I find this whole debate silly. Who is liable when breaks fail? when tires blow out? These things have happened and its has killed people. This is hardly a new precedent.
That "requirement" is ridiculousness. By that requirement we have never observed any particle's outside protons and electrons. We have never observed current (only indirect effects)... etc. Its stupid.
We can use polymerize outside the cell, we can see the happen errors. I can't watch with my eyes... But if your going to say "that only real time counts" or some other absurd direct observation requirement whatever that means. Well there is about 98% of current "science" that hasn't even been observed and never ever will be.
The rules for that sort of thing are ridiculous. Its more or less impossible for the armature. Better off getting cosy with the local university or something.
You know i had this problem when i wanted 50% H2O2. The lab supplier said no, regardless of what paper work i came up with. But the industrial suppler was like "We don't sell one liter bottles, but 25kg is $50", which was about the same price as 1 liter from the lab suppler. I asked about permits etc. All i needed was a dangerous good vehicle if i was transporting more than 100kg. They also sold me some red fuming HNO3.
Turns out at least in some countries there is a lot of "assumed" laws that don't exist. And lab suppliers seem to be paranoid.
This is in fact quite difficult. Sure in some sci fi story it works because you just arm wave all the details away. But when it really comes down to what can really work its more limited. First off methane is a poor universal solvent compared to water. This already makes things much more difficult. Second even the basic idea of a bi-lipid membrane doesn't even work in methane (its a non polar solvent). Its cold so reaction rates are low... etc....
Different building blocks is even more difficult. The classic argument is something based of silicon. If you have silicon you have carbon and carbon can just form so many more stable compounds that anything else, and vastly more than silicon. Life as we know it uses most of the periodic table. The is a really good argument to be made that life will be chemically similar to us. (ie water is the solvent, things based around carbon, some sort of information store like DNA).
Well NZ public transport is crap. Its not all that bad. In fact moving from NZ to Austria was great for my daughter, as its one of the best public transport system in world and cheap. It gave her the freedom of a car before she could drive.
Yea.. I am younger and we were like that. Best holidays ever. Especially once you have car. Of course the job to pay for the car and gas did cut into fun time a bit.
My daughter is now 22 and living in a different country. But we had the same polices. Food, power, rent and video games are not free and i am not your cash cow. Also there is basic household cores that need to be done. Pull your weight or get your own place.
In the end we made her get her own place. Mostly for being exceptionally rude to us. It help our relationship dramatically (shock horror power bills and *internet* bills made her panic). She still flunked school. But she is a stable happy person that is now working out whats next in life while she saves from a steady job.
When i install linux i do a full install. That is about 10min now with a SDD drive. That includes full latex, open office, about 5 desktop environments, open office a bunch of browsers and almost everything i need out of the box. I have never needed to reboot after install or "update", hell i have laptops with uptimes at almost a year.
There's no reason to believe interstellar travel is possible.
There is no doubt that it is possible. At least as far as the physics is concerned. Weather we ever have the economic incentive or patients to carry out such a project is something else entirely.
Japan is having problems because of massive overfishing. And when they can't find any close my, they use their long range trawlers to fish in other countries waters. The amount of black market seafood i saw there was crazy. We have even found blue whale (genetically verified.)
You can have a healthy diet as a vegan, as vegetarian and as a meat eater. It is perhaps a bit harder for a vegan. However all of the above can have quite unhealthy diets as well. And while we talking about health. It should be noted that even small amounts of physical activity have a large effect on general health regardless of diet.
God no. You compile to a slackware package. Either with a Slackbuild script someone has already written (true of just about everything out there), or write one yourself and release it to the community.
I use slackware because of that. I hate when i get 5 gigs of crap update that is 99.9% not needed, and then breaks things. Its like people are taking the worst of windows and putting it on linux.
My last slackware install has need just 2 packages updated because of security advisories in the last year. JUST 2. I get work done, not piss around on the internet with updates every 3 hours.
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I find this whole debate silly. Who is liable when breaks fail? when tires blow out? These things have happened and its has killed people. This is hardly a new precedent.
That "requirement" is ridiculousness. By that requirement we have never observed any particle's outside protons and electrons. We have never observed current (only indirect effects) ... etc. Its stupid.
We can use polymerize outside the cell, we can see the happen errors. I can't watch with my eyes... But if your going to say "that only real time counts" or some other absurd direct observation requirement whatever that means. Well there is about 98% of current "science" that hasn't even been observed and never ever will be.
