At the moment I don't have any home automation gear, but I plan to get a number of items later this year... HomeKit stuff does look like a useful way to use the watch.
Right now I have a houseful of Insteon sensors that send me iPhone notifications if there's a lean under the sink or the cat needs kibbles. How much instanter would they be on a Watch?
" Essentially most people will now have to carry two items around with them - a phone and a dongle - rather than just the one, or else not be able to hook the phone up to a standard audio system."
OR...you can get the forthcoming Bluetooth buds and have zero wires to carry around with you.
"Didn't the lunar modules land vertically? It isn't that much of an insurmountable problem..."
On an airless body there is no other way of landing a craft, and the low gravity simplifies the problem. But NASA never envisioned carrying the idea over to landing on Earth.
People who buy used cars and shop at garage sales routinely carry from a few hundred to a few thousand around with them for such business. Even the least of these amojnts is now up for grans.
There are thousands of species of mosquitoes, only a few of which transmit disease among humans. The ecosystem will have no trouble filling in for those few mosquito species that, like Aedes aegypti, are not even native to all the places where they have followed human colonization.
I find it incredible that Facebook didn't think of something like that. Calculating the risk of a launch failure is baked into every satellite revenue projection, leading to a decision to either buy insurance or self-insure.
"1) Having a flash card is not a crime 2) Having a flash card concealed is not a crime"
You wish. Though this was once true of cash, any bundle of money can now be presumed to be crime-related if the cops deem it profitable to make this declaration. Say goodbye to your Apple gear now under the same legal pretext.
Just as the Greens are being forced to accept nuclear power if they want to kill off carbon, they will be forced to accept GMO mosquitos as a better alternative to pesticide spraying.
The GMO technique kills off one selected species. That is incredibly difficult to do with an insecticide.
The failing thruster was supposed to fire at the instant of touchdown vectoring straight downward, holding Philae to the surface while it anchored itself.
The heart of the mission was being able to keep station with a comet as it approached perihelion and then moved outward again. This gave us our first close-up view of exactly what happens to a comet as it approaches the sun. The lander mission was gravy.
The one big disappointment of the mission was the attack at the first press conference by the most virulent alien lifeform in our solar system, social justice warriors. This is not how we do science, people.
Technology like this could enable men to find the barbecue sauce even if it were behind something else on the shelf. I predict a significant increase in the birth rate.
All of your examples are introductions of species into ecosystems where they did not originate. I happened across one of these myself: in Australia, the beloved red opossum is critically endangered, so a breeding colony was established across the channel in New Zealand. They loved it there, took over, and were soon chomping up 20,000 kg of native forest every night. Now the Kiwis have to poison them into submission.
But what we're talking about here is eliminating two species out of many thousands of similar mosquitoes. There is no conceivable way the sky could fall if we do this.
Because the place mosquitos have in the food web is the only ecological impact. Other than that, they are totally useless and man is not the only species (see article) that will applaud their going extinct.
Intel is going to lose on this one, because of the Creedence Clearwater precedent, in which it was ruled that you cannot be accused of plagiarizing yourself:
You can't imagine consequences because you lack any kind of knowledge about nature.
While they are undesirable for humans, mosquitoes are the source of food of a very large number of animals. Bats, lizards, frogs, fish, birds, etc many of them survive on eating mosquitoes. Kill the mosquito and you will be killing a good number of species of animals that depend on them.
Not so, actually: out of the 3,500 species of mosquitos out there, only about 200 bite man. The only dire consequence of eliminating these is that great Green boogeyman of more humans surviving tropical diseases. Mosquito-eating species can easily switch to other, similar, bugs: http://www.nature.com/news/201...
" If confirmed, this discovery changes the situation with interpreting the so-called "Tabby's Star"."
The most important reason why this deprecates Tabby's Star as an alien megastructure is that at 5-11 million years, this new star is far too young to have undergone planet formation, let alone a highly developed civilization. If we can identify a natural mechanism for its odd light changes, Occam says this is the most likely explanation for Tabby's Star also.
Meanwhile, we ourselves are making these observations as a Kardashian Type I civilization, which means that we are too focused on the antics of celebrities to have a real space program. Fortunately, private sector initiatives like the Allen Telescope Array may get us the definitive data first.
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At the moment I don't have any home automation gear, but I plan to get a number of items later this year... HomeKit stuff does look like a useful way to use the watch.
Right now I have a houseful of Insteon sensors that send me iPhone notifications if there's a lean under the sink or the cat needs kibbles. How much instanter would they be on a Watch?
....and NO headphone jack.
No serial port either. Where would I connect my Antikythera Mechanism?
" Essentially most people will now have to carry two items around with them - a phone and a dongle - rather than just the one, or else not be able to hook the phone up to a standard audio system."
