Some of you may remember the write-up they had in PopSci a few years ago. Basically this thing is a brute force steam punk style fusion generator. There is a several metre diameter sphere of molten lead and lithium that is spun up to create a vortex. Plasma is injected into the vortex cavity and them BLAM!!! a bunch of giant steam powered pistons bang on the outside of the sphere to create a compression shockwave. The shockwave compresses the D-T plasma, fast neutrons are captured by Li to make Be, which then decays to make more delicious tritium. Grab some energy from heat, then revortex, reinject, resmash, repeat. The great thing is the clanging sound lets you know it's working.
I've been fortunate to visit the facility a few times, and the progress they've made over the past few years is astounding. These guys are the real deal. Hopefully in just a few short years the reactor will be up and running and we can stop spending billions and billions on less practical reactor designs.
Good question on the cost. Can anybody speak to the ratio between production and material costs in any memory type? I'm curious how big of an impact using exotic materials such as paladium and hafnium will make to the overal cost.
Hmm.. Looking at all the layers they used to produce their chip makes me think that the production costs will be high too.
Just wondering if Casimir forces are in line at all with string theory prediction of gravity acting over a bunch of small dimensions and then when distances are small enough gravity to take the small dimensions into account the force is stronger. By "in line" I guess I mean is the given explanation fairly definitive or is the extra dimension explanation within the realm of possibility. IINAP so apologies if I'm way off.
"Low level infra-red red is thought to stimulate the growth of cells of all types of tissue and encourage their repair. It is able to penetrate the skin and even get through the skull."
Doesn't seem to be doing much for the ol' hair follicles
Special olympics are for mentally disabled athletes.
He could however compete in the Paralympics which are geared towards physical disabilities such as amputees or blind people. They are held in the same year and same city as the regular olympics. The one catch with the paralympics is that because there are so many classifications disabilities they have to rotate through which type gets to compete each year. Think: you couldn't very well have someone missing a leg and a half swimming against someone only missing a foot. I can't remember exactly how many classifications of amputees there are but I think there are enough that an athlete might only get to compete in one Paralympics that falls into their particular condition.
For the same reason that I can't go to Intel and ask for $200 after every round of price drops. If someone chooses to buy a product he or she must make a decision if the purchase is good value. Yes= buy. No= don't buy. Just wait. Early adopters thought the price was right at launch. Just because a new, better deal comes along it doesn't change their initial decision; the purchase was good value. Surely they knew a price drop was innevitable, granted perhaps not so soon or so much, so any free money is a terrific deal.
As Mr. Jobs so delicately points out these people technically aren't entitled to anything but Apple wants to keep them happy. If they were given all $200 then they get the benefit of being the first to have an iPhone for nothing. People who decided to wait for a price drop would be a little upset if there is no 'early adopter penalty', and that they could have been using an iPhone all this time if only they had known they could get $200 back.
You are incorrect sir. The mod saw the humour in the comment but deemed the bit of information about the new ruling to be quite informative to those not up to date on mattress laws. Obviously if the law was just passed I wouldn't expect a mattress on the street to meet the safety standards. It is nice to see an example of how a new safer mattress *could* have actually saved a lot of people a lot of time and money. Firefighters, internets, and buildings aren't exactly cheap.
aside: is that a correct usage of the word internets??
"...20-residue peptide, designated VIRUS-INHIBITORY PEPTIDE (VIRIP)corresponding to the C-proximal region of 1-antitrypsin, the most abundant circulating serine protease inhibitor."
The 1-antitrypsin protein is something there's a lot of in the blood. Its role is prevent one of the body's degrading proteins from breaking down things it shouldn't be breaking down. This 20 residue peptide is just the end bit of the larger protein. The anti-HIV functions are more like a happy side effect of the larger protein's breakdown. Now I have no idea how quickly the anti-trypsin breaks down and what the natural levels of the VIRIP are. I would speculate though that people who are immune to HIV have a mutation that either produces VIRIP (or something close to it) on its own or the antitrypsin has picked up a mutation that in some way exposes the C-proximal end or promotes it breaking off more readily.
On the one hand pinpointing all the genes involved in memory will undoubtedly help towards finding cures for the myriad of memory related disorders. Hooray!
On the other hand I can't help but feel like unlocking the secrets of the mind will inevitably lead to the obsolescence of the everyday human. Granted, we're still a long way off from creating super smart people with the flick of a switch but one day it will happen. We've already seen the creation of super strong rats and the like (too lazy to find links). The brain is quite complex however and chances are some mad scientists somewhere are bound to created a more than a few scrambled melons before striking success.
