Agreed. In fact, I seem to remember reading an article in either Science News or Scientific American recently which has tried to extrapolate what this portion of space was like at the time this supernovae occured. I seem to remember the article theorising that the supernovae also kick started a bunch of suns in our area.
And I always was inspired by Carl Sagan's take on the whole idea.
Where do you think life came from? Do you think the first organisms created what they needed to exist out of thin air? Bootstrapped themselves into existence?
The question is not whether hydrocarbons can only be created by life, but whether oilbeds were laid down by life. So far (although it may be the lack of detail in the report) he's far from convincing.
I suppose the real test of his theory will be if oil supplies regenerate. Still, I thought the interior of the earth was fairly well understood. Iron core generating a magnetic field and all that.
Yes, I know it's an "explains a bit too much" theory at the moment, but as Dr. Susan Blackmore covers in "The Meme Machine," the pressures of the memes are not always consonant with those of the gene, as sociobiology would predict (of our culture)
Memetic pressures. Low vertical propagation memesets have have the advantage of a high lateral propagation. i.e. Successful, flashy people aren't at home raising kids. The idea catches on.
If you follow the path of evil, I mean. From a traditional Christian perspective, I thought the hordes of hell would not be able to defeat even a single angel. How then, if you follow "the way that leads to destruction" can you have anything remotely like a game? Can a demon kill an angel in this game? And if you play as an angel, how can you be hurt? Or is this a variation the vaguely D&D books that were once popular in evangelical christianity which had angels winning only through the prayer power of the saints. I remember the demon/angel combat in those books even sounded like D&D, even the descriptions of the demons twisted lizard like appearance and sulferous breath.:) And of course, they all fought with swords, with hit success depending on those prayers again (dice, anyone?) Heh. Glad I dropped all that nonsense long ago. Still, it'll be amusing to see if one can make a challenging game out of the unbalanced zoroastrian cosmology of modern christianity.
$ temp.pl 038-097-34-64-242-335-51-377-183-168 038-097-34-64-380-330-115-289-273-189-56 068-486-42-23-87-434-10-468-151-345-150-494-376- 415-426 038-549-53-15-1-193-121-29-109-66-28-160-106 047-111-70-99-24-21-25-12-53-22-56-8 results ------- Number of 1 is 1 Number of 8 is 1 Number of 10 is 1 Number of 12 is 1 Number of 15 is 1 Number of 21 is 1 Number of 22 is 1 Number of 23 is 1 Number of 24 is 1 Number of 25 is 1 Number of 28 is 1 Number of 29 is 1 Number of 34 is 2 Number of 038 is 3 Number of 42 is 1 Number of 047 is 1 Number of 51 is 1 Number of 53 is 2 Number of 56 is 2 Number of 64 is 2 Number of 66 is 1 Number of 068 is 1 Number of 70 is 1 Number of 87 is 1 Number of 097 is 2 Number of 99 is 1 Number of 106 is 1 Number of 109 is 1 Number of 111 is 1 Number of 115 is 1 Number of 121 is 1 Number of 150 is 1 Number of 151 is 1 Number of 160 is 1 Number of 168 is 1 Number of 183 is 1 Number of 189 is 1 Number of 193 is 1 Number of 242 is 1 Number of 273 is 1 Number of 289 is 1 Number of 330 is 1 Number of 335 is 1 Number of 345 is 1 Number of 376 is 1 Number of 377 is 1 Number of 380 is 1 Number of 415 is 1 Number of 426 is 1 Number of 434 is 1 Number of 468 is 1 Number of 486 is 1 Number of 494 is 1 Number of 549 is 1
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A silly little script, but will post it anyway. #!/usr/local/bin/perl while () { foreach (split(/-/,$_)) { chomp; $count{$_}++; } } print "results ------- \n"; foreach (sort(keys(%count))) { print "Number of $_ is $count{$_}\n"; }
Does anyone remember Heinlein's book? It explains a lot of the forum questions in a highly entertaining novel that has much else to recommend it.
Besides the Cyborg spaceships, the moon has a 3g official catapult of 100km in length, and a 10g 30km one which is used for the moon independence movement.
And when they try politicing on earth, they try to sell the catapult idea to every government on the planet.
Useful features. Equatorial location. High altitude. E/W orientation. Long slope.
Several mountains that fit this description were mentioned in the book. I'm excited. A 350km catapult pushing at 20G (only inanimate cargo) was proposed for earth.
Yet, for all that, the "hero" still wins through. Someone with a bad heart wouldn't just be screened out of an ubermensch future space program.
