You go into your doctors office and he says you need to have a procedure immediatly to remove some part of your body. You might consult one more doctor but at no point do you actually truely question the actions he is about to take even if it means removing a piece of your body.
On the other hand you go to get your computer fixed. The IT person tells you that your computer is slow and cant do anything because you have 39 viruses and some untold amounts of spyware on your computer. He suggests that you should backup all your documents and let him wipe the system clean. You disagree with him and tell him to install more ram to fix your computer because of an article you read in the paper. He installs it begrugingly and you return a week later having the same problems and stating that the ram is bad and he needs to replace it. rinse and repeat.
The reason IT people are nasty at times is because everyone believes they are an expert when it comes to computers. It is somewhat insulting that everyday someone will tell you to do something that you explicitly told them was a bad idea.
We have about 50,000-60,000 tons of nuclear waste in america right now. Sounds like an extreamly LARGE number that should produce large associated problems with it. The problem is how the hell do I picture 50,000 tons of nuclear waste. Then I remebered the Japaneses Super-Kamiokande http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html a tank that holds 50,000 tons of ultra pure water. Sadly it is not anywhere near as large as what I thought 50,000 tons would look like. But this is just water. Nuclear waste is a minimum of 10x more dense then water. So it would take just 1/10th of this modestly sized tank to hold all the nuclear waste of america? So what about 100 tons? How large is that? http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Brittany/kerloa s.htm 100 ton rock. lets assume that nuclear waste is 2x more dense then the rock so slice it in 2 and that is the size of our waste after 1 year. it would saddly fit in my appartment room. The problem is not that we have alot of nuclear waste seeing as how it fits into a releativly small space. It is the fact that it wont go away while our goverment is still running and will harm humans/nature 10,000 years down the road.
AHH! Boas' "Mathematical Methods In The Physical Sciences."
Its a good book. However one of my fav tidbit gleamed from its pages is why Square roots have 2 numbers associated with it and that in actuality the Nth Root of a number has N seprate answers. N-2 imaginary if even and N-1 if odd. Pretty fun stuff.
For a Nth root of a number take 360 degrees of a circle and divide it by N to get a how many degrees between each of the answers for your problem in the complex plane. The hypotinous being the original number and given the fact that you have theta you can find the real and imaginary part of each answer. If you noticed for even Ns the degrees allways land on 180 and 360 refeering to the negative and positive root. So remeber when you take the 8th root of something be sure to check all 8 answers =D
Forgot which chemistry book but if you dont care about have an extreamly pure source of deuterium 99.9% and up you just need to do electrolysis of something around 30 L for 1 ml of deuterium for a 95% pure deuterium water. I really wish I could give you the source with the exsact number but I have 8 more hours of homework ahead of me.
Personally I think your argument is pretty horrific:
1. Most religious people arent Christian as implied by your statement.
2. Your argument hinges on the fact that it is stupid that Christians believe in Jesus and that he died.
3. Given the fact that that "you have accsess to so much knowledge for free" You should have looked up maybe the top 25 scientists that came to mind and see if they were religious or not. I mean they have such wonderful quotes to support your arguments such as: "God does not play dice with the universe." -Albert Einstien or "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." -Heisenberg. Seriously you could name a scientist and I could find 40 direct quotes from then indicating a beliefe in god.
As a side note you will be hard pressed to find a scientist who doesnt believe in some sort of god but more likely then not it will just be a notion that they is some being that created some inherent structure to the universe.
Everything has to be hand coded to make sure it is rock solid not that you think it is. 99.99999% non-failure rate is probably below standard for nasa given the fact that there are lives on the line.
Stress, it is a huge reason why a professor doesnt. I rember a joke a doctor told me about lawyers when I went in for stress related heartburn:
"Anti-acid and prozac medication? It is the lawyer prescription."
Sadly he said that if my heartburn gets any worse he would suggest this presciption for me. This is probably the number one reason why a proffesor doesnt make tons of $$ in the real world since academics is no where near as stressfull and bodily distroying as running your own buissness
Ehh the article was bad at explaining the problem. What they are actually worried about is the fact that there was many yummy fish/crab in the area than they suddenly died off. They dont know why since the normal oh we dumped alot of nutrian rich X chemical in the sea cant explain it nor can a sudden surge of nutriants due to natural events. Also they discounted short term cyclical patterns since this is the first time it has happened since the area has been studied 30+ years.
