Have you read the horrific account of Dr. Walter Freeman? To quote one of the articles below:
The "ice pick lobotomy" was, according to Ole Enersen, performed by Freeman "with a recklessness bordering on lunacy, touring the country like a travelling evangelist. In most cases," Enersen continued, "this procedure was nothing more than a gross and unwarranted mutilation carried out by a self righteous zealot."
In the Mythbusters test (as pointed out above), they shined the laser on the lunar highlands, a place totally devoid of human 'stuff'. There was no reflection other than background light. After they slewed the 'scope to the Apollo 15 landing site, there was a clear peak of light at the expected wavelength and distance.
You mean like this monstrosity being built near me? It's just down Broad St. from thisother monstrosity - here's a map showing both. The mall is in the top-left of the map, the village is the dug-up area in the bottom-right.
Similar in Virginia, except California requires the feathers to be from live birds, making the disposal of carbonized feathers from the backs of live birds a real PETA issue.
...clear water or feathers from live birds...
It's interesting how similar the language is. California:
a vehicle ( )2 shall not be driven or moved on any highway unless the vehicle is so constructed, covered, or loaded as to prevent any of its contents or load other than clear water or feathers from live birds from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing, spilling, or otherwise escaping from the vehicle.
Virginia:
No vehicle shall be operated or moved on any highway unless it is so constructed, maintained, and loaded as to prevent its contents from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping.
Do you think some powerful lobby wrote the legislation?
The Tyson's plant near me regularly burns what I suspect are chicken feathers - Pee ewww! It may be them cooking down the leftover parts (including feathers) for animal feed, but it smells like burning feathers.
...energy efficient cities.... there is MORE community, more local services and shops within walking distance, MORE connection with a MORE secure local economy that is MORE reliable, intimate and connected to servicing other local economy relationships of interdependence.
Logan's Run here we come. We'll all be living in a giant shopping mall soon.
There will probably be short-term shortages as practically everyone converts over to these substitutes almost overnight. Your policy will likely result in widespread civil unrest.
So this is where Thorn calls in the scoops after running out of Soylent Green, right?
Fully homomorphic encryption is a bit like enabling a layperson to perform flawless neurosurgery while blindfolded, and without later remembering the episode.
Oh, I get it! It's like when Dr. McCoy reinstalled Spock's brain. McCoy was an idiot before, got the 1337 skillz, and then forgot it all.
I recently took some long exposure night shots that had bright point-source lights in them with a Canon 70-300mm telephoto lens and got similar lens flares (greenish and lunate-shaped).
They might be Bokeh. I'd never heard of them before. Also wikipedia says that Anti-reflactive coatings can create strange effects, as you said.
In any case, I think they're artifacts and not actual 'stuff'. As for the blue ones - those might be the cops. 8-)
Interesting. I see what you're talking about. I think the green spots could be lens flares from the bright area in the middle. If they're traffic lights, isn't it a bit strange that they're all green everywhere with no red in sight? Note that most of the green dots are not uniform, and have some shading. Also note that the farther 'north' you go on the image, the larger and more blurred they are.
In Grand Cayman I rented a car whose speedometer only showed kph, but all the road signs were in mph. I realized it immediately, but I did see some other tourists going _reallllllyyyy slooowwwwllyyy_.
I agree re: the need to not subsidize nuke plants. However part of the reason that subsidies are needed is the horrendous amount of red tape involved in getting an operating permit. So far every nuke plant in the US was built as if it were a custom job. The design had to be approved by the feds every time. It would be like Boeing or Airbus having to engineer, test, and have the FAA approve every single plane they make.
If the nuclear reactor industry could come up with a standard design, have it validated by the feds, and built cookie-cutter plants, a lot of that cost would disappear.
Virginia recently upgraded not wearing a seat belt to a primary offense. What's funny is that a passenger not wearing a seat belt can get a ticket, too!
You could encode information in the "position" of the atoms. That would make the information analog (i.e., there is an infinite number of positions you can put an atom in, afaik).
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The "ice pick lobotomy" was, according to Ole Enersen, performed by Freeman "with a recklessness bordering on lunacy, touring the country like a travelling evangelist. In most cases," Enersen continued, "this procedure was nothing more than a gross and unwarranted mutilation carried out by a self righteous zealot."
The disgust I feel for this barbarism is intense; more intense than that for electroshock therapy as practiced in the 50's. Absolute barbarism. If this had happened in the 40's in Germany, it'd be treated as a crime against humanity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Freeman_(surgeon)
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy".
