And neither does Titan have any magnetic field of its own. Since it must be relying totally on Saturn's field, how strong and how nearby an external field would Mars need to retain a usable atmosphere? "Usable" need not mean a full Earth of 1000 millibars. You could get away with 210 mb of oxygen, or intermediate inert gas mixture thereof.
That’s a legal problem that has nothing to do with GMO technology. Plant patents have been around, and have been litigated over, for the last hundred years.
We already do this! Flat-earthers can already seek out products labeled No GMO if they wish. The only reason they want to force labeling on the rest of us is to give consumers the impression that GMO is an ingredient, like salt, that people should avoid.
Irradiating dead organisms to preserve food is totally safe, and if we weren’t such gibbering idiots when the R-word is mentioned would eliminate the salmonella recalls we seem to be getting weekly now. But that is not the kind of irradiation this article is talking about.
One of the standard techniques for inducing mutations in agricultural breeding is to blast crops with gamma radiation from a Cobalt-60 source. The label Luddites who won’t let us use modern genetic engineering techniques accept this as a form of conventional hybridization.
I would rather see UBI than make-work, because so long as the salaries for real jobs are significantly higher than UBI, people will be motivated to take them. Just characterize UBI as 'unemployment comp for life."
The problem is... where's the lower reservoir? The Colorado River isn't going to run backwards for you.
The whole lower Colorado below Hoover Dam is a stairstep of lakes behind smaller dams. The idea in TFA was to use the lakes behind Parker and Davis as the lower reservoirs to implement pumped storage behind Hoover. I maintain this would not be necessary if we used the fluctuating energy to desalinate on the Pacific coast, serving local cities.
Every drop of Colorado River water is allocated to downstream users, with the last muddy trickle being used by Mexico. Since the partition treaties and dam construction, none of it reaches the sea. Any water no longer needed by Los Angeles and San Diego would be purchased by other users under the same set of treaties.
Desalination is a great direct use of fluctuating renewable power, because given the buffering effect of reservoirs there is no need to produce it at a constant rate. But desal water is better used right on the ocean, where most of California's people live. Greater Los Angeles alone is fourteen million people: pipe the renewable power to a giant desalination plant that serves the city.
If this were to be done, the Colorado water now headed to Los Angeles could now be retained in Lake Mead and/or sold to other downstream users. No need for infrastructure to send Pacific-derived water to the dam.
If we don't want rideshare to cannibalize public transit, expand rideshare apps to include transit in rideshare route alternatives. When booking an Uber (for example) in the usual manner, such an app would, besides offering you the Uber cost and timing, show any plausible variations of the route that include a transit ride. You would be able to choose between an all-Uber route and a cheaper but more complicated option of something like Uber-train-Uber. For single rides, few people will choose the transit-included option, but if you Uber to the medical center twice a week, you're going to consider the transit-included option. You have become aware if a placxe where transit might fir into your life.
To make this really work well, payment for transit segments booked this way should be transparently included in-app, deducted automatically from the user's Uber account. A major reason people don't use transit is having to dig for exact change or fiddle with unfamiliar ticketing systems.
Who is going to pay for a scheme like this? For rideshare companies, this extension to their service will tempt more city dwellers to become 'car cutters' in the same way that streaming is replacing TV cable. For cities, paying to have this new software added could be a cheaper way of enticing more transit riders than making the next increment of change to their physical transit system.
How about whiney EU? Where you call the wahbulance every 5 minutes and demand the Americans keep the big bad Ruskies away free of charge.
At the end of each 5-minute period, it reaches into its capacious colon and fines America a hundred jillion brazillion dollars for whatever technical infraction it just pulled out.
i can see ongoing value in libraries even though I do all of my reading on Kindle and its library borrowing sibling, Overdrive. It's nice to have a community information center that not only still has a trove of physical books that may include irreplaceable references to local history and culture, but offers gathering places, high-quality printers, proctored search help, and even maker space equipment.
Now if only it were still legal to keep out the stinking bums. Libraries used to be places where you could send your kids unaccompanied to soak up some culture while they did their homework.
