You could prevent prisoners from using cellphones in the slammer by installing in-house jammers. Or you could ban small phones in the entire country and hope that it would be easier to keep this specific technology out of an island with thousands of miles of coastline, numerous airports and a domestic capability to make devices like this in a hundred different places.
Okay...continuous 1G acceleration for over 4 billion years puts us so close to the speed of light that we would no longer see a full surround of stars in the night sky. Our instruments could detect deep blue-shifted stars dead ahead, deeply red-shifted stars behind, and we would visually see a band of stars at near right angles to our acceleration vector. And because we still perceive day and night, the Sun circling the flat Earth would have to be coming along for the ride.
Do you have any idea how much energy this would require for just the Earth and the Sun, l;et alone anything else in the solar system? What is the source?
And what do they think is on the bottom side of the flat world? Surely as you approach the bounding ice wall gravity will be pulling you more and more toward the center of the disk so would be walking on a slant with your head toward the edge. If you climbed the wall you could then walk normally down the edge of the disk (I'm assuming a pressure suit would be required) and then reach the underside. This would be entirely new territory, equal in area to the entire world we know, ripe for real estate development and mining.
Even Jimmy Carter does not hold a candle to Trump in that area.
Trump is going to crash the US dollar and stock market and drive the prime interest rate to 18%?
I was living in Japan when this happened, and it wasn't pretty. All of the Americans working there had to leave because their money was no longer worth anything. They were replaced by Germans and Brits, which had wondrous effects on our balance of payments. It took until the middle of Reagan's second term to clean up the mess Carter left behind.
How do you know what *he* opposes, you fat fairy-tale believing cunt? Mind reader, are you?
The anti-GMO wackos didn't just protest golden rice, they went out to the test plots in the Philippines and uprooted the plants.
Now that Duterte is in power there I would love to see his gunners mow down the next lot of anti-GMO wackjobs right there in the fields. Let them be fertilizer for the rice.
No, he's opposed to the technology because the major corporation pushing it are assholes who want to corner the market for a necessity.
Then why do they also oppose golden rice, a GMO which is open source and designed specifically to feed the poor in starving countries? Here again, a rational movement would push for eliminating patent monopolies in the genetic engineering field. This would be a legal problem, not an engineering problem.
Alot of people, like myself, are anti-GMO because of the business practices and behaviors of this industry.
If that were the case, your movement would be for specified ethical standards in the genetic engineering business. Instead, you're anti-genetic engineering and you want all our food labeled to give people the impression that GMO is to be avoided..
Solar will be incorporated into construction and should eventually become the default roofing material in all places where it can offset a fraction of the power usage of the structures underneath. Wind will become an unsustainable maintenance nightmare as soon as the subsidies for it expire. Few people realize that the nacelle located right behind each set of wind turbine blades is crammed with mechanical gearing, with about the same complexity as an automatic transmission. That's high up on a pole, lashed by weather and in some places by salt spray.
But if we want to get to zero carbon while still having industries and large cities, we will have to go nuclear.
The SCMP article, being a typical simplified newspaper account, talks only about using molten salt as a reactor coolant. Salt is already used for heat transfer in many industrial processes, including solar thermal plants like Ivanpah, because of its high specific heat (heat absorption per unit mass) combined with its much higher boiling point than water. This would mean a more compact reactor that operates at ambient pressure.
But this research is a lot more advanced than that. The designs being investigated use fuel dissolved in the coolant, with graphite rods as a moderator, the opposite arrangement from existing commercial designs. This allows a greater range of fuels, including thorium and spent fuel from current reactors. Some of the designs being investigated are breeders, producing fissile fuel from U-238 and thorium.
China did not think of this design first; the US did, and ran a test reactor for years at ORNL. Now a science-friendly country will carry on where we left off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Computer processors are subject to the same economics as pharma development: R & D is a large fraction of the price, it takes yearsto develop and test each new product, and the marketing is indirect. "Intel Inside" is the same kind of marketing as "Ask your doctor about."
The one difference is that electronics sales has always been part of an open-market competitive culture, while pharma sales take place in the historically cartelized healthcare culture, in which pharma companies use governmental legal systems to carve out restricted markets for themselves. Intel and AMD have no such privilege, so they have to compete openly for your US dollars.
Because contact lenses are not opioids, nobody has an interest in faking prescriptions for them. This story is just "mediscare" from some established, overpriced optical company that is fighting the holy way of medallion taxicab companies against Silicon Valley interference with its racket.
And while we're at it, let's bring back the Weavers Guild and the salt monopoly. You will probably get to be commissar of something and wear an imposing hat.
