I am no scientist, however I wonder if there may be a way to run a Solar plant in tandem with an existent Thermoelectric plant, so that it burns oil or diesel only half the time (nighttime or peak usage times)?
According to the biography on Wired, Huang spent a good deal of his childhood in a Baptist boarding school, so even if he's ethnically chinese (taiwanese), he is both legally and culturally USian
In Caves of Steel, an undercover robot (convincingly human) manages to intimidate and subdue a crowd using a gun (which later proves to be unloaded)...
So maybe Robots with the 3 laws can do some police work, even riot control, but I don't see how they could be used in open warfare.
Well, I don't know about boot sector viruses or about pot, but theres a chance you might get a 'President Clinton' once more...
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*Disclaimer: The above is a joke and not an endorsement or criticism of any US candidate... I am not USian and I don't really care much for american policies.
I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I don't really read much "Mundane SF".
Just a small correction on Bujold: In the Vorkosigan books, there is no faster than light communications, only travel (via wormholes)
Several communication satelites move in and out of wormholes to transmit data between worlds, which results on long lag times and sometimes in total denial of service, in case of wars
The real problem isn't ramming another car, it's finding the damn lane on the road, especially when you've got places where the government doesn't bother repainting the stripes more than once every 50 years. Or places where the road is assembled from strips of concrete where the joints between the strips aren't quite lined up with the lanes (I've seen humans who can't figure those out, hell, the first time I ever saw that type of road construction was as a kid when I was in a merge lane on an overpass where the actual lane stripes had long since worn off, and I thought I was supposed to be following the black lines diagonally across the bridge until I nearly rammed someone). Or places where the lanes are repainted every 3 months... in completely different places. Oh, you live in Mexico City too?
In the Vorkosigan saga (I know, not hard sci-fi) soldiers can be frozen after grave injuries and revived later in a hospital.
However, in order to do this, they must be completely exsanguinated and the blood replaced by a glycol compound (sorta like antifreeze). This way, the organs are mostly protected from damage by ice crystals...
However, the process is not 100% guaranteed, as people can not always be saved this way and even when the subject is correctly prepared, there is the risk of brain damage.
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I am no scientist, however I wonder if there may be a way to run a Solar plant in tandem with an existent Thermoelectric plant, so that it burns oil or diesel only half the time (nighttime or peak usage times)?
According to the biography on Wired, Huang spent a good deal of his childhood in a Baptist boarding school, so even if he's ethnically chinese (taiwanese), he is both legally and culturally USian
In Caves of Steel, an undercover robot (convincingly human) manages to intimidate and subdue a crowd using a gun (which later proves to be unloaded)...
So maybe Robots with the 3 laws can do some police work, even riot control, but I don't see how they could be used in open warfare.
I claim this planet on behalf of Mars!
Your mouth is so stuffed with truth, it comes out of your ears!
Well, with the subprime mortage stuff going on in the US, I wouldnt be surprised that people start buying...
Well, I would agree with you if they had decided to keep XP for anyone who asked for it... rather than force most computer buyers to buy Edsels.
The whole book is filled to the brim with middle-eastern cultural references, both in and out of Arrakis
But, does Gimp have CYMK color already?
(honest question, really)
Well, I don't know about boot sector viruses or about pot, but theres a chance you might get a 'President Clinton' once more...
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*Disclaimer: The above is a joke and not an endorsement or criticism of any US candidate... I am not USian and I don't really care much for american policies.
Darn! I was thinking of posting the same thing!
Men around the world have been waiting for the ability to selectively see through any kind of materials!
Why does the goverment allow Kryptonians to hoard this technology? It is all a conspiracy, I tell you!
I'll go further and state we should have never left the oceans in the first place
Dude, let me introduce you to my dear friend Chai Latte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai
Probably not such a bad game (for the time) but the dialogs are hilarious...
"Rampant ninja related crimes these days... White House is not the exception..."
"The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?"
Most christian churches do not charge their members thousands of dollars on compulsive seminaries. Tithing is voluntary, last time I looked.
Now we only need people to die... stabbed, preferrably
Insightful as always SM62704...
I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I don't really read much "Mundane SF".
Just a small correction on Bujold: In the Vorkosigan books, there is no faster than light communications, only travel (via wormholes)
Several communication satelites move in and out of wormholes to transmit data between worlds, which results on long lag times and sometimes in total denial of service, in case of wars
That's unfair, Microsoft has apologized in numerous occasions for Bryan Adams!
In the Vorkosigan saga (I know, not hard sci-fi) soldiers can be frozen after grave injuries and revived later in a hospital.
However, in order to do this, they must be completely exsanguinated and the blood replaced by a glycol compound (sorta like antifreeze). This way, the organs are mostly protected from damage by ice crystals...
However, the process is not 100% guaranteed, as people can not always be saved this way and even when the subject is correctly prepared, there is the risk of brain damage.
Yup, because the second ammendment gives you the right to respond with deadly force when someone is trying to steal your employer's equipment...
What?
As a Palm user, I gotta say that Palm got itself in the mess its in... Sad
Complacency does that to you...
Here, on behalf of all mexicans, let me lend you $100.00MXN
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damn! wrong armpit!