To make this realistic, Google has to include a few vans in the test mix. Into each one approximately 135 'test drivers' will be crammed. These vans will be programmed to drive up and down the I-10/I-19 corridor between Phoenix, Tucson and well south until the extra weight bogging down their suspensions attracts the attention of a Department of Public Safety unit. A cheery high-speed police chase will ensue along the Interstates and through city streets until the van loses control and heads-on with some family driving their Prius to Whataburger for the evening. This will be the cue for all 135 passengers to scramble out and run into the desert in different directions.
These van tests be an ideal platform for debugging of high-speed evasive protocols.
A surge of innovation occurs when sociopolitical conditions, infrastructure, education and sources of wealth mesh in just the right way. Victorian Europe was one such time, when Britain, French and Germany blasted into the industrial age by feeding on each other's inventions. The US from 1865 to 1914 and 1942 to 1970 is another example. In these cases, war pushed technological development which nourished a generation of peace and civilian development to follow. Right now, it's China. Will India be next?
When I think of China the first thing that comes to mind is technical innovation.
Being first to innovate is meaningless unless you can turn those innovations into real products. China didn't invent nuclear reactors, but it's the one country that is busy replacing their coal-fired power with them. China didn't invent high speed rail either, but is is building bullet lines all over the country, while our one bullet line in California is still tied up in the courts. The Germans invented maglev rail, but guess which country Siemens had to build it in?
Based on your list, my money would be on San Diego, Colorado Springs, Austin, Minneapolis. These places are diverse in climate and amenities, but what they have in common is educational climate and (except for housing in San Diego), tech workers, and reasonable cost of living.
"These days both sides are supporting fake 'religious liberty.' The neocons support christians as they always have, and the left supports muslims, even when they rape women. I guess islamophobia is a worse sin than rape in the oppression olympics."
"Yeah, because everyone who drives will be perfectly happy waiting half an hour for their car to return from "resting" before they can do something somewhere else."
When cars go autonomous, they will be a lot more expensive than before, but increasingly electric/electronic and reliable, hence longer lasting, and cheap to operate without the wear-and-tear of being piloted by a bunch of amateurs with Dunning-Kruger driving skills.What this means is that cars will be owned by fleets, to be summoned by apps when you need one. No more "your car" at least for urban commuting.
Will it be more of a hassle to tap on "Need a car" as you check out at the 7-11, perhaps ticking the "Will Share" checkbox if all you are leaving with is a carton of milk? Perhaps, but compare it to owning, securing, maintaining, insuring, and parking a car in the city.
I'm looking forward to autonomous cars driving a stake into the hearts of vampiric police departments... but only after proclaiming, "here are your 30 pieces of silver, you Judas!" and dumping a bag of silver coins on their searing flesh. It really is the most satisfying way to pay parking tickets.
This is actually what will happen. As cars go autonomous, the need for parking at the places you visit will diminish. It will take a generation, but eventually, so will parking at homes and places of work. Autonomous cars will 'rest' in off-street buffer lots and maintenance warehouses, and it will be No Parking forever citywide.
The people still benefit from infrastructure built for the Games, and this is not limited to the venues themselves. Athens got a whole shiny new subway system from its Games.
Don't cancel the Olympics. Instead, just ban spectators. No exposure of visitors to the virus, the crime rate, and the political rioting. No traffic mess. Security could concentrate on protecting the athletes and camera crews in a trouble-free bubble. The marine events would be held here: http://riotimesonline.com/braz...
Freed of the high costs of managing spectators, the Olympics would be purely a media event, with increased profits from the TV rights. This Olympics could net more than any its predecessors.
"And those are GMO mosquitoes from 2012 onward that are causing the microcephaly and miscarriages"
You have the story scrambled. The GMO mosquitos are going to be introduced to kill off the natural organic free-range progressive mosquitos which are spreading the virus.
How often do driving situations give you thirty seconds warning? You're on a 2-lane road, and suddenly there is a car coming directly at you. It could be a passer cutting it too close, a drunk, or a suicide (all of these cases have happened, locally) What would a car on autopilot do?
And yes, at the same time the country is building as much solar and wind as it can manage. It's just under no illusion that these sources are sufficient for an industrial baseload.