As for the lack of oxygen, that isnt so mysterious in the sence that you now have alot of dead marine life on the floor that needs to be broken down by bacteria, that uses oxygen.
The problem is that the bomb will have a huge potential kill/damage zone. 100 mile radius in the right wind conditions. It would be safe to say that they would try to put it far into Israel instead of having it drop on the border of Israel and wind carry radioactive particles into their territory. Also I would assume that if there is a nuclear threat in the neighborhood Israel will take the stance of shoot first, multiple times and than investigate later approch to anything in its airspace.
United Airlines is a good system only if you arent in the airport or on a plane trying to figure out which gate to go to catch your plane. In those conditions all I can say is that I have to say the words repeat it about 40 times which makes me look hard of hearing.
I have heard of worse situations. It was either NIST or some other goverment lab I toured where if you wanted to buy equipment for your expirement it could only be done during a 3 month period between Sep-Dec. Which as you can tell just by thinking about it leads to multiple hidious problems such as no on the fly thinking, long waits when the part doesnt fit ect.
If you are unfortunate enough to break or need a diffrent part when it isnt in those 3 months you have to go infront of a 7 board commitie that meets once a month and try to submit a request.
...how can anyone really get a feel for the importance of this discovery if they don't post some of the translated texts? Oh, I forgot- We're supposed to accept the fact that it's important because they say so- We don't have to bother reading any of the actual text and evaluate its value for ourselves...
Because 99.99% fo the time the importance of said discovery isnt known. Even if it is, it is hard to convey the importance of said discovery is to people.
Lets hypotheticly take the discovery of a magnetic monopole. This would be increadeble finding a magent that only has 1 side. What would I say to someone on the street as to how increadable this is?
me: I found a magnet that only has one side! him: magnets always have a N and S side.... me: but I found it. this is amazing! him: what can it do? me:... umm it is cool? him: so it doesnt do anything for me? so how is it amazing? me:...
What makes people feel great and what they usually understand is the finished product. The computer, the cell phone, ect ect. They really dont see the importance of each piece of technology that goes into it. Only combined can 'they feel the importance' of scientific improvement.
but we have seen that there is some consumer resistance to combining gadgets
I am one of those consumer's resistance to combining gadgets. It was mostly from me going wow phone, camera, pda and the sink all combined in one device... $400 later I had a phone that only worked when the planets aligned, a 4 pixle camera, a good paper weight and a sink without running water. I hate combined gadgets since in america when you combine you get something that is worth less than the sum of the parts and cost 3 times as much. If a $50 dollar phone and a $25 dollar camera works better then a $400 combined device we have a problem.
However I am HYPED about the ipod phone. Why? Because Jobs wont skimp. He has a track record of releaseing products that have designs that are thought out and uses components that are above the current market expectation. So if he releases a phone with camera ect it would be able to stand as a phone alone or a camera alone or a pda whatever alone and still be somewhat justified in the price. at least comparitivly to that of its competitors
NO, they really aren't (yet) worse than the standard passport flaws
They are worse than standard passport, since the biggest flaw they have is the belief that if it is electronic it is infallible. We both know that someone will use the belief that passports are a perfect secure system as a way to generate alibi.
Do you really look like the person in your passport photo?
Get your passport photo taken when you have some facial hair, pass it to your friend who has the same build as you minus the beard and see if he can pass as you.
Sir where were you on October 18th. Oh then? I was on an airplane, you can just check the passport log of passengers.
*cough*I can't think of something specific atm, but I'm sure you can find an example or two in Cupertino somewhere.
Anyways add a camera to the phone requires another interface in software or hardware = more complex Adding ANYTHING to a phone requires another interface = more complex
And with faster and faster internet lines why does this matter? File size no longer matters. How it compresses no longer matters. Can everyone see it matters. Does it look decent enough matters.
It's fairly sensible to accept more sloppy language in something disputing an extraordinary claim than in something making the claim in the first place.
I agree however it is usually after showing alot of proof contrary to someones thesis not leaping into sloppy scarcastic language first thing. I chuckled how the debunker's first sorce is the 9/11 commision report.
