so, like, what you're saying is, like, there's big balls of expensive stuff floating around out..."there"? swanktastic. i call dibs on the big one!
yep, so now that we've decided mining these things is a good thing, we've got to somehow figure out how to land a satilite on there to figure out what kind of minig apparatus we want to send to which asteroid (gold miner to a particularly gold-enriched asteroid, ect). To date, we've sent ONE satilite to an asteroid; the largest one we know of. When someone lands somthing on one of these smaller asteroids, wake me.
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in the immature nature of this trollish string of posts, you say "Who knows what kind of meteors we'll find on an asteroid.". Meteroids are asteroids that go through the earth's atmosphere. It;s very doubtful you're going to find a piece of rock that bounced off the earth and back through the atmosphere onto a nearby floating asteroid : )
actually in the US, i believe legally your drivers licence is your ID, and vice versa, as many friends of mine got ID's for an 8th grade trip from seattle to new york, and we had alot of fun stringing the girls along (who didn't have them) making them think we all had driver's licences. A DL in the US isn't really anything, as anyone over the age of 17 can apply for a DL and recieve one w/o written or driving test (at least in texas), and if you're 16, your parents can wave both the written and driving tests, along with saying that you did home driver's school, allowing a student to get a licence w/o any formal training (and yes it does happen, several of my friends (who I don't drive with) have done this). sorry if i'm rambling, it's nearly 5 and i haven't slept yet : )
"Autogen says serum or DNA samples collected in Tonga shall remain the property of Tonga"
No, I haven't read the linked-to article. I'm curious though; being a citizen of the US, who has direct rights over my DNA? Me, or the US government, and should the government want a record of everyone in the US's DNA, do I have to go down to my local police station and have them sample my DNA like finger-prints? Or do I have some legal protection over that? Do I even have control over who has my fingerprints? I read somewhere they take your fingerprints when you're born..
The article seems to imply that the country has direct rights over the people's DNA.
sign me up when you get the grant...I'll work for above said conditions : ). If anyone knows anything about a government "pizza CAN be a 5 food group food"/pizza only diet study, let me know, it would sure be a whole lot cheaper than buying it myself.
I think that more than anything, your body, when set on a regular schedule of anything, adapts and does well under those circumstances. Change them drastically, and things are likely to get massively fucked up. Example: I'm a student. Allergy Season happens, I take benadryll (3 capsules). I've never taken benadryll before, and the suggested max dosage at one time is 2. I find myself sleeping 18 hours a day for 4 days and posting on Slashdot at 2 am central time instead of sleeping.
I think i read this in a Boy's life a couple years back (my mom somehow signed me up for a life subscription for like 7$, I think BL gets all it's $$ not from subscription, but from ads..anyways) in that issue, they talked about how studies said if you cram in late afternoon, your memory "cycle" comes around the next morning and you can more clearly remember than had you, say crammed at 11:30 the night before. HAD you crammed the night before at 11:30, and the class was in the late afternoon, you'd be in luck, b/c that's when the 11:30pm memory cycle comes around. Probably not horribly scientific, but if you're somatic enough, you just might believe it and magically have edionic (photographic) memory for a while.
Well, for those who hadn't read the book, I was hoping to save some of the plot twists that make it an interesting read, but ah well. Yes, looking back at the plot-line, Robert did go a bit overboard on the plot twists, even if they did seem in place at the time.
I read a book a while back, a bright guy in scouts gave it to me, probably 3rd or 4th hand by then, and long since passed on, called "I will Fear no Evil", talks about an old millionare near death attempting to cheat death (futilely) by getting his brain transplanted into another's body, and oddly enough, It works. Eventually he wins back his estate from the people in his will due to the fact that he is able to remember everything from his past life (as fingerprints and what not are useless to determine who's brain really went into that skull). Check it out, Robert Heinliken wrote it.
