You can reprogram matter. It's just not easy, costs a shitload of energy, requires a particle accelerator and you can't tell exactly what the new nucleus is going to be.
I see them sometimes aswell, here on/.. While it may be low-paid humans doing this (to get through the captcha, perhaps) I alwais have the feeling they copy some random bits of other posts in order to give an seemingly informing post. Proof (here on/.) would be an unrelated part of a side-thread (they can be very unrelated here) in an otherwise only slightly misformed sentence.
While that is true (the first year of life and the first year of retirements are the years with the highest mortality rate) I feel just going on working is the wrong answer to that. I feel it would be better to ease off from work, in order to reduce the shock. When this is combined with the advice to go do stuff you want to do (my dad got into painting and fishing) and at least one of those things should include appointments with other people. My dad has fishing appointments, that is enough. In a couple of months he'll have appointments to babysit my baby neice/nephew (hopefully). These are the things he lives for, and thus his Ikigai, as I understand it. Ikigai is the reason stated by the people who live in the region with the most 100+ olds (wich is in Japan, by the way) for their logivety.
But because it's mightily difficult to detect them they'll need to send a shiload of them(say, 10^12 times the background radiation?). This increases the neutrino density to unknown heights. Since neutrinos are ionising (if they smash into an atom they can easily knock an proton or electron out of the atom. Now it's an ion, and far more reactive). The current density isn't a problem, but a density of 10^12 of this may pose some troubles. If the detectors aren't improved by a great factor with detection principles as yet unheard of this will not have my vote.
That's per bulb. Dunno about you, but I tend to store my burned out bulbs untill the chemical waste container is full and then bring it (with batteriesand all that). Did you bring the incandescent ones directly to the glass recycling when they burned out? My time is to valuable for that.
The old bulbs have a rather large depth. I coud envision a system where all this is integrated in a new bulb. Same size as the old one, but with design like this: Front to back: heater, then a light diffusor, double panes of glass (if feasible with a vacuum in between: spacers don't matter here) to protect the LED's from the heat, the LED's, control cicuitry, fitting (same fitting as the old ones. You really want a screw in replacement)
While I agree with you in general idea, I must disagree with you in fact: There is a finite amount of different phosphors. A manufacturer can choose to mix dozens of them, but that'll never get a smooth spectrum like an incandescent bulb. Some manufacturers use many different ones, cheap manufacturers use only a few. The manufacturers that use many have lower efficiency, more expensive bulbs but the light will look better. One could envision a solution with cheap CFL's in storage rooms and high powered ones as "cleaning light" with expensive low-powered ones as "comfort light". Disclaimer: I use CFL/LED bulbs where I can. Replaced the incandescent from my fridge with a LED bulb a couple of weeks ago. Now only my oven has an incandescent and I don't think that'll change soon. Gimme sunlight or efficiency.
Can't find the exact site, but there was a webpage where the writer calculated what the average temperature of earth will be due to the energy we use. See, we have been using more and more energy for centuries. All this energy turns into heat eventually. With black body radiation one can calculate the thermal equilibrium of earth for each energy use-case. This led to a rising temperature. Assuming we will keep using more and more energy this thermal equilibrium will occur at a higher and higher temperature. If I remember correctly: 400 years this would mean the average temperature of earth would be above the temperature of molten iron. Not a a fun place to be. This means we will have to do more with the energy we use, and waste less of it, even if you don't believe in normal climate change. Efficient light bulbs are a good step to take. Efficient cars is another step we should take now. I'd even advise building more solar towers (that energy will become heat anyways. Better make use of it before it's unusable).
I have self dimming CFL's in my room. I can dim them by flicking the switch of and on again. I can choose between 100%/60%/30%/5% light output. 100% is ususally usefull, but it's uncomfortably bright when relaxing. The 5% setting fixes that perfectly. Dunno about the dimmable types, but the self-dimmers are verry good.
You are dead enough if you like Justin Bieber's music/Twilight/"Keeping up with the Kardashians".
