nonsense statement...had to read twice to be sure, but this is just technobabble and not based on scientific definitions of "space" and "light"
That's weird, I understood it perfectly as an (admittedly somewhat simplified) explanation of how space expands and how light travels through that expanding space. Don't blame your lack of understanding on what you imagine to be the GP's lack of clarity.
in other words, **NO** there is not 'light' hitting us from 14B ly+
No-one said there is. There is light hitting us which was emitted by objects which are now* more than 14 billion light years away.
*for a given value of "now," that is, but I'm not sure I'd enjoy trying to explain that to you.
That's not surprising at all. SIx people in vaguely similar situations do a vaguely similar thing and the results are on a broad spectrum of success-failure.
Isn't that exactly the sort of thing one would expect to happen?
Its not *money*, its just simple bartering. in this case for objects that people agree on is valuable ( like pez dispensers, game tokens, or Gold Pressed Latinum...
...or little rectangles of paper with intricate designs in green ink printed all over them...
and you move from one to the other faster than light and back, you arrive before you left.
I'm not sure that's true. If you consider the one-way trip from A to B then, yes, there will be some frames of reference in which you will be calculated to have arrived at B before you left A.
But I don't think heading back to your starting point will mean getting home before you left. In any frame of reference in which you were calculated to have arrived at B before having left A, you will take correspondingly longer to return to A, leaving you always at least slightly in the future of your launch event.
"The bigger injustice," Edwards writes, "is that programming has become an elite: a vocation requiring rare talents, grueling training, and total dedication.
All the horrible shit going on in the world and you think the fact that people who are better and more dedicated to a thing get better jobs doing said thing than people who aren't very good or dedicated is an injustice?
Normal humans are effectively excluded from developing software.
If you're going to define "normal humans" as "people who aren't that into programming," what do you expect?
Can't we call them sunspots instead of starspots? It's the same phenomenon. It seems needlessly ambiguous to call them one thing when they're on one star, but another thing when they're on any other star.
Neither, he said, does another planet in the same solar system
Nifty. Personally I don't think I'd risk attaching my phone to my bike in any way that left me unable to see it, but that's a neat solution you've got with the signalling.
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No.
nonsense statement...had to read twice to be sure, but this is just technobabble and not based on scientific definitions of "space" and "light"
That's weird, I understood it perfectly as an (admittedly somewhat simplified) explanation of how space expands and how light travels through that expanding space. Don't blame your lack of understanding on what you imagine to be the GP's lack of clarity.
in other words, **NO** there is not 'light' hitting us from 14B ly+
No-one said there is. There is light hitting us which was emitted by objects which are now* more than 14 billion light years away.
*for a given value of "now," that is, but I'm not sure I'd enjoy trying to explain that to you.
Other than that, probably not that significant.
Is it possible that you perhaps haven't considered every single possible application this might have?
Happy now?
A homeopath might tell you so, but there isn't really.
The results, surprisingly, are mixed
That's not surprising at all. SIx people in vaguely similar situations do a vaguely similar thing and the results are on a broad spectrum of success-failure.
Isn't that exactly the sort of thing one would expect to happen?
Why do you think that? What do you know that they don't?
Why is this at all surprising?
Who says it's surprising? "Surprising" is not a necessary property for a story to make the news.
Two from Mitchell & Webb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its not *money*, its just simple bartering. in this case for objects that people agree on is valuable ( like pez dispensers, game tokens, or Gold Pressed Latinum...
...or little rectangles of paper with intricate designs in green ink printed all over them...
No, I think you were right the first time.
Wasn't there only ever one planet per star in Elite?
What's that in European baseballs?
They used blood control to control people.
I haven't seen blood control in years!
I'm not sure that's true. If you consider the one-way trip from A to B then, yes, there will be some frames of reference in which you will be calculated to have arrived at B before you left A.
But I don't think heading back to your starting point will mean getting home before you left. In any frame of reference in which you were calculated to have arrived at B before having left A, you will take correspondingly longer to return to A, leaving you always at least slightly in the future of your launch event.
"The bigger injustice," Edwards writes, "is that programming has become an elite: a vocation requiring rare talents, grueling training, and total dedication.
All the horrible shit going on in the world and you think the fact that people who are better and more dedicated to a thing get better jobs doing said thing than people who aren't very good or dedicated is an injustice?
Normal humans are effectively excluded from developing software.
If you're going to define "normal humans" as "people who aren't that into programming," what do you expect?
it doesn't have to be this way.
Why shouldn't it be?
The reason most accidents happen close to your home is exactly as you said -- most driving occurs close to your home.
So don't drive anywhere near this guy's home.
Maybe they meant that the lab is only underwater. As opposed to, y'know, being a bit underwater.
...what does that make beavers?
Can't we call them sunspots instead of starspots? It's the same phenomenon. It seems needlessly ambiguous to call them one thing when they're on one star, but another thing when they're on any other star.
Neither, he said, does another planet in the same solar system
Aha! It's a star system. Nyah.
Louis Del Monte has a book to sell
Hey, lay off the guy. He's driving.
Nifty. Personally I don't think I'd risk attaching my phone to my bike in any way that left me unable to see it, but that's a neat solution you've got with the signalling.
Err, no. None of that is true, and this news doesn't make it any truer.
But after a few weeks using trying to pick up some German, I become increasingly frustrated
Been there. Sounds like you to need to try picking up a different German.