That sounds like alot of fun. Where'd you read that? Last thing I read about it (I think in pop sci) was that he was able to make individual fingers move, even though he wasn't supposed to (might break stiches). Was he able to actually use it before the body started rejecting it?
this is all interesting and everything, but so far no results (obviously, as it just happened). The problem with these stories is that there is rarely ever a follow up. Remember the quintuplets a while back that were all the rave? Where are they now? More importantly, how did that hand/arm transplant go with that prisoner that they had an article in Popular Science a couple months back? Anybody know what ever happened to that guy?
firstly, they'd be state of the art beowolf clustered embedded-rom linux boxes with quantum/holographic cube harddrives, immune to EM fields, all thermally powered by hot grits.
oh, and they'd be used to view natalie portman pictures-interstellar travel is long and can get lonely:)
-obvious- the speed of light is 186,000 mph, making that the terminal velocity for any matter, although you would need an infinite amount of energy to achieve that speed -/obvious -
therortically though, you should be able to go as fast as you want, but at some point wouldn't you accelerate to the speed of the solar wind (assuming solar wind is a constant force, and does not cause constant acceleration), and once you go the speed of the solar wind, you'd have to use your own means to go faster than ths speed of the solar wind, and to top that, you have to push against the slower solar wind with your magnetic bubble, which would in turn act as a brake.
i would assume they'd speed up going twords a body, and then slingshot around it using the gravitational force to sling them back to earth, or their original origin while keeping the magneto bubble deflated
this idea rules! just send some sort of magneto bubble/thruster package with drilling capabilities into space, point it in the right direction, and stick it to an asteroid in it's path. 10 years later, asteroid arrives at earth, vallet style. then mine out the asteroid in a honeycomb fashon, tether a cold fusion generator to the asteroid, and heat the inside and rent it out as some bitchin' penthouses. with views.
what ever happened to john katz? slashdot has been in need of a really heavily trolled posting for a while, or did slashdotters drive him away for good?
almost all OSS gets changed drastically (esp. linux), why bother having certification for it? A linux-using company will be able to sit down with an applicant and see if and how linux literate the applicant much easier than trusting a quickly outdated standard
*cracking up* if that was a freudian slip on your part.... wouldn't that imply some sort feeling of male inadequacy on your part : ) ? That's how i understand the theroy, at least.
btw, kudos on not flaming joepits out of the gate on his comment
My theroy is that they're trying to reduce hard drive clutter/organize the unorganizable (for me at least): the hard drive. for years now i've had a folder called "toast's world" sitting on the desktop that ALL my downloads went into, and various.docs i wrote, inside of that i have a folder called "midi", where i used to store all of my old digital music, now MP3's, and other subfolders in there for whatnot. I've been using that system since win 3.1, and when i found out about "my documents", i scoffed at it, and continued to back up "toast's world" to floppies, zip disks, and now even cd media. Microsoft also introduced the program files folder, which is handy, keeps the c drive from being one huge mess. Call the giant folders "silent ushers" to get you to organize things better if you'd like.
umm i thought andromeda was so small it was boredeline galaxy/very large star cluster... that little fact was in one of the Rama Revealed series by arthur c clarke and gentree lee (past director of science and analyasis at NASA), looking at the last book in the series, it's not in there, maybe one of the other 2 by this duo? sombody want to back me up? or am i making this up? anyways, it said that eventually andromeda is quite a bit smaller than our galaxy, and in another 265 million years or so they're supposed to collide, and things'll get really screwy, kinda like two whirlpools colliding, the circular motion is for the most part destroyed. anybody care to comment?
I've always been taught that *all* science is just theories, waiting to be disproven by more true/less false theories in the pursuite of an absolute truth. Many ideas rely on the THEORY of relativity, which many more scientific partial truths are based upon. That we haven't disproven newton's laws doesn't mean that there are exceptions to these rules that we have yet to discover. Black holes are theory.
