People have been writing posts bitching and whining about these stories for years and years. God forbid we get to call this site useless on one day of the year... eh, never mind.
...before blowing our cookies over manned trips to the moon, which add NOTHING of scientific value and solve no problems.
You put it better than I was about to.
I think people expect that in 20-30 years after manned space technology has progressed, we should be commuting to office parks on Mars, shopping at malls in the ionosphere, and living in pleasant gated communities on the far side of the moon. But only if NASA keeps shooting cans of spam into space.
Except, oops, how about that, you can't see their 'science' without paying. An accident? I doubt it. Everyone should assume about these charlatans and others: if you need to go through a paywall to the actual details of someone's evidence and research, it's probably a scam or gross incompetence (in the latter case, why bother reading the rest since incompetence is thus proven.) Results from "real" scientists are accessible from, e.g., Google; it takes active steps to maintain obcurity to avoid this.
Good thing you posted AC, after giving away that you've never seen an abstract in your life. Most scientific journals are not free. And Google is not the world.
Speaking as one who regularly succumbs to propositions from strange attractive sexually promiscuous women, I would rather be gorgeous and infected than germ-free and ugly.
I have a gravimagnetic monopole but unfortunately gravimagnetism is so weak I'm too embarrassed to show it off to my friends. "There, can't you sense that? A spinning force... it feels like you should start dancing... no, huh?" I just keep it in a drawer.
My friends run the political spectrum although only half are even familiar with gravimagnetic dipoles, much less monopoles.
For the loss in the house's value. You'd have to be nuts to move to that place. And they didn't necessarily get it for cheap. The person who lived there before them was being driven insane by this, but he thought he just had a stalker.
Perhaps my imagination is limited, but I've never thought of the wall-wart as something that might "save me from my Facebook account".
They don't make a JVM that works on top of the ARM processor, so you're stuck with python, php, and C++. (For its part, Facebook lets you run "Facebook apps".)
I mostly use it for samba and svn. I do have a webserver set up on the plug but I've never posted a link to it anywhere or I'd be uploading warez and tunez all day.
And even the (likely lethal) "shower of muons, pions, kaons, W+, W-, Z, e+, e-, and gamma rays" won't somehow have a combined energy above the level of energy of the original particle.
I didn't think I implied they would. I was talking about the percentage that might or not be relased inside the head.
The first observation of a cosmic ray with an energy exceeding 10^20 electronvolts was made by John Linsley at the Volcanic Ranch experiment in New Mexico in 1962.
Cosmic rays with even higher energies have since been observed. Among them was the Oh-My-God particle (a play on the nickname "God particle" for the Higgs boson) observed on the evening of 15 October 1991 over Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Its observation was a shock to astrophysicists, who estimated its energy to be approximately 3 × 10^20 electronvolts (50 joules)—in other words, a subatomic particle with macroscopic kinetic energy equal to that of a baseball (142 g or 5 ounces) traveling at 96 km/h (60 mph).
It was most probably a proton with a speed very close to the speed of light. To a static observer, such a proton, traveling at 1 (5×10^24) times c, would travel only 47 nanometers (5×10^24 light-years) less than a light-year in one year.
Since the first observation, by the University of Utah's Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector, at least fifteen similar events have been recorded, confirming the phenomenon. These very high energy cosmic rays are very rare; the energy of most cosmic rays is between 10^7 eV and 10^10 eV.
Physicists always talk about these particles, with "enough energy as a fastball", "enough to whack your head off" etc. These are colloquialisms.
The proton probably does just go through your head- after all, it mostly sees nothing. But it can reach places in your head which are off-limits to bullets. Even though it mostly sails through, sometimes it has a collision with something inside your head, interacting via one or the other of these fields. It could cause a huge release of energy, with a massive particle shower of muons, pions, kaons, W+, W-, Z, e+, e-, and gamma rays everywhere. (Neutrinos, who cares.) It would depend on the mean free path of all this crud in your head.
Besides, they're probably thinking, there's one even more powerful that *WILL* blow your head off even if this one only hits you in the head like a fastball.
