Computers will stop being hard to configure, which some people mistake for powerful, and start being simple squares that you plug into the wall. Consoles, in other words.
I see this more like a change in who make the "intelligent" decisions: yesterday you had smart people and dumb computers, today we are in the middle (MCSE and Windows PCs), tomorrow we will have computer smart enough that you can be as dumb as you want and they'll run anyway.
Of course, a little "elite" of experts will be always needed, but I think that numbers will slowly shrink.
Did you read any books from Asimov? The points you made (how to define a human being, how to find an indirect harm) are at the center of LOTS of his stories... and he exploits them in a number of unexpected ways.
(yea I know it was released on the PC, but it JUST wasn't the same)
The coolest thing about the PC version of Wipeout XL was that ALL the textures, Red Bull ads included, were stored as big.tga files...
I have a "custom" version of wipeout, with a lot of funny pictures all over the game.
You can change the sounds too (they're just.wav files), but I haven't bothered yet...
I don't see why a moon is needed to stabilize the axis
Many simulations have shown that, without the moon, the Earth's axis would be subjected to chaotic instability - say it would change 80 degrees in some thousand years. That would cause a lot of climatic disasters.
.. this is how many languages on this planet are written: as they are spoken!
For example, I am Italian. If I read the sentence that starts with "Bai Iear 15 or sou..." with Italian reading rules, I get a quite GOOD english out of it.
I absolutely recommend the OT III for Beginners page, as mentioned in the article.
You will get a glimpse of what kind of BS the so-called "church" of Scientology tries to push forward...
This written in a book 1000's of years old which means the people of the time couldn't have had the scientific facilities to know this themselves... Coincidence? I would think most with an OPEN mind & willing to find out for themselves wouldn't believe so.
No, it's not a coincidence. And I think that you don't need ANY scientific "facilities" to discover that the 8th day is the first good one, it just takes a little experiment:
- circumcize on the 1st day: lots of blood and a death child.
- circumcize on the 2nd day: same thing happens.
- 3rd day, etc. ....
- 8th day: oh well, it works.
I don't understand why people keep seeing God in everything.
Only, assume that only 1 kg of dust, meteorites, etc. per year fell to earth.
Current figures are around 40 tons per year (or maybe even 40.000, I don't remember very well. Anyway, I'm sure that there were a "40" and a "ton" in it:-).
OTOH, staying with that analogy, moving your computer to your bedroom won't cause it to malfunction. But move a human being to any other planet on the solar system (without any technological aids), and his life expectancy will be greatly shortened.
It depends on the definition of malfunction. If a phone/DSL line is not present in that room, the "life expectancy" of my computer is greatly shortened (because I will soon find another one to download my pr0n and mp3s).
I mean, Jupiter is a planet, right? Maybe. It actually radiates a ton of infrared radiation, due to friction as it's atmosphere slowly compresses (one millimeter a year, or so I am told). So, what is Jupiter *now*?
It's a planet. A star generates heat via nuclear fusion. Jupiter is too small by a factor of 80.
What Jupiter is doing now (radiating infrared), has been done by all the other planets, when they were younger. The bigger a planet is, the longer it takes to compress. Jupiter is large enough to have been compressing for all his life until now.
Someone posted that the ratio is 80x Jupiters. That sounds large, but...
...but it's correct. The minimun mass for a celestial body to be called a "star" is about 0.08 times the Sun's one, or about 80 Jupiter masses.
BTW, that's a very, very small and faint star. The biggest ones known are about 50x Sun, or 50.000x Jupiter.
But you're right, 1 g constant acceleration for 40 hours is some trick!
I have been sustaining 1 g constant acceleration for nearly 24 years, and I don't seem to suffer from that.
For a manned mission to Mars, the 1 g acceleration is *good* for the astronauts, because they avoid a loooong weightless situation.
The falling of matter from an accretion disk is enough to put out a lot of X-ray. Provided that your gravitational field is strong enough, it's a very efficient way of converting matter into enery (more than fusion, btw).
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Computers will stop being hard to configure, which some people mistake for powerful, and start being simple squares that you plug into the wall. Consoles, in other words.
I see this more like a change in who make the "intelligent" decisions: yesterday you had smart people and dumb computers, today we are in the middle (MCSE and Windows PCs), tomorrow we will have computer smart enough that you can be as dumb as you want and they'll run anyway.
Of course, a little "elite" of experts will be always needed, but I think that numbers will slowly shrink.