With each new discovery of the human genome we inch closer to fully understanding it. Once we have a complete grasp there are bound to be those who wish to further the species with "unnatural means". I would argue that we would only be speeding what would otherwise take thousands of years to take place (although there are certainly no guarantees we'll ever get much smarter as a whole). If survival of the fittest is the name of the game, and why would we not want further generations to be the best they can be? I suppose that can be answered by any number of sci-fi flicks, but Hollywood seems to paint a grim picture of genetically modified people as if they automatically become evil, or at least have the chance of snapping and turning evil at any moment. I see no reason we can't eventually re-create the likes of a Da Vinci. The only problem is that this type of work doesn't benefit an individual because he would be contributing to his own demise, the end of "natural" humans. If something that at least somewhat looks/acts/feels like a human makes it off this planet and onto other worlds I'd be happy knowing we lived on in at least some form.
Hey! I think I sold you those CDs. Well I don't really think so but it's possible. It's always fun trying to explain to people what a levy is and why its pricier than the CDs themselves. The question usually arises "Do I have to pay for DVDs too?" I really hope that never happens but then again I wouldn't be shocked.
ITER - "The way" in Latin. Formerly interpreted to stand for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, although this usage has been discontinued.
Does that mean that once you receive information then you have to start the proccess all over again? So its not a perpetually on-state receiver but a one time event? Once manipulations/observations?? have been made to one member of the entangled pair can further manipulations still be made?
If changes are able to be constantly made it seems to me that values would only ever read one state, the one of the event the shortest distance into the future. It seems that all future events would have to converge at the single point of the present. In travelling from the future to the present, only the last manipulation would carry through.
Is either situation anywhere near the truth? It seems that either multiple machines would have to built (or multiple beams within a single machine) and set aside for sending information back from prescribed time intervals.
Any information you have, or a nudge in the direction of some good reading would be great. Thanks
*Stephen Hawking voice* You're idea of wintergreen cat feces intrigues me. Perhaps I will steal it */voice*
In all seriousness it wouldn't be hard to do. Take gut bacteria and insert the genes in the wintergreen (Methyl salicylate) pathway. I suspect though the natural flora of the large intestine would outcompete the introduced variety. The two types would be the same except one wastes energy on a useless, and harmful product. Methyl salicylate is similar to salicylic acid, neither of which should be injested.
Banana smelling feces might be a better choice. Isoamyl acetate is the ester produced. I'm not sure how much of the stuff would have to be made to ensure a nice smell. Also I have no idea at what rate it'd be consumed in the gut by other organisms. You might have to buy special food laced with bacterial spores that continually boost the levels of the special bacteria. Interesting idea.
Actually that job is probably the cleanest of the list. There's no horrible smell and there's no touching of anything vile. 1) Pipette drop of fluid onto slide. 2) Look at slide. 3) Count sperm. 4) Put a tube into a centrifuge. 5) Pipette out water. 6) Put tube into the freezer.
Good question. Time to bust out some math here. This would make good grade exam question. Sorry I forget what grade this'd be for. All facts from Wikipedia.
Givin the Earth's average radius 6,372.797 km and the ozone is concentrated between 15 and 40km, calculate the area of ozone covering the equivalent of the land area of the United states, which is 9,631,420 km for anybody who has forgotten. Bonus points for taking into consideration the Earth's less than spherical shape. Also bonus points for not just averaging out the 15 and 40km.
Forget bonus points. Lets call the ozone layer 27.5km up. So add 27.5km to Earth's radius: 6,372.797 km = 6400 radius to the middle of the ozone layer. (Nice coincidence huh?
Now lets compare the ratios between the circumference at the earth's surface and the circumference at 27.5 km up
(pi*R(1)^2) / (pi*R(2)^2 ) = cancel out the Pis and 6400^2 / 6,372.797 km^2 = 1.0086
So the ozone layer would only be 1.0086 times bigger than the actual land mass.
_____________ =9 713 811km.|
In short... not much of a difference. You would have received full credit for simply stating "not much difference. The earth's diameter is huge compared to the thickness of the atmosphere."
I'm far from a bully. I'm on the nerd side of the coin, although in elemtary school I was on the fringe of being a cool kid. It wasn't until highschool that my nerdiness blossomed.
