Even if you choose to drive a couple of nails through your skull and attach a 9V battery to them you will probably not die of the battery. I would estimate the nails themselves and the potential for infection they cause are more dangerous than the current they allow. People do sometimes survive touching 240V (although it is inadvisable. I found it very painful) and in rare occasions they even survive a lightning strike. With nails driven through you skull 99.999% of the current will NOT go through your heart, by the way.
It is common to test these things in rats before you test it in humans. Rat brains are similar to human brains, the human brain simply has a way bigger cerebrum. The main structure of the brain was already there in the time of the dinosaurs, and what would become humans and rats were probably about the same creatures back then. Chemically and electrically the human and the rat brain work almost the same (feromones are different of course)
IANANS, but I was good at biology back in highschool.
Some high-energy consumers (aluminium plants and high energy test labs) may move there. Combined with a high power cable this may lower the consumption of oil enough to build a fusion plant in the centre of Europe before oil runs out. Now I do not think PV is the way to go: these solar towers are better in a large scale (less pure silicon required) but the location seems feasible.
For large scale photovoltaics isn't feasible, unless someone invents a way to purify silicon cheaply from very dirty sources (like sand and rock). For a solar tower (mirrors) the pureness of silicon isn't as important as for photovoltaics. The photovoltaics also need a glass substrate. Although silicon is one of the most prevalent elements it is usually useless because it's way to "dirty" (other, difficult to remove, elements in it). They have silica mines and there are not a lot of them (of course there is still way more than there is gold). If someone would find a way to clean the sands of the Sahara and build some solar towers there to zone-refine it (done with melting the silicon) we would be golden. However, cleaning sand isn't possible yet.
At a treadmill speed of Mach 1 the wheel bearings would have to be very low friction to allow the plane to take off. Assume the bearings are not perfect, and they create a force (with the direction of the treadmill, thus against the flying speed) of 100N. If the plane only has 80N of thrust it will accelerate backwards due to a force of 20N. This may cause it to lift because wings work (poorly, but they do work) backwards, but that is a bit outside of the scope of the myth.
So if you destroy the CD after ripping it then it's okay? Aren't all digital move actions from one storage device to another copies (after which the original may or may not be erased/reallocated)
I was wondering about that to, but I guess they added Facebook, Twitter, Hyves and everything else. These demograpics overlap a lot. I would presume 95% of the people who have a Hyves account would have a Facebook and a twitter account as well. This would lower the total people to about 5G. Add a percentage of spammers (guestimated at 50%) and you have only 2.5G left. Remove padding by the operators of those networks and my guess would be about 1G. Still a lot, but not more than the total number of people on this planet. If you chose to remove the aliens, I'd guess only 1M would be left. I however would like to welcome the aliens, and wouldn't exclude them.
No you don't. Go to the top, click account. A rectangular screen will pop up. Click posting in the top bar on the rectangular screen. Set the "Comment Post Mode" to "Plain Old Text". For each return in your post a br will be included automatically.
But it does make the patent invalid. If that happens you can fight it. The patent offices are not equipped to search the complete internet for prior art (I don't think anyone is, since a computer is not yet able and AI's aren't evolved enough yet). They rely on making the patent public and allowing you to fight them. You do have to prove the patent holder wasn't the first. See the BT "hyperlink" patent IANAL.
Any way that enables you to prove you came up with it will do. Patent law has always included "prior art" rules: you can't patent anything that has been done before. See the BT "hyperlink" patent.
It just cost a hell of a lot of energy... E=mc2 suggests producing a kilogram of it would require 990x(300,000,000^2)=8.9e19 joules or more than the electricity generation in the total of 2005.
As with everything biodegradable plastics are not perfect for everything. Some things aren't supposed to get wet: the casing of my PC could be made out of it (maybe even the PCB's). My Blu-ray player could easily be made with a biodegradable casing. Some things could be made of materials that become biodegradable when treated with a base, like raincoats (haven't seen the materials yet). The article suggests cars, as you do. I do hope they do one of these options:
Only on non-wet surfaces (dashboards come to mind, roofs don't)
Wet surfaces are coated (remember steel rusts if you don't coat it properly. What's the practical difference with rotting plastics?)
From the article: "The nanocellulose could be combined with petroleum-based plastic if a specific application required it, he says, but the resulting product would not be biodegradable." (emphasys mine)
I believe the engineers are smart enough to solve this conundrum, since they have already solved it for steel a long time ago.
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Even if you choose to drive a couple of nails through your skull and attach a 9V battery to them you will probably not die of the battery. I would estimate the nails themselves and the potential for infection they cause are more dangerous than the current they allow. People do sometimes survive touching 240V (although it is inadvisable. I found it very painful) and in rare occasions they even survive a lightning strike.
