Let me put it in terms you can understand: If you hold a rubber band with one end in each hand, and put an ant on the rubber band at one end headed toward the other, and the ant moves at a constant rate toward your other hand, and as the ant moves you stretch the rubber band, then your hands will be further apart than the ant has moved when the ant reaches your other hand.
If you have a favorite animal, I can rephrase to accommodate.
Because the expansion of space is independent of the light traveling through it, and the light that has just arrived came to us in some cased from objects that are now much further away than 14B lightyears
There is some evidence that the appendix acts as a reservoir of the gut biota to repopulate when the need arises due to illness (or excessive antibiotics, etc).
Actually, being better at computing makes you more likely to get hired as a computer jock. If you think having a majority of IT jobs held by men is bad, pick a fight with the parents and teachers that profile against the females for much of their lives. For the record, two of my three daughters are in the tech industry, along with both sons.
Moreover, I am actively seeking a female CEO for my tech startup. Not because I can't do the job, but to help fill any worldview blind spots I might have of which I am unaware.
On a vaguely related note: Assume you send N ships on this voyage. Do you send N copies of the same ship, and hope the design has no fatal flaw (while acknowledging the advantages of parts redundancy) . Or do you send N different designs in the hope that diversity of design is overall more reliable?
Most humans have 3 color range receptors in the eye, some actually have 4 which results in a slightly extended range, and generally better color discrimination. Many other animals have receptors sensitive to colors beyond our visibility (in both directions). It is also being researched to provide missing color receptor genes for the color blind.
So, it follows that it will be possible to extend the overall range of color perception in the future. While interesting, and perhaps making the article's tech obsolete, it does raise the question of whether one would want the extended capability full time. It might be the case that controllable filter contacts would then be the/. article of 2040.
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Future proof job - predicting the future! Join Rifkin and Kurzweil in the only guaranteed sinecure!
As a side note I was amused to see the suggested spell correction for Kurzweil.
Is it New Years? I didn't see the ball drop. Why is it so warm?
Let me put it in terms you can understand: If you hold a rubber band with one end in each hand, and put an ant on the rubber band at one end headed toward the other, and the ant moves at a constant rate toward your other hand, and as the ant moves you stretch the rubber band, then your hands will be further apart than the ant has moved when the ant reaches your other hand.
If you have a favorite animal, I can rephrase to accommodate.
That would be cases, not cased. My Apologies
Because the expansion of space is independent of the light traveling through it, and the light that has just arrived came to us in some cased from objects that are now much further away than 14B lightyears
I had a 3D ring based system 15 years ago. I hope this is better
There is some evidence that the appendix acts as a reservoir of the gut biota to repopulate when the need arises due to illness (or excessive antibiotics, etc).
So near, and yet so far...
Thank god!
Actually, being better at computing makes you more likely to get hired as a computer jock. If you think having a majority of IT jobs held by men is bad, pick a fight with the parents and teachers that profile against the females for much of their lives. For the record, two of my three daughters are in the tech industry, along with both sons.
Moreover, I am actively seeking a female CEO for my tech startup. Not because I can't do the job, but to help fill any worldview blind spots I might have of which I am unaware.
Most basketball players are tall also, which suggests a body image crisis in that industry.
Now I'll never find the missing socks
What do you have against Orionis IV?
0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity
They haven't yet, but they will eventually
That the first jet engines were unreliable, and required extensive maintenance after each test. Progress happens. With effort.
NASA is in charge of our Robotic OVERlords!!
I've got nothing
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I can't be sure what the previous poster was disagreeable about, but every one knows monkeys throw poo, not rocks
On a vaguely related note: Assume you send N ships on this voyage. Do you send N copies of the same ship, and hope the design has no fatal flaw (while acknowledging the advantages of parts redundancy) . Or do you send N different designs in the hope that diversity of design is overall more reliable?
Most humans have 3 color range receptors in the eye, some actually have 4 which results in a slightly extended range, and generally better color discrimination. Many other animals have receptors sensitive to colors beyond our visibility (in both directions). It is also being researched to provide missing color receptor genes for the color blind.
So, it follows that it will be possible to extend the overall range of color perception in the future. While interesting, and perhaps making the article's tech obsolete, it does raise the question of whether one would want the extended capability full time. It might be the case that controllable filter contacts would then be the /. article of 2040.
Actually, we are talking about Star Trek Replicators, Version 0.8.
100-200 years of development should result in several improvements.
I think we should all wave back!
" Case in point, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college, and I don't think anybody would say he made a mistake.'"
This would imply that Facebook is not a mistake...