If you read TFA, they're going to be looking at everything. Stars, planets, intersolar freways, clear-cutting of the Rigel 7 rainforests. Every damn thing.
Yes, I expect to see pictures of exoplanets that look like backyard telescope pictures of Jupiter and Mars.
The only reason the current stimuli aren't having much effect is that they're buffered by the massive pile of money we're incinerating in the military.
As for the 70s and 80s, Carter inherited that recession in spades (remember Ford's "WIN" buttons?) and all Reagan did was throw money at it (see deficit/gdp graphs). Unfortunately, many of the things he steered that money at have become exactly the things that are wasting it now.
1. Stop being xenophobic gits and get back to the melting-pot culture that made this the best fucking country on Earth in the first place. 2. ??? 3. Tech!
They sort of do, in the form of turbofans in their ducted engines.
However, these do not cause cooling. They cause enormous heating. But they cause turbulence in the air behind the plane. This turbulence may constitute enough of a difference in density and pressure to cause water vapor in the air to condense into mist, which is called a contrail.
Airplanes also have wings and control surfaces. Air flowing over these creates vortices. These vortices can constitute enough of a difference in density and pressure to cause water vapor in the air to condense into mist, which is also called a contrail.
And just wait until Mr. Wizard and his government grant get ahold of the idea of the speed of sound...
Contrails are real. Jet exhaust contains chemicals. Those chemicals are pollutants. They can cause respiratory problems and maybe birth defects. But they can't cause mind control, other than the ability to twist some people into a knot when their brain power meets their ignorance in a paranoid delusion and motivates them to make fools of themselves and enemies of everyone sane.
However, this thing requires that you know from outside the body exactly where the tumor is, so that you can target the injection.
In order to do that you need (near) real-time imaging, and that means CT scan (you're not doing an invasive procedure with magnetic fluid anywhere near a running MRI).
CT scans are made of multiple X-rays, meaning a much higher total dose of radiation than your average X-ray.
And X-rays cause cancer. So you're trading one certain tumor for the risk of more tumors. Still a win, if this treatment is itself highly effective.
Gates didn't impress me as a visionary, just a guy who knew a half-decent idea when it was presented to him and how to hook it into the momentum and fear of change that the company built by being the first real mass-market player.
Ballmer is an ape, physically and mentally; he worked as Gates' evil alter-ego, but seems better suited as consigliere than capo.
They need someone like Jobs, who can tell that you're just going to orgasm over the next product he picks from the development bin, and they need whoever's standing behind Jobs doing Apple's production since the Sculley days, because it's actually better than Microsoft's. Really, the only reason Apple OSen haven't completely shoved Windows out of the way is the fear of change thing, both at the consumer and enterprise level. If Apple overcomes that, Microsoft is through.
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How about a supercomputer made of a million Beowulf clusters?
She just caught Simon Cowell looking at her, and he wasn't smiling.
Everyone could.
Sure. Now send me a computer with a parallel port...
If you read TFA, they're going to be looking at everything. Stars, planets, intersolar freways, clear-cutting of the Rigel 7 rainforests. Every damn thing.
Yes, I expect to see pictures of exoplanets that look like backyard telescope pictures of Jupiter and Mars.
You're confusing profligacy and investment.
The only reason the current stimuli aren't having much effect is that they're buffered by the massive pile of money we're incinerating in the military.
As for the 70s and 80s, Carter inherited that recession in spades (remember Ford's "WIN" buttons?) and all Reagan did was throw money at it (see deficit/gdp graphs). Unfortunately, many of the things he steered that money at have become exactly the things that are wasting it now.
It's colorless, just like everyone else's.
But it does smell faintly of unicorn meat.
Plenty of geeks also own refrigerators. It doesn't make refrigerator news geek worthy.
Oh yeah?
No, it's open source so anyone can extend and alter it.
Although, in reality, everyone still relies on Linus Torvalds to give them their farting orders.
The Chewbacca defense has been obsoleted by the Evil Grandpa defense.
The moon is about 4e8 m away. A thumbnail is about 1e-2 m across. This telescope can resolve things 1e-10 in size relative to distance.
The center of the galaxy is 1e16 m away. 1e16 * 1e-10 = 1e6.
This telescope can directly image objects 1000 km across at the center of the galaxy.
May I just say, holy fuck!
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There, that's all you said.
And why do they want the economy to crash and burn?
Because they're shorting it and stand to make a bundle.
1. Stop being xenophobic gits and get back to the melting-pot culture that made this the best fucking country on Earth in the first place.
2. ???
3. Tech!
Since when is Wikipedia an appropriate place to advertise?
You mean she has little ones under her big ones?
If by the emperor you mean the "law of supply and demand", you're right, too.
There's clearly a glut of these cables, but the price is 4-25X what it should be.
Why does a font matter when all I'm going to send through it is pr0n and Firefly?
They sort of do, in the form of turbofans in their ducted engines.
However, these do not cause cooling. They cause enormous heating. But they cause turbulence in the air behind the plane. This turbulence may constitute enough of a difference in density and pressure to cause water vapor in the air to condense into mist, which is called a contrail.
Airplanes also have wings and control surfaces. Air flowing over these creates vortices. These vortices can constitute enough of a difference in density and pressure to cause water vapor in the air to condense into mist, which is also called a contrail.
And just wait until Mr. Wizard and his government grant get ahold of the idea of the speed of sound...
Contrails are real. Jet exhaust contains chemicals. Those chemicals are pollutants. They can cause respiratory problems and maybe birth defects. But they can't cause mind control, other than the ability to twist some people into a knot when their brain power meets their ignorance in a paranoid delusion and motivates them to make fools of themselves and enemies of everyone sane.
Next week when we come by for Slash Dot Mystery Time, can we talk about how steam valves and clock gears work?
That would also be a slide in the ice-house.
Anything that cures a cancer is a super win.
However, this thing requires that you know from outside the body exactly where the tumor is, so that you can target the injection.
In order to do that you need (near) real-time imaging, and that means CT scan (you're not doing an invasive procedure with magnetic fluid anywhere near a running MRI).
CT scans are made of multiple X-rays, meaning a much higher total dose of radiation than your average X-ray.
And X-rays cause cancer. So you're trading one certain tumor for the risk of more tumors. Still a win, if this treatment is itself highly effective.
That's nothing.
I once knew a Congressman whose penis was so loud that just one tweet from it echoed for weeks until it made his career explode...
and the car dealerships did?
Gates didn't impress me as a visionary, just a guy who knew a half-decent idea when it was presented to him and how to hook it into the momentum and fear of change that the company built by being the first real mass-market player.
Ballmer is an ape, physically and mentally; he worked as Gates' evil alter-ego, but seems better suited as consigliere than capo.
They need someone like Jobs, who can tell that you're just going to orgasm over the next product he picks from the development bin, and they need whoever's standing behind Jobs doing Apple's production since the Sculley days, because it's actually better than Microsoft's. Really, the only reason Apple OSen haven't completely shoved Windows out of the way is the fear of change thing, both at the consumer and enterprise level. If Apple overcomes that, Microsoft is through.