Sure, except most people don't seem to care much for the Mars missions that curently do take place. However, sending a human there might well be enough of an "Apollo 8" moment to reignite peoples interest in going to Mars - possibly even enough to fire up another space race.
Also, if we're ever to colonise Mars, we must start sometime to work out those logistics problems that you mentioned. So why not now?
What if the pilots were stationed close to the combat zone, such as in a base at the front line, instead of being back home on another continent? Then the physical limitations wouldn't really feature much, and it would all be down to tech.
I suspect that the difficulty in handling a real plane would be more due to aerodynamics and lack of feeling* than due to 0.1 second lag (which I'm sure would be achievable if the pilot were stationed close to the drone).
* By "feeling" I'm referring to the the way a vehicle sort of becomes part of your senses. For example, when you can feel that the road is wet after rain, or feel the slide when driving on soft sand. You don't get that when playing a simulator, and I'm sure you don't get that in a drone seat either.
I lost you at the end of the 1st sentence. If want to make a point, then try doing so without the insults. Insulting people switches them off from paying attention to what you're trying to say, simply because it's the opposite of being approachable.
All these threads on what constitutes a PC... Here's a question: Do we have a term other than PC to replace the ??? below...?
Pad: Handheld touch screen computer.
Pod: Small Pad
Phone: Device that enables communication by voice (+now also text)
Smartphone: Pod + Phone
???: Personally configurable Computer. Don't run on batteries. Most use separate keyboard, mouse, screen. Almost all contain an optical drive.
Laptop: Portable ??? that contains all or most of the parts in one casing. (Traditionally, most casings have been foldable, though that is rapidly changing.)
Ultrabook: Lean laptop that usually uses solid state memory and no optical drive to reduce size and increase battery life. (Term may have been coined by Intel, but it's becoming a general term.)
Also, fund drug clinics that administer (not just give out) drugs for free along with councelling. That way no one, not even the homeless and jobless addicts, will need to rob or steal. But more importantly, serious drug addicts can get help out of their situation and on to a more normal life. (See the Swiss method.)
This is in turn will further reduce the overall cost of drugs on society, as crime and their effects cost society in a variety of ways.
Clinics provide another avenue for educating school kids on the dangers of drugs.
True, and I'm also no expert, but we haven't (to my knowledge) had really long, unbroken series of covalent bonds with which to test superconduction in covalent bonds. With graphene and nanotubes we ought to get that opportunity. I suspect that in the case of superconducting ceramics/crystals, the smaller atoms bridge the gaps/holes between the larger atoms within the electron sea that makes up metallic bonding.
When I said "believe" I meant it akin to a hypothesis rather than a theory. So I'm still looking forward to seeing what will come out of this research. =)
"When we talk about graphene, we’ve reached a tipping point. We’re now looking at the beginning of a graphene revolution. Before this point in time, we figured out a way to manufacture cheap iron that led to the Industrial Revolution. Then there was silicon. Now, it’s time for graphene."
This is something that I've been looking forward to for various reasons: plenty of cheap carbon available, perhaps carbon circuitry will integrate better with biology, and I believe that electric conductivity between covalently joined atoms (as in graphene and nanotubes) is the way towards viable superconductors.
Nokia does seem like a very adapatable company, starting out with rubber gloves and condoms, then diversifying into mobile phones (a totally different field), then into materials reaseach (which is a natural progression, according the the article).
That level of flexibility doesn't strike me as particularly common.
If you're happy and relaxed, you sleep better, which helps you be happy and relaxed.
If you're miserable and stressed, you sleep worse, which helps you be miserable and stressed.
So much for self balancing systems.:/
I find that I sleep better after (trying to) meditate. It's not easy but gets easier with practice. The point of meditation is to 1. relax and 2. focus, which is an excellent way to prepare the brain for sleep.
The meditation method I'd suggest is to sit up straight (bad for your back and breathing to slouch) then focus on each part of the body in turn to relax it.
When you think you've done that enough, then the next stage is to slowly count to 10 in your mind. (How you imagine each number is personal preference.) When you realise you've been distracted, then don't try to continue... start again.
Never allow yourself to be irritated by lack of focus. Also don't force your focus... just try to "stay on target" for as long as you can. Remember that the whole point of meditation is to practice relaxation and focus, in that order.
On a personal note... I feel for you. From personal experience "true love" is not at all the same thing as loving someone alot. Many people have clearly never experienced "true love" which is evident by them just not understanding the level of suffering. That said, you will get back to normal, but it does take longer than with a normal breakup.
The other thing is that you didn't get a chance for closure. You probably need to see him in a neutral setting to clear up some unanswered questions.
Wishing you well.
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Why not shield ships and colonies using smaller magnetic fields, rather than trying to magnetise an entire planet?
Sure, except most people don't seem to care much for the Mars missions that curently do take place. However, sending a human there might well be enough of an "Apollo 8" moment to reignite peoples interest in going to Mars - possibly even enough to fire up another space race.
Also, if we're ever to colonise Mars, we must start sometime to work out those logistics problems that you mentioned. So why not now?
What if the pilots were stationed close to the combat zone, such as in a base at the front line, instead of being back home on another continent? Then the physical limitations wouldn't really feature much, and it would all be down to tech.
I suspect that the difficulty in handling a real plane would be more due to aerodynamics and lack of feeling* than due to 0.1 second lag (which I'm sure would be achievable if the pilot were stationed close to the drone).
* By "feeling" I'm referring to the the way a vehicle sort of becomes part of your senses. For example, when you can feel that the road is wet after rain, or feel the slide when driving on soft sand. You don't get that when playing a simulator, and I'm sure you don't get that in a drone seat either.