Protons (cosmic rays) arrive in random directions from gamma ray bursts billions of light years away in every direction. The energies are usually in the MeV - GeV range, the flux is low, and regular shielding is enough to stop most of them. (Electrons like that arrive too, but they're like the BB pellets of cosmic rays.) Astronauts need to worry a little bit about solar wind and cosmic rays giving them cancer, but they need to worry more about orbiting paint chips traveling at 20000 mph. A paint chip once hit the space shuttle window and blasted a hole a few cm wide.
Occasionally a relativistic proton arrives with a respectable human-scale energy, measurable in Joules. Cancer is the least of your worries. It could blow your head clean off, or blast a circuit board into smithereens. [Hey MythBusters, are you listening?] We still don't really understand what phenomenon generates single particles with such a ridiculously high speed, but we're pretty sure black holes are involved in some way. Unfortunately you don't get much of a show when they strike the upper atmosphere because they glide to a stop as they generate a shitstorm of particle showers. If they actually hit the ground we might assume they were meteorites, or the hand of God... either shooting at people with bad aim, or punching holes in the ground and commanding us to play golf.
There was a story a couple months ago about a bunch of cyclists in Brooklyn who tried to repaint some bike lanes there. The city had sandblasted them away at the request of Hasidic Jews who complained that bike lanes attracted female cyclists with huge boobies.
Groups of bicycle-riding vigilantes have been repainting 14 blocks of Williamsburg roadways ever since the city sandblasted their bike lanes away last week at the request of the Hasidic community.
The Hasids, who have long had a huge enclave in the now-artist-haven neighborhood, had complained that the Bedford Avenue bike paths posed both a safety and religious hazard.
Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained.
Two cycling advocates were apprehended by the Shomrim Patrol, a Hasidic neighborhood watch group, as they repainted a section of bike lane at 3:30 a.m. yesterday, but when cops arrived, no one was arrested and no summonses were issued, police said.
"These people should apply for a job at the DOT," neighborhood activist Isaac Abraham said of the repainting. "You put it on, they take it off -- and they will probably do this again."
A Department of Transportation spokesman said: "We will continue to work with any community on ways we can make changes to our streets without compromising safety."
A source close to Mayor Bloomberg said removing the lanes was an effort to appease the Hasidic community just before last month's election.
Abraham contends the bike lanes put children at risk of getting hit by cars or bicycles as they exited school buses.
But Baruch Herzfeld, who has tried to bridge the gap between hipsters and Hasids with a bike-rental program, said safety is not the issue so much as xenophobia.
"They don't want the hipsters in their neighborhood," he said. "It's like in Howard Beach back in the day when they didn't want black people in the neighborhood."
The cycling advocacy group Transportation Alternatives has not taken sides in the dispute.
But bike lane or not, "cyclists have a right to be on Bedford Avenue," said Wiley Norvell, a group spokesman.
(First of all, to clear up the nitpick: "But you don't need a bike lane to ride down the street!" It's there to keep people from running you over, not to give you legal sanction to use the street.) What's amazing here is that an American city outside Utah acquiesced to demands that a piece of public infrastructure be degraded, on the basis of someone's religious objections to women who are not covered. It was a boneheaded decision to enforce values of a single religious group upon the public at large.
In Israel, where I presume there are no bike lanes, there is clearly not the messy separation of church and state that exists here (for now). Maybe it's fine there for religous law to dictate secular law. But there isn't much organ donation in Israel because of people's religious beliefs. An "opt-out" system isn't discriminatory in any way, but the same sort of people who got the City of New York to sandblast its bike lanes are the ones who will claim discrimination.
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People have been writing posts bitching and whining about these stories for years and years. God forbid we get to call this site useless on one day of the year... eh, never mind.
...before blowing our cookies over manned trips to the moon, which add NOTHING of scientific value and solve no problems.
You put it better than I was about to.
I think people expect that in 20-30 years after manned space technology has progressed, we should be commuting to office parks on Mars, shopping at malls in the ionosphere, and living in pleasant gated communities on the far side of the moon. But only if NASA keeps shooting cans of spam into space.
