[sarcasm]Oh NOES! Someone on the interwebs claims its a fake! We better believe them! [/sarcasm]
McDonnell Douglas worked with NASA on the concept of a passenger aircraft based on a BWB design. McDonnell Douglas later merged with Boeing, thus Boeing is now the company behind the concept.
yes, all taxpayers help to fund mass transit. While you may not see the benefit of it, since you don't use it personally, other people do use it. People that would otherwise be using the roads and creating more traffic for you to deal with. So you actually are seeing benefits in that you commute becomes easier.
in regard to the $35,000/rider/yr figure, that could be the same with having a large highway coming into a small town. (highways are subsidized too) In the end, the town is just too small to support it, so they made the right decision by removing it. However, an express bus could possibly be profitable where the train was not.
A technicality... but my dad was on chemo, and the doctor told him to get as much exercise as he could. One day (on a "good" week) he biked 75 miles. Mind you it was an outlier, and he certainly wasn't doing it on his "bad" weeks, but telling a chemo patient to go for a run is not out of the question.
So you wouldn't care that your *real* wife or girlfriend was dead? The person that you grew to love... THAT person would be gone forever. If there is something that can be called a soul, it won't be inside the copy you made. It isn't the person you remember, even if they act like they are and appear to be. To me that is a HUGE difference.
Back someone up? for what purpose? so that we can have a convincing simulation of the person should they die in an accident? It won't be the person you remember, just a mechanical copy.
I remember happening upon what appeared to be a level editor that was never removed from the game. But basically it allowed you to add enemies, rings, platforms, whatever to the level, and you could then exit the editor mode and collect the rings, kill the enemies or use the platforms. It was especially fun to place springboards in novel locations. The one caveat is that anything you add tends to disappear if it moves off-screen. It also had a tendency to lock up the game if you got too ambitious with your additions.
I'm fairly certain that the RTZ cut VS. dig was a purposeful part of the game. And yes, quite evil perhaps. But really, when you know what to do, it doesn't take all that long to get back to where you were.
Of course, the above assumes that whatever is sent down the FTL tube is 'information only', i.e. not a material that can interact with the universe in any known way.
Except that information IS material. "Information" is just a mental construct that we use to describe a specific state of matter or energy. For example, on hard drives, information is the orientation of the magnetic fields on the platter. In a book, it is the pattern of ink on the paper. In our brains, it is a pattern of electrical impulses and chemical messengers.
You are missing the point. All you can do is observe the particle, and thus learn something about the distant particle. You don't get to choose what you observe. You cant force the particle to have +y spin. You just observe it. The other observer would see the same thing as you, but that doesn't help you transmit data. It is like you are both looking at the same random set of data.
That doesn't work either because Joe doesn't know if you have rolled the dice or not.
Entangled particles are like dice that are already rolling, and they stop rolling the moment that either particle is observed.
So you and Joe each have a dice that, say, always roll the same number as each other. You look at your dice to cause it to stop rolling, and see that it rolled a 6. Joe can look at his dice too, and will also see a 6, but he doesn't know if he was the one that caused the dice to stop, or whether it was you who stopped it.
You both see a 6, but no actual information was transferred.
Or, your consciousness slowly disappears as your cells are replaced. Eventually replacing you with an exact simulation, while you have effectively died.
Baloney. I've drunk plenty of unfiltered beer homebrew is almost never filtered) and do not fall over drunk after eating sugary food. I'd be surprised if yeast could survive even a few seconds in the highly acidic environment of the digestive tract. I also happen to know that some sanitizers used in homebrew are just mild acids.
The shunt would need to lead to somewhere sterile, or you would risk infecting your fuel cell with foreign bacteria. The bladder might work, but bladder infections do happen.
While women are generally less aggressive, they also tend to take things very personally. I have a suspicion that an all female crew would have a tendency to "melt-down" just as much if not more so than an all male crew. As evidence, many women I know get along better with guys than with other women.
...they could have just taken a more sensible option and just select all women.
Most women I know tend to get along better with men than with other women. They even admit it themselves. Women just tend not to be very nice to each other when things get stressful.
A spacecraft sent to Mars would not likely have a very large diameter, thus you would have to spin it rather fast in order to approximate one G. The problem with that is when you are in such a quickly rotating structure, and you turn your head, it tends to induce intense dizziness. If you have ever ridden the centrifuge-type rides at a carnival, you know what I am talking about.
More likely, they would only accelerate it to about one third G since that is about what they will experience when on Mars. And thus they should be able to live and work on Mars without difficulty upon arrival
Your question suggests that atheists / evolutionists have no moral values and thus are cold, calculating logical creatures that would kill their own family if it were the logical choice.
atheists / evolutionists are not sociopaths. If 99.99% of all people (including atheists / evolutionists) feel it's wrong to cause pain for another person, why would you assume that same person would feel it is ok to cause unnecessary pain for a "lesser" animal?
You have a very pessimistic view of atheists / evolutionists.
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But they ARE using cord blood... cords that happen to grow with and attach to fetuses.
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Mock Kurzweil all you want, [some of] his predictions are still right on track.
[sarcasm]Oh NOES! Someone on the interwebs claims its a fake! We better believe them! [/sarcasm]
McDonnell Douglas worked with NASA on the concept of a passenger aircraft based on a BWB design. McDonnell Douglas later merged with Boeing, thus Boeing is now the company behind the concept.
