"The only flow that effects the climate on earth is (besides the jet stream) the ocean currents."
Rethinking that statement, I guess the change in the magnetic field could effect the earth's climate. If the magnetic field is weakened (...it's already pretty damn weak itself), then it could allow for more radiation coming into the earth's atmosphere, and then warming up the climate... but that's just my guess.
"Present them with a very current, very REAL problem that affects us today, and their true ignorance wouldn't be hard to spot. "
-So we should stop researching problems that might arrise in the future? Ok, lets just sit back, pollute our skies, use up all the oil, and then when we can't drive our cars, or breathe without an environment suit, THEN we'll start thinking of what to do...
"First of all, the only time we hear about "Global Warming" is during the summer"
-The only reason we hear about it during the summer is because the news stations wouldn't air it during the winter... no one would believe it. "Today's high will be around 15 degrees... next up, an interview with a top scientist in the research of global warming"...their ratings would drop right after that sentence.
"I propose we organize a similar movement that acknowledges the global cooling (Winter, for us laypersons) that is always occuring SOMEWHERE in the world"
-I think you have your definiton of Global wrong. You say that global warming and global cooling is always happening SOMEWHERE in the world... but that's not "Global"... it's "Local".
If you did research the findings that the scientists have brought in, it shows the effects of green-house gasses in the air (CO2 and other compounds), and it's effect on our (here's that word again) Global climate. After drilling into the ice caps and measuring the concentration of the CO2 levels in the past, they matched up the rise and fall of CO2, and mapped it against the ice ages... and found how they match up. If you couldn't guess, the more CO2, the hotter it is. (Less CO2, the colder it is). Guess what... the CO2 levels are on the rise (the highest they've EVER been... besides when earth was forming)... and this is how they justify the global warming...
The earth's magnetic field has nothing to do with the weather going on about the surface of the earth. When the earth's magnetic field changes (which it does... and we think it has a couple of times), all that is happening is a shift in the flow of the super-hot, liquid metal core (since it is iron, and iron is one of the naturally occuring ferromagnets, along with nickle and some other elements). So when the magnetic field changes, it's just showing that the direction of the flow within the earth has shifted... it can even shift direction entirely. Just think... north becomes south, and south becomes north.
Although you may think that the flow in the hot core may change things above the surface... the heat that disipates up to the surface is very very small (except for volcanos and such). The only flow that effects the climate on earth is (besides the jet stream) the ocean currents.
"What we've shown in this paper is that a small voltage can be used to ignite this chip, so you don't need any devices other than the tiny voltages you already have flowing through the electronic circuits of the chip. You just need to send them through the part of the chip that contains the blasting cap."
So what? I can strap some C4 to my computer and pass a little bit of voltage through it accomplish the same thing... if not better...;)
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I'm on a FIRST team, and the engineers don't run us... not by far. My best friend is the main programmer for the robot (it's not that hard), the main builder and robot designer, and also the robot operator, I'm the head 3D animator, and the daughter of the head of the team is the designer (awesome... awesome artist). The engineers we have only help out a little bit... the original engineer who did the programming for the robot was absolutely horrible.
We all know about the other teams we face that are run by engineers, and we still beat them. Every year we've gone to the nationals in florida... It's a shame that the engineers in other teams are taking all the work away from the kids... the learning experience you get from being on the team (and participating... not cheerleading) is enoumous, and the engineers should just sit back a little more, and let the kids do more of the work...
Now.... exacly why would you want to reach orbital speed while still within the lower atmospheres?! Do you think the current rockets do that or something?
The point of the electromagnetic propulsion ramp is just to get it out of our atmosphere (or just into a higher level). We don't have to rely entirely on it though. We're gonna put fule on the shuttle itself, so once it's gotten near the exosphere, it can start accelerating itself to orbiting speeds. All we're doing is trying to get rid of the outrageous ammount of fuel needed to lift the shuttle upward...
Yes... but I'm only using the examples from newtonian mechanics to generalize the problem we are faced with... I'm sorry that my highschool education didn't get into wave/particle duality within a shashdot post.
Of course I thought about the Heisenberg Uncertanty Principle, but even electons are predictable. Even if we didn't have the current technology to measure both velocity and position of an electron, doesn't mean that it's not possible.... we just haven't found a way to do it yet...
Mapping the velocities and positions of each subatomic particle is almost necessary in fully calculating the motion within the sun. Sine there is a great ammount of fusion going on (well... thats pretty much all the sun is, a fusion reactor), then we have to calculate each particle... or we won't get the full effect...
1. The evolution of such a system is, even in principle, impossible to predict
2. We will just keep creating slightly more accurate models over time, until we have one that is "good enough"
Just a tiny bit of contradicting yourself there...