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Never would I want to force them to take the descision when they are mournig. It'll be a difficult time as it is and I would not want to force them into taking a descision I could have taken myself. Alternately: They'll be to drunk to make a discision from the party they'll be having (me finally gone and all that). They always make the wrong discisions when they're drunk and they just might decide they'd need my organs as living room decorations. I am a donor because I do not wish to force that disicion on them at that time.
Seeing as there are many people who willingly watched 2 Twilight movies I'd have to say there are many people who can be considered braindead. Most would complain if you used their organs for a usefull purpose though.
There are several theories about the Big Bang. One is explained in a sibling post. There are at least two others: 1. The Big Bang was an extremely low chance event of quantum mecanical particle generation. It "borrowed" the energy from absolute vacuum. This temporary, and the energy will be returned one day (by elemental particle decay). This something that has been observed in extremely small scales: a paticle and it's antiparticle are generated from vacuum to meet eachother a fraction of a second later, resulting in the energy returning to the vacuum. This is not something that happens often. In the whole observable universe there hasn't been another event like it since the original one (as far as we can tell, with licht speed delay and such)
2. The universe consists of incomprehensible large 3 dimensional "sheets" in a 4 dimensional space. Our universe is one such sheet. At the point of the big bang it collided with another. This event created all the matter in our universe, from the kinetic energy of the two sheets. This means the energy isn't "created", just transferred. (this begs the question: How did those "sheets" come to be?)
4. ??? 5. Profit (No profit without universe. No Latinum without a Big Bang).
All 3 Big pre Bang theories (including the one in the sibling post) have solutions for the apparent violation of the laws of thermodinamics.
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"Why?" would be a completely valid comment to a /. post about a new Stephany Meyer book.
Well, if the electrons move at the speed of light the image shouldn't hold very long.
You can reprogram matter. It's just not easy, costs a shitload of energy, requires a particle accelerator and you can't tell exactly what the new nucleus is going to be.
I see them sometimes aswell, here on /.. While it may be low-paid humans doing this (to get through the captcha, perhaps) I alwais have the feeling they copy some random bits of other posts in order to give an seemingly informing post. Proof (here on /.) would be an unrelated part of a side-thread (they can be very unrelated here) in an otherwise only slightly misformed sentence.
While that is true (the first year of life and the first year of retirements are the years with the highest mortality rate) I feel just going on working is the wrong answer to that. I feel it would be better to ease off from work, in order to reduce the shock. When this is combined with the advice to go do stuff you want to do (my dad got into painting and fishing) and at least one of those things should include appointments with other people. My dad has fishing appointments, that is enough. In a couple of months he'll have appointments to babysit my baby neice/nephew (hopefully). These are the things he lives for, and thus his Ikigai, as I understand it. Ikigai is the reason stated by the people who live in the region with the most 100+ olds (wich is in Japan, by the way) for their logivety.
Put it on Facebook and mark it "private".
But because it's mightily difficult to detect them they'll need to send a shiload of them(say, 10^12 times the background radiation?). This increases the neutrino density to unknown heights. Since neutrinos are ionising (if they smash into an atom they can easily knock an proton or electron out of the atom. Now it's an ion, and far more reactive). The current density isn't a problem, but a density of 10^12 of this may pose some troubles.
If the detectors aren't improved by a great factor with detection principles as yet unheard of this will not have my vote.
"You can't stop the signal, Mal."
Before you can CETI, you must first SETI and FETI.
The price of an professional one is higher, due to the lower amount of sponsored crapware on them.
Sorry, I left the other 99,992 planets in the cupboard. I really meant to get around to putting them back in the sky.
It's all a dick measuring contest and windmills win in that regard (according to some definitions). Some people can't handle that.
Warning: definitions may or may not have been created for the purpose of making a lame joke.
That's per bulb. Dunno about you, but I tend to store my burned out bulbs untill the chemical waste container is full and then bring it (with batteriesand all that). Did you bring the incandescent ones directly to the glass recycling when they burned out? My time is to valuable for that.
