Could we keep the Micro$oft bashing relevent please. This is nonsense. Using Micro$oft, bashing and relevant in same sentence to COMPLAIN about the lack of said relevance regarding the aforesaid bashing of mentioned company. On Slashdot?
that would mean that the females would be just as susceptible to some common X- chromosome related conditions like color blindness, though They would not be aware that they are green?
Ah well... English not being my first language, misspelling "CUE" ain't that shameful.
Not noticing Firefox's spellchecker underlining it with that nice, bright, red line as it usually does when my phonetic knowledge of the language helps me stick the proverbial foot in my figurative mouth - now THAT is shameful.
And like someone else here said - just make them all female. Any missing DNA could be taken from frogs.
And then, with some luck, Trekkies will finally be able to have their green-skinned Orion slave girl fantasies based on actual, real life girls. Associating with them, James T. Kirk style, would naturally remain a fantasy for nearly all of the Trekkies. There are some things even unscrupulous genetic crimes against nature can't help with.
Say, a town of 10000 - 100000 (or more) humans tries to do something like this. Say, the town needs to refurbish its community center or a kids' playground. Set up couple of bank accounts, and have real people, with real info use them for registration.
Please - don't. Some iBoy would probably do it in the 7 of 9's silvery style.
And I don't think that the rest of us would find those breast implants on iSteve appealing. Actually, I think that most of us would find it quote revolting.
because when there's too little water, nuclear and coal power plants will have to stop or reduce their power production, too. Up to a point, but far less then hydro. Hydro-plants have to shot down the turbines one by one as they spend the water in their accumulation lake.
Coal and nuclear use water for cooling the steam used to turn the turbines back to water. Both use water accumulations and cooling towers to cool down the water. But while coal plants will loose efficiency due to higher temperatures and slower condensation, they don't have the same problem as nuclear plants which can be "turned up". So, coal-plant will continue to work but it will produce more expensive and dirtier electricity. Nuclear on the other hand can just reduce the output. Problem is, it is probably running at 110% at the time due to all of the hydro-plants working at reduced capacity.
Only solution in such a energy crisis is a controlled shut down of parts of the grid. Town A shall have power every 4 hours starting from midnight, while town B shall have power every 4 hours starting from 4 A.M. - when town A gets switched off. Repeat until you get additional power. Either from rainfall, imported from a neighboring power system or more fuel.
However, a long rainless summer usually means that you'll get plenty of mileage out of anything that's solar-based. Think again. Rainless summer don't mean more hours of sunlight per day. Just less rainfall. And still... no sunlight during the night.
Yeah Denholm Elliott was great there.
(Brody disembarks from the train along with the other passengers, a cross-section of Arabs and Turks.) Brody: Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek? Also, throwing in right after that: Brody (to the water salesman): "Water? No thank you. Fish make love in it."
From TFA:
The researchers found that mice exposed to long, straight carbon nanotubes developed conditions that precede mesothelioma, which can take as long as 40 years to develop in humans.
The researchers did not, however, dismiss all nanotubes as potentially harmful. The study found that the long thin structures can be harmful if inhaled, but that shorter or curly nanotubes do not pose any sort of health risk. Professor Donaldson also noted that the way in which the tubes become airborne is not yet known. "Short or curly carbon nanotubes did not behave like asbestos and, by knowing the possible dangers of long, thin carbon nanotubes, we can work to control them," he said. So... No rush, you have about 40 years to "developed conditions that precede mesothelioma". But just to be on the safe side - if you got to use the carbon nanotubes make sure you use short and curlies.
It can't be done economically and reliably. In theory, we could have a network of satellites beaming solar-generated power down to Earth. In real life...
From these that you have mentioned only hydro power is semi-reliable. Have a long rainless summer and see how that goes with all them air conditioners turned on. And don't think just household appliances here. Think factories and steel mils that gobble up in a week enough electricity to power a small town for a year.
We are not talking couple of hours of peek time here. To maintain the power system and NOT have it break down like the way it happened in USA couple of years ago you MUST have a certain number of power plants that produce electrical energy at a certain level and quality 24/7/366. You produce too little - system falls apart. You produce too much - system falls apart. Also, you must be able to regulate that you are producing "enough".
Hydro and nuclear are used for that - being the only kind that you can "turn down a notch".
As for the renewable sources - so far only wave and geothermal could be used as a steady basis for a power system. And we are yet to see how wave farms work in real life conditions.
I am all for wind and solar and power saving and environment. Always was. But I am also realistic. We just have to use nuclear and fossil-fuel based power plants to some extent.
Imagine if every home and factory in the U.S. were powered by wind farms. In the immortal words of Han Solo - "I can imagine quite a bit." Still... EVERY home and factory?
And what exactly would be used to provide all that wind? Couple of giant fans in Atlantic and Pacific? I guess those could be powered by tidal waves and solar power...
You can't go all wind and solar - because they are not 24/7/366. They are good for reducing the amount of coal/gas/nuclear spent since those are not exactly renewable and they tend to be more or less dirty. But you still need those for building and maintaining the backbone of the power system. And hydro as well to regulate the fluctuation.
How much energy would these farms be pulling out of the wind? Think of it this way - how much energy would be pulled out of the global wind system if all the butterflies suddenly started walking instead of flying?
Been told that regularly since the early 80's. Nothing yet. Maybe 30-40 more years of staring at shiny screens in badly lit rooms for the greater part of the day will do the trick?
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There is something Zen about the parent post.
Yeah, but comics and movies based on the original were at least somewhat entertaining.
Just because the last movie kinda flopped - that is no reason to write off such an iconic character.