"US oil production peaked at 11 million barrels per day in 1970. In 1998, the nation produced 8 million barrels of oil per day, while it consumed 19 million barrels per day and Imported 10 million barrels per day."
ehh he probably took a figure like this and said it is all converted into gas.
19 mill barrelsx42 gallons per barrel = 798 million
although only have of a barrel of oil is actually converted to gas.
How so? Seriosly it is an INTERFACE. So now instead of pressing A to jump I am going to flip the controller? Instead of pressing A for left or B for Right I am just going to titlt it to the side? All the input gets translated to a function in the game.
The only thing this will probably improve is being sore after a long game of Mario Party. The controller will not spawn any new types of games but make certain games seem alot more fluid.
Global Warming = Global Energy Increase. ie The energy the world has to work with is increased. You need energy to freeze your food, and energy to use your fan and so does the earth. So while people think Global Warming means hotter summers and warmer winters it is more likely it means hotter summers and colder winters. Also the energy goes into more intense wind. The number of hurricanes doesnt matter, but their total distructive power is.
Lets say we have the orbital relay 1000km from earth (I prefer to use 10x max estimates if you havent allready noticed with my 900 miles per hour gust of wind above)
1,000,000m * 2/(3x10^8 m/s) = 0.006s roundtrip
lets say that 900 mile per hour gust of wind hits the object
0.006s * 400m/s = 2.6m
so if the plane started off going at 900 miles per hour then instantaniously stoped just as we fired we would still hit it but off from the center by 9 feet assuming our satilite is way the fuck out their in space.
Also it doent really matter the speed of either the plane or the satilite just the change of their predicted speed by the targeting software, which if you take a quick ratio of any possible speed change vs the speed of light you can see that it is so incignificant it will only show up with extreamly huge distances in the equation.
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You go into your doctors office and he says you need to have a procedure immediatly to remove some part of your body. You might consult one more doctor but at no point do you actually truely question the actions he is about to take even if it means removing a piece of your body.
On the other hand you go to get your computer fixed. The IT person tells you that your computer is slow and cant do anything because you have 39 viruses and some untold amounts of spyware on your computer. He suggests that you should backup all your documents and let him wipe the system clean. You disagree with him and tell him to install more ram to fix your computer because of an article you read in the paper. He installs it begrugingly and you return a week later having the same problems and stating that the ram is bad and he needs to replace it. rinse and repeat.
The reason IT people are nasty at times is because everyone believes they are an expert when it comes to computers. It is somewhat insulting that everyday someone will tell you to do something that you explicitly told them was a bad idea.
We have about 50,000-60,000 tons of nuclear waste in america right now. Sounds like an extreamly LARGE number that should produce large associated problems with it. The problem is how the hell do I picture 50,000 tons of nuclear waste. Then I remebered the Japaneses Super-Kamiokande http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html a tank that holds 50,000 tons of ultra pure water. Sadly it is not anywhere near as large as what I thought 50,000 tons would look like. But this is just water. Nuclear waste is a minimum of 10x more dense then water. So it would take just 1/10th of this modestly sized tank to hold all the nuclear waste of america? So what about 100 tons? How large is that? http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Brittany/kerloa s.htm 100 ton rock. lets assume that nuclear waste is 2x more dense then the rock so slice it in 2 and that is the size of our waste after 1 year. it would saddly fit in my appartment room. The problem is not that we have alot of nuclear waste seeing as how it fits into a releativly small space. It is the fact that it wont go away while our goverment is still running and will harm humans/nature 10,000 years down the road.
AHH! Boas' "Mathematical Methods In The Physical Sciences."
Its a good book. However one of my fav tidbit gleamed from its pages is why Square roots have 2 numbers associated with it and that in actuality the Nth Root of a number has N seprate answers. N-2 imaginary if even and N-1 if odd. Pretty fun stuff.
For a Nth root of a number take 360 degrees of a circle and divide it by N to get a how many degrees between each of the answers for your problem in the complex plane. The hypotinous being the original number and given the fact that you have theta you can find the real and imaginary part of each answer. If you noticed for even Ns the degrees allways land on 180 and 360 refeering to the negative and positive root. So remeber when you take the 8th root of something be sure to check all 8 answers =D
Forgot which chemistry book but if you dont care about have an extreamly pure source of deuterium 99.9% and up you just need to do electrolysis of something around 30 L for 1 ml of deuterium for a 95% pure deuterium water. I really wish I could give you the source with the exsact number but I have 8 more hours of homework ahead of me.
