No, the writers couldn't be bothered to really think through
the implications of the future they were trying to create.
How about the terraforming aspect? If I heard the narration properly,
Earth has been abandoned, or reasonable equivalent. All of this action
is supposed to have taken place in another stellar system, where early
settlers terraformed a large number of worlds.
How long would terraforming a world take? What would a candidate
for terraforming look like?
SETI Astronomers posit a zone where a planet would have to be to have possibility of liquid water. It is narrow. Two planets in this zone
is probably the limit, not the multitude that the shows creators have.
Could those settlers have moved Titan sized bodies to the habitable zone, for terraforming? That would take a lot longer than a few hundred years. Terraforming, even with nanomachines, and perfectly
genetically engineered bugs, would take a lot longer than a few
hundred years.
One thing I feel sure of, no culture that had the tools for terraforming
at its command would still employ labour intensive hard rock miners.
...Try this: Hold a pencil about a foot off the ground on a sunny day and you'll see a shadow. Raise that pencil to an altitude of, say, 1000 feet and you won't see any shadow at all.
Okay, now try this thought experiment. Hold a length of window
screen an inch off the ground. If it is close enough to the ground
you will see the individual wires. Now raise that screen up a yard
or two. The shadows of the individual wires will fade away. But
you will still have a shadow the shape of the screen. Raise that
window screen the 1000 feet you mention, you won't be able to
detect the drop in insolation it causes. But tell me, if the
window screen was a couple of square miles in area, do you think
the drop in insolation would still be undetectable?
It seems to me the smaller the particle size the greater its ability to
block or reflect light. Wouldn't you agree?
Likewise, if you have a non-solid ring of small debris circling the earth at, say, 1000-24,000 miles there will be no effect. Certainly nothing that could effect the climate.
Proof by assertion? Cab you do the math to prove this assertion? Exceot I want you to assume the average particle size is 0.01 millimetres, not the size of a pencil, okay?
Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe the way to counter
a view you don't agree with is to suppress it? Do you believe the
way to counter a view you don't agree with is to swear, and call
the other person names?
Did you know there is another approach? You could try to
explain what you disagreed with.
Read what the guy said. He said the USA was justified to issue
wiretaps to suppress violence. He said that the USA needed more
wiretaps because it had an ethnically diverse population.
What about due process? Should tools like wiretaps be used for
suppression, or should the authorities wait until they can document
good reasons for their use?
My reading of El Camino SS's contribution was that he was
prepared to see wiretaps used for suppression, without any of
this time-consuming respect for civil rights. That is my honest
interpretation -- not a troll.
we would end up enslaving them, but we would have to wait billions of years for life to develop. Either that or we could bio-engineer our own race of slave labor and RULE the universe. Reminds me....God I love being American, I can be such an asshole.
Yes Americans can afford to be assholes, without consequences. Oops I forgot about two big towers that aren't around anymore. I guess there are consequences to being assholes to others.
Dresden and Hiroshima being two more consequences to being an asshole...
For the record, the bombing of Dresden was an experiment.
Dresden had escaped being bombed up until a few months before
Germany's defeat. It didn't have any military targets.
It hadn't been considered a military threat. Bombing it didn't
have enough military value.
Bombing military bases is considered "counterforce", because the
base has weapons that can be used against you. Bombing military
barracks is considered "counterforce", because it houses soldiers
who could fight against your soldiers. Bombing factories that
produced strategically important supplies is similarly "counterforce".
Allied strategic bombing during World War II wasn't very accurate.
Jacob Bronowski, whose war work was to analyze how successful strategic
bombing was, said the average ww2 bomb had a 50% chance of landing
within five miles of its target.
So, is bombing the apartment buildings around a strategically
important factory "counterforce" or "countervalue"?
Whatever. Dresden didn't qualify. IMO Dresden was terrorism writ
large. IMO Dresden was a war crime.
So Dresden provided a perfect experimental subject to answer the
question "what happens when you dump enough incendiary bombs to
generate a firestorm in a intact city?"
If a fire is large enough, and hot enough, the updraft it generates
can be so strong that it causes hurricane force winds to rush
towards it, from all directions. Even people
in deep bomb shelters in Dresden died. The firestorm consumed all
the oxygen, and they suffocated.
The allies had already firestormed Hamburg. But Hamburg had
already been bombed up during more conventional attacks. Its
streets had been torn up. Fire mains probably required repair.
Fire engines and fire stations were damaged or destroyed. So it
wasn't a sufficient test of how a city with an intact fire-fighting
infrastructure would survive a firestorm.
Because Dresden hadn't been bombed it was more like a peacetime
city. Because Dresden hadn't been bombed, bombing it could provide
strategic planners with clues as to how to fight world war three.
It could provide strategic planners with clues as to how damaging
a sneak attack with atomic weapons could prove, after the war was
over.
Tokyo too was firestormed.
I believe that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had escaped attack up until
the atomic bombs were dropped on them.
So, remind me, who were the assholes in these cases again?
This is the 2nd time this month where a slashdotter has
incorrectly assumed they knew what the 2nd world or 4th
world is... presumably because they misunderstood the term
"3rd world".
