The modern computer industry owes its existence to the space program. Nobody else needed a small computer. This alone has immeasureably improved the lives of a large portion of the population of the planet.
The $S style is an inherently safe design, its non-weapons grade so stealing it will not aid in making a nuclear bomb and the convection is done by liquid sodium. The design was actually developed by a team at Argonne Labs outside of Chicago and killed by the Clinton administration in 1992 FY (as in as soon as they took office.) Naturally, the Japanese took it over and minituarized it.
" . ..I didn't refer to any specific individual or just the military, . .."
You specifically did refer to General Anderson, now of Northern Command. I illustrated with an example of when he was forced by the Clinton administration, to place a lesser value on civlian life, which upset him. The Bush administration
. ..While Bush & CO are just slightly less insane (also a ruling minority)..
Specifically ordered the opposite, that the US military should attempt to minimize civilian casualties at the cost of risking a few US military lives.
Bush remains more popular than Clinton ever was. Clinton never won a majority of US votes.
And most importantly,
In Norway, we still regard our "terrorists" during the war, who planted bombs on the occupying Germans, as heroes.
These same men and women are regarded as heros in the US but they were not terrorists. Terrorists strike at enemy civilian population targets. Attacking military targets or logistics (railways to destroy rail lines not kill civilians) is called resistance or guerrilla activity.
I happen to know Lieutenant General Edward Anderson (served together) and have spoken to him about a similiar issue. Shortly after the air bombardment of Serbia I happened to take the same commercial air flight as him. He didn't recall me (I'd been a much junior officer) but he was friendly and we discussed the Serbian air campaign. General Anderson was somewhat peeved at the political restrictions placed on the Air Force by the Clinton administration. Specifically, they insisted that zero chance of American casualties be tolerated. That meant bombings were conducted from over 20,000 ft and many more Serbian civilians and even Kosavar Albanians had been killed (and a few Chinese diplomats) because Clinton valued American life above all else. The General did mention he didn't mind putting his own life on the line to defend fellow Americans but then he extended that to include civilians of allied, non-allied and even opposing nations. He specifically mentioned a quote from Sun Tzu to me, "destroying an enemy's armies is not the greatest achievement, destroying his will to fight is far greater."
You sir, I believe owe the general an apology for grouping him with most terrorists. I believe his opinion of the sanctity of human life is fairly common in the US military. This places it in direct opposition to terrorists who typically, at least if the Twin Towers 19 are an example, hold other human life in little regard.
Any satelitte that could be hit by the ASAT would have to be in a very low orbit. Typically only spy satellites use this type of orbit. The weather satellites are safe.
New Zealand is perfectly awash in the flora of Jurassic age plant life. Ever hear of Gondwanaland? It was the southern continent that broke from Pangea. NZ is a remnant. NZ never got flowering plants (until man brought them in.) Also, the ginko was very common in the Jurassic age. My hometown has the Morton Arboretum, which cultivates ginkos.
I've seen the details on nuclear plant saftey with the new post-3 Mile Island saftey designs. Does it include a 747? Yes. Actually, four seperate possibilities were detailed: 1) a 747 (cargo haul version, taken over by terrorists and carrying non-nuclear explosives in a fair portion of the cargo hold) 2) a fully laden B-52 with non-nuclear weapons, 3) a flight of F-15C Strike Eagles and 4) the worst combination of the three, specifically 2 and 3.
Why non-nuclear? Because if you drop a nuclear bomb on a nuclear plant, the bomb effects dwarf the nuclear plant effects. The result is almost the same as dropping a nuclear bomb on a coal plant.
The results with the new design in the worst case? The reactor shuts down and is entombed in a concrete/ lithium half-sphere. The underground shielding remained intact. Radiation leakage? The lithium allows only short-term low-effect leakage.
My backyard is fine with me and apart from the amount of space required, densely populated areas are safe.
Actually, I've always thought that line (silicon based life-forms) referenced computers. Almost any two-bit sci-fi author I know of says carbon and nitrogen are the two matrix bases possible for life. But then again, we aren't talking xenobiology here.