But on the other hand, spallation from Earth requires a lot of energy and a large impactor, because of our deep gravity well compared to, say, Mars or Europa. If any organism could survive that experience, all the more impressive.
This hypothesis could be an early test of the panspermia speculation. If we find extremophile fossils on the Moon, it should not be hard to prove whether or not they arrived via meteoric spallation from Earth.
Because right now the Impossible is an early adopter product. As usage spreads, it will get cheaper.
The market for this is not vegans, because they are religiously opposed to engineered plants. It's for vegetarians and anyone who wants to reduce his part of the "carnal footprint" made by cattle farming. As time goes on, it will become a low-cost substitute for ground beef.
If you only read from the drive this time, it’s perfectly safe to just yank it out. But data you have written to a mounted drive is like people lining up at a dock to get onto a boat. If the captain doesn’t sound the horn and yell “All Aboard” before pulling away, the last few people in line are going to jump into the water where they expected the boat to be.
Why not beef up the Amazon Locker program, in which Amazon delivers to lockers placed in a local store. If Amazon were to buy out a chain of gas station convenience stores, which it could do or couch cushion change, each location could be both an Amazon pickup point and a place to get the sort of last-minute essentials that such stores normally carry. This would be an especially good deal for the young working people who are usually not home when the UPS man comes.
I have had occasion to send money to two relatives who are "unbanked," and because I could only talk one of them into using Square Cash, I had to install Venmo. Yesterday Venmo emailed its users to say they are getting out of the personal payments business, so I saw that as good reason to delete my long-inactive account.
I can envision a driver recording each working day purely as a security measure and then recycling the tape each day. Being unwittingly given a supporting role in his podcast is another matter. It's commercial use of your image without permission. Any commercial street photographer requires model releases for people who are in a picture for sale.
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And neither does Titan have any magnetic field of its own. Since it must be relying totally on Saturn's field, how strong and how nearby an external field would Mars need to retain a usable atmosphere? "Usable" need not mean a full Earth of 1000 millibars. You could get away with 210 mb of oxygen, or intermediate inert gas mixture thereof.
... for allowing atmospheric breaking for incoming ships replenishing underground bases. Wink!
It already is thick enough for aerobraking, and it has already been done.
And yet Titan, which is smaller than Mars, manages to hold onto an atmosphere thicker than Earth's.
That’s a legal problem that has nothing to do with GMO technology. Plant patents have been around, and have been litigated over, for the last hundred years.
We already do this! Flat-earthers can already seek out products labeled No GMO if they wish. The only reason they want to force labeling on the rest of us is to give consumers the impression that GMO is an ingredient, like salt, that people should avoid.
Unfortunately there is no ISO standard for common sense in Brussels.
Irradiating dead organisms to preserve food is totally safe, and if we weren’t such gibbering idiots when the R-word is mentioned would eliminate the salmonella recalls we seem to be getting weekly now. But that is not the kind of irradiation this article is talking about.
One of the standard techniques for inducing mutations in agricultural breeding is to blast crops with gamma radiation from a Cobalt-60 source. The label Luddites who won’t let us use modern genetic engineering techniques accept this as a form of conventional hybridization.
And all this is happening just in time for Facebook's new Dislike button.
I would rather see UBI than make-work, because so long as the salaries for real jobs are significantly higher than UBI, people will be motivated to take them. Just characterize UBI as 'unemployment comp for life."
The problem is... where's the lower reservoir? The Colorado River isn't going to run backwards for you.
The whole lower Colorado below Hoover Dam is a stairstep of lakes behind smaller dams. The idea in TFA was to use the lakes behind Parker and Davis as the lower reservoirs to implement pumped storage behind Hoover. I maintain this would not be necessary if we used the fluctuating energy to desalinate on the Pacific coast, serving local cities.
Every drop of Colorado River water is allocated to downstream users, with the last muddy trickle being used by Mexico. Since the partition treaties and dam construction, none of it reaches the sea. Any water no longer needed by Los Angeles and San Diego would be purchased by other users under the same set of treaties.
