Yes, and it's too bad that they scrubbed the building of the X-33... small prototype to the VentureStar which would have replaced the current space shuttle as the reusable lauch vehicle that was a single stage earth to orbit vehicle. The engines they were putting on there would have given it the ability to possibly go to the moon and back... all they needed was the fuel.
...last fake landing on the moon? December 14th markes the day that the government decided they if they continued faking moon missions, that people would eventually catch on!
Where do you draw the line as when the process begins/ends?
You have a large number of events that need to be carried out before the actuall planet sphere begins to form...
1) Matter needs to be created
2) A vast ammount of gas needs to slowly collect together.
3) A stable center of gravity needs to be distinguished
4) That gravity needs to slowly (and exponentially) gather more mass around it to finally form the planet.
But when do you start the stop-watch? Step 1... or 4?
It's like saying "I can put together a ham sandwich in 30 seconds!"...but how long did it take for all the parts to form like raising the pig or growing the wheat?
If you go back far enough, it took billions of years for that sandwich to be created... since the beginning of time...
Oh geez... "all Mac users are kind-hearted loving people who would never do anything wrong!"...you make me sick...
I can see the sequal to the Mac add "My name is ____ and I saved christmas":
"I'm a PC user and I ruined christmas!!"
Soon we won't have racial steriotypes, but it'll all be based on your operating system! Oooooo!!! BSD user's BEWARE!!! Linux will form a clan and burn penguins on your lawn!
Planned Obsolescence. It's just a corperate plan to make shitty products, sell them at high prices, and then in a couple years, people have to come back and buy it again because the original broke!
Take audio electronics for instance... I have an awesome radio and tape system made by Technics from a long time ago. Sure, it's big and heavy, but it's made with real nice polished metal that has stood the test of time. It gets the best radio reception out of ANYTHING in my house... better than my car's too. The knobs are big and turn nice (with nice heavy momentum too so it feels like you're actually doing something), the LED's are bright and everything is perfect on it...
Sitting in my basement is a 2Disc CD system with 2 tape decks and a low-lit display. I feel like if i put a glass of water on top of the thing the plastic will give away and ruin it... The nobs are weightless and rough, the reception is like I'm in a cement tomb 500ft in the ground, and the CD/Tape players barely work... They spent so much time designing the thing with beveled edges and color contrasts everywhere that I can't even find any button to press to turn the damn thing on. I could barely see where to eject the CD... or even where the tray was because of the stupid "techno" and "futuristic" bull shit design they have...
Yes, consumer electronics has gone down over the years... mainly the fault of stupid consumers, but also the fault of the greedy corperate SOBs that are runnin the company and make the decisions to sell the crap...
Don't give me a hunk of cheap plastic crap that looks like a 3D ink blob test, just give me a simple, nice looking, reliable product and I'll be a loyal customer for the rest of my life...
...who cares? I really can't see how this will effect our lives in any way. So maybe people at the equator will weigh + or -.00000000000000000000000000000005 lbs because of this... so what?
Why don't they put the research grants toward something a little more important like earth quake prediction since they're dealing with the shifts in land mass and flowing mantle...
I'm fond of science... but wasting all that money on monitoring tiny shifts in the earth's gravitational field and trying to blame global warming?? Come on...
is if they start a royalty rate for all people present in the car during a car pool. Everytime you buy a CD, you must fill out a form stating how many friends you have and how often they drive with you while listening to music....RIAA is just getting out of hand... when is someone going to stop them??
People in the scientific field (if this guy is even concidered to be in it) are really desperate for publishings...
But the Earth isn't a perfect sphere -- it's an oblate spheroid, flattened at the poles -- and every meridian isn't equal because the Earth isn't perfectly smooth, either. So the meter is an average, a compromise -- a figure agreed upon by men, not handed down by nature.
Even if you average the unit, it is still handed down by nature. It's the natural average distance from the north pole to the equator.
Which makes the metric system, extrapolated largely from the meter, arbitrary as well. Not as arbitrary as the yard or the cubit or the rod or the mile, but arbitrary nevertheless.
I guess he doesn't know what arbitrary is...
arbitrary: Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle.
So he's saying that creating the meter was just on a whim? A bit of a contradiction to the statement a couple sentenced above it "Originally, you see, the metric unit of distance was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the span from the north pole to the equator."
Yes, the actual length of the meter -- compared with what was intended -- is a mistake.
So... who cares? I guess everybody needs to go run and buy a new meter stick that has been updated to the "sattelite measurments" that we can now do today, and you all need to go turn your cars in to get the speedometer adjustet properly. His "news" of innacuracy in the original measurements of the globe are not suprising at all... if you're going to try to publish something... an entire books worth... you need to do it on something that actually matters.
so we can store information on a molecule, but how big was the machine that created the spins? And how long did it take to process the 1's and 0's on the molecule?
