Your Brain can take a frontal impact pretty well, but when you are hit from the side, the lobes are pressed together, and it's the connecting 'tissue' that takes the damage of the compression.
Falling vertically and hitting the ground does not tend to involve these side on impacts, and any flying machine can be designed to fall like an arrow, if dropping out of the sky without power.
If you were to hit the ground at 55mph it is no different to ploughing into a wall with a car at 55mph. If simple airbags + seatbelts are able to protect people from much of the impact, then this improved system should be just as effective, and hopefully better.
What this system does, that normal safety features do not, is to allow the vehicle to fall flat on it's ass, without the passenger suffering compression fractures in the spine.
So, like, Google could just let Murdock stuff himself and report the news themselves? Or they could buy a news reporting agency like they bought youtube and deliver a rival service and then eliminate all the other news reporting sites from searches.
Can you surf the web on your wristwatch? Can you have instantaneous voice conversations with people across the country / world with your wristwatch? Can you set reminders, play games or listen to music on your wrist watch?
There have been so many comments saying that people would never give up their good old wristwatch and go out to buy a phone in order to tell the time...
Are so many people missing the point of the article?
I don't own a phone to tell me the time. But I don't wear a wristwatch because I already have a device on me that serves this purpose while doing many other useful things.
I think that phones are great for combining many of the common things we do on a daily basis. I don't use it a huge amount, and thus can get up to a week before I need to recharge the battery, which isn't a terrible task. Yes, if I had a wristwatch, I wouldn't have to charge it weekly, but since I'm going to have to own a phone regardless, and charge it weekly regardless, where's the downside in the fact that it tells the time, so I have no need of a watch?
On the wall of my living room there's a clock, on my desk there's a phone with display and my computer to tell me the time, along with a wall clock.
The crater under the antarctic ice, for example, is so large that the Earth was unlikely to have ever been hit by something that big in the past 4 billion years. Antarctica is very modern, in comparison.
Except that the crater you mention was not caused by an asteroid, but by Cthulu's arrival on Earth.
We have this field down by my folks place in the country that is mostly left fallow (used for light sheep grazing) but it fluctuates repeatedly between grass and clover depending on the amount of nitrates in the soil. When the nitrates are low the clover wins out growing up strong, taking nitrogen out of the air and putting it in the soil, but then the grass comes back and chokes the clover until the nitrates are used up.
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A topic about a Canadian getting beat up and people make it political.
The particles introduced into the vacuum come in a selection of fragrances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_'n'_Vac
Dude, what patch are you playing on. 3.3 = teleport to instance. Unfortunately it's also full.
Your Brain can take a frontal impact pretty well, but when you are hit from the side, the lobes are pressed together, and it's the connecting 'tissue' that takes the damage of the compression.
Falling vertically and hitting the ground does not tend to involve these side on impacts, and any flying machine can be designed to fall like an arrow, if dropping out of the sky without power.
If you were to hit the ground at 55mph it is no different to ploughing into a wall with a car at 55mph. If simple airbags + seatbelts are able to protect people from much of the impact, then this improved system should be just as effective, and hopefully better.
What this system does, that normal safety features do not, is to allow the vehicle to fall flat on it's ass, without the passenger suffering compression fractures in the spine.
The one month timer for the opening of the first gate was only because of the holidays. The remaining gates will open faster.
I for one would like to be informed when super strong monkeys are bearing down on my fortress
Combine this with http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/06/060243 and we'll have some interesting results.
And the Catholic church hasn't recently taken anyone (Dan Brown) to court over saying bad things about them.
First the Catholics with child rape, now the Scientologists with slavery and human trafficking.
Any wagers on which one true religion will be busted next?
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"You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals."
Has nobody else seen the other possibilities of such an application? I could quite literally be "hung like a horse".
I have gangscore of 2650, pick me.
This will not end well
So, like, Google could just let Murdock stuff himself and report the news themselves? Or they could buy a news reporting agency like they bought youtube and deliver a rival service and then eliminate all the other news reporting sites from searches.
That would be fun
Can you surf the web on your wristwatch? Can you have instantaneous voice conversations with people across the country / world with your wristwatch? Can you set reminders, play games or listen to music on your wrist watch? There have been so many comments saying that people would never give up their good old wristwatch and go out to buy a phone in order to tell the time... Are so many people missing the point of the article? I don't own a phone to tell me the time. But I don't wear a wristwatch because I already have a device on me that serves this purpose while doing many other useful things. I think that phones are great for combining many of the common things we do on a daily basis. I don't use it a huge amount, and thus can get up to a week before I need to recharge the battery, which isn't a terrible task. Yes, if I had a wristwatch, I wouldn't have to charge it weekly, but since I'm going to have to own a phone regardless, and charge it weekly regardless, where's the downside in the fact that it tells the time, so I have no need of a watch? On the wall of my living room there's a clock, on my desk there's a phone with display and my computer to tell me the time, along with a wall clock.
I will no longer need to actually move my head when playing my DK?
Did nobody think to tell them that attempting to sue Wikipedia to remove their names was likely to plaster their names over the entire interwebs?
Clearly the Catholic church has evolved.
They should use the rest of the company name instead and call it "Ogle"
The crater under the antarctic ice, for example, is so large that the Earth was unlikely to have ever been hit by something that big in the past 4 billion years. Antarctica is very modern, in comparison.
Except that the crater you mention was not caused by an asteroid, but by Cthulu's arrival on Earth.
The fear detector works by sniffing out underarm sweat? How about they just use divining rods? Terrorist + bomb detector in one!
Squeak squeak slashdot squeak squeak?
There are many sites where techies can, and often do, seek information on things outside their realm, like girls.
We have this field down by my folks place in the country that is mostly left fallow (used for light sheep grazing) but it fluctuates repeatedly between grass and clover depending on the amount of nitrates in the soil. When the nitrates are low the clover wins out growing up strong, taking nitrogen out of the air and putting it in the soil, but then the grass comes back and chokes the clover until the nitrates are used up.
Just how many Pina Coladas is that?
sack of sugar