NASA would screen someone who couldn't pass fitness tests either.
I was outraged when the "hero" fakes his running exam to hide a weak valve.
When the movie ended with the rocket lifting off, my mind filled in a final sequence where the weight of many gravities crushes him to the ground in a massive cardia arrest.
Even more so if the program assumed a healthier then average astronaut population. God knows what trajectory it was using.
BTW. Celsius conversion are FAR easier the Fahrenheit. 1 calorie will heat 1 cubic centimeter of water by 1 degree celsius. Can you do the same in Imperial? Furthermore, water being a fairly important component of all life here on earth, using it as the accepted scale is highly logical. It makes a kind of intuitive sense that as the temperature drops in the wintertime, water starts to go solid around 0. Furthermore, the fact that 100 is around human body temperature is pure coincidence. The scale was expanded (see article above) only to get rid of fractions. Lazy imperial system people are forgetting that a decimal based system can handle decimal degrees just fine. If you want more accuracy, throw some extra numbers behind the decimal point.
BTW. Celsius conversion are FAR easier the Fahrenheit. 1 calorie will heat 1 cubic centimeter of water by 1 degree celsius.
Can you do the same in Imperial?
Furthermore, water being a fairly important component of all life here on earth, using it as the accepted scale is highly logical. It makes a kind of intuitive sense that as the temperature drops in the wintertime, water starts to go solid around 0.
Furthermore, the fact that 100 is around human body temperature is pure coincidence. The scale was expanded (see article above) only to get rid of fractions.
Lazy imperial system people are forgetting that a decimal based system can handle decimal degrees just fine. If you want more accuracy, throw some extra numbers behind the decimal point.
No where NEAR the costs being spent to maintain two systems now.
The only reason the US hasn't converted with the rest of the world was due to a stupid attempt to do it slowly (signs in both miles/km) the first time around.
That, and the fact that they can afford to waste money calculating two systems of measurement, and have a strong enough internal market for many companies to skip converting all together.
Most inter-office communication is by e-mail (which actually improves tracking compared to photocopies). I take all my quick notes with a "cat > " or notepad.exe depending on environment. More and more general resources are on our intranet. The rest are usually dumped on a network drive.
The only thing I printed all week was my timesheet, and that's because that still has to be signed off on by a supervisor.
The Guide? Restaurant at the end of the Universe? Life, the Universe and everything? So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish? Mostly Harmless Young Zaphod Plays it Safe?
What I find funny is that these are now to be found in leather, gilt edged volumes, printed on that same onionskin paper reserved once for bibles.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed. In fact, I seem to remember reading an article in either Science News or Scientific American recently which has tried to extrapolate what this portion of space was like at the time this supernovae occured. I seem to remember the article theorising that the supernovae also kick started a bunch of suns in our area.
And I always was inspired by Carl Sagan's take on the whole idea.
Where do you think life came from?
Do you think the first organisms created what they needed to exist out of thin air? Bootstrapped themselves into existence?
The question is not whether hydrocarbons can only be created by life, but whether oilbeds were laid down by life. So far (although it may be the lack of detail in the report) he's far from convincing.
I suppose the real test of his theory will be if oil supplies regenerate. Still, I thought the interior of the earth was fairly well understood. Iron core generating a magnetic field and all that.
The trouble is not to make it so unconventional that it's undecipherable to the average human.
I didn't think heavier elements even appeared until later in stellar evolution. It seems he's challenging more then just all of geology...
It would seem to me to be then merely a question of scale.
Do we not have the relevant portions mapped out yet?
Lucifer
:)
Light bearing
Yes, I know you were joking.
Perhaps you wouldn't mind explaining this?
//wwwmed.stanford.edu/center/communications/Pressr el/October97/glow.html - labmice
http:
http://www.promega.com/pnotes/49/ 2788d/2788d.html - pictures of glowing fruitflies and plants.
Yes, I know it's an "explains a bit too much" theory at the moment, but as Dr. Susan Blackmore covers in "The Meme Machine," the pressures of the memes are not always consonant with those of the gene, as sociobiology would predict (of our culture)
Memetic pressures.
Low vertical propagation memesets have have the advantage of a high lateral propagation.
i.e. Successful, flashy people aren't at home raising kids.
The idea catches on.
