The battery IBM is developing would be more on the order of 100 lbs. Though that is still too much to be practical. The exchange would likely need to be performed by a robot with cars having a standard mount in a standard location.
In the case of this battery, an empty one would be heavier (it absorbs oxygen as it discharges) than a full one. You could theoretically weigh it to determine charge level.
And imagine a future with high-capacity gasoline tanks buried underground in the middle of a city, slowly leaching fuel into the surrounding soil in almost everybody's neighborhood!
Actually, that does happen... a lot. Probably more so for older gas stations.
People will falsify certificates to avoid vaccines.
Yeah, and people pump themselves full of heroin too. What's your point? Should we not have official policies against heroin use due to the fact that there will always be people that use heroin?
I'm not saying that reeducation is an unworthy goal, but it's a separate issue to the science on whether something such as a particular vaccine is helpful to society as a whole.
If the science is solid, it really doesn't matter who doesn't like it. The left, or right, or whomever can smear, threaten, whatever they want, it still doesn't make the science less solid. Fact is fact, whether you want to believe it or not.
I'm not talking about changing their beliefs. People are going to believe what they want to believe. What I'm saying is that rules on public health need to be based on reality, not fear. If that makes some people upset, so be it.
The information you seek is on the first page of the article... ...but since you are apparently too lazy:
Fully vaccinated: 68 cases
Partially vaccinated: 20 cases
Not vaccinated: 191 cases
because most children will survive and thrive without them--everyone here knows this
The ONLY reason that is true is because almost everybody who can be vaccinated, has been vaccinated. If that weren't the case, we'd still have rampant polio, measles, etc. It would still be fairly common for babies and children to die before becoming adults. If a significant portion of the population ceases to get vaccinations then severe childhood disease will return.
No, of those that had no vaccinations, 86% had no vaccinations due to parental refusal. The other 14% also were not vaccinated but not due to parental refusal. Go read the article
So just because someone is afraid of something we should accept their position? What if a parent was profoundly afraid of vitamins and thus tried to give their children as few vitamins (as part of their diet) as possible. Wouldn't that be child abuse?
If the fears are irrational then by definition they go against reality. We have to judge based on reality, not irrational fear.
What if there is a way to travel interstellar distances, a la hyperspace, but in discovering it, it also becomes possible to travel to a different universe/plane of existence that is immediately recognized as superior to our own. And, for intrinsic reasons, would be recognized as superior to any intelligence that discovered it? Intelligent species would then uproot and move to the better universe/plane once it became possible to do so.
I'm not saying that I belive this, or that it's likely, but it's an interesting counterpoint to the doom and gloom scenarios proposed as solutions to the Fermi Paradox.
The universe is absurdly huge. Even something with a tiny statistical likelihood is almost guaranteed to happen at some point, somewhere, and probably in many variations.
Usable energy is the limit to which you can arrange "tiny amounts of raw materials". Usable energy is limited, therefore so to is wealth. However, there is an AWFUL lot of usable energy in the universe, so potential wealth is effectively limitless (presuming we can get off this rock and that it isn't effectively impossible to travel to distant stars - a big assumption)
My recommendations:
1. Avoid mental distractions BEFORE work. If you set yourself up with a distraction before you even start working, the whole day can easily go down the tube.
2. As many others have said, maintain a morning routine.
3. Excersise before work. In my experience, exercising before getting to work results in significantly increased motivation and focus.
4. Don't snack! It's a very slippery slope.
It is polite (and probably safest in most cases) to make room for a soon to be merging vehicle, but it is not the responsibility of the diver on the highway to merge. It's that of the one merging. All to often I see vehicles barging down the on-ramp without regard for traffic currently on the road, not even bothering to look for space.
Well, they were keeping the well thawed using kerosene, which is lighter than ice and water, so presumably the weight of the ice sheet would force the water up the well, pushing out the kerosene until it reaches equilibrium, which would be somewhere beneath the surface of the ice sheet. Not sure exactly at what depth that would be. I'll let somebody else do the math.
Dissolved gases could certainly come out of solution as the column of water rises up the well. There have also bee suggestions that the water is supercooled and prevented from freezing only due to the high pressures involved. If so, then it would freeze as it rises and probably wouldn't make it all that far up the well before freezing solid.
1000 tons isn't really all that much. Certainly not a civilization ending event... more likely just an interesting item for the evening news. You would need something on the order of kilometers in diameter to end civilization as we know it.
Also, an object with the rest mass of a baseball and traveling at very near the speed of light probably wouldn't be able to physically destroy a city as it would tend to explode into a burst of high energy particles upon impact with the atmosphere. It seems plausible, however, if there are enough high energy particles striking a city that it might irradiate it to the point that everything alive is killed. A different definition of destruction, perhaps.
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The battery IBM is developing would be more on the order of 100 lbs. Though that is still too much to be practical. The exchange would likely need to be performed by a robot with cars having a standard mount in a standard location.
The air intake would definitely need filtration. I would think the main problem would be fine particles clogging the pores of the cathode.