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You are off my Christmas card list.
Carbon in diamonds is conductive but only weakly so. Other gemstones are iconic crystals (frequently Al2O3) which by nature would be nonconductive. BTW, carbon in graphite form is single planar conductive. It conducts along one axis but insulates in the perpendicular direction.
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Amazing how many brilliant solid state physics people are out there!! Technically silicon is a semi-metal; carbon is a non-metal. Check http://www.webelements.com/ for that info. They are in the same column but they behave very differently. They do not crystalize the same way. Ever hear of carbon rings? They are what organic chemistry is about. Carbon only forms diamonds under great pressure. Silicon forms nice regular crystals fairly easily. Also, since the bonds in carbon are so strong, doping goes a magnitude up in difficulty. Try reading about electronegativity and ionic transference for that. Doping diamond would work the same way, if you can get it to work at all.
Well there is scientific equipment that can hear(?) low frequency sounds. (See tree in forest of deaf people issue.) But of course they are expensive and difficult to maintain and if you put out fifty now you keep your five or six gard students busy all day everyday changing the data tapes. In short, its cheaper to buy a dog.
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There are a bunch of problems that using a diamond substrate for semiconductors would pose. I mean for one thing, not being a metal but instead a crystal, the resistance to currents is magnitudes greater than for silicon. I agree the thermal properties are grea, but can the other issues be resolved? Long way off folks.
Under normal circumstances I would agree. The CO just happened to have noticed that the reindeer detected approaching Soviet Bear and Backfire bombers (which do have a distinctive low frequency sound profile.) He also had noticed the animals were very much in tune with the weather fronts, which cause quite a bit of havoc in the Arctic. That he ordered airmen (and one particular Lt.) to also learn, identify and report these behaviors plus sit us down and organize our reporting (we correlated and came up with the Soviet sub detection on our own) was what I consider highly unusual. Maybe not General Hammond, but not General Bauer either.
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". ..this is an extreme exception to the rule, and is about as reliable as grandma's old bones . .."
I disagree. Dogs can hear much lower frequency sounds than humans and so would have a significant advantage at detecting imminent earthquakes. Farm animals (such as detected the China quake) can be readily shown to be aware of chanegs in a wide variety of situations: Earth's magnetic field fluctuations, gravitational disturbances, minute environmental chemical changes. I was at an air force base where the CO assigned men to watch the nearby reindeer herd. Their behaviour detected (and warned the base) of several natural and unnatural phenomenon. Among them being approaching weather fronts, seismic events and approaching Soviet aircraft and submarines. They were not as good as radar but more accurate at telling changes from routines.
I wouldn't get mad, I've taken anger management classes. I would pick up the flattened trumpet, look at Rolly and calmly wrap it around his good for nuttin noggin. Using a blowtorch to seal the joint would be purely optional.
Japanese (and other Altaic languages, like Korean, Mongol and Turkish) are either highly inflected or not at all. It really depends on how you write them. What I want to see is a statistical system handle a language like Basque, where the passive voice substitutes for the active.
Small children do function, albeit minimally, before they acquire language, however, when they are adults, they don't consciously remember this pre-language period.
This actually is a myth. That particular text and translation was taken as anecdotal in a 1964 report. I did a masters thesis on MT at the University of Chicago and my advisor (once a major figure in MT) refused to approve my thesis until I got that statement correct.
I am sympathetic to the core arguement about super data centers and that Beowulf clusters are allowing great strides in clustering computing power. I do think that pursuits along both super-data and super-computer paths are worthwhile. Both paths can feed off each other and both have problem types which they excel at.
Comets coming from the Oort cloud contain the least contaminated matter from the start of the solar system. Exploring and sampling material from them actually answer a wide variety of questions including matters about the origin of life. Finding amino acids in the sample would imply that life on Earth was not self-generating.
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The modern computer industry owes its existence to the space program. Nobody else needed a small computer. This alone has immeasureably improved the lives of a large portion of the population of the planet.