Third world is a term from early in the Cold War. Those who
coined the term saw all developed Western nations lined up
against a monolithic communist bloc. In those days there was
hardly any trade between Capitalist countries and Communist
countries. It was like they were on two separate planets.
The third world referred to
technologically underdeveloped, non-aligned nations.
Nowadays third world may have lost its idealogical roots. But
it still bugs me when people invent their own meanings for
2nd world, 4th world, etc.
The 2nd world would be former communist bloc nations.
Don't use it for other meanings, OK?
I like MickLinux's characterization of IMF loan repayments
as "tribute". In the most (formerly?) corrupt nations the
west made huge loans to these countries. On paper the loans
were made to aid development, but corrupt cronies the west
installed, like Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire, diverted those
funds offshore to their Swiss bank accounts.
Yes, the "middle east" was more advanced than Europe for a
long time. I am not sure that corruption is the explanation
of Europe's rise over the "middle east". By today's standard
things were pretty corrupt in Britain even 200 hundred years
ago. Somewhere I have a copy of Marvin Kitman's very funny
"The making of the President, 1789" and "George Washington's
expense account". By today's standards Washington's corruption
make the Gates, Ballmer, and the CEOs of worldcom, ENRON etc
look like choir-boys.
We may think of India as a very poor country. But I had an Indian
buddy, 20 years ago in University, who used to remind me that
India was the 10th most industrialized nation on Earth. Kind
of like that saying that inside every large person there is a
skinny person screaming to get out. So the billion or so people
in India includes more college grads than many smaller nations.
I don't know where India ranks now. But I read an editorial
when the leaders of the G7 were thinking of letting Russia
join them, to make the G8. The editorial writer said that the
G7 would really have to be enlarged to be the G18 to include
Russia if admission was based solely on GNP.
Concerning the term "middle east" -- this is also a new term.
What we now call the "middle east" used to be referred to as
the "near east".
I have much respect for someone who can succesfully treat patients who have all sorts of different physiologies, can't talk to tell what's bothering them, but instead aren't shy to use their teeth, beaks, horns and claws.
A vet goes to their doc, and gets impatient with all the questions.
"What is it with you MDs? What is with all the questions? I don't
have to ask my patients a bunch of questions! Am I a better
diagnostician than you are?
"OK" says the doc. "We'll try it your way." So the MD does all the
physical stuff. Temperature, blood pressure, reflexes, and so on.
Then they write out a prescription. "I want you to talk two of these
a day, for ten days."
"But I'm afraid, if that doesn't work, we'll have to have you
put down."
What is this talk of fingerprint(s) on the sarcophagus? Was this a marking, or an impression? One comment seems to indicate that the print was an impression or something - so what was the sarcophagus made from? Clay? Were such things made from clay? I had always thought they were carved from stone?
The lid of the sarcophagus was a flat stone(?) slab. It was sealed
to the rim of the sarcophagus with mud, or clay or mortar of some
kind. It was friable enough that, at one point, Hawiss was poking
at the sealant with a chisel, that he was holding like an ice-pick.
... The director of anitquities made quite a show of concern for good science and taking proper care of the sites explored. But in the end, he essentially attacked that tomb with a chisel and a crowbar for no apparant reason.
To fill time they showed a clip, filmed earlier, of Hawiss
checking up on an image in one of the earlier pyramids.
This one had a warren of underground passages beneath it.
It had been closed for decades because it was dangerous.
Hawiss kept saying how dangerous it was -- because of the
possibility of falling rock...
Okay buddy, they why aren't you wearing a hard hat?
Yes, it was interesting to look around. But it would have been
more interesting with less of the Gee-whiz and phony
human interest BS.
Sure enough, they make minature tunnel boring machines.
That is what they need to get through this passage, and search
for all the other hidden voids the Japanese study found.
The one pictured here is
pictured here
bores a hole one foot in diameter.
Who would have thought there was a whole website
devoted to selling used
tunnel boring machines? They list one that
bores six inch
holes, that costs only $155,000 USD.
There could have been an inscription, or reasonable equivalent,
on the other side of the door they drilled through last night.
Disappointing they didn't think to check...
Other respondents here have suggested digging through to
the hidden chamber from outside. With a minature tunnel boring machine
Archeologist could bore through to the mystery chamber without marring
the appearance of the pyramids outside or any of the passages.
What? That would cost a mint! Well maybe, but afterwards it could be
used to lay cable under the streets of congested city
centers. We discussed the pneumatic tubes being recycled into
internet conduit a little while ago.
When did electric mowers start being battery powered?
The mower I used to mow my parent's lawn had a big old extension
cord, not batteries. Our yard was big enough we needed two cords.
I guess it meant we couldn't mow the lawn if there was a power
outage. But we never got it half mowed, and then had to wait to
recharge...
There are complicating factors -- like the hangers on from previous generations that are still fertile, and that with fewer carp eggs are
hatched maybe more of them will survive, since they won't have as
many other carp to compete with. Let's ignore those factors, and,
for the sake or argument, work with thought carp that only breed once.
