I hear conspiracy theories like this but I've never seen any evidence of it happening. Reason is that the cops would get in trouble.
Uh, no. I was born and raised in a small town in central Kentucky. My mother was the city attorney. One police officer failed to get an oil change or routine maintenance on his cruiser for 20,000 miles (they are allowed to take their cruisers home, but get free maintenance at the city garage). The engine on his cruiser then failed and had to be replaced. As a result, my mom set in motion the proceedings to have the officer fired. The city was unable to fire him, and from there on out he would, whenever he saw me driving around town, follow me and pull me over for minor offenses such as speeding less than 5 mph over the posted limits. Eventually, his wife got a job in another city and they moved.
The fact of the matter is that it is VERY difficult to have police fired. It used to be commonplace for mayors to come in and fire most of the police department and repopulate it with his cronies, now there are all sorts of laws protecting police officers.
What differentitates someone who investigates for The Daily Rag from someone who investigates and publishes on his personal blog?
The Daily Rag gives politicians a major outlet for their views during election season, generally takes a partisan stance on issues, have enough readership in local areas to sway an election if the government doesn't cater to them, and their publishers generally have a lot of money.
It leads to the "Ace of Spades" blog, wherein there is an article that deconstructs this stupid Daily Caller story and also crosslinks to Dan Reihl's blog where he also responds to the Daily Caller story.
Uh. Right.
Dan Reihl's response is that he wasn't paid enough for it to be them paying him for his views. Accepting money from a source about which you give favorable reviews is unethical however you slice it. Just because you work within FEC rules doesn't mean that what you're doing is okay.
Then, the "Ace of Spades" blogger confirms that he was offered to publish a story for pay on multiple occasions.
All this makes Republican payola seem more and more like "standard operating procedure"
Though an extinction level event is nearly guaranteed to happen on Earth at some point over a long enough time span, I don't understand why Dr. Hawking feels as though it's more likely to happen or more likely to happen sooner on Earth than it is on any sort of spacecraft.
It is true that the sun's gravity well will cause the likelyhood of a large object collision to be greater, but such a risk must be considered against the probability of an extinction level event on a spacecraft of some sort.
Personally, I think that colonization of the lagrange points by small outposts of humans and other terrestrial beings is a great first step. Make it so that life on earth can be reseeded if it fails. In the short term, back up seed copies of terrestrial life are a better goal than abandonment of the planet, IMO. Eventual abandonment will have to happen due to the death of the sun, but I think that can wait just a little bit.
Well, the stability of anything like this is determined by two things, the change in energy between the two states (ultra dense, and regular density) and the amount of energy needed to activate the change in state (activation energy).
Imagine that the two states are on either side of a hill. The higher energy state will be higher up its side of the hill than the lower energy state. The height of the hill will represent the activation energy.
If the activation energy is sufficiently high, you can isolate the higher energy product just about regardless of the difference in energy between the two states because the higher energy product won't easily gain enough energy to get to the crest of the hill and fall back down to the lower energy state.
IAAC,BIDHAMITTROYOTA (I am a crystallographer, but I don't have any more information than the rest of you on this article)
You know, I was trying to come up with something about which I could be completely ambivalent and not care about one way or the other in the slightest.
Then I found this on slashdot.
Slashdot: News for New Hampshire. Stuff that doesn't matter at all.
It is actually rated very highly on metacritic, but so is GTA IV, and I didn't find that game to be very fun. Also, GTA IV has a much lower replay value than my penis.
Of course diatoms are going to make better solar cells. I mean just look at the name, diatom is greek for two atoms. There's twice as many atoms there, so you'd guess they would make at least twice as good solar cells.
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Is about to go HAM?
I hear conspiracy theories like this but I've never seen any evidence of it happening. Reason is that the cops would get in trouble.
Uh, no. I was born and raised in a small town in central Kentucky. My mother was the city attorney. One police officer failed to get an oil change or routine maintenance on his cruiser for 20,000 miles (they are allowed to take their cruisers home, but get free maintenance at the city garage). The engine on his cruiser then failed and had to be replaced. As a result, my mom set in motion the proceedings to have the officer fired. The city was unable to fire him, and from there on out he would, whenever he saw me driving around town, follow me and pull me over for minor offenses such as speeding less than 5 mph over the posted limits. Eventually, his wife got a job in another city and they moved.