Sure, we could store information on molecules, but the speed and the size of the machines involved would put us back to working with punch cards...
What needs to be done simultaneously is to improve the method in which we induce and read the spin in molecules, or those sugar cube sized computers will just be expensive and slow RAM inside a computer the size of a room...
only way out will be a longer human life... or a limitless human life.
This could be obtained within (10 years anybody?) our own life time artifically. Even if 500+ years from now the limits of science has been reached for natural humans, I'm sure within that time they would have figured out some way to increase the activity, density, and size of the human brain, allowing us to think just a little bit smarter than what we can today...
Even if we do not change the physical aspects of the human brain, I'm sure we would have eventually come to a better understanding as to how our brain functions, allowing us to at least enhance our own thinking process a little.
In the beginning of the century, you could write Nobel-prize class papers at 20.
Who says we can't? It is the upbringing that is limiting us. Having to sit in a public school in mindless classes and PE can really hold a child back from reaching their real potential.
teaching techniques improves over time, but even then, there will be a limit.
There is no limit. No one knows the final outcome of the human brain. With more development of brain-wave (thought pattern) recognition, the possibility of thought induction is there. Who needs a text book when you can download information into your own mind? The only type of teacher you would need would be a mentor of some sort to teach you ethics and how to harness the potential of your brain. We very far away from fully understanding the human brain... throughtout that quest, I'm sure we'll figure out ways of enhancing it.
Yes, in order to reach scientific breakthroughs we need a bit more effort compared to the past, but it does not mean that we will never reach a time when that will change. Let's just hope we don't kill species before we get to that point.
Isla explained that some of the drawings point east or northeast toward the rivers.
First, most of the drawings are so huge that you can't see them fully without being suspended in air... seeing some random lines going in multiple directions on the dry desert wouldn't make me think there there's water anywhere, nor give me a sence of direction to where it was...
If they were going to point to water, why not make an straight arrow with a symbol for water by it???
~~~ ~~~ ----> ~~~
There were also crab claws and other things which seemed to point to a water cult.
Ok, so they praised water... who wouldn't if you lived in a desert? It's the thing that kept you alive... I'm sure a lot of people held it in high regard...
I think they should have just stuck with religion... making symbols for your gods is a more plausable explanation than a complex, undefinitave, non-universal method of communicating where water is. We do crazy stuff for our god(s) too... Look at all the huge churches we make for our god(s)....
No, they handle it by stepping down the speed as necessary to keep the core temperature below some maximum -- which is exactly the right thing to do.
The point is that AMD's don't run hotter by themselves. In order to get a P4 to the same temp as an athlon, they have to bolt that huge heatsink onto it, and have it auto-adjust the clock speed when it gets too hot...
If I put as big of a heatsink on my Athlon, it would run pretty cool too....
Intel handles overheating much better than AMD. Ironic since AMD's the king of running too hot.
Yea, they handle it by bolting a 10lb heat sink into the casing of a computer because it would bend the motherboard......has anybody ever thought that the rediculously large heatsink is the reason it runs cooler??
It's funny that you mention the Heatsink, cuz every P4 system that I've seen, the heatsink has to practically be bolted into the casing because it's so damn large...
It has to make you wonder what effect it would have if you had the (mis)fortune of standing on the entry or exit point. Spontaneous combustion anyone?
No. Spontaneous combustion is a slow process of internal heating (if it really exists... and these old people aren't just accidently lighting themselves on fire). If the little packet of quarkes was big enough, then it might blow a little hole in you somewhere...
The only problem is that these particles are way too small to be slowed down enough to transfer a significant ammount of kenetic friction into the planet... or you. Earth got a little rumble because 1) It's much more dense and 2) There is more matter, antimater, quarks, leptons, and whatever slows the stuff down to actually slow it down and get some of that kenetic energy.
If one passed through you, you probably wouldn't feel a thing...
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Yes, and it's too bad that they scrubbed the building of the X-33... small prototype to the VentureStar which would have replaced the current space shuttle as the reusable lauch vehicle that was a single stage earth to orbit vehicle. The engines they were putting on there would have given it the ability to possibly go to the moon and back... all they needed was the fuel.
:)
Plus it looked cool too
...last fake landing on the moon? December 14th markes the day that the government decided they if they continued faking moon missions, that people would eventually catch on!
...wait...
Where do you draw the line as when the process begins/ends?
...but how long did it take for all the parts to form like raising the pig or growing the wheat?
