Note that the quoted article says absolutely nothing about "weather on Earth". It's talking about "dramatic changes in our solar system", i.e. a distortion in the shape of the termination shock, which lies 75 to 90 AU away from the sun. That is an effective boundary between the heliosphere and the ISM, where the solar wind and the interstellar wind are equally dominant.
Neptune orbits at 30 AU, but the "solar system" is understood to extend at least to the Oort cloud, 50000 AU distant. Earth orbits at 1 AU which is well inside the heliosphere, where the solar wind is much more important. That's why these spacecraft have to look at neutral helium atoms, which are the only interstellar wind components that can actually make it down here without being deflected by solar magnetic fields. Outside the solar system they have a rough density of about ten helium atoms per mL.
This has much less influence on the Earth's climate than the "sunspot activity" referred to by politicians, but you can expect to hear a lot of crap soon, e.g. "Weather on Earth might be shifting in part because of human activity, but larger context in which the Earth moves has some trends to deal with as well".
The helium drops were coming down straight just a few hundred years ago, and now they're angled slightly differently... I hope we start hearing about helium rain in the House because this Syria stuff is boring.
I had my brain connected once to a pulse generator via a surface grid of electrodes. (This was before epilepsy surgery at Stanford, and most of the grid was on the right occipital cortex.) During this procedure they would send an increasing series of pulses of 5, 10, 20 mA etc. down to each grid position and ask if I saw anything after each one.
About 80% of the electrodes were actually kind of boring. They would produce a characteristic speckling somewhere in the leftward field of view at a certain radius and angle. Other electrodes made very weird stuff appear. One caused everything on the left side of the room to suddenly look extremely brightly hued. It looked like a grocery aisle with cheap fruit drinks. The colors got more intense with additional current.
There was a problem near the end with a bunch of uncomfortable hallucinations. Every tiny little point from the pulse generator had this upsetting weird look to it, like a kitten with its head crushed. They somehow weren't going away, and I started bitching about something seeming to accumulate in my field of vision.
They told me at this point that my brain wasn't correctly grounded to the bed frame. I wasn't able to ground it myself since all I could reach on the bed was plastic. As soon as they regrounded it, for a split second I saw some sort of bright thunderbolt approach from the left and sweep all the stuff away. It felt like a relief somehow but I'm not sure WTF I was seeing.
Yeah that's the downside- having melted the glacier, just so we can see a plant, was a bad idea. (Well, in the deal we were also able to drive to work and heat our houses and stuff. And minor details obviously deserve a little of our consideration.) But obviously these were just side effects from when we let our cryogenic botany crowd bully our fossil fuel industry around. They said "Dig up all the filth from the Carboniferous Era that you can find, and burn it fast. Then we can melt this glacier and defrost these little bitches within our careers." Of course scientists always think that because of their ideology. But they were lucky this time because it melted anyway for them, didn't it?
Here's the thing though -- none of the things the government will do can make anyone "safer."
So fire all the cops, firemen, garbage men, and teachers in your community if you think it will just improve your tax return, and still keep you just as safe from criminals, fires, cholera, and idiocy.
there was no particularly strong evidence that there would be dozens of people out there or something. I suspect it comes down to just the word "terrorism" causing people to refuse to apply the kind of logic they normally apply.
Yeah, maybe just indications of one or two more pressure cookers embedded among dozens of people.
The point of that rambling was just that these psychotics may have been Chechens, but not all Chechens are psychotics. The uncle is clearly Chechen but not psychotic. I should add no Czechs are Chechen.
Psychopaths like the Tsarnaev brothers, the Columbine killers, the 9/11 terrorists, the Koch brothers, etc. are either total predators like Tamerlan or Eric, with a bizarre interest in family hierarchy, a fascination with determining who is and isn't related to you, a desire for stirring religious hatred, and no altruism, empathy, or moral center to be found; they can also have only one allele like Dzhohar ("Johar", whatever), who was maybe an asshole with a superiority complex, but was also quiet about it. He was easygoing enough to form relationships with individuals in both allelic subpopulations, normal and psycho. They'll hang out with you and your other unsuspecting friends, smoke weed with you once a week just like normal Americans, etc. etc., but they'll also carry pressure cookers full of nails into dense crowds of strangers for you if they feel strongly related to you somehow.
The uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, looks like he's carrying normal alleles at this locus. He announced to a mob of reporters that he thought his older nephew was up to no good. He said that his nephew Jahar was a loser for doing what he did, announced he should turn himself in, and ask for forgiveness from the wider population of Boston. He said the brothers "brought shame on their family and upon the entire Chechen ethnicity." It might run in his family, but I don't think the uncle is as interested in seeing people run into trouble just for not being related to him.
Hopefully we decide not to waste another decade. This is not the time to go off fuming about how everyone in Chechnya is carrying this psychotic gene. Everybody there would be dead. Comfort with inhibiting the reproduction of people unrelated to you runs in families all around the world. It occurs in legislatures everywhere. It preserves itself by making you cause problems for people who don't have it. But it has to self-regulate in any wider human population, Chechnya or Boston or wherever, or it goes extinct along with the rest of the genome in the region.
Hopefully we won't see this as an excuse to waste another decade with more political 9/11-style bullshit against one particular religion or another. This was in the end a story of two bungling religious-minded psychotics, with a "mastermind", a "pushover with no conscience", and a shared comfort with mass-murdering a dense unrelated-looking crowd in a city far from home.
My cousin is going through boxes in the garage to get all my dead uncle's "I HATE FRANCE" shirts. We're selling them online once the washing machine finally gets the meth sweat.
This has damaged my relationship with my French bulldog as well. She is contacting her lawyer in Paris after having seen a picture of herself holding a demeaning sign online.
Or maybe 420 is too many; we could save a lot of administrative overhead by having fewer states, maybe 42. Then name them carefully to represent people in each state, e.g. Alloy, Sour Diesel, Green Kush, Strawberria, West Strawberria, Dino Sour, Chem, Grape Ape, etc. Of course to make it politically palatable would require redefining states in the order they legalize marijuana- we have to be realistic.
If they're going to happen then I'd much rather have the FCC determine what "data caps" should be, than have the ISPs doing it. The decision to use data caps or not and how high they can be are two important societal decisions best not exposed to massive conflicts of interest for no reason. The FCC can easily do it, and at least the government is in theory supposed to be acting in our best interests when it makes these decisions, not transparently out for themselves and only having to put on a show for suckers. A Mad-Max-style freedom for corporations to serve their privatized 1984 telescreen services up to individuals is all that this "big government" kvetching amounts to.
Why only a tiny volume %? Everything is chemicals. It's either a chemical or it doesn't exist in physical form.
Oh come on, it may be vague but you know someone isn't referring to "100%" if they're referring to the mass fraction or volume fraction of bread that might be derived from chemicals. That would be an argumentum ad lexicon, a fallacious argument that pivots on some irrelevant dictionary definition.
Photons will go out of style in coming decades, as they start to piss people off by becoming too few or too numerous. The future is neutrinos. Just switch from catching solar photons to solar neutrinos. We have no excuses.
First of all they have millions of times more energy per particle than these little photons that barely get through the atmosphere much less the earth. Anytime at night, a certain number of neutrinos will still go straight through the earth and emerge from the ground on parallel paths aimed directly at your jet in the stratosphere. And there are three different kinds of neutrinos to choose from. I could believe not being able to harness one or two, but all three? Come on. I don't believe it. Let's get real. Let's get off our butts and get to work. Here is my five point plan:
1. We put our math and science industries together with Wall Street to start research on finding a radioactive isotope that decays by electron-capture radioactive decay in the presence of incident solar neutrinos.
2. If this isotope doesn't have a nuclear spin and decay mode controllable by an external electromagnetic field, we'll just keep looking until we find one that does.