The old bulbs have a rather large depth. I coud envision a system where all this is integrated in a new bulb. Same size as the old one, but with design like this: Front to back: heater, then a light diffusor, double panes of glass (if feasible with a vacuum in between: spacers don't matter here) to protect the LED's from the heat, the LED's, control cicuitry, fitting (same fitting as the old ones. You really want a screw in replacement)
While I agree with you in general idea, I must disagree with you in fact: There is a finite amount of different phosphors. A manufacturer can choose to mix dozens of them, but that'll never get a smooth spectrum like an incandescent bulb. Some manufacturers use many different ones, cheap manufacturers use only a few. The manufacturers that use many have lower efficiency, more expensive bulbs but the light will look better.
One could envision a solution with cheap CFL's in storage rooms and high powered ones as "cleaning light" with expensive low-powered ones as "comfort light".
Disclaimer: I use CFL/LED bulbs where I can. Replaced the incandescent from my fridge with a LED bulb a couple of weeks ago. Now only my oven has an incandescent and I don't think that'll change soon. Gimme sunlight or efficiency.
Can't find the exact site, but there was a webpage where the writer calculated what the average temperature of earth will be due to the energy we use.
See, we have been using more and more energy for centuries. All this energy turns into heat eventually. With black body radiation one can calculate the thermal equilibrium of earth for each energy use-case. This led to a rising temperature. Assuming we will keep using more and more energy this thermal equilibrium will occur at a higher and higher temperature. If I remember correctly: 400 years this would mean the average temperature of earth would be above the temperature of molten iron. Not a a fun place to be.
This means we will have to do more with the energy we use, and waste less of it, even if you don't believe in normal climate change. Efficient light bulbs are a good step to take. Efficient cars is another step we should take now. I'd even advise building more solar towers (that energy will become heat anyways. Better make use of it before it's unusable).
I have self dimming CFL's in my room. I can dim them by flicking the switch of and on again. I can choose between 100%/60%/30%/5% light output. 100% is ususally usefull, but it's uncomfortably bright when relaxing. The 5% setting fixes that perfectly. Dunno about the dimmable types, but the self-dimmers are verry good.
You are dead enough if you like Justin Bieber's music/Twilight/"Keeping up with the Kardashians".
Never would I want to force them to take the descision when they are mournig. It'll be a difficult time as it is and I would not want to force them into taking a descision I could have taken myself.
Alternately: They'll be to drunk to make a discision from the party they'll be having (me finally gone and all that). They always make the wrong discisions when they're drunk and they just might decide they'd need my organs as living room decorations.
I am a donor because I do not wish to force that disicion on them at that time.
They have started comprising on the spellcheck.
I'd guess it'd have to be the same anestesic, beacuse mixing that stuff is dangerous.
However: that can be solved with a simple phonecall.
Seeing as there are many people who willingly watched 2 Twilight movies I'd have to say there are many people who can be considered braindead. Most would complain if you used their organs for a usefull purpose though.
Paid for with that pay increase from gggp.
There are several theories about the Big Bang. One is explained in a sibling post.
There are at least two others:
1. The Big Bang was an extremely low chance event of quantum mecanical particle generation. It "borrowed" the energy from absolute vacuum. This temporary, and the energy will be returned one day (by elemental particle decay). This something that has been observed in extremely small scales: a paticle and it's antiparticle are generated from vacuum to meet eachother a fraction of a second later, resulting in the energy returning to the vacuum.
This is not something that happens often. In the whole observable universe there hasn't been another event like it since the original one (as far as we can tell, with licht speed delay and such)
2. The universe consists of incomprehensible large 3 dimensional "sheets" in a 4 dimensional space. Our universe is one such sheet. At the point of the big bang it collided with another. This event created all the matter in our universe, from the kinetic energy of the two sheets. This means the energy isn't "created", just transferred. (this begs the question: How did those "sheets" come to be?)
4. ???
5. Profit (No profit without universe. No Latinum without a Big Bang).
All 3 Big pre Bang theories (including the one in the sibling post) have solutions for the apparent violation of the laws of thermodinamics.
If it's a price glitch they haven't bothered to fix it in over a year. Read the comments for a laugh.