OR...you can get the forthcoming Bluetooth buds and have zero wires to carry around with you.
"Didn't the lunar modules land vertically? It isn't that much of an insurmountable problem..."
On an airless body there is no other way of landing a craft, and the low gravity simplifies the problem. But NASA never envisioned carrying the idea over to landing on Earth.
The echo chamber here, is getting completely ridiculous.
If you can scrape up a justification, any justification at all, for civil forfeiture, please enlighten us.
People who buy used cars and shop at garage sales routinely carry from a few hundred to a few thousand around with them for such business. Even the least of these amojnts is now up for grans.
There are thousands of species of mosquitoes, only a few of which transmit disease among humans. The ecosystem will have no trouble filling in for those few mosquito species that, like Aedes aegypti, are not even native to all the places where they have followed human colonization.
"Mercola" is the technical Latin term for 'complete shit'.
I find it incredible that Facebook didn't think of something like that. Calculating the risk of a launch failure is baked into every satellite revenue projection, leading to a decision to either buy insurance or self-insure.
"1) Having a flash card is not a crime
2) Having a flash card concealed is not a crime"
You wish. Though this was once true of cash, any bundle of money can now be presumed to be crime-related if the cops deem it profitable to make this declaration. Say goodbye to your Apple gear now under the same legal pretext.
Just as the Greens are being forced to accept nuclear power if they want to kill off carbon, they will be forced to accept GMO mosquitos as a better alternative to pesticide spraying.
The GMO technique kills off one selected species. That is incredibly difficult to do with an insecticide.
That'll teach the Angles and the Saxons! Feel free to try reenacting the Battle of Hastings while we sit here and giggle.
The failing thruster was supposed to fire at the instant of touchdown vectoring straight downward, holding Philae to the surface while it anchored itself.
The heart of the mission was being able to keep station with a comet as it approached perihelion and then moved outward again. This gave us our first close-up view of exactly what happens to a comet as it approaches the sun. The lander mission was gravy.
The one big disappointment of the mission was the attack at the first press conference by the most virulent alien lifeform in our solar system, social justice warriors. This is not how we do science, people.
Matt Taylor wore a three-piece suit, and PBS totebags were distributed to all.
This product will be snapped up by those people who insist that magic Monster Cable dust comes out of headphone jacks that Bluetooth can't touch.
But...but...but now that our predictive modeling of climate is inerrant, then what could be so difficult about modeling ecosystems?
As our supercomputing power improves and we do better at modeling ecosystems, there will be all sorts of interesting tricks we can do.
Technology like this could enable men to find the barbecue sauce even if it were behind something else on the shelf. I predict a significant increase in the birth rate.
All of your examples are introductions of species into ecosystems where they did not originate. I happened across one of these myself: in Australia, the beloved red opossum is critically endangered, so a breeding colony was established across the channel in New Zealand. They loved it there, took over, and were soon chomping up 20,000 kg of native forest every night. Now the Kiwis have to poison them into submission.
But what we're talking about here is eliminating two species out of many thousands of similar mosquitoes. There is no conceivable way the sky could fall if we do this.
Because your name is as much yours as your musical style.
Because the place mosquitos have in the food web is the only ecological impact. Other than that, they are totally useless and man is not the only species (see article) that will applaud their going extinct.
Okay, I exaggerate. Caribou can't applaud.
Intel is going to lose on this one, because of the Creedence Clearwater precedent, in which it was ruled that you cannot be accused of plagiarizing yourself:
http://mentalfloss.com/article...
You can't imagine consequences because you lack any kind of knowledge about nature.
While they are undesirable for humans, mosquitoes are the source of food of a very large number of animals. Bats, lizards, frogs, fish, birds, etc many of them survive on eating mosquitoes. Kill the mosquito and you will be killing a good number of species of animals that depend on them.
Not so, actually: out of the 3,500 species of mosquitos out there, only about 200 bite man. The only dire consequence of eliminating these is that great Green boogeyman of more humans surviving tropical diseases. Mosquito-eating species can easily switch to other, similar, bugs:
http://www.nature.com/news/201...
"
If confirmed, this discovery changes the situation with interpreting the so-called "Tabby's Star"."
The most important reason why this deprecates Tabby's Star as an alien megastructure is that at 5-11 million years, this new star is far too young to have undergone planet formation, let alone a highly developed civilization. If we can identify a natural mechanism for its odd light changes, Occam says this is the most likely explanation for Tabby's Star also.
Meanwhile, we ourselves are making these observations as a Kardashian Type I civilization, which means that we are too focused on the antics of celebrities to have a real space program. Fortunately, private sector initiatives like the Allen Telescope Array may get us the definitive data first.