After all these comments?
Someone obviously got up late and with a sore sense of humor.
Even better.
Ah well... English not being my first language, misspelling "CUE" ain't that shameful.
Not noticing Firefox's spellchecker underlining it with that nice, bright, red line as it usually does when my phonetic knowledge of the language helps me stick the proverbial foot in my figurative mouth - now THAT is shameful.
Yeah, but that would come from WITHIN the community. If you manage to make them do it.
Getting it from outside is something completely different.
And "sticking it to the man" has a certain attractiveness to it.
And like someone else here said - just make them all female.
Any missing DNA could be taken from frogs.
And then, with some luck, Trekkies will finally be able to have their green-skinned Orion slave girl fantasies based on actual, real life girls.
Associating with them, James T. Kirk style, would naturally remain a fantasy for nearly all of the Trekkies.
There are some things even unscrupulous genetic crimes against nature can't help with.
I'm up for that.
I'd say a football stadium of horse carts filled with candles. Or two.
I am talking about doing exactly the same thing - only with real people.
When I said "couple of accounts" I meant 5-10 bank accounts. Not 10000.
Que jokes on being excited by laser beams in 3..2..1...
Soo... Could it be done legally?
Say, a town of 10000 - 100000 (or more) humans tries to do something like this.
Say, the town needs to refurbish its community center or a kids' playground.
Set up couple of bank accounts, and have real people, with real info use them for registration.
Would that be illegal?
Eunice is the only girl in a group of five teenagers (unless Alex is a girl too) - who cares how tall she is?
Please - don't.
Some iBoy would probably do it in the 7 of 9's silvery style.
And I don't think that the rest of us would find those breast implants on iSteve appealing.
Actually, I think that most of us would find it quote revolting.
I mean... you CAN set it to vibrate.
Imagine someone actually being caught trying to smuggle TNT in his ass?
It would surely result in "Bend over if you want to fly" searches.
Now imagine if someone did that just so he would GET CAUGHT and cause the resulting trend in cavity searches?
Nope... no sense of humor...
Hydro-plants have to shot down the turbines one by one as they spend the water in their accumulation lake.
Coal and nuclear use water for cooling the steam used to turn the turbines back to water.
Both use water accumulations and cooling towers to cool down the water.
But while coal plants will loose efficiency due to higher temperatures and slower condensation, they don't have the same problem as nuclear plants which can be "turned up".
So, coal-plant will continue to work but it will produce more expensive and dirtier electricity.
Nuclear on the other hand can just reduce the output. Problem is, it is probably running at 110% at the time due to all of the hydro-plants working at reduced capacity.
Only solution in such a energy crisis is a controlled shut down of parts of the grid.
Town A shall have power every 4 hours starting from midnight, while town B shall have power every 4 hours starting from 4 A.M. - when town A gets switched off.
Repeat until you get additional power. Either from rainfall, imported from a neighboring power system or more fuel. However, a long rainless summer usually means that you'll get plenty of mileage out of anything that's solar-based. Think again.
Rainless summer don't mean more hours of sunlight per day.
Just less rainfall.
And still... no sunlight during the night.
Hmm... if they are nano-sized I kinda think that it is not just the shrinking from the cold.
You should probably see a doctor about that.
Brody: Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek? Also, throwing in right after that:
Brody (to the water salesman): "Water? No thank you. Fish make love in it."
Didn't notice that line until couple of days ago.
Professor Donaldson also noted that the way in which the tubes become airborne is not yet known.
"Short or curly carbon nanotubes did not behave like asbestos and, by knowing the possible dangers of long, thin carbon nanotubes, we can work to control them," he said. So... No rush, you have about 40 years to "developed conditions that precede mesothelioma".
But just to be on the safe side - if you got to use the carbon nanotubes make sure you use short and curlies.
It can't be done economically and reliably.
In theory, we could have a network of satellites beaming solar-generated power down to Earth. In real life...
From these that you have mentioned only hydro power is semi-reliable.
Have a long rainless summer and see how that goes with all them air conditioners turned on.
And don't think just household appliances here.
Think factories and steel mils that gobble up in a week enough electricity to power a small town for a year.
We are not talking couple of hours of peek time here.
To maintain the power system and NOT have it break down like the way it happened in USA couple of years ago you MUST have a certain number of power plants that produce electrical energy at a certain level and quality 24/7/366.
You produce too little - system falls apart. You produce too much - system falls apart.
Also, you must be able to regulate that you are producing "enough".
Hydro and nuclear are used for that - being the only kind that you can "turn down a notch".
As for the renewable sources - so far only wave and geothermal could be used as a steady basis for a power system.
And we are yet to see how wave farms work in real life conditions.
I am all for wind and solar and power saving and environment. Always was.
But I am also realistic.
We just have to use nuclear and fossil-fuel based power plants to some extent.
Still... EVERY home and factory?
And what exactly would be used to provide all that wind?
Couple of giant fans in Atlantic and Pacific? I guess those could be powered by tidal waves and solar power...
You can't go all wind and solar - because they are not 24/7/366.
They are good for reducing the amount of coal/gas/nuclear spent since those are not exactly renewable and they tend to be more or less dirty.
But you still need those for building and maintaining the backbone of the power system. And hydro as well to regulate the fluctuation. How much energy would these farms be pulling out of the wind? Think of it this way - how much energy would be pulled out of the global wind system if all the butterflies suddenly started walking instead of flying?
Been told that regularly since the early 80's. Nothing yet.
Maybe 30-40 more years of staring at shiny screens in badly lit rooms for the greater part of the day will do the trick?