the western US is believed to have the largest oil reserves in the world, and guess what, no one is currently using them!
the only problem is that the oil is trapped in oil shale which is very expensive to refine. however if the price of oil keeps going up, that won't be a problem anymore. i believe i saw an article trecently that some company just made a breakthrough that would potentially make processing oil shale economical at current oil prices even. however i can't seem to find that article right now.
The story of Peter Pan doesn't change either, let's all go live in Fairy-Land:-)
Geez man.. the Bible is not Science, and never will be.
they are looking for comfort not truth. uncertainty is frightening, that the bible doesn't change gives them a crutch to lean on. whether or not the bible is correct doesn't matter to them, because they have their security blanket to fall back on when science changes, and it turns out what they thought they knew about science wasn't correct.
if it makes you feel better i truly did want to debate the topic, just didn't have access to a computer over the weekend, and so i pointed it out to bd to debate it for me instead while i was away.
he definately believes in the subject, however i am more on the fence still. i believe most of what he says makes sence, and the vast majority of decisions the people would like to think are based on logic actually are emotional decisions. however i do see gaps where some decissions have no emotional influence such as choosing the correct answer on a test much like was in your example.
hehe...looks like i started a great debate. i knew bigdog wouldn't be able to resist arguing on this...no logical reasoning went behind my original post, i just wanted to drive bd crazy trying to convince the slashdotter's on a subject that i knew they would controversial, and that he would not be able to resist posting on.
to get back on subject, i believe the parent makes some good points.
you could possibly argue that the decision was made when selecting the which answer to circle on the test. and the correct answer was chosen over the incorrect answer due a desire to succeed. however the parent had to use concious logical knowledge to derive the correct answer, and decide which answer appeared to be correct. however in this particular case the connection between the emotion and actually deciding which answer is correct seems a bit weak.
studying, playing chess, or playing a sport at school
well, none of these activities seem logical to me...why are you studying? studying in order to pass the class sure seems logical...but the logical reasoning you are using to justify your decision states the emotional reasoning you used to make that decision to study to begin with...you have a desire to pass your class. that sure sounds emotional to me. however the process of studying seems that it could follow a set of decisions that are logical without an emotional response behind them. ex. you read the textbook because you are expected to have read it...ultimmately you are studying because you want to succeed, which is indeed emotional, however you aren't necessarily reading the book because you want to, you are reading the book, because that is a logical method of accomplishing the goal of having read the book.
even if you try to invalidate an IQ test as a marker of intelligence, if the study is valid you still can't deny that men do better on those tests. so that still seems to indicate that there is some sort of difference between men and women. you just need to figure out what that difference actually means.
sorry, according to the wikipedia article on tensile strength. there are a great many things stronger than spider webs. among them include glass and kevlar
you are forgetting something. it doesn't have to beat current forms of solar energy, that isn't the purpose. it only needs to beat current forms of hydrogen production. it doesn't matter how efficiently it collects solar energy, as long as it costs less resources to use this to produce hydrogen. and for these purposes the sun should be considered a free resource because it will be there whether or not we use it.
When it went below zero school was usually cancelled. Up North when it went below zero, put on extra clothes.
now you know where all those grandfather type stories of "in our day we had to walk uphill both ways in snow up to our ears and our spit would be frozen before it hit the ground..." come from!
"Upton estimates the move will save the country $360 million (U.S.) for the extra 60 days that daylight time will be in effect"
my god, they are seriously doing this for a mere $360million in energy? seriously, that is pocket change! to put it in perspective it will be saving each american about $1 per year...
you need to pay for the R&D to make them work first. and then they would be a new and unproven technology. we know how standard rocket engines work, and we have a lot of experience using them.
i am talking about the break even point of the fusion part of a hydrogen bomb.
re-read my post.
the high explosives don't start the fusion, it merely starts a normal fission bomb...this fission bomb then starts the fusion, and then the fusion starts another secondary fission process inside of a normally stable depleted uranium shell.
so a hydrogen bomb really explodes in 4 parts if you include the high explosives that sets it off.
there is a reason it is called the "grand challenge" instead of the "mediocre challenge"
this thing isn't meant to be easy! that the best team only made it 7 miles shows how difficult it is. that the best team only made 7 miles shows we have a lot to learn.
most fussion bombs take a fission reaction using U-235 or plutonium to start, which triggers a fussion reaction using deuterium which in turn triggers a secondary fission reaction in a U-238 shell, U-238 is normally quite stable and hard to get it to react on its own.
even worse, you can get "imitation cheese food" from quality places such as walmart! so not only is it not cheese, but apparently it isn't even good enough to be called "cheese food" whatever the hell that is anyway.
i live in WI, so it is easy to go to a cheese factory, and buy real cheese directly from the source. heck, my parents live close to 3 of them. so there is really no lack of quality cheese around here. in fact i don't remember the last day that i haven't eaten cheese...but then us people from WI put cheese on EVERYTHING...and as a consequence i found that no one outside of WI knows how to make pizza! ordering "double" or "extra" cheese on a pizza outside of WI and in most cases you still get less cheese than a normal pizza in WI!
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here you go, i just found that article
the western US is believed to have the largest oil reserves in the world, and guess what, no one is currently using them!
the only problem is that the oil is trapped in oil shale which is very expensive to refine. however if the price of oil keeps going up, that won't be a problem anymore. i believe i saw an article trecently that some company just made a breakthrough that would potentially make processing oil shale economical at current oil prices even. however i can't seem to find that article right now.
but why does a robot need to wear shoes?