3. We can then hire private industries which will need to build at most three types of neutrino-propulsion units (light, muon, tau) for our jets to harness all the types they can catch that arrive from the Sun's core.
4. Once we have this working, we'll finally get to remove all these solar cells that have been practically dismantling our future jet industries. Sorry, but we won't have as many horses and bayonets either- we'll have these things that catch neutrinos.
5. Having succeeded at this, we can then work on letting passengers manually control the solar neutrino flux arriving at the jet if they so desire.
Now some of you are going to say this is impossible, and pull a bunch of numbers out of your ass including a neutrino flux that is one third of its true value. If you insist on incorrect numbers to start then I will say haha those numbers are stupid.
The billboards in question claim voter fraud is illegal. Are you claiming they aren't intelligent enough to understand what that means and somehow mistakes it for they will be arrested? That is the only way you can make sense here. I happen to think they are NOT that freaking stupid. And if they are, I'm not sure I would be happy with them voting anyways as I doubt they would carry any understanding of anything they are voting for.
This seems to be a common conservative idea. You shouldn't be discouraged from voting just because you might not be a lawyer. Not having a law degree is not what makes someone "freaking stupid".
The "freaking stupid" will assume committing a felony is the stupid thing, which is always correct, but they also won't appreciate how they might do it by mistake next week, even if they do have an ID, which is stupid.
Most of us are not lawyers. Or we know we have been too lazy or busy to have read through all these new piles of mischievously finely-printed shitty new state legislation. It has been carefully designed by lawyers to be as confusing and intimidating as possible to the smarter half of the electorate. Anyone swift enough to realize how voting now exposes a legitimate voter to this widely-advertised risk of being charged with a felony might see how voting runs against their own self-interest. And the authors of the laws can obviously see who does and doesn't cast votes with their own self-interest in mind. That much should be obvious to everybody by now.
In case you can't bother reading a story hosted at the conservative LA times.. It's about a Virginia candidate's own son having to resign from the campaign for instructing someone how to cast votes for people planning on not voting.
I did bother myself to read that... basically another ambush on a Democratic headquarters by that costumed Republican guy running around asking people how to commit voter fraud to make videos of their answers. Some guy was dumb enough to humor the guy and explained all the hypotheticals involved in doing that legally, saying get-out-the-vote efforts are easier, and the clown made a clip from part of it. Of course all this clown's scandal videos look nasty, but if you can find one that didn't start with him, egging someone on for advice about how he might break the law, I will pay $5 million dollars to a charity of your choice....kaboom!
In case *you* aren't bothered to read links to that site, it's another story from Virginia, this one about the Republican voter registration worker who separated a bunch of forms from Democrats and then tossed them into a dumpster on his way past a discount store. If the store manager hadn't spotted that, those people would be going to jail next week for trying to vote.
If Iyou're going to teach chemical synthesis to a home-schooled kid... the obvious complex organic compound to start with is methamphetamine!
The whole family can participate.
Gravity does pick out some elements more than others. The Boltzmann distribution of helium atoms tails out at a much lower velocity than the distribution of hydrogen atoms. Near the top of the atmosphere, you will see many more hydrogen atoms than helium atoms shooting outward at escape velocity. This is why on Earth, we only have a tiny bit of helium to fill our balloons that came from radioactive decay of heavy elements, and most of it will someday make it into space.
My immediate questions are, what biochemical mechanism is in place that makes imidacloprid dangerous to bees
The one that was engineered into imidacloprid on purpose: it blocks nicotinoid pathways that primarily exist only in the central nervous systems of insects.
and if trace amounts are found in most if not all HFCS, is there any consumption concern for humans who eat food with HFCS in it?
No. Most modern insecticides were designed not to target mechanisms that are present in the nervous systems of mammals.
My car fires neutrinos out the back of the engine to pick up momentum and go down the street. The neighbors were making fun of it recently saying my car only uses weak interactions. I said quit pissing me off or you might get a faster-than-light whack in the head while asleep in your house at night.
