Find yourself a local pizzeria and get some real pizza.
Not always an upgrade. I remember what "local pizzeria" pizza was like before Domino's was invented. Wood-fired? not. Semolina? not. Non-greasy muzz? not. Domino's got popular fast because it was quite a bit better than the local stuff in most places.
It wasn't until the late 90s/early 00s that local shops started opening offering product with serious consideration for quality. Domino's had already had to fight a price war with Pizza Hut, which forced a reduction the cost and quality of their ingredients on both sides. That allowed Papa John's to enter the market with a mediocre (sugary sauce and bland toppings) product.
Domino's claims to have given its food a facelift. I haven't tried it yet. But that's because I know of some not-so-local places, one of which is VPN certified, to get perfect pizza, and I drive past several "locals" and Dominos and PJ's and PH's to get to them.
What's really bizarre is that it's still operating.
Usually when a satellite fails to communicate properly with its ground control system, after a set period of time it assumes something is wrong and goes into Safe Mode. In Safe Mode it would shut off everything except a basic command and control system and the comms needed to get commands from the ground. It hasn't done that.
Conventional explosives allow you to carve out pieces you can haul away.
Nukes would leave giant boulders that would have to be dealt with using conventional explosives anyway. At least, those that the nuke didn't just fling onto the nearest city.
And there's the question of seismically destabilizing the surrounding area.
Not to mention the problems of nuclear fallout and contamination of the canal area. What good is digging a canal if you can't let anyone go through it for 10,000 years?
According to Hawking there was no big bang and the universe continually cycles through itself, like a circular wave travelling from one pole on the Earth to the other, superposing on itself to a peak there, then continuing on through itself to travel to the other pole, peaking again, then continuing on and on and on.
Of course what I've done there is used the 2-D surface on the 3-D globe to stand in for the slightly more complicated situation of a 4-D spacetime with, as Hawking suggested, additional imaginary components.
Well problem 1 with that is the fact that the Earth is only 4.5 billion years old, and thus looking at a galaxy that is 9.6 billion years ago we can't see anything that would have formed in the last 4.5 bilion years.
That's not right. It's not even wrong. - W. Pauli
We can't see anything that's happened in that galactic cluster in the last 9.6 billion years. Because the light from it that we're seeing now was emitted 9.6 billion years ago.
The age of the Earth, or the continents, or America, or New Jersey, or you, doesn't enter into it.
However, consider what the galactic cluster would have seen if it looked at us at the time that light was emitted. It would see pillars of dust, and the ignition of proto-stars. 5.1 billion years later the Earth would "form", and 9.6 billion years after that the formation of the Earth would reach the galactic cluster. That will be 5.1 billion years from now.
We know it's there, but it can't know Earth is here.
It implies they're made of the stuff that moved faster than the light did, and what's in our universe is the stuff that didn't.
Which implies that our universe is made of stuff that can be moved by entrainment with the passage of the stuff that moved faster than light.
More fundamentally, it implies that what we think of as "universe" is "that which is made of the stuff that moves at or slower than the speed of light".
Which at this point includes the dark matter, which is dark because it's made of stuff that doesn't interact with light at all, i.e., it's not made of subatomic particles that react to the electromagnetic force.
In other words, any "galaxy" outside our "universe" isn't just so far away we can't see it, it's likely made of stuff that doesn't radiate anything we can see (at any spectrum, from low-frequency radio to gamma rays and above; as these are all electromagnetic and thus photonic in basis).
One business has negotiated to pay a fee for a portion of my time, from which it makes a small profit and I make a large one.
The rest of businesses are my bitches. Even the cable company, which for now provides only my 30-mbps internet connection but soon won't even do that, since fiber is coming to my 'hood.
And my vote is used wisely, not thrown away as no doubt yours is. I interact with the political animals in my purview, and ensure they nod their heads when they are listening to what I say. I don't sit back, throw up my hands, and consider myself unimportant.
>If that were true, we could prove evolution wrong.
>That which does not kill us makes us stronger, not weaker.
You're mistaking adaptation for evolution. (Ironically, We had to evolve the ability to adapt in the way Nietzsche described.)
The only relationship between killing and evolution is: that which does not kill me lets me live long enough to produce an(other) offspring with new mutations of some sort.
In most cases, as you can observe by the extremely small number of species that aren't even as strong as you are, it's a change for the weaker that allows a species to remain in a delicate niche.
There are those who not only like the idea of turning every waking second (and sleeping, if they can manage it) of your life into an opportunity for you to absorb advertising and propaganda, but have contracted with others to be paid very large amounts of money to ensure such a world becomes inevitable.
Slashdot Mirror
No. This is a job for Quark.
No. What we need is this dude: http://quark.name/
Maybe we could put a 100-ton concrete dome over it...
Find yourself a local pizzeria and get some real pizza.
Not always an upgrade. I remember what "local pizzeria" pizza was like before Domino's was invented. Wood-fired? not. Semolina? not. Non-greasy muzz? not. Domino's got popular fast because it was quite a bit better than the local stuff in most places.
It wasn't until the late 90s/early 00s that local shops started opening offering product with serious consideration for quality. Domino's had already had to fight a price war with Pizza Hut, which forced a reduction the cost and quality of their ingredients on both sides. That allowed Papa John's to enter the market with a mediocre (sugary sauce and bland toppings) product.
