If you've never watched the later Trek series then you won't have encountered this, but in Voyager, and Enterprise (substitute "hull plating" for "shields"), "action" scenes consist of:
Bridge shakes, console explodes.
Ensign X says "Captain! Shields down to 80%", shot of captain looking worried.
External shot of ship being attacked by aliens.
Bridge shakes, console explodes, "Shields down to 60%", repeat until:
[the captain delivers a speech to the aliens on how we are Not So Different|a member of the enemy crew with a Heart of Gold sees the light and betrays his evil commander|they reroute the impulse engines through the EPS conduits to generate a polaron pulse in the main deflector dish] to end the battle.
I wonder how long it'll take us to invent genetic memory. Let's think of what it'd really require.
You seem to have skipped this step. There is no indication right now that there is any way of encoding memories into genes. We don't even know how memory works, or how to manipulate memories in already existing humans, let alone unborn ones.
I know plenty of people who didn't want to go to school, so maybe they shouldn't have been forced to. And once there, the teacher shouldn't have tried to make them pay attention if they weren't interested. Of course, it was Grade One, but still, the Government shouldn't have been infringing on their right to not want to learn.
Note that the Great Zero Challenge remains unanswered. Overwriting a hard drive with zeroes will erase all data on it irretrievably (I agree totally that ordinary delete methods would not do so).
Yes, there have been lots of articles about how overwritten data can be retrieved with various vaporware methods, but no commercial data recovery companies has implemented these. So unless you are paranoid about the NSA using their super secret data recovery methods to find out your hotmail password after buying your hard drive off eBay, it is not necessary to physically destroy a perfectly good hard drive.
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They can't shut it down, my site is still under construction!
If you've never watched the later Trek series then you won't have encountered this, but in Voyager, and Enterprise (substitute "hull plating" for "shields"), "action" scenes consist of:
Bridge shakes, console explodes.
Ensign X says "Captain! Shields down to 80%", shot of captain looking worried.
External shot of ship being attacked by aliens.
Bridge shakes, console explodes, "Shields down to 60%", repeat until:
[the captain delivers a speech to the aliens on how we are Not So Different|a member of the enemy crew with a Heart of Gold sees the light and betrays his evil commander|they reroute the impulse engines through the EPS conduits to generate a polaron pulse in the main deflector dish] to end the battle.
BUT recall that methane has 20x the greenhouse gas potential of CO2, and I know some people who convert ethanol to methane at a disturbing rate.
Haven't you heard? Real SciFi fans use SyFy as shorthand! It's all the rage!
If only they had added a second server inside it too...
That's why on the internet, you should never let anybody know you're a dog.
I wonder how long it'll take us to invent genetic memory. Let's think of what it'd really require.
You seem to have skipped this step. There is no indication right now that there is any way of encoding memories into genes. We don't even know how memory works, or how to manipulate memories in already existing humans, let alone unborn ones.
I know plenty of people who didn't want to go to school, so maybe they shouldn't have been forced to. And once there, the teacher shouldn't have tried to make them pay attention if they weren't interested. Of course, it was Grade One, but still, the Government shouldn't have been infringing on their right to not want to learn.
It's too bad Europa's atmosphere is so tenuous, or we could all hear the WHOOSH.
yah, but if the CBS execs went warp 10
They could "hyper-evolve" into salamanders and have gross salamander sex?
Did you miss the part where Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
Dunno why parent is being modded Funny! 98% taxation for a 98% change of being represented...
I hope they made sure he was dead, so that he won't end up... buried alive... buried alive...
And this is why we will still need Firewire for use with video cameras!
Note that the Great Zero Challenge remains unanswered. Overwriting a hard drive with zeroes will erase all data on it irretrievably (I agree totally that ordinary delete methods would not do so).
Yes, there have been lots of articles about how overwritten data can be retrieved with various vaporware methods, but no commercial data recovery companies has implemented these. So unless you are paranoid about the NSA using their super secret data recovery methods to find out your hotmail password after buying your hard drive off eBay, it is not necessary to physically destroy a perfectly good hard drive.
Two dollars? Be careful how high you go...
Nah, this is the BitTorrent era! You need $125 to send each floppy to 50 different people!