The sun's dynamic innermotion is entirely predictable.... with a finite number of computations.
Within the sun there is a finite number of particles, which are made up of a finite number of subatomic particles... and the movement of each particle can be measured exactly if we take in account of all the number of forces acting upon it (which is... you guessed it... finite). Essentially, you would have to make a great deal of computations (...again, finite), but it is possible. The only problems you would get into would be continual motion... if there is such a thing...
That's pretty much the definition of a chaotic system-- tiny changes in initial conditions can have enormous effects on the behavior of the system.
Your two methods of estimation the number of effects coming from a single cause would indicate that there is a finite number of interactions within the star... thus allowing it to be computational. The word you would be looking for to fit the "unpredictable" scenario would be "randomness"... an event that has no pattern. But, since all motion within the sun is the result by some other force, it has a pattern, or order to its movements, and would therefore be predictable...
And yes, we will be able to achieve the state of mind which would allow us to compute these chaotic systems... that is if we don't get wiped out by plague, a meteor, or any other disaster, natural or man-made... and the leaders of the world aren't as doubting as you are. Just because our current thinking abilities are still at a very primitive state, doesn't mean we have to doubt our own future... Look how far the human mind has come...
Never underestimate the capability of the human mind...
Ok, lets just make EVERYTHING about a computer confusing as hell! Seriously, they already made a stupid move when they made a kilo 1024... i know about their damn powers explanation to it, but still you can have 1000 bytes... theres nothing wrong with just doing that... now we need to work in powers of 2??! Screw it, im becoming omish...
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"The only flow that effects the climate on earth is (besides the jet stream) the ocean currents."
Rethinking that statement, I guess the change in the magnetic field could effect the earth's climate. If the magnetic field is weakened (...it's already pretty damn weak itself), then it could allow for more radiation coming into the earth's atmosphere, and then warming up the climate... but that's just my guess.
"Present them with a very current, very REAL problem that affects us today, and their true ignorance wouldn't be hard to spot. "
...their ratings would drop right after that sentence.
-So we should stop researching problems that might arrise in the future? Ok, lets just sit back, pollute our skies, use up all the oil, and then when we can't drive our cars, or breathe without an environment suit, THEN we'll start thinking of what to do...
"First of all, the only time we hear about "Global Warming" is during the summer"
-The only reason we hear about it during the summer is because the news stations wouldn't air it during the winter... no one would believe it. "Today's high will be around 15 degrees... next up, an interview with a top scientist in the research of global warming"
"I propose we organize a similar movement that acknowledges the global cooling (Winter, for us laypersons) that is always occuring SOMEWHERE in the world"
-I think you have your definiton of Global wrong. You say that global warming and global cooling is always happening SOMEWHERE in the world... but that's not "Global"... it's "Local".
If you did research the findings that the scientists have brought in, it shows the effects of green-house gasses in the air (CO2 and other compounds), and it's effect on our (here's that word again) Global climate. After drilling into the ice caps and measuring the concentration of the CO2 levels in the past, they matched up the rise and fall of CO2, and mapped it against the ice ages... and found how they match up. If you couldn't guess, the more CO2, the hotter it is. (Less CO2, the colder it is). Guess what... the CO2 levels are on the rise (the highest they've EVER been... besides when earth was forming)... and this is how they justify the global warming...
The earth's magnetic field has nothing to do with the weather going on about the surface of the earth. When the earth's magnetic field changes (which it does... and we think it has a couple of times), all that is happening is a shift in the flow of the super-hot, liquid metal core (since it is iron, and iron is one of the naturally occuring ferromagnets, along with nickle and some other elements). So when the magnetic field changes, it's just showing that the direction of the flow within the earth has shifted... it can even shift direction entirely. Just think... north becomes south, and south becomes north.
Although you may think that the flow in the hot core may change things above the surface... the heat that disipates up to the surface is very very small (except for volcanos and such). The only flow that effects the climate on earth is (besides the jet stream) the ocean currents.
"...in a hot spring. The harsh conditions that are found here could prove a comparison to whats found on Mars."
Umm... I thought that mars was quite cold... unlike a hot spring...
::sniff sniff:: Smells like a government coverup to me... ever seen the X-Files?? ...then you know what I mean...
"What we've shown in this paper is that a small voltage can be used to ignite this chip, so you don't need any devices other than the tiny voltages you already have flowing through the electronic circuits of the chip. You just need to send them through the part of the chip that contains the blasting cap."
;)
So what? I can strap some C4 to my computer and pass a little bit of voltage through it accomplish the same thing... if not better...
why can't they just release the actual picture? is it a secret or something?
