new clear plastic with a traditional aluminum top
New? I was wondering about traditional. My grandparents say the traditional beverage top in the Olde Country is a flip lid or else just foam and flies.
from the I-want-new-shiny-things-to-distract-me -from-my-mind-numbly-unfulfilled-life-and-I-want-i t-now! dept.
Shadowbane must be really good. It's so good they can't quit playing the beta enough to get it done.
8. Ubi Soft's Shadowbane: An ambitious online role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world, Shadowbane has been in development so long, readers said, it is now referred to as "Shadowwait." (Although the game has been in beta for a couple of years, it qualifies as vaporware because it hasn't hit store shelves as a shrink-wrapped product.)
Well, you sort of steal someone else's rain. But if you make the ground wetter there will be somewhat more evaporation than before in that spot.
There may be places such as Washington State with more than enough rain, where some more moisture could be allowed to go eastward. The reason there is so much rain is the mountains, and there are a lot of them -- do we have enough thermonuclear bombs for some nuclear engineering?
Let's see...
Washington is about 550 km long and 380 km wide.
Mean elevation 518m, highest 4392m.
Meteor Crater was 10-megaton blast which made a crater 1.2km by 180m deep.
A 20-megaton blast makes a crater about 2.2km by 240m deep.
Let's estimate a 20 MT crater on average is 1km wide and 150m deep.
To go the width of the state requires about 550 craters, to make one stripe 1km wide and about 1/4th the mean height of the state.
If a horizon-to-horizon distance is meteorologically significant, standing in the middle and making it flat on both sides is about 10km.
550 craters for a 1km stripe... 10km needs 5,500 craters (looks like a flat valley flat up to the mountains which are visible from 100km away).
10 km may look like a lot when standing in the middle, but that is 1/38th the width of the state. See any weather map with a weather front to see the scale of weather events.
1/38th is near 1/40th, or 2.5 percent. Yeah, that should be measurable.
Making 5,500 20MT bombs is quite a task. And don't put the environmental impact statement there or it will fill in the whole valley.
Answer: Not enough bombs. Have to hit Washington State with space rocks.
But what vegan cares what turkey tastes like? What is needed is the creation of beans with all the necessary proteins.
Wouldn't a vegan have forecast that by 2050, nanotechnology will be able to produce a nutritious tofu turkey with a flavor which is acceptable to carnivores?
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the world is vastly over-populated
Drive out of town for 30-60 minutes. See all that empty space? Every human on the planet can fit in Texas, with enough room for an apartment for each family member. The big problem is that then there would not be anything "lone" about The Lone Star State.
"Closing time -- release the herd and let's empty out the park!"
Now there's interaction!
Oh, you want a profit? If you leave early, by the main gates you can pay to control a berzerkerbot and help empty the park. (Is it "berzerk" if it is designed to act that way?)
If someone goes to a tourist destination which involves profit, they expect the company to make them happy to be spending the money. Don't whine about how someone else spends their own money.
(I haven't been to a Disney location, but Hawaii made me quite happy to be spending my money there...)
Disney, however, does need to find a new mascot before they lose the Mickey copyright... although perhaps they can just keep playing with minor variations of trademarks to protect their non-film products...
I welcome the new Slashdot Submission Accounting System.
I'm sure the system which tallies the duplicate submissions also will detect and block the duplicate acceptance of articles.
"The calculated primary mantle concentrations include (in ppm) 1.5 N; 335 CO2 (where CO2 =total C); 673 H20,; 32 F; 20 Cl; 0.07 Br; 0.011 I; and 174 S."
Oh, good. Carbon is dissolved in the huge amount of magma material. 335 parts per million... of 4.043 x 10^24 kg... is 1.35 x 10^21 kg of carbon in the mantle. That's 1.35 x 10^24 g, compared to 65.5 x10^21 g of carbon in the crust. Based on those numbers (there are many other estimates), there still is ten times more carbon in the mantle than in the crust.
