Given that the ISS is ~360 km from the Earth, and it has a 92 minute orbital period, it seems that bombs could be lifted into space, then launched from there. With sufficient supplies and advanced notice you could get enough stuff in position over the long term and deploy in minutes 4500mph = 2km/s and therefore could be at the surface in 180 seconds (3 minutes) once launched. Then there's the issue of changing orbit, which lets assume takes 1 orbit. So you can stike anywhere in the wold in 95 minutes. Can you fuel, prep and deploy a plane in that time? I think not.
Evolution explains the propagation of traits (alleles) in a population. Selection pressure is the limiting factor. We modeled the process o evolution and applied it to computer algorithms. It works.
We take an initial population, of a RANDOM mix of traits, apply a scoring function and see how each member of the population scores with the task. We then take the traits from the better half and mix them, and repeat the test. We also introduce a RANDOM mutation in. Eventually, after several (30-100) generations we have an particularly fit individual.. In this case, an algorithm for sorting that does not make any logical sense. But it works. So we start at randomness and create order. Very efficient order. And there;s the thing, since it does not make "sense", no "intelligent" designer would have designed it. It appears as random swaps. Generally you only orderly swap things if they are out of order.
Show me a gear or wheel in nature. Immediately we've exceeded the designer's initial design. Show me the world's fastest sorting algorithm. I'll give you a hint it sorts 6 values using 5 comparisons. This was found using genetic algorithms.
Where biomimetics comes into play is that for their given level of complexity, the solutions are the most optimal.
I'm 35, unmarried, no kids, no significant other. If I've not amounted to anything now, I probably won't. I'd still like to do something awesome though - I'd volunteer for a 1-way mars mission if they'd let me. Of course, my answer would change if I had kids. But I'm alright not doing any more good, I mean I don't do harm so the daily balance should be zero. And as for the harm I've done... well I've done what I can to atone for it, but it will never be the way it should have been. The wrongs I've done (few, and far between, but epic, at least to me) are ancient history, and to the ones that aren't, I'm sorry again.
You don't have to fear death if you live your life as you should be living it, since there's nothing that needs fixing. And what can't be fixed, needs to be learned from and not repeated, but moved on from. It's good to right your wrongs, but not so much that you live int he past.
I don't know why we don't abstract all this cloud data storage to a truly vendor neutral, competitive scheme.
Imagine if we as users could provide our own server (at home, or designate Amazon, Google, etc) for our cloud storage. Facebook becomes just one application and anything we post is encoded in JSON formatted files. Then we actually own what we post. Of course, Facebook can cache the data (since first post generally is the most needed) and only go back to your cloud for older data. But you'd have every wall post, every photo, all of your data shared. Then Facebook can give you 1gig free, but you can also buy 5gig from google and have them use that instead. It gives them infinite storage, they only need to manage their cache.
Never mind the metallurgy. Any printed material is sintered with brass as a binder, meaning your action and barrel has to be built as if it's made out of brass. Oh and brass melts easily and wears quickly. People just don't understand temper, hardness, composition and the finer bits of metallurgy. They think all blocks of steel are the same.
That's why they picked it. No 3D printed "gun" will ever hold up to real ammunition. Your best best is ceramics. However lets consider steel for a second. 3D printed steel is sintered which means bits of steel are pressed together with bits of brass. They they bake it so the brass flows and locks the steel in place. You're only as strong as your binding material, here, brass so you would need a very thick barrel (hand cannon sized) to survive the expansion of gasses. Rather you could build something of low-quality and relatively disposable, save for the barrel and some parts of the action - like the firing pin and spring.
However for your homemade gun, you could always use a service like emachineshop.com where you can upload your designs and have them machine it (the software will even tell you how much it'll cost) Since pins and barrels are not regulated, you should be able to order without worry.
The upper though, which is regulated does not need to be made very structurally sound and can be printed in your home out of plastic.
Well the reason why they don't use bonobos in zoos (aside from their relatively small numbers) is that they are very sexual. I think they are the only other primate to practice oral seks, and you can't have the kids seeing that!
I have no problem calling BS where BS is present. However by BS detector is only detecting BS on the comment you cited. I have always been a very scientific person and I am fully aware of the sexual nature of bonobos, and this was not my first book on this subject. Therefore, I think the comment is fraudulent and attempting to get people to spend money on the commenter's books instead.
No one gets upset at scientific facts until they run counter to their agenda. Look at Christians. They'll gladly benefit from science, but you tell them the rocks are more than 6000 years old and they get bent out of shape. Anyway, I consider myself a feminist however I am male. I do not consider myself vehemently feminist,as for me science trumps agenda.
