So that would makes the filaments synapses, and signal propagation is going to take about 2 million years between neurons (based on our neighborhood, maybe less or more elsewhere in the structure and assuming a speed limit of c).
In 14 billion years the sentient universe won't have got far past "Now, what will I have for breakfast?"
Ideally, it would. But it's set up such that certain countries get to veto any action.
With regard to the UN vote on Syria it was China and Russia that vetoed action.
Russia has had long ties with Syria and perhaps more pertinently has a Mediterranean naval base from that association, so I can see why they would rather stay on-side with a regime murdering it's own people than run the risk of a replacement government not letting them have their base.
As Dr. Ben Goldacre has just tweeted, "it's the little things like extradition at the behest of a corporation that make you worry the whole world is corrupt".
More insightful than funny I'd say because it's an inevitable outcome.
Corporate entities acknowledge legal constraints but will ignore moral or ethical constraints unless it somehow affects quarterly earnings per share. Now if someone is injured or killed during a physical intrusion onto corporate premises then that will, in most countries, have significant legal repercussions and possibly an inquiry. On the other hand, if someone makes an electronic intrusion into systems then if anything "unfortunate" were to happen to them and there is no obvious link to and significant physical distance from the corporate entity, then what's the problem?
The increased stroke risk ONLY OCCURRED IN NORMALLY SIZED PATIENTS
Did get me wondering if stroke risk between USA and Europe is significantly different but there's probably just too many other lifestyle differences for an accurate comparison.
Biology is by far my weakest science and I'm not qualified at all to comment, but I just read two articles today which suggests that older fathers have longer lived children...
More seriously, the SNP did hold up the "arc of prosperity" of the Republic of Ireland, Iceland and Norway as the shining examples of how small Atlantic nations could be amazingly prosperous and how much better it would be if Scotland was independent and part of that...
Fast forward a couple of years and Ireland is tanked by being one of the loser economies in the Euro (a currency which basically only works for Germany and while the French might think it works for them too, I think they have a surprise brewing) and Iceland banks got shredded by their exposure to toxic assets forcing the whole nation to the brink.
Which basically just leaves Norway doing well out of the original "arc of prosperity". So the current SNP line is "things would be better if we were like Norway".
Just out of interest, are the fjords and other bodies of water littered with the sunken remains of vehicles driven by those who forgot to switch their GPS to summer mode?
in the next billion years most of Earth will stay more hospitable than Antarctica
Actually, in mere tens of millions of years, plate tectonics will push the Antarctic continent into more temperate climes (I guess we'll have to rename it then) and I do believe that Australia is heading for the position currently held by Antarctica.
So, as I read it; those who did gain a lot of free money in the IPO will have to give some of it to those that thought they should have and the lawyers will get their usual substantial cut.
Just a slight variation on the usual IPO feeding frenzy.
The FOI request revealled the number of civil servants who had done it but private enterprise is not subject to that act. The same thing will go on but it will never be publicised.
And I'm not going to buy any arguments that private enterprise security procedures would prevent it.
Very long odds since they're looking at a galaxy of billions of stars to see these.
However, it is just another candidate explanation for the Fermi Paradox. On a cosmic scale the universe is inimicable to life. Sure, you might persist long enough to evolve a bit of intelligence but sooner or later the rock that you live on is going to be physically pounded or bathed in lethal radiation.
Such an event is unlikely, but not impossible, in any of our lifetimes but it will eventually happen and the human race will still be here because nobody sees a quarterly return on investment for trying to go somewhere else.
Ah, what this means is that instead of hiring a local photographer at local rates you can get a cheaper overseas person to remotely take photographs via a, soon to be ubiqitous, drone.
None of which will be quite the same as having an experienced photographer right in front of you; but such is progress.
It was still an independant country after 1603. Jamie Sext (James VI being his Sunday name, or James I if you're English) inherited the throne of both countries in 1603 (known as the Union of Crowns) but each still had a seperate government. It was the Act of Union in 1707 in which the Scottish government was disolved and the nation was offically incorporated into the United Kingdom.
Despite that, many systems, law being one, just trundled on the same as they always had been and remained different from the rest of the UK. It's probably all written into the Articles of Union, which is what the negotiation settlement is called.
The wikipedia summary for conservatism answers both questions...
...promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity...
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So that would makes the filaments synapses, and signal propagation is going to take about 2 million years between neurons (based on our neighborhood, maybe less or more elsewhere in the structure and assuming a speed limit of c).
In 14 billion years the sentient universe won't have got far past "Now, what will I have for breakfast?"
There are *FOUR* lights.
Ideally, it would. But it's set up such that certain countries get to veto any action.
With regard to the UN vote on Syria it was China and Russia that vetoed action.
Russia has had long ties with Syria and perhaps more pertinently has a Mediterranean naval base from that association, so I can see why they would rather stay on-side with a regime murdering it's own people than run the risk of a replacement government not letting them have their base.
I'm not sure what the Chinese angle is.