I found the novel well-written and quite interesting, but it did a poor job of defending its central premise, which was that there is some secret sauce that binds every living thing to the planet where it evolved. First of all the scenario starts in a tine as far ahead of ours of we are ahead of Columbus, with corresponding technological development: the whole solar system is settled, and a generation starship is sent out to Tau Ceti. If Earthly life were mystically bound to its home planet, the settled solar system would not exist to begin with.
The story opens as the ship reaches its target after seven generations on board. The ship's systems are wearing down, being designed for one voyage, and although it's the 26th century nobody remembered to bring the frozen DNA for genetic diversity, and inbreeding is taking its toll on the population. The crew finds two potential places to settle: a watery moon, somewhat Earthlike but with no complex life, and a dry Marslike moon. They start building a settlement on the wet moon, but after finding a single prion-like hostile organism, immediately give up. Instead of working on the prion problem, half the crew revolts and decides to take the ship back to Earth, leaving the non-defeatist half to settle the Marslike moon without the help of the ship's resources.
I suppose the moral of the story is that if you build a starship, don't crew it with people like this author.
Congreff shall have the power to regulate INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Unfortunately, the SCOTUS has over the years defined the entire universe as being 'interstate commerce'. In 1942 in Wickard v. Filburn, it even defined a farmer's single field as being interstate commerce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"We did know they exist, we just haven't observed any."
In science, you can't assume that anything exists until you can observe it. And the assumption that astronomers and astrophysicists made before Beta Pictoris was that planetary formation was a rare occurrence. And planetary formation in a binary or multiple-star system was thought to be impossible.
A floating platform would be a great launch and operations site for probes to the surface, which will be a highly interesting place for any device rugged enoughto survive there. You could even exercise a high degree of real-time teleoperator control from the manned platform, which we cannot do anywhere else in the solar system except for the Moon. This dramatically extends what surface probes can do there.
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slightly horrified that they're asking for somebody with a degree, and for a $20/hr job no less...
That's the going rate for three adjunct professors.
To make this realistic, Google has to include a few vans in the test mix. Into each one approximately 135 'test drivers' will be crammed. These vans will be programmed to drive up and down the I-10/I-19 corridor between Phoenix, Tucson and well south until the extra weight bogging down their suspensions attracts the attention of a Department of Public Safety unit. A cheery high-speed police chase will ensue along the Interstates and through city streets until the van loses control and heads-on with some family driving their Prius to Whataburger for the evening. This will be the cue for all 135 passengers to scramble out and run into the desert in different directions.
These van tests be an ideal platform for debugging of high-speed evasive protocols.
A surge of innovation occurs when sociopolitical conditions, infrastructure, education and sources of wealth mesh in just the right way. Victorian Europe was one such time, when Britain, French and Germany blasted into the industrial age by feeding on each other's inventions. The US from 1865 to 1914 and 1942 to 1970 is another example. In these cases, war pushed technological development which nourished a generation of peace and civilian development to follow. Right now, it's China. Will India be next?
When I think of China the first thing that comes to mind is technical innovation.
Being first to innovate is meaningless unless you can turn those innovations into real products. China didn't invent nuclear reactors, but it's the one country that is busy replacing their coal-fired power with them. China didn't invent high speed rail either, but is is building bullet lines all over the country, while our one bullet line in California is still tied up in the courts. The Germans invented maglev rail, but guess which country Siemens had to build it in?
Based on your list, my money would be on San Diego, Colorado Springs, Austin, Minneapolis. These places are diverse in climate and amenities, but what they have in common is educational climate and (except for housing in San Diego), tech workers, and reasonable cost of living.
"These days both sides are supporting fake 'religious liberty.' The neocons support christians as they always have, and the left supports muslims, even when they rape women. I guess islamophobia is a worse sin than rape in the oppression olympics."
Wish I had mod points right now!
It's going to be in some location where the cost of living is lower and the local public doesn't treat the industry with contempt.
"Yeah, because everyone who drives will be perfectly happy waiting half an hour for their car to return from "resting" before they can do something somewhere else."
When cars go autonomous, they will be a lot more expensive than before, but increasingly electric/electronic and reliable, hence longer lasting, and cheap to operate without the wear-and-tear of being piloted by a bunch of amateurs with Dunning-Kruger driving skills.What this means is that cars will be owned by fleets, to be summoned by apps when you need one. No more "your car" at least for urban commuting.
