Water, not Oil.
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Out of Gas
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· Score: 4, Informative
As a geoscientist I can attest to the leaps and bounds that are made monthly and yearly in the petroleum industry for exploiting, locating, and distributing hydrocarbons. The transition to alternative forms of energy for personal transportation will eventually come, but it will hardly spell the end for the petroleum industry. Movement to pure hydrogen energy will only happen when a methods for producing free hydrogen don't require more energy than the use of the hydrogen itself produces. It requires energy to make that hydrogen folks. Hopefully all of you proclaimed physicists realize that.
The energy sector will move completely to natural gas alternatives (condensates, gas hydrates, LNG) long before it moves to free hydrogen. But this movement has already been happening and is already proving highly profitable for domestic and international companies (Double Cross, TXO, Chesapeake, Devon, CDX, Marathon, etc.). The petroleum industry is economically the largest industry on the planet. It has the resources to adapt to changing energy markets. In a way, the companies and people who work to bring you your hydrocarbon energy will never be out of business, their model will merely change. The end of the oil age shouldn't concern you nearly as much as the end of civilization due to demand for water and the rapidly declining availability of usable water.
Almost every part of the globe is seeing a decrease in available water supply. Disputes over water will be much more devastating than the disputes over oil have been. Not one hydrologist I've talked to has an optimistic outlook on the future of the worlds usable water supply. It's a problem that doesn't have even half of a percent of the resources or attention that is poured into petroleum and that's unfortunate because it's a problem that will kick the worlds ass a lot sooner than the lack of fossil energy.
In other news, SGI announced today that it will be entering the retail market with a new line of products and a new subsidiary called Sweet Grass Inc. Their product line includes items from the 60's charged at outrageously high prices and will be sold in head-shops nation wide. One S.G.Inc. board member explained, "Man, like, when you use our lava lamps and, like, one of our epileptic inducing screen savers on our workstation and, man, turn off your lights, it's like, Woah." Other executives were to busy eating Ho-Ho's to comment. Expect S.G.Incs product line in time for holiday season 2003.
I just used LavaRnd's Lotto Number Generator with default values and it returned:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Talk about random...
Anyway, my idea for an open source number generator is to have people on slashdot post the first number that comes to mind in this thread. I don't know if it could get more random.... (patent pending)
These new gadgets are all well and good, just don't let them be outside during a thunder storm.
Re:Not for a while
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The Diamond Age
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· Score: 3, Interesting
The vapor process not only produces perfect diamonds, the process can be made to allow chemical flaws that one would find in real diamonds, essentially making them undetectable.
I hope they don't try to sneak them into the market: I'd start buying diamonds for gems if I knew they were man made and not dug out of the ground by some one-armed three year old in Angola. Especially if they're cheaper than the 'clean' Canook and Aussie alternatives. I think a good marketing campaign espousing the treachery of the current diamond market while offering a perfect alternative would make these sell like hotcakes.
I'd buy them even if I knew they were fake
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The Diamond Age
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It sure beats the hell out of buying the real deal from DeBeers. I'm not really into the whole child labor and enslavement of whole towns that DeBeers doesn't seem to want to stop. I hope their market crashes down around them--it'll serve 'em right for sure.
I wonder how much this would ease anxiety of traveling long distances in time through space. What's 500 years skirting around the solar sytem if you live to be 6000? Imagine even with near light speed travel.
There are some great SciFi books/series that deal with extended life-spans and the societal issues that arise from such an issue. The first that come to mind are Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series (humans use genetic massaging to prolong their lifespan; initially for the rich) and Larry Niven's Ringworld series (an alien race in the series has extremely long life spans and therefore everything is built for caution). Aside from being excellent books, they offer some insight to the topics in the article, and some ways we should avoid (Robinson) handling or handle (Niven) if the situation arises.
And again, I direct you to read the whole statement in its entirety, without taking sentences out of context. You wouldn't happen to be a Fundamentalist would you?;) It regards original transmission only, once the intended party has made the information public, the statement is meaningless.
Of course your right. Even if the original transmission is intercepted by a third party and posted, this statement means poop (especially if the statement is made public soon after). It is a scare statement, but the grandparent post misinterpreted that the statement was trying to prohibit the intended recipient from posting the information.
And this has to do with the original transmission. Once its been made 'public' by the intended recipient, it's public. You don't have to be a lawyer to read and understand the statement.
The note is just to make sure that if the letter gets to the wrong recipient, that recipient cannot disseminate the information in the letter. It does not restrict the right of the intended recipient to do whatever they wish with the information in the letter.
The note is just to make sure that if the letter gets to the wrong recipient, that recipient cannot disseminate the information in the letter. It does not restrict the right of the intended recipient to do whatever they wish with the information in the letter.
The note is just to make sure that if the letter gets to the wrong recipient, that recipient cannot disseminate the information in the letter. It does not restrict the right of the intended recipient to do whatever they wish with the information in the letter.
Of course, we know how easy it would be to find out who'd been buying resistors at radio shack...
"Whats up with John Doe?! Man, this guy has enough electronics to build ten nukes..."
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.
-- Effective interview responses, "Homer the Vigilante"
I don't think they missed Mars due specifically to a mix up between nanometers and nautical miles. But I can imagine the conversation...
Scientist 1: "Did you get chip I designed for the orbiter fabed out?"
Scientist 2: "Not yet, our guys in the design lab are still trying to get the machine floor ready for the 23 nautical mile design." *pregnant silence*
Scientist 1: "You mean 23 nanometer's right?.. Right!?"