Personally I think your argument is pretty horrific:
1. Most religious people arent Christian as implied by your statement.
2. Your argument hinges on the fact that it is stupid that Christians believe in Jesus and that he died.
3. Given the fact that that "you have accsess to so much knowledge for free" You should have looked up maybe the top 25 scientists that came to mind and see if they were religious or not. I mean they have such wonderful quotes to support your arguments such as:
"God does not play dice with the universe." -Albert Einstien or
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." -Heisenberg.
Seriously you could name a scientist and I could find 40 direct quotes from then indicating a beliefe in god.
As a side note you will be hard pressed to find a scientist who doesnt believe in some sort of god but more likely then not it will just be a notion that they is some being that created some inherent structure to the universe.
Everything has to be hand coded to make sure it is rock solid not that you think it is. 99.99999% non-failure rate is probably below standard for nasa given the fact that there are lives on the line.
Stress, it is a huge reason why a professor doesnt. I rember a joke a doctor told me about lawyers when I went in for stress related heartburn:
"Anti-acid and prozac medication? It is the lawyer prescription."
Sadly he said that if my heartburn gets any worse he would suggest this presciption for me. This is probably the number one reason why a proffesor doesnt make tons of $$ in the real world since academics is no where near as stressfull and bodily distroying as running your own buissness
Ehh the article was bad at explaining the problem. What they are actually worried about is the fact that there was many yummy fish/crab in the area than they suddenly died off. They dont know why since the normal oh we dumped alot of nutrian rich X chemical in the sea cant explain it nor can a sudden surge of nutriants due to natural events. Also they discounted short term cyclical patterns since this is the first time it has happened since the area has been studied 30+ years.
As for the lack of oxygen, that isnt so mysterious in the sence that you now have alot of dead marine life on the floor that needs to be broken down by bacteria, that uses oxygen.
The problem is that the bomb will have a huge potential kill/damage zone. 100 mile radius in the right wind conditions. It would be safe to say that they would try to put it far into Israel instead of having it drop on the border of Israel and wind carry radioactive particles into their territory. Also I would assume that if there is a nuclear threat in the neighborhood Israel will take the stance of shoot first, multiple times and than investigate later approch to anything in its airspace.
United Airlines is a good system only if you arent in the airport or on a plane trying to figure out which gate to go to catch your plane. In those conditions all I can say is that I have to say the words repeat it about 40 times which makes me look hard of hearing.
I have heard of worse situations. It was either NIST or some other goverment lab I toured where if you wanted to buy equipment for your expirement it could only be done during a 3 month period between Sep-Dec. Which as you can tell just by thinking about it leads to multiple hidious problems such as no on the fly thinking, long waits when the part doesnt fit ect.
If you are unfortunate enough to break or need a diffrent part when it isnt in those 3 months you have to go infront of a 7 board commitie that meets once a month and try to submit a request.
...how can anyone really get a feel for the importance of this discovery if they don't post some of the translated texts? Oh, I forgot- We're supposed to accept the fact that it's important because they say so- We don't have to bother reading any of the actual text and evaluate its value for ourselves...
... umm it is cool? ...
Because 99.99% fo the time the importance of said discovery isnt known. Even if it is, it is hard to convey the importance of said discovery is to people.
Lets hypotheticly take the discovery of a magnetic monopole. This would be increadeble finding a magent that only has 1 side. What would I say to someone on the street as to how increadable this is?
me: I found a magnet that only has one side!
him: magnets always have a N and S side....
me: but I found it. this is amazing!
him: what can it do?
me:
him: so it doesnt do anything for me? so how is it amazing?
me:
What makes people feel great and what they usually understand is the finished product. The computer, the cell phone, ect ect. They really dont see the importance of each piece of technology that goes into it. Only combined can 'they feel the importance' of scientific improvement.
but we have seen that there is some consumer resistance to combining gadgets
I am one of those consumer's resistance to combining gadgets. It was mostly from me going wow phone, camera, pda and the sink all combined in one device... $400 later I had a phone that only worked when the planets aligned, a 4 pixle camera, a good paper weight and a sink without running water. I hate combined gadgets since in america when you combine you get something that is worth less than the sum of the parts and cost 3 times as much. If a $50 dollar phone and a $25 dollar camera works better then a $400 combined device we have a problem.
