All kidding aside, 40 years from now we'll still be driving our own cars because programmers won't be able to help a car decide if it is allowed to avoid a collision that will kill a driver by swerving onto a sidewalk and killing two pedestrians.
The self driving car will keep a reasonable distance in these cases. It will be able to stop without risk of colliding with the car before it. There may be only a couple of inches of space if the car before it has way better brakes but there will be room. In cases where sufficient distance is not wise due to asshats cutting in (multi-lane roads like highways) there shouldn't be pedestrians at all and thus the car can swerve relatively safely.
As a bicyclist I would prefer computer driven cars to not paying attention human driven cars. Most humans don't seem to grasp that they are using a 1000kg weapon to get around. They call,sms or facebook while they should be driving.
I still think it's of quite low relevance. Do you know how much radioactive material leaves a coal plant during normal operation?
A coal plant requires massive amounts of coal. Most are connected to waterways, twin railways or conveyor belts with a direct line from a coal mine. Trucks don't cut it. The first coal powerplant I could find consumed 9.1 million tonne of coal in 2011.
About a part per million of that coal is uranium. That means that that plant produced about 9 tonnes of uranium. That single plant. Now that plant captures fly and bottom ash (where that uranium goes). That ash is then sold as a component in gypsum and concrete. As a building material.
So stop worrying about the limited amount of radioactive materials from a nuclear plant and worry about the large amount of radioactive materials from coal plants. The radioactive material from nuclear plants is small in physical size. It can be stored safely, far safer than the uranium from the coal plants is stored. An accident now and again doesn't change that.
Those things are hard, yes. However, Google has quite awesome programmers. Note: to me it only has to be better (defined as in less lethal accidents) than the average driver. That is a high bar, but I assume Google isn't doing it because it's easy.
Sorry, I am talking from a Dutch point of view. 18+ year old cars are rare here and most of them are oldtimers, only to be driven a few times a year. That argument will not stop it here.
Normal human idiocy like banning them because of one death (despite statistics) might, but I like having high hopes.
Get a cheap and disposable system because it is going to die soon. It must have a non-coated metal case. Don't ground the case but hook it up to a neon transformer for at least 10 Kv with respect to the shower head (and building ground) to keep the water out as effectively as possible.
A properly taught ant would probably be better at driving than about 80% of human drivers.
Have you been out on the road? With all the idiots making cellphone calls/driving drunk/texting/facebooking/putting up makeup/whatever? Have you seen the current state of affairs on the road?
My prophecy: Self driving cars will be better than humans in 99,99% of the situations within 3 years. Sadly it will take another 5 to wide scale adoption and yet another 10 years for human driven cars to be banned to racetracks.
Never ever buy a keyboard with a shutdown and/or sleep button on it. You'll only press it when you have forgotten to save your progress because your mind was too busy maintaining the solution to your problem. Probably a fun problem, one that stretches your capabilities. Exactly the cases when you really don't want a shutdown crashing your train of thought.
Dunno if the things are still as common as when my last keyboard broke.
Comets obey the same laws of orbital mechanics. They just have really eccentric orbits. Now if the objects do not behave according to the laws of orbital mechanics, then that is interesting in another field.
However, this software probably looks for predictable semilinear motion (wrt the starry background) over a couple of weeks. If such a motion is detected the images will probably be flagged for manual check. This filters out false positives. Looking for non-predictable motion would introduce many false positives due to noise in the photos. Manually checking data with 99.99% false positives is no fun.
Do we not have to worry the most when the faint objects do *not* move at all, between pictures? Then they are heading straight for us.
If we find an object that stationary to the starry background while being in our solar system we need to send a probe there, ASAP. It would be a clear cut indication of alien technology in our solar system.
If we find an object that is not moving with respect to us we need not worry. It is simply in a geostationary orbit. There are many objects there.
In this case I'd bet on fixing it. They probably don't want the search commands being send through MS servers. That treasure trove of add target data is too rich and it is how they got big.
Practically it is. Helium is alpha radiation that caught a couple of electrons. It is being generated by naturally occurring radioactive elements in the earth. Oil wells extract loads of it and there it is often separated for purification. Once we wean our dependence on oil there are many helium trapping geological structures where we can get it from.
Add to that that using helium does not impact the planet as much as producing more CO2 to power an incandescent.
People also download ram defragmenters. Seriously, what people do is not always the most wise course. On Android most apps that are not full screen are sleeping. They only use RAM and RAM consumes the same amount of power whether it's full or empty. Most don't use CPU, except for those cases where the programmer explicitly requests it to continue (think a music player or Twilight (no connection to bad books)). These apps have a legitimate use for it. Not killing apps improves battery life because then the app doesn't have to be loaded when it's requested.
Dunno about non-samsung phones, but on my phone I can see what apps are responsible for what part of my battery usage. That's a useful indicator what apps are misbehaving. Not whether they happen to be loaded into RAM.