Also, the photo is real... it is a smallish scale model of the planned design.
See here: http://www.likecool.com/Car/Transportation/The%20Skyray%20X48B/The-Skyray-X48B----.jpg
Except it wouldn't be a direct path, rather a curve, and we would have to aim for where it really is, instead of where it was 20 years ago.
"Can't currently detect in a direct way" would be a better description.
yes, all taxpayers help to fund mass transit. While you may not see the benefit of it, since you don't use it personally, other people do use it. People that would otherwise be using the roads and creating more traffic for you to deal with. So you actually are seeing benefits in that you commute becomes easier. in regard to the $35,000/rider/yr figure, that could be the same with having a large highway coming into a small town. (highways are subsidized too) In the end, the town is just too small to support it, so they made the right decision by removing it. However, an express bus could possibly be profitable where the train was not.
You have to start somewhere. Eventually more service will develop where it makes sense to do so.
A technicality... but my dad was on chemo, and the doctor told him to get as much exercise as he could. One day (on a "good" week) he biked 75 miles. Mind you it was an outlier, and he certainly wasn't doing it on his "bad" weeks, but telling a chemo patient to go for a run is not out of the question.
So you wouldn't care that your *real* wife or girlfriend was dead? The person that you grew to love... THAT person would be gone forever. If there is something that can be called a soul, it won't be inside the copy you made. It isn't the person you remember, even if they act like they are and appear to be. To me that is a HUGE difference.
Back someone up? for what purpose? so that we can have a convincing simulation of the person should they die in an accident? It won't be the person you remember, just a mechanical copy.
I remember happening upon what appeared to be a level editor that was never removed from the game. But basically it allowed you to add enemies, rings, platforms, whatever to the level, and you could then exit the editor mode and collect the rings, kill the enemies or use the platforms. It was especially fun to place springboards in novel locations. The one caveat is that anything you add tends to disappear if it moves off-screen. It also had a tendency to lock up the game if you got too ambitious with your additions.
HA! I read it!
I'm fairly certain that the RTZ cut VS. dig was a purposeful part of the game. And yes, quite evil perhaps. But really, when you know what to do, it doesn't take all that long to get back to where you were.
Of course, the above assumes that whatever is sent down the FTL tube is 'information only', i.e. not a material that can interact with the universe in any known way.
Except that information IS material. "Information" is just a mental construct that we use to describe a specific state of matter or energy. For example, on hard drives, information is the orientation of the magnetic fields on the platter. In a book, it is the pattern of ink on the paper. In our brains, it is a pattern of electrical impulses and chemical messengers.
There is not such thing as pure information.
You are missing the point. All you can do is observe the particle, and thus learn something about the distant particle. You don't get to choose what you observe. You cant force the particle to have +y spin. You just observe it. The other observer would see the same thing as you, but that doesn't help you transmit data. It is like you are both looking at the same random set of data.
That doesn't work either because Joe doesn't know if you have rolled the dice or not.
Entangled particles are like dice that are already rolling, and they stop rolling the moment that either particle is observed.
So you and Joe each have a dice that, say, always roll the same number as each other. You look at your dice to cause it to stop rolling, and see that it rolled a 6. Joe can look at his dice too, and will also see a 6, but he doesn't know if he was the one that caused the dice to stop, or whether it was you who stopped it.
You both see a 6, but no actual information was transferred.
Or, your consciousness slowly disappears as your cells are replaced. Eventually replacing you with an exact simulation, while you have effectively died.
Baloney. I've drunk plenty of unfiltered beer homebrew is almost never filtered) and do not fall over drunk after eating sugary food. I'd be surprised if yeast could survive even a few seconds in the highly acidic environment of the digestive tract. I also happen to know that some sanitizers used in homebrew are just mild acids.
The shunt would need to lead to somewhere sterile, or you would risk infecting your fuel cell with foreign bacteria. The bladder might work, but bladder infections do happen.
While women are generally less aggressive, they also tend to take things very personally. I have a suspicion that an all female crew would have a tendency to "melt-down" just as much if not more so than an all male crew. As evidence, many women I know get along better with guys than with other women.
As though women never fight with each other.
...they could have just taken a more sensible option and just select all women.
Most women I know tend to get along better with men than with other women. They even admit it themselves. Women just tend not to be very nice to each other when things get stressful.
A spacecraft sent to Mars would not likely have a very large diameter, thus you would have to spin it rather fast in order to approximate one G. The problem with that is when you are in such a quickly rotating structure, and you turn your head, it tends to induce intense dizziness. If you have ever ridden the centrifuge-type rides at a carnival, you know what I am talking about.
More likely, they would only accelerate it to about one third G since that is about what they will experience when on Mars. And thus they should be able to live and work on Mars without difficulty upon arrival
True. An elliptical orbit that intersects Mars.
Don't submariners do that all the time?
Your question suggests that atheists / evolutionists have no moral values and thus are cold, calculating logical creatures that would kill their own family if it were the logical choice.
atheists / evolutionists are not sociopaths. If 99.99% of all people (including atheists / evolutionists) feel it's wrong to cause pain for another person, why would you assume that same person would feel it is ok to cause unnecessary pain for a "lesser" animal?
You have a very pessimistic view of atheists / evolutionists.