Anyway, the publication had a theory about why rape works better and it's not a pretty one. To even insinuate that women are physiologically programmed to enjoy rape by alpha males is very controversial indeed. Too many would run with that and twist it to say that rape is some how good or that women are inferior. Neither conclusion do I agree with. But yet there is that inconvenient statistical result.
Not necessarily, it depends on how couples were initiated into the study. Go to a general practitioner or OBGYN as part of a normal checkup or unrelated illness and say "We have this study for people who are interested in having kids" and you get them before they have trouble.
One of the many books I've read on the subject - I believe it was O -The Intimate History of the Orgasm actually stated that in studies rape lead to a higher fertilization rate than consensual relations. I won't get into the theory of why, because it will potentially piss off feminists. I'll just say it is documented and statistically significant.
Currently: Spammers can register and post for free (or sufficiently free do to low captcha cost)
You propose: A way to squelch individual accounts. (Assuming errouneously that it has some cost to them)
The result: Spammers will still continue registering new accounts, because in no way does it affect their cost.
A better solution: make them fund their account - PayPal with some trivial designated amount - $0.75, correlate it to the paypal address during signup. You've now added real cost and real verification. Hold the money for some time, then reverse it. The likely outcome is they'll start using stolen credit card numbers, or stop.
First, the bot is clear, with tubes in it. You 'change colors' by running a colored fluid thought the tubes. So now you have to tether the bot to whatever is mixing and pumping the pigment for the fluid. And wires in the case of camouflage to send back what color you're trying to match. If you just gave it LEDs and an radio, you'd have something wireless, tubeless and not needing to carry fluid (which is heavy)
These are the ideas I have every day that I don't even bother to pursue because they are just so stupid.
What if the nuclear instability of both bodies is being affected by the same thing. That is to say, the underlying fabric of space-time maybe altered and it takes affect immediately* at both bodies but takes 39 hours for the sun to develop a solar flare. You'd still get the same result, but you no longer need neutrino output to be the causation mechanism. We often forget the sun moves too. Or other things like gamma rays wash over our solar system.
If we could only place a detector somewhere else int he solar system and see which sees the change of decay rate first...
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Given that the ISS is ~360 km from the Earth, and it has a 92 minute orbital period, it seems that bombs could be lifted into space, then launched from there. With sufficient supplies and advanced notice you could get enough stuff in position over the long term and deploy in minutes 4500mph = 2km/s and therefore could be at the surface in 180 seconds (3 minutes) once launched. Then there's the issue of changing orbit, which lets assume takes 1 orbit. So you can stike anywhere in the wold in 95 minutes. Can you fuel, prep and deploy a plane in that time? I think not.
Evolution explains the propagation of traits (alleles) in a population. Selection pressure is the limiting factor. We modeled the process o evolution and applied it to computer algorithms. It works.
We take an initial population, of a RANDOM mix of traits, apply a scoring function and see how each member of the population scores with the task. We then take the traits from the better half and mix them, and repeat the test. We also introduce a RANDOM mutation in. Eventually, after several (30-100) generations we have an particularly fit individual.. In this case, an algorithm for sorting that does not make any logical sense. But it works. So we start at randomness and create order. Very efficient order. And there;s the thing, since it does not make "sense", no "intelligent" designer would have designed it. It appears as random swaps. Generally you only orderly swap things if they are out of order.
Show me a gear or wheel in nature. Immediately we've exceeded the designer's initial design.
Show me the world's fastest sorting algorithm. I'll give you a hint it sorts 6 values using 5 comparisons. This was found using genetic algorithms.
Where biomimetics comes into play is that for their given level of complexity, the solutions are the most optimal.
Perl is on the way out. Everything else is butter compared.
Also, structural engineering, materials engineering, when you factor in biomimetics.
Computer science with genetic algorithms.
Ray: Listen! Do you smell something?
I'm 35, unmarried, no kids, no significant other. If I've not amounted to anything now, I probably won't. I'd still like to do something awesome though - I'd volunteer for a 1-way mars mission if they'd let me.
Of course, my answer would change if I had kids.
But I'm alright not doing any more good, I mean I don't do harm so the daily balance should be zero. And as for the harm I've done... well I've done what I can to atone for it, but it will never be the way it should have been. The wrongs I've done (few, and far between, but epic, at least to me) are ancient history, and to the ones that aren't, I'm sorry again.
You don't have to fear death if you live your life as you should be living it, since there's nothing that needs fixing. And what can't be fixed, needs to be learned from and not repeated, but moved on from. It's good to right your wrongs, but not so much that you live int he past.
I don't know why we don't abstract all this cloud data storage to a truly vendor neutral, competitive scheme.
Imagine if we as users could provide our own server (at home, or designate Amazon, Google, etc) for our cloud storage. Facebook becomes just one application and anything we post is encoded in JSON formatted files. Then we actually own what we post. Of course, Facebook can cache the data (since first post generally is the most needed) and only go back to your cloud for older data. But you'd have every wall post, every photo, all of your data shared. Then Facebook can give you 1gig free, but you can also buy 5gig from google and have them use that instead. It gives them infinite storage, they only need to manage their cache.