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what the hell is a "platinum group" metal? are we talking inert/non-reactive metals?
so, like, what you're saying is, like, there's big balls of expensive stuff floating around out..."there"? swanktastic. i call dibs on the big one!
yep, so now that we've decided mining these things is a good thing, we've got to somehow figure out how to land a satilite on there to figure out what kind of minig apparatus we want to send to which asteroid (gold miner to a particularly gold-enriched asteroid, ect). To date, we've sent ONE satilite to an asteroid; the largest one we know of. When someone lands somthing on one of these smaller asteroids, wake me.
in the immature nature of this trollish string of posts, you say "Who knows what kind of meteors we'll find on an asteroid.". Meteroids are asteroids that go through the earth's atmosphere. It;s very doubtful you're going to find a piece of rock that bounced off the earth and back through the atmosphere onto a nearby floating asteroid : )
actually in the US, i believe legally your drivers licence is your ID, and vice versa, as many friends of mine got ID's for an 8th grade trip from seattle to new york, and we had alot of fun stringing the girls along (who didn't have them) making them think we all had driver's licences. A DL in the US isn't really anything, as anyone over the age of 17 can apply for a DL and recieve one w/o written or driving test (at least in texas), and if you're 16, your parents can wave both the written and driving tests, along with saying that you did home driver's school, allowing a student to get a licence w/o any formal training (and yes it does happen, several of my friends (who I don't drive with) have done this). sorry if i'm rambling, it's nearly 5 and i haven't slept yet : )
"Autogen says serum or DNA samples collected in Tonga shall remain the property of Tonga"
No, I haven't read the linked-to article. I'm curious though; being a citizen of the US, who has direct rights over my DNA? Me, or the US government, and should the government want a record of everyone in the US's DNA, do I have to go down to my local police station and have them sample my DNA like finger-prints? Or do I have some legal protection over that? Do I even have control over who has my fingerprints? I read somewhere they take your fingerprints when you're born..
The article seems to imply that the country has direct rights over the people's DNA.
sign me up when you get the grant...I'll work for above said conditions : ). If anyone knows anything about a government "pizza CAN be a 5 food group food"/pizza only diet study, let me know, it would sure be a whole lot cheaper than buying it myself.
I think that more than anything, your body, when set on a regular schedule of anything, adapts and does well under those circumstances. Change them drastically, and things are likely to get massively fucked up. Example: I'm a student. Allergy Season happens, I take benadryll (3 capsules). I've never taken benadryll before, and the suggested max dosage at one time is 2. I find myself sleeping 18 hours a day for 4 days and posting on Slashdot at 2 am central time instead of sleeping.
I think i read this in a Boy's life a couple years back (my mom somehow signed me up for a life subscription for like 7$, I think BL gets all it's $$ not from subscription, but from ads..anyways) in that issue, they talked about how studies said if you cram in late afternoon, your memory "cycle" comes around the next morning and you can more clearly remember than had you, say crammed at 11:30 the night before. HAD you crammed the night before at 11:30, and the class was in the late afternoon, you'd be in luck, b/c that's when the 11:30pm memory cycle comes around. Probably not horribly scientific, but if you're somatic enough, you just might believe it and magically have edionic (photographic) memory for a while.
sorry, studying for a psychology test
Well, for those who hadn't read the book, I was hoping to save some of the plot twists that make it an interesting read, but ah well. Yes, looking back at the plot-line, Robert did go a bit overboard on the plot twists, even if they did seem in place at the time.
I read a book a while back, a bright guy in scouts gave it to me, probably 3rd or 4th hand by then, and long since passed on, called "I will Fear no Evil", talks about an old millionare near death attempting to cheat death (futilely) by getting his brain transplanted into another's body, and oddly enough, It works. Eventually he wins back his estate from the people in his will due to the fact that he is able to remember everything from his past life (as fingerprints and what not are useless to determine who's brain really went into that skull). Check it out, Robert Heinliken wrote it.