The injuries aren't what made it fun. Is that what you thought I was saying? There was never any intent to injure people. It just happened. The injury prone kid wasn't a nerd. I think the one guy just had a low pain threshhold. It wasn't from successive dirty hits. Afterwards there weren't any unresolved hostilities towards players. "Just about every day" is a bit of an exaggeration though.
Now that you mention it though one time the school bully played with us and went a little overboard. I remember being afraid to tackle him because I thought he might beat me up if I stopped him. Others sensed the impending trouble so we started our own game down the field a bit, rather than standing up to him. Really what 6th grader wants to stand up to the 7th grader with 2 older brothers? Luckily he neither tried joining the secondary game nor came back to try and play again. I can see your point though. Things definitely could have turned worse.
This may sound a bit cheesy but its true. I'm from a small town and everyone has moved off to the city or beyond. When people come back here for the holidays we still get together to play our one football game of the year. Its the only time I ever see a lot of those people.
There was however one act of classical violence out on the pitch. There were two new kids to the school and the younger brother got tackled. I guess the older brother thought there was malicious intent because he was unfamiliar with the way we played (hard but fair). Being the new kid he wasn't about to see himself or his brother get walked all over, so he punched the tackler in the face. The tackler and the punch recipiant actually became friends not too long after the event.
Perhaps I was lucky in that issues always resolved themselves on the field. The small town factor probably helped in this sense. To alienate yourself from a whole group of people left few people left to be friends with. As for what's going on with bullying in schools nowadays I'm not up to date. I know that when I finished highschool ('99) it was pretty bad. Sickening in hindsight. I can only guess that its still getting worse... but that's a topic for another day.
In my elementary school we had 1 or 2 volunteer parents to walk during our breaks to "watch out for our safety". While we played our game of tackle football we'd always have to keep one eye looking for the parent coming around the corner. The first person to see her would yell something to the effect of "WOW! This sure is a fun game of TOUCH football. Yup. Nothing beats playing TOUCH football on a lovely day like this." There was often one idiot that didn't quite clue in and made a huge tackle in the presence of the parent. Bye-bye football! Fscking D.K. I still hate her to this day. Luckily our principle was cool and would always give the football back at the end of the day. Admitidly there were a lot of injuries, especially to one kid. Just about every day he ended up in a puddle of tears. Playing tackle football at lunch time is one of my best memories from elementary school.
If a kid gets caught playing tag or some other "violent" game what's the worst that could happen? If I got a call from my kids' school saying little Billy was in trouble for playing games I would reward him for not caving to stupid rules. Yes. That's right. I'd teach my child not to follow the laws. He very well could grow up and become that guy you always see J-Walking. Who knows what other new-fangled laws will come into act by the time he grows up.
I don't think that's quite right. I remember messing around with voice recognition in the 90s but the CPU power wasn't there to do real time voice. That and you get complete gibberish half the time.
Are there people out there who use voice as their main method of inputing text? For older people who type incredibly slow would this software be worthwhile using for composing emails?
Good examples. You forgot one thing though. The Zack Morris cell phone. You could drop, kick, or heck even drop kick one of those things and they would keep working. Today's phones seem more geared towards features and portability than to durability. A two foot drop onto concrete is apparently all it takes these days to break a phone. For my dime I'd like to see a phone with a bit of armour built in. Clearly not to the extent of the oldschool phones, but as long is they can still fit in your pocket then what's the difference right? I really don't get what the point of shaving a few extra grams off of a phone's weight accomplishes.
He was flying the plane with one hand while waving to hundreds of passengers with the other.
I don't care if it was a "calculated" risk... planes can go from travelling several hundrend kph to sitting dead like a lump on a log in just a few second. There is absolutely no calculating anything with a plane. There is no minimum safe way to fly a plane except by remote control.
Planes can and do crash. Are pilots faster than a plane? No? Then all passengers are in mortal danger, and the pilot put them there.
"That and the way he molested female pigs, etc., makes me have very little respect for him." I don't even know what the hell that's supposed to mean. I have 0 respect for anyone who talks about "facts" without knowing what the hell he's talking about.
Scientists finally clued into what you're saying and decided they sure as hell didn't want any variety those "super mice" angry. All new "super mouse" models will now be forced to comply to the new industry standard in happiness.
That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken for example, maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.
