If I remember correctly, it is about 0.7% of all potassium on planet Earth is radioactive.
So to save yourself, you're planing on joining Elon Musk on Ark1 to Mars? Sorry to tell you, but I'm pretty sure you'll find that the radioactive potassium is already on Mars too. If it exists, Proxima Centauri B is very likely to have the same amount of radioactive potassium.
Radiation is a natural part of our environment. Live with it. Or don't live. A simple choice.
Why would you assume that? I don't think I've even heard of it. Then again, I've still not head of a sensible use-case for an IoT device either. Are you sure that both this movie and a sensible use case for an IoT device exist?
You need a new hearing aid. She said "brain", singular. Shortly before she sucked it out and swallowed. You've felt different since then? Now you know why.
DREADCO tried this years ago. Burned the tails off the squirrels. The ATS (Asbestos-Tailed Squrl) project never got off the ground because the tails were too heavy to move without the jetpack.
I don't want to live on this world any more.
Soylent have an opening for you. Email them and ask about their "green" recruitment programme ; they'll get back to you with your collection point. No hand or hold baggage allowed.
AMD, who plans to ship SEV with its upcoming line of Zen processors
So, since no one sensible ever used V0 of anything (with the possible exception of V0 of "broken egg" for making omelettes), then by the time the appropriate die-level or firmware level fixes are incorporated into V1 chips, this should be a non-problem? Am I right?
Delivery to Earth by microwave looks pretty good, but it would louse up a part of the radio spectrum that can easily get through rain.
Do you want to use a delivery band which can be dispersed by atmospheric water (vapour, or as discrete liquid drops or solid grains)?
No, I didn't think so - the prospect of the energy beam being significantly defocussed and dropping energy where it shouldn't... is not good (see footnote).
So, since the typical planned lifetime for energy infrastructure is on the order of a half-century, but the replacement time for on-surface radio communication systems is closer to a decade than to a half-century, you choose a waveband for your power systems to operate on in (say) 10 years and start building that system (it'll take years to build), while advertising that in 4 years licensing of new radio communications equipment designs in that waveband will stop, and manufacture of existing designs will stop a couple of years beyond that (to allow planned change-overs in a reasonable ground equipment cycle). Changes of equipment generations are pains in the bum, but can be done.
[Footnote] I'm less than 100% convinced that defocussing would be a real problem. If you're using ground antennae covering dimensions on the order of an atmosphere-thickness (~10km for ~50% of the atmosphere), quite how is that defocussing going to work? It'd be like - did you ever do a "contact sheet" in the darkroom, where you lay your negatives directly on the printing paper to produce a sheet of comparably-exposed positive images? Well, could you get the image of the negative out of focus in that system? Even if you put a sheet of frosted film between the negatives and the emulsion, you'd still get adequate focus. Hell, I've put the bloody paper into the holder upside down - so the paper base is between the negative and the emulsion - and got a usable contact sheet out of the developer (after a bit of over-developing, it is true). So I'm not sure that an atmospheric absorbed band would even be that much of a problem. If you were talking about having a power reception dish on every house or office roof... no, that would just be inefficient for collecting power - no better than solar. Or you''d literally have to be bathing the whole surface of the Earth in radiation of an intensity greater than that of the Sun, in which case, again, you might as well use solar. The housing and business density of your cities would be limited by the intensity of soar radiation, which would also mean that non-tropical cities would have a lower density than tropical ones, adding to their thermal problems.
It's a party trick. A gimmick that makes people want to buy it, which they know will be copied by other manufacturers in a few months, so the next iPhone will have to have some other dubious but unique feature.
Let me guess - it won't get the shit off your arse hairs and your fingers will go though it.
No way! Murdoch patented those features with his newspapers decades ago. This is going to be the patent fight of the millennium.
How is it we as a nation can outspend ourselves as the largest military power in the world, and still be faced with a declining life expectency rate?
Sounds as if the US government has more accountants in it's people-killing arm than in it's people-saving arm and is therefore more efficient. So you need to get rid of some useless people - doctors or nurses, perhaps - and replace them with accountants in the people-saving business. Simples.