However I am HYPED about the ipod phone. Why? Because Jobs wont skimp. He has a track record of releaseing products that have designs that are thought out and uses components that are above the current market expectation. So if he releases a phone with camera ect it would be able to stand as a phone alone or a camera alone or a pda whatever alone and still be somewhat justified in the price. at least comparitivly to that of its competitors
NO, they really aren't (yet) worse than the standard passport flaws
They are worse than standard passport, since the biggest flaw they have is the belief that if it is electronic it is infallible. We both know that someone will use the belief that passports are a perfect secure system as a way to generate alibi.
Do you really look like the person in your passport photo?
Get your passport photo taken when you have some facial hair, pass it to your friend who has the same build as you minus the beard and see if he can pass as you.
Sir where were you on October 18th. Oh then? I was on an airplane, you can just check the passport log of passengers.
*cough*I can't think of something specific atm, but I'm sure you can find an example or two in Cupertino somewhere.
Anyways add a camera to the phone requires another interface in software or hardware = more complex
Adding ANYTHING to a phone requires another interface = more complex
When is the last time you painted in MS Paint?
And with faster and faster internet lines why does this matter? File size no longer matters. How it compresses no longer matters. Can everyone see it matters. Does it look decent enough matters.
Isnt that the most relevant source if it is a conspiracy?
It's fairly sensible to accept more sloppy language in something disputing an extraordinary claim than in something making the claim in the first place.
I agree however it is usually after showing alot of proof contrary to someones thesis not leaping into sloppy scarcastic language first thing. I chuckled how the debunker's first sorce is the 9/11 commision report.
It is called your life is saved and you have a burn above your right wrist
"US oil production peaked at 11 million barrels per day in 1970. In 1998, the nation produced 8 million barrels of oil per day, while it consumed 19 million barrels per day and Imported 10 million barrels per day."
ehh he probably took a figure like this and said it is all converted into gas.
19 mill barrelsx42 gallons per barrel = 798 million
although only have of a barrel of oil is actually converted to gas.
I thought that at first and then I remebered something... When is the last time you saw an AMD add on TV?
I remeber the add with the fab workers in diffrent color suits and how they were selling dolls of them at comp USA.
I remeber the multiple adds with the Blueman group.
I remeber hundreds of adds for laptops which had the phrase "with a genuine intel inside..."
however... I never seen a AMD add on TV. I never seen a oh look we made this computer with an AMD add.
So having 20% of the market with no addvertizing of your product is pretty good imho.
It obviously has new capabilities
How so? Seriosly it is an INTERFACE. So now instead of pressing A to jump I am going to flip the controller? Instead of pressing A for left or B for Right I am just going to titlt it to the side? All the input gets translated to a function in the game.
The only thing this will probably improve is being sore after a long game of Mario Party. The controller will not spawn any new types of games but make certain games seem alot more fluid.
Global Warming = Global Energy Increase. ie The energy the world has to work with is increased. You need energy to freeze your food, and energy to use your fan and so does the earth. So while people think Global Warming means hotter summers and warmer winters it is more likely it means hotter summers and colder winters. Also the energy goes into more intense wind. The number of hurricanes doesnt matter, but their total distructive power is.
Lets say we have the orbital relay 1000km from earth (I prefer to use 10x max estimates if you havent allready noticed with my 900 miles per hour gust of wind above)
1,000,000m * 2/(3x10^8 m/s) = 0.006s roundtrip
lets say that 900 mile per hour gust of wind hits the object
0.006s * 400m/s = 2.6m
so if the plane started off going at 900 miles per hour then instantaniously stoped just as we fired we would still hit it but off from the center by 9 feet assuming our satilite is way the fuck out their in space.
Also it doent really matter the speed of either the plane or the satilite just the change of their predicted speed by the targeting software, which if you take a quick ratio of any possible speed change vs the speed of light you can see that it is so incignificant it will only show up with extreamly huge distances in the equation.