Will it be more of a hassle to tap on "Need a car" as you check out at the 7-11, perhaps ticking the "Will Share" checkbox if all you are leaving with is a carton of milk? Perhaps, but compare it to owning, securing, maintaining, insuring, and parking a car in the city.
I'm looking forward to autonomous cars driving a stake into the hearts of vampiric police departments... but only after proclaiming, "here are your 30 pieces of silver, you Judas!" and dumping a bag of silver coins on their searing flesh. It really is the most satisfying way to pay parking tickets.
This is actually what will happen. As cars go autonomous, the need for parking at the places you visit will diminish. It will take a generation, but eventually, so will parking at homes and places of work. Autonomous cars will 'rest' in off-street buffer lots and maintenance warehouses, and it will be No Parking forever citywide.
Will they refund people and wipe their record of the error?
And your refund will be delivered by a shining maiden riding a unicorn.
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
I long for a world in which death is purely an option for the bored and unadventurous, thereby selecting them out of the population.
The people still benefit from infrastructure built for the Games, and this is not limited to the venues themselves. Athens got a whole shiny new subway system from its Games.
This was purely an engine test.
Don't cancel the Olympics. Instead, just ban spectators. No exposure of visitors to the virus, the crime rate, and the political rioting. No traffic mess. Security could concentrate on protecting the athletes and camera crews in a trouble-free bubble. The marine events would be held here: http://riotimesonline.com/braz...
Freed of the high costs of managing spectators, the Olympics would be purely a media event, with increased profits from the TV rights. This Olympics could net more than any its predecessors.
"And those are GMO mosquitoes from 2012 onward that are causing the microcephaly and miscarriages"
You have the story scrambled. The GMO mosquitos are going to be introduced to kill off the natural organic free-range progressive mosquitos which are spreading the virus.
How often do driving situations give you thirty seconds warning? You're on a 2-lane road, and suddenly there is a car coming directly at you. It could be a passer cutting it too close, a drunk, or a suicide (all of these cases have happened, locally) What would a car on autopilot do?
The real reason the British drink warm beer is they keep it in Lucas refrigerators.
The "knobs" reference will not work in the US, though.
This is what a 21st century energy program looks like: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04...
And yes, at the same time the country is building as much solar and wind as it can manage. It's just under no illusion that these sources are sufficient for an industrial baseload.
I found the novel well-written and quite interesting, but it did a poor job of defending its central premise, which was that there is some secret sauce that binds every living thing to the planet where it evolved. First of all the scenario starts in a tine as far ahead of ours of we are ahead of Columbus, with corresponding technological development: the whole solar system is settled, and a generation starship is sent out to Tau Ceti. If Earthly life were mystically bound to its home planet, the settled solar system would not exist to begin with.
The story opens as the ship reaches its target after seven generations on board. The ship's systems are wearing down, being designed for one voyage, and although it's the 26th century nobody remembered to bring the frozen DNA for genetic diversity, and inbreeding is taking its toll on the population. The crew finds two potential places to settle: a watery moon, somewhat Earthlike but with no complex life, and a dry Marslike moon. They start building a settlement on the wet moon, but after finding a single prion-like hostile organism, immediately give up. Instead of working on the prion problem, half the crew revolts and decides to take the ship back to Earth, leaving the non-defeatist half to settle the Marslike moon without the help of the ship's resources.
I suppose the moral of the story is that if you build a starship, don't crew it with people like this author.
Congreff shall have the power to regulate INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Unfortunately, the SCOTUS has over the years defined the entire universe as being 'interstate commerce'. In 1942 in Wickard v. Filburn, it even defined a farmer's single field as being interstate commerce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"We did know they exist, we just haven't observed any."
In science, you can't assume that anything exists until you can observe it. And the assumption that astronomers and astrophysicists made before Beta Pictoris was that planetary formation was a rare occurrence. And planetary formation in a binary or multiple-star system was thought to be impossible.
Why do we have settlements in Antarctica? Why have we colonized any part of the Earth less congenial than Hawaii?
Both religion and exploration are unchangeable aspects of the human personality. They will persist despite any appeal to utilitarianism.
A floating platform would be a great launch and operations site for probes to the surface, which will be a highly interesting place for any device rugged enoughto survive there. You could even exercise a high degree of real-time teleoperator control from the manned platform, which we cannot do anywhere else in the solar system except for the Moon. This dramatically extends what surface probes can do there.
In this case, brava.