The story of Peter Pan doesn't change either, let's all go live in Fairy-Land :-)
Geez man.. the Bible is not Science, and never will be.
they are looking for comfort not truth. uncertainty is frightening, that the bible doesn't change gives them a crutch to lean on. whether or not the bible is correct doesn't matter to them, because they have their security blanket to fall back on when science changes, and it turns out what they thought they knew about science wasn't correct.
if it makes you feel better i truly did want to debate the topic, just didn't have access to a computer over the weekend, and so i pointed it out to bd to debate it for me instead while i was away.
he definately believes in the subject, however i am more on the fence still. i believe most of what he says makes sence, and the vast majority of decisions the people would like to think are based on logic actually are emotional decisions. however i do see gaps where some decissions have no emotional influence such as choosing the correct answer on a test much like was in your example.
hehe...looks like i started a great debate. i knew bigdog wouldn't be able to resist arguing on this...no logical reasoning went behind my original post, i just wanted to drive bd crazy trying to convince the slashdotter's on a subject that i knew they would controversial, and that he would not be able to resist posting on.
to get back on subject, i believe the parent makes some good points.
you could possibly argue that the decision was made when selecting the which answer to circle on the test. and the correct answer was chosen over the incorrect answer due a desire to succeed. however the parent had to use concious logical knowledge to derive the correct answer, and decide which answer appeared to be correct. however in this particular case the connection between the emotion and actually deciding which answer is correct seems a bit weak.
studying, playing chess, or playing a sport at school
well, none of these activities seem logical to me...why are you studying? studying in order to pass the class sure seems logical...but the logical reasoning you are using to justify your decision states the emotional reasoning you used to make that decision to study to begin with...you have a desire to pass your class. that sure sounds emotional to me. however the process of studying seems that it could follow a set of decisions that are logical without an emotional response behind them. ex. you read the textbook because you are expected to have read it...ultimmately you are studying because you want to succeed, which is indeed emotional, however you aren't necessarily reading the book because you want to, you are reading the book, because that is a logical method of accomplishing the goal of having read the book.
even if you try to invalidate an IQ test as a marker of intelligence, if the study is valid you still can't deny that men do better on those tests. so that still seems to indicate that there is some sort of difference between men and women. you just need to figure out what that difference actually means.
In fact, I seem to recall reading that lack of emotion impairs decision-making...
all decisions are based on emotion. we just use logic to rationalize our decision after the fact.
nevermind, i guess it is a finite space, eventually there would have to be a collision.
you are assuming there exists a collision in hash A that is also a collision in hash B.
depending on the algorithms it is possible that there is no case where a collision in hash A is at the same time a collission in hash B
sorry, according to the wikipedia article on tensile strength. there are a great many things stronger than spider webs. among them include glass and kevlar
"...it fries the bread and even has Apache/PHP installed."
that will teach them to run their webserver on a toaster!
i allow the soft musical chirps of my UPS sooth me...
you are forgetting something. it doesn't have to beat current forms of solar energy, that isn't the purpose. it only needs to beat current forms of hydrogen production. it doesn't matter how efficiently it collects solar energy, as long as it costs less resources to use this to produce hydrogen. and for these purposes the sun should be considered a free resource because it will be there whether or not we use it.
then they just need to wait till you die...
you have been healed and respawned by band-aid brand bandages. check out their products in a store near you!
When it went below zero school was usually cancelled. Up North when it went below zero, put on extra clothes.
now you know where all those grandfather type stories of "in our day we had to walk uphill both ways in snow up to our ears and our spit would be frozen before it hit the ground..." come from!
(i am from WI also)
"Upton estimates the move will save the country $360 million (U.S.) for the extra 60 days that daylight time will be in effect"
my god, they are seriously doing this for a mere $360million in energy? seriously, that is pocket change! to put it in perspective it will be saving each american about $1 per year...
you need to pay for the R&D to make them work first. and then they would be a new and unproven technology. we know how standard rocket engines work, and we have a lot of experience using them.
i am talking about the break even point of the fusion part of a hydrogen bomb.
re-read my post.
the high explosives don't start the fusion, it merely starts a normal fission bomb...this fission bomb then starts the fusion, and then the fusion starts another secondary fission process inside of a normally stable depleted uranium shell.
so a hydrogen bomb really explodes in 4 parts if you include the high explosives that sets it off.
Many of the teams groaned when he put up the slide with the pictures of tank traps.
hehe, it appears darpa has a sick sense of humor!
there is a reason it is called the "grand challenge" instead of the "mediocre challenge"
this thing isn't meant to be easy! that the best team only made it 7 miles shows how difficult it is. that the best team only made 7 miles shows we have a lot to learn.
actually are we even sure that it is break even?
most fussion bombs take a fission reaction using U-235 or plutonium to start, which triggers a fussion reaction using deuterium which in turn triggers a secondary fission reaction in a U-238 shell, U-238 is normally quite stable and hard to get it to react on its own.
oh i see how it is, i am home all alone on a friday night, and you are having a party at your place! i think we will need to revoke your geek card!
:-)
well, i guess me, tarkin, and harvey (my computers) will just have to entertain ourselves
it is sort of funny,
:-)
the people, like us, that have tivo's or mythtv's are probably the ones that don't really need them because we will be home anyway!
i haven't set up mythtv, but i do record shows on my computer also
even worse, you can get "imitation cheese food" from quality places such as walmart! so not only is it not cheese, but apparently it isn't even good enough to be called "cheese food" whatever the hell that is anyway.
i live in WI, so it is easy to go to a cheese factory, and buy real cheese directly from the source. heck, my parents live close to 3 of them.
so there is really no lack of quality cheese around here. in fact i don't remember the last day that i haven't eaten cheese...but then us people from WI put cheese on EVERYTHING...and as a consequence i found that no one outside of WI knows how to make pizza! ordering "double" or "extra" cheese on a pizza outside of WI and in most cases you still get less cheese than a normal pizza in WI!