Med students add the correct prefix to it:
"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy".
I think your spelling meds have worn off - aside from the other obvious typos, those would be "biopsy" and "lobotomy", respectively.
In the Mythbusters test (as pointed out above), they shined the laser on the lunar highlands, a place totally devoid of human 'stuff'. There was no reflection other than background light. After they slewed the 'scope to the Apollo 15 landing site, there was a clear peak of light at the expected wavelength and distance.
You mean like this monstrosity being built near me? It's just down Broad St. from this other monstrosity - here's a map showing both. The mall is in the top-left of the map, the village is the dug-up area in the bottom-right.
Henry Higgins, is that you?
Both "Boldly Went Where No Man Had Gone Before" (with apologies to The Kirk).
I'd say at least from a courage standpoint they were similar.
Similar in Virginia, except California requires the feathers to be from live birds, making the disposal of carbonized feathers from the backs of live birds a real PETA issue.
...clear water or feathers from live birds...
It's interesting how similar the language is. California:
a vehicle ( )2 shall not be driven or moved on any highway unless the vehicle is so constructed, covered, or loaded as to prevent any of its contents or load other than clear water or feathers from live birds from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing, spilling, or otherwise escaping from the vehicle.
Virginia:
No vehicle shall be operated or moved on any highway unless it is so constructed, maintained, and loaded as to prevent its contents from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping.
Do you think some powerful lobby wrote the legislation?
I disagree. The best Hydrogen storage is the Carbohydrate. Preferably one that is Maple-flavored.
The Tyson's plant near me regularly burns what I suspect are chicken feathers - Pee ewww! It may be them cooking down the leftover parts (including feathers) for animal feed, but it smells like burning feathers.
Logan's Run here we come. We'll all be living in a giant shopping mall soon.
There will probably be short-term shortages as practically everyone converts over to these substitutes almost overnight. Your policy will likely result in widespread civil unrest.
So this is where Thorn calls in the scoops after running out of Soylent Green, right?
They carbonized Han Solo, remember. It worked out for him in the end, though. He got Princess Leia. The chickens? Not so much.
Brutus's Rule: Never correct an 800 pound guorilla in the use or spelling of words.
That's Brutus' Rule, and Gorilla, Brutus.
8-)
Fully homomorphic encryption is a bit like enabling a layperson to perform flawless neurosurgery while blindfolded, and without later remembering the episode.
Oh, I get it! It's like when Dr. McCoy reinstalled Spock's brain. McCoy was an idiot before, got the 1337 skillz, and then forgot it all.
Per se. It's Latin.
See my sig for some sage advice.
I recently took some long exposure night shots that had bright point-source lights in them with a Canon 70-300mm telephoto lens and got similar lens flares (greenish and lunate-shaped).
They might be Bokeh. I'd never heard of them before. Also wikipedia says that Anti-reflactive coatings can create strange effects, as you said.
In any case, I think they're artifacts and not actual 'stuff'. As for the blue ones - those might be the cops. 8-)
Interesting. I see what you're talking about. I think the green spots could be lens flares from the bright area in the middle. If they're traffic lights, isn't it a bit strange that they're all green everywhere with no red in sight? Note that most of the green dots are not uniform, and have some shading. Also note that the farther 'north' you go on the image, the larger and more blurred they are.
In Grand Cayman I rented a car whose speedometer only showed kph, but all the road signs were in mph. I realized it immediately, but I did see some other tourists going _reallllllyyyy slooowwwwllyyy_.
[outrageous_French_accent] I fart in your general direction.[/outrageous_French_accent]
[frighteningly_accurate_French_accent ] I fart in your general direction.[/frighteningly_accurate_French_accent ]
There. Fixed _that_ for you.
I agree re: the need to not subsidize nuke plants. However part of the reason that subsidies are needed is the horrendous amount of red tape involved in getting an operating permit. So far every nuke plant in the US was built as if it were a custom job. The design had to be approved by the feds every time. It would be like Boeing or Airbus having to engineer, test, and have the FAA approve every single plane they make.
If the nuclear reactor industry could come up with a standard design, have it validated by the feds, and built cookie-cutter plants, a lot of that cost would disappear.
Virginia recently upgraded not wearing a seat belt to a primary offense. What's funny is that a passenger not wearing a seat belt can get a ticket, too!
It used to be very difficult to unhook a seat belt while it was under tension - like when your car is upside-down after an accident.
You could encode information in the "position" of the atoms. That would make the information analog (i.e., there is an infinite number of positions you can put an atom in, afaik).
Nope.