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If you believe the folks at General Fusion
Some of you may remember the write-up they had in PopSci a few years ago. Basically this thing is a brute force steam punk style fusion generator. There is a several metre diameter sphere of molten lead and lithium that is spun up to create a vortex. Plasma is injected into the vortex cavity and them BLAM!!! a bunch of giant steam powered pistons bang on the outside of the sphere to create a compression shockwave. The shockwave compresses the D-T plasma, fast neutrons are captured by Li to make Be, which then decays to make more delicious tritium. Grab some energy from heat, then revortex, reinject, resmash, repeat. The great thing is the clanging sound lets you know it's working.
I've been fortunate to visit the facility a few times, and the progress they've made over the past few years is astounding. These guys are the real deal. Hopefully in just a few short years the reactor will be up and running and we can stop spending billions and billions on less practical reactor designs.
Good question on the cost. Can anybody speak to the ratio between production and material costs in any memory type? I'm curious how big of an impact using exotic materials such as paladium and hafnium will make to the overal cost.
Hmm.. Looking at all the layers they used to produce their chip makes me think that the production costs will be high too.
Just wondering if Casimir forces are in line at all with string theory prediction of gravity acting over a bunch of small dimensions and then when distances are small enough gravity to take the small dimensions into account the force is stronger. By "in line" I guess I mean is the given explanation fairly definitive or is the extra dimension explanation within the realm of possibility. IINAP so apologies if I'm way off.
"Low level infra-red red is thought to stimulate the growth of cells of all types of tissue and encourage their repair. It is able to penetrate the skin and even get through the skull."
Doesn't seem to be doing much for the ol' hair follicles
Special olympics are for mentally disabled athletes.
He could however compete in the Paralympics which are geared towards physical disabilities such as amputees or blind people. They are held in the same year and same city as the regular olympics. The one catch with the paralympics is that because there are so many classifications disabilities they have to rotate through which type gets to compete each year. Think: you couldn't very well have someone missing a leg and a half swimming against someone only missing a foot. I can't remember exactly how many classifications of amputees there are but I think there are enough that an athlete might only get to compete in one Paralympics that falls into their particular condition.
For the same reason that I can't go to Intel and ask for $200 after every round of price drops. If someone chooses to buy a product he or she must make a decision if the purchase is good value. Yes= buy. No= don't buy. Just wait. Early adopters thought the price was right at launch. Just because a new, better deal comes along it doesn't change their initial decision; the purchase was good value. Surely they knew a price drop was innevitable, granted perhaps not so soon or so much, so any free money is a terrific deal.
As Mr. Jobs so delicately points out these people technically aren't entitled to anything but Apple wants to keep them happy. If they were given all $200 then they get the benefit of being the first to have an iPhone for nothing. People who decided to wait for a price drop would be a little upset if there is no 'early adopter penalty', and that they could have been using an iPhone all this time if only they had known they could get $200 back.
You are incorrect sir. The mod saw the humour in the comment but deemed the bit of information about the new ruling to be quite informative to those not up to date on mattress laws. Obviously if the law was just passed I wouldn't expect a mattress on the street to meet the safety standards. It is nice to see an example of how a new safer mattress *could* have actually saved a lot of people a lot of time and money. Firefighters, internets, and buildings aren't exactly cheap.
aside: is that a correct usage of the word internets??
Would it be worth pointing a radio telescope at this thing?
"...20-residue peptide, designated VIRUS-INHIBITORY PEPTIDE (VIRIP)corresponding to the C-proximal region of 1-antitrypsin, the most abundant circulating serine protease inhibitor."
The 1-antitrypsin protein is something there's a lot of in the blood. Its role is prevent one of the body's degrading proteins from breaking down things it shouldn't be breaking down. This 20 residue peptide is just the end bit of the larger protein. The anti-HIV functions are more like a happy side effect of the larger protein's breakdown. Now I have no idea how quickly the anti-trypsin breaks down and what the natural levels of the VIRIP are. I would speculate though that people who are immune to HIV have a mutation that either produces VIRIP (or something close to it) on its own or the antitrypsin has picked up a mutation that in some way exposes the C-proximal end or promotes it breaking off more readily.
On the one hand pinpointing all the genes involved in memory will undoubtedly help towards finding cures for the myriad of memory related disorders. Hooray!
On the other hand I can't help but feel like unlocking the secrets of the mind will inevitably lead to the obsolescence of the everyday human. Granted, we're still a long way off from creating super smart people with the flick of a switch but one day it will happen. We've already seen the creation of super strong rats and the like (too lazy to find links). The brain is quite complex however and chances are some mad scientists somewhere are bound to created a more than a few scrambled melons before striking success.
