"What testing was done to align the 66 million year old comet strike with the end of the dinosaurs?"
Well, there's the K-T boundary layer, which is loaded with iridium (rare on earth, but not in meteorites), and the fact that no non-avian dinosaur fossils have ever been found above this boundary. And there's also that huge crater just off the coast of Mexico that corresponds to the same time period as the formation of the K-T boundary layer.
Not anymore. However, originally, a meter was 1/10,000,000th the distance between the equator and the North Pole along the meridian through Paris. We later figured out that the standard length of the meter wasn't entirely accurate by that definition, so it was standardized according to a platinum/iridium bar.
"Do you know what the difference is between LSD and Strychnine? Nothing; They're chemically identical, save that one is left-handed and the other right-handed."
"You placed a pre order just like any software title the gets a date moved due to the tweaks and bugs not being worked out and GameStop or any other place holds your cash and im sure you don’t complain to activision or epic games so put on your big boy hat and wait it out like everyone else." ----------- Well, now your little tirade has been Slashdotted. I hope you take your pwning like a big boy.
This is why any comparison of the productivity of researchers of different generations falls flat on its face.
Forty years ago, most scientists completed their PhDs by age 25 and stepped immediately into tenure-track faculty positions. Cold-war research funding was plentiful, and within two or three years, most of those PhDs landed generous research grants that allowed them trick out their labs and fund small armies of grad students. From that point onward, their productivity was assured.
Today, in addition to the 10 years of additional "training" PhDs receive, an ever-increasing number of mouths are taking bites from the ever-shrinking funding pie. Luck, at least as much as the researcher's brilliant ideas, is now the determining factor of success.
Kids have SSN numbers to prevent unscrupulous parents from conjuring dependents out of thin air for the tax breaks. It also stops more than one person from claiming the same child as a dependent.
If not a SSN, the IRS would still have to issue every child a unique identifier. Why reinvent the wheel?
Wrong. Fleischmann and Pons made their initial announcement at a press conference, essentially stepping outside the normal channels of scientific communication. This contributed significantly to the level of criticism and derision they received as more and more researchers tried (unsuccessfully) to reproduce their results.
According to this news piece, http://www.wftv.com/news/25798994/detail.html, the instructor used exam questions supplied by the publisher. Apparently, the test bank the instructor was drawing the questions from had been released into the wild and some of the students found copies online.
Apparently you've never been involved in a disciplinary proceeding at a university.
I'm not familiar with the rules at UCF in particular, but at almost every school students are entitled to a certain level of due process. At a minimum, it probably means a hearing before a disciplinary committee. That process can take several hours for each case, and that's just referring to the hearing itself--not counting the hours of prep time (assembling documentation, etc.) on the part of the person filing the complaint (the faculty member, in this case). On top of that, most universities allow for an appeal if the committee finds wrongdoing. That's several more hours.
Multiply all of this by 200, and you can easily see why the instructor saw dragons in them thar hills.
Make all the lawyer jokes you want, but if this kid had picked up a gun and smoked 4 or 5 of his tormentors, we'd all be having a very different conversation right now.
That he has managed to do anything productive with his life is a testament to his mental and moral fortitude.
Does this mean every biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering research group (I'm talking about grad students and postdocs, here) would have to open their lab notebooks to anyone who asked?
Researchers who ply their trade on the cutting edge of science live in perpetual fear of being "scooped" by another group who publishes their discovery first. These are sometimes literally "races." So now a group at one university could demand access to the notebooks of a group at another university? And vice versa?
5 * ($800,000) = $4 Million.
At current energy prices, saving $100,000 every 9 months would mean they recoup their initial investment in about 30 years.
I'll pass.
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For starters, DAs don't typically sue people. Criminal and civil cases are two entirely separate beasts.
Don't be ridiculous. Just do what I did and chain your smart phone to a concrete block. Problem solved.
"What testing was done to align the 66 million year old comet strike with the end of the dinosaurs?"
Well, there's the K-T boundary layer, which is loaded with iridium (rare on earth, but not in meteorites), and the fact that no non-avian dinosaur fossils have ever been found above this boundary. And there's also that huge crater just off the coast of Mexico that corresponds to the same time period as the formation of the K-T boundary layer.
Now, off to school with you, junior.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/case-closed-for-dino-killer.html
"There's nothing special about the meter."
Not anymore. However, originally, a meter was 1/10,000,000th the distance between the equator and the North Pole along the meridian through Paris. We later figured out that the standard length of the meter wasn't entirely accurate by that definition, so it was standardized according to a platinum/iridium bar.
http://www.surveyhistory.org/the_standard_meter1.htm
Actually, there are indeed far more impressive videos of this effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=hQYTMFCLy5E&NR=1
It's called "static up, elastic down" pricing, and it's one of the basic tenets of economics.
