The plaintiffs (parents of children with autism) are required to present evidence that shows that there is a link between the vaccines and autism. The judge ruled that the evidence provided by the plaintiffs did not show such a connection, thus their complaint is dismissed. They can find more conclusive evidence and try again if they wish.
Actually, I would be more worried about the fact that the motion of the tail has to have a corresponding motion of the body of the sub... Rocking back and forth like that could cause "under the sea sickness"... *urp* which could be really bad when you are wearing scuba equipment.
Then again, even if you managed not to fill your regulator with chicken sandwich while getting sick, you would be chumming the waters... attracting those sharks you were talking about.
Yes, but he said "high power" LEDs... my co-worker has a bicycle headlight with ONE high power LED that puts out more light than many automobile headlights. It was also rather expensive, and needs a small heat sink to cool it. But that thing is insanely bright.
"Cable was knocked out too, as was landline phone service. Most of the utility poles in my neighborhood were broken, the place was a mess. The only communication available AT ALL was TV and cell phones (and ham radio, of course). Bin Laden would have been jealous."
Yet apparently the power was still on to run the TV? - Folks unable to afford a digital converter box are also unlikely to own a generator. - Most folks, even poor ones, do have a battery operated radio. (It's just good sense to have one if the power goes out during a storm, like the one you mentioned, and they are dirt cheap.) - Most radio stations broadcast storm warnings.
It doesn't matter if the batteries can theoretically be charged in 10 minutes, even if you DO have massive capacitors in your garage. The quadruple digit number of amps required to charge the batteries that fast at the voltage available in the home mean that the cables going into your car would have to be HUUUUUGGE. As in so huge as to be difficult to handle and completely impractical.
Even if you step-up the voltage the cables would still be unwieldy because of the thicker insulator that would be required.
You would need one HECK of a heat shield to withstand flying at escape velocity so deep in the atmosphere. I'm sure it could be done, but it would look like a meteor flying up instead of down.
"I live in Valley Mills, just taking the last steak off the grill. Space-X shook the T-Bone off the grill hit my dog on the head, he thought I smacked him, he bit my ankle. My wife just getting into our water bed shook up a huge wave, threw her out of bed. She blamed it all on me. Milk in frig.is now butter-milk, the cats,will not leave the kitchen. My son couldnâ(TM)t hear his stereo, cranked it up, blew the windows out of the neighbors house. Guess Iâ(TM)ll be replacing them on Sunday. It was a great light show!"
Wow, wonder what the concrete/ceramic pad that is under that thing looks like after three minutes of exposure to that.
Kind of gives me that "want to put a penny on the tracks" feeling. But I suppose the penny would need to be welded down, and there wouldn't really be anything left afterward...
Yeah, so let's round-up some rough-necks and send them to the moon to start drilling.
As an added bonus, if we ever find that the moon is going to suddenly crash into the earth, we can have them drop some nukes down the holes and blow the whole thing to bits.
I wonder if we could get Aerosmith write a song about them...
Exactly! This is what I meant to say in my post, but you said it better. Physics as we know it cannot currently explain consciousness. It's possible that this will change, but it seems to me to be more likely that consciousness is a product of something else.
Why not? Granted, our knowledge of neurobiology is not that advanced, so its certainly possible that consciousness does not require anything so novel as higher dimensions. But doesn't it seem strange to anyone else that a particular arrangement of atoms (our brain) can be aware?
I mean, it makes perfect sense that you could have a biological machine that is able to use senses and memory to make decisions on future actions. It can walk around and talk and appear quite human, but there is no need for there to be a true consciousness. There is no physical need for there to be a soul to experience existence.
Really all of this talk of consciousness as an emergent property of the brain is just a big guess because we have no freaking idea where consciousness comes from. If a brain is conscious, why isn't a rock, or a river? They are all just atoms. It doesn't make sense, but maybe it would if higher dimensions were involved.
actually as it turns out I am wrong.
I did a little more research and while a plasma furnace can vaporize metals etc, this particular design does not. The metals and other heavier elements form a molten slag on the bottom of the furnace that is drained-off periodically.
Nope, there wouldn't be anything in the reaction chamber... plasma is so hot that ALL molecules break down, even if they are very stable molecules, and you are left with a gas of ions. The gas is piped out and cooled enough that you can run it through a turbine, and then condensed down into raw materials. If you wanted, you could separate all of the atoms in the gas by mass and end up with relatively pure elements for use in industry.
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Both of those things happened in the last few days. Do you live under a rock?
No, they could have interbred with the result being infertile offspring.
The plaintiffs (parents of children with autism) are required to present evidence that shows that there is a link between the vaccines and autism. The judge ruled that the evidence provided by the plaintiffs did not show such a connection, thus their complaint is dismissed. They can find more conclusive evidence and try again if they wish.
You do realize that this will only effect hybrid or electric cars right?
Yes. This will only affect some present and most future cars. Sorry to have disturbed you with it.
No, you are wrong. With proper electronics, these shocks would allow you to reduce the load on the alternator, thus increasing fuel economy.
A pothole just bent one of my alloy wheels. I say fix the roads.