Especially in a bunker.
So, if you want to be remembered, not deleted, then star in porn.
(Though I wonder what future historans will think of our time if all they'll have to go on is porn.)
I lost you at the end of the 1st sentence. If want to make a point, then try doing so without the insults. Insulting people switches them off from paying attention to what you're trying to say, simply because it's the opposite of being approachable.
Where's the Illuminati when you need it?
the only passive seeker that will always remain effective is IR band, because they kinda need the engines to fly.
Plus emissions of tachyons and residual antiprotons.
That's not 9 out of 10, that's 9 out of "a much larger population". And that much larger population is overwhelmingly against rape.
Your argument makes as much sense as looking at a small part of an equasion and considering it an example of the whole.
Given the other bugs in the software, perhaps if he'd continued to accelerate to 255 + 1 km/h, the speed might have reset to 0.
Of course, that would cause a rather sudden stop.
Of course the simulation will side with its own kind. That's why the AI won.
(For the humour impaired, this was intended as a funny. Though, admittedly, it probably didn't succeed.)
All this happened a long time ago, and the Rebels (later the New Republic) won. So who do you think wrote that history?
...here we come!
(Depending on features, of course. Can't access the FA.)
All these threads on what constitutes a PC... Here's a question: Do we have a term other than PC to replace the ??? below...?
Pad: Handheld touch screen computer.
Pod: Small Pad
Phone: Device that enables communication by voice (+now also text)
Smartphone: Pod + Phone
???: Personally configurable Computer. Don't run on batteries. Most use separate keyboard, mouse, screen. Almost all contain an optical drive.
Laptop: Portable ??? that contains all or most of the parts in one casing. (Traditionally, most casings have been foldable, though that is rapidly changing.)
Ultrabook: Lean laptop that usually uses solid state memory and no optical drive to reduce size and increase battery life. (Term may have been coined by Intel, but it's becoming a general term.)
Palmtop: Tiny ultrabook (not necessarily Intel)
Look who's talking.
Also, fund drug clinics that administer (not just give out) drugs for free along with councelling. That way no one, not even the homeless and jobless addicts, will need to rob or steal. But more importantly, serious drug addicts can get help out of their situation and on to a more normal life. (See the Swiss method.)
This is in turn will further reduce the overall cost of drugs on society, as crime and their effects cost society in a variety of ways.
Clinics provide another avenue for educating school kids on the dangers of drugs.
True, and I'm also no expert, but we haven't (to my knowledge) had really long, unbroken series of covalent bonds with which to test superconduction in covalent bonds. With graphene and nanotubes we ought to get that opportunity. I suspect that in the case of superconducting ceramics/crystals, the smaller atoms bridge the gaps/holes between the larger atoms within the electron sea that makes up metallic bonding.
When I said "believe" I meant it akin to a hypothesis rather than a theory. So I'm still looking forward to seeing what will come out of this research. =)
"When we talk about graphene, we’ve reached a tipping point. We’re now looking at the beginning of a graphene revolution. Before this point in time, we figured out a way to manufacture cheap iron that led to the Industrial Revolution. Then there was silicon. Now, it’s time for graphene."
This is something that I've been looking forward to for various reasons: plenty of cheap carbon available, perhaps carbon circuitry will integrate better with biology, and I believe that electric conductivity between covalently joined atoms (as in graphene and nanotubes) is the way towards viable superconductors.
Nokia does seem like a very adapatable company, starting out with rubber gloves and condoms, then diversifying into mobile phones (a totally different field), then into materials reaseach (which is a natural progression, according the the article).
That level of flexibility doesn't strike me as particularly common.
If you're happy and relaxed, you sleep better, which helps you be happy and relaxed. :/
If you're miserable and stressed, you sleep worse, which helps you be miserable and stressed.
So much for self balancing systems.
I find that I sleep better after (trying to) meditate. It's not easy but gets easier with practice. The point of meditation is to 1. relax and 2. focus, which is an excellent way to prepare the brain for sleep.
The meditation method I'd suggest is to sit up straight (bad for your back and breathing to slouch) then focus on each part of the body in turn to relax it.
When you think you've done that enough, then the next stage is to slowly count to 10 in your mind. (How you imagine each number is personal preference.) When you realise you've been distracted, then don't try to continue... start again.
Never allow yourself to be irritated by lack of focus. Also don't force your focus... just try to "stay on target" for as long as you can. Remember that the whole point of meditation is to practice relaxation and focus, in that order.
On a personal note... I feel for you. From personal experience "true love" is not at all the same thing as loving someone alot. Many people have clearly never experienced "true love" which is evident by them just not understanding the level of suffering. That said, you will get back to normal, but it does take longer than with a normal breakup.
The other thing is that you didn't get a chance for closure. You probably need to see him in a neutral setting to clear up some unanswered questions.
Wishing you well.
Don't know what voltage or current, but most likely they used Delta frequencies of about 1-3 Hz.
Yes, this link is about a product, but... there's a simple table that describes different brainwave frequencies...
http://www.transparentcorp.com/products/np/brainwaves.php
The thought of debugging that... gives me nightmares.
Good thing they're only pumping in cold water into those wells...
What nice friends those guys are, to send their friend to jail.
Actually yes... if it saves him from an early death or from lifelong remorse.
Real friends care enough to watch out for each other, and intelligent friends (which he probably isn't) recognise that quality in others.
On the positive... It sounds like a dry run that has shown some kinks in the system that can now be worked on.