The two events "asteroid hits us" and "we can never exclude the possibility of it hitting us" are equivalent: the first happens if and only if the second happens.
No, "asteroid hits us" can happen without our even considering possibilities.
It was discoverd by a retired caterpillar computer specialist.
And I'm glad they stopped making those things. It was irritating to have to feed the caterpillars in their computers. Do you know how picky they are about their food, and what kinds of bugs would appear in those programs?
If volcanoes supposably created our atmosphere does that mean that if we leave Mars alone for a few million years it will produce it's own life? (Non-bacterial)
Your Martian life experience is a tad low. Traces of what might have been Mars bacteria have been found in a rock from Mars.
Actually, the methane on Mars is being interpreted as being the waste product of bacteria which may be eating a food source.
If that is the case, we are quite lucky to have gotten to Mars right now. The bacteria will die when the food is exhausted. If the food is buried organic matter from a past solar-powered surface life, there is no more food being created. With the huge growth rate of bacteria, they would consume any food source in a short time. Either their metabolic rate is excruciatingly slow or the access to the food supply is restricted.
The deep hot biosphere viewpoint is that methane is probably created by geologic/chemical processes, and is the food source for deep-living bacteria. So the methane on Mars might just be rock gas and not a sign of life. But if methane is reaching the atmosphere, there still is a supply which may be feeding bacteria.
One part of the deep biosphere theory is that the food source for bacteria has to be unavailable to the bacteria, and the food is only available at a restricted rate. Methane from depths which are too hot for bacteria would allow life to exist for as long a time as the methane continues to trickle up to cooler regions.
So the methane tells us to keep looking for life, as there is still a food source.
Methane leaking up from deep below also hints at volcanic activity. Carbon fluids are suspected of causing upward cracks and being significant participants in volcanic and earthquake activity on Earth. Volcanoes often emit carbon in several forms. It is hardly surprising for both methane and volcanoes to be present.
If there's a molten core, how come there's no magnetic field?
The core does not have convection patterns which happen to generate a dynamo? The core is not surrounded by molten material and there are no convection flows? The mantle is mostly silicon and is not magnetohydrodynamically active? We happened to get there while the dynamo is fluctuating and there is no field, just as seems to happen sometimes on Earth? There are actually seventeen molten spots but we haven't detected that and don't know what to expect?
If I'm reading the table right, there are several risky orbits in years following the "Torino 4" orbit. Give it a nudge and you have to be lucky and skillful not to get another intersecting orbit.
In the US, you are exposing yourself to civil *and* criminal penalties depending on the infringement. That's right, and you dont want us exposing ourselves.
He seems to have had better luck getting his kite in the right space-time coordinates. I haven't gotten my camera to the right place 98 lightyears away.
Because greens prefer to leave their radioactives lying around the landscape instead of isolated inside concrete. And it becomes "waste" when someone touches it, so it can't even be put back where it was found, nor the glove which touched it.
This method is for the mail server to refuse to accept mail for the first hour or so -- because then a spammer has to keep retrying and uses up more of several types of resources. When mail from a certain mail server, a certain sender, and a certain recipient, is attempted... a greylisting server will not even accept the mail until a minimum time has passed (might be an hour, might be longer). Standard mail servers will retry, and "recent" mail is remembered so frequent correspondents do not get the delay.
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You don't have to move billions off the Earth to reduce the population. Just educate them. That reduces the birth rate. A number of populations already are under the replacement rate.
If you're technologically advanced enough to be reading this, it is also likely that you are not having enough children. (insert jokes here)
"Today about half the world lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility.... East Asia... Russia... Europe... Iran, Tunisia, Algeria, Turkey, and Lebanon... Canada, Australia, and New Zealand... United States is just barely below replacement with about 2.0 births per woman. All four of these nations still have growing populations due to high rates of immigration."
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Apparently Burts rocketship can fit three people at a squeeze. So thats a lot of trips.
To reduce the population, it only has to fly up 10 meters before offloading the passengers.
That's a lot of short trips.
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No, "asteroid hits us" can happen without our even considering possibilities.
Not 100%.
Some still are.
When it gets measured in yards then I'll know it is threatening the USA.
