People really want there to be space aliens but the fact is interstellar space travel is impossible using current technology and with our current understanding of physics.
We don't need to disregard what they say, it's just that such outlandish claims require careful analysis. Until they show us their "proof" is, all they're doing is drumming up PR for some crackpot's book.
That, and giving us some excellent fodder for fun/. threads.
That's why I have a giant wok in my kitchen, made from solid iron.
I know what you're thinking - "But J, wouldn't a copper pot work better due to better conductivity and therefore shallower skin depth?" Yes, of course it would... but you just can't beat the snazzy style of a wok hat.
People really want there to be space aliens but the fact is space travel is impossible using current technology and with our current understanding of physics.
Maybe they just want to come down and have tea. They just want to make sure we don't get the wrong idea and start shooting nukes at them.
Or even better, maybe they've contacted nuclear civilizations on other planets, only to have the people panic and start shooting the nukes at eachother! Maybe they're trying to protect us!
Either way, I guess I better grab my shovel and start digging my bunker.
Captain Salas notes, "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it."
This isn't news until they present their supposed "proof".
I get that we want to think that military officers are supposed to be more reliable than your average Joe Schmuckatellii, but come on.
I don't care who you are, if you can't show proof, I'm not gonna believe you. I mean, I don't believe what the pope says, and he has billions of people who think he's reliable.
I mean, I see your point that it would be nice if units were designed to make estimates and field calculations easy, but that's not really the point of units. The whole point is to make everything standardized.
If you start making each unit particular to field applications, then it gets REALLY complicated when you need to start solving something which uses two different types of units.
Say, for instance, that you needed to estimate how much water was in a pool. Your measure of distance is in base 10, but your measure of fluids is in base 2. Yeah, that's way simpler than knowing a liter is.001 cubic meters...
You have proof that the big bang is anything more than fantasy?
I'm not saying it's necessarily false, but it certainly is still far from being proven fact. It's not like he said the "fantasy of Maxwell's Equations"
Yeah, I know, it stinks for me too. I have 9600M GT in my laptop, and that's right around (below) the minimum specs. I'm scared that when I get home and install it, it will only run at ~10FPS. Of course, if there's a way to disable animations, that might actually be somewhat bearable.
You're right, they're not necessary for Civ 5. And since my only computer at home is a laptop, I don't know how well this is going to run on it, even though it has a discrete graphics card.
I really wish they would have made a way to scale down the graphics to the point where they would run easily... But I guess they didn't have the resources to do that.
I guess their choice came down to "We have limited resources, which do we prefer, people complaining they can't run the game, or people complaining that the graphics look dated?" Unfortunately for laptop users, they chose the latter.
For that matter, rating CPUs using a single number is just as pointless. What's the clock speed? How many cores does it have? How big is the cache? What's the speed of the FSB? And on and on and on...
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People really want there to be space aliens but the fact is interstellar space travel is impossible using current technology and with our current understanding of physics.
Happy now? Jeez.
Probably the ghost of Ted Stevens.
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If you want to arrive yesterday, then you'll have to go even faster than the speed of light....
Well, that, and you'd need (infinity + k) energy.
Of course, as every time traveler knows, you need to scale k based on how far in the past you want to go.
That, and giving us some excellent fodder for fun /. threads.
Or can they only travel at half the speed of light?
If that's the case, pshh not interested. Tell them to come back when they've perfected their tech, I never buy first gen products.
I know what you're thinking - "But J, wouldn't a copper pot work better due to better conductivity and therefore shallower skin depth?" Yes, of course it would... but you just can't beat the snazzy style of a wok hat.
People really want there to be space aliens but the fact is space travel is impossible using current technology and with our current understanding of physics.
There you go. Carry on.
"Malfunction" and "Arm, Launch, Acquire Target, and Detonate" are hardly the same thing.
Or even better, maybe they've contacted nuclear civilizations on other planets, only to have the people panic and start shooting the nukes at eachother! Maybe they're trying to protect us!
Either way, I guess I better grab my shovel and start digging my bunker.
For example, you are actually exposed to less radiation while onboard a US nuclear sub than you would receive on the surface.
Captain Salas notes, "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it."
This isn't news until they present their supposed "proof".
I get that we want to think that military officers are supposed to be more reliable than your average Joe Schmuckatellii, but come on.
I don't care who you are, if you can't show proof, I'm not gonna believe you. I mean, I don't believe what the pope says, and he has billions of people who think he's reliable.
In any case as far as I know, temperature is vibration. I don't see why stopping its vibration would cause an atom to split.
Slightly less than zero million
And by base, I meant powers, but you get the point.
If you start making each unit particular to field applications, then it gets REALLY complicated when you need to start solving something which uses two different types of units.
Say, for instance, that you needed to estimate how much water was in a pool. Your measure of distance is in base 10, but your measure of fluids is in base 2. Yeah, that's way simpler than knowing a liter is .001 cubic meters...
You are also wrong.
Indeed, they were. The following statement made me scratch my head a bit:
The photons are highly ordered and there is very little random motion among them.
By that logic, light traveling through a perfect vacuum would also have a "temperature". Which is... well... puzzling.
I think something might have just whooshed over me, but I'm really not sure.
I'm not saying it's necessarily false, but it certainly is still far from being proven fact. It's not like he said the "fantasy of Maxwell's Equations"
I don't think the paywall was really the issue, merely the copying and pasting of an entire article.
Not that it matters, nobody is going to come after you for copying and p(a|o)sting on a comment thread. I would hope not anyways.
Yeah, I know, it stinks for me too. I have 9600M GT in my laptop, and that's right around (below) the minimum specs. I'm scared that when I get home and install it, it will only run at ~10FPS. Of course, if there's a way to disable animations, that might actually be somewhat bearable.
And by latter, I meant former. I should really learn to hit submit slower!
I really wish they would have made a way to scale down the graphics to the point where they would run easily... But I guess they didn't have the resources to do that.
I guess their choice came down to "We have limited resources, which do we prefer, people complaining they can't run the game, or people complaining that the graphics look dated?" Unfortunately for laptop users, they chose the latter.
For that matter, rating CPUs using a single number is just as pointless. What's the clock speed? How many cores does it have? How big is the cache? What's the speed of the FSB? And on and on and on...
Or better yet... in space!