Carbon in subducted rock has to go someplace. There are five possibilities:
So now it's changed from primordial to subducted....
Yup, I'm listening to you. If the carbon did boil off, then carbon going through subduction zones must have been cycled by the oceanic crusts several times...so I listed those possibilities of what could happen to subducted carbon.
now you have to explain why most of the world's oil is found in failed rift basins far from subduction zones.
Subduction is merely how surface carbon can get back underneath the crust, and my above comments were wondering where it could go...and apparently some of it can dissolve in magma. However, if most of the world's oil is in rift basins...a rift basin is due to at least one fracture in the crust, which is likely to offer a path for hydrocarbons to migrate upward through the crust. So I'm not surprised at the relationship with rift basins (although modify "most of the world's oil" to "many of the known oil fields").
Yup, awful crimes. How was Copernicus punished?
Irrelevant.
Not irrelevant when you're claiming that disagreement with popular opinion is relevant.
I haven't seen him dismissing plate tectonics... Theory outline
Look at the section entitled 'The Formation Process of the Earth'. Here he asserts that many of the earth's features are formed by impact, heat sources (incorrectly indentified as around the pacific) are the result of chemical reactions, and that the mantle is unmixed
Hmm. Yup, he is saying that there is only partial melting. I see at the end of Interpretations Based on the Carbon Stable Isotopes he points out that subduction cycling also would have affected the isotope ratios. I don't see why you think there are not heat sources around the Pacific "ring of fire", but I do find it hard to dismiss plate tectonics and a molten mantle. I wonder how Gold, the namer of the magnetosphere, presently believes the Earth's magnetic field is generated.
He does state that no gases were incorporated in Earth, so carbon, water, and nitrogen must have come from material within the planet.
That sounds like a direct contradiction to me.
I should have quoted: "very little gaseous material was incorporated", which is different from "no elements which are gases in the Earth's atmosphere".
Abiogenic theories don't care what kind of rock is near the surface, although obviously an impermeable cap is needed for a reservoir where we tap one.
I've been trying to get this into your head - IF abiogenic theories were correct, THEN we would find oil where there was no source rock, or where the source rock had never been heated, BUT we don't.
Look over my previous comments, or start with Gold's deep drilling in Sweden. There are many examples of hydrocarbon finds which are not explained by biogenic source rocks.
There also are issues about the temperature and pressures being insufficient to create biogenic oil in shallow sedimentary rocks.
Care to cite any references?
Carbon dioxide is not methane
Yes, and this is entirely the point; volcanoes are well known for emitting carbon dioxide, but not for methane. It's a pity Gold didn't put in any references for Hawaii, apart from 'eyewitness accounts'. After all, significant non-biogenic methane emissions from Hawaii would actually give him some evidence.
I was just pointing out that there is carbon coming from that Hawaiian hot spot which is a little far from subduction carbon sources. Carbon in any form in this location is interesting, however it has been pointed out to me that the hot spot might be melting ocean-floor carbon deposits, so the carbon could be coming from freshly-melted rock at the edge of the hot area rather than from primary magma.
Another widespread mistake is restricting business by blocking sales with "Microsoft Passport".
There also seems to be a belief that obnoxious advertising improves sales for the advertised product and won't drive away viewers of the site which has the obnoxious ad.
At least, those surviving sites which still run the obnoxious ads believe that...
Too Much, Flash, and Animation is triply redundant.
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Commercial access point antennas of the Pringles brand are shipped with disk-shaped packing material inside to prevent the antenna being crushed. The Pringles packing material can be disposed of at many county hazardous waste/recycling facilities. The packing material can also be recycled at home by burying it in a far corner of the yard, covered by a gallon of water, in the light of a full moon.
If the prototypes can be sold, I wonder how many governments would get involved in an auction -- and how many divisions within the U.S. Government would participate...unknowingly bidding against each other.
