Actually, I want to know if the E8 theory predicts those negative strangelets that people were worried were going to pop out of the LHC one day and destroy the world.
It can become cheap, once enough people go for it. I'm surprised at how many naysayers are on this forum, possibly conditioned to believe that spiderman villains are villainous because they didn't get their superpowers "naturally".
There may be benefits to complete prosthetic bodies which have capabilities superior to flesh and blood which would make limb regeneration a less preferred alternative.
In the article Jeffrey Morgan notes that students at Brown have pierced noses. Limbs and skins impervious to flame, cold, bullets and infection might be the next big thing in body modification. Also, if you break your leg, you can take it down to the shop and get it fixed while the mechanic loans you a courtesy leg to get around in.
Isn't the point of the game getting up that the graffiti artist trolls progressively more powerful people to get more recognition for himself? bringing those figures down in the process?
And I'll chime in to say that yes it is tame compared to some of the more graphic movies I've been freely able to watch in theaters and on cable which don't even have as precise social commentary.
The i-wuh? is a new kind of PDA tablet that bears no resemblance to anything you have ever seen, yet you instinctively know how to use it. Now describe it in 500 words or less.
Good points. Also it is irrelavent as to whether we cause global warming. The point is that we have to keep the climate at the optimum temperature to sustain human civilisation.
If that means that we have to curb our emissions of things like methane and CO2 and then take more radical measures (like actively injecting chemicals into our atmosphere to cool it) then so we must.
If it is the sun's fault, then our task is just a little harder than if it was ours.
After all, to those who say that global warming is a natural event, I say so was the comet that eliminated the dinosaurs. You wouldn't feel bad about spending billions of dollars to shoot down a killer comet would you? Now how about spending the same amount of money to save us from stupid killer weather?
It's true. I did enjoy Barbarians at the Gate a film that begins "Billions and Billions of dollars ago...".
I guess the thing is that we need to pull out the most extreme stories out there and make them into great films. I think Uncle Sam is one such story - It's not all corporate america bashing. It's actually about the basic truths of democracy forgotten in exchange for a simulacra of patriotism. The way Sam finds himself again is subtle, satisfying and nothing short of inspired.
One guy in a hut with a crate of baked beans drives hundreds of rovers around and sends back daily uploads.
Problems with the rover wheels? walk out there and fix it. no problem. Rover flips over? walk out there and right it.No problem.
Guy in he hut is hit by solar flare, meteorite, runs out of oxygen and dies? Ground control takes over the rovers and runs them remotely until they die. No problem.
I'd volunteer to be the guy if you want. I mean, it's not like that the rover fixer technician job requires you to be a trained geologist or anything.
Ok, the article didn't say anything about when it will leave the milky way. It just said that B1508+55 was going to leave the milky way, and that it had been traveling for 2.5million years from its point of origin in Cygnus. That translates to a velocity of 1100km/s or being able to cross 1/3 of the night sky from the time of birth to the present.
There are two things that excite me about this. 1) B1508+55 is a massive radio emitting object which is boldly going into the intergalactic space where all that putative dark matter is supposed to be. If its path bends we might end up discovering a "dark galaxy". Of course someone with access to human astronomy records must be around to observe this when it happens.
2) Cygnus spits out a lot of these objects. Maybe if we get a very much faster one, we can have a more convenient probe.
I wonder how long we can track this object once it leaves the galaxy. Any perturbations of its path will tell us about the dark matter between galaxies and the gravitational pull such putative dark matter exerts.
I read in the fortune file today that the most common given name in the world was "Mohammad" and the most common family name was "Chang".
Just think of all the people named "Mohammad Chang"!
By that token we need to make a movie that will appeal to them - a romantic drama-comedy with heart, that involves speeding things that go whoosh, big explosions and hot actors.
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Anything that reduces the cooling load and the power bill will be welcome.
Actually, I want to know if the E8 theory predicts those negative strangelets that people were worried were going to pop out of the LHC one day and destroy the world.
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jholden/strange/node17.html
I guess you'd have to learn to think like a dinosaur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
It can become cheap, once enough people go for it. I'm surprised at how many naysayers are on this forum, possibly conditioned to believe that spiderman villains are villainous because they didn't get their superpowers "naturally".
There may be benefits to complete prosthetic bodies which have capabilities superior to flesh and blood which would make limb regeneration a less preferred alternative.
In the article Jeffrey Morgan notes that students at Brown have pierced noses. Limbs and skins impervious to flame, cold, bullets and infection might be the next big thing in body modification. Also, if you break your leg, you can take it down to the shop and get it fixed while the mechanic loans you a courtesy leg to get around in.