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Note that the quoted article says absolutely nothing about "weather on Earth". It's talking about "dramatic changes in our solar system", i.e. a distortion in the shape of the termination shock, which lies 75 to 90 AU away from the sun. That is an effective boundary between the heliosphere and the ISM, where the solar wind and the interstellar wind are equally dominant.
Neptune orbits at 30 AU, but the "solar system" is understood to extend at least to the Oort cloud, 50000 AU distant. Earth orbits at 1 AU which is well inside the heliosphere, where the solar wind is much more important. That's why these spacecraft have to look at neutral helium atoms, which are the only interstellar wind components that can actually make it down here without being deflected by solar magnetic fields. Outside the solar system they have a rough density of about ten helium atoms per mL.
This has much less influence on the Earth's climate than the "sunspot activity" referred to by politicians, but you can expect to hear a lot of crap soon, e.g. "Weather on Earth might be shifting in part because of human activity, but larger context in which the Earth moves has some trends to deal with as well".
The helium drops were coming down straight just a few hundred years ago, and now they're angled slightly differently... I hope we start hearing about helium rain in the House because this Syria stuff is boring.
Probably $DEITY
Don't be an idiot. I did have trouble describing what the stuff looked like but it was a floating voltage, not heavenly interference.
I had my brain connected once to a pulse generator via a surface grid of electrodes. (This was before epilepsy surgery at Stanford, and most of the grid was on the right occipital cortex.) During this procedure they would send an increasing series of pulses of 5, 10, 20 mA etc. down to each grid position and ask if I saw anything after each one.
About 80% of the electrodes were actually kind of boring. They would produce a characteristic speckling somewhere in the leftward field of view at a certain radius and angle. Other electrodes made very weird stuff appear. One caused everything on the left side of the room to suddenly look extremely brightly hued. It looked like a grocery aisle with cheap fruit drinks. The colors got more intense with additional current.
There was a problem near the end with a bunch of uncomfortable hallucinations. Every tiny little point from the pulse generator had this upsetting weird look to it, like a kitten with its head crushed. They somehow weren't going away, and I started bitching about something seeming to accumulate in my field of vision.
They told me at this point that my brain wasn't correctly grounded to the bed frame. I wasn't able to ground it myself since all I could reach on the bed was plastic. As soon as they regrounded it, for a split second I saw some sort of bright thunderbolt approach from the left and sweep all the stuff away. It felt like a relief somehow but I'm not sure WTF I was seeing.
Yeah that's the downside- having melted the glacier, just so we can see a plant, was a bad idea. (Well, in the deal we were also able to drive to work and heat our houses and stuff. And minor details obviously deserve a little of our consideration.) But obviously these were just side effects from when we let our cryogenic botany crowd bully our fossil fuel industry around. They said "Dig up all the filth from the Carboniferous Era that you can find, and burn it fast. Then we can melt this glacier and defrost these little bitches within our careers." Of course scientists always think that because of their ideology. But they were lucky this time because it melted anyway for them, didn't it?
The second planet now known to be wasted by humans.
Here's the thing though -- none of the things the government will do can make anyone "safer."
So fire all the cops, firemen, garbage men, and teachers in your community if you think it will just improve your tax return, and still keep you just as safe from criminals, fires, cholera, and idiocy.
there was no particularly strong evidence that there would be dozens of people out there or something. I suspect it comes down to just the word "terrorism" causing people to refuse to apply the kind of logic they normally apply.
Yeah, maybe just indications of one or two more pressure cookers embedded among dozens of people.
The point of that rambling was just that these psychotics may have been Chechens, but not all Chechens are psychotics. The uncle is clearly Chechen but not psychotic. I should add no Czechs are Chechen.
and that right there discredits your rambling post.
Why?