Actually, the largest component of the change is from the Greenland icecap. Since it is not even vaguely symmetrical around the north pole (the north pole is not within the area of the Greenland icecap) , AND it is considerably above sea level (average surface elevation 2100m), then the melting of ice from the icecap and moving it down to the sea adds up to most of the effect. (Antarctica is higher than Greenland, but much more symmetrically placed.)
The article says 2 milliseconds per century, [...]So, what am I missing..?
2 milliseconds per day per century,
A change of 2ms per day would add up to a difference of 1s in about 500 days.
I make the Julian Day for 1972-01-01 (ISO8601) to be 2441318 and for 2017-01-01 to be 2457755 (because I've done the legwork previously for calculating Julian Days) for a difference of 16437 days. At about 1 second per 500 days, then there should have been about 32 or 33 leap seconds since 1972-01-01.
we've already added 27 leap seconds since 1972
given that tidal couping between Earth and Moon is somewhat variable (it depends on what you could well describe as the friction between the oceans and their coastlines, which is at least weather dependent. Shape of the Erth (therefore earthquakes) have a noticeable effect too.
This article is a perfect example. Every article I've seen on sites that are not hard science reports it as if the fact that the earth is slowing is a new discovery. It's not, we've known for decades (at least) that this was the case.
Centuries. The first mention of this that I've seen was by Great Britain's Astronomer Royal in about 1735. George Darwin (son of Charles) did detailed mathematical analysis of the problem in them late 1870 to 1880s.
I understand 2 ms per day, but what does the century mean?
A century means (approximately) 36,525 days.
Actually, once you get to that sort of duration, it's damned difficult to define durations in astronomical terms because both the rotation axis of the Earth, and the plane of orbit of the Earth around the Sun change noticeably over such time periods. And since you're also getting to the level where you need to take into account the gravitational influences of Venus, Mars and Jupiter on the Earth's motions.
Probably, you'd need to define the century in terms of the Earth crossing the line joining the Sun to the centre of the galaxy. That should be good for a decent fraction of a million years, which should see our species out.
Dionysius Exiguus invented the "Anno Domini" system in about 525 CE. He seemed to understand the problem - but the use of a "zero" or placeholder for a null quantity was not in the least bit common for another 6 or 7 centuries, so things got broken.
The tsunami had no lasting effect. Apart from the closest approach to date to the Earth's first mega-fatality earthquake. The water moved back into the equilibrium position within a matter of hours.
The rotation axis of the Earth is already definitely responding to the movement of ice from the surface of Greenland into the seas. It was published a couple of years ago. The movement is on the order of tens of metres - easily detectable.
There are sporadic shifts in the position of the rotation axis too - each major earthquake moves the axis, and this has been detected repeatedly since the 1960s whenever there is a large (M8+) earthquake.
... The average American living in the suburbs is ~ 20-30 miles from the nearest city / shopping area.
If this is true (which I doubt. 20-30 MILES on average from the NEAREST place for shopping??? Extremely implausible.) then America needs to do some serious re-modelling of it's cities to make them more inhabitant-friendly. Living in a small (10,000 people) city in a rural area, I have two supermarkets and a full-service pharmacy within under a mile, a late night (07:00-22:00 x7 x365) store in the same range. Another 7 miles (I cycle it routinely) I add 3 more general supermarkets, a town with three computer-bits stores and several furniture and clothing shops. 30 miles out, there's a cinema but I've never felt the need to travel there. (Maybe even two cinemas ; it's not on my "need to know" list.)
When a company controls so much of the screen real estate,
These companies only control your screen real estate if you choose to use their services. If you don't, then they have no influence on your screen. Don't you get this? Are you a slave to social media and the opinions of other people?
Are you trying to say that if FaceBook were to mark Trump as being hate speech, then Trump or one of his team would threaten to revoke all of the H1B (some sort of American work permit?) visas for FaceBook's staff?
