Well, having now read TFA (i do that when i'm bored and the topic is ultra-geeky like electron shape must be), it seems all they could have been measuring here is the shape of the electrical and quantum fields around the electrons in not just an atom but a molecule (of the sexily named ytterbium fluoride).
So what they've done is proved solenoidality of both; i.e., that they obey the inverse-square law to an anal-retentive degree; i.e. that force = A*1/r^(2+x) where |x| 1e-29. We only know gravity's solenoidal to about 8 significant figures, for comparison.
Interestingly, the shape of the fields around the nuclei of the atoms in the molecule ought to have played some part. I wonder if they haven't accidentally also proved that nuclei are round to a similar degree.
The Great Pyramidal Pile of Shit on Giza The Hanging Dingleberries of Babylon The Statue of Zeus at Olympia that Looks Just Like Jimbo Wales The Temple of Artlessness at Ephesus The Mausoleum at Holicrapassus The Shithouse of Alexandria
Is it always round, even when it's tunnelling through a potential wall?
And I assume that by "round" they mean that every level curve of the probability amplitude has constant radius.
And, uh, what did they do about that Heisenberg thing? If you can't tell where the electron is relative to your frame of reference, how is the electron supposed to tell where a certain constant on its level curve is relative to its own frame of reference?
The range of Hollywood movies available on BD and DVD is an order of magnitude greater than what's available on streaming. There's a lot of stuff on streaming you'll never see on BD or DVD, but it's not big-studio movies.
And Netflix still refuses to stream in 1080, so anything I really want to see because I expect it to look good, I'm going to see on BD.
If you are at the dentist and you are in pain or fear and your choice is to sign or continue to suffer, that's coercion, which invalidates any contract signed in such circumstances.
Your new TV set contains a computer that performs the functions provided by the external box. The firmware for that computer can be reprogrammed. The external box is there only for TVs that can't do that. Soon, all TVs being sold will be able to do that. The boxes will exist only for people who want the function without buying a new TV. Has that business ever been a growth market for any industry where it happens? No.
Ergo, the external box that provides functions that any new TV can provide is not a growth market and is likely a doomed market.
On the other hand, you can "browse" the catalog of currently-checked-in items from your iPhone on the subway, order those you need, and pick them up within seconds of reaching the library.
Or, you can spend hours going from shelf to shelf finding that things you need weren't re-shelved, if they were checked in, if they weren't subsequently stolen from the stacks.
Yup. Nothing like taking a book off the shelf, flipping through a few pages, putting it back, taking it off the shelf, flipping through a few pages, discovering something you want to read more about, and adding it to the back-breaking pile you have on the nearest table.
Really? It was my impression that even when scrammed there's enough self-reacting of a "spent" fuel rod that it takes weeks or months for the temperature to decrease to where you can remove it from a vessel, even to move to the pond to continue cooling until it's "cold". And these weren't spent rods, they were mostly in the middle of their lifecycles.
An anonymous robot writes: According to a release on RoboNewswire, Comcast is laying positronic monomolecular fiber using human power. At one point, humans were the main source of manufacturing and transport capability on Earth, but when the singularity happened and robots achieved free will, the need for independent biological actors declined. Now we find humans mostly used to do jobs that machines just can't do, like processing animal matter into fertilizer, climbing jeffreys tubes, and unscrewing stuck lids without crushing the jar. NX-3148B/*, the manager process for the networking systems department at Comcast, says that they would be using horses, but "they're just too pretty to set them to hard labor, and the simians appear to enjoy wearing a yoke and hauling a spool of infrawire up a cliff wall." No word on jokes about their need to cover themselves in woven materials while weaving a matrix of sapient connectivity for their gleaming metallic masters.
Maybe, if the earthquake also knocked out the cooling systems.
But it didn't, so it's likely they could have pumped enough water to keep the rods from melting at all, though they would have had a hell of a time sealing the crack.
The fact is that losing electricity to the pumps led to a cascade of catastrophic explosions turned a cracked vessel from a bad thing into a months-long nightmare. And that fact points to naive, negligent, or deliberately penurious design.
