Somewhat silly questions regarding anti-matter - just in case someone knows the answers:
What happens if anti-hydrogen hits anti-helium? Do you end up eith energy + hydrogen (ie, does it anihilate 1 proton and one electron from the helium, leaving the rest), or does it fail to react?
Does anti-matter only react to its opposite particle? I.e. does an anti-proton react to an electron? Somewhat related, does anti-matter anihilate on contact with other stuff, like neutrinos or photons?
And is the only anti-matter anti-protons and positrons? I.e. is there an anti-photon, anti-quark etc.?
Actually a short film on National Geographic made a good point.
If we didn't have forward facing eyes, just how effective would our hands be? We'd have lots of trouble grabbing things, because we'd have a very hard time judging the proper distance. Same with manipulating things.
Granted, elephants aren't exactly known for having hands, but they do use their trunk for a LOT of gripping and manipulating. How much trouble would they have, if they didn't have forward facing eyes?
The point is, there are finite dollars to throw at a relatively large number of potential issues, and every dollar spent enforcing dog poop laws is one less dollar that will be spent on some other public good.
That's almost true, but with the current exchange rates we keep getting more and more dollars...
I don't see why Fermi's paradox is in any way a good argument. By his argument, there are no lobsters at all. I know this because last night I left my door open and waited for one to crawl in.
Put another way - we (humanity) went from fairly small mammals to now in about 65 million years. If the dinosaurs hadn't fallen victim to $extinctionLevelEvent, they could easily have become as evolved as we are now - just a whole lot earlier. So, if intelligent/sentient life could have evolved here 60 million years ago, why wouldn't that be the case in another solar system?
For all we know, it's entirely possible that 15,000 light years away there's a planet with a civilization that is EXACTLY as evolved as we are. Why haven't we heard from them yet? Physics - would take 15,000 years for any signal to reach us. Hell, 200 light years away would suffice for that argument, and in both cases Fermi would look like an idiot.
As an aside, I see his paradox along the lines of creationism - after all, we can't prove that something doesn't exist. Only that it does.
In 1964 Playboy published his short story "The Food of the Gods" he explores a very intersting line of thought or reasoning with artificially created meats.
the movie more than paid for itself and DVD production at the box office - the DVD is gravy
Actually, several people in the industry have made it clear that now DVD sales are bigger than box office, and that many studios consider box office a commercial for DVD sales.
Well, alternatively all Cognent's peering partners could sue them for breaking their contracts.
Or choose to return the favour instead, and simply stop all peering with Cognent in any way, shape and form. See how long Cognent will survive if their customers can't see the rest of the internet.
Could you please provide an example that illustrates swearing on TV's ability to cause harm?Live hypnosis shows where a good percentage of the viewers are put into a hypnotic trance, making them do whatever people tell them to do.
While making people shit themselves isn't likely to cause direct harm, the amount of phycological damage caused to a society where hundreds of thousands of people can be convinced to crap themselves will be immesurable.
Unlikely, sure, but honest I find it more likely than people being hurt by "dirty" language on tv/radio
As for felons, that's a whole other can of worms.Just to reuse your own words - Now, why are 'the People' of the Second Amendment any different from 'the People' anywhere else?
Or do you belive, that once you're a felon you aren't protected by say... the 1st and 5th amendment?
What kind of effect will this have on drug tests? Mythbusters and Brainiac both showed that poppy seeds from regular bread will trigger a positive drug test for opiates I think.
With amphetamines etc. in the drinking water, what will that do for drug tests on otherwise clean people?
Number of downloaded torrents so far: about 91000.
Due to problems with the first episode and adjustment for those who likely downloaded torrents without getting all the episodes, we subtract 11000 and end up with a number that tells us about 10000 people [likely a typo, I assume he meant 80000] downloaded all of the 8 episodes.
Hardly a typo. 80,0000 downloads in all, 8 episodes gives 10,000 people who have downloaded 8 episodes each.
If I had made a mistake like this, publicly sharing something in a way that wasn't agreed to by the copyright holders, I'd be sued into the ground for filesharing.
Even without knowing the specifics of their contracts, I'm willing to bet that they're paying for every paying customers - not for every non-paying customer.
That means they're filesharers - filthy pirates who have to pay 150,000 US$ per incident of filesharing.
Just Slashdot alone is probably responsible for a few thousand incidents like this... well, you probably know where I'm going with this.
But of course, that's not how the world works, is it?
Why not fight the cameras with a "OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!1!" campaign?
After all, if the cameras are in school, they'll be taking pictures of young kids. What's to prevent those pictures EVER falling in the hands of big bad child molsters?
Isn't that why they're banning camera phones, cameras etc from parrent attended events in school? If so, why the fuck should live feeds be allowed?
Have your company buy/rent a private jet. That way you don't have to accomodate to silly schedules, and you don't have to go through the stupid checkpoints.
They want to teach Intelligent Design? Let them teach it in the classes where it belongs - maybe philosophy?
How many people argue that you should teach German grammar in English literature class? Or rather, how many people are taken serious, when they argue that?
Ask to get that in writing - that way you're bound to qualify for a serious disability cheque! After all, you can't work, have regular income and as someone else said, you can't have sex.
