My old roomate has a friend who met the guy who did the translations (only two degrees of seperation as I met the friend once.) English is his native language: the team just thought that engrish would be more funny/appropriate. I happen to think it adds to the atmosphere.
I think a better way of explaining the game rather than gameplaywise is by explaining other uses of the game. If you know someone who is debating trying drugs, just have them play Katamari Damacy. If they beat the game, tell em "yeah, it's kinda like that."
Just so you know, once you've rolled an 800M katamari, having more time to roll a bigger Katamari isn't all that much more fun. What the eternals _ARE_ good for is just exploring, and trying to find those last few items in the inventory.
I really doubt you could do this game on a PC. There's something about the PS2 dual analogue control sticks that is almost necessary to get the feel right. Sure, Namco could probably figure some way of playing the game with keyboard/mouse, but it just wouldn't be the same. And I doubt very many people are going to go out and e-bay one (sometimes with a game or two) for less than $100? Hmm... but then again since you can get a USB dual shock for about $10 a pop, a PC version might not be that unreasonable.
It always seemed to be something a little different than just dah-mah-shee. Maybe almost dah-mah-hchee. There's this little puff of air right before the chee. I wouldn't go as fair as saying dah-mah-ashee. Just something very subtle, which isn't found in America. Kind of like the difference between the letter L and the letter R. Many people make fun of oriental people for not being able to pronounce the difference between the two, but couldn't explain the difference themselves. It's actually quite simple, In L the tip of the tongue touches the point where the upper incisors meet the gums, while an R is pronounced with the tongue curled all the way back, touching the middle of the upper pallate. What's kind of funny is that when Americans simple replace Ls and Rs, they aren't pronouncing it the same way. The Japanese sound is made with the tip of the tongue touching the front of the upper palate, but not touching the teeth. Makes sort of a hybrid sound between L and R. Actually, Moving the tongue between the L and R position while humming sort of makes up the basic tone of Throat Singing, which is something that has interested me lately.
Woah, maybe I should add something on topic. Yeah... the original Katamari Damaci was a great game. Nothing particularilly impressive about the graphics or physics, just a lot of cute things to pick up, combined with a really well balanced difficulty level, some really odd placements or items and of course some really appropriate music made the whole thing very immersive. You almost feel your brain rewiring to adapt to the physics of the Katamari Damaci world. When you go driving afterwards, you start thinking "hey, I bet I could roll up that guard rail with my katamari (car.)" Oh, and the kids and the king add just enough of a touch of surreal without being extremely intrusive.
So it came down to 1)enough items and locations to allow for almost freeform play. 2)well balanced difficulty. 3)Attention paid to atmosphere (characters, items, music, layouts all have a certain feel. Some odd semi-chaotic layout that somehow almost begins to make sense. Of course there should be some fish in a circle on a playground. I don't see what's wrong with a giant bear on a boulder on top of a gas station.)
Because kittens are carnivorous, and it is therefore far more likely that eating kitten will give you a foodborn pathogen that makes you sick sort of like bioacumulation, except instead of slowly accumulating heavy metals, pesticides, etc as you move up the food chain, you're accumulating the risks of eating something that ate something that was sick. And I guess you have standard bioacummulation as well, with the toxic compounds building up to higher and higher levels up the food chain.
That and cats behavior much more closely fits the Western idea of intelligence than the behavior of cattle does. In my experience, that is true of most animal food products: we eat chicken, we do not eat eagles. And believe me, chickens act very stupid to the human eye. Westerners traditionally ate far more sheep than goat, and if you ever deal with the two, you'll quickly come to the conclusion that sheep are dumb and that goats, while smelly, are actually really cute and friendly. It's alright to have a catch of hundreds if not thousands of tuna, but one dolphin in the nets is a disaster.