If you follow the path of evil, I mean. From a traditional Christian perspective, I thought the hordes of hell would not be able to defeat even a single angel. How then, if you follow "the way that leads to destruction" can you have anything remotely like a game? Can a demon kill an angel in this game? And if you play as an angel, how can you be hurt? Or is this a variation the vaguely D&D books that were once popular in evangelical christianity which had angels winning only through the prayer power of the saints. I remember the demon/angel combat in those books even sounded like D&D, even the descriptions of the demons twisted lizard like appearance and sulferous breath. :) And of course, they all fought with swords, with hit success depending on those prayers again (dice, anyone?) Heh. Glad I dropped all that nonsense long ago. Still, it'll be amusing to see if one can make a challenging game out of the unbalanced zoroastrian cosmology of modern christianity.
Did that in about 2 minutes, and it occured to me I wanted a numerical sort.
- 415-426
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
while ()
{
foreach (split(/-/,$_))
{
chomp;
$count{$_}++;
}
}
print "results ------- \n";
foreach (sort(numeric(keys(%count))))
{
print "Number of $_ is $count{$_}\n";
}
sub numeric
{
if ($a $b)
{
-1
}
elsif ($a == $b)
{
0
}
else
{
1
}
}
------------------
$ temp.pl
038-097-34-64-242-335-51-377-183-168
038-097-34-64-380-330-115-289-273-189-56
068-486-42-23-87-434-10-468-151-345-150-494-376
038-549-53-15-1-193-121-29-109-66-28-160-106
047-111-70-99-24-21-25-12-53-22-56-8
results -------
Number of 1 is 1
Number of 8 is 1
Number of 10 is 1
Number of 12 is 1
Number of 15 is 1
Number of 21 is 1
Number of 22 is 1
Number of 23 is 1
Number of 24 is 1
Number of 25 is 1
Number of 28 is 1
Number of 29 is 1
Number of 34 is 2
Number of 038 is 3
Number of 42 is 1
Number of 047 is 1
Number of 51 is 1
Number of 53 is 2
Number of 56 is 2
Number of 64 is 2
Number of 66 is 1
Number of 068 is 1
Number of 70 is 1
Number of 87 is 1
Number of 097 is 2
Number of 99 is 1
Number of 106 is 1
Number of 109 is 1
Number of 111 is 1
Number of 115 is 1
Number of 121 is 1
Number of 150 is 1
Number of 151 is 1
Number of 160 is 1
Number of 168 is 1
Number of 183 is 1
Number of 189 is 1
Number of 193 is 1
Number of 242 is 1
Number of 273 is 1
Number of 289 is 1
Number of 330 is 1
Number of 335 is 1
Number of 345 is 1
Number of 376 is 1
Number of 377 is 1
Number of 380 is 1
Number of 415 is 1
Number of 426 is 1
Number of 434 is 1
Number of 468 is 1
Number of 486 is 1
Number of 494 is 1
Number of 549 is 1
At first glance anyway. :)
- 415-426
That was the first thing I thought of.
$ temp.pl
038-097-34-64-242-335-51-377-183-168
038-097-34-64-380-330-115-289-273-189-56
068-486-42-23-87-434-10-468-151-345-150-494-376
038-549-53-15-1-193-121-29-109-66-28-160-106
047-111-70-99-24-21-25-12-53-22-56-8
results -------
Number of 038 is 3
Number of 047 is 1
Number of 068 is 1
Number of 097 is 2
Number of 1 is 1
Number of 10 is 1
Number of 106 is 1
Number of 109 is 1
Number of 111 is 1
Number of 115 is 1
Number of 12 is 1
Number of 121 is 1
Number of 15 is 1
Number of 150 is 1
Number of 151 is 1
Number of 160 is 1
Number of 168 is 1
Number of 183 is 1
Number of 189 is 1
Number of 193 is 1
Number of 21 is 1
Number of 22 is 1
Number of 23 is 1
Number of 24 is 1
Number of 242 is 1
Number of 25 is 1
Number of 273 is 1
Number of 28 is 1
Number of 289 is 1
Number of 29 is 1
Number of 330 is 1
Number of 335 is 1
Number of 34 is 2
Number of 345 is 1
Number of 376 is 1
Number of 377 is 1
Number of 380 is 1
Number of 415 is 1
Number of 42 is 1
Number of 426 is 1
Number of 434 is 1
Number of 468 is 1
Number of 486 is 1
Number of 494 is 1
Number of 51 is 1
Number of 53 is 2
Number of 549 is 1
Number of 56 is 2
Number of 64 is 2
Number of 66 is 1
Number of 70 is 1
Number of 8 is 1
Number of 87 is 1
Number of 99 is 1
A silly little script, but will post it anyway.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
while ()
{
foreach (split(/-/,$_))
{
chomp;
$count{$_}++;
}
}
print "results ------- \n";
foreach (sort(keys(%count)))
{
print "Number of $_ is $count{$_}\n";
}
right?
