Nope, not many abductions around here. Also, basically no anal probing going on. The aliens seem to have a strange fetish for hillbillies and trailer trash. Why that is so is on of the great conundrums of the universe.
Don't worry - I'll have that pyramid built as my burial ground after I finally declare myself Eternal God-Emperor of the World, the Universe and All The Rest. Shorter sides and higher, though. And what's with that bitchin' about the energy? Prepare for the whip, suckers!
Well, all that water used to provide high quality fish protein for you, before it dried up. Now the rotten hulks of your fishing boats are decaying in a desert. It used to provide a decent climate for your crops, while now there are dust storms covering a land below which the water table is rapidly sinking. You are right in viewing the lakes as resources, and the Aral lake is a prime example how to squander such a resource for very little short-term gain.
Are you talking about utilizing the osmotic gradient between bodies of water of different salinity? Could probably work, but why sacrifice an unique environment like the Dead Sea for energy generation when there are other, more simple methods to generate power?
It is hard to know. Craig Venter has a project running to sequence random stuff from seawater. I haven't been following it lately, but it seems like there is a metric shitload of bacterial species in ordinary seawater that we had no clue about before. We really just scratched the surface regarding microbial life. Getting as many sequences as possible sure is a worthwhile preservation effort if all else fails. Note, however, that we still can't reconstruct a species from DNA sequence alone. So you gotta keep some cultures at least, and extremophiles like the Dead Sea bacteria are notoriously hard to culture. It's more alchemy than science to keep the little buggers at life. Back when I was still working in a biochem lab, the microbio guys kept joking that you don't need a microbiologist to culture them well, you need a micropsychologist to make the little bastards do want you want them too...
As long as they bring their weed with them... That and some decent, really old Gouda, which I can't seem to get around here. So, bring the right stuff, and you can have room and board with me:)
The bacteria in the Dead Sea are particularily interesting extremophiles, Haloarcula sp. is just an example. As a biochemist, I definitely view that as a resource worth preserving. Who knows what we can learn of such extremely adapted metabolisms?
Well, if you are using public transport, you can reasonably expect to be asked for your ticket. Sure he had to go to the police later? Usually this is completely handled by the transport authority. Anyway, good question what would have happened here in that streetgolfing incident. I guess it depends on where you are. In my hometown (rather small), the cop would have yelled at the golfer to get the fuck home if they can't handle their beer and then he'd proceed to chew the ass off the guy calling it in for wasting his time. Where I live now (Munich) - perhaps ID, but usually you just get yelled at to stop it or else... And yeah, you won't get arrested for missing ID. As I said, I never even got asked for it in 35 years-
If you want to hide your SSID and the MAC of your router, why then are you broadcasting them into the public space? If this information is that important to you, switch to ethernet and disconnect that from the internet.
And when did that German relatives of yours actually live in Germany? In the 30's or in the DDR prior to 89? I am living here for 35 years now and sure as hell never been asked "Papers, please" and never had to show anything to a policeman except for my license at a traffic stop.
The only place I had to show my ID in the last couple of years (apart from airports) was the R&D-facility of a customer. I can't remember ever showing my ID to a policeman on the street. Drivers license, sure, at some traffic stops, but ID? No. I live in Germany, btw - No "Papiere bitte!" around here.
Most recent games probably don't need manuals anyway. But I, as an avid simulation gamer, still miss the good old times of complex flight sims with huge manuals - think of Falcon. Manuals you actually had to read to be able to fly. Fortunately there are still some niche products along that line. I love my 1600 pages of ring-bound checklists, workflows, operation manuals and documentation for the PMDG MD-11 for Flight Simulator. People who see that on my desk seem to ponder the question whether I am just a nerd or a terrorist each time, though...
Well, it is a question of signal intensity. The non-random noise emitted by a technical civilization will be mostly undirected and relatively low-power, so the detection range will only be a couple, maybe tens of lightyears. Aliens actively trying to make contact would in all likelihood use frequency ranges that are relatively low-noise and would utilize directed transmissions, so in that case the detection range is much higher. So, the general expectation is to find someone actively transmitting, if we find anything at all.
Like all these other question of rather fundamental nature that we pursue in science, which have no immediately visible tangible payoff? Should we stop them too? Who let the economist take over science? Who decided science should be about payoff, not about finding out things about the universe just because it is there? Who knows what the payoff might be?
Because YEC drivel is in any way equivalent to scientifically measured radio telescope data. Yep, right, sure. Hey, we haven't found working fusion, gravity waves, proton decay, a cure for cancer, a cure for AIDS, and lots, lots and more lots of stuff. So, obviously all of this is bunk, yes? Hell, why don't we just stop doing science at all, it won't be complete ever, so it is a waste of time, correct? This used to be a site for nerds...
Why now? Because now they found the alien mind control signal they have been looking for, the pink laser shining from the stars into the black iron prison. And now, now they unleash it onto the public. The plot thickens...
Two people posting "fnord" at exactly the same time? I knew I have been staying on the same computer too long... Nice try, but you won't get me. At least I won't go down quietly, you hear that??
Careful, this is slashdot. Informed reading of legal code will drown in the "they gotta seize all computers", "precrime-nazi" and "using the net will be illegal" - spam. In general I didn't find much in the leaked drafts that was out of the ordinary compared to current IP law.
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Nope, not many abductions around here. Also, basically no anal probing going on. The aliens seem to have a strange fetish for hillbillies and trailer trash. Why that is so is on of the great conundrums of the universe.
