There is no question IMO which way it should go. Freedom of the press, period. An informed public is the only defense against incompetent, misleading or flat out lies of the media or any other source. Introducing laws to "fix" the problem only changes who is telling the lies. But lies they will stay.
IIRC Fox news won a court case that its lies are not misleading because it not really news. Its entertainment.
The General Public get what they want. They get what they consume. Sensationalized omg the sky is falling crap.
No, as P just told you it radioactivity has nothing(so close to it) to do with it, especially depleted U. Its the fact that it is a heavy metal like lead and Mercury and it bio accumulates.
I think a lot of people forget that when someone puts up 100Million to make a movie, they want their money back with interest.
Directors like Michal Bay get the cash because they get the cash back x2. Hell even his biggest critics seem to go to his movies just so they can rag on the directing.
Quantum entanglement can be thought of as working like that, except that as soon as one of the split particles interacts with anything else at all in any way and the resulting change is "transferred" to the paired particle, that entanglement is broken.
This is not correct. You can *measure* some property and then you know the value of the other particle and entanglement is broken. You can't force the result of the measurement. In other words the only "spooky" action at a distance is the "instant" entanglement braking. And the guy with the other particle can't even observe that either. He/She still needed to make the measurement to determine the state of his/her particle.
This is a quote from user holmstar that explains is very well. (msg id #27448983 but can't work out how to get a link from that)
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.
My brother is doing the same. However everyone seems to forget a few fairly fundamental facts when it comes to these things.
First is that current IC engines are already really really really good. We have over 100 years to get them really good. It is a thermodynamically impossibility for this engine to be 3 times better for example. You would be getting more energy out than you put in (for state of the art). So these claims are typically based on "theory", bad measurements or just plain misleading comparisons.
The second is that it can't just be a little bit better. The amount of tooling and expertise that is setup world wide that supports piston engines is huge. That is a lot of economic inertia and you are not going to replace it for a 2-5% improvement. Its just not going to be worth it.
The third thing is everyone gets greedy corporations wrong. If this engine is as wonderful as it seems to the inventor. They will take it and shaft the inventor and make a F*** ton of money on it. Seriously, they are not going to just sweep 100Billion in future revenues under the carped because they like the big block. They don't give a craps arse about "big oil" and hell these engines *burn oil*. By the laws of physics you can only get about 2x better (at best) than the best even in theory anyway.
Gravity in space is totally dominate. To the point that space battles would be done over distance and times that make it nothing like submarine warfare. Stealth is all but impossible and it takes a long time to change orbit/direction , etc etc...
If you can travel faster than c then relativity says that you can go back in time. It does not matter how you do it. We have a lot of data to say that relativity is correct. You must modify relativity as it stands if you want FTL and causality.
Even his straw man knockdown was a bit off. Assuming a space ship has the mass of an aircraft carrier is stupid. Also he didn't even bother to check the Avatar website, it is a beam rider when leaving/returning to Sol.
Don't get me wrong, there is lots wrong with the Avatar science (walkers? everything man operated? unobtainium that you can't synthesize? ) and even stuff wrong with the antimatter engines. But the basic premise is quite doable, both beam rider and antimatter rockets can get 50% c and better in theory with "practical" construction size and mass ratios. Another 100+ years of engineering, who knows.
In fact it has been speculated that the much smaller numbers of fish (that we have eaten/killed) above these ocean deserts does have a large impact. The majority of food is things dying up the top and sinking down, less to die, less to sink, less food......
I have been told you can get quite cheap rates for the top layers. Also some have shear pins even, so that once the roll is at a particular level, they pop off automatic like (so i am told).
Also you should never, ever, ever ship something without insurance if you can't afford the loss.
Not really, the ocean is really big. Geo is really far away, and LEO sats only cover a area for 10 mins or less per 12 odd hours (depends on the orbit). More to the point. Anyone with that kind of hardware doesn't give a rats arse about a few containers.
I think you are underestimating how *much* of this he/she is watching. If they are watching TV every waking hour they are not at school, I am not surprised at the behavior change. I don't even need to know what they watched. Same with video games, I think a lot of the "problems" have more to do with the habits surrounding how they play/watch so much in a 24 hour period. Not interacting with the real world and with real people for such huge chunks of time will have effects, at any age (see adults and Facebook). IMO anyway.
Well you really do need explosives, and even then its really inefficient. ie you need *lots* more bomb grade material. In fact since getting the bomb grade material is so hard, its probably easier to solve the implosion problem, which can be tested on non nuclear pits.
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There is no question IMO which way it should go. Freedom of the press, period. An informed public is the only defense against incompetent, misleading or flat out lies of the media or any other source. Introducing laws to "fix" the problem only changes who is telling the lies. But lies they will stay.
IIRC Fox news won a court case that its lies are not misleading because it not really news. Its entertainment.
The General Public get what they want. They get what they consume. Sensationalized omg the sky is falling crap.
Next up Justin Bieber farts in public.
Not enough to matter. US soldiers handle it without gloves for example.