The good that will come out of this whole cryptocurrency bubble is a testing of numerous approaches to decentralized transaction processing. There is no mystery about Bitcoin hoarding. It's a direct outcome of the limited money supply, which has transformed what was intended to be a digital currency into an imaginary investment.
Yes, just focusing on decentralized transaction processing with national currencies would be a good idea to explore. Goal: is there a way of handing this which is inexpensive at reasonable transaction volumes? Such a scheme doesn't have to match Visa's 24,000 transactions per second. It just has to be high enough to serve a population interested in anonymous transactions.
That's corporate FUD. Pharma companies make a profit in every market they sell into other than disaster aid programs in the poorest countries, and their products are priced at what each market will bear. Prices in the US are highest because we're suckers who swallow the bunk that pharma PR departments spout, willingly paying the world's highest prices. If we bought electronics the same way we buy medications, only high-rollers would be able to afford computers and smartphones.
Canadians pay less because their government buys in bulk, millions of doses at once, making deals for lower prices due to saved marketing and distribution costs. Canada has no power to "control" drug prices either: it just asks for bids on all the compounds it might be interested in, and accepts only the offers that are in its price range. It can do this because it buys on the world market that Americans are not allowed to access.
Radiation is more of a long-term problem. First we need to determine how much gravity we have to simulate, then design habitats and craft around this value to be more radiation-resistant. We could accomplish this by putting the craft's stored water outside the living area, and by generating an external magnetic field. The latter might be a good use for reclaimed neodymium from the many excess, high-maintenance wind turbines that will become redundant in the coming years after their subsidies expire.
Not for testing. You could accomplish it with two small habitats connected by a long cable. The amount of gravity we find we need will have a major impact on teh design of a large habitat, so we need to find out the optimum amount before we design anything big.
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France has decided they will reduce nuclear power to providing ony 50% of electricity by 2025, from the current 75%.
That was Hollande's policy initiative. Fortunately he is now just a fading purple bruise in the French memory.
I wonder how they'll track miners.
In a collapsed socialist economy, miners will be the only large users of electricity.
You could prevent prisoners from using cellphones in the slammer by installing in-house jammers. Or you could ban small phones in the entire country and hope that it would be easier to keep this specific technology out of an island with thousands of miles of coastline, numerous airports and a domestic capability to make devices like this in a hundred different places.
So guess which option the periwigged idiots take?
And which country is going on straight up witch hunts?
Which has already flamed out into absurdity. It's all over now except for the Saturday Night Live sketches.
Okay...continuous 1G acceleration for over 4 billion years puts us so close to the speed of light that we would no longer see a full surround of stars in the night sky. Our instruments could detect deep blue-shifted stars dead ahead, deeply red-shifted stars behind, and we would visually see a band of stars at near right angles to our acceleration vector. And because we still perceive day and night, the Sun circling the flat Earth would have to be coming along for the ride.
Do you have any idea how much energy this would require for just the Earth and the Sun, l;et alone anything else in the solar system? What is the source?
And what do they think is on the bottom side of the flat world? Surely as you approach the bounding ice wall gravity will be pulling you more and more toward the center of the disk so would be walking on a slant with your head toward the edge. If you climbed the wall you could then walk normally down the edge of the disk (I'm assuming a pressure suit would be required) and then reach the underside. This would be entirely new territory, equal in area to the entire world we know, ripe for real estate development and mining.
Even Jimmy Carter does not hold a candle to Trump in that area.
Trump is going to crash the US dollar and stock market and drive the prime interest rate to 18%?
I was living in Japan when this happened, and it wasn't pretty. All of the Americans working there had to leave because their money was no longer worth anything. They were replaced by Germans and Brits, which had wondrous effects on our balance of payments. It took until the middle of Reagan's second term to clean up the mess Carter left behind.
How do you know what *he* opposes, you fat fairy-tale believing cunt? Mind reader, are you?
The anti-GMO wackos didn't just protest golden rice, they went out to the test plots in the Philippines and uprooted the plants.
Now that Duterte is in power there I would love to see his gunners mow down the next lot of anti-GMO wackjobs right there in the fields. Let them be fertilizer for the rice.
No, he's opposed to the technology because the major corporation pushing it are assholes who want to corner the market for a necessity.
Then why do they also oppose golden rice, a GMO which is open source and designed specifically to feed the poor in starving countries? Here again, a rational movement would push for eliminating patent monopolies in the genetic engineering field. This would be a legal problem, not an engineering problem.
Alot of people, like myself, are anti-GMO because of the business practices and behaviors of this industry.