Psychopaths like the Tsarnaev brothers, the Columbine killers, the 9/11 terrorists, the Koch brothers, etc. are either total predators like Tamerlan or Eric, with a bizarre interest in family hierarchy, a fascination with determining who is and isn't related to you, a desire for stirring religious hatred, and no altruism, empathy, or moral center to be found; they can also have only one allele like Dzhohar ("Johar", whatever), who was maybe an asshole with a superiority complex, but was also quiet about it. He was easygoing enough to form relationships with individuals in both allelic subpopulations, normal and psycho. They'll hang out with you and your other unsuspecting friends, smoke weed with you once a week just like normal Americans, etc. etc., but they'll also carry pressure cookers full of nails into dense crowds of strangers for you if they feel strongly related to you somehow.
The uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, looks like he's carrying normal alleles at this locus. He announced to a mob of reporters that he thought his older nephew was up to no good. He said that his nephew Jahar was a loser for doing what he did, announced he should turn himself in, and ask for forgiveness from the wider population of Boston. He said the brothers "brought shame on their family and upon the entire Chechen ethnicity." It might run in his family, but I don't think the uncle is as interested in seeing people run into trouble just for not being related to him.
Hopefully we decide not to waste another decade. This is not the time to go off fuming about how everyone in Chechnya is carrying this psychotic gene. Everybody there would be dead. Comfort with inhibiting the reproduction of people unrelated to you runs in families all around the world. It occurs in legislatures everywhere. It preserves itself by making you cause problems for people who don't have it. But it has to self-regulate in any wider human population, Chechnya or Boston or wherever, or it goes extinct along with the rest of the genome in the region.
Hopefully we won't see this as an excuse to waste another decade with more political 9/11-style bullshit against one particular religion or another. This was in the end a story of two bungling religious-minded psychotics, with a "mastermind", a "pushover with no conscience", and a shared comfort with mass-murdering a dense unrelated-looking crowd in a city far from home.
My cousin is going through boxes in the garage to get all my dead uncle's "I HATE FRANCE" shirts. We're selling them online once the washing machine finally gets the meth sweat.
This has damaged my relationship with my French bulldog as well. She is contacting her lawyer in Paris after having seen a picture of herself holding a demeaning sign online.
Or maybe 420 is too many; we could save a lot of administrative overhead by having fewer states, maybe 42. Then name them carefully to represent people in each state, e.g. Alloy, Sour Diesel, Green Kush, Strawberria, West Strawberria, Dino Sour, Chem, Grape Ape, etc. Of course to make it politically palatable would require redefining states in the order they legalize marijuana- we have to be realistic.
So far it does not appear they plan to turn back to study the "metal penis" closer.
The hunchback and the withered arm weren't even as surprising.
4.4 F * (100 / (212 - 32)) = 2.444444444444 C. Yes indeed, I see no "2.5" anywhere either!
If they're going to happen then I'd much rather have the FCC determine what "data caps" should be, than have the ISPs doing it. The decision to use data caps or not and how high they can be are two important societal decisions best not exposed to massive conflicts of interest for no reason. The FCC can easily do it, and at least the government is in theory supposed to be acting in our best interests when it makes these decisions, not transparently out for themselves and only having to put on a show for suckers. A Mad-Max-style freedom for corporations to serve their privatized 1984 telescreen services up to individuals is all that this "big government" kvetching amounts to.
Why only a tiny volume %? Everything is chemicals. It's either a chemical or it doesn't exist in physical form.
Oh come on, it may be vague but you know someone isn't referring to "100%" if they're referring to the mass fraction or volume fraction of bread that might be derived from chemicals. That would be an argumentum ad lexicon, a fallacious argument that pivots on some irrelevant dictionary definition.
It would be even weirder if all New York City's carbon dioxide emerged from the same location.
Photons will go out of style in coming decades, as they start to piss people off by becoming too few or too numerous. The future is neutrinos. Just switch from catching solar photons to solar neutrinos. We have no excuses.