And I'm glad they stopped making those things. It was irritating to have to feed the caterpillars in their computers. Do you know how picky they are about their food, and what kinds of bugs would appear in those programs?
Your Martian life experience is a tad low. Traces of what might have been Mars bacteria have been found in a rock from Mars.
Actually, the methane on Mars is being interpreted as being the waste product of bacteria which may be eating a food source.
If that is the case, we are quite lucky to have gotten to Mars right now. The bacteria will die when the food is exhausted. If the food is buried organic matter from a past solar-powered surface life, there is no more food being created. With the huge growth rate of bacteria, they would consume any food source in a short time. Either their metabolic rate is excruciatingly slow or the access to the food supply is restricted.
The deep hot biosphere viewpoint is that methane is probably created by geologic/chemical processes, and is the food source for deep-living bacteria. So the methane on Mars might just be rock gas and not a sign of life. But if methane is reaching the atmosphere, there still is a supply which may be feeding bacteria.
One part of the deep biosphere theory is that the food source for bacteria has to be unavailable to the bacteria, and the food is only available at a restricted rate. Methane from depths which are too hot for bacteria would allow life to exist for as long a time as the methane continues to trickle up to cooler regions.
So the methane tells us to keep looking for life, as there is still a food source.
Methane leaking up from deep below also hints at volcanic activity. Carbon fluids are suspected of causing upward cracks and being significant participants in volcanic and earthquake activity on Earth. Volcanoes often emit carbon in several forms. It is hardly surprising for both methane and volcanoes to be present.
The core does not have convection patterns which happen to generate a dynamo? The core is not surrounded by molten material and there are no convection flows? The mantle is mostly silicon and is not magnetohydrodynamically active? We happened to get there while the dynamo is fluctuating and there is no field, just as seems to happen sometimes on Earth? There are actually seventeen molten spots but we haven't detected that and don't know what to expect?
"Asteroid House: Twenty low-grade celebrities locked in a house at the center of the impact path. Vote for your favorite to leave the House."
"Asteroid Shuttle: Two teams locked in orbital tin cans try to solve engineering challenges which will move their craft out of the asteroid's path."
"Survivor: As Teroid: Contestants try to find or make enough clothing to keep their posteriors covered."
"CSI: Impact Crater: Fictional CSI teams try to appear effective after the real impact..."
If I'm reading the table right, there are several risky orbits in years following the "Torino 4" orbit. Give it a nudge and you have to be lucky and skillful not to get another intersecting orbit.
That's right, and you dont want us exposing ourselves.
Depends on the fringe group you're in.
So have the creators of the drugs taken them so they can think better while they work on them further?
Save Saturnian Rings!
Good or not, now that you've posted it you can expect both his home page and your home page to get /.ed.
He seems to have had better luck getting his kite in the right space-time coordinates. I haven't gotten my camera to the right place 98 lightyears away.
Oops, now that one is /.ed...
Just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki are uninhabitable for hundreds of years.
Because greens prefer to leave their radioactives lying around the landscape instead of isolated inside concrete. And it becomes "waste" when someone touches it, so it can't even be put back where it was found, nor the glove which touched it.
This method is for the mail server to refuse to accept mail for the first hour or so -- because then a spammer has to keep retrying and uses up more of several types of resources. When mail from a certain mail server, a certain sender, and a certain recipient, is attempted... a greylisting server will not even accept the mail until a minimum time has passed (might be an hour, might be longer). Standard mail servers will retry, and "recent" mail is remembered so frequent correspondents do not get the delay.
Size matters not.
What is it packed in?
All in favor of voting from home, step outside.
Be sure to give us an update in 2 days.
Sorry, the door is locked during those periods.
Is this a job for a hydrogen bomb?
If you're technologically advanced enough to be reading this, it is also likely that you are not having enough children.
(insert jokes here)
"Today about half the world lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility. ... East Asia ... Russia ... Europe ... Iran, Tunisia, Algeria, Turkey, and Lebanon ... Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ... United States is just barely below replacement with about 2.0 births per woman. All four of these nations still have growing populations due to high rates of immigration."
To reduce the population, it only has to fly up 10 meters before offloading the passengers.
That's a lot of short trips.