There is a small passage in William Gibson's "Count Zero", where a jump jet is used in a getaway. The smart aircraft changes its shape for optimal flight...
As far as i can remember, and IANAA (I am not an astronomer)...
The argument against Charon being a moon (and Pluto being a planet) is that the two are roughly similar in mass. It think it turns out that the point that the two bodies revolve around is outside of Pluto - i.e. they both revolve around a point in space. Or, the centre of gravity of the Pluto-Charon system is somewhere in between the two, and closer to Pluto since it is more massive.
You don't seem to understand that the use of certain words propagates hatred towards certain groups. That is the only logis present here. So, if you use hateful words, you are just promoting hatred. In some circumstances the hatred that some people have lead to death. Do you want to be a part of that?
I certainly do not use words that are demeaning or hateful in describing people.
You refer to freedom of speech. You should know that in no society any freedom is absolute. In many countries hate crimes form a special category of their own.
Again, you say that you had name calling for the sake of laughing. That's why I wanted to mention that name calling sometimes leads to violence and death. That's why you should not use hateful words in a broad community such as this one.
Life certainly isn't always wholesome and fun. You just have to decide if you want to make it less so or more so.
Your arguments seem to revolve around the idea that the Earth is a closed system - so why not worry about that definition?
"The amount of energy radiated from the Earth is part of the system. Adding extra energy that is normally received by the Moon adds energy to the system that would not normally be there"
You are arguing that the Earth is a closed system, and that an additional input of energy from the moon might upset the equilibrium. Note, however, that the use of this energy would replace the burning of fossil fuels, which you say are "part of the system". However, the fact that the fossil fuels are already on Earth does not matter - since that energy is not released unless we decide to burn it, or turn them into plastics or whatever.
If you are so worried about this energy beamed from the moon, you should be even more worried about the burning of fossil fuels, since the former is speculation and the latter concrete reality.
If you've read the article, you notice that all the benchmarks are run with antialiasing. So in fact, these cards do breathe a new life into old games - the author remarks that he would never go back to running games without antialiasing turned on. The performance of these cards is high enough to get get good framerates with antialiasing.
I agree with your point that reserach on nuclear weapons might not be a popular choice. However, many others might also be unhappy about conributing to the human genome project, or to proteomics reserach.
Look, just because a culture enjoys or promotes individual freedoms, this does not mean that you will have a just or equitable society. Whenever you have more than one person at one place, you have to start balancing the rights of the individual and the rights of the group. So often in the West, especially in the USA, this balance swings far to the individual. Just look, for example, at Bush's views on the Kyoto protocol - He will endorse no action that harms American economy. Never mind the country puts out about 1/4 the global CO2 emission.
In this case we have a country that promotes individual rights - and by the tone of your post is 'good'. But look at the impact of this country on the global scale.
How do you feel about the NSA putting out a linux distro?
Perhaps you also have to think about the freedom a chinese linux (with its openly disclosed source code )may provide chinese with some more freedom.
Did anyone notice that the motorbike comes with an "Anti-Theft alarm and transponder"? I guess that you have to be careful about bike thieves penetrating your UAV-perimeter while on expedition...
I like your comment about methanol being made from biomass, but its use (maybe production too) would still release carbon dioxide.
The good thing about fuel cells is that they are highly efficient (not restricted like a heat engine), so their CO2 impact is likely to be less than using combustion to produce electricity.
The discharge/charge cycle in a battery changes the molecular structure of the battery. The process is not entirely reversible, eventually, over enough cycles the battery material deterioates, and the battery performance degrades.
The process by which a fuel cell works is all 'one way', and unlikely to be degraded in the above way.
The GPS was effectively 'turned off' during the Gulf war, when satellites were diverted to increase coverage (and resolution) over the battle site. This lead to a lack of coverage over the west coast, disturbing a boatload of fishers.
The temperature difference only determines the thermodynamic, theoretical maximum efficiency of a heat engine. A nuclear power plant is a far cry from this.
Fusion will not help you when dealing with isotopes heavier than iron. The waste that today's generators produce are all heavier than iron.
I don't thing neutron bombardment has proven effective.
How do you know that nuclear power is efficient? The thing that you have neglected to mention is that, right now, there is no long-term solution to the nuclear waste problem. The only reason that nuclear power is a viable choice today is that the cost of disposal has not been factored in. Some of the isotopes have half lifes on the order of 10^6 years...
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There is a small passage in William Gibson's "Count Zero", where a jump jet is used in a getaway. The smart aircraft changes its shape for optimal flight...
As far as i can remember, and IANAA (I am not an astronomer)...