Don't worry - I'll have that pyramid built as my burial ground after I finally declare myself Eternal God-Emperor of the World, the Universe and All The Rest. Shorter sides and higher, though. And what's with that bitchin' about the energy? Prepare for the whip, suckers!
One might actually by accident watch Abre los Ojos instead of Vanilla Sky, and have an epiphany - and all would be well.
Well, all that water used to provide high quality fish protein for you, before it dried up. Now the rotten hulks of your fishing boats are decaying in a desert. It used to provide a decent climate for your crops, while now there are dust storms covering a land below which the water table is rapidly sinking. You are right in viewing the lakes as resources, and the Aral lake is a prime example how to squander such a resource for very little short-term gain.
Are you talking about utilizing the osmotic gradient between bodies of water of different salinity? Could probably work, but why sacrifice an unique environment like the Dead Sea for energy generation when there are other, more simple methods to generate power?
It is hard to know. Craig Venter has a project running to sequence random stuff from seawater. I haven't been following it lately, but it seems like there is a metric shitload of bacterial species in ordinary seawater that we had no clue about before. We really just scratched the surface regarding microbial life. Getting as many sequences as possible sure is a worthwhile preservation effort if all else fails. Note, however, that we still can't reconstruct a species from DNA sequence alone. So you gotta keep some cultures at least, and extremophiles like the Dead Sea bacteria are notoriously hard to culture. It's more alchemy than science to keep the little buggers at life. Back when I was still working in a biochem lab, the microbio guys kept joking that you don't need a microbiologist to culture them well, you need a micropsychologist to make the little bastards do want you want them too ...
As long as they bring their weed with them... That and some decent, really old Gouda, which I can't seem to get around here. So, bring the right stuff, and you can have room and board with me :)
If it comes to that choice, you surely are right. But, goddamnit, for what did we invent science and engineering, if not to avoid that choice?
Your lack of perspective is hardly the article's failure.
The bacteria in the Dead Sea are particularily interesting extremophiles, Haloarcula sp. is just an example. As a biochemist, I definitely view that as a resource worth preserving. Who knows what we can learn of such extremely adapted metabolisms?
Well, if you are using public transport, you can reasonably expect to be asked for your ticket. Sure he had to go to the police later? Usually this is completely handled by the transport authority. Anyway, good question what would have happened here in that streetgolfing incident. I guess it depends on where you are. In my hometown (rather small), the cop would have yelled at the golfer to get the fuck home if they can't handle their beer and then he'd proceed to chew the ass off the guy calling it in for wasting his time. Where I live now (Munich) - perhaps ID, but usually you just get yelled at to stop it or else... And yeah, you won't get arrested for missing ID. As I said, I never even got asked for it in 35 years-
If you want to hide your SSID and the MAC of your router, why then are you broadcasting them into the public space? If this information is that important to you, switch to ethernet and disconnect that from the internet.
And when did that German relatives of yours actually live in Germany? In the 30's or in the DDR prior to 89? I am living here for 35 years now and sure as hell never been asked "Papers, please" and never had to show anything to a policeman except for my license at a traffic stop.
The only place I had to show my ID in the last couple of years (apart from airports) was the R&D-facility of a customer. I can't remember ever showing my ID to a policeman on the street. Drivers license, sure, at some traffic stops, but ID? No. I live in Germany, btw - No "Papiere bitte!" around here.
I guess an orbit high enough to be stable against atmospheric drag and tidal disturbance for 500 years is well out of the reach of the shuttle.
The professional headline writes proficient in this particular style are all under contract at The Register, I fear...
Most recent games probably don't need manuals anyway. But I, as an avid simulation gamer, still miss the good old times of complex flight sims with huge manuals - think of Falcon. Manuals you actually had to read to be able to fly. Fortunately there are still some niche products along that line. I love my 1600 pages of ring-bound checklists, workflows, operation manuals and documentation for the PMDG MD-11 for Flight Simulator. People who see that on my desk seem to ponder the question whether I am just a nerd or a terrorist each time, though...
Since when does the Shrike need means of transport to get to where it wants to be?
Well, it is a question of signal intensity. The non-random noise emitted by a technical civilization will be mostly undirected and relatively low-power, so the detection range will only be a couple, maybe tens of lightyears. Aliens actively trying to make contact would in all likelihood use frequency ranges that are relatively low-noise and would utilize directed transmissions, so in that case the detection range is much higher. So, the general expectation is to find someone actively transmitting, if we find anything at all.
Hehe, that's placed prominently in my playlist already.
Like all these other question of rather fundamental nature that we pursue in science, which have no immediately visible tangible payoff? Should we stop them too? Who let the economist take over science? Who decided science should be about payoff, not about finding out things about the universe just because it is there? Who knows what the payoff might be?
Because YEC drivel is in any way equivalent to scientifically measured radio telescope data. Yep, right, sure. Hey, we haven't found working fusion, gravity waves, proton decay, a cure for cancer, a cure for AIDS, and lots, lots and more lots of stuff. So, obviously all of this is bunk, yes? Hell, why don't we just stop doing science at all, it won't be complete ever, so it is a waste of time, correct? This used to be a site for nerds...
Why now? Because now they found the alien mind control signal they have been looking for, the pink laser shining from the stars into the black iron prison. And now, now they unleash it onto the public. The plot thickens...
Two people posting "fnord" at exactly the same time? I knew I have been staying on the same computer too long... Nice try, but you won't get me. At least I won't go down quietly, you hear that??
Careful, this is slashdot. Informed reading of legal code will drown in the "they gotta seize all computers", "precrime-nazi" and "using the net will be illegal" - spam. In general I didn't find much in the leaked drafts that was out of the ordinary compared to current IP law.