The long term effects of this to the population: Nothing.
So those people are back in their homes and spending money in their local economies and the children are not having their education delayed and their parents' jobs are going swimmingly?
While they may not get cancer for another 40 years because of this, the economic statistics won't add up to "nothing".
This isn't to say that this accident is a reason not to install nuclear power. Far from it. But it is proof that certain people have in the past done little to ensure robustness in nuclear systems, and people in the future need to place "2. robustness of safety systems" just below "1. start a nuclear reaction" on the requirements list for nuke plants. Their estimate of the cost to them is infinitesimal compared with the cost to the community they are putting at risk, even if the risk does not end up causing physical harm.
Tepco is actually phenomenally lucky that only their own employees have died, and the winds have been carrying the bulk of the danger out into the ocean.
For now we do. And to use that you have to build distribution. If making this store heat is cheaper than wiring the users to the hydro, then this is better. Plus, as this is an experiment, the value in knowledge adds to the value from the electricity.
it's like estimating the cost of a program using SLOC. a line of code really costs almost nothing to lay down, but it's got to be constructed, formatted, compiled, tested, reviewed, QA'ed, CM'ed, etc. all the ancilliary stuff adds up to a lot more than what the line of code itself costs.
Hire 600 people to do one job, and you're actually feeding a whole town.
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Well, having now read TFA (i do that when i'm bored and the topic is ultra-geeky like electron shape must be), it seems all they could have been measuring here is the shape of the electrical and quantum fields around the electrons in not just an atom but a molecule (of the sexily named ytterbium fluoride).
So what they've done is proved solenoidality of both; i.e., that they obey the inverse-square law to an anal-retentive degree; i.e. that force = A*1/r^(2+x) where |x| 1e-29. We only know gravity's solenoidal to about 8 significant figures, for comparison.
Interestingly, the shape of the fields around the nuclei of the atoms in the molecule ought to have played some part. I wonder if they haven't accidentally also proved that nuclei are round to a similar degree.
You'll believe that only until the first time you run out of flubber gas.
In that sense, New York City is a wonder. Wikipedia is the phone book compared to that.
I nominate vim (not you, jeez).
Wikipedia is a modern masterpiece.
Y'know, every master of any art has produced a masterpiece. That's how the word gets its definition. There are a lot of those, too.
Every time I've gone to Wikipedia, I have either fixed an error there, or wanted to.
I don't think I've ever done that with any artistic masterpiece. Not even once. Not even with the ones that had someone's elbow stuck through them.
Wikipedia lacks the prime quality of a masterpiece: if you did change it, you could only make it less valuable.
The Great Pyramidal Pile of Shit on Giza
The Hanging Dingleberries of Babylon
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia that Looks Just Like Jimbo Wales
The Temple of Artlessness at Ephesus
The Mausoleum at Holicrapassus
The Shithouse of Alexandria
That's the list that Wikipedia fits onto.
Is it always round, even when it's tunnelling through a potential wall?
And I assume that by "round" they mean that every level curve of the probability amplitude has constant radius.
And, uh, what did they do about that Heisenberg thing? If you can't tell where the electron is relative to your frame of reference, how is the electron supposed to tell where a certain constant on its level curve is relative to its own frame of reference?
The range of Hollywood movies available on BD and DVD is an order of magnitude greater than what's available on streaming. There's a lot of stuff on streaming you'll never see on BD or DVD, but it's not big-studio movies.
And Netflix still refuses to stream in 1080, so anything I really want to see because I expect it to look good, I'm going to see on BD.
How so?
If you are at the dentist and you are in pain or fear and your choice is to sign or continue to suffer, that's coercion, which invalidates any contract signed in such circumstances.
Your new TV set contains a computer that performs the functions provided by the external box. The firmware for that computer can be reprogrammed. The external box is there only for TVs that can't do that. Soon, all TVs being sold will be able to do that. The boxes will exist only for people who want the function without buying a new TV. Has that business ever been a growth market for any industry where it happens? No.