Except, oops, how about that, you can't see their 'science' without paying. An accident? I doubt it. Everyone should assume about these charlatans and others: if you need to go through a paywall to the actual details of someone's evidence and research, it's probably a scam or gross incompetence (in the latter case, why bother reading the rest since incompetence is thus proven.) Results from "real" scientists are accessible from, e.g., Google; it takes active steps to maintain obcurity to avoid this.
Good thing you posted AC, after giving away that you've never seen an abstract in your life. Most scientific journals are not free. And Google is not the world.
THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD DOES NOT HAVE ADHD.
Well somebody does... This is the 23rd of 24 posts by you so far today.
You're just an idiot, nothing more, nothing less.
And almost every single post ends like this, with you calling someone an idiot. If you don't have ADHD then you're probably a shell script.
Douchebag,
Riding a bike on the sidewalk is forbidden in most jurisdictions. Where the fuck do you live?
He has borderline personality disorder. Look at his other posts.
Been driving a stick for 20 years
Sitting on one, rather.
Speaking as one who regularly succumbs to propositions from strange attractive sexually promiscuous women, I would rather be gorgeous and infected than germ-free and ugly.
I have a gravimagnetic monopole but unfortunately gravimagnetism is so weak I'm too embarrassed to show it off to my friends. "There, can't you sense that? A spinning force... it feels like you should start dancing... no, huh?" I just keep it in a drawer.
My friends run the political spectrum although only half are even familiar with gravimagnetic dipoles, much less monopoles.
They're also greenhouse gas emitters now, and they can easily shoot foamy substances at the ocean from those giant deodorant guns.
I chose not to have kids for career reasons (porn industry).
That's the name of my next daughter.
Yeah. Good thing we didn't "bog down" SSD drives in "regulations and laws". Mandating rear view mirrors, maybe.
Every week or so a van leaves Google crammed full of hard drives containing their current backup of the Internet.
For the loss in the house's value. You'd have to be nuts to move to that place. And they didn't necessarily get it for cheap. The person who lived there before them was being driven insane by this, but he thought he just had a stalker.
Madoff was recently beaten in prison in a "dispute centered on money".
He also socializes in there with former Colombo crime family boss Carmine Persico.
I just upload videos of me and my friends; they're all from hell.
Perhaps my imagination is limited, but I've never thought of the wall-wart as something that might "save me from my Facebook account".
They don't make a JVM that works on top of the ARM processor, so you're stuck with python, php, and C++. (For its part, Facebook lets you run "Facebook apps".)
I mostly use it for samba and svn. I do have a webserver set up on the plug but I've never posted a link to it anywhere or I'd be uploading warez and tunez all day.
I'll save someone some time- actually, a lot of people a lot of time:
... (x) legislative ...
...
...
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
And even the (likely lethal) "shower of muons, pions, kaons, W+, W-, Z, e+, e-, and gamma rays" won't somehow have a combined energy above the level of energy of the original particle.
I didn't think I implied they would. I was talking about the percentage that might or not be relased inside the head.
The first observation of a cosmic ray with an energy exceeding 10^20 electronvolts was made by John Linsley at the Volcanic Ranch experiment in New Mexico in 1962. Cosmic rays with even higher energies have since been observed. Among them was the Oh-My-God particle (a play on the nickname "God particle" for the Higgs boson) observed on the evening of 15 October 1991 over Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Its observation was a shock to astrophysicists, who estimated its energy to be approximately 3 × 10^20 electronvolts (50 joules)—in other words, a subatomic particle with macroscopic kinetic energy equal to that of a baseball (142 g or 5 ounces) traveling at 96 km/h (60 mph). It was most probably a proton with a speed very close to the speed of light. To a static observer, such a proton, traveling at 1 (5×10^24) times c, would travel only 47 nanometers (5×10^24 light-years) less than a light-year in one year. Since the first observation, by the University of Utah's Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector, at least fifteen similar events have been recorded, confirming the phenomenon. These very high energy cosmic rays are very rare; the energy of most cosmic rays is between 10^7 eV and 10^10 eV.
Physicists always talk about these particles, with "enough energy as a fastball", "enough to whack your head off" etc. These are colloquialisms.