OK, say that happens. Why would FaceBook give a flying fuck? At absolute worst a significant number of their staff who happen to be in America on one of those visas would get deported back to Mexico, or Britain or India or where ever they came from and would then be either re-hired by FaceBook(Mexico), FaceBook(Britain) or where ever, and probably at reduced pay rates. Any complaints and/ or lawsuits from the staff involved can safely be redirected to the White House.
Explain again why FaceBook would be unhappy about being given an excuse to reduce their employment costs.
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... who'd promptly dilute it and bang it on the desk.
True.
Not relevant.
Nuclear reactions can - and do - happen in modern materials in natural conditions. For an example, 14-carbon has a half life of a mere 5730 years (limiting it's use for radiometric dating to about 25-30 kyr), so every nucleus of 14-carbon in (for example) Henri Becquerel's desk at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1894 was the product of natural nuclear reactions in the 19th century.
So to save yourself, you're planing on joining Elon Musk on Ark1 to Mars? Sorry to tell you, but I'm pretty sure you'll find that the radioactive potassium is already on Mars too. If it exists, Proxima Centauri B is very likely to have the same amount of radioactive potassium.
Radiation is a natural part of our environment. Live with it. Or don't live. A simple choice.
Why would you assume that? I don't think I've even heard of it. Then again, I've still not head of a sensible use-case for an IoT device either. Are you sure that both this movie and a sensible use case for an IoT device exist?
You need a new hearing aid. She said "brain", singular. Shortly before she sucked it out and swallowed. You've felt different since then? Now you know why.
DREADCO tried this years ago. Burned the tails off the squirrels. The ATS (Asbestos-Tailed Squrl) project never got off the ground because the tails were too heavy to move without the jetpack.
Soylent have an opening for you. Email them and ask about their "green" recruitment programme ; they'll get back to you with your collection point. No hand or hold baggage allowed.
That would bring the guys into line with the girls, who had a "ignore male" mode activated shortly after birth.
A lot of gasket sealants I've seen have been very dark (if lustrous) grey to black because of included molybdenum sulphide or graphite.
So, since no one sensible ever used V0 of anything (with the possible exception of V0 of "broken egg" for making omelettes), then by the time the appropriate die-level or firmware level fixes are incorporated into V1 chips, this should be a non-problem? Am I right?
Oliver? Colonel North? I haven't seen you for a while.
Do you want to use a delivery band which can be dispersed by atmospheric water (vapour, or as discrete liquid drops or solid grains)?
No, I didn't think so - the prospect of the energy beam being significantly defocussed and dropping energy where it shouldn't ... is not good (see footnote).
So, since the typical planned lifetime for energy infrastructure is on the order of a half-century, but the replacement time for on-surface radio communication systems is closer to a decade than to a half-century, you choose a waveband for your power systems to operate on in (say) 10 years and start building that system (it'll take years to build), while advertising that in 4 years licensing of new radio communications equipment designs in that waveband will stop, and manufacture of existing designs will stop a couple of years beyond that (to allow planned change-overs in a reasonable ground equipment cycle). Changes of equipment generations are pains in the bum, but can be done.
[Footnote] I'm less than 100% convinced that defocussing would be a real problem. If you're using ground antennae covering dimensions on the order of an atmosphere-thickness (~10km for ~50% of the atmosphere), quite how is that defocussing going to work? It'd be like - did you ever do a "contact sheet" in the darkroom, where you lay your negatives directly on the printing paper to produce a sheet of comparably-exposed positive images? Well, could you get the image of the negative out of focus in that system? Even if you put a sheet of frosted film between the negatives and the emulsion, you'd still get adequate focus. Hell, I've put the bloody paper into the holder upside down - so the paper base is between the negative and the emulsion - and got a usable contact sheet out of the developer (after a bit of over-developing, it is true). So I'm not sure that an atmospheric absorbed band would even be that much of a problem. If you were talking about having a power reception dish on every house or office roof ... no, that would just be inefficient for collecting power - no better than solar. Or you''d literally have to be bathing the whole surface of the Earth in radiation of an intensity greater than that of the Sun, in which case, again, you might as well use solar. The housing and business density of your cities would be limited by the intensity of soar radiation, which would also mean that non-tropical cities would have a lower density than tropical ones, adding to their thermal problems.