We currently have never observed evolution occur (at a molecular scale).
Yes we have. Yes we do. We even have experimental evolution experiments now days.
True that.
The rules for that sort of thing are ridiculous. Its more or less impossible for the armature. Better off getting cosy with the local university or something.
You know i had this problem when i wanted 50% H2O2. The lab supplier said no, regardless of what paper work i came up with. But the industrial suppler was like "We don't sell one liter bottles, but 25kg is $50", which was about the same price as 1 liter from the lab suppler. I asked about permits etc. All i needed was a dangerous good vehicle if i was transporting more than 100kg. They also sold me some red fuming HNO3.
Turns out at least in some countries there is a lot of "assumed" laws that don't exist. And lab suppliers seem to be paranoid.
Very little science is done to 5 sigma, in fact almost none at all. Most is done to the classic 5% significant level, if that.
As sympathetic as I am to these people, no parent should have to outlive their child..
Where is that written. Not so long ago most families lost at least one child at young age. So its not even remotely historically accurate.
And at a primary school its very distracting from basic education.
This is in fact quite difficult. Sure in some sci fi story it works because you just arm wave all the details away. But when it really comes down to what can really work its more limited. First off methane is a poor universal solvent compared to water. This already makes things much more difficult. Second even the basic idea of a bi-lipid membrane doesn't even work in methane (its a non polar solvent). Its cold so reaction rates are low... etc....
Different building blocks is even more difficult. The classic argument is something based of silicon. If you have silicon you have carbon and carbon can just form so many more stable compounds that anything else, and vastly more than silicon. Life as we know it uses most of the periodic table. The is a really good argument to be made that life will be chemically similar to us. (ie water is the solvent, things based around carbon, some sort of information store like DNA).
Well NZ public transport is crap. Its not all that bad. In fact moving from NZ to Austria was great for my daughter, as its one of the best public transport system in world and cheap. It gave her the freedom of a car before she could drive.
I'm 38 and i can hear them. They don't work either.
Yea.. I am younger and we were like that. Best holidays ever. Especially once you have car. Of course the job to pay for the car and gas did cut into fun time a bit.
Slashdot is as much as a geek thing as facebook. Its not.
My daughter is now 22 and living in a different country. But we had the same polices. Food, power, rent and video games are not free and i am not your cash cow. Also there is basic household cores that need to be done. Pull your weight or get your own place. In the end we made her get her own place. Mostly for being exceptionally rude to us. It help our relationship dramatically (shock horror power bills and *internet* bills made her panic). She still flunked school. But she is a stable happy person that is now working out whats next in life while she saves from a steady job.
Any human who answers yes to the first question is a liar or in denial.
When i install linux i do a full install. That is about 10min now with a SDD drive. That includes full latex, open office, about 5 desktop environments, open office a bunch of browsers and almost everything i need out of the box. I have never needed to reboot after install or "update", hell i have laptops with uptimes at almost a year.
There's no reason to believe interstellar travel is possible.
There is no doubt that it is possible. At least as far as the physics is concerned. Weather we ever have the economic incentive or patients to carry out such a project is something else entirely.
The diet is specific to the region, and the occurrence of particular diseases is also very regional.
So is their genetics and their environment ie what they are exposed too, what kind of work they do.....
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2004-10-02/
Japan is having problems because of massive overfishing. And when they can't find any close my, they use their long range trawlers to fish in other countries waters. The amount of black market seafood i saw there was crazy. We have even found blue whale (genetically verified.)
You can have a healthy diet as a vegan, as vegetarian and as a meat eater. It is perhaps a bit harder for a vegan. However all of the above can have quite unhealthy diets as well. And while we talking about health. It should be noted that even small amounts of physical activity have a large effect on general health regardless of diet.
God no. You compile to a slackware package. Either with a Slackbuild script someone has already written (true of just about everything out there), or write one yourself and release it to the community.
It has happened to me more than once with nothing but default settings and repos on Fedura and Debian i think?
I use slackware because of that. I hate when i get 5 gigs of crap update that is 99.9% not needed, and then breaks things. Its like people are taking the worst of windows and putting it on linux.
My last slackware install has need just 2 packages updated because of security advisories in the last year. JUST 2. I get work done, not piss around on the internet with updates every 3 hours.