The proton probably does just go through your head- after all, it mostly sees nothing. But it can reach places in your head which are off-limits to bullets. Even though it mostly sails through, sometimes it has a collision with something inside your head, interacting via one or the other of these fields. It could cause a huge release of energy, with a massive particle shower of muons, pions, kaons, W+, W-, Z, e+, e-, and gamma rays everywhere. (Neutrinos, who cares.) It would depend on the mean free path of all this crud in your head.
Besides, they're probably thinking, there's one even more powerful that *WILL* blow your head off even if this one only hits you in the head like a fastball.
Protons (cosmic rays) arrive in random directions from gamma ray bursts billions of light years away in every direction. The energies are usually in the MeV - GeV range, the flux is low, and regular shielding is enough to stop most of them. (Electrons like that arrive too, but they're like the BB pellets of cosmic rays.) Astronauts need to worry a little bit about solar wind and cosmic rays giving them cancer, but they need to worry more about orbiting paint chips traveling at 20000 mph. A paint chip once hit the space shuttle window and blasted a hole a few cm wide.
Occasionally a relativistic proton arrives with a respectable human-scale energy, measurable in Joules. Cancer is the least of your worries. It could blow your head clean off, or blast a circuit board into smithereens. [Hey MythBusters, are you listening?] We still don't really understand what phenomenon generates single particles with such a ridiculously high speed, but we're pretty sure black holes are involved in some way. Unfortunately you don't get much of a show when they strike the upper atmosphere because they glide to a stop as they generate a shitstorm of particle showers. If they actually hit the ground we might assume they were meteorites, or the hand of God... either shooting at people with bad aim, or punching holes in the ground and commanding us to play golf.
Oh I'm sure; it was a tongue in cheek statement. Rabbis can't be patrolling for boobies everywhere.
...not oppressed, whoops.
Groups of bicycle-riding vigilantes have been repainting 14 blocks of Williamsburg roadways ever since the city sandblasted their bike lanes away last week at the request of the Hasidic community.
The Hasids, who have long had a huge enclave in the now-artist-haven neighborhood, had complained that the Bedford Avenue bike paths posed both a safety and religious hazard.
Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained.
Two cycling advocates were apprehended by the Shomrim Patrol, a Hasidic neighborhood watch group, as they repainted a section of bike lane at 3:30 a.m. yesterday, but when cops arrived, no one was arrested and no summonses were issued, police said.
"These people should apply for a job at the DOT," neighborhood activist Isaac Abraham said of the repainting. "You put it on, they take it off -- and they will probably do this again."
A Department of Transportation spokesman said: "We will continue to work with any community on ways we can make changes to our streets without compromising safety."
A source close to Mayor Bloomberg said removing the lanes was an effort to appease the Hasidic community just before last month's election.
Abraham contends the bike lanes put children at risk of getting hit by cars or bicycles as they exited school buses.
But Baruch Herzfeld, who has tried to bridge the gap between hipsters and Hasids with a bike-rental program, said safety is not the issue so much as xenophobia.
"They don't want the hipsters in their neighborhood," he said. "It's like in Howard Beach back in the day when they didn't want black people in the neighborhood."
The cycling advocacy group Transportation Alternatives has not taken sides in the dispute.
But bike lane or not, "cyclists have a right to be on Bedford Avenue," said Wiley Norvell, a group spokesman.
(First of all, to clear up the nitpick: "But you don't need a bike lane to ride down the street!" It's there to keep people from running you over, not to give you legal sanction to use the street.) What's amazing here is that an American city outside Utah acquiesced to demands that a piece of public infrastructure be degraded, on the basis of someone's religious objections to women who are not covered. It was a boneheaded decision to enforce values of a single religious group upon the public at large.
In Israel, where I presume there are no bike lanes, there is clearly not the messy separation of church and state that exists here (for now). Maybe it's fine there for religous law to dictate secular law. But there isn't much organ donation in Israel because of people's religious beliefs. An "opt-out" system isn't discriminatory in any way, but the same sort of people who got the City of New York to sandblast its bike lanes are the ones who will claim discrimination.