Yep, the first signal that humans send to an extra-terrestrial civilization will be a cease and desist notice.
As Dr. Ben Goldacre has just tweeted, "it's the little things like extradition at the behest of a corporation that make you worry the whole world is corrupt".
I think that ship may have sailed.
Guns are rare in my country but I rather thought the point was to shoot at something.
Like a target board, defenseless (and not necessarily edible) creature, commie or different ethnicity. Not rocks.
More insightful than funny I'd say because it's an inevitable outcome.
Corporate entities acknowledge legal constraints but will ignore moral or ethical constraints unless it somehow affects quarterly earnings per share. Now if someone is injured or killed during a physical intrusion onto corporate premises then that will, in most countries, have significant legal repercussions and possibly an inquiry. On the other hand, if someone makes an electronic intrusion into systems then if anything "unfortunate" were to happen to them and there is no obvious link to and significant physical distance from the corporate entity, then what's the problem?
The increased stroke risk ONLY OCCURRED IN NORMALLY SIZED PATIENTS
Did get me wondering if stroke risk between USA and Europe is significantly different but there's probably just too many other lifestyle differences for an accurate comparison.
Well, it could be a case of longer duration not necessarily being better.
Kinda like in the same way that Prometheus is longer than many other films...
Biology is by far my weakest science and I'm not qualified at all to comment, but I just read two articles today which suggests that older fathers have longer lived children...
Here and here.
How come nobody's mentioned Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series yet? Doesn't anyone here read SF?
The fact that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will eventually collide is the motivation of the Inhibitors.
5 billion years ago we hadn't made it up to the level of bacteria yet.
I was under the impression that the Earth was only 4.5 billion years old.
Although I suppose you could go with panspermia and adopt the position that life here started 5 billion years ago; it just started somewhere else.
More seriously, the SNP did hold up the "arc of prosperity" of the Republic of Ireland, Iceland and Norway as the shining examples of how small Atlantic nations could be amazingly prosperous and how much better it would be if Scotland was independent and part of that...
Fast forward a couple of years and Ireland is tanked by being one of the loser economies in the Euro (a currency which basically only works for Germany and while the French might think it works for them too, I think they have a surprise brewing) and Iceland banks got shredded by their exposure to toxic assets forcing the whole nation to the brink.
Which basically just leaves Norway doing well out of the original "arc of prosperity". So the current SNP line is "things would be better if we were like Norway".
I'm pretty sure the Scottish plan is to somehow join Scandinavia
You have seen the Swedish women's beach volleyball team, right?
Just out of interest, are the fjords and other bodies of water littered with the sunken remains of vehicles driven by those who forgot to switch their GPS to summer mode?
in the next billion years most of Earth will stay more hospitable than Antarctica
Actually, in mere tens of millions of years, plate tectonics will push the Antarctic continent into more temperate climes (I guess we'll have to rename it then) and I do believe that Australia is heading for the position currently held by Antarctica.
So, as I read it; those who did gain a lot of free money in the IPO will have to give some of it to those that thought they should have and the lawyers will get their usual substantial cut.
Just a slight variation on the usual IPO feeding frenzy.
The FOI request revealled the number of civil servants who had done it but private enterprise is not subject to that act. The same thing will go on but it will never be publicised.
And I'm not going to buy any arguments that private enterprise security procedures would prevent it.
Very long odds since they're looking at a galaxy of billions of stars to see these.
However, it is just another candidate explanation for the Fermi Paradox. On a cosmic scale the universe is inimicable to life. Sure, you might persist long enough to evolve a bit of intelligence but sooner or later the rock that you live on is going to be physically pounded or bathed in lethal radiation.
Such an event is unlikely, but not impossible, in any of our lifetimes but it will eventually happen and the human race will still be here because nobody sees a quarterly return on investment for trying to go somewhere else.
Ah, what this means is that instead of hiring a local photographer at local rates you can get a cheaper overseas person to remotely take photographs via a, soon to be ubiqitous, drone.
None of which will be quite the same as having an experienced photographer right in front of you; but such is progress.
It was still an independant country after 1603. Jamie Sext (James VI being his Sunday name, or James I if you're English) inherited the throne of both countries in 1603 (known as the Union of Crowns) but each still had a seperate government. It was the Act of Union in 1707 in which the Scottish government was disolved and the nation was offically incorporated into the United Kingdom.
Despite that, many systems, law being one, just trundled on the same as they always had been and remained different from the rest of the UK. It's probably all written into the Articles of Union, which is what the negotiation settlement is called.
How about...
Chief Prodigiously Prudent Privacy Officer, or C-3PO for short.
*ba-dah* *ba-dah* *tish*
So does the average TSA agent view Bin Laden's killing the same way that they probably view the moon landings?
...USA, since it fought the King over just 3% taxes.
Ok, it's slightly more than 3% nowadays, and it's a queen at the moment, but I guess you could rejoin...
The wikipedia summary for conservatism answers both questions...
...promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity...