It makes you sound like some easily-impressed idiot who doesn't know the first thing about rocks, which is probably what you are - something that irregular and in soil that looks that soft is almost certainly not a crater. I mean, just compare it to a picture of an actual crater [wikipedia.org]; they're nothing alike.
Sorry what was that about doing even a little bit of reading? That wikipedia article has a picture of a crater on the moon, a simulated crater and a crater on one of Jupiter's moons. None of them are from earth. Even a sink hole can more closely resembles an impact crater on earth than that on the moon.
About 15 years ago my dad told my mum that if he had the chance for a one way trip to Mars he would take it even if he wouldn't last very long.
She wouldn't speak to him for a week.
Not only that but street lamps are pointed downwards which can help minimise light pollution. These trees will be producing light all over the show and be very hard to be made directional.
The LHC collision of lead ions did not create any mass,
space, or time but did create a "hot dense soup of quarks and gluons
known as a quark-gluon plasma" that might have existed after the 'big
bang' event.
You can be damn sure it did create a whole lot of mass. When you reach even a tiny fraction of the energy involved here you start creating exotic particles left right and centre. The quarks in the soup will not be limited to up and down quarks found in lead ions, much heavier quarks will have been created though they can be very short lived.
In the UK at least authors get a small amount of money for every book of theirs borrowed from a library. By downloading the book you will deprive them of this income.
If it is transparent but also absorbs light, which parts of the spectrum does it absorb? PV panels typically only convert a limited part of the spectrum, so if these transparent panels absorbed only green light you would not get white light coming out but purple.
This wouldn't be an absolute show stopper, but coloured windows are not all that appealing.
Considering that they have observed a galaxy that appears to be 600 million years old I would say the answer is yes.
Theorists could spend 10 years working out that by best estimates 700 million years is the earliest, but it only takes (repeated) observation to prove them wrong.
You can tell pretty quickly if viagra, thyroid medicine, or blood pressure medicine are fake.. you know, in 2 or 3 days your BP shoots back up to 175/100.
Ah, the old if it kills me then it must be fake gambit. Somehow I think I'll stick with the official drugs*.
*I'm being a bit of a troll here, NHS ftw. Although I still resent paying £8 for the prescription.
I actually attended a guest lecture by him in 2002 at Queens University where pretty much the entire talk was about cooling things with lasers.
Amazing lecture actually, he shoved about 20 balloons into a small liquid nitrogen flask throughout slowly arousing curiosity. Then whipped them out, frisbying them over the heads of students. The balloons were flat but began to expand even in mid air. Damn that was cool.
Anyway, at the time he explained that the current limit on their approach was being on earth. Essentially they trap the atoms inside a magnetic field and slowly uses momentum transfer from the photons to the atoms to cool them. Then once they have reached the limit of that approach they would expand the magnetic field so that the atoms now filled a larger space and tada you have traditional cooling.
The limit at this point was that they were unable to expand the magnetic field any further without losing its stability. To get round this he said the future aim was to do it in space and expand the field massively.
That was 2002, no idea where they have gotten with that technology now.
Yes, because in this entire book that is all he mentions. Must be a very short book. Its not like he has published any other books or papers, nope it's just this one paragraph.
Since you seem so entitled to tell others what to do with their time; could you please stop trolling slashdot and get on with dealing with ipv4 exhaustion. Neither god nor gravity will save us from that.
I remember on a trip to jodrell bank playing around with a sound mirror where two dishes were placed pretty far apart. Due to the dishes focusing the sound where you stood, it was possible for someone to whisper into the other dish many meters away and for you to hear it.
One of the astronomers there told me that while calibrating the main 78m dish he started hearing childrens voices. They had coincidently pointed the dish at a local school and were able to hear everything said.
So may I suggest using the dish for a bit of covert surveillance of neighbours.
I'd like a reference for that. Whisky is a huge industry for Scotland with extremely large quantitys being exported. The only figure I could quickly find was that Scottish production topped 1 billion bottles in 2001. I would image it would be hard to dwarf that.
I actually thought it was one of his better efforts. Even though it is about glaciers he resisted mentioning global warming and provided an imperial to metric conversion for its area.
He also linked to the BBC rather than a 12 page advert laden blog while adding two additional links of his own rather than just posting the story.
Oh and by the way, if you think stories being "about a day late" on slashdot is somehow strange, well then you must be new here...
Yep, this has all the hallmarks of a pr stunt. It was discovered by 'scientists' at the behest of Chevrolet. This is no different than the formula that shows how famous someone is, or the most depressing day of the year.
