If this research means that plants have a degree of sentience, will killing plants be seen as exploitive?
There is commentary elsewhere in this thread that vegans could still eat fruit and nuts, because these are 'given' by plants as a reproductive attractant, not requiring death of the plant.
However, I see a big BUT coming. The difference between vegans and vegetarians is that vegetarians eat products nonlethally derived from animals, such as honey and dairy. Vegans consider these products to be 'exploiting' animals, so they are off the plate. The most advanced and morally pure vegan logicians are going to argue, how is an apple different from the milk of a cow? Because Nature intends that apples be eaten by animals that will derive nutrition from the apple while spreading its seeds, humans would be depriving the apple tree's ally species of this natural nutrient. Furthermore, very few apples consumed by humans result in natural apple propagation.
Just as Evernote began charging for the application, Apple beefed up the stock Notes application with matching features. A lot of Evernote installations got deleted at that point.
The most important finding we could get from this flyby is information about composition of the object. Are these spaceballs a mixture of rock and volatiles, like scoops of Rocky Road ice cream with real rocks? That could explain why when two of them come into slow contact, they squash together and remain in contact, rather than breaking into smaller pieces. This could tell us a lot about planetary formation.
Because New Horizons is so far from Earth, the post-contact strategy on both flybys has been the same: send all of the JPGs first, then send the higher-res Raw images. This assures that in case of failure during this process, which will take months, we get the most data up front.
AH SO! Far side just like near side, only darker! Who would have guessed.
Not exactly. The far side is notably more rugged, while the near side is mostly covered with lave-plain 'maria'. This probe may be able to explore this difference.
Just goes to show how much better Apple is than anything else. No other platform/company has a history of community and development that is as rich and long lasting.
The one big thing Apple did better than anyone else was deploy a Unix-based operatimng system that users and developers both like. It's the OS that Linux might have become had it not been for all that poisonous bickering and fragmentation.
What Germany stopped mining last summer was the last of its 500 years of domestic anthracite. It is still opening new lignite mines and building new lignite-fired power plants, because to Merkel being antinuclear is more important than cutting carbon. Meanwhile, the older power plants that burn anthracite are not being replaced by anything. They are just importing anthracite instead of mining it locally.
The flat-earth lobby has opposed these Antarctic lake boring projects for years, because in their eyes human curiosity is akin to how we view genocide. Actual genocide is something they favor, because "Team Rainbow 6" considers humanity to be an infection that should be killed off to preserve the sacredness of Nature (which they don't consider us to be a part of).
Good to see a refreshing change to the usual space "exploration" stories.
Actually, in a way it is a space story, which is even more refreshing. Researchers are intensely curious about what might be under the ice on Europa and Enceladus. Ice-boring robots will be tested in Antarctica first.
Because banks are federally licensed, they can't deal with marijuana stores in legalized states, so businesses that deal in this product have to shuffle and store piles of cash. They hate this because handling cash is a security nightmare, but until federal law changes there is no other way of doing business.
What made a minor accident into a major crisis was purely the fault of bonehead management. After a current-generation reactor is scrammed because of an impending disaster, all you have to do to avoid a meltdown is keep coolant circulating through it for long enough to remove heat of decay. Even in a regional disaster that destroys the power grid, there are ways of doing this that should be prearranged, like hooking up fire trucks to the coolant system. But when they tried exactly this at Fukushima, nobody had provided compatible fittings to local fire departments. The hoses wouldn't connect.
When activists evaluate a technology purely on the basis of what additional legal powers it may give the company that deploys it, they are arguing social justice, rather than biology.
What communist dog slashdot editor approved this nonsense
Whenever one of these people uses the buzzword “late capitalism,” it’s your cue that some economic illiterate who has never studied history thinks that capitalism is about to be replaced by unicorns. This, after all, worked so well in Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
widespread panic as their business model is threatened.
Should SJWs celebrate because corporate seed monopolies are broken by this tech,or mourn because the argument that “GMO means corporate monopoly” has been broken?
Yes but being profitable on exiting lines vs generating enough margin to support blue sky research that often does not pay off is not the same.
The economics of semiconductor manufacturing works teh same way. It costs billions to develop new chips, there are a lot of costly blind alleys, and the marketing is indirect. "Intel Inside" is the same kind of campaign as "Ask your doctor about..."
There's just one big difference: semiconductor manufacturing developed as a competitive business, while pharma keeps pleading for special legal rights to keep out competition. That is the single reason why electronics gets cheaper every year while drugs get more expensive. Remember, Harvoni, the hepatitis-C treatment that was introduced at $120,000 a few years ago? Turned out that was a bargain introductory price. It has now gone up to $190,000.
In the US, street food has evolved from pushcarts to today's food trucks. Which operate just as easily in high-tech parts of town as the pushcarts once did in the areas where people worked.
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If this research means that plants have a degree of sentience, will killing plants be seen as exploitive?
There is commentary elsewhere in this thread that vegans could still eat fruit and nuts, because these are 'given' by plants as a reproductive attractant, not requiring death of the plant.