With each new discovery of the human genome we inch closer to fully understanding it. Once we have a complete grasp there are bound to be those who wish to further the species with "unnatural means". I would argue that we would only be speeding what would otherwise take thousands of years to take place (although there are certainly no guarantees we'll ever get much smarter as a whole). If survival of the fittest is the name of the game, and why would we not want further generations to be the best they can be? I suppose that can be answered by any number of sci-fi flicks, but Hollywood seems to paint a grim picture of genetically modified people as if they automatically become evil, or at least have the chance of snapping and turning evil at any moment. I see no reason we can't eventually re-create the likes of a Da Vinci. The only problem is that this type of work doesn't benefit an individual because he would be contributing to his own demise, the end of "natural" humans. If something that at least somewhat looks/acts/feels like a human makes it off this planet and onto other worlds I'd be happy knowing we lived on in at least some form.
Hey! I think I sold you those CDs. Well I don't really think so but it's possible. It's always fun trying to explain to people what a levy is and why its pricier than the CDs themselves. The question usually arises "Do I have to pay for DVDs too?" I really hope that never happens but then again I wouldn't be shocked.
http://www.iter.org/a/index_nav_6.htm They've got some speeches here for anyone interested.
And from http://www.iter.org/I.htm
ITER - "The way" in Latin. Formerly interpreted to stand for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, although this usage has been discontinued.
Does that mean that once you receive information then you have to start the proccess all over again? So its not a perpetually on-state receiver but a one time event? Once manipulations/observations?? have been made to one member of the entangled pair can further manipulations still be made?
If changes are able to be constantly made it seems to me that values would only ever read one state, the one of the event the shortest distance into the future. It seems that all future events would have to converge at the single point of the present. In travelling from the future to the present, only the last manipulation would carry through.
Is either situation anywhere near the truth? It seems that either multiple machines would have to built (or multiple beams within a single machine) and set aside for sending information back from prescribed time intervals.
Any information you have, or a nudge in the direction of some good reading would be great. Thanks
*Stephen Hawking voice* You're idea of wintergreen cat feces intrigues me. Perhaps I will steal it */voice*
In all seriousness it wouldn't be hard to do. Take gut bacteria and insert the genes in the wintergreen (Methyl salicylate) pathway. I suspect though the natural flora of the large intestine would outcompete the introduced variety. The two types would be the same except one wastes energy on a useless, and harmful product. Methyl salicylate is similar to salicylic acid, neither of which should be injested.
Banana smelling feces might be a better choice. Isoamyl acetate is the ester produced. I'm not sure how much of the stuff would have to be made to ensure a nice smell. Also I have no idea at what rate it'd be consumed in the gut by other organisms. You might have to buy special food laced with bacterial spores that continually boost the levels of the special bacteria. Interesting idea.
Actually that job is probably the cleanest of the list. There's no horrible smell and there's no touching of anything vile.
1) Pipette drop of fluid onto slide.
2) Look at slide.
3) Count sperm.
4) Put a tube into a centrifuge.
5) Pipette out water.
6) Put tube into the freezer.
Where does the dirty part come into play?
Good question. Time to bust out some math here. This would make good grade exam question. Sorry I forget what grade this'd be for. All facts from Wikipedia.
Givin the Earth's average radius 6,372.797 km and the ozone is concentrated between 15 and 40km, calculate the area of ozone covering the equivalent of the land area of the United states, which is 9,631,420 km for anybody who has forgotten. Bonus points for taking into consideration the Earth's less than spherical shape. Also bonus points for not just averaging out the 15 and 40km.
Forget bonus points. Lets call the ozone layer 27.5km up. So add 27.5km to Earth's radius: 6,372.797 km = 6400 radius to the middle of the ozone layer. (Nice coincidence huh?
Now lets compare the ratios between the circumference at the earth's surface and the circumference at 27.5 km up
(pi*R(1)^2) / (pi*R(2)^2 ) = cancel out the Pis and 6400^2 / 6,372.797 km^2 = 1.0086
So the ozone layer would only be 1.0086 times bigger than the actual land mass.
_____________
=9 713 811km.|
In short... not much of a difference. You would have received full credit for simply stating "not much difference. The earth's diameter is huge compared to the thickness of the atmosphere."
I'm far from a bully. I'm on the nerd side of the coin, although in elemtary school I was on the fringe of being a cool kid. It wasn't until highschool that my nerdiness blossomed.
