...then how do they get tested deterministically? They MUST be undetectable, because the summary headlines are never ever wrong, nor do they exaggerate.
It is better because it converts just about anything, including waste biomass we already generate. With corn and sugar based fuels, whole crops needs to be grown (and probably subsidized) to meet the modern demand for fuel. Ethanol and other biofuels have already been shown to be not quite as cost-effective as originally hoped, but with this system, we can start harvesting landfills for fuel.
And here I thought that the movie version of V for Vendetta was just a piece of thinly veiled propaganda against the latest Bush administration.
Go ahead and mod me down as flamebait if you want, but you know it's true. Propaganda can be used by anyone.
only detailed writing data with lasers; there's no word on how to read it.
Sounds like Windows' strategy: Crap the write to wherever on disk, and don't care about performance in reading it back. Why bother when read-time performance, when the user can defrag every day?
According to TFA, the researchers "found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old." That's a rather large range of uncertainty to be definitely saying that the species/organism is 200,000 years old as the summary does. Very likely still much older than the runner-up (at 43,000 years old), but let's not jump to assumptions.
I think I see their point in that last statement. By "undo-ing" this awful thing, they would pretending like it never happened. It's the same justification why the Nazi concentration were never torn down: as a whole, the human race should never forget the immensely awful things that we were capable of in the past. To do so dooms us to repeat it.
That being said, I am all for the pardoning of Alan Turing. He was a great man, cruelly betrayed by his own nation.
There are a klot of joking posts here, but I think this really is a cool thing. Maybe I'm biased because I just finished reading Jules Verne's Around the Moon last night. We've certainly come a long way in understanding our nearest neighbor. In the book, it was hypothesized that the far side of the moon had retained an atmosphere and thus possibly supported life. Also, the craters were all thought to be volcanic in origin, but hey, Verne did a pretty good job all-in-all. Just about 100 years later, we did an actual moon fly-by similar to what he has described (only in Apollo's case, it was intentional). Modern day sci-fi writers can learn a thing or two from the greats of the past.
I for one am sorry to see a living monument such as this go. I have grown up seeing the forests around my home killed due to a massive slash-and-burn, all in the name of "progress," when in fact we did not need another warehouse doomed to be shut down in 5 years. The result is that there is rarely to be seen any tree older than 25 or 30 years old. I don't know, mod me down if you want, but I believe that any currently living being that was around before the printing press was invented certainly deserves a degree of respect and a chance to keep living.
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...then how do they get tested deterministically? They MUST be undetectable, because the summary headlines are never ever wrong, nor do they exaggerate.
It is better because it converts just about anything, including waste biomass we already generate. With corn and sugar based fuels, whole crops needs to be grown (and probably subsidized) to meet the modern demand for fuel. Ethanol and other biofuels have already been shown to be not quite as cost-effective as originally hoped, but with this system, we can start harvesting landfills for fuel.
Thank you for posting that. The quotation better depicts the opinion I was trying to express.
So "lawl" doesn't count? Or "lal"?
Data would be so disillusioned... (Brownie points if you get the reference!)
And here I thought that the movie version of V for Vendetta was just a piece of thinly veiled propaganda against the latest Bush administration.
Go ahead and mod me down as flamebait if you want, but you know it's true. Propaganda can be used by anyone.
Checklist complete. ...S.O.B.
only detailed writing data with lasers; there's no word on how to read it.
Sounds like Windows' strategy: Crap the write to wherever on disk, and don't care about performance in reading it back. Why bother when read-time performance, when the user can defrag every day?
Well, I'm glad you don't feel like you are entitled to words like "the", "a", or "do". Just think, the arrogance of some people!
I thought the same thing: "Call down the thunder...."
According to TFA, the researchers "found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old." That's a rather large range of uncertainty to be definitely saying that the species/organism is 200,000 years old as the summary does. Very likely still much older than the runner-up (at 43,000 years old), but let's not jump to assumptions.
tma;dr (too many acronyms, didn't read)
I think I see their point in that last statement. By "undo-ing" this awful thing, they would pretending like it never happened. It's the same justification why the Nazi concentration were never torn down: as a whole, the human race should never forget the immensely awful things that we were capable of in the past. To do so dooms us to repeat it. That being said, I am all for the pardoning of Alan Turing. He was a great man, cruelly betrayed by his own nation.
I don't know....I have a Model M.
...until transparent aluminum!
Actually, all political discussion aside, I've been laughing about how my original post about flamebaiting the article....got flamebaited.
that noone has yet commented on the fact this newly discovered planet has three suns. Can you imagine a world where a true nightfall is fairly rare?
I want to mod this article as Flamebait.
And I want to tax absurd Oklahoma politicians.
Doctor, is that you?
There are a klot of joking posts here, but I think this really is a cool thing. Maybe I'm biased because I just finished reading Jules Verne's Around the Moon last night. We've certainly come a long way in understanding our nearest neighbor. In the book, it was hypothesized that the far side of the moon had retained an atmosphere and thus possibly supported life. Also, the craters were all thought to be volcanic in origin, but hey, Verne did a pretty good job all-in-all. Just about 100 years later, we did an actual moon fly-by similar to what he has described (only in Apollo's case, it was intentional). Modern day sci-fi writers can learn a thing or two from the greats of the past.
Even the spiral bound notebooks? I used those all the time in college!
Or maybe not, according to this obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/865/
I for one am sorry to see a living monument such as this go. I have grown up seeing the forests around my home killed due to a massive slash-and-burn, all in the name of "progress," when in fact we did not need another warehouse doomed to be shut down in 5 years. The result is that there is rarely to be seen any tree older than 25 or 30 years old. I don't know, mod me down if you want, but I believe that any currently living being that was around before the printing press was invented certainly deserves a degree of respect and a chance to keep living.
(Changes electron spin orientation, causing bonded atoms to switch theirs as well)
http://xkcd.com/927/