With nails driven through you skull 99.999% of the current will NOT go through your heart, by the way.
And in that case you can't figure out how to fix it, because you have to much stupids.
It is common to test these things in rats before you test it in humans.
Rat brains are similar to human brains, the human brain simply has a way bigger cerebrum. The main structure of the brain was already there in the time of the dinosaurs, and what would become humans and rats were probably about the same creatures back then.
Chemically and electrically the human and the rat brain work almost the same (feromones are different of course)
IANANS, but I was good at biology back in highschool.
Some high-energy consumers (aluminium plants and high energy test labs) may move there. Combined with a high power cable this may lower the consumption of oil enough to build a fusion plant in the centre of Europe before oil runs out.
Now I do not think PV is the way to go: these solar towers are better in a large scale (less pure silicon required) but the location seems feasible.
but I'm sure they'll also use it as power for a server farm.
I am quite sure they wouldn't. This is a plant without energy storage. It would suck to have your servers die on you each night...
For large scale photovoltaics isn't feasible, unless someone invents a way to purify silicon cheaply from very dirty sources (like sand and rock). For a solar tower (mirrors) the pureness of silicon isn't as important as for photovoltaics. The photovoltaics also need a glass substrate. Although silicon is one of the most prevalent elements it is usually useless because it's way to "dirty" (other, difficult to remove, elements in it). They have silica mines and there are not a lot of them (of course there is still way more than there is gold).
If someone would find a way to clean the sands of the Sahara and build some solar towers there to zone-refine it (done with melting the silicon) we would be golden. However, cleaning sand isn't possible yet.
I think they would deny it ever happened. To their own people they may cook up some story how it's the fault of the western civilization.
If I say that the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima was not as bad as the firebombing of Tokyo, am I trivialising it? I think not.
But, but, but, you are more dead from nuclear fire than from normal fire!
True, rocket science is easier.
Since he didn't need any human to understand what he said, only a computer, he could have devised any characters he wished.
Dying of a heart attack of the excitement of sharing a bed with lots of beautiful women would qualify in my eyes.
At a treadmill speed of Mach 1 the wheel bearings would have to be very low friction to allow the plane to take off.
Assume the bearings are not perfect, and they create a force (with the direction of the treadmill, thus against the flying speed) of 100N. If the plane only has 80N of thrust it will accelerate backwards due to a force of 20N. This may cause it to lift because wings work (poorly, but they do work) backwards, but that is a bit outside of the scope of the myth.
Can I assume it's NSFW?
So if you destroy the CD after ripping it then it's okay?
Aren't all digital move actions from one storage device to another copies (after which the original may or may not be erased/reallocated)
I am sorry. It seems I was in error. I have been corrected on an earlier post.
That serves me right for trusting my memory. However I can't remember forgetting anything ever, so my memory should be perfect.
(this is the commenter's physician: a sedative has been administered, and he's been returned to his padded cell)
Can I please use that as a signature?
It may be the greatest source of free intelligence on the entire planet. However, the signal to noise ration sucks.
I was wondering about that to, but I guess they added Facebook, Twitter, Hyves and everything else. These demograpics overlap a lot. I would presume 95% of the people who have a Hyves account would have a Facebook and a twitter account as well. This would lower the total people to about 5G. Add a percentage of spammers (guestimated at 50%) and you have only 2.5G left. Remove padding by the operators of those networks and my guess would be about 1G. Still a lot, but not more than the total number of people on this planet. If you chose to remove the aliens, I'd guess only 1M would be left. I however would like to welcome the aliens, and wouldn't exclude them.
No you don't.
Go to the top, click account.
A rectangular screen will pop up.
Click posting in the top bar on the rectangular screen.
Set the "Comment Post Mode" to "Plain Old Text".
For each return in your post a br will be included automatically.
But it does make the patent invalid. If that happens you can fight it. The patent offices are not equipped to search the complete internet for prior art (I don't think anyone is, since a computer is not yet able and AI's aren't evolved enough yet). They rely on making the patent public and allowing you to fight them. You do have to prove the patent holder wasn't the first.
See the BT "hyperlink" patent
IANAL.
Any way that enables you to prove you came up with it will do. Patent law has always included "prior art" rules: you can't patent anything that has been done before.
See the BT "hyperlink" patent.
It just cost a hell of a lot of energy...
E=mc2 suggests producing a kilogram of it would require 990x(300,000,000^2)=8.9e19 joules or more than the electricity generation in the total of 2005.
Some things could be made of materials that become biodegradable when treated with a base, like raincoats (haven't seen the materials yet).
The article suggests cars, as you do. I do hope they do one of these options:
I believe the engineers are smart enough to solve this conundrum, since they have already solved it for steel a long time ago.