Your assumptions were 250 normal females, 200 normal males, and 50
males with the daughterless gene, correct?
And each generation from generation 2 on, since there are
less females there are fewer eggs laid, and therefore fewer
fish reaching maturity. Ignoring those factors I mentioned
above generation 3 would be down a third to 333 adult fish,
81 of which would be female. Generation 4 would be 162 adult
fish, with about a dozen females. Generation 5 would be about
two dozen adult fish.
Okay, they only plan to introduce males with the daughterless
gene representing less than 1% of the current population,
during the first year.
I don't have the right tools to do the math for an addition
of 1% per year of males with the daughterless gene. Maybe
when I get home.
El Camino SS said America was a more dangerous
place and, needed more wiretaps, than countries with ethnically
homogeneous populations. He said the ethnic heterogenity created
arguments that made
America less safe.
Wasn't he advocating, in his ramblings,
that more widespread, less accountable, wiretaps were a perfectly acceptable solution to violence, terrorism, and obnoxious, annoying,
"argumentative" foreign-born cab-drivers?
Please go re-read his article, and then tell me if you still think
I am overlooking the obvious.
Oh yeah, and while you are at it, if you believe you live in the
"land of the free", why are you hiding behind "anonymous coward"?
If El Camino SS really believes in freedom, he has to expect to
be challenged when he advocates draconian surveillance for those
who stand out as different.
"I took the initiative to help create the internet." Close enough.
Let me help you out here.
Sitting on your desk, there is a little plastic device with buttons
on it.
It is called a mouse. It controls a mouse cursor on your screen. Try
moving the mouse cursor around on your desk. See the mouse cursor move on the screen?
On your screen are special words, called links. If you click
one of the buttons on the mouse, you can get more information!
Has anyone told you that you are a very special person today?
Well, yes you are.
Smart, helpful, grown-ups wrote these pages, just to help youlearn things.
So now, when you write a comment, you can actually sound like an
intelligent person!
Do you know why I am telling you this?
Cerf and Kahn were the guys who
designed TCP/IP. If we were going to award credit to anyone for "creating" the internet, it would arguably, be them. In their
defense of Gore they modestly decline that credit. They highlight
Gore's role. They argue that since he did take legislative initiative
to create bills that made the governmental infrastructure for
the early internet possible, and that he then helped free the
maturing internet from governmental control that his claim to have
taken initiative is entirely a fair one.
I hope my lesson on how to follow links will help you write more
informed contributions in the future.
I don't know who she was. But about two thirds of the way through
I noticed that the producers had picked matching shirts for her and
the other host. Odd.
Because they strongly suspected piercing the door would
be a disappointment?
This show bugged me because they dole out hard information
so sparingly. Who cares whether Ms and Mr Brit announcer
are short of breath. Why make us wait so long to see the
CGI tour of the pyramids?
If this thing wasn't broadcast live, if they had cut back on
the breathless chatter from the announcers, the informational
part of this broadcast could have fit in half an hour.
t's nice to know, as some of you sometimes forget, that the USA do not own the internet (and Al Gore didn't invent it).
Al Gore never said he invented the internet. Here is a
defense of Gore from two guys whose views should really count.
Gore said
he "took initiative" in creating the internet.
It is a bum rap -- very unfair, and if we really are geeks here
on slashdot, who care about what matters, we should quit repeating it, OK?
Anyway... It's true that now many European countries have just as much freedom as the US. But you've got to look at the historical background. At the time of the War of 1812 (when the lines "land of the free and home of the brave" were written) every other great power in the world was a monarchy... the only other great power in the world that could lay claim to anything approaching the degree of freedom the US offered in those days was Britain.
Worth noting that during the War of 1812 many of those living
in the USA were living as slaves.
I believe that, during the War of 1812, the UK was farther along in abolishing slavery than was the USA. FWIW.
Sorry to nitpick, but I think that, in 1812, the USA fell a bit short of "great power" status.
The last time I checked, the Netherlands hasn't sent troops anywhere to save people.
Well, maybe you should have checked a little more carefully?
Google found a lot of links under Netherlands peacekeeping.
Sheesh.
And your comment about cabbies? What are you trying to suggest
here? That you would have a more pleasant cab ride if the authorities
tapped your cab-driver's phone?
Some years ago TVO, Ontario's public educational channel, had a series
on new technology. They devoted one show to surveillance, bugging,
wiretapping. They very interviewed these two different guys.
One was with a guy who sold bug detectors. The other interview was
with a grizzled old cop in Washington DC. He looked like Joe Friday.
The bug-detector salesman kept touting his products, and saying
how good they were at detecting bugs. The grizzled cop kept saying
how difficult it was to be sure you weren't being bugged. Finally
he said:
You can never know when you are being bugged. None of our bugs
has ever been detected. Why we have conducted over 1,000 legal
wiretaps alone.
The music industry is being dragged kicking and screaming
into an acceptance of treating fans and artists with greater
fairness. New technology makes it possible. Likely perhaps.
If their last gasp defense, "digital rights management", fails,
I predict that those music industry executives who survive
the shake-out, will try and claim that it was all their idea