Desalination is a great direct use of fluctuating renewable power, because given the buffering effect of reservoirs there is no need to produce it at a constant rate. But desal water is better used right on the ocean, where most of California's people live. Greater Los Angeles alone is fourteen million people: pipe the renewable power to a giant desalination plant that serves the city.
If this were to be done, the Colorado water now headed to Los Angeles could now be retained in Lake Mead and/or sold to other downstream users. No need for infrastructure to send Pacific-derived water to the dam.
If we don't want rideshare to cannibalize public transit, expand rideshare apps to include transit in rideshare route alternatives. When booking an Uber (for example) in the usual manner, such an app would, besides offering you the Uber cost and timing, show any plausible variations of the route that include a transit ride. You would be able to choose between an all-Uber route and a cheaper but more complicated option of something like Uber-train-Uber. For single rides, few people will choose the transit-included option, but if you Uber to the medical center twice a week, you're going to consider the transit-included option. You have become aware if a placxe where transit might fir into your life.
To make this really work well, payment for transit segments booked this way should be transparently included in-app, deducted automatically from the user's Uber account. A major reason people don't use transit is having to dig for exact change or fiddle with unfamiliar ticketing systems.
Who is going to pay for a scheme like this? For rideshare companies, this extension to their service will tempt more city dwellers to become 'car cutters' in the same way that streaming is replacing TV cable. For cities, paying to have this new software added could be a cheaper way of enticing more transit riders than making the next increment of change to their physical transit system.
How about whiney EU? Where you call the wahbulance every 5 minutes and demand the Americans keep the big bad Ruskies away free of charge.
At the end of each 5-minute period, it reaches into its capacious colon and fines America a hundred jillion brazillion dollars for whatever technical infraction it just pulled out.
Apparently, this particular star will soon find itself in Scientology Heaven.
i can see ongoing value in libraries even though I do all of my reading on Kindle and its library borrowing sibling, Overdrive. It's nice to have a community information center that not only still has a trove of physical books that may include irreplaceable references to local history and culture, but offers gathering places, high-quality printers, proctored search help, and even maker space equipment.
Now if only it were still legal to keep out the stinking bums. Libraries used to be places where you could send your kids unaccompanied to soak up some culture while they did their homework.
But on the other hand, spallation from Earth requires a lot of energy and a large impactor, because of our deep gravity well compared to, say, Mars or Europa. If any organism could survive that experience, all the more impressive.
This hypothesis could be an early test of the panspermia speculation. If we find extremophile fossils on the Moon, it should not be hard to prove whether or not they arrived via meteoric spallation from Earth.
Because right now the Impossible is an early adopter product. As usage spreads, it will get cheaper.
The market for this is not vegans, because they are religiously opposed to engineered plants. It's for vegetarians and anyone who wants to reduce his part of the "carnal footprint" made by cattle farming. As time goes on, it will become a low-cost substitute for ground beef.
And in any case, recycling is a good habit to develop.
We should get off oil and use nuclear!
Once we’re out of the atmosphere. .
If you only read from the drive this time, it’s perfectly safe to just yank it out. But data you have written to a mounted drive is like people lining up at a dock to get onto a boat. If the captain doesn’t sound the horn and yell “All Aboard” before pulling away, the last few people in line are going to jump into the water where they expected the boat to be.
Why not beef up the Amazon Locker program, in which Amazon delivers to lockers placed in a local store. If Amazon were to buy out a chain of gas station convenience stores, which it could do or couch cushion change, each location could be both an Amazon pickup point and a place to get the sort of last-minute essentials that such stores normally carry. This would be an especially good deal for the young working people who are usually not home when the UPS man comes.
I would be more concerned about the thoughtless owners who walk them, letting them drop little ones and zeroes all over our sidewalks.
I have had occasion to send money to two relatives who are "unbanked," and because I could only talk one of them into using Square Cash, I had to install Venmo. Yesterday Venmo emailed its users to say they are getting out of the personal payments business, so I saw that as good reason to delete my long-inactive account.
I can envision a driver recording each working day purely as a security measure and then recycling the tape each day. Being unwittingly given a supporting role in his podcast is another matter. It's commercial use of your image without permission. Any commercial street photographer requires model releases for people who are in a picture for sale.