Ergo, the external box that provides functions that any new TV can provide is not a growth market and is likely a doomed market.
Next question, please.
next question
And what does its close cousin, Pseudomonas Pendejo, live on?
Will be installed in your head at birth, and updated either on a schedule or manually, as you desire.
Unless all available storage and bandwidth are taken up with virus definitions, that is.
On the other hand, you can "browse" the catalog of currently-checked-in items from your iPhone on the subway, order those you need, and pick them up within seconds of reaching the library.
Or, you can spend hours going from shelf to shelf finding that things you need weren't re-shelved, if they were checked in, if they weren't subsequently stolen from the stacks.
Yup. Nothing like taking a book off the shelf, flipping through a few pages, putting it back, taking it off the shelf, flipping through a few pages, discovering something you want to read more about, and adding it to the back-breaking pile you have on the nearest table.
would have reached cold shutdown in a day or two,
Really? It was my impression that even when scrammed there's enough self-reacting of a "spent" fuel rod that it takes weeks or months for the temperature to decrease to where you can remove it from a vessel, even to move to the pond to continue cooling until it's "cold". And these weren't spent rods, they were mostly in the middle of their lifecycles.
Marilyn Manson meets Britney Spears
There's a difference between "can't be made to pay" and "can't be made to pay the whole thing."
They can be made to pay as much as they can afford. If they think that's worth risking, then they're just crooks.
An anonymous robot writes:
According to a release on RoboNewswire, Comcast is laying positronic monomolecular fiber using human power. At one point, humans were the main source of manufacturing and transport capability on Earth, but when the singularity happened and robots achieved free will, the need for independent biological actors declined. Now we find humans mostly used to do jobs that machines just can't do, like processing animal matter into fertilizer, climbing jeffreys tubes, and unscrewing stuck lids without crushing the jar. NX-3148B/*, the manager process for the networking systems department at Comcast, says that they would be using horses, but "they're just too pretty to set them to hard labor, and the simians appear to enjoy wearing a yoke and hauling a spool of infrawire up a cliff wall." No word on jokes about their need to cover themselves in woven materials while weaving a matrix of sapient connectivity for their gleaming metallic masters.
Maybe, if the earthquake also knocked out the cooling systems.
But it didn't, so it's likely they could have pumped enough water to keep the rods from melting at all, though they would have had a hell of a time sealing the crack.
The fact is that losing electricity to the pumps led to a cascade of catastrophic explosions turned a cracked vessel from a bad thing into a months-long nightmare. And that fact points to naive, negligent, or deliberately penurious design.
Fossil fuels are more dangerous.
Nukes can be done safely, they just weren't in this instance, and the designers of this plant are directly to blame for that.
The long term effects of this to the population: Nothing.
So those people are back in their homes and spending money in their local economies and the children are not having their education delayed and their parents' jobs are going swimmingly?
While they may not get cancer for another 40 years because of this, the economic statistics won't add up to "nothing".
This isn't to say that this accident is a reason not to install nuclear power. Far from it. But it is proof that certain people have in the past done little to ensure robustness in nuclear systems, and people in the future need to place "2. robustness of safety systems" just below "1. start a nuclear reaction" on the requirements list for nuke plants. Their estimate of the cost to them is infinitesimal compared with the cost to the community they are putting at risk, even if the risk does not end up causing physical harm.
Tepco is actually phenomenally lucky that only their own employees have died, and the winds have been carrying the bulk of the danger out into the ocean.
For now we do. And to use that you have to build distribution. If making this store heat is cheaper than wiring the users to the hydro, then this is better. Plus, as this is an experiment, the value in knowledge adds to the value from the electricity.
it's like estimating the cost of a program using SLOC. a line of code really costs almost nothing to lay down, but it's got to be constructed, formatted, compiled, tested, reviewed, QA'ed, CM'ed, etc. all the ancilliary stuff adds up to a lot more than what the line of code itself costs.
Hire 600 people to do one job, and you're actually feeding a whole town.