No, as P just told you it radioactivity has nothing(so close to it) to do with it, especially depleted U. Its the fact that it is a heavy metal like lead and Mercury and it bio accumulates.
And what does that communicate? You still cannot control what the dice will be when you do look.
I think a lot of people forget that when someone puts up 100Million to make a movie, they want their money back with interest.
Directors like Michal Bay get the cash because they get the cash back x2. Hell even his biggest critics seem to go to his movies just so they can rag on the directing.
There is a quote the goes something like "95% of the news is accurate, the other 5% is about stuff I know".
Quantum entanglement can be thought of as working like that, except that as soon as one of the split particles interacts with anything else at all in any way and the resulting change is "transferred" to the paired particle, that entanglement is broken.
This is not correct. You can *measure* some property and then you know the value of the other particle and entanglement is broken. You can't force the result of the measurement. In other words the only "spooky" action at a distance is the "instant" entanglement braking. And the guy with the other particle can't even observe that either. He/She still needed to make the measurement to determine the state of his/her particle.
This is a quote from user holmstar that explains is very well. (msg id #27448983 but can't work out how to get a link from that)
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.
And here i was thinking it was all invented by Shampoo.
At 20EU a month + a phone line. I'm not complaining. Oh other EU countries do a lot better.
You don't have unlimited accounts? I really am unlimited here (Austria), as in I use about 80% of my 6Mbit 24/7 for the last 3 months.
Perhaps it really is now "easy to use". I doubt it.
Which part of redesigned don't you understand? Which part of active development is so hard to comprehend?
My daughter has a Slackware laptop, writes her own scripts, and kicks arse at quake. Your not as tech savvy as you think you are. :P
What was observed exactly?
This is the way the rest of the world has done it forever, without problems.
My brother is doing the same. However everyone seems to forget a few fairly fundamental facts when it comes to these things.
First is that current IC engines are already really really really good. We have over 100 years to get them really good. It is a thermodynamically impossibility for this engine to be 3 times better for example. You would be getting more energy out than you put in (for state of the art). So these claims are typically based on "theory", bad measurements or just plain misleading comparisons.
The second is that it can't just be a little bit better. The amount of tooling and expertise that is setup world wide that supports piston engines is huge. That is a lot of economic inertia and you are not going to replace it for a 2-5% improvement. Its just not going to be worth it.
The third thing is everyone gets greedy corporations wrong. If this engine is as wonderful as it seems to the inventor. They will take it and shaft the inventor and make a F*** ton of money on it. Seriously, they are not going to just sweep 100Billion in future revenues under the carped because they like the big block. They don't give a craps arse about "big oil" and hell these engines *burn oil*. By the laws of physics you can only get about 2x better (at best) than the best even in theory anyway.
Gravity in space is totally dominate. To the point that space battles would be done over distance and times that make it nothing like submarine warfare. Stealth is all but impossible and it takes a long time to change orbit/direction , etc etc...
In short, space battles will be very boring.
If you can travel faster than c then relativity says that you can go back in time. It does not matter how you do it. We have a lot of data to say that relativity is correct. You must modify relativity as it stands if you want FTL and causality.
Even his straw man knockdown was a bit off. Assuming a space ship has the mass of an aircraft carrier is stupid. Also he didn't even bother to check the Avatar website, it is a beam rider when leaving/returning to Sol.
Don't get me wrong, there is lots wrong with the Avatar science (walkers? everything man operated? unobtainium that you can't synthesize? ) and even stuff wrong with the antimatter engines. But the basic premise is quite doable, both beam rider and antimatter rockets can get 50% c and better in theory with "practical" construction size and mass ratios. Another 100+ years of engineering, who knows.
In fact it has been speculated that the much smaller numbers of fish (that we have eaten/killed) above these ocean deserts does have a large impact. The majority of food is things dying up the top and sinking down, less to die, less to sink, less food......
I have been told you can get quite cheap rates for the top layers. Also some have shear pins even, so that once the roll is at a particular level, they pop off automatic like (so i am told).
Also you should never, ever, ever ship something without insurance if you can't afford the loss.
Not really, the ocean is really big. Geo is really far away, and LEO sats only cover a area for 10 mins or less per 12 odd hours (depends on the orbit). More to the point. Anyone with that kind of hardware doesn't give a rats arse about a few containers.
I think you are underestimating how *much* of this he/she is watching. If they are watching TV every waking hour they are not at school, I am not surprised at the behavior change. I don't even need to know what they watched. Same with video games, I think a lot of the "problems" have more to do with the habits surrounding how they play/watch so much in a 24 hour period. Not interacting with the real world and with real people for such huge chunks of time will have effects, at any age (see adults and Facebook). IMO anyway.
Violent people always have a long list of why *their* violence is justified.
H bombs are also far less dirty. Hell all modern bombs are much less dirty.
Well you really do need explosives, and even then its really inefficient. ie you need *lots* more bomb grade material. In fact since getting the bomb grade material is so hard, its probably easier to solve the implosion problem, which can be tested on non nuclear pits.