Did you read any books from Asimov? The points you made (how to define a human being, how to find an indirect harm) are at the center of LOTS of his stories... and he exploits them in a number of unexpected ways.
(yea I know it was released on the PC, but it JUST wasn't the same)
.tga files... .wav files), but I haven't bothered yet...
The coolest thing about the PC version of Wipeout XL was that ALL the textures, Red Bull ads included, were stored as big
I have a "custom" version of wipeout, with a lot of funny pictures all over the game.
You can change the sounds too (they're just
Well, actually there's not much detail.
With these observations, you can only know:
- how big the planet is
- how far is from his sun
- how elliptical is the orbit
This is enough to find out an approximation of the planet's temperature, and a couple of other things. But really not a lot of detail.
I don't see why a moon is needed to stabilize the axis
Many simulations have shown that, without the moon, the Earth's axis would be subjected to chaotic instability - say it would change 80 degrees in some thousand years. That would cause a lot of climatic disasters.
Me too. I have 42 of them.
To an English-speaker, it was funny, BUT...
.. this is how many languages on this planet are written: as they are spoken!
For example, I am Italian. If I read the sentence that starts with "Bai Iear 15 or sou..." with Italian reading rules, I get a quite GOOD english out of it.
I absolutely recommend the OT III for Beginners page, as mentioned in the article.
You will get a glimpse of what kind of BS the so-called "church" of Scientology tries to push forward...
YES, it slows my surfing. I have to DNS lookup the server, contact it, make a GET and retrieve the image.
It sums up to a lot of packets.
This written in a book 1000's of years old which means the people of the time couldn't have had the scientific facilities to know this themselves... Coincidence? I would think most with an OPEN mind & willing to find out for themselves wouldn't believe so.
....
No, it's not a coincidence. And I think that you don't need ANY scientific "facilities" to discover that the 8th day is the first good one, it just takes a little experiment:
- circumcize on the 1st day: lots of blood and a death child.
- circumcize on the 2nd day: same thing happens.
- 3rd day, etc.
- 8th day: oh well, it works.
I don't understand why people keep seeing God in everything.
Only, assume that only 1 kg of dust, meteorites, etc. per year fell to earth.
:-).
Current figures are around 40 tons per year (or maybe even 40.000, I don't remember very well. Anyway, I'm sure that there were a "40" and a "ton" in it
OTOH, staying with that analogy, moving your computer to your bedroom won't cause it to malfunction. But move a human being to any other planet on the solar system (without any technological aids), and his life expectancy will be greatly shortened.
It depends on the definition of malfunction. If a phone/DSL line is not present in that room, the "life expectancy" of my computer is greatly shortened (because I will soon find another one to download my pr0n and mp3s).
I mean, Jupiter is a planet, right? Maybe. It actually radiates a ton of infrared radiation, due to friction as it's atmosphere slowly compresses (one millimeter a year, or so I am told). So, what is Jupiter *now*?
It's a planet. A star generates heat via nuclear fusion. Jupiter is too small by a factor of 80.
What Jupiter is doing now (radiating infrared), has been done by all the other planets, when they were younger. The bigger a planet is, the longer it takes to compress. Jupiter is large enough to have been compressing for all his life until now.
Someone posted that the ratio is 80x Jupiters. That sounds large, but...
...but it's correct. The minimun mass for a celestial body to be called a "star" is about 0.08 times the Sun's one, or about 80 Jupiter masses.
BTW, that's a very, very small and faint star. The biggest ones known are about 50x Sun, or 50.000x Jupiter.
But you're right, 1 g constant acceleration for 40 hours is some trick!
I have been sustaining 1 g constant acceleration for nearly 24 years, and I don't seem to suffer from that. For a manned mission to Mars, the 1 g acceleration is *good* for the astronauts, because they avoid a loooong weightless situation.
The falling of matter from an accretion disk is enough to put out a lot of X-ray. Provided that your gravitational field is strong enough, it's a very efficient way of converting matter into enery (more than fusion, btw).
Yes, but it could be seen as a single atom nucleus. After all, it contains mostly neutrons, and you need quantum mechanics to study it.
>But in only 3 billion years our galaxy will collide with Andromeda, and theres a good chance the Solar System won't survive this collision.
That's wrong. Our solar system couldn't care less about a galaxy-to-galaxy collision. Your atoms don't care when you clap your hands.