No, it doesn't. This reactor is safe and will never give off a glow. Read the article or read my journal entry describing why.
It can't be done.
The $S style is an inherently safe design, its non-weapons grade so stealing it will not aid in making a nuclear bomb and the convection is done by liquid sodium. The design was actually developed by a team at Argonne Labs outside of Chicago and killed by the Clinton administration in 1992 FY (as in as soon as they took office.) Naturally, the Japanese took it over and minituarized it.
" . . .I didn't refer to any specific individual or just the military, . . ."
.While Bush & CO are just slightly less insane (also a ruling minority)..
You specifically did refer to General Anderson, now of Northern Command. I illustrated with an example of when he was forced by the Clinton administration, to place a lesser value on civlian life, which upset him. The Bush administration
. .
Specifically ordered the opposite, that the US military should attempt to minimize civilian casualties at the cost of risking a few US military lives.
Bush remains more popular than Clinton ever was. Clinton never won a majority of US votes.
And most importantly,
In Norway, we still regard our "terrorists" during the war, who planted bombs on the occupying Germans, as heroes.
These same men and women are regarded as heros in the US but they were not terrorists. Terrorists strike at enemy civilian population targets. Attacking military targets or logistics (railways to destroy rail lines not kill civilians) is called resistance or guerrilla activity.
No Norwegian terrorists existed during WWII.
I happen to know Lieutenant General Edward Anderson (served together) and have spoken to him about a similiar issue. Shortly after the air bombardment of Serbia I happened to take the same commercial air flight as him. He didn't recall me (I'd been a much junior officer) but he was friendly and we discussed the Serbian air campaign. General Anderson was somewhat peeved at the political restrictions placed on the Air Force by the Clinton administration. Specifically, they insisted that zero chance of American casualties be tolerated. That meant bombings were conducted from over 20,000 ft and many more Serbian civilians and even Kosavar Albanians had been killed (and a few Chinese diplomats) because Clinton valued American life above all else. The General did mention he didn't mind putting his own life on the line to defend fellow Americans but then he extended that to include civilians of allied, non-allied and even opposing nations. He specifically mentioned a quote from Sun Tzu to me, "destroying an enemy's armies is not the greatest achievement, destroying his will to fight is far greater."
You sir, I believe owe the general an apology for grouping him with most terrorists. I believe his opinion of the sanctity of human life is fairly common in the US military. This places it in direct opposition to terrorists who typically, at least if the Twin Towers 19 are an example, hold other human life in little regard.
Any satelitte that could be hit by the ASAT would have to be in a very low orbit. Typically only spy satellites use this type of orbit. The weather satellites are safe.
Maybe that should be advantage number three!!
Decreasing Size of bikinis.
Lisle is my hometown, but I did my grad work in New Zealand.
New Zealand is perfectly awash in the flora of Jurassic age plant life. Ever hear of Gondwanaland? It was the southern continent that broke from Pangea. NZ is a remnant. NZ never got flowering plants (until man brought them in.) Also, the ginko was very common in the Jurassic age. My hometown has the Morton Arboretum, which cultivates ginkos.
I've seen the details on nuclear plant saftey with the new post-3 Mile Island saftey designs. Does it include a 747? Yes. Actually, four seperate possibilities were detailed: 1) a 747 (cargo haul version, taken over by terrorists and carrying non-nuclear explosives in a fair portion of the cargo hold) 2) a fully laden B-52 with non-nuclear weapons, 3) a flight of F-15C Strike Eagles and 4) the worst combination of the three, specifically 2 and 3.
Why non-nuclear? Because if you drop a nuclear bomb on a nuclear plant, the bomb effects dwarf the nuclear plant effects. The result is almost the same as dropping a nuclear bomb on a coal plant.
The results with the new design in the worst case? The reactor shuts down and is entombed in a concrete/ lithium half-sphere. The underground shielding remained intact. Radiation leakage? The lithium allows only short-term low-effect leakage.
My backyard is fine with me and apart from the amount of space required, densely populated areas are safe.
