If scientists want us to go to the stars they need to worry about fixing our energy problems here on Earth first.
There is a problem with your line of thinking. You're assuming that the solution to our energy problems is guaranteed to be a planet bound solution.
I'm not saying it isn't of course. I'm just suggesting that you are purposely putting blinders on. Your arguments are not informed so I know that you haven't even considered the situation. Does that actually benefit you in some way? Perhaps you should consider for yourself learning more about the situation.
At the very least if you were heavily informed you could more easily sway people who disagree with you.
Take note that they are not suing over NFC itself. After reading the blurb my first reaction was "they should of freaking patented it". This seems to be about business info instead.
I would think drilling through loose material would be easy. Isn't the problem more about stopping the ceiling from dumping more material into the spot you just emptied?
We're already hitting crunch time. I sort of doubt even building nuclear plants is going to give us enough energy at this point. The only answer is going to be dirty coal/shale/etc and something like a couple orders of magnitude increase in research to find something else.
We're going to live in interesting times soon people.
Aneutronic fusion reactions produce the overwhelming bulk of their energy in the form of charged particles instead of neutrons. This means that energy could be converted directly into electricity by various techniques. Many proposed direct conversion techniques are based on mature technology derived from other fields, such as microwave technology, and some involve equipment that is more compact and potentially cheaper than that involved in conventional thermal production of electricity.
This seems to be a main draw of He3 and you haven't even mentioned it.
This article http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/19296/page2/ cited in the wiki page also explains that the aneutronic reaction makes building a plant for He3+He3 much cheaper because the equipment isn't being bombarded by neutrons constantly.
Frankly I'm a bit skeptical that getting the He3 will be cheap but your whole argument rests on the utterly retarded concept that mining something from the moon is a boondoggle. In reality we could choose to mine H2O from the moon and dump it into the ocean and the knowledge we would gain would be worth every penny spent on it.
Mac's ran Power chips for years and they were PC's. The word no longer means IBM clones. The point is it's generalized computer hardware that would go into a desktop system. The PowerPC chip was always a desktop chip. The video card is a special designed bargin bin version of Nvidia's best chipset at the time. It has a mainboard. It uses normal PC memory. Etc etc.
You're just flat out wrong. If someone built a mass produced budget box PC at $400 for gaming (ie 1 gig memory shoddy vid card etc) it would blow the 360 out of the water.
You forget that the 360 is just an old PC in the first place and they are selling it at 200 bucks for profit.
The PS3 is a different situation. It's powerful but powerful in the wrong ways. Not to mention it has pathetic memory.
That's what's wrong with NASA. They keep concentrating on sending up the kitchen sink and the human in the same ship.
Railguns are cheap and humans are light (comparatively). Send up the habitat+fuel (heavy) on the railgun and the human (very light) on a small rocket. Problem solved.
The reason a lot of PC gamers hate consoles is straight up because of the thumbstick. This thing has thumbsticks but obviously the motion controls will be the primary pointing device.
There are plenty of things this COULD be great for if it's as accurate as they say. The problem is simply whether or not they can get enough game support. Going by past products I'm going to guess no.
If only we could compare the cumulative research costs to PETA's budget and lost economic potential.
Obviously science builds on science but the end result is probably going to save a hundred times as many animals as PETA for a fraction of the overall cost.
1 Degree Celsius is not a small enough unit of thermal measurement. Humans have the tendency to round decimals so I feel it is a poor choice for everyday use.
Well said. I think we should also point out that there are many possible lift technologies that generate acceleration a human could not possibly live through. Those same technologies could be very cheap though.
The idea of one giant rocket pushing the crew and everything they need into space all at once should of been abandoned long ago.
I feel this is an argument that never gets enough discussion. But did you even read the thing you posted? Every chart in there seemed to show that nuclear is barely more expensive than standard coal.
Considering coal is a mature technology and nuclear isn't that says nuclear would in fact become extremely cheap if adopted.
Having the FTC look at these games is the last thing some of these games want. For those who aren't aware a lot of them are thinly disguised online gambling.
Usually once you've played a while the best way to power yourself up is to buy some sort of box or item that has a rare chance to really power you up.
Google defended its browser by claiming that it was built with security in mind and emphasized protection of users from drive-by downloads and plug-in vulnerabilities.
I found this line to be quite disgusting. I am very pro google but the chrome team has continually ignored the need for NoScript. A browser without NoScript isn't secure in any way shape or form.
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Stop listing adventure games. They are great but the author meant action rpg's ala diablo/TQ/torchlight.
There is a problem with your line of thinking. You're assuming that the solution to our energy problems is guaranteed to be a planet bound solution.
I'm not saying it isn't of course. I'm just suggesting that you are purposely putting blinders on. Your arguments are not informed so I know that you haven't even considered the situation. Does that actually benefit you in some way? Perhaps you should consider for yourself learning more about the situation.