It's also related to whether that particular animal has other uses than just food. Horses are generally used for labor, and so are therefore not considered food in Western Culture. In India, cattle are used as beasts of burden, so that contributes to their status as not food. In fact if a family were to slaughter and eat their cow in hard times more family members might survive in the short-run, but in the long run the whole family would die out as they can no longer work the fields. In the west, Cats were traditonally used to keep rodent numbers down on farms. Dogs are used in almost any task you can think of, and so are not eaten in the West.
And then there is the big one: cats (and therefore kittens even mroeso) and most of the other animals which we don't eat are kept as pets, as companions. They are viewed as part of the family. Very few cultures approve of eating family members. Cannibalism and eating of pets is usually reserved for ritualistic use to A)show respect for the deceased or B)to gain the "powers" of your meal. Sometimes it is done as C)a sacrifice to show that you are willing to give up what you love. It isn't generally accepted to eat pets and family members for mere nourishment.
The problem with your argument is that mountains are made of molehills with everything google does, too. Everytime Google comes out saying that they are keeping records on what people do, people scream (maybe rightly so, maybe not) about privacy concerns. When it was found that people can Google search for credit card information, Google was blamed. When Google was still a private company, people may have been right to believe that Google follows the mantra of not being evil. But now that Google is a public company, the decisions become more short term profit oriented. This is a legal inevitability as Google is technically in debt to any shareholder, and has to do what it can to ensure the shareholders get their ROI. Doing otherwise would be like taking out a bank loan to start an auto repair shop, and then never charging any customers who come in.
The problem is it adds hype at the wrong time, according to Apple. If for some reason the features posted do not pan out (technical reasons, patent violations, etc) then Apple looks like they are pushing vaporware. And they hype isn't pushed at the time that Apple's experts have determined to be the right time. There corporate strategy seems to revolve around occasional complete redesigns of the computing paradigm... just think of the release of the first Macintosh. They pushed and pushed their employees, and tried not to release any details untill they had the whole thing pretty much ready to exhibit. That's because Apple isn't so much about the features, but the entire computing experience. Features are important, but the checklist on the side of the box isn't their big thing.
No, that's not just opinion. It's something called legal precedent: If a similar enough lawsuit is to come up, the judgement passed in the apple/fan site cases must be considered. This in theory leads to more uniform enforcement of laws. It's up to the lawyers to convince the judge whether or not the cases are similar enough (different jurisdictional laws, different circumstances, different wording, etc etc etc)
Another big reason companies want non-competes is the salesmen. Any salesman worth his salt will build a large list of clients who trust this particular salesman. These clients will see him as the face of the company. So if the salesman leaves and starts his own company, you bet he will try to take his whole list of clients with him, and thus the old company's customer base is eroded directly and suddenly. With a non-compete clause, a different salesman within the company would have the length of the contract to try to gain these customers' trust.
I wonder how this would legally work across state lines? In Wisconsin non-compete clauses are considered non-binding, as the State of Wisconsin views them as a form of slavery. In fact, conscripted white slavery made up a significant part of the slave labor pool. Basically, people would sign contracts that exchange X years of slavery for a ticket to America. These slaves were usually treated much worse than African slaves, as the African slaves were the "permanent" property of the slavemaster, and so they had a vested interest in ensuring that they remained healthy enough to work.
Anyways: What would happen if a Wisconsin based company hires someone from another state with a non-compete clause? That contract is still legally binding in the original state, and so the Wisconsin company is still technically inducing the prospective employee to break the contract. However, the State of Wisconsin considers such a clause immoral, and thus illegal. For now I am assuming that the Wisconsin business does not have interstate dealings, because that would open a point of liability.
You are actually acting in bad faith if you know that someone is breaking a contract by doing business with you, because you are _INDUCING_ them to break the law. If you did not know about the contract, that would be another issue.