Actually, I've always thought that line (silicon based life-forms) referenced computers. Almost any two-bit sci-fi author I know of says carbon and nitrogen are the two matrix bases possible for life. But then again, we aren't talking xenobiology here.
You are off my Christmas card list.
Carbon in diamonds is conductive but only weakly so. Other gemstones are iconic crystals (frequently Al2O3) which by nature would be nonconductive. BTW, carbon in graphite form is single planar conductive. It conducts along one axis but insulates in the perpendicular direction.
Amazing how many brilliant solid state physics people are out there!! Technically silicon is a semi-metal; carbon is a non-metal. Check http://www.webelements.com/ for that info. They are in the same column but they behave very differently. They do not crystalize the same way. Ever hear of carbon rings? They are what organic chemistry is about. Carbon only forms diamonds under great pressure. Silicon forms nice regular crystals fairly easily. Also, since the bonds in carbon are so strong, doping goes a magnitude up in difficulty. Try reading about electronegativity and ionic transference for that. Doping diamond would work the same way, if you can get it to work at all.
Well there is scientific equipment that can hear(?) low frequency sounds. (See tree in forest of deaf people issue.) But of course they are expensive and difficult to maintain and if you put out fifty now you keep your five or six gard students busy all day everyday changing the data tapes. In short, its cheaper to buy a dog.
There are a bunch of problems that using a diamond substrate for semiconductors would pose. I mean for one thing, not being a metal but instead a crystal, the resistance to currents is magnitudes greater than for silicon. I agree the thermal properties are grea, but can the other issues be resolved? Long way off folks.
Under normal circumstances I would agree. The CO just happened to have noticed that the reindeer detected approaching Soviet Bear and Backfire bombers (which do have a distinctive low frequency sound profile.) He also had noticed the animals were very much in tune with the weather fronts, which cause quite a bit of havoc in the Arctic. That he ordered airmen (and one particular Lt.) to also learn, identify and report these behaviors plus sit us down and organize our reporting (we correlated and came up with the Soviet sub detection on our own) was what I consider highly unusual. Maybe not General Hammond, but not General Bauer either.
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I disagree. Dogs can hear much lower frequency sounds than humans and so would have a significant advantage at detecting imminent earthquakes. Farm animals (such as detected the China quake) can be readily shown to be aware of chanegs in a wide variety of situations: Earth's magnetic field fluctuations, gravitational disturbances, minute environmental chemical changes. I was at an air force base where the CO assigned men to watch the nearby reindeer herd. Their behaviour detected (and warned the base) of several natural and unnatural phenomenon. Among them being approaching weather fronts, seismic events and approaching Soviet aircraft and submarines. They were not as good as radar but more accurate at telling changes from routines.
I wouldn't get mad, I've taken anger management classes. I would pick up the flattened trumpet, look at Rolly and calmly wrap it around his good for nuttin noggin.
Using a blowtorch to seal the joint would be purely optional.
See, I've managed my anger just fine.
Japanese (and other Altaic languages, like Korean, Mongol and Turkish) are either highly inflected or not at all. It really depends on how you write them. What I want to see is a statistical system handle a language like Basque, where the passive voice substitutes for the active.
Small children do function, albeit minimally, before they acquire language, however, when they are adults, they don't consciously remember this pre-language period.
This actually is a myth. That particular text and translation was taken as anecdotal in a 1964 report. I did a masters thesis on MT at the University of Chicago and my advisor (once a major figure in MT) refused to approve my thesis until I got that statement correct.
I am sympathetic to the core arguement about super data centers and that Beowulf clusters are allowing great strides in clustering computing power. I do think that pursuits along both super-data and super-computer paths are worthwhile. Both paths can feed off each other and both have problem types which they excel at.
Comets coming from the Oort cloud contain the least contaminated matter from the start of the solar system. Exploring and sampling material from them actually answer a wide variety of questions including matters about the origin of life. Finding amino acids in the sample would imply that life on Earth was not self-generating.
supply-side economics. Decrease taxes and allow more money to freely circulate. Each time it circulates it gets taxed again.