The closest to sustainable fast sublight travel is probably still the Bussard ramjet - although I am getting conflicting reports on the actual density of interstellar hydrogen. Let's hope the Voyagers get us some data on that matter while they still work. As for FTL - while not strictly possible under general relativity, concepts like the Alcubierre warp drive, while wildly out of the realms of the possible these days, at least show that there might be ways to trick Einstein into looking away for a little while. Far from impossible, but also further from workable. Enough to avoid the word "impossible" in my opinion, though.
Well, given your sig, I probably shouldn't even answer. First step to the light - realize that government debt is not analogous to household debt. Second step - realize that the research budget is negligible already. Third step - realize that when you spend (and we should like mad in this recession) spend for something that has a chance of giving you future profits. If you get this through your libertarian brainwashing, you might realize that the waste lies elsewhere.
And by cutting all that little things from the damn science budget that will ruin us all, you might even manage to keep another pointless war running. Teabagger heaven!
Yeah, please. Let's not spend any money on science. Science is clearly the equivalent to a plasma TV and a playstation. Is this the teabaggers' War Against Intellect taking fruit, or it just another symptom of a different underlying cause?
Uhm, mate, hate to break it to you, the Mi-Go invasion is long over. They are into the whole mind-control thing, you know? Well, have you watched our elected leaders lately?
The good news is, they so far proved to be somewhat benevolent overlords, compared to what else is out there. The problem, however, is that their arch-nemesis He-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Named, The Unspeakable One, has set his minion against them. Again, watch the latest politics, the minions set up to take power. The King In Yellow is walking the earth, and madness spreads in his path.
I have said to much. I shall have to close this journal. Something is out there... They are coming... IA! IA!
No not at all, you are not. In case of meltdown, unload the externalities on whoever the fuck you please and run of with the profits while the costs are socialized. The working model of the nuclear age. Congratulations for rediscovering a decade old model. Feel the loving hand of the free market shoved up your, ahhh.... well... no... feel how YOU shove the loving hand of the free market up someone else's arse and caress his prostate? Feels great, doesn't it?
And for nearly thirty years, it had no effect on the cthulhu-forsaken bigotry that abounds these days. Not even held it constant, as said bigotry got worse. Cthonians take me, we are at the point where that shirt would be taken serious by a significant amount of people. Interesting times, indeed.
Loser pays and in addition a government regulated fee cap for lawyers. Also, and I guess that will cause some ire, get rid of the bloody jury system, at least when it comes to technical lawsuits. No sense to let IP cases be ruled by virtue of which lawyer can better bullshit Jose the Gardener sitting in the jury.
Well, that argument comes up because every single bloody time we spend some money on science, some dumb fuck inbred hick comes crawling out of the woods crying about how the ebil gubmint wastes the money it 'stole' from him by means of taxes. Oddly, the dumb fuck hicks never complain when said money is spent on wars against them ebil brown peoples.
Germany has been massively exporting power. Half of out nuclear capacity is basically unnecessary and used for export to the European Supergrid anyway. Why again should I have this shit in my backyard? Besides, as soon as the summer is a little warmer, the French are happily importing, because their crap-arse reactors ain't working with the low cooling water in the rivers. Great tech, there, dudes.
On the political side, yeah, I guess Merkel will be gone soon - but who would revoke the phasing out? The reds? They instated the plan originally, before the CDU, busy as always gobbling down industrial cock, revoked it later and then, just this year, did a 180 on that.
Of course. Them plants are burning fossil fuels like crazy. How dumb can you get? I mean, it has become pretty obvious that slashdot is overrun with scientific illiterates this decade, but come on, this is special.
Yeah, sure. Them there socialists are out to get you. Be afraid, good citizen, be afraid, there's them there socialist boogeymen in your closet! I just stay in my European socialist hellhole and enjoy life. The US were on the road to third-world status when I worked there in the early 2000s - go ahead and slide further in to your banana republic mode, you seem to enjoy it. I just pity the decent guys over there. But hey, if you want to get out - i got two large sofas in the living room - ample space for a couple of refugees.
As a patent professional - and this is ofc not legal advise yadda, yadda - prior art does not need implementation. A description would be sufficient, as long as it is detailed enough to be implemented in the manner you want to patent. Let's say someone invents a FTL drive. The general idea of FTL drives in SF would not be prior art, as no one has described a workable FTL there. However, if for some strange reason, a dilithium based warp core as described in the ST tech manual would actually work, I could not patent it, because in that case, the tech manual would be prior art.
The agency enforcing the treaty would have to have absolute destructive power at its hands, though - "settle your petty little conflicts our way or get your 'sovereign' territory nuked into a glass parking lot". But how would that kind of power be consolidated into a single agency without everyone else getting into the arms race for MAD during the consolidation phase? The only slightly probable way I can imagine right now is that they would have to be instated after a world war which caused devastation on an yet unimagined scale. Everyone would go 'never again' for a few years, before going 'what the hell have we created'...
Well, one of the best FPS experiences I ever had was in the original Operation Flashpoint, I think it was the expansion pack where you played as a Russian defecting to the local insurgents. Been driving a truck with about 12 people over to a new rebel base. Promptly, we run into an ambush, all my men die, I barely make it into the woods, getting shot in the leg on the last few meters. I manage to find some cover and with a whole lot of luck finish off the last remaining ambushers, who try to approach me over a stretch of open terrain. Obviously, walking is out of the question with the leg shot, so I start to crawl towards the rebel camp, which still is a few kilometers away. Of course, the place is crawling with Soviet patrols by now - no chance to fight my way through, so it becomes an exercise in stealth and avoidance. Took me about 3 hours to finish the mission, most of the time lying low in some bushes, staring at Soviet boots stomping by.