The injuries aren't what made it fun. Is that what you thought I was saying? There was never any intent to injure people. It just happened. The injury prone kid wasn't a nerd. I think the one guy just had a low pain threshhold. It wasn't from successive dirty hits. Afterwards there weren't any unresolved hostilities towards players. "Just about every day" is a bit of an exaggeration though.
Now that you mention it though one time the school bully played with us and went a little overboard. I remember being afraid to tackle him because I thought he might beat me up if I stopped him. Others sensed the impending trouble so we started our own game down the field a bit, rather than standing up to him. Really what 6th grader wants to stand up to the 7th grader with 2 older brothers? Luckily he neither tried joining the secondary game nor came back to try and play again. I can see your point though. Things definitely could have turned worse.
This may sound a bit cheesy but its true. I'm from a small town and everyone has moved off to the city or beyond. When people come back here for the holidays we still get together to play our one football game of the year. Its the only time I ever see a lot of those people.
There was however one act of classical violence out on the pitch. There were two new kids to the school and the younger brother got tackled. I guess the older brother thought there was malicious intent because he was unfamiliar with the way we played (hard but fair). Being the new kid he wasn't about to see himself or his brother get walked all over, so he punched the tackler in the face. The tackler and the punch recipiant actually became friends not too long after the event.
Perhaps I was lucky in that issues always resolved themselves on the field. The small town factor probably helped in this sense. To alienate yourself from a whole group of people left few people left to be friends with. As for what's going on with bullying in schools nowadays I'm not up to date. I know that when I finished highschool ('99) it was pretty bad. Sickening in hindsight. I can only guess that its still getting worse... but that's a topic for another day.
In my elementary school we had 1 or 2 volunteer parents to walk during our breaks to "watch out for our safety". While we played our game of tackle football we'd always have to keep one eye looking for the parent coming around the corner. The first person to see her would yell something to the effect of "WOW! This sure is a fun game of TOUCH football. Yup. Nothing beats playing TOUCH football on a lovely day like this." There was often one idiot that didn't quite clue in and made a huge tackle in the presence of the parent. Bye-bye football! Fscking D.K. I still hate her to this day. Luckily our principle was cool and would always give the football back at the end of the day. Admitidly there were a lot of injuries, especially to one kid. Just about every day he ended up in a puddle of tears. Playing tackle football at lunch time is one of my best memories from elementary school.
If a kid gets caught playing tag or some other "violent" game what's the worst that could happen? If I got a call from my kids' school saying little Billy was in trouble for playing games I would reward him for not caving to stupid rules. Yes. That's right. I'd teach my child not to follow the laws. He very well could grow up and become that guy you always see J-Walking. Who knows what other new-fangled laws will come into act by the time he grows up.
I don't think that's quite right. I remember messing around with voice recognition in the 90s but the CPU power wasn't there to do real time voice. That and you get complete gibberish half the time.
Are there people out there who use voice as their main method of inputing text? For older people who type incredibly slow would this software be worthwhile using for composing emails?
Good examples. You forgot one thing though. The Zack Morris cell phone. You could drop, kick, or heck even drop kick one of those things and they would keep working. Today's phones seem more geared towards features and portability than to durability. A two foot drop onto concrete is apparently all it takes these days to break a phone. For my dime I'd like to see a phone with a bit of armour built in. Clearly not to the extent of the oldschool phones, but as long is they can still fit in your pocket then what's the difference right? I really don't get what the point of shaving a few extra grams off of a phone's weight accomplishes.
Easy. They used up all their overtime hours already.
He was flying the plane with one hand while waving to hundreds of passengers with the other.
I don't care if it was a "calculated" risk... planes can go from travelling several hundrend kph to sitting dead like a lump on a log in just a few second. There is absolutely no calculating anything with a plane. There is no minimum safe way to fly a plane except by remote control.
Planes can and do crash. Are pilots faster than a plane? No? Then all passengers are in mortal danger, and the pilot put them there.
"That and the way he molested female pigs, etc., makes me have very little respect for him."
I don't even know what the hell that's supposed to mean. I have 0 respect for anyone who talks about "facts" without knowing what the hell he's talking about.
Scientists finally clued into what you're saying and decided they sure as hell didn't want any variety those "super mice" angry. All new "super mouse" models will now be forced to comply to the new industry standard in happiness.
What's the square root of 69?
8 something
That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken for example, maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.