If that thing can realistically reproduce the smell of your food, your food is probably some highly processed, additive-laden ScrotumBurger(tm). The thing about real food, though, is that it is not perfectly consistent. Taste, smell, texture - all have nuances depending on the ingredients you use. Great for industrial style advertising, I give you that. I prefer my food to be real, though. This would be just another tool to push industrial food-lookalikes. And FSM knows, we have enough of that crap.
Ain't gonna come. There's that pesky 2nd law of thermodynamics. Heating stuff is simple. Pour in energy, hit some transition - disorder increases, more thermal motion - heat. If you want to cool, you obviously need to take energy out - get the system more ordered. Way harder to do. Best way is still just to connect your system to a colder reservoir and let conduction and convection do the job. Actively taking out the energy on a molecular level, microwave style? Hard. You can do that on the submicroscopic level, e.g. laser cooling, but getting that up to a convenience machine like a microwave? Personally, I don't see how. Never met anyone who promised that either.
Why? I can tell you. Contrary to popular opinion, it is damn sure not of some ill-defined "hippies" preventing it. If you give a profit driven industry the choice between a) keep running at 40 year old reactor, which is completely amortized by now and is basically printing money for free, while the public is liable for any accident or b) invest heavily in a new reactor.... Well, what do you think they'd chose?
Well, some people view that as positive. To paraphrase Henry Rollins from his Spoken Word Tour: "If you don't wake up with an erect dick and an erect middle finger each morning, you are wasting your life."
Well, yeah - but look at Germany for example - very strict gun laws. However, as long as I have a clean background check, i.e. no prior criminal convictions, I can join a shooting club or get a hunting license. With both comes the ability to buy guns. If you got a legitimate reason why you need a gun, you can get one. If you don't either hunt or do sports shooting, well, then you can't. In my opinion, that is a pretty reasonable solution.
No, Fallen Angels was not meant to be fiction, particularly not "science" fiction, but rather a thinly veiled rant against poorly constructed strawmen of the ecological movement and the left. I like Niven's classics, but that one was one of the worst pieces of crap I ever tarnished my SF collection with.
What did you expect? There's been a war against the middle east going on for quite some years. Dehumanizing the enemy is always part of the plan, seems it has caught on well.
Hm... if you want to get paranoid, perhaps Homeland Security requested some additional access rights on the airlines' computer systems and managed to foul up whatever they touched in the process?
So just because you travel in peaceful territory for so long and just might be happening to travel through a combat zone under enemy fire one day, you bought a Bradley APC as your car, I suppose?
You mean a serious discussion like your "contribution" here, that only contains an insult and no actually data or argument? Not to speak of the charm and humor.
The global conspiracy of scientists getting filthy rich by gubmint funding, didn't you get the memo? Don't worry, I didn't get it either during my postdoc days, so I made the mistake of leaving academia and moving on to a poorly paid job in a patent law firm, instead of reaping the fruits of my scientific upbringing.
Well, usually I am known to be ranting about the correlation/causation crap meme around here, but in that case I really have to point out that evidence for the mammoth->ice age causation is rather weak...
Pretty good summary. It's not only the peer review upon publication though - I mean, aren't we all eager to backstab a colleague if his armor (meaning his data in this case) shows the slightest opening where we could get the dagger in? Science these days is a pretty cut-throat business, in my experience, which makes the whole concept of a global conspiracy of scientists putting forth a made-up story about global warming so laughable.
Offtopic - how is the ESR business going these days? I did a little work on Iron-Molybdenum clusters in enzymes once, but I am mostly an NMR guy.
What is it with that bloody Al Gore-fixation? Can we discuss science without this particular derailment for once? Did he touch you in some bad place or something? What Gore says or does has no bearing at all at the science behind climate change, in the end.
Cloud coverage is a completely different effect from solar forcing changing due to the sunspot cycle. Yes, cloud effects are hard, and poorly understood at the moment. That's why there is lots of research going on covering that. How you gather from that that cloud effects are "rejected" is beyond me, though.
True, but then again, I have yet to see proof that this is actually the case - to the contrary, surpluses of the social security system have been funneled off to finance other, completely unrelated items for quite a while. I agree that the changing age distribution is putting a strain on the system, which has to be dealt with, but the constant cries about imminent collapse are far from the truth.
Excuse the fishing quip - just coming back from the river and the trout are particularly uncooperative today indeed. Sorry for that.
Of course this is not how adult, educated people conduct a discussion - you are involved in it, after all. Quite rich from a guy who refuses to support his allegedly well-known data to call out another one for "unsupported hearsay". I am still waiting for the link, mate.
Oh no, I gonna pester you as long as you come up with the data that supposedly exists or until you admit to be a lying fuck. I am patient, mate, very patient. Guys like you need to be exposed for the frauds they are. So, data? Care to link it?
You still do not get what "ad hominem" actually means, no? Please, go ahead, show me that data that supposedly is all over the place. Otherwise I must suppose that this is just another lie.
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If that thing can realistically reproduce the smell of your food, your food is probably some highly processed, additive-laden ScrotumBurger(tm). The thing about real food, though, is that it is not perfectly consistent. Taste, smell, texture - all have nuances depending on the ingredients you use. Great for industrial style advertising, I give you that. I prefer my food to be real, though. This would be just another tool to push industrial food-lookalikes. And FSM knows, we have enough of that crap.
Ain't gonna come. There's that pesky 2nd law of thermodynamics. Heating stuff is simple. Pour in energy, hit some transition - disorder increases, more thermal motion - heat. If you want to cool, you obviously need to take energy out - get the system more ordered. Way harder to do. Best way is still just to connect your system to a colder reservoir and let conduction and convection do the job. Actively taking out the energy on a molecular level, microwave style? Hard. You can do that on the submicroscopic level, e.g. laser cooling, but getting that up to a convenience machine like a microwave? Personally, I don't see how. Never met anyone who promised that either.
Your underwear has been made by depositing cotton fibers out of suspension onto a wire mesh? Inquiring textile technologists want to know....
Ah, look, it is one of those Americans. Say hi to your buddies at the trailer park for me, Bubba.
Why? I can tell you. Contrary to popular opinion, it is damn sure not of some ill-defined "hippies" preventing it. If you give a profit driven industry the choice between a) keep running at 40 year old reactor, which is completely amortized by now and is basically printing money for free, while the public is liable for any accident or b) invest heavily in a new reactor.... Well, what do you think they'd chose?
Well, some people view that as positive. To paraphrase Henry Rollins from his Spoken Word Tour: "If you don't wake up with an erect dick and an erect middle finger each morning, you are wasting your life."
Well, yeah - but look at Germany for example - very strict gun laws. However, as long as I have a clean background check, i.e. no prior criminal convictions, I can join a shooting club or get a hunting license. With both comes the ability to buy guns. If you got a legitimate reason why you need a gun, you can get one. If you don't either hunt or do sports shooting, well, then you can't. In my opinion, that is a pretty reasonable solution.
Well *that one* is a venerable strawman parade in itself, I give you that.
No, Fallen Angels was not meant to be fiction, particularly not "science" fiction, but rather a thinly veiled rant against poorly constructed strawmen of the ecological movement and the left. I like Niven's classics, but that one was one of the worst pieces of crap I ever tarnished my SF collection with.
What did you expect? There's been a war against the middle east going on for quite some years. Dehumanizing the enemy is always part of the plan, seems it has caught on well.
I doubt that any space program in history has been run without thought for the military applications of the technology.
Hm... if you want to get paranoid, perhaps Homeland Security requested some additional access rights on the airlines' computer systems and managed to foul up whatever they touched in the process?
So just because you travel in peaceful territory for so long and just might be happening to travel through a combat zone under enemy fire one day, you bought a Bradley APC as your car, I suppose?
You mean a serious discussion like your "contribution" here, that only contains an insult and no actually data or argument? Not to speak of the charm and humor.
The global conspiracy of scientists getting filthy rich by gubmint funding, didn't you get the memo? Don't worry, I didn't get it either during my postdoc days, so I made the mistake of leaving academia and moving on to a poorly paid job in a patent law firm, instead of reaping the fruits of my scientific upbringing.
Oh good lord - that's his source? I think we have been trolled pretty hard here.
Well, usually I am known to be ranting about the correlation/causation crap meme around here, but in that case I really have to point out that evidence for the mammoth->ice age causation is rather weak...
Pretty good summary. It's not only the peer review upon publication though - I mean, aren't we all eager to backstab a colleague if his armor (meaning his data in this case) shows the slightest opening where we could get the dagger in? Science these days is a pretty cut-throat business, in my experience, which makes the whole concept of a global conspiracy of scientists putting forth a made-up story about global warming so laughable.
Offtopic - how is the ESR business going these days? I did a little work on Iron-Molybdenum clusters in enzymes once, but I am mostly an NMR guy.
What is it with that bloody Al Gore-fixation? Can we discuss science without this particular derailment for once? Did he touch you in some bad place or something? What Gore says or does has no bearing at all at the science behind climate change, in the end.
Cloud coverage is a completely different effect from solar forcing changing due to the sunspot cycle. Yes, cloud effects are hard, and poorly understood at the moment. That's why there is lots of research going on covering that. How you gather from that that cloud effects are "rejected" is beyond me, though.
True, but then again, I have yet to see proof that this is actually the case - to the contrary, surpluses of the social security system have been funneled off to finance other, completely unrelated items for quite a while. I agree that the changing age distribution is putting a strain on the system, which has to be dealt with, but the constant cries about imminent collapse are far from the truth.
Excuse the fishing quip - just coming back from the river and the trout are particularly uncooperative today indeed. Sorry for that.
Of course this is not how adult, educated people conduct a discussion - you are involved in it, after all. Quite rich from a guy who refuses to support his allegedly well-known data to call out another one for "unsupported hearsay". I am still waiting for the link, mate.
Oh no, I gonna pester you as long as you come up with the data that supposedly exists or until you admit to be a lying fuck. I am patient, mate, very patient. Guys like you need to be exposed for the frauds they are. So, data? Care to link it?
Nice summary of your side's debating skill. Thanks for the link.
You still do not get what "ad hominem" actually means, no? Please, go ahead, show me that data that supposedly is all over the place. Otherwise I must suppose that this is just another lie.