The argument against Charon being a moon (and Pluto being a planet) is that the two are roughly similar in mass. It think it turns out that the point that the two bodies revolve around is outside of Pluto - i.e. they both revolve around a point in space. Or, the centre of gravity of the Pluto-Charon system is somewhere in between the two, and closer to Pluto since it is more massive.
You don't seem to understand that the use of certain words propagates hatred towards certain groups. That is the only logis present here. So, if you use hateful words, you are just promoting hatred. In some circumstances the hatred that some people have lead to death. Do you want to be a part of that?
I certainly do not use words that are demeaning or hateful in describing people.
You refer to freedom of speech. You should know that in no society any freedom is absolute. In many countries hate crimes form a special category of their own.
Again, you say that you had name calling for the sake of laughing. That's why I wanted to mention that name calling sometimes leads to violence and death. That's why you should not use hateful words in a broad community such as this one.
Life certainly isn't always wholesome and fun. You just have to decide if you want to make it less so or more so.
When was the last time that someone in america was tied to a chain-link fence and beaten to death for being an italian?
You should be ashamed of your self.
"You're like abused wives. You keep coming back for more, even though it hurts"
Is there any need to show this degree of insensitivity to abused women?
Your arguments seem to revolve around the idea that the Earth is a closed system - so why not worry about that definition?
"The amount of energy radiated from the Earth is part of the system. Adding extra energy that is normally received by the Moon adds energy to the system that would not normally be there"
You are arguing that the Earth is a closed system, and that an additional input of energy from the moon might upset the equilibrium. Note, however, that the use of this energy would replace the burning of fossil fuels, which you say are "part of the system". However, the fact that the fossil fuels are already on Earth does not matter - since that energy is not released unless we decide to burn it, or turn them into plastics or whatever.
If you are so worried about this energy beamed from the moon, you should be even more worried about the burning of fossil fuels, since the former is speculation and the latter concrete reality.
The performace difference across the series of cards is due to memory speed, not size. The 128 MB allows antialiasing at very high resolutions.
If you've read the article, you notice that all the benchmarks are run with antialiasing. So in fact, these cards do breathe a new life into old games - the author remarks that he would never go back to running games without antialiasing turned on. The performance of these cards is high enough to get get good framerates with antialiasing.
I agree with your point that reserach on nuclear weapons might not be a popular choice. However, many others might also be unhappy about conributing to the human genome project, or to proteomics reserach.
Look, just because a culture enjoys or promotes individual freedoms, this does not mean that you will have a just or equitable society. Whenever you have more than one person at one place, you have to start balancing the rights of the individual and the rights of the group. So often in the West, especially in the USA, this balance swings far to the individual. Just look, for example, at Bush's views on the Kyoto protocol - He will endorse no action that harms American economy. Never mind the country puts out about 1/4 the global CO2 emission.
In this case we have a country that promotes individual rights - and by the tone of your post is 'good'. But look at the impact of this country on the global scale.
How do you feel about the NSA putting out a linux distro?
Perhaps you also have to think about the freedom a chinese linux (with its openly disclosed source code )may provide chinese with some more freedom.
Did anyone notice that the motorbike comes with an "Anti-Theft alarm and transponder"? I guess that you have to be careful about bike thieves penetrating your UAV-perimeter while on expedition...
http://www.maximog.com/bike_tech.html#THEFT
I like your comment about methanol being made from biomass, but its use (maybe production too) would still release carbon dioxide.
The good thing about fuel cells is that they are highly efficient (not restricted like a heat engine), so their CO2 impact is likely to be less than using combustion to produce electricity.
The discharge/charge cycle in a battery changes the molecular structure of the battery. The process is not entirely reversible, eventually, over enough cycles the battery material deterioates, and the battery performance degrades.
The process by which a fuel cell works is all 'one way', and unlikely to be degraded in the above way.
One example I heard of is code that optimizes the shape of a micromanipulator controlled deformeable mirror in a femtosecond laser.
The GPS was effectively 'turned off' during the Gulf war, when satellites were diverted to increase coverage (and resolution) over the battle site. This lead to a lack of coverage over the west coast, disturbing a boatload of fishers.
The temperature difference only determines the thermodynamic, theoretical maximum efficiency of a heat engine. A nuclear power plant is a far cry from this. Fusion will not help you when dealing with isotopes heavier than iron. The waste that today's generators produce are all heavier than iron. I don't thing neutron bombardment has proven effective.
How do you know that nuclear power is efficient? The thing that you have neglected to mention is that, right now, there is no long-term solution to the nuclear waste problem. The only reason that nuclear power is a viable choice today is that the cost of disposal has not been factored in. Some of the isotopes have half lifes on the order of 10^6 years...