Now the fact is that Cliff Arnall’s equations are stupid, and some fail even to make mathematical sense on their own terms. His equation for the perfect long weekend is a case in point. It is “(C x R x ZZ) / ((Tt + D) x St) + (P x Pr) >400 (Tt = travel time; D = delays; C = time spent on cultural activities; R = time spent relaxing; ZZ = time spent sleeping; St = time spent in a state of stress; P = time spent packing; Pr = time spent in preparation).
I give you Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at the University of Lancaster, in the Evening Standard. "Psychologists claim to have developed a mathematical formula, [(V x P x R) + A] x (VFM), which allows them to grade the nation's sporting triumphs. And they have produced a highly contentious 'top 10' covering everything from England's World Cup win in 1966 to the Ashes triumph over Australia last year." Can they be serious? "The people behind the equation boast that it's 'the first ever scientific equation that reveals just how good a game of sport has been to watch'.
Hollywood beauty, Jessica Alba, is ‘strutterly’ desirable – she has the sexiest ever walk, according to new research revealed today by Veet.
Veet, the hair removal expert, has teamed up with mathematicians at Cambridge University to reveal a ratio to work out who has the hottest walk, and the Fantastic Four star clocked up the top score, thanks to her luscious legs and curvy frame.
Etc. etc. ad nauseum. Slashdot should not be providing advertising for companies which further distort the public's understanding of science.
Your problem is that you are conflating the 'hydrogen economy' with energy storage. The problem with handling and storage is almost entirely negated by having it stored on site and not transported anywhere.
Any form of storage will have efficiency problems, and even if pumping water up hills is more efficient it won't be feasible if your having problems with transporting electricity in the first place.
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Yeah this story is total bullshit, it is almost entirely spin.
It makes you sound like some easily-impressed idiot who doesn't know the first thing about rocks, which is probably what you are - something that irregular and in soil that looks that soft is almost certainly not a crater. I mean, just compare it to a picture of an actual crater [wikipedia.org]; they're nothing alike.
Sorry what was that about doing even a little bit of reading? That wikipedia article has a picture of a crater on the moon, a simulated crater and a crater on one of Jupiter's moons. None of them are from earth. Even a sink hole can more closely resembles an impact crater on earth than that on the moon.
About 15 years ago my dad told my mum that if he had the chance for a one way trip to Mars he would take it even if he wouldn't last very long.
She wouldn't speak to him for a week.
Not only that but street lamps are pointed downwards which can help minimise light pollution. These trees will be producing light all over the show and be very hard to be made directional.
According to the world bank, Belgium is ranked 10th for their GDP per capita. This is higher than Germany, France, the UK and Italy.
It seems to me that Belgium is punching above its weight.
The LHC collision of lead ions did not create any mass, space, or time but did create a "hot dense soup of quarks and gluons known as a quark-gluon plasma" that might have existed after the 'big bang' event.
You can be damn sure it did create a whole lot of mass. When you reach even a tiny fraction of the energy involved here you start creating exotic particles left right and centre. The quarks in the soup will not be limited to up and down quarks found in lead ions, much heavier quarks will have been created though they can be very short lived.
In the UK at least authors get a small amount of money for every book of theirs borrowed from a library. By downloading the book you will deprive them of this income.
If it is transparent but also absorbs light, which parts of the spectrum does it absorb? PV panels typically only convert a limited part of the spectrum, so if these transparent panels absorbed only green light you would not get white light coming out but purple.
This wouldn't be an absolute show stopper, but coloured windows are not all that appealing.
Considering that they have observed a galaxy that appears to be 600 million years old I would say the answer is yes.
Theorists could spend 10 years working out that by best estimates 700 million years is the earliest, but it only takes (repeated) observation to prove them wrong.
You can tell pretty quickly if viagra, thyroid medicine, or blood pressure medicine are fake.. you know, in 2 or 3 days your BP shoots back up to 175/100.
Ah, the old if it kills me then it must be fake gambit. Somehow I think I'll stick with the official drugs*.
*I'm being a bit of a troll here, NHS ftw. Although I still resent paying £8 for the prescription.
The purpose of an editor is to edit any submissions to make them ready for print.
If the summary was too long, the editor should have got off his arse rather than wait for the summary that fits the word count to come along.
I actually attended a guest lecture by him in 2002 at Queens University where pretty much the entire talk was about cooling things with lasers.