The fact of the matter is that it is VERY difficult to have police fired. It used to be commonplace for mayors to come in and fire most of the police department and repopulate it with his cronies, now there are all sorts of laws protecting police officers.
Iris Scanning Technology Firm Set To Secure Boatloads of Cash In Mexico
Their goal is probably to get an excuse to somehow restructure the internet..
Actually, it's an excuse to get the funding to somehow restructure the internet.
As frightening as a nuclear Venezuela is, I'd be more scared by a nuclear Vuvuzela.
And in 2 years they'll go to 22.
The Pedestrian Council sounds like one of the most dull and unimaginative councils in all of Australia.
Close. They're running SkyNyet. :-P
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
It leads to the "Ace of Spades" blog, wherein there is an article that deconstructs this stupid Daily Caller story and also crosslinks to Dan Reihl's blog where he also responds to the Daily Caller story.
Uh. Right.
Dan Reihl's response is that he wasn't paid enough for it to be them paying him for his views. Accepting money from a source about which you give favorable reviews is unethical however you slice it. Just because you work within FEC rules doesn't mean that what you're doing is okay.
Then, the "Ace of Spades" blogger confirms that he was offered to publish a story for pay on multiple occasions.
All this makes Republican payola seem more and more like "standard operating procedure"
I bet that course is a total piece of cake
Though an extinction level event is nearly guaranteed to happen on Earth at some point over a long enough time span, I don't understand why Dr. Hawking feels as though it's more likely to happen or more likely to happen sooner on Earth than it is on any sort of spacecraft.
It is true that the sun's gravity well will cause the likelyhood of a large object collision to be greater, but such a risk must be considered against the probability of an extinction level event on a spacecraft of some sort.
Personally, I think that colonization of the lagrange points by small outposts of humans and other terrestrial beings is a great first step. Make it so that life on earth can be reseeded if it fails. In the short term, back up seed copies of terrestrial life are a better goal than abandonment of the planet, IMO. Eventual abandonment will have to happen due to the death of the sun, but I think that can wait just a little bit.
What's that in hogsheads?
I tried this device one time. The only message it could read from the surface of my brain was "Squiggle"
Kim Jong-Il is ronery because nobody likes a Juche-bag
Welcome the downfall of our graceful robotic overlords.
Yep, I have been having troubles with L3's DNS for about a week and a half now.
As a result, I'm back on insightbb's crappy, crappy DNS.
Well, the stability of anything like this is determined by two things, the change in energy between the two states (ultra dense, and regular density) and the amount of energy needed to activate the change in state (activation energy).
Imagine that the two states are on either side of a hill. The higher energy state will be higher up its side of the hill than the lower energy state. The height of the hill will represent the activation energy.
If the activation energy is sufficiently high, you can isolate the higher energy product just about regardless of the difference in energy between the two states because the higher energy product won't easily gain enough energy to get to the crest of the hill and fall back down to the lower energy state.
IAAC,BIDHAMITTROYOTA
(I am a crystallographer, but I don't have any more information than the rest of you on this article)
You know, I was trying to come up with something about which I could be completely ambivalent and not care about one way or the other in the slightest.
Then I found this on slashdot.
Slashdot: News for New Hampshire. Stuff that doesn't matter at all.
It is actually rated very highly on metacritic, but so is GTA IV, and I didn't find that game to be very fun. Also, GTA IV has a much lower replay value than my penis.
Namely, my hand and my penis. I can guarantee they've provided me with more enjoyment over the past few decades than anything in TFA ever could.
Whoever modded me as a troll must have not read the mouseover on that xkcd.
Linking just an image pretty much fails on every level.
Of course diatoms are going to make better solar cells. I mean just look at the name, diatom is greek for two atoms. There's twice as many atoms there, so you'd guess they would make at least twice as good solar cells.
I think some fake blood is exactly what all these fake vampires need. Cranberry juice and V8 gets old after a while.