It's iron oxide. The body can absorb a steel splinter in a week and steel splinters have a far less surface to volume ratio.
I expect that it'll be absorbed in the day after the treatment. After being absorbed the body is quite able to deal with the iron ions. The free oxygen ions from this will probably be more dangerous but even there the human body has had 0.85 million years of evolution to cope with it (since the Great Oxygenation Event).
There is at least one type of mud in that clear definition. Formation heat. During formation a lot of heat is generated, and that heat helps fusion. So young 12 Jupiter masses can fuse deuterium for a while, slowing the cooldown with the fusion energy.
The decay from white dwarf to black dwarf is slow. In fact it's so incredibly slow that the universe isn't old enough to have them in it yet. Estimates for the time it takes are 10^15 to 10^37 years, depending on factors like pronton decay and WIMP existence. The universe is "only" 13.8*10^9 years old.
This makes their indetectability practically moot. Theoretically it's still fun to think about. The only ways to detect them with current physics would be occlusion (low detection chance) and gravitational influence (low detection range).
Nope. The placebo effect is strong and useful. The fact that homeopathic medicines are exchangeable with sugar pills doesn't mean the effects they indirectly cause are useless.
There are ethical conundrums with all placebos, both homeopathic and non-homeopathic. However, those ethical conundrums are far surpassed by their usefulness, IMHO.
Indeed, distilled water is surprisingly dangerous. Simply put it really "wants" salts dissolved in it. When ingesting it it'll find those salts, inside the cells in the mouth lining. It can pull those salts out with enough force to tear the cell wall open and destroy the cell. Each cell it destroys in such a way makes it less pure and thus limits the further effects.
I haven't tried it, nor do I plan to, but I expect that when you drink sufficiently of it it will damage your mouth and throat. By the time it gets to your stomach it will probably have absorbed enough salts from the mouth and throat lining to be safe, in addition to the large amount of salts in the stomach itself. Effects will vary strongly with amount. Low amounts may become relatively safe when it mixes with your saliva and may not do anything.
Injecting it causes hemolysis. That is why IV's are always isotonic instead of direct distilled water.
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All kidding aside, 40 years from now we'll still be driving our own cars because programmers won't be able to help a car decide if it is allowed to avoid a collision that will kill a driver by swerving onto a sidewalk and killing two pedestrians.
The self driving car will keep a reasonable distance in these cases. It will be able to stop without risk of colliding with the car before it. There may be only a couple of inches of space if the car before it has way better brakes but there will be room.
In cases where sufficient distance is not wise due to asshats cutting in (multi-lane roads like highways) there shouldn't be pedestrians at all and thus the car can swerve relatively safely.
True, they are awesome replacements for cars.
However, it appears that they are not sufficiently awesome to overcome their practical issues.
As a bicyclist I would prefer computer driven cars to not paying attention human driven cars.
Most humans don't seem to grasp that they are using a 1000kg weapon to get around. They call,sms or facebook while they should be driving.
I still think it's of quite low relevance. Do you know how much radioactive material leaves a coal plant during normal operation?
A coal plant requires massive amounts of coal. Most are connected to waterways, twin railways or conveyor belts with a direct line from a coal mine. Trucks don't cut it.
The first coal powerplant I could find consumed 9.1 million tonne of coal in 2011.
About a part per million of that coal is uranium. That means that that plant produced about 9 tonnes of uranium. That single plant.
Now that plant captures fly and bottom ash (where that uranium goes). That ash is then sold as a component in gypsum and concrete. As a building material.
So stop worrying about the limited amount of radioactive materials from a nuclear plant and worry about the large amount of radioactive materials from coal plants. The radioactive material from nuclear plants is small in physical size. It can be stored safely, far safer than the uranium from the coal plants is stored. An accident now and again doesn't change that.
Those things are hard, yes. However, Google has quite awesome programmers. Note: to me it only has to be better (defined as in less lethal accidents) than the average driver. That is a high bar, but I assume Google isn't doing it because it's easy.
Sorry, I am talking from a Dutch point of view. 18+ year old cars are rare here and most of them are oldtimers, only to be driven a few times a year. That argument will not stop it here.
Normal human idiocy like banning them because of one death (despite statistics) might, but I like having high hopes.
Get a cheap and disposable system because it is going to die soon. It must have a non-coated metal case. Don't ground the case but hook it up to a neon transformer for at least 10 Kv with respect to the shower head (and building ground) to keep the water out as effectively as possible.
Fully sealed with plastic would make radon a non-issue.
A properly taught ant would probably be better at driving than about 80% of human drivers.
Have you been out on the road? With all the idiots making cellphone calls/driving drunk/texting/facebooking/putting up makeup/whatever? Have you seen the current state of affairs on the road?
My prophecy:
Self driving cars will be better than humans in 99,99% of the situations within 3 years. Sadly it will take another 5 to wide scale adoption and yet another 10 years for human driven cars to be banned to racetracks.