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Is this an old post? I thought there was something almost exactly like this where they stopped light (using 2 lasers) in a brose-einstein cloud...
...what?!
The tadpole was later disected, and the researchers confirmed that the optic nerve had reattached itself.
Don't forget about them frying it up and serving it in a French restaurant afterward too....
I'm on a FIRST team, and the engineers don't run us... not by far. My best friend is the main programmer for the robot (it's not that hard), the main builder and robot designer, and also the robot operator, I'm the head 3D animator, and the daughter of the head of the team is the designer (awesome... awesome artist). The engineers we have only help out a little bit... the original engineer who did the programming for the robot was absolutely horrible.
We all know about the other teams we face that are run by engineers, and we still beat them. Every year we've gone to the nationals in florida... It's a shame that the engineers in other teams are taking all the work away from the kids... the learning experience you get from being on the team (and participating... not cheerleading) is enoumous, and the engineers should just sit back a little more, and let the kids do more of the work...
Now.... exacly why would you want to reach orbital speed while still within the lower atmospheres?! Do you think the current rockets do that or something?
The point of the electromagnetic propulsion ramp is just to get it out of our atmosphere (or just into a higher level). We don't have to rely entirely on it though. We're gonna put fule on the shuttle itself, so once it's gotten near the exosphere, it can start accelerating itself to orbiting speeds. All we're doing is trying to get rid of the outrageous ammount of fuel needed to lift the shuttle upward...
Now I can control a spy sattelite and take a peak at some hot girl showering... heh heh... oh wait... line of site... damn!
The only problem with that analogy is that cyrix didnt produce anything high quality... like how CD's and HDTV are high(er) quality...
Just like no one thought that CD's would catch on...
so would espresso produce a stronger battery than just normal coffie?
Yes... but I'm only using the examples from newtonian mechanics to generalize the problem we are faced with... I'm sorry that my highschool education didn't get into wave/particle duality within a shashdot post.
...from knowing velocity and position, you can then calculate the forces between two electrons... You learn that in high school physics...
1. The evolution of such a system is, even in principle, impossible to predict
2. We will just keep creating slightly more accurate models over time, until we have one that is "good enough"
Just a tiny bit of contradicting yourself there...
didnt realise it was two different people... just thought it was the same one coming back at me... oops
Of course I thought about the Heisenberg Uncertanty Principle, but even electons are predictable. Even if we didn't have the current technology to measure both velocity and position of an electron, doesn't mean that it's not possible.... we just haven't found a way to do it yet...
Mapping the velocities and positions of each subatomic particle is almost necessary in fully calculating the motion within the sun. Sine there is a great ammount of fusion going on (well... thats pretty much all the sun is, a fusion reactor), then we have to calculate each particle... or we won't get the full effect...
1. The evolution of such a system is, even in principle, impossible to predict
2. We will just keep creating slightly more accurate models over time, until we have one that is "good enough"
Just a tiny bit of contradicting yourself there...
The sun's dynamic innermotion is entirely predictable.... with a finite number of computations.
... an event that has no pattern. But, since all motion within the sun is the result by some other force, it has a pattern, or order to its movements, and would therefore be predictable...
Within the sun there is a finite number of particles, which are made up of a finite number of subatomic particles... and the movement of each particle can be measured exactly if we take in account of all the number of forces acting upon it (which is... you guessed it... finite). Essentially, you would have to make a great deal of computations (...again, finite), but it is possible. The only problems you would get into would be continual motion... if there is such a thing...
That's pretty much the definition of a chaotic system-- tiny changes in initial conditions can have enormous effects on the behavior of the system.
Your two methods of estimation the number of effects coming from a single cause would indicate that there is a finite number of interactions within the star... thus allowing it to be computational. The word you would be looking for to fit the "unpredictable" scenario would be "randomness"
And yes, we will be able to achieve the state of mind which would allow us to compute these chaotic systems... that is if we don't get wiped out by plague, a meteor, or any other disaster, natural or man-made... and the leaders of the world aren't as doubting as you are. Just because our current thinking abilities are still at a very primitive state, doesn't mean we have to doubt our own future... Look how far the human mind has come...
Never underestimate the capability of the human mind...
It can be both
Ok, lets just make EVERYTHING about a computer confusing as hell! Seriously, they already made a stupid move when they made a kilo 1024... i know about their damn powers explanation to it, but still you can have 1000 bytes... theres nothing wrong with just doing that... now we need to work in powers of 2??! Screw it, im becoming omish...
Comcast in michigan has advertised 1.5mbps, but I only get 820something if im lucky.... kinda sucks...