If that were the case, your movement would be for specified ethical standards in the genetic engineering business. Instead, you're anti-genetic engineering and you want all our food labeled to give people the impression that GMO is to be avoided..
Then why is the latest Canadian design, which it's selling to China, using molten salt, and eventually thorium?
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
I'll support anything that makes Harry Reid look like an even bigger idiot.
Well, if you enjoy having a 70,000 hp car...
With a car like that, I could stay with traffic on Arizona 101.
Get up off Momma's couch! There's a job waiting for you with these guys:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Solar will be incorporated into construction and should eventually become the default roofing material in all places where it can offset a fraction of the power usage of the structures underneath. Wind will become an unsustainable maintenance nightmare as soon as the subsidies for it expire. Few people realize that the nacelle located right behind each set of wind turbine blades is crammed with mechanical gearing, with about the same complexity as an automatic transmission. That's high up on a pole, lashed by weather and in some places by salt spray.
But if we want to get to zero carbon while still having industries and large cities, we will have to go nuclear.
There's no need to put science deniers in prison. We just need to ignore them, which is China's approach.
The SCMP article, being a typical simplified newspaper account, talks only about using molten salt as a reactor coolant. Salt is already used for heat transfer in many industrial processes, including solar thermal plants like Ivanpah, because of its high specific heat (heat absorption per unit mass) combined with its much higher boiling point than water. This would mean a more compact reactor that operates at ambient pressure.
But this research is a lot more advanced than that. The designs being investigated use fuel dissolved in the coolant, with graphite rods as a moderator, the opposite arrangement from existing commercial designs. This allows a greater range of fuels, including thorium and spent fuel from current reactors. Some of the designs being investigated are breeders, producing fissile fuel from U-238 and thorium.
China did not think of this design first; the US did, and ran a test reactor for years at ORNL. Now a science-friendly country will carry on where we left off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Computer processors are subject to the same economics as pharma development: R & D is a large fraction of the price, it takes yearsto develop and test each new product, and the marketing is indirect. "Intel Inside" is the same kind of marketing as "Ask your doctor about."
The one difference is that electronics sales has always been part of an open-market competitive culture, while pharma sales take place in the historically cartelized healthcare culture, in which pharma companies use governmental legal systems to carve out restricted markets for themselves. Intel and AMD have no such privilege, so they have to compete openly for your US dollars.
Because contact lenses are not opioids, nobody has an interest in faking prescriptions for them. This story is just "mediscare" from some established, overpriced optical company that is fighting the holy way of medallion taxicab companies against Silicon Valley interference with its racket.
Not if your shuttle dock were in the rotational center of the cables, with a crawling 'elevator' to transport people to/from each habitat.
And while we're at it, let's bring back the Weavers Guild and the salt monopoly. You will probably get to be commissar of something and wear an imposing hat.
The good that will come out of this whole cryptocurrency bubble is a testing of numerous approaches to decentralized transaction processing. There is no mystery about Bitcoin hoarding. It's a direct outcome of the limited money supply, which has transformed what was intended to be a digital currency into an imaginary investment.
Yes, just focusing on decentralized transaction processing with national currencies would be a good idea to explore. Goal: is there a way of handing this which is inexpensive at reasonable transaction volumes? Such a scheme doesn't have to match Visa's 24,000 transactions per second. It just has to be high enough to serve a population interested in anonymous transactions.
That's corporate FUD. Pharma companies make a profit in every market they sell into other than disaster aid programs in the poorest countries, and their products are priced at what each market will bear. Prices in the US are highest because we're suckers who swallow the bunk that pharma PR departments spout, willingly paying the world's highest prices. If we bought electronics the same way we buy medications, only high-rollers would be able to afford computers and smartphones.
Canadians pay less because their government buys in bulk, millions of doses at once, making deals for lower prices due to saved marketing and distribution costs. Canada has no power to "control" drug prices either: it just asks for bids on all the compounds it might be interested in, and accepts only the offers that are in its price range. It can do this because it buys on the world market that Americans are not allowed to access.
Radiation is more of a long-term problem. First we need to determine how much gravity we have to simulate, then design habitats and craft around this value to be more radiation-resistant. We could accomplish this by putting the craft's stored water outside the living area, and by generating an external magnetic field. The latter might be a good use for reclaimed neodymium from the many excess, high-maintenance wind turbines that will become redundant in the coming years after their subsidies expire.
Not for testing. You could accomplish it with two small habitats connected by a long cable. The amount of gravity we find we need will have a major impact on teh design of a large habitat, so we need to find out the optimum amount before we design anything big.