ICBMs are all rockets. There are air breathing cruise missiles, however.
In the case of this battery, an empty one would be heavier (it absorbs oxygen as it discharges) than a full one. You could theoretically weigh it to determine charge level.
And imagine a future with high-capacity gasoline tanks buried underground in the middle of a city, slowly leaching fuel into the surrounding soil in almost everybody's neighborhood!
Actually, that does happen... a lot. Probably more so for older gas stations.
People will falsify certificates to avoid vaccines.
Yeah, and people pump themselves full of heroin too. What's your point? Should we not have official policies against heroin use due to the fact that there will always be people that use heroin?
I'm not saying that reeducation is an unworthy goal, but it's a separate issue to the science on whether something such as a particular vaccine is helpful to society as a whole.
If the science is solid, it really doesn't matter who doesn't like it. The left, or right, or whomever can smear, threaten, whatever they want, it still doesn't make the science less solid. Fact is fact, whether you want to believe it or not.
I'm not talking about changing their beliefs. People are going to believe what they want to believe. What I'm saying is that rules on public health need to be based on reality, not fear. If that makes some people upset, so be it.
If the science is solid then it will recognized, even if the community doesn't like the result. That's the beauty of science.
The information you seek is on the first page of the article...
...but since you are apparently too lazy:
Fully vaccinated: 68 cases
Partially vaccinated: 20 cases
Not vaccinated: 191 cases
There is strong evidence for excessive sugar intake causing insulin resistance. So yes, there is reason to believe that sugar can cause diabetes.
because most children will survive and thrive without them--everyone here knows this
The ONLY reason that is true is because almost everybody who can be vaccinated, has been vaccinated. If that weren't the case, we'd still have rampant polio, measles, etc. It would still be fairly common for babies and children to die before becoming adults. If a significant portion of the population ceases to get vaccinations then severe childhood disease will return.
No, of those that had no vaccinations, 86% had no vaccinations due to parental refusal. The other 14% also were not vaccinated but not due to parental refusal. Go read the article
So just because someone is afraid of something we should accept their position? What if a parent was profoundly afraid of vitamins and thus tried to give their children as few vitamins (as part of their diet) as possible. Wouldn't that be child abuse?
If the fears are irrational then by definition they go against reality. We have to judge based on reality, not irrational fear.
What if there is a way to travel interstellar distances, a la hyperspace, but in discovering it, it also becomes possible to travel to a different universe/plane of existence that is immediately recognized as superior to our own. And, for intrinsic reasons, would be recognized as superior to any intelligence that discovered it? Intelligent species would then uproot and move to the better universe/plane once it became possible to do so.
I'm not saying that I belive this, or that it's likely, but it's an interesting counterpoint to the doom and gloom scenarios proposed as solutions to the Fermi Paradox.
The universe is absurdly huge. Even something with a tiny statistical likelihood is almost guaranteed to happen at some point, somewhere, and probably in many variations.
I applaud this law.
Not enough to take the karma hit, apparently.
Usable energy is the limit to which you can arrange "tiny amounts of raw materials". Usable energy is limited, therefore so to is wealth. However, there is an AWFUL lot of usable energy in the universe, so potential wealth is effectively limitless (presuming we can get off this rock and that it isn't effectively impossible to travel to distant stars - a big assumption)
My recommendations:
1. Avoid mental distractions BEFORE work. If you set yourself up with a distraction before you even start working, the whole day can easily go down the tube.
2. As many others have said, maintain a morning routine.
3. Excersise before work. In my experience, exercising before getting to work results in significantly increased motivation and focus.
4. Don't snack! It's a very slippery slope.
I don't actually believe in karma, but if it did exist then this would be a very appropriate example.
Why does the scientist need to be converted at all?
It is polite (and probably safest in most cases) to make room for a soon to be merging vehicle, but it is not the responsibility of the diver on the highway to merge. It's that of the one merging. All to often I see vehicles barging down the on-ramp without regard for traffic currently on the road, not even bothering to look for space.
Well, they were keeping the well thawed using kerosene, which is lighter than ice and water, so presumably the weight of the ice sheet would force the water up the well, pushing out the kerosene until it reaches equilibrium, which would be somewhere beneath the surface of the ice sheet. Not sure exactly at what depth that would be. I'll let somebody else do the math.
Dissolved gases could certainly come out of solution as the column of water rises up the well. There have also bee suggestions that the water is supercooled and prevented from freezing only due to the high pressures involved. If so, then it would freeze as it rises and probably wouldn't make it all that far up the well before freezing solid.
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1000 tons isn't really all that much. Certainly not a civilization ending event... more likely just an interesting item for the evening news. You would need something on the order of kilometers in diameter to end civilization as we know it. Also, an object with the rest mass of a baseball and traveling at very near the speed of light probably wouldn't be able to physically destroy a city as it would tend to explode into a burst of high energy particles upon impact with the atmosphere. It seems plausible, however, if there are enough high energy particles striking a city that it might irradiate it to the point that everything alive is killed. A different definition of destruction, perhaps.