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new clear plastic with a traditional aluminum top New? I was wondering about traditional. My grandparents say the traditional beverage top in the Olde Country is a flip lid or else just foam and flies.
Well, it is a pop-top can...
Shadowbane must be really good. It's so good they can't quit playing the beta enough to get it done.
8. Ubi Soft's Shadowbane: An ambitious online role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world, Shadowbane has been in development so long, readers said, it is now referred to as "Shadowwait." (Although the game has been in beta for a couple of years, it qualifies as vaporware because it hasn't hit store shelves as a shrink-wrapped product.)
There may be places such as Washington State with more than enough rain, where some more moisture could be allowed to go eastward. The reason there is so much rain is the mountains, and there are a lot of them -- do we have enough thermonuclear bombs for some nuclear engineering?
Answer: Not enough bombs. Have to hit Washington State with space rocks.
"Run away! Run Away!"
I sure am glad that all the microsatellites based on vacuum-tube technology will soon be retired.
(PS: let's ignore the TWTs)
Wouldn't a vegan have forecast that by 2050, nanotechnology will be able to produce a nutritious tofu turkey with a flavor which is acceptable to carnivores?
Drive out of town for 30-60 minutes. See all that empty space? Every human on the planet can fit in Texas, with enough room for an apartment for each family member. The big problem is that then there would not be anything "lone" about The Lone Star State.
That is all the same field.
Everyone else will want something to do.
Pass a law making it illegal to laugh about the skyhook. It follows 50 years later.
Now there's interaction!
Oh, you want a profit? If you leave early, by the main gates you can pay to control a berzerkerbot and help empty the park. (Is it "berzerk" if it is designed to act that way?)
Relax -- the very realistic dinosaur elves will buzz around you and present a fresh bag of popcorn...
Bubble Boy Meets Dinobot... The lawsuits just write themselves.
(I haven't been to a Disney location, but Hawaii made me quite happy to be spending my money there...)
Disney, however, does need to find a new mascot before they lose the Mickey copyright... although perhaps they can just keep playing with minor variations of trademarks to protect their non-film products...
Do you have a bust of Shakespeare?
Send the winning bidder a photo of the newly labeled door.
"I went to ORD but my luggage went to CHI"
I welcome the new Slashdot Submission Accounting System.
I'm sure the system which tallies the duplicate submissions also will detect and block the duplicate acceptance of articles.
Well, "methane at depth" seems to be a bit more complex than simple CH4 at the surface. Gold points out that methane dissolves other hydrocarbons at greater depths -- see the end of a paragraph just below Figure 1 in this document. I think the isomer mixes refer to oil components other than methane, it's just a tad difficult to make 1C-to-4H molecules of shapes different than the methane shape. "The overall hydrocarbon composition corresponds to the equilibrium state at temperatures 1,300 to 1,500 C and pressures of 20 to 40 kb. The estimate is that this is the condition in the upper mantle at depths of 60 to 160 km."
Mantle volatile concentrations
Note that these concentrations are pretty much steady state now.
"The calculated primary mantle concentrations include (in ppm) 1.5 N; 335 CO2 (where CO2 =total C); 673 H20,; 32 F; 20 Cl; 0.07 Br; 0.011 I; and 174 S."
Oh, good. Carbon is dissolved in the huge amount of magma material. 335 parts per million... of 4.043 x 10^24 kg... is 1.35 x 10^21 kg of carbon in the mantle. That's 1.35 x 10^24 g, compared to 65.5 x10^21 g of carbon in the crust. Based on those numbers (there are many other estimates), there still is ten times more carbon in the mantle than in the crust.
Carbon in subducted rock has to go someplace. There are five possibilities:
So now it's changed from primordial to subducted....
Yup, I'm listening to you. If the carbon did boil off, then carbon going through subduction zones must have been cycled by the oceanic crusts several times...so I listed those possibilities of what could happen to subducted carbon.
now you have to explain why most of the world's oil is found in failed rift basins far from subduction zones.