Never ever buy a keyboard with a shutdown and/or sleep button on it.
You'll only press it when you have forgotten to save your progress because your mind was too busy maintaining the solution to your problem. Probably a fun problem, one that stretches your capabilities. Exactly the cases when you really don't want a shutdown crashing your train of thought.
Dunno if the things are still as common as when my last keyboard broke.
Comets obey the same laws of orbital mechanics. They just have really eccentric orbits.
Now if the objects do not behave according to the laws of orbital mechanics, then that is interesting in another field.
However, this software probably looks for predictable semilinear motion (wrt the starry background) over a couple of weeks. If such a motion is detected the images will probably be flagged for manual check. This filters out false positives. Looking for non-predictable motion would introduce many false positives due to noise in the photos. Manually checking data with 99.99% false positives is no fun.
Do we not have to worry the most when the faint objects do *not* move at all, between pictures? Then they are heading straight for us.
If we find an object that stationary to the starry background while being in our solar system we need to send a probe there, ASAP. It would be a clear cut indication of alien technology in our solar system.
If we find an object that is not moving with respect to us we need not worry. It is simply in a geostationary orbit. There are many objects there.
In this case I'd bet on fixing it. They probably don't want the search commands being send through MS servers. That treasure trove of add target data is too rich and it is how they got big.
Practically it is. Helium is alpha radiation that caught a couple of electrons. It is being generated by naturally occurring radioactive elements in the earth. Oil wells extract loads of it and there it is often separated for purification. Once we wean our dependence on oil there are many helium trapping geological structures where we can get it from.
Add to that that using helium does not impact the planet as much as producing more CO2 to power an incandescent.
It's called being run over by a car.
Probably by someone who is updating their FaceBug status.
I would like to agree with that without realizing it myself and insinuate that you fornicate with someone or some group of people I do not agree with.
People also download ram defragmenters.
Seriously, what people do is not always the most wise course. On Android most apps that are not full screen are sleeping. They only use RAM and RAM consumes the same amount of power whether it's full or empty. Most don't use CPU, except for those cases where the programmer explicitly requests it to continue (think a music player or Twilight (no connection to bad books)). These apps have a legitimate use for it.
Not killing apps improves battery life because then the app doesn't have to be loaded when it's requested.
Dunno about non-samsung phones, but on my phone I can see what apps are responsible for what part of my battery usage. That's a useful indicator what apps are misbehaving. Not whether they happen to be loaded into RAM.
It's iron oxide. The body can absorb a steel splinter in a week and steel splinters have a far less surface to volume ratio.
I expect that it'll be absorbed in the day after the treatment. After being absorbed the body is quite able to deal with the iron ions. The free oxygen ions from this will probably be more dangerous but even there the human body has had 0.85 million years of evolution to cope with it (since the Great Oxygenation Event).
Normally current decreases as resistance increases. Why is chip power management different?
(no snark intended. I really want to know.)
The ethical problem. Most doctors don't like to lie to their patients.
There is at least one type of mud in that clear definition. Formation heat. During formation a lot of heat is generated, and that heat helps fusion. So young 12 Jupiter masses can fuse deuterium for a while, slowing the cooldown with the fusion energy.
The decay from white dwarf to black dwarf is slow. In fact it's so incredibly slow that the universe isn't old enough to have them in it yet.
Estimates for the time it takes are 10^15 to 10^37 years, depending on factors like pronton decay and WIMP existence. The universe is "only" 13.8*10^9 years old.
This makes their indetectability practically moot.
Theoretically it's still fun to think about. The only ways to detect them with current physics would be occlusion (low detection chance) and gravitational influence (low detection range).
Yes I should have used "apparently solved problem" for the heat and "solved problem" for the helium barrier.
I also should have checked your post after writing my post but before sending. We agree, I should have noted so.
Nope. The placebo effect is strong and useful. The fact that homeopathic medicines are exchangeable with sugar pills doesn't mean the effects they indirectly cause are useless.
There are ethical conundrums with all placebos, both homeopathic and non-homeopathic. However, those ethical conundrums are far surpassed by their usefulness, IMHO.
Use the placebo effect. Don't discard it.
Indeed, distilled water is surprisingly dangerous. Simply put it really "wants" salts dissolved in it. When ingesting it it'll find those salts, inside the cells in the mouth lining. It can pull those salts out with enough force to tear the cell wall open and destroy the cell. Each cell it destroys in such a way makes it less pure and thus limits the further effects.
I haven't tried it, nor do I plan to, but I expect that when you drink sufficiently of it it will damage your mouth and throat. By the time it gets to your stomach it will probably have absorbed enough salts from the mouth and throat lining to be safe, in addition to the large amount of salts in the stomach itself.
Effects will vary strongly with amount. Low amounts may become relatively safe when it mixes with your saliva and may not do anything.
Injecting it causes hemolysis. That is why IV's are always isotonic instead of direct distilled water.