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As a geoscientist I can attest to the leaps and bounds that are made monthly and yearly in the petroleum industry for exploiting, locating, and distributing hydrocarbons. The transition to alternative forms of energy for personal transportation will eventually come, but it will hardly spell the end for the petroleum industry. Movement to pure hydrogen energy will only happen when a methods for producing free hydrogen don't require more energy than the use of the hydrogen itself produces. It requires energy to make that hydrogen folks. Hopefully all of you proclaimed physicists realize that.
The energy sector will move completely to natural gas alternatives (condensates, gas hydrates, LNG) long before it moves to free hydrogen. But this movement has already been happening and is already proving highly profitable for domestic and international companies (Double Cross, TXO, Chesapeake, Devon, CDX, Marathon, etc.). The petroleum industry is economically the largest industry on the planet. It has the resources to adapt to changing energy markets. In a way, the companies and people who work to bring you your hydrocarbon energy will never be out of business, their model will merely change. The end of the oil age shouldn't concern you nearly as much as the end of civilization due to demand for water and the rapidly declining availability of usable water.
Almost every part of the globe is seeing a decrease in available water supply. Disputes over water will be much more devastating than the disputes over oil have been. Not one hydrologist I've talked to has an optimistic outlook on the future of the worlds usable water supply. It's a problem that doesn't have even half of a percent of the resources or attention that is poured into petroleum and that's unfortunate because it's a problem that will kick the worlds ass a lot sooner than the lack of fossil energy.
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In other news, SGI announced today that it will be entering the retail market with a new line of products and a new subsidiary called Sweet Grass Inc. Their product line includes items from the 60's charged at outrageously high prices and will be sold in head-shops nation wide. One S.G.Inc. board member explained, "Man, like, when you use our lava lamps and, like, one of our epileptic inducing screen savers on our workstation and, man, turn off your lights, it's like, Woah." Other executives were to busy eating Ho-Ho's to comment. Expect S.G.Incs product line in time for holiday season 2003.
It's already started, I better sell this patent quick. :)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Talk about random...
Anyway, my idea for an open source number generator is to have people on slashdot post the first number that comes to mind in this thread. I don't know if it could get more random.... (patent pending)
I guess this will make finding the enigmatic Northwest Passage a little bit easier for explorers.
These new gadgets are all well and good, just don't let them be outside during a thunder storm.
The vapor process not only produces perfect diamonds, the process can be made to allow chemical flaws that one would find in real diamonds, essentially making them undetectable. I hope they don't try to sneak them into the market: I'd start buying diamonds for gems if I knew they were man made and not dug out of the ground by some one-armed three year old in Angola. Especially if they're cheaper than the 'clean' Canook and Aussie alternatives. I think a good marketing campaign espousing the treachery of the current diamond market while offering a perfect alternative would make these sell like hotcakes.
It sure beats the hell out of buying the real deal from DeBeers. I'm not really into the whole child labor and enslavement of whole towns that DeBeers doesn't seem to want to stop. I hope their market crashes down around them--it'll serve 'em right for sure.
I wonder how much this would ease anxiety of traveling long distances in time through space. What's 500 years skirting around the solar sytem if you live to be 6000? Imagine even with near light speed travel.
But of course. It's just he doesn't do it through the eye of modern genetics. :)
There are some great SciFi books/series that deal with extended life-spans and the societal issues that arise from such an issue. The first that come to mind are Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series (humans use genetic massaging to prolong their lifespan; initially for the rich) and Larry Niven's Ringworld series (an alien race in the series has extremely long life spans and therefore everything is built for caution). Aside from being excellent books, they offer some insight to the topics in the article, and some ways we should avoid (Robinson) handling or handle (Niven) if the situation arises.
And again, I direct you to read the whole statement in its entirety, without taking sentences out of context. You wouldn't happen to be a Fundamentalist would you? ;) It regards original transmission only, once the intended party has made the information public, the statement is meaningless.
Of course your right. Even if the original transmission is intercepted by a third party and posted, this statement means poop (especially if the statement is made public soon after). It is a scare statement, but the grandparent post misinterpreted that the statement was trying to prohibit the intended recipient from posting the information.
And this has to do with the original transmission. Once its been made 'public' by the intended recipient, it's public. You don't have to be a lawyer to read and understand the statement.
Then they can. Read the restictions, it only restricts people who intercept the original transmission. It's not rocket science.
The note is just to make sure that if the letter gets to the wrong recipient, that recipient cannot disseminate the information in the letter. It does not restrict the right of the intended recipient to do whatever they wish with the information in the letter.
The note is just to make sure that if the letter gets to the wrong recipient, that recipient cannot disseminate the information in the letter. It does not restrict the right of the intended recipient to do whatever they wish with the information in the letter.
The note is just to make sure that if the letter gets to the wrong recipient, that recipient cannot disseminate the information in the letter. It does not restrict the right of the intended recipient to do whatever they wish with the information in the letter.
So now annoying teenagers can add hand-held fans on TOP of laser pointers as a way to disturb a movie. Fantastic.
Of course, we know how easy it would be to find out who'd been buying resistors at radio shack... "Whats up with John Doe?! Man, this guy has enough electronics to build ten nukes..."
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.
-- Effective interview responses, "Homer the Vigilante"
Scientist 1: "Did you get chip I designed for the orbiter fabed out?"
Scientist 2: "Not yet, our guys in the design lab are still trying to get the machine floor ready for the 23 nautical mile design."
*pregnant silence*
Scientist 1: "You mean 23 nanometer's right?.. Right!?"
Working at NASA has to be fun!