First of all they have millions of times more energy per particle than these little photons that barely get through the atmosphere much less the earth. Anytime at night, a certain number of neutrinos will still go straight through the earth and emerge from the ground on parallel paths aimed directly at your jet in the stratosphere. And there are three different kinds of neutrinos to choose from. I could believe not being able to harness one or two, but all three? Come on. I don't believe it. Let's get real. Let's get off our butts and get to work. Here is my five point plan:
Now some of you are going to say this is impossible, and pull a bunch of numbers out of your ass including a neutrino flux that is one third of its true value. If you insist on incorrect numbers to start then I will say haha those numbers are stupid.
No one has to be a lawyer to understand what fraud is.
Man, that's some deep thinking.
The billboards in question claim voter fraud is illegal. Are you claiming they aren't intelligent enough to understand what that means and somehow mistakes it for they will be arrested? That is the only way you can make sense here. I happen to think they are NOT that freaking stupid. And if they are, I'm not sure I would be happy with them voting anyways as I doubt they would carry any understanding of anything they are voting for.
This seems to be a common conservative idea. You shouldn't be discouraged from voting just because you might not be a lawyer. Not having a law degree is not what makes someone "freaking stupid".
The "freaking stupid" will assume committing a felony is the stupid thing, which is always correct, but they also won't appreciate how they might do it by mistake next week, even if they do have an ID, which is stupid.
Most of us are not lawyers. Or we know we have been too lazy or busy to have read through all these new piles of mischievously finely-printed shitty new state legislation. It has been carefully designed by lawyers to be as confusing and intimidating as possible to the smarter half of the electorate. Anyone swift enough to realize how voting now exposes a legitimate voter to this widely-advertised risk of being charged with a felony might see how voting runs against their own self-interest. And the authors of the laws can obviously see who does and doesn't cast votes with their own self-interest in mind. That much should be obvious to everybody by now.
In case you can't bother reading a story hosted at the conservative LA times.. It's about a Virginia candidate's own son having to resign from the campaign for instructing someone how to cast votes for people planning on not voting.
I did bother myself to read that... basically another ambush on a Democratic headquarters by that costumed Republican guy running around asking people how to commit voter fraud to make videos of their answers. Some guy was dumb enough to humor the guy and explained all the hypotheticals involved in doing that legally, saying get-out-the-vote efforts are easier, and the clown made a clip from part of it. Of course all this clown's scandal videos look nasty, but if you can find one that didn't start with him, egging someone on for advice about how he might break the law, I will pay $5 million dollars to a charity of your choice. ...kaboom!
I have another LA Times link for you:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-voter-registration-gop-arrest-20121018,0,5352175.story
In case *you* aren't bothered to read links to that site, it's another story from Virginia, this one about the Republican voter registration worker who separated a bunch of forms from Democrats and then tossed them into a dumpster on his way past a discount store. If the store manager hadn't spotted that, those people would be going to jail next week for trying to vote.
If Iyou're going to teach chemical synthesis to a home-schooled kid... the obvious complex organic compound to start with is methamphetamine!
The whole family can participate.
Gravity does pick out some elements more than others. The Boltzmann distribution of helium atoms tails out at a much lower velocity than the distribution of hydrogen atoms. Near the top of the atmosphere, you will see many more hydrogen atoms than helium atoms shooting outward at escape velocity. This is why on Earth, we only have a tiny bit of helium to fill our balloons that came from radioactive decay of heavy elements, and most of it will someday make it into space.
My immediate questions are, what biochemical mechanism is in place that makes imidacloprid dangerous to bees
The one that was engineered into imidacloprid on purpose: it blocks nicotinoid pathways that primarily exist only in the central nervous systems of insects.
and if trace amounts are found in most if not all HFCS, is there any consumption concern for humans who eat food with HFCS in it?
No. Most modern insecticides were designed not to target mechanisms that are present in the nervous systems of mammals.
My car fires neutrinos out the back of the engine to pick up momentum and go down the street. The neighbors were making fun of it recently saying my car only uses weak interactions. I said quit pissing me off or you might get a faster-than-light whack in the head while asleep in your house at night.