Domino's claims to have given its food a facelift. I haven't tried it yet. But that's because I know of some not-so-local places, one of which is VPN certified, to get perfect pizza, and I drive past several "locals" and Dominos and PJ's and PH's to get to them.
Or we could spend our time training to attack....where were you from again?
What's really bizarre is that it's still operating.
Usually when a satellite fails to communicate properly with its ground control system, after a set period of time it assumes something is wrong and goes into Safe Mode. In Safe Mode it would shut off everything except a basic command and control system and the comms needed to get commands from the ground. It hasn't done that.
The big question is, why not?
close call. you shoulda adjusted your orbit a bit more.
The only paranormal phenomenon here is the granting of funds for this research.
Doesn't work anyway.
Conventional explosives allow you to carve out pieces you can haul away.
Nukes would leave giant boulders that would have to be dealt with using conventional explosives anyway. At least, those that the nuke didn't just fling onto the nearest city.
And there's the question of seismically destabilizing the surrounding area.
Not to mention the problems of nuclear fallout and contamination of the canal area. What good is digging a canal if you can't let anyone go through it for 10,000 years?
...3....2...1...(*MAA-SHROOOOOOOM!*)
Yay! We stopped the leak!
So, uh, now what do we do with the radioactive oil slick that is raining down all over the gulf coast?
...nobody leaks about oil well!
"And it only didn't work once."
I have a method that's much more effective.
Stuff the hole with former Soviet government officials.
You know, the ones who think an 80% success rate at stanching calamities is par.
You already do.
You're just not taking advantage of it by appending something to the kernel and offering it to someone else.
I've got custom software, proprietary software, free software, pirated software, and open software, but I never knew I had bankrupt software...
Right where it says they all fit on the same screen and have roughly equal red shifts.
Which means they're close together laterally and about the same distance from us.
Tomorrow: How to Tell your Asshole from your Elbow for Amateur Astrophysicists.
Depends on who's making it, dunnit?
According to Hawking there was no big bang and the universe continually cycles through itself, like a circular wave travelling from one pole on the Earth to the other, superposing on itself to a peak there, then continuing on through itself to travel to the other pole, peaking again, then continuing on and on and on.
Of course what I've done there is used the 2-D surface on the 3-D globe to stand in for the slightly more complicated situation of a 4-D spacetime with, as Hawking suggested, additional imaginary components.
Well problem 1 with that is the fact that the Earth is only 4.5 billion years old, and thus looking at a galaxy that is 9.6 billion years ago we can't see anything that would have formed in the last 4.5 bilion years.
That's not right. It's not even wrong. - W. Pauli
We can't see anything that's happened in that galactic cluster in the last 9.6 billion years. Because the light from it that we're seeing now was emitted 9.6 billion years ago.
The age of the Earth, or the continents, or America, or New Jersey, or you, doesn't enter into it.
However, consider what the galactic cluster would have seen if it looked at us at the time that light was emitted. It would see pillars of dust, and the ignition of proto-stars. 5.1 billion years later the Earth would "form", and 9.6 billion years after that the formation of the Earth would reach the galactic cluster. That will be 5.1 billion years from now.
We know it's there, but it can't know Earth is here.
Actually, it has one meaning, but it's arcane, so almost everyone mistakes the other meaning as being its meaning.
and the kettle calls the pot!
It implies they're made of the stuff that moved faster than the light did, and what's in our universe is the stuff that didn't.
Which implies that our universe is made of stuff that can be moved by entrainment with the passage of the stuff that moved faster than light.
More fundamentally, it implies that what we think of as "universe" is "that which is made of the stuff that moves at or slower than the speed of light".
Which at this point includes the dark matter, which is dark because it's made of stuff that doesn't interact with light at all, i.e., it's not made of subatomic particles that react to the electromagnetic force.
In other words, any "galaxy" outside our "universe" isn't just so far away we can't see it, it's likely made of stuff that doesn't radiate anything we can see (at any spectrum, from low-frequency radio to gamma rays and above; as these are all electromagnetic and thus photonic in basis).
Business doesn't own me.
One business has negotiated to pay a fee for a portion of my time, from which it makes a small profit and I make a large one.
The rest of businesses are my bitches. Even the cable company, which for now provides only my 30-mbps internet connection but soon won't even do that, since fiber is coming to my 'hood.
And my vote is used wisely, not thrown away as no doubt yours is. I interact with the political animals in my purview, and ensure they nod their heads when they are listening to what I say. I don't sit back, throw up my hands, and consider myself unimportant.
Then they would own me.
until Windows started coming with a Posix library, you had your wish
>If that were true, we could prove evolution wrong.
>That which does not kill us makes us stronger, not weaker.
You're mistaking adaptation for evolution. (Ironically, We had to evolve the ability to adapt in the way Nietzsche described.)
The only relationship between killing and evolution is: that which does not kill me lets me live long enough to produce an(other) offspring with new mutations of some sort.
In most cases, as you can observe by the extremely small number of species that aren't even as strong as you are, it's a change for the weaker that allows a species to remain in a delicate niche.
There are those who not only like the idea of turning every waking second (and sleeping, if they can manage it) of your life into an opportunity for you to absorb advertising and propaganda, but have contracted with others to be paid very large amounts of money to ensure such a world becomes inevitable.