However, I see a big BUT coming. The difference between vegans and vegetarians is that vegetarians eat products nonlethally derived from animals, such as honey and dairy. Vegans consider these products to be 'exploiting' animals, so they are off the plate. The most advanced and morally pure vegan logicians are going to argue, how is an apple different from the milk of a cow? Because Nature intends that apples be eaten by animals that will derive nutrition from the apple while spreading its seeds, humans would be depriving the apple tree's ally species of this natural nutrient. Furthermore, very few apples consumed by humans result in natural apple propagation.
Just as Evernote began charging for the application, Apple beefed up the stock Notes application with matching features. A lot of Evernote installations got deleted at that point.
The most important finding we could get from this flyby is information about composition of the object. Are these spaceballs a mixture of rock and volatiles, like scoops of Rocky Road ice cream with real rocks? That could explain why when two of them come into slow contact, they squash together and remain in contact, rather than breaking into smaller pieces. This could tell us a lot about planetary formation.
It shows we need a contract on that editor.
If Trump were science-aware he could have Elly Prizeman design another one of her in-your-face shirts for the presser. Suck on that, PoundMeTooers!
Because New Horizons is so far from Earth, the post-contact strategy on both flybys has been the same: send all of the JPGs first, then send the higher-res Raw images. This assures that in case of failure during this process, which will take months, we get the most data up front.
AH SO! Far side just like near side, only darker! Who would have guessed.
Not exactly. The far side is notably more rugged, while the near side is mostly covered with lave-plain 'maria'. This probe may be able to explore this difference.
This case was one of the reasons why I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016.
Rabota is the Slavic root for 'work' in general.
Just goes to show how much better Apple is than anything else. No other platform/company has a history of community and development that is as rich and long lasting.
The one big thing Apple did better than anyone else was deploy a Unix-based operatimng system that users and developers both like. It's the OS that Linux might have become had it not been for all that poisonous bickering and fragmentation.
Biometrics is turning into the ligne Maginot of the IT world, a fixed defense that someone, somewhere will always find a way around.
What Germany stopped mining last summer was the last of its 500 years of domestic anthracite. It is still opening new lignite mines and building new lignite-fired power plants, because to Merkel being antinuclear is more important than cutting carbon. Meanwhile, the older power plants that burn anthracite are not being replaced by anything. They are just importing anthracite instead of mining it locally.
The flat-earth lobby has opposed these Antarctic lake boring projects for years, because in their eyes human curiosity is akin to how we view genocide. Actual genocide is something they favor, because "Team Rainbow 6" considers humanity to be an infection that should be killed off to preserve the sacredness of Nature (which they don't consider us to be a part of).
This is an effort to contaminate and kill whatever may live in this underground lake.
Avoiding contamination is the whole reason this effort has taken so long.
Good to see a refreshing change to the usual space "exploration" stories.
Actually, in a way it is a space story, which is even more refreshing. Researchers are intensely curious about what might be under the ice on Europa and Enceladus. Ice-boring robots will be tested in Antarctica first.
Fire insurance doesn't stop fires - just gives you a chance to get some money back after a fire, so you can buy replacement stuff.
Actually it does, by giving large companies a vested interest in preventing fires and minimizing damage from them.
Because banks are federally licensed, they can't deal with marijuana stores in legalized states, so businesses that deal in this product have to shuffle and store piles of cash. They hate this because handling cash is a security nightmare, but until federal law changes there is no other way of doing business.
Congratulations on the coinage.
Shadenfreude, n. Being happy that you're not in direct sunlight.
What made a minor accident into a major crisis was purely the fault of bonehead management. After a current-generation reactor is scrammed because of an impending disaster, all you have to do to avoid a meltdown is keep coolant circulating through it for long enough to remove heat of decay. Even in a regional disaster that destroys the power grid, there are ways of doing this that should be prearranged, like hooking up fire trucks to the coolant system. But when they tried exactly this at Fukushima, nobody had provided compatible fittings to local fire departments. The hoses wouldn't connect.
When activists evaluate a technology purely on the basis of what additional legal powers it may give the company that deploys it, they are arguing social justice, rather than biology.
What communist dog slashdot editor approved this nonsense
Whenever one of these people uses the buzzword “late capitalism,” it’s your cue that some economic illiterate who has never studied history thinks that capitalism is about to be replaced by unicorns. This, after all, worked so well in Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
widespread panic as their business model is threatened.
Should SJWs celebrate because corporate seed monopolies are broken by this tech,or mourn because the argument that “GMO means corporate monopoly” has been broken?
Must. Resist. Obvious. American. Beer. Joke.
Particularly since the joke is now ten years out of date. Real beer of infinite variety is now available nationwide.
Yes but being profitable on exiting lines vs generating enough margin to support blue sky research that often does not pay off is not the same.
The economics of semiconductor manufacturing works teh same way. It costs billions to develop new chips, there are a lot of costly blind alleys, and the marketing is indirect. "Intel Inside" is the same kind of campaign as "Ask your doctor about..."
There's just one big difference: semiconductor manufacturing developed as a competitive business, while pharma keeps pleading for special legal rights to keep out competition. That is the single reason why electronics gets cheaper every year while drugs get more expensive. Remember, Harvoni, the hepatitis-C treatment that was introduced at $120,000 a few years ago? Turned out that was a bargain introductory price. It has now gone up to $190,000.
In the US, street food has evolved from pushcarts to today's food trucks. Which operate just as easily in high-tech parts of town as the pushcarts once did in the areas where people worked.