At the very least if you were heavily informed you could more easily sway people who disagree with you.
WoW may have a horrible community but it is at least a community and the game fosters it.
Take note that they are not suing over NFC itself. After reading the blurb my first reaction was "they should of freaking patented it". This seems to be about business info instead.
I would think drilling through loose material would be easy. Isn't the problem more about stopping the ceiling from dumping more material into the spot you just emptied?
We're already hitting crunch time. I sort of doubt even building nuclear plants is going to give us enough energy at this point. The only answer is going to be dirty coal/shale/etc and something like a couple orders of magnitude increase in research to find something else.
We're going to live in interesting times soon people.
From wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Direct_conversion_of_energy
This seems to be a main draw of He3 and you haven't even mentioned it.
This article http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/19296/page2/ cited in the wiki page also explains that the aneutronic reaction makes building a plant for He3+He3 much cheaper because the equipment isn't being bombarded by neutrons constantly.
Frankly I'm a bit skeptical that getting the He3 will be cheap but your whole argument rests on the utterly retarded concept that mining something from the moon is a boondoggle. In reality we could choose to mine H2O from the moon and dump it into the ocean and the knowledge we would gain would be worth every penny spent on it.
Mac's ran Power chips for years and they were PC's. The word no longer means IBM clones. The point is it's generalized computer hardware that would go into a desktop system. The PowerPC chip was always a desktop chip. The video card is a special designed bargin bin version of Nvidia's best chipset at the time. It has a mainboard. It uses normal PC memory. Etc etc.
It's a PC.
You're just flat out wrong. If someone built a mass produced budget box PC at $400 for gaming (ie 1 gig memory shoddy vid card etc) it would blow the 360 out of the water.
You forget that the 360 is just an old PC in the first place and they are selling it at 200 bucks for profit.
The PS3 is a different situation. It's powerful but powerful in the wrong ways. Not to mention it has pathetic memory.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 are not even close to high end anymore. A budget Nintendo console will likely be more powerful than hardware that old.
I think the point was more along the lines that the system doesn't have any value at all unless you run it. Yet when you run it the cost is high.
Houses on the other hand you can simply stop building so many and the ones you have go up in value eventually.
That's what's wrong with NASA. They keep concentrating on sending up the kitchen sink and the human in the same ship.
Railguns are cheap and humans are light (comparatively). Send up the habitat+fuel (heavy) on the railgun and the human (very light) on a small rocket. Problem solved.
The reason a lot of PC gamers hate consoles is straight up because of the thumbstick. This thing has thumbsticks but obviously the motion controls will be the primary pointing device.
There are plenty of things this COULD be great for if it's as accurate as they say. The problem is simply whether or not they can get enough game support. Going by past products I'm going to guess no.
If only we could compare the cumulative research costs to PETA's budget and lost economic potential.
Obviously science builds on science but the end result is probably going to save a hundred times as many animals as PETA for a fraction of the overall cost.
1 Degree Celsius is not a small enough unit of thermal measurement. Humans have the tendency to round decimals so I feel it is a poor choice for everyday use.
As for the rest of it I'd be fine using it.
Incorrect "sugar" refers to a class of substances. Sugar capital S refers to sucrose or HCFS.
What a load of bull. Real climate change skeptics are an extremely small group. As a whole the "save the earth" crowd is far more luddite.
Well said. I think we should also point out that there are many possible lift technologies that generate acceleration a human could not possibly live through. Those same technologies could be very cheap though.
The idea of one giant rocket pushing the crew and everything they need into space all at once should of been abandoned long ago.
The point is, putting solar cells on a building makes it more efficient.
I feel this is an argument that never gets enough discussion. But did you even read the thing you posted? Every chart in there seemed to show that nuclear is barely more expensive than standard coal.
Considering coal is a mature technology and nuclear isn't that says nuclear would in fact become extremely cheap if adopted.
Having the FTC look at these games is the last thing some of these games want. For those who aren't aware a lot of them are thinly disguised online gambling.
Usually once you've played a while the best way to power yourself up is to buy some sort of box or item that has a rare chance to really power you up.
People spend thousands trying to get "lucky".
The irony of your comment is that Win7 is just a service pack for Vista.
Did you perhaps mean paralyzed? Or did I miss some new internet meme where people want statues of Ms Portman?
It's non-PC because 99% of the time someone bringing it up just has an agenda for sexism/racism/whatever.
Google defended its browser by claiming that it was built with security in mind and emphasized protection of users from drive-by downloads and plug-in vulnerabilities.
I found this line to be quite disgusting. I am very pro google but the chrome team has continually ignored the need for NoScript. A browser without NoScript isn't secure in any way shape or form.