The word you're looking for in the anthropological sense is "modern"
Never mind the metallurgy.
Any printed material is sintered with brass as a binder, meaning your action and barrel has to be built as if it's made out of brass. Oh and brass melts easily and wears quickly. People just don't understand temper, hardness, composition and the finer bits of metallurgy. They think all blocks of steel are the same.
Bongs? Vibrators?
That's why they picked it. No 3D printed "gun" will ever hold up to real ammunition. Your best best is ceramics. However lets consider steel for a second. 3D printed steel is sintered which means bits of steel are pressed together with bits of brass. They they bake it so the brass flows and locks the steel in place. You're only as strong as your binding material, here, brass so you would need a very thick barrel (hand cannon sized) to survive the expansion of gasses. Rather you could build something of low-quality and relatively disposable, save for the barrel and some parts of the action - like the firing pin and spring.
However for your homemade gun, you could always use a service like emachineshop.com where you can upload your designs and have them machine it (the software will even tell you how much it'll cost) Since pins and barrels are not regulated, you should be able to order without worry.
The upper though, which is regulated does not need to be made very structurally sound and can be printed in your home out of plastic.
Well the reason why they don't use bonobos in zoos (aside from their relatively small numbers) is that they are very sexual. I think they are the only other primate to practice oral seks, and you can't have the kids seeing that!
Actually, it is closer to 40. But they fall into 3 categories:
1. Fertilizers
2. Attackers.
3. Defenders.
Attackers attack other sperm not from the same donor, and defenders are the opposite side of that equation.
So I've heard the same thing you have, and I've heard it from multiple sources.
I have no problem calling BS where BS is present. However by BS detector is only detecting BS on the comment you cited. I have always been a very scientific person and I am fully aware of the sexual nature of bonobos, and this was not my first book on this subject. Therefore, I think the comment is fraudulent and attempting to get people to spend money on the commenter's books instead.
No one gets upset at scientific facts until they run counter to their agenda. Look at Christians. They'll gladly benefit from science, but you tell them the rocks are more than 6000 years old and they get bent out of shape. Anyway, I consider myself a feminist however I am male. I do not consider myself vehemently feminist,as for me science trumps agenda.
Anyway, the publication had a theory about why rape works better and it's not a pretty one. To even insinuate that women are physiologically programmed to enjoy rape by alpha males is very controversial indeed. Too many would run with that and twist it to say that rape is some how good or that women are inferior. Neither conclusion do I agree with. But yet there is that inconvenient statistical result.
Not necessarily, it depends on how couples were initiated into the study. Go to a general practitioner or OBGYN as part of a normal checkup or unrelated illness and say "We have this study for people who are interested in having kids" and you get them before they have trouble.
That would not be a fair scientific comparison. The study only compared to couples wanting to conceive.
No, the study tracked people wanting to have kids.
One of the many books I've read on the subject - I believe it was O -The Intimate History of the Orgasm actually stated that in studies rape lead to a higher fertilization rate than consensual relations. I won't get into the theory of why, because it will potentially piss off feminists. I'll just say it is documented and statistically significant.
I hear ya. Accept bitcoin then. At least that market is not as shady.
Currently:
Spammers can register and post for free (or sufficiently free do to low captcha cost)
You propose:
A way to squelch individual accounts. (Assuming errouneously that it has some cost to them)
The result:
Spammers will still continue registering new accounts, because in no way does it affect their cost.
A better solution: make them fund their account - PayPal with some trivial designated amount - $0.75, correlate it to the paypal address during signup. You've now added real cost and real verification. Hold the money for some time, then reverse it. The likely outcome is they'll start using stolen credit card numbers, or stop.
First, the bot is clear, with tubes in it. You 'change colors' by running a colored fluid thought the tubes. So now you have to tether the bot to whatever is mixing and pumping the pigment for the fluid. And wires in the case of camouflage to send back what color you're trying to match. If you just gave it LEDs and an radio, you'd have something wireless, tubeless and not needing to carry fluid (which is heavy)
These are the ideas I have every day that I don't even bother to pursue because they are just so stupid.
What if the nuclear instability of both bodies is being affected by the same thing. That is to say, the underlying fabric of space-time maybe altered and it takes affect immediately* at both bodies but takes 39 hours for the sun to develop a solar flare. You'd still get the same result, but you no longer need neutrino output to be the causation mechanism. We often forget the sun moves too. Or other things like gamma rays wash over our solar system.
If we could only place a detector somewhere else int he solar system and see which sees the change of decay rate first...
*(or within 8 light-minutes)