Actually, I would be more worried about the fact that the motion of the tail has to have a corresponding motion of the body of the sub... Rocking back and forth like that could cause "under the sea sickness"... *urp* which could be really bad when you are wearing scuba equipment.
Then again, even if you managed not to fill your regulator with chicken sandwich while getting sick, you would be chumming the waters... attracting those sharks you were talking about.
Yes, but he said "high power" LEDs... my co-worker has a bicycle headlight with ONE high power LED that puts out more light than many automobile headlights. It was also rather expensive, and needs a small heat sink to cool it. But that thing is insanely bright.
Actually, you can also get 80 watt T5 bulbs. (5 feet long) An extra 33 watts of waste heat from the ballast would be reasonable.
"uses a 'tail' modeled after CAT scans of a dolphin's"
Let's hope it doesn't get caught by a trawler fishing for tuna.
Ooops missed the battery operated TV part. But I doubt many people have those.
"Cable was knocked out too, as was landline phone service. Most of the utility poles in my neighborhood were broken, the place was a mess. The only communication available AT ALL was TV and cell phones (and ham radio, of course). Bin Laden would have been jealous."
Yet apparently the power was still on to run the TV?
- Folks unable to afford a digital converter box are also unlikely to own a generator.
- Most folks, even poor ones, do have a battery operated radio. (It's just good sense to have one if the power goes out during a storm, like the one you mentioned, and they are dirt cheap.)
- Most radio stations broadcast storm warnings.
It doesn't matter if the batteries can theoretically be charged in 10 minutes, even if you DO have massive capacitors in your garage. The quadruple digit number of amps required to charge the batteries that fast at the voltage available in the home mean that the cables going into your car would have to be HUUUUUGGE. As in so huge as to be difficult to handle and completely impractical. Even if you step-up the voltage the cables would still be unwieldy because of the thicker insulator that would be required.
Troll? That's a little harsh. It isn't as though you can't go buy a converter box at the normal price if you just can't live without TV.
Lets get it over with already. The people who don't have converter boxes can just... *GASP* read a book, or do something productive instead.
You would need one HECK of a heat shield to withstand flying at escape velocity so deep in the atmosphere. I'm sure it could be done, but it would look like a meteor flying up instead of down.
"I live in Valley Mills, just taking the last steak off the grill. Space-X shook the T-Bone off the grill hit my dog on the head, he thought I smacked him, he bit my ankle. My wife just getting into our water bed shook up a huge wave, threw her out of bed. She blamed it all on me. Milk in frig.is now butter-milk, the cats,will not leave the kitchen. My son couldnâ(TM)t hear his stereo, cranked it up, blew the windows out of the neighbors house. Guess Iâ(TM)ll be replacing them on Sunday. It was a great light show!"
Wow, wonder what the concrete/ceramic pad that is under that thing looks like after three minutes of exposure to that.
Kind of gives me that "want to put a penny on the tracks" feeling. But I suppose the penny would need to be welded down, and there wouldn't really be anything left afterward...
Yeah, so let's round-up some rough-necks and send them to the moon to start drilling.
As an added bonus, if we ever find that the moon is going to suddenly crash into the earth, we can have them drop some nukes down the holes and blow the whole thing to bits.
I wonder if we could get Aerosmith write a song about them...
err... 5 and up.
But I figured your comments were more on the lines of crystals and "energy" dimensions than actual dimensions of non-spacial parameters of objects.
No, I was referring to higher physical dimensions. If we have 3 physical dimensions plus time, then I'm talking about dimensions 6 and up.
Exactly! This is what I meant to say in my post, but you said it better. Physics as we know it cannot currently explain consciousness. It's possible that this will change, but it seems to me to be more likely that consciousness is a product of something else.
Why not? Granted, our knowledge of neurobiology is not that advanced, so its certainly possible that consciousness does not require anything so novel as higher dimensions. But doesn't it seem strange to anyone else that a particular arrangement of atoms (our brain) can be aware?
I mean, it makes perfect sense that you could have a biological machine that is able to use senses and memory to make decisions on future actions. It can walk around and talk and appear quite human, but there is no need for there to be a true consciousness. There is no physical need for there to be a soul to experience existence.
Really all of this talk of consciousness as an emergent property of the brain is just a big guess because we have no freaking idea where consciousness comes from. If a brain is conscious, why isn't a rock, or a river? They are all just atoms. It doesn't make sense, but maybe it would if higher dimensions were involved.
actually as it turns out I am wrong. I did a little more research and while a plasma furnace can vaporize metals etc, this particular design does not. The metals and other heavier elements form a molten slag on the bottom of the furnace that is drained-off periodically.
Nope, there wouldn't be anything in the reaction chamber... plasma is so hot that ALL molecules break down, even if they are very stable molecules, and you are left with a gas of ions. The gas is piped out and cooled enough that you can run it through a turbine, and then condensed down into raw materials. If you wanted, you could separate all of the atoms in the gas by mass and end up with relatively pure elements for use in industry.
Civil cases are more likely to use the former, whereas nearly without exception criminal proceedings use the ladder.
Why? Are criminal proceedings held in the attic?