Actually, the ingredients of placebos can definitely induce side effects, and this is not a new problem. See http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/18/us-whats-placebo-idUSTRE69H51L20101018
Worse than easily fooled...
to quote Lt. Commander Data:
"I assume your hand will open this door whether you are conscious or not."
Do you know what the article doesn't tell you?
How the question was phrased, which makes a helluva lot of difference in the results of any poll.
"Tell me, sir, do you still pirate software?"
"Well... uh... no."
"So you admit that you USED to pirate software?"
"Well... no."
"So you admit you pirate software now, but didn't used to?"
"Well... uh..."
"So how often do you beat your wife?"
"Do you know what the difference is between LSD and Strychnine? Nothing; They're chemically identical, save that one is left-handed and the other right-handed."
Uh... no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine
Not only are those two compounds NOT enantiomers, they don't even have the same chemical formula (C20H25N3O vs. C21H22N2O2).
And when it returns a response of "42," Douglas Adams will die laughing...
no, wait...
According to the IUPAC nomenclature rules (http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/28/1/0001/pdf/), it is iron(II) oxide.
"More still becomes grain feed for livestock, to satisfy our appetite for beef, milk, and cheese."
I agree with most of your rant. However, the types of corn used to feed people (sweet corn) and animals (field corn) are two different crops. See http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/farmschool/food/corntyp.htm.
From the article:
"You placed a pre order just like any software title the gets a date moved due to the tweaks and bugs not being worked out and GameStop or any other place holds your cash and im sure you don’t complain to activision or epic games so put on your big boy hat and wait it out like everyone else."
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Well, now your little tirade has been Slashdotted. I hope you take your pwning like a big boy.
Obligatory xkcd:
https://www.xkcd.com/936/
You nailed it.
This is why any comparison of the productivity of researchers of different generations falls flat on its face.
Forty years ago, most scientists completed their PhDs by age 25 and stepped immediately into tenure-track faculty positions. Cold-war research funding was plentiful, and within two or three years, most of those PhDs landed generous research grants that allowed them trick out their labs and fund small armies of grad students. From that point onward, their productivity was assured.
Today, in addition to the 10 years of additional "training" PhDs receive, an ever-increasing number of mouths are taking bites from the ever-shrinking funding pie. Luck, at least as much as the researcher's brilliant ideas, is now the determining factor of success.
Actually, linemen have, in fact, been electrocuted by improperly connected generators. This is NOT an urban legend.
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=38786
The IRS takes different view.
Kids have SSN numbers to prevent unscrupulous parents from conjuring dependents out of thin air for the tax breaks. It also stops more than one person from claiming the same child as a dependent.
If not a SSN, the IRS would still have to issue every child a unique identifier. Why reinvent the wheel?
According to the LA Times, they've blocked the Blackberries, too.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/blackberry-internet-blocked-in-egypt.html
Cold fusion was peer reviewed too.
Wrong. Fleischmann and Pons made their initial announcement at a press conference, essentially stepping outside the normal channels of scientific communication. This contributed significantly to the level of criticism and derision they received as more and more researchers tried (unsuccessfully) to reproduce their results.
According to this news piece, http://www.wftv.com/news/25798994/detail.html, the instructor used exam questions supplied by the publisher. Apparently, the test bank the instructor was drawing the questions from had been released into the wild and some of the students found copies online.
Apparently you've never been involved in a disciplinary proceeding at a university. I'm not familiar with the rules at UCF in particular, but at almost every school students are entitled to a certain level of due process. At a minimum, it probably means a hearing before a disciplinary committee. That process can take several hours for each case, and that's just referring to the hearing itself--not counting the hours of prep time (assembling documentation, etc.) on the part of the person filing the complaint (the faculty member, in this case). On top of that, most universities allow for an appeal if the committee finds wrongdoing. That's several more hours. Multiply all of this by 200, and you can easily see why the instructor saw dragons in them thar hills.
Make all the lawyer jokes you want, but if this kid had picked up a gun and smoked 4 or 5 of his tormentors, we'd all be having a very different conversation right now. That he has managed to do anything productive with his life is a testament to his mental and moral fortitude.
Does this mean every biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering research group (I'm talking about grad students and postdocs, here) would have to open their lab notebooks to anyone who asked? Researchers who ply their trade on the cutting edge of science live in perpetual fear of being "scooped" by another group who publishes their discovery first. These are sometimes literally "races." So now a group at one university could demand access to the notebooks of a group at another university? And vice versa?
5 * ($800,000) = $4 Million. At current energy prices, saving $100,000 every 9 months would mean they recoup their initial investment in about 30 years. I'll pass.