Though I suppose the fun thing would be if your fingerprints are on record somewhere - rob a bank or something and see the FBI scratch their heads.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe it's one of those games where you have to die before you can load a previous save point?
Somewhat silly questions regarding anti-matter - just in case someone knows the answers:
What happens if anti-hydrogen hits anti-helium? Do you end up eith energy + hydrogen (ie, does it anihilate 1 proton and one electron from the helium, leaving the rest), or does it fail to react?
Does anti-matter only react to its opposite particle? I.e. does an anti-proton react to an electron? Somewhat related, does anti-matter anihilate on contact with other stuff, like neutrinos or photons?
And is the only anti-matter anti-protons and positrons? I.e. is there an anti-photon, anti-quark etc.?
We had the exact same thing yesterday
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/02/1441214
I'm not worried about that.
I have my reactor hooked up to the electromagnetic vacuum containment field keeping a small (1.2 kg) lump of antimatter away from matter.
Last time they dropped by I showed them what a 4 km radius fireball would cover, and they ran away screaming.
Actually a short film on National Geographic made a good point.
If we didn't have forward facing eyes, just how effective would our hands be? We'd have lots of trouble grabbing things, because we'd have a very hard time judging the proper distance. Same with manipulating things.
Granted, elephants aren't exactly known for having hands, but they do use their trunk for a LOT of gripping and manipulating. How much trouble would they have, if they didn't have forward facing eyes?
Really? How the hell do you run for hours without sweating? Or more appropriately your skin?
I think you'll find that 90+% of all flights from Europe to Canada goes through the US and at that point you're screwed anyway
I don't see why Fermi's paradox is in any way a good argument. By his argument, there are no lobsters at all. I know this because last night I left my door open and waited for one to crawl in.
Put another way - we (humanity) went from fairly small mammals to now in about 65 million years. If the dinosaurs hadn't fallen victim to $extinctionLevelEvent, they could easily have become as evolved as we are now - just a whole lot earlier. So, if intelligent/sentient life could have evolved here 60 million years ago, why wouldn't that be the case in another solar system?
For all we know, it's entirely possible that 15,000 light years away there's a planet with a civilization that is EXACTLY as evolved as we are. Why haven't we heard from them yet? Physics - would take 15,000 years for any signal to reach us. Hell, 200 light years away would suffice for that argument, and in both cases Fermi would look like an idiot.
As an aside, I see his paradox along the lines of creationism - after all, we can't prove that something doesn't exist. Only that it does.
In 1964 Playboy published his short story "The Food of the Gods" he explores a very intersting line of thought or reasoning with artificially created meats.
Or choose to return the favour instead, and simply stop all peering with Cognent in any way, shape and form. See how long Cognent will survive if their customers can't see the rest of the internet.
Could you please provide an example that illustrates swearing on TV's ability to cause harm?Live hypnosis shows where a good percentage of the viewers are put into a hypnotic trance, making them do whatever people tell them to do.
While making people shit themselves isn't likely to cause direct harm, the amount of phycological damage caused to a society where hundreds of thousands of people can be convinced to crap themselves will be immesurable.
Unlikely, sure, but honest I find it more likely than people being hurt by "dirty" language on tv/radio
As for felons, that's a whole other can of worms.Just to reuse your own words - Now, why are 'the People' of the Second Amendment any different from 'the People' anywhere else?
... the 1st and 5th amendment?
Or do you belive, that once you're a felon you aren't protected by say
Face-huggers are FUN.
I used one as a prank someone who's an arachnophobic AND completely freaked out whenever watching the Alien series.
Made it drop onto his head while he was sleeping.
Trust me - in a dorm EVERYONE can hear you scream.
What kind of effect will this have on drug tests? Mythbusters and Brainiac both showed that poppy seeds from regular bread will trigger a positive drug test for opiates I think.
With amphetamines etc. in the drinking water, what will that do for drug tests on otherwise clean people?
If I had made a mistake like this, publicly sharing something in a way that wasn't agreed to by the copyright holders, I'd be sued into the ground for filesharing.
... well, you probably know where I'm going with this.
Even without knowing the specifics of their contracts, I'm willing to bet that they're paying for every paying customers - not for every non-paying customer.
That means they're filesharers - filthy pirates who have to pay 150,000 US$ per incident of filesharing.
Just Slashdot alone is probably responsible for a few thousand incidents like this
But of course, that's not how the world works, is it?
But not in that way.
Why not fight the cameras with a "OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!1!" campaign?
After all, if the cameras are in school, they'll be taking pictures of young kids. What's to prevent those pictures EVER falling in the hands of big bad child molsters?
Isn't that why they're banning camera phones, cameras etc from parrent attended events in school? If so, why the fuck should live feeds be allowed?
Have your company buy/rent a private jet. That way you don't have to accomodate to silly schedules, and you don't have to go through the stupid checkpoints.
They want to teach Intelligent Design? Let them teach it in the classes where it belongs - maybe philosophy?
How many people argue that you should teach German grammar in English literature class? Or rather, how many people are taken serious, when they argue that?
Though I suppose the fun thing would be if your fingerprints are on record somewhere - rob a bank or something and see the FBI scratch their heads.