The whole time, I was glued to the screen, palms damp, ash from my half-smoked cigarette snowing down on the floor. You don't get that from arcade mode - then again, I always was a simulation freak.
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The closest to sustainable fast sublight travel is probably still the Bussard ramjet - although I am getting conflicting reports on the actual density of interstellar hydrogen. Let's hope the Voyagers get us some data on that matter while they still work. As for FTL - while not strictly possible under general relativity, concepts like the Alcubierre warp drive, while wildly out of the realms of the possible these days, at least show that there might be ways to trick Einstein into looking away for a little while. Far from impossible, but also further from workable. Enough to avoid the word "impossible" in my opinion, though.
That idea has been explored in the highly recommendable Signal To Noise by Eric Nylund.
Well, given your sig, I probably shouldn't even answer. First step to the light - realize that government debt is not analogous to household debt. Second step - realize that the research budget is negligible already. Third step - realize that when you spend (and we should like mad in this recession) spend for something that has a chance of giving you future profits. If you get this through your libertarian brainwashing, you might realize that the waste lies elsewhere.
And by cutting all that little things from the damn science budget that will ruin us all, you might even manage to keep another pointless war running. Teabagger heaven!
As evidenced by half of the posts up to now whining about "waste of government money". *cough*
Yeah, please. Let's not spend any money on science. Science is clearly the equivalent to a plasma TV and a playstation. Is this the teabaggers' War Against Intellect taking fruit, or it just another symptom of a different underlying cause?
No one forces anyone to let morons on their friends list, no?
As long as it is eLenin, we are still kinda fine, all things considered. I shall run to the hills when eStalin appears, though.
Uhm, mate, hate to break it to you, the Mi-Go invasion is long over. They are into the whole mind-control thing, you know? Well, have you watched our elected leaders lately?
The good news is, they so far proved to be somewhat benevolent overlords, compared to what else is out there. The problem, however, is that their arch-nemesis He-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Named, The Unspeakable One, has set his minion against them. Again, watch the latest politics, the minions set up to take power. The King In Yellow is walking the earth, and madness spreads in his path.
I have said to much. I shall have to close this journal. Something is out there... They are coming... IA! IA!
No not at all, you are not. In case of meltdown, unload the externalities on whoever the fuck you please and run of with the profits while the costs are socialized. The working model of the nuclear age. Congratulations for rediscovering a decade old model. Feel the loving hand of the free market shoved up your, ahhh.... well... no... feel how YOU shove the loving hand of the free market up someone else's arse and caress his prostate? Feels great, doesn't it?
And for nearly thirty years, it had no effect on the cthulhu-forsaken bigotry that abounds these days. Not even held it constant, as said bigotry got worse. Cthonians take me, we are at the point where that shirt would be taken serious by a significant amount of people. Interesting times, indeed.
Loser pays and in addition a government regulated fee cap for lawyers. Also, and I guess that will cause some ire, get rid of the bloody jury system, at least when it comes to technical lawsuits. No sense to let IP cases be ruled by virtue of which lawyer can better bullshit Jose the Gardener sitting in the jury.
"My god, it's full of arse...."
I see a Death star
And I want it painted black....
Well, that argument comes up because every single bloody time we spend some money on science, some dumb fuck inbred hick comes crawling out of the woods crying about how the ebil gubmint wastes the money it 'stole' from him by means of taxes. Oddly, the dumb fuck hicks never complain when said money is spent on wars against them ebil brown peoples.
On the political side, yeah, I guess Merkel will be gone soon - but who would revoke the phasing out? The reds? They instated the plan originally, before the CDU, busy as always gobbling down industrial cock, revoked it later and then, just this year, did a 180 on that.
Cats are fine. Fridge is stuffed with Bavarian beer. The Mindcontrolled Refugee Center is open for business ;)
Hey, green technology is a direct terrorist attack against the military-industrial complex. What shall we fight pointless wars for if not oil?
Of course. Them plants are burning fossil fuels like crazy. How dumb can you get? I mean, it has become pretty obvious that slashdot is overrun with scientific illiterates this decade, but come on, this is special.
Yeah, sure. Them there socialists are out to get you. Be afraid, good citizen, be afraid, there's them there socialist boogeymen in your closet! I just stay in my European socialist hellhole and enjoy life. The US were on the road to third-world status when I worked there in the early 2000s - go ahead and slide further in to your banana republic mode, you seem to enjoy it. I just pity the decent guys over there. But hey, if you want to get out - i got two large sofas in the living room - ample space for a couple of refugees.
As a patent professional - and this is ofc not legal advise yadda, yadda - prior art does not need implementation. A description would be sufficient, as long as it is detailed enough to be implemented in the manner you want to patent. Let's say someone invents a FTL drive. The general idea of FTL drives in SF would not be prior art, as no one has described a workable FTL there. However, if for some strange reason, a dilithium based warp core as described in the ST tech manual would actually work, I could not patent it, because in that case, the tech manual would be prior art.
Large compared to your intellect?
The agency enforcing the treaty would have to have absolute destructive power at its hands, though - "settle your petty little conflicts our way or get your 'sovereign' territory nuked into a glass parking lot". But how would that kind of power be consolidated into a single agency without everyone else getting into the arms race for MAD during the consolidation phase? The only slightly probable way I can imagine right now is that they would have to be instated after a world war which caused devastation on an yet unimagined scale. Everyone would go 'never again' for a few years, before going 'what the hell have we created'...
The whole time, I was glued to the screen, palms damp, ash from my half-smoked cigarette snowing down on the floor. You don't get that from arcade mode - then again, I always was a simulation freak.
Your stance is amoral to an extend that you could base a Mao-esque "Great leap into space" on it, just saying.