As for concerns to losing your humanity, it's not who you are inside, but what you do that counts.
Finally, is it just me, or does everyone want to strap on a combination of the Hugh Herr Catapult and the german built Powerskip mechanical jumping boot and go street racing?
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Isn't the point of the game getting up that the graffiti artist trolls progressively more powerful people to get more recognition for himself? bringing those figures down in the process?
And I'll chime in to say that yes it is tame compared to some of the more graphic movies I've been freely able to watch in theaters and on cable which don't even have as precise social commentary.
TETSUO!!!
The point is that we'd rather have a poison dart dolphin than Bush.
Except when it comes to election time.
Hmm. To complete the troll you would have to assert that the only specimine worth preserving was natalie portman.
This feels bizarre. It's like we're unearthing a fossil troll.
The i-wuh? is a new kind of PDA tablet that bears no resemblance to anything you have ever seen, yet you instinctively know how to use it. Now describe it in 500 words or less.
Good points. Also it is irrelavent as to whether we cause global warming. The point is that we have to keep the climate at the optimum temperature to sustain human civilisation.
If that means that we have to curb our emissions of things like methane and CO2 and then take more radical measures (like actively injecting chemicals into our atmosphere to cool it) then so we must.
If it is the sun's fault, then our task is just a little harder than if it was ours.
After all, to those who say that global warming is a natural event, I say so was the comet that eliminated the dinosaurs. You wouldn't feel bad about spending billions of dollars to shoot down a killer comet would you? Now how about spending the same amount of money to save us from stupid killer weather?
I think I saw that in a Will Smith film.
"What?"
"I don't understand!"
"Where's the tea?"
It's true. I did enjoy Barbarians at the Gate a film that begins "Billions and Billions of dollars ago...".
I guess the thing is that we need to pull out the most extreme stories out there and make them into great films. I think Uncle Sam is one such story - It's not all corporate america bashing. It's actually about the basic truths of democracy forgotten in exchange for a simulacra of patriotism. The way Sam finds himself again is subtle, satisfying and nothing short of inspired.
Because unlike marvel, DC has one property that will make an awesome movie: Uncle Sam.
There's no way to do that without doing it with idealism and integrity, and it would be a hell of a lot less annoying than mike moore.
Even better plan-
Humans AND mass produced rovers.
One guy in a hut with a crate of baked beans drives hundreds of rovers around and sends back daily uploads.
Problems with the rover wheels? walk out there and fix it. no problem. Rover flips over? walk out there and right it.No problem.
Guy in he hut is hit by solar flare, meteorite, runs out of oxygen and dies? Ground control takes over the rovers and runs them remotely until they die. No problem.
I'd volunteer to be the guy if you want. I mean, it's not like that the rover fixer technician job requires you to be a trained geologist or anything.
You're right, the fact the galaxy exists is because the planets and stars orbit the galactic core.
It is exceptional that something got the escape velocity to leave the galaxy in a kind of time frame that we're able to see it happen in.
This pulsar is the new speed record holder for an object of its class.
If your parent was the biblical Abraham, then you would have as many brothers and sisters as the stars in the sky and the sand in the sea.
Of course, we'd end up naming you fairly boring and common names like David and Sarah.
for what it's worth, here's a simulation of Our milky way hitting Andromeda.
Things like this happen all the time.
Ok, the article didn't say anything about when it will leave the milky way. It just said that B1508+55 was going to leave the milky way, and that it had been traveling for 2.5million years from its point of origin in Cygnus. That translates to a velocity of 1100km/s or being able to cross 1/3 of the night sky from the time of birth to the present.
There are two things that excite me about this. 1) B1508+55 is a massive radio emitting object which is boldly going into the intergalactic space where all that putative dark matter is supposed to be. If its path bends we might end up discovering a "dark galaxy". Of course someone with access to human astronomy records must be around to observe this when it happens.
2) Cygnus spits out a lot of these objects. Maybe if we get a very much faster one, we can have a more convenient probe.
It's too big to be a space station.
I wonder how long we can track this object once it leaves the galaxy. Any perturbations of its path will tell us about the dark matter between galaxies and the gravitational pull such putative dark matter exerts.
Maybe the point is that it's all a waste of money until the payoff... SpaceShipXXX.
I read in the fortune file today that the most common given name in the world was "Mohammad" and the most common family name was "Chang".
Just think of all the people named "Mohammad Chang"!
By that token we need to make a movie that will appeal to them - a romantic drama-comedy with heart, that involves speeding things that go whoosh, big explosions and hot actors.
It's sure to be a winner.
So NASA's great failure was to not have a large expensive project that had a spinoff technology related to porn.