Let me guess - it won't get the shit off your arse hairs and your fingers will go though it.
No way! Murdoch patented those features with his newspapers decades ago. This is going to be the patent fight of the millennium.
Don't excuse France from the blame-fest.
Hey, it's one of the things we do best.
Sounds as if the US government has more accountants in it's people-killing arm than in it's people-saving arm and is therefore more efficient. So you need to get rid of some useless people - doctors or nurses, perhaps - and replace them with accountants in the people-saving business. Simples.
Actually, the largest component of the change is from the Greenland icecap. Since it is not even vaguely symmetrical around the north pole (the north pole is not within the area of the Greenland icecap) , AND it is considerably above sea level (average surface elevation 2100m), then the melting of ice from the icecap and moving it down to the sea adds up to most of the effect. (Antarctica is higher than Greenland, but much more symmetrically placed.)
2 milliseconds per day per century,
A change of 2ms per day would add up to a difference of 1s in about 500 days.
I make the Julian Day for 1972-01-01 (ISO8601) to be 2441318 and for 2017-01-01 to be 2457755 (because I've done the legwork previously for calculating Julian Days) for a difference of 16437 days. At about 1 second per 500 days, then there should have been about 32 or 33 leap seconds since 1972-01-01.
given that tidal couping between Earth and Moon is somewhat variable (it depends on what you could well describe as the friction between the oceans and their coastlines, which is at least weather dependent. Shape of the Erth (therefore earthquakes) have a noticeable effect too.
Centuries. The first mention of this that I've seen was by Great Britain's Astronomer Royal in about 1735. George Darwin (son of Charles) did detailed mathematical analysis of the problem in them late 1870 to 1880s.
A century means (approximately) 36,525 days.
Actually, once you get to that sort of duration, it's damned difficult to define durations in astronomical terms because both the rotation axis of the Earth, and the plane of orbit of the Earth around the Sun change noticeably over such time periods. And since you're also getting to the level where you need to take into account the gravitational influences of Venus, Mars and Jupiter on the Earth's motions.
Probably, you'd need to define the century in terms of the Earth crossing the line joining the Sun to the centre of the galaxy. That should be good for a decent fraction of a million years, which should see our species out.
Your calendar changes year on 25th December? Which country do you live in?
Dionysius Exiguus invented the "Anno Domini" system in about 525 CE. He seemed to understand the problem - but the use of a "zero" or placeholder for a null quantity was not in the least bit common for another 6 or 7 centuries, so things got broken.
The tsunami had no lasting effect. Apart from the closest approach to date to the Earth's first mega-fatality earthquake. The water moved back into the equilibrium position within a matter of hours.
There are sporadic shifts in the position of the rotation axis too - each major earthquake moves the axis, and this has been detected repeatedly since the 1960s whenever there is a large (M8+) earthquake.
If this is true (which I doubt. 20-30 MILES on average from the NEAREST place for shopping??? Extremely implausible.) then America needs to do some serious re-modelling of it's cities to make them more inhabitant-friendly. Living in a small (10,000 people) city in a rural area, I have two supermarkets and a full-service pharmacy within under a mile, a late night (07:00-22:00 x7 x365) store in the same range. Another 7 miles (I cycle it routinely) I add 3 more general supermarkets, a town with three computer-bits stores and several furniture and clothing shops. 30 miles out, there's a cinema but I've never felt the need to travel there. (Maybe even two cinemas ; it's not on my "need to know" list.)
These companies only control your screen real estate if you choose to use their services. If you don't, then they have no influence on your screen. Don't you get this? Are you a slave to social media and the opinions of other people?
OK, say that happens. Why would FaceBook give a flying fuck? At absolute worst a significant number of their staff who happen to be in America on one of those visas would get deported back to Mexico, or Britain or India or where ever they came from and would then be either re-hired by FaceBook(Mexico), FaceBook(Britain) or where ever, and probably at reduced pay rates. Any complaints and/ or lawsuits from the staff involved can safely be redirected to the White House.
Explain again why FaceBook would be unhappy about being given an excuse to reduce their employment costs.