Sort of like in some places there is a curfew for minors: they can't be out after a certain time (let's say around 11:00.) The fine for a minor breaking curfew by walking around is about a $50-$75 ticket in one city that I know of. However if an 18 year old is walking around with his 17 year old friend, then that 18 year old can get a $1000 fine and possible jail time for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. (I actually experienced this, and was the 18 year old party walking around with my friend. Luckilly the police officer got called away on a shots fired call.) I have no idea how this would stand up in courts, but that's at least what the police officers were saying. They might have just been trying to scare us into staying home. Oddly enough, I only heard about youths being hassled for breaking curfew when they were walking; if they were driving around late at night they were never questioned.
Well, the author does forget one of the major classic elements of classic paper and pencil role playing games. You know... role playing. Acting out a character isn't really fun for most folks unless there are other people around doing the same. Without other people playing, it's not a role playing game; it's playing a video game based on the rules and type of settings that made RPGs succesful.
Hmm... that part always seemed like it was just making fun of film noir style. I mean this is a pizza delivery boy we're talking about. Yes, one that is killed if the pizza takes more than 30 minutes, but a pizza boy nonetheless.
Well, then maybe it's the manufacturers fault for the defaults being so open? I'm normally not one for "lets sue the corporations" on a whim or percieved insult, but this does seem like almost blatant neglect. Although I haven't actually set up a wireless router myself, I do know how easy it is to connect to one that's not secured. And setting up security is really not much harder. It should actually be kinda of a pain to make it unsecured, at the very least clicking through a bunch of "setting this option to not use WEP keys will open up liability to yadda yadda" sort of messages.
Guar Gum is an extract of the Guar bean. Like all gums, It's a polysaccharide (chemical made up of multiple sugar units, such as starch or cellulose) which helps thicken things up (much like adding corn starch or even flour would, only moreso.)
IIRC, nutritionally speaking most gums are about the same as soluble fiber: undigestible bulk. I', having a hard time finding any actual info on the nutritional effects of gums as searches usually come up with chewing gum or the gums in your mouth.
But yes, I would say that vegetables and spices really shouldn't count against the ingredient count. And avoiding something when you don't know what it is can be a good idea, at least untill you research it and find out that it's safe. Sort of like MSG: it really is not unhealthy as many people would have you believe, unless you are MSG sensitive. It's basically just an amino acid, and usually derived from kelp or soy. In fact, any "savory" herb is loaded with MSG. The main dietary concern (besides MSG sensitivity) is actually the sodium, but the salt that it replaces in flavoring food would carry far more sodium.
Oh, and sugar is one of those moderation things. Although some people can actually make a pretty convincing argument about any dietary sugar.
I really don't think that poor people=not buying based on advertising is all that valid. In general, poor people are less educated and so I believe would be more swayed by advertising. It's just that different products would be advertised than wealthy people can afford. Certain items would do just as well targeted at the less wealthy: fast/junk food, certain car insurance companies, payday loans, lotteries and a whole slew of other products/services are targeted at people with LESS money rather than more.
The impoverished are always looking for their own way to acheive the American Dream, and advertisers are more than happy to tell them what acheiving that dream means.
Ahh, then you make these like two way mirrors which can be reversed (or simply turned around.) One side reflects, the other lets light pass through. Too cool down the earth, reflect light from the sun away. To warm up the earth, reflect back to the earth that light which has already been reflected off of it (or radiated in other ways.)
Instant climate moderation, possibly with the ability to fine tune and focus energy where you need it to, say, cool down a desert or draw energy away from a hurricane.
Major problem with this is that viruses (or at least retro-viruses, such as aids) don't just hide in the blood, they encode themselves in the DNA of the host. I think we'd need a trick a little better than blood filtering for this.
Are you prevented from entering most religions if you "become a zombie" because your heart is restarted with defibrulator paddles? Clinically dead just means the heart is no longer beating. Much different from brain dead.
Yes, the cold does prevent brain damage. The low temperature of the liquid slows down chemical reactions, so metabolism is essentially halted, resulting in no need for oxygen for the brain. There have been cases of people being submerged in freezing cold water for far over half an hour with no measurable brain damage. Hypothermia actually saved their mental facilities.