Amazing lecture actually, he shoved about 20 balloons into a small liquid nitrogen flask throughout slowly arousing curiosity. Then whipped them out, frisbying them over the heads of students. The balloons were flat but began to expand even in mid air. Damn that was cool.
Anyway, at the time he explained that the current limit on their approach was being on earth. Essentially they trap the atoms inside a magnetic field and slowly uses momentum transfer from the photons to the atoms to cool them. Then once they have reached the limit of that approach they would expand the magnetic field so that the atoms now filled a larger space and tada you have traditional cooling.
The limit at this point was that they were unable to expand the magnetic field any further without losing its stability. To get round this he said the future aim was to do it in space and expand the field massively.
That was 2002, no idea where they have gotten with that technology now.
Its 600 lines PER EYE. Since most people have two eyes I think we can all agree that 1200>1080.
Assholes. I have no intention of reading the article or ever again attempting to visit the site.
But you never would have known not to visit the site if you hadn't chosen to already ignore it and read the comments instead.
Yes, because in this entire book that is all he mentions. Must be a very short book. Its not like he has published any other books or papers, nope it's just this one paragraph.
Since you seem so entitled to tell others what to do with their time; could you please stop trolling slashdot and get on with dealing with ipv4 exhaustion. Neither god nor gravity will save us from that.
Why boast about wasting energy?
I remember on a trip to jodrell bank playing around with a sound mirror where two dishes were placed pretty far apart. Due to the dishes focusing the sound where you stood, it was possible for someone to whisper into the other dish many meters away and for you to hear it.
One of the astronomers there told me that while calibrating the main 78m dish he started hearing childrens voices. They had coincidently pointed the dish at a local school and were able to hear everything said.
So may I suggest using the dish for a bit of covert surveillance of neighbours.
American production dwarfs that of Scotland
I'd like a reference for that. Whisky is a huge industry for Scotland with extremely large quantitys being exported. The only figure I could quickly find was that Scottish production topped 1 billion bottles in 2001. I would image it would be hard to dwarf that.
I actually thought it was one of his better efforts. Even though it is about glaciers he resisted mentioning global warming and provided an imperial to metric conversion for its area. He also linked to the BBC rather than a 12 page advert laden blog while adding two additional links of his own rather than just posting the story.
Oh and by the way, if you think stories being "about a day late" on slashdot is somehow strange, well then you must be new here...
While at the same time leading to a decrease in the diversity of hardware manufacturers. In my opinion this outweighs the good.
Ben Goldacre has written quite a few articles debunking them in the past. Here is a few choice quotes
Now the fact is that Cliff Arnall’s equations are stupid, and some fail even to make mathematical sense on their own terms. His equation for the perfect long weekend is a case in point. It is “(C x R x ZZ) / ((Tt + D) x St) + (P x Pr) >400 (Tt = travel time; D = delays; C = time spent on cultural activities; R = time spent relaxing; ZZ = time spent sleeping; St = time spent in a state of stress; P = time spent packing; Pr = time spent in preparation).
I give you Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at the University of Lancaster, in the Evening Standard. "Psychologists claim to have developed a mathematical formula, [(V x P x R) + A] x (VFM), which allows them to grade the nation's sporting triumphs. And they have produced a highly contentious 'top 10' covering everything from England's World Cup win in 1966 to the Ashes triumph over Australia last year." Can they be serious? "The people behind the equation boast that it's 'the first ever scientific equation that reveals just how good a game of sport has been to watch'.
Hollywood beauty, Jessica Alba, is ‘strutterly’ desirable – she has the sexiest ever walk, according to new research revealed today by Veet. Veet, the hair removal expert, has teamed up with mathematicians at Cambridge University to reveal a ratio to work out who has the hottest walk, and the Fantastic Four star clocked up the top score, thanks to her luscious legs and curvy frame.
Etc. etc. ad nauseum. Slashdot should not be providing advertising for companies which further distort the public's understanding of science.
Quite a few of my mates voted for your candidate covering Gorton, Manchester. I believe they were the most successful of those in the UK?
If Manchester had a Pirate ISP I would definitely switch, Virgin are awful.
Your problem is that you are conflating the 'hydrogen economy' with energy storage. The problem with handling and storage is almost entirely negated by having it stored on site and not transported anywhere.
Any form of storage will have efficiency problems, and even if pumping water up hills is more efficient it won't be feasible if your having problems with transporting electricity in the first place.
Haha, thanks for making me go to the link.
The waterfall (Yosemite falls) was were I proposed to my Fiancée in March. Brought a smile to my day.
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