That sounds like alot of fun. Where'd you read that? Last thing I read about it (I think in pop sci) was that he was able to make individual fingers move, even though he wasn't supposed to (might break stiches). Was he able to actually use it before the body started rejecting it?
this is all interesting and everything, but so far no results (obviously, as it just happened). The problem with these stories is that there is rarely ever a follow up. Remember the quintuplets a while back that were all the rave? Where are they now? More importantly, how did that hand/arm transplant go with that prisoner that they had an article in Popular Science a couple months back? Anybody know what ever happened to that guy?
yeah, but this is hella cheaper, and most mods take 20-30 minutes tops, once you get off your lazy ass and do it : )
firstly, they'd be state of the art beowolf clustered embedded-rom linux boxes with quantum/holographic cube harddrives, immune to EM fields, all thermally powered by hot grits. oh, and they'd be used to view natalie portman pictures-interstellar travel is long and can get lonely :)
-obvious- the speed of light is 186,000 mph, making that the terminal velocity for any matter, although you would need an infinite amount of energy to achieve that speed -/obvious -
therortically though, you should be able to go as fast as you want, but at some point wouldn't you accelerate to the speed of the solar wind (assuming solar wind is a constant force, and does not cause constant acceleration), and once you go the speed of the solar wind, you'd have to use your own means to go faster than ths speed of the solar wind, and to top that, you have to push against the slower solar wind with your magnetic bubble, which would in turn act as a brake.
i would assume they'd speed up going twords a body, and then slingshot around it using the gravitational force to sling them back to earth, or their original origin while keeping the magneto bubble deflated
this idea rules! just send some sort of magneto bubble/thruster package with drilling capabilities into space, point it in the right direction, and stick it to an asteroid in it's path. 10 years later, asteroid arrives at earth, vallet style. then mine out the asteroid in a honeycomb fashon, tether a cold fusion generator to the asteroid, and heat the inside and rent it out as some bitchin' penthouses. with views.
we already have this.
sprint phone: who would you like to call?
you: charlie
(phone makes ringing noise)
(talk to charlie)
what ever happened to john katz? slashdot has been in need of a really heavily trolled posting for a while, or did slashdotters drive him away for good?
almost all OSS gets changed drastically (esp. linux), why bother having certification for it? A linux-using company will be able to sit down with an applicant and see if and how linux literate the applicant much easier than trusting a quickly outdated standard
this is the first fairly original anti-microsoft post in a while.
well, made me laugh at least.
*cracking up* if that was a freudian slip on your part.... wouldn't that imply some sort feeling of male inadequacy on your part : ) ? That's how i understand the theroy, at least.
btw, kudos on not flaming joepits out of the gate on his comment
My theroy is that they're trying to reduce hard drive clutter/organize the unorganizable (for me at least): the hard drive. for years now i've had a folder called "toast's world" sitting on the desktop that ALL my downloads went into, and various .docs i wrote, inside of that i have a folder called "midi", where i used to store all of my old digital music, now MP3's, and other subfolders in there for whatnot. I've been using that system since win 3.1, and when i found out about "my documents", i scoffed at it, and continued to back up "toast's world" to floppies, zip disks, and now even cd media. Microsoft also introduced the program files folder, which is handy, keeps the c drive from being one huge mess. Call the giant folders "silent ushers" to get you to organize things better if you'd like.
yeay! and i was beginning to think my first 6 weeks of physics 101 honors wasn't amounting to anything....this string of posts makes sense
umm i thought andromeda was so small it was boredeline galaxy/very large star cluster... that little fact was in one of the Rama Revealed series by arthur c clarke and gentree lee (past director of science and analyasis at NASA), looking at the last book in the series, it's not in there, maybe one of the other 2 by this duo? sombody want to back me up? or am i making this up? anyways, it said that eventually andromeda is quite a bit smaller than our galaxy, and in another 265 million years or so they're supposed to collide, and things'll get really screwy, kinda like two whirlpools colliding, the circular motion is for the most part destroyed. anybody care to comment?
I've always been taught that *all* science is just theories, waiting to be disproven by more true/less false theories in the pursuite of an absolute truth. Many ideas rely on the THEORY of relativity, which many more scientific partial truths are based upon. That we haven't disproven newton's laws doesn't mean that there are exceptions to these rules that we have yet to discover. Black holes are theory.