You have a large number of events that need to be carried out before the actuall planet sphere begins to form...
1) Matter needs to be created
2) A vast ammount of gas needs to slowly collect together.
3) A stable center of gravity needs to be distinguished
4) That gravity needs to slowly (and exponentially) gather more mass around it to finally form the planet.
But when do you start the stop-watch? Step 1... or 4?
It's like saying "I can put together a ham sandwich in 30 seconds!"
If you go back far enough, it took billions of years for that sandwich to be created... since the beginning of time...
Obviously a PC user.
...you make me sick...
Suck it you bubble-lovin Mac faggot...
Oh geez... "all Mac users are kind-hearted loving people who would never do anything wrong!"
I can see the sequal to the Mac add "My name is ____ and I saved christmas":
"I'm a PC user and I ruined christmas!!"
Soon we won't have racial steriotypes, but it'll all be based on your operating system! Oooooo!!! BSD user's BEWARE!!! Linux will form a clan and burn penguins on your lawn!
....wait....
Planned Obsolescence. It's just a corperate plan to make shitty products, sell them at high prices, and then in a couple years, people have to come back and buy it again because the original broke!
Take audio electronics for instance... I have an awesome radio and tape system made by Technics from a long time ago. Sure, it's big and heavy, but it's made with real nice polished metal that has stood the test of time. It gets the best radio reception out of ANYTHING in my house... better than my car's too. The knobs are big and turn nice (with nice heavy momentum too so it feels like you're actually doing something), the LED's are bright and everything is perfect on it...
Sitting in my basement is a 2Disc CD system with 2 tape decks and a low-lit display. I feel like if i put a glass of water on top of the thing the plastic will give away and ruin it... The nobs are weightless and rough, the reception is like I'm in a cement tomb 500ft in the ground, and the CD/Tape players barely work... They spent so much time designing the thing with beveled edges and color contrasts everywhere that I can't even find any button to press to turn the damn thing on. I could barely see where to eject the CD... or even where the tray was because of the stupid "techno" and "futuristic" bull shit design they have...
Yes, consumer electronics has gone down over the years... mainly the fault of stupid consumers, but also the fault of the greedy corperate SOBs that are runnin the company and make the decisions to sell the crap...
Don't give me a hunk of cheap plastic crap that looks like a 3D ink blob test, just give me a simple, nice looking, reliable product and I'll be a loyal customer for the rest of my life...
This is contrary to the perception that American workers are wasting too much time battling spam.
So only Americans get spam now? Well that settles it! I'm moving to canada!
...wait...
...who cares? I really can't see how this will effect our lives in any way. So maybe people at the equator will weigh + or - .00000000000000000000000000000005 lbs because of this... so what?
Why don't they put the research grants toward something a little more important like earth quake prediction since they're dealing with the shifts in land mass and flowing mantle...
I'm fond of science... but wasting all that money on monitoring tiny shifts in the earth's gravitational field and trying to blame global warming?? Come on...
...this is exactly what my teacher in bio teacher in highschool taught us 4 years ago... what a "new theory"!
is if they start a royalty rate for all people present in the car during a car pool. Everytime you buy a CD, you must fill out a form stating how many friends you have and how often they drive with you while listening to music. ...RIAA is just getting out of hand... when is someone going to stop them??
Microsoft dodges yet another possible bankrupting lawsuit by buying the entire state of Massachusetts...
People in the scientific field (if this guy is even concidered to be in it) are really desperate for publishings...
:
But the Earth isn't a perfect sphere -- it's an oblate spheroid, flattened at the poles -- and every meridian isn't equal because the Earth isn't perfectly smooth, either. So the meter is an average, a compromise -- a figure agreed upon by men, not handed down by nature.
Even if you average the unit, it is still handed down by nature. It's the natural average distance from the north pole to the equator.
Which makes the metric system, extrapolated largely from the meter, arbitrary as well. Not as arbitrary as the yard or the cubit or the rod or the mile, but arbitrary nevertheless.
I guess he doesn't know what arbitrary is...
arbitrary
Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle.
So he's saying that creating the meter was just on a whim? A bit of a contradiction to the statement a couple sentenced above it "Originally, you see, the metric unit of distance was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the span from the north pole to the equator."
Yes, the actual length of the meter -- compared with what was intended -- is a mistake.
So... who cares? I guess everybody needs to go run and buy a new meter stick that has been updated to the "sattelite measurments" that we can now do today, and you all need to go turn your cars in to get the speedometer adjustet properly. His "news" of innacuracy in the original measurements of the globe are not suprising at all... if you're going to try to publish something... an entire books worth... you need to do it on something that actually matters.
the 1's and 0's come from the wave from the magnetic moment, which is interrelated with the spin
so we can store information on a molecule, but how big was the machine that created the spins? And how long did it take to process the 1's and 0's on the molecule?