Subduction is merely how surface carbon can get back underneath the crust, and my above comments were wondering where it could go...and apparently some of it can dissolve in magma. However, if most of the world's oil is in rift basins...a rift basin is due to at least one fracture in the crust, which is likely to offer a path for hydrocarbons to migrate upward through the crust. So I'm not surprised at the relationship with rift basins (although modify "most of the world's oil" to "many of the known oil fields").
Yup, awful crimes. How was Copernicus punished?
Irrelevant.
Not irrelevant when you're claiming that disagreement with popular opinion is relevant.
I haven't seen him dismissing plate tectonics...
Theory outline
Look at the section entitled 'The Formation Process of the Earth'. Here he asserts that many of the earth's features are formed by impact, heat sources (incorrectly indentified as around the pacific) are the result of chemical reactions, and that the mantle is unmixed
Hmm. Yup, he is saying that there is only partial melting. I see at the end of Interpretations Based on the Carbon Stable Isotopes he points out that subduction cycling also would have affected the isotope ratios. I don't see why you think there are not heat sources around the Pacific "ring of fire", but I do find it hard to dismiss plate tectonics and a molten mantle. I wonder how Gold, the namer of the magnetosphere, presently believes the Earth's magnetic field is generated.
He does state that no gases were incorporated in Earth, so carbon, water, and nitrogen must have come from material within the planet.
That sounds like a direct contradiction to me.
I should have quoted: "very little gaseous material was incorporated", which is different from "no elements which are gases in the Earth's atmosphere".
Abiogenic theories don't care what kind of rock is near the surface, although obviously an impermeable cap is needed for a reservoir where we tap one.
I've been trying to get this into your head - IF abiogenic theories were correct, THEN we would find oil where there was no source rock, or where the source rock had never been heated, BUT we don't.
Look over my previous comments, or start with Gold's deep drilling in Sweden. There are many examples of hydrocarbon finds which are not explained by biogenic source rocks.
There also are issues about the temperature and pressures being insufficient to create biogenic oil in shallow sedimentary rocks.
Care to cite any references?
"Temperatures and pressures in the sedimentary blanket are certainly far from the conditions necessary to account for the isomeric composition characteristic of all natural oils."
Carbon dioxide is not methane
Yes, and this is entirely the point; volcanoes are well known for emitting carbon dioxide, but not for methane. It's a pity Gold didn't put in any references for Hawaii, apart from 'eyewitness accounts'. After all, significant non-biogenic methane emissions from Hawaii would actually give him some evidence.
I was just pointing out that there is carbon coming from that Hawaiian hot spot which is a little far from subduction carbon sources. Carbon in any form in this location is interesting, however it has been pointed out to me that the hot spot might be melting ocean-floor carbon deposits, so the carbon could be coming from freshly-melted rock at the edge of the hot area rather than from primary magma.
There also seems to be a belief that obnoxious advertising improves sales for the advertised product and won't drive away viewers of the site which has the obnoxious ad.
At least, those surviving sites which still run the obnoxious ads believe that...
Too Much,
Flash, and
Animation is triply redundant.
Commercial access point antennas of the Pringles brand are shipped with disk-shaped packing material inside to prevent the antenna being crushed. The Pringles packing material can be disposed of at many county hazardous waste/recycling facilities. The packing material can also be recycled at home by burying it in a far corner of the yard, covered by a gallon of water, in the light of a full moon.
If the prototypes can be sold, I wonder how many governments would get involved in an auction -- and how many divisions within the U.S. Government would participate...unknowingly bidding against each other.
That sounds like one of those "In Soviet Russia..." jokes.
Federal judges already ruled that it isn't a joke, it is reality.
Make them roll, like "The Prisoner"'s "Rovers"? (Note: might be a hazard to pedestrians...)