"when ever I break out the laptop to play mp3's"
:)
Does anyone remember Heinlein's book? It explains a lot of the forum questions in a highly entertaining novel that has much else to recommend it.
Besides the Cyborg spaceships, the moon has a 3g official catapult of 100km in length, and a 10g 30km one which is used for the moon independence movement.
And when they try politicing on earth, they try to sell the catapult idea to every government on the planet.
Useful features.
Equatorial location.
High altitude.
E/W orientation.
Long slope.
Several mountains that fit this description were mentioned in the book.
I'm excited. A 350km catapult pushing at 20G (only inanimate cargo) was proposed for earth.
Yet, for all that, the "hero" still wins through.
Someone with a bad heart wouldn't just be screened out of an ubermensch future space program.
NASA would screen someone who couldn't pass fitness tests either.
I was outraged when the "hero" fakes his running exam to hide a weak valve.
When the movie ended with the rocket lifting off, my mind filled in a final sequence where the weight of many gravities crushes him to the ground in a massive cardia arrest.
Even more so if the program assumed a healthier then average astronaut population. God knows what trajectory it was using.
The film could have made it's argument better.
Exactly what does tritium have to do with the collider?
It just occurred to me some nitpicker might infer I confused synthesis/analysis, rather then having put them in the wrong order (for that comparison).
I hadn't.
Hm. Taking things apart/Putting them together.
Synthesis/Analysis.
What tools would you suggest we use instead?
These categories seem kind of general.
Are idiots?
learn about how Fahrenheit was developed:
http://www.straightdope.com/class ics/a891215.html.
BTW. Celsius conversion are FAR easier the Fahrenheit. 1 calorie will heat 1 cubic centimeter of water by 1 degree celsius.
Can you do the same in Imperial?
Furthermore, water being a fairly important component of all life here on earth, using it as the accepted scale is highly logical. It makes a kind of intuitive sense that as the temperature drops in the wintertime, water starts to go solid around 0.
Furthermore, the fact that 100 is around human body temperature is pure coincidence. The scale was expanded (see article above) only to get rid of fractions.
Lazy imperial system people are forgetting that a decimal based system can handle decimal degrees just fine. If you want more accuracy, throw some extra numbers behind the decimal point.
Are idiots?
learn about how Fahrenheit was developed:
http://www.straightdope.com/class ics/a891215.html.
BTW. Celsius conversion are FAR easier the Fahrenheit.
1 calorie will heat 1 cubic centimeter of water by 1 degree celsius.
Can you do the same in Imperial?
Furthermore, water being a fairly important component of all life here on earth, using it as the accepted scale is highly logical.
It makes a kind of intuitive sense that as the temperature drops in the wintertime, water starts to go solid around 0.
Furthermore, the fact that 100 is around human body temperature is pure coincidence. The scale was expanded (see article above) only to get rid of fractions.
Lazy imperial system people are forgetting that a decimal based system can handle decimal degrees just fine. If you want more accuracy, throw some extra numbers behind the decimal point.
What's with this new-fangled XXIX?
No one ever used subtraction in MY day.
XXVIIII
!
No where NEAR the costs being spent to maintain two systems now.
The only reason the US hasn't converted with the rest of the world was due to a stupid attempt to do it slowly (signs in both miles/km) the first time around.
That, and the fact that they can afford to waste money calculating two systems of measurement, and have a strong enough internal market for many companies to skip converting all together.
1 km = 1000 meters
...
1000 meters = 100,000 centimeters
100,000 centimeters = 1,000,000 millimeters
1 mile = 5280 feet
5280 feet = 63360 inches
63360 inches
Now I just wish they'd convert the time system to base 10.
Most inter-office communication is by e-mail (which actually improves tracking compared to photocopies).
I take all my quick notes with a "cat > " or notepad.exe depending on environment.
More and more general resources are on our intranet.
The rest are usually dumped on a network drive.
The only thing I printed all week was my timesheet, and that's because that still has to be signed off on by a supervisor.
http://www.vogon.com/guide/
The Guide?
Restaurant at the end of the Universe?
Life, the Universe and everything?
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
Mostly Harmless
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe?
What I find funny is that these are now to be found in leather, gilt edged volumes, printed on that same onionskin paper reserved once for bibles.