than with a good laugh.
Dude, in the interest of your own sanity, just give it up. Roman_mir is so far out of his tree these days that the squirrels are sending out search parties. Going for the whole "police is not a legitimate government function" just marks the transition from simply batshit crazy to stark raving lunatic.
Did you lose an alveolar lateral approximant somewhere on the way?
How about we ban the posting of inflammatory, trollish summaries on /. and return the site to a place for bloody nerds, if any are left these days?
No offense, but I get the feeling that the USA is great in taking up a good idea, performing a reductio ad absurdum in real life by back-assward implementation and then declaring it unworkable in general. See federalism, legal person, etc. In other places, such things tend to work better, mostly.
You gotta get into the mindset of those fundamentalists. You see, if you read the bible "literally", it becomes abundantly clear that "wine" means "grape juice". Or something. Ah, well - as long as they didn't inject their bullcrap into the teaching, let em be.
The future's so bright I gotta wear shades...
This is not the first time you are doing this, is it? How much to buy into access to your time machine?
Standard ambient pressure - as usual with boiling point values.
Lame. Neither point-sized nor frictionless ;)
No highspeed cameras, but here you go - disposal of a couple of 1000 pounds of sodium metal by dumping it into a lake. Old newsreel footage from a time when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them....
Well, that is a shame. I am living in Germany. I was a bit exaggerating - supermarkets here do have self-service meat sections with shrinkwrapped meat in styrofoam trays. Most of them do also have a butcher section with an actual butcher behind a counter that hands you your meat, though. And there are lots of small old-fashioned butcheries. Mine can still tell me what farmer raised that cow and on what it was fed. And that is in one of the larger cities around here, not exactly a smalltown butchery in the countryside. You are missing out on something there, sorry. No offense intended, but losing that would feel like a loss of a bit of culture to me.
Yeah. I realized that a bit too late. Quite a D'Oh!-moment. You are absolutely right - proper compost is aerated.
Gotta admit, I am not familiar with the workings of large scale composting facilities. In a small garden-style compost pile, you gotta be careful with the amount of paper though. Meat - while probably compostable from a biochemical point of view - was right out, as it attracts rats and worse.
This sort of misinformation is usually deliberate ignorance, I'd flame away. Sorry for your friend, mate.
Weird, though, why does it happen to be way cheaper around here with full government provided public health? We do see the bills, you know...
I used to work on rational design of lead compounds, way back, when mammoths still roamed the earth. More on the side of structural studies on possible protein targets, though.
This is exactly why Libertarianism tends to be so appealing to nerds. It's premised on the idea that everything in life can be solved by inserting variables into a simple formula. It's also premised on the idea that they've actually figured out what that formula is.
The definition of nerd seems to have changed. In times of yore, a nerd would have been the one to realize that there is no simple formula, but instead a huge, ill-defineable system of differential equations - and to take pride and enjoyment in trying to solve it. Simple formulas used to be for the jocks...
There's a systemic problem right there - in what sane system does meat come with a styrofoam tray and plastic wrapping? My meat comes wrapped in paper by a butcher. Paper and trimmings goes into the normal trash for hauling away - meat ain't for composting anyway. Probably has less of an economic impact than recycling the plastic and styrofoam. Anyway, on the whole composting thing - organic stuff just rots in the waste dump anyway, so I have some doubts if it even makes sense. I used to compost myself when I had a garden, there it makes sense.
Actually, I gotta add "1.5 ????", since extraction and isolation of ppm amounts of 3He from regolith is far from feasible at the moment. One can hope, though.