"Clinically dead" simply means that the heart is no longer moving, as opposed to "medically dead" in which the heart can be in fibrulation, where the chambers are not pumping in the proper pattern, so blood is not pushed through (hence "defibrulation" is the electrical shock to the heart that puts it back in the proper pattern, bringing you out of fibrulation.) Clinically dead is more severe than medically dead, but people could be kept around on life support systems even without a heart. I think we just don't do it.
Other details: salt water is used to prevent individual cells from being damaged due to two seperate processes: 1) lowers the freezing temperature of the solution, preventing ice crystals from forming which would lacerate individual cells. 2) Prevents the water from being osmotically drawn in and rupturing cells from the inside (osmosis being the process by which water enters the cell in such a way as to balance out the concentrations of ions on the inside and outside. This then puts pressure on the cell wall, much like a balloon being filled with water. Too much water, and *POP*
And another question asked frequently in the thread: how do they determine whether brain damage occured? Simple... the dog is euthanized (re-euthanized???) and then a necropsy is done, several laboratory techniques can then easilly show whether there was brain damage due to oxygen starvation. I believe in people the only way to authoritavely determine if a patient suffered from alzheimer's is to do a post-mortem examination. Anything else is just an educated guess based on symptoms, but there are other disorders which can mimic alzheimer's. Although new methods may have come about that I do not know of to test for alzheimer's in-vivo.
Yeah, the article was a little light on details, but that's what you'd expect from a news article that calls these "zombie dogs."
I think in this case the AC only has to work on pumping the excess heat from the servers out, and not cooling the whole room. Doesn't matter how warm the room gets outside of the bubbles.
Other way around. When you hold your thumb up to compare against, the moon is always relatively the same as your thumb (or nickle held out at arm's length)
To prevent looking like an idiot... it also works if you just cock your head far enough to the side. Or just lay down on your back, head facing the direction of the moon. I suggest doing this on a beach or nice grassy place to avoid suspicion/discomfort.
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Or maybe that's part of why Apple used I-Tunes rather than Apple Music?
My old roomate has a friend who met the guy who did the translations (only two degrees of seperation as I met the friend once.) English is his native language: the team just thought that engrish would be more funny/appropriate. I happen to think it adds to the atmosphere.
I think a better way of explaining the game rather than gameplaywise is by explaining other uses of the game. If you know someone who is debating trying drugs, just have them play Katamari Damacy. If they beat the game, tell em "yeah, it's kinda like that."
Just so you know, once you've rolled an 800M katamari, having more time to roll a bigger Katamari isn't all that much more fun. What the eternals _ARE_ good for is just exploring, and trying to find those last few items in the inventory.
I really doubt you could do this game on a PC. There's something about the PS2 dual analogue control sticks that is almost necessary to get the feel right. Sure, Namco could probably figure some way of playing the game with keyboard/mouse, but it just wouldn't be the same. And I doubt very many people are going to go out and e-bay one (sometimes with a game or two) for less than $100? Hmm... but then again since you can get a USB dual shock for about $10 a pop, a PC version might not be that unreasonable.
It always seemed to be something a little different than just dah-mah-shee. Maybe almost dah-mah-hchee. There's this little puff of air right before the chee. I wouldn't go as fair as saying dah-mah-ashee. Just something very subtle, which isn't found in America. Kind of like the difference between the letter L and the letter R. Many people make fun of oriental people for not being able to pronounce the difference between the two, but couldn't explain the difference themselves. It's actually quite simple, In L the tip of the tongue touches the point where the upper incisors meet the gums, while an R is pronounced with the tongue curled all the way back, touching the middle of the upper pallate. What's kind of funny is that when Americans simple replace Ls and Rs, they aren't pronouncing it the same way. The Japanese sound is made with the tip of the tongue touching the front of the upper palate, but not touching the teeth. Makes sort of a hybrid sound between L and R. Actually, Moving the tongue between the L and R position while humming sort of makes up the basic tone of Throat Singing, which is something that has interested me lately.