Sure, we could store information on molecules, but the speed and the size of the machines involved would put us back to working with punch cards...
What needs to be done simultaneously is to improve the method in which we induce and read the spin in molecules, or those sugar cube sized computers will just be expensive and slow RAM inside a computer the size of a room...
only way out will be a longer human life... or a limitless human life.
This could be obtained within (10 years anybody?) our own life time artifically. Even if 500+ years from now the limits of science has been reached for natural humans, I'm sure within that time they would have figured out some way to increase the activity, density, and size of the human brain, allowing us to think just a little bit smarter than what we can today...
Even if we do not change the physical aspects of the human brain, I'm sure we would have eventually come to a better understanding as to how our brain functions, allowing us to at least enhance our own thinking process a little.
In the beginning of the century, you could write Nobel-prize class papers at 20.
Who says we can't? It is the upbringing that is limiting us. Having to sit in a public school in mindless classes and PE can really hold a child back from reaching their real potential.
teaching techniques improves over time, but even then, there will be a limit.
There is no limit. No one knows the final outcome of the human brain. With more development of brain-wave (thought pattern) recognition, the possibility of thought induction is there. Who needs a text book when you can download information into your own mind? The only type of teacher you would need would be a mentor of some sort to teach you ethics and how to harness the potential of your brain. We very far away from fully understanding the human brain... throughtout that quest, I'm sure we'll figure out ways of enhancing it.
Yes, in order to reach scientific breakthroughs we need a bit more effort compared to the past, but it does not mean that we will never reach a time when that will change. Let's just hope we don't kill species before we get to that point.
Isla explained that some of the drawings point east or northeast toward the rivers.
First, most of the drawings are so huge that you can't see them fully without being suspended in air... seeing some random lines going in multiple directions on the dry desert wouldn't make me think there there's water anywhere, nor give me a sence of direction to where it was...
If they were going to point to water, why not make an straight arrow with a symbol for water by it???
~~~
~~~ ---->
~~~
There were also crab claws and other things which seemed to point to a water cult.
Ok, so they praised water... who wouldn't if you lived in a desert? It's the thing that kept you alive... I'm sure a lot of people held it in high regard...
I think they should have just stuck with religion... making symbols for your gods is a more plausable explanation than a complex, undefinitave, non-universal method of communicating where water is. We do crazy stuff for our god(s) too... Look at all the huge churches we make for our god(s)....
...what's your point?
...the moon doesn't have and environment to pollute... it doesn't even have a noticable atmosphere...
We're gonna polute that... empty... black... infinite........ space.....!!
No, they handle it by stepping down the speed as necessary to keep the core temperature below some maximum -- which is exactly the right thing to do.
The point is that AMD's don't run hotter by themselves. In order to get a P4 to the same temp as an athlon, they have to bolt that huge heatsink onto it, and have it auto-adjust the clock speed when it gets too hot...
If I put as big of a heatsink on my Athlon, it would run pretty cool too....
Perhaps we'll see long gone competitors make a comback now? ...like Cyrix??
he... hehe.... hahha...hhahaaahhahaha..HAHHHAAHAHAHA!
man I crack myself up...
but AMD has to have trouble making a profit on them.
Because the 3rd party sellers price the chips lower?
low price != dirt, just a low-cost manufacturing process and less greedy CEO's lining their pockets...
Intel handles overheating much better than AMD. Ironic since AMD's the king of running too hot.
...has anybody ever thought that the rediculously large heatsink is the reason it runs cooler??
Yea, they handle it by bolting a 10lb heat sink into the casing of a computer because it would bend the motherboard...
It's funny that you mention the Heatsink, cuz every P4 system that I've seen, the heatsink has to practically be bolted into the casing because it's so damn large...
...I guess I'm gonna have to stock up on black permanent markers. ;)
It has to make you wonder what effect it would have if you had the (mis)fortune of standing on the entry or exit point. Spontaneous combustion anyone?
No. Spontaneous combustion is a slow process of internal heating (if it really exists... and these old people aren't just accidently lighting themselves on fire). If the little packet of quarkes was big enough, then it might blow a little hole in you somewhere...
The only problem is that these particles are way too small to be slowed down enough to transfer a significant ammount of kenetic friction into the planet... or you. Earth got a little rumble because 1) It's much more dense and 2) There is more matter, antimater, quarks, leptons, and whatever slows the stuff down to actually slow it down and get some of that kenetic energy.
If one passed through you, you probably wouldn't feel a thing...