Woah, maybe I should add something on topic. Yeah... the original Katamari Damaci was a great game. Nothing particularilly impressive about the graphics or physics, just a lot of cute things to pick up, combined with a really well balanced difficulty level, some really odd placements or items and of course some really appropriate music made the whole thing very immersive. You almost feel your brain rewiring to adapt to the physics of the Katamari Damaci world. When you go driving afterwards, you start thinking "hey, I bet I could roll up that guard rail with my katamari (car.)" Oh, and the kids and the king add just enough of a touch of surreal without being extremely intrusive.
So it came down to 1)enough items and locations to allow for almost freeform play. 2)well balanced difficulty. 3)Attention paid to atmosphere (characters, items, music, layouts all have a certain feel. Some odd semi-chaotic layout that somehow almost begins to make sense. Of course there should be some fish in a circle on a playground. I don't see what's wrong with a giant bear on a boulder on top of a gas station.)
Because kittens are carnivorous, and it is therefore far more likely that eating kitten will give you a foodborn pathogen that makes you sick sort of like bioacumulation, except instead of slowly accumulating heavy metals, pesticides, etc as you move up the food chain, you're accumulating the risks of eating something that ate something that was sick. And I guess you have standard bioacummulation as well, with the toxic compounds building up to higher and higher levels up the food chain.
That and cats behavior much more closely fits the Western idea of intelligence than the behavior of cattle does. In my experience, that is true of most animal food products: we eat chicken, we do not eat eagles. And believe me, chickens act very stupid to the human eye. Westerners traditionally ate far more sheep than goat, and if you ever deal with the two, you'll quickly come to the conclusion that sheep are dumb and that goats, while smelly, are actually really cute and friendly. It's alright to have a catch of hundreds if not thousands of tuna, but one dolphin in the nets is a disaster.
It's also related to whether that particular animal has other uses than just food. Horses are generally used for labor, and so are therefore not considered food in Western Culture. In India, cattle are used as beasts of burden, so that contributes to their status as not food. In fact if a family were to slaughter and eat their cow in hard times more family members might survive in the short-run, but in the long run the whole family would die out as they can no longer work the fields. In the west, Cats were traditonally used to keep rodent numbers down on farms. Dogs are used in almost any task you can think of, and so are not eaten in the West.
And then there is the big one: cats (and therefore kittens even mroeso) and most of the other animals which we don't eat are kept as pets, as companions. They are viewed as part of the family. Very few cultures approve of eating family members. Cannibalism and eating of pets is usually reserved for ritualistic use to A)show respect for the deceased or B)to gain the "powers" of your meal. Sometimes it is done as C)a sacrifice to show that you are willing to give up what you love. It isn't generally accepted to eat pets and family members for mere nourishment.
The problem with your argument is that mountains are made of molehills with everything google does, too. Everytime Google comes out saying that they are keeping records on what people do, people scream (maybe rightly so, maybe not) about privacy concerns. When it was found that people can Google search for credit card information, Google was blamed. When Google was still a private company, people may have been right to believe that Google follows the mantra of not being evil. But now that Google is a public company, the decisions become more short term profit oriented. This is a legal inevitability as Google is technically in debt to any shareholder, and has to do what it can to ensure the shareholders get their ROI. Doing otherwise would be like taking out a bank loan to start an auto repair shop, and then never charging any customers who come in.
The problem is it adds hype at the wrong time, according to Apple. If for some reason the features posted do not pan out (technical reasons, patent violations, etc) then Apple looks like they are pushing vaporware. And they hype isn't pushed at the time that Apple's experts have determined to be the right time. There corporate strategy seems to revolve around occasional complete redesigns of the computing paradigm... just think of the release of the first Macintosh. They pushed and pushed their employees, and tried not to release any details untill they had the whole thing pretty much ready to exhibit. That's because Apple isn't so much about the features, but the entire computing experience. Features are important, but the checklist on the side of the box isn't their big thing.
No, that's not just opinion. It's something called legal precedent: If a similar enough lawsuit is to come up, the judgement passed in the apple/fan site cases must be considered. This in theory leads to more uniform enforcement of laws. It's up to the lawyers to convince the judge whether or not the cases are similar enough (different jurisdictional laws, different circumstances, different wording, etc etc etc)
Another big reason companies want non-competes is the salesmen. Any salesman worth his salt will build a large list of clients who trust this particular salesman. These clients will see him as the face of the company. So if the salesman leaves and starts his own company, you bet he will try to take his whole list of clients with him, and thus the old company's customer base is eroded directly and suddenly. With a non-compete clause, a different salesman within the company would have the length of the contract to try to gain these customers' trust.
I wonder how this would legally work across state lines? In Wisconsin non-compete clauses are considered non-binding, as the State of Wisconsin views them as a form of slavery. In fact, conscripted white slavery made up a significant part of the slave labor pool. Basically, people would sign contracts that exchange X years of slavery for a ticket to America. These slaves were usually treated much worse than African slaves, as the African slaves were the "permanent" property of the slavemaster, and so they had a vested interest in ensuring that they remained healthy enough to work.
Anyways: What would happen if a Wisconsin based company hires someone from another state with a non-compete clause? That contract is still legally binding in the original state, and so the Wisconsin company is still technically inducing the prospective employee to break the contract. However, the State of Wisconsin considers such a clause immoral, and thus illegal. For now I am assuming that the Wisconsin business does not have interstate dealings, because that would open a point of liability.
You are actually acting in bad faith if you know that someone is breaking a contract by doing business with you, because you are _INDUCING_ them to break the law. If you did not know about the contract, that would be another issue.
Sort of like in some places there is a curfew for minors: they can't be out after a certain time (let's say around 11:00.) The fine for a minor breaking curfew by walking around is about a $50-$75 ticket in one city that I know of. However if an 18 year old is walking around with his 17 year old friend, then that 18 year old can get a $1000 fine and possible jail time for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. (I actually experienced this, and was the 18 year old party walking around with my friend. Luckilly the police officer got called away on a shots fired call.) I have no idea how this would stand up in courts, but that's at least what the police officers were saying. They might have just been trying to scare us into staying home. Oddly enough, I only heard about youths being hassled for breaking curfew when they were walking; if they were driving around late at night they were never questioned.
Well, the author does forget one of the major classic elements of classic paper and pencil role playing games. You know... role playing. Acting out a character isn't really fun for most folks unless there are other people around doing the same. Without other people playing, it's not a role playing game; it's playing a video game based on the rules and type of settings that made RPGs succesful.
Hmm... that part always seemed like it was just making fun of film noir style. I mean this is a pizza delivery boy we're talking about. Yes, one that is killed if the pizza takes more than 30 minutes, but a pizza boy nonetheless.
Well, then maybe it's the manufacturers fault for the defaults being so open? I'm normally not one for "lets sue the corporations" on a whim or percieved insult, but this does seem like almost blatant neglect. Although I haven't actually set up a wireless router myself, I do know how easy it is to connect to one that's not secured. And setting up security is really not much harder. It should actually be kinda of a pain to make it unsecured, at the very least clicking through a bunch of "setting this option to not use WEP keys will open up liability to yadda yadda" sort of messages.
Guar Gum is an extract of the Guar bean. Like all gums, It's a polysaccharide (chemical made up of multiple sugar units, such as starch or cellulose) which helps thicken things up (much like adding corn starch or even flour would, only moreso.)
IIRC, nutritionally speaking most gums are about the same as soluble fiber: undigestible bulk. I', having a hard time finding any actual info on the nutritional effects of gums as searches usually come up with chewing gum or the gums in your mouth.
But yes, I would say that vegetables and spices really shouldn't count against the ingredient count. And avoiding something when you don't know what it is can be a good idea, at least untill you research it and find out that it's safe. Sort of like MSG: it really is not unhealthy as many people would have you believe, unless you are MSG sensitive. It's basically just an amino acid, and usually derived from kelp or soy. In fact, any "savory" herb is loaded with MSG. The main dietary concern (besides MSG sensitivity) is actually the sodium, but the salt that it replaces in flavoring food would carry far more sodium.
Oh, and sugar is one of those moderation things. Although some people can actually make a pretty convincing argument about any dietary sugar.
I really don't think that poor people=not buying based on advertising is all that valid. In general, poor people are less educated and so I believe would be more swayed by advertising. It's just that different products would be advertised than wealthy people can afford. Certain items would do just as well targeted at the less wealthy: fast/junk food, certain car insurance companies, payday loans, lotteries and a whole slew of other products/services are targeted at people with LESS money rather than more.
The impoverished are always looking for their own way to acheive the American Dream, and advertisers are more than happy to tell them what acheiving that dream means.
Ahh, then you make these like two way mirrors which can be reversed (or simply turned around.) One side reflects, the other lets light pass through. Too cool down the earth, reflect light from the sun away. To warm up the earth, reflect back to the earth that light which has already been reflected off of it (or radiated in other ways.)
Instant climate moderation, possibly with the ability to fine tune and focus energy where you need it to, say, cool down a desert or draw energy away from a hurricane.
Major problem with this is that viruses (or at least retro-viruses, such as aids) don't just hide in the blood, they encode themselves in the DNA of the host. I think we'd need a trick a little better than blood filtering for this.
Are you prevented from entering most religions if you "become a zombie" because your heart is restarted with defibrulator paddles? Clinically dead just means the heart is no longer beating. Much different from brain dead.
Yes, the cold does prevent brain damage. The low temperature of the liquid slows down chemical reactions, so metabolism is essentially halted, resulting in no need for oxygen for the brain. There have been cases of people being submerged in freezing cold water for far over half an hour with no measurable brain damage. Hypothermia actually saved their mental facilities.
"Clinically dead" simply means that the heart is no longer moving, as opposed to "medically dead" in which the heart can be in fibrulation, where the chambers are not pumping in the proper pattern, so blood is not pushed through (hence "defibrulation" is the electrical shock to the heart that puts it back in the proper pattern, bringing you out of fibrulation.) Clinically dead is more severe than medically dead, but people could be kept around on life support systems even without a heart. I think we just don't do it.
Other details: salt water is used to prevent individual cells from being damaged due to two seperate processes: 1) lowers the freezing temperature of the solution, preventing ice crystals from forming which would lacerate individual cells. 2) Prevents the water from being osmotically drawn in and rupturing cells from the inside (osmosis being the process by which water enters the cell in such a way as to balance out the concentrations of ions on the inside and outside. This then puts pressure on the cell wall, much like a balloon being filled with water. Too much water, and *POP*
And another question asked frequently in the thread: how do they determine whether brain damage occured? Simple... the dog is euthanized (re-euthanized???) and then a necropsy is done, several laboratory techniques can then easilly show whether there was brain damage due to oxygen starvation. I believe in people the only way to authoritavely determine if a patient suffered from alzheimer's is to do a post-mortem examination. Anything else is just an educated guess based on symptoms, but there are other disorders which can mimic alzheimer's. Although new methods may have come about that I do not know of to test for alzheimer's in-vivo.
Yeah, the article was a little light on details, but that's what you'd expect from a news article that calls these "zombie dogs."
I think in this case the AC only has to work on pumping the excess heat from the servers out, and not cooling the whole room. Doesn't matter how warm the room gets outside of the bubbles.
Weight isn't an issue once you have the thing in space, but weight is an enormous issue in getting the thing up into space.
Other way around. When you hold your thumb up to compare against, the moon is always relatively the same as your thumb (or nickle held out at arm's length)
To prevent looking like an idiot... it also works if you just cock your head far enough to the side. Or just lay down on your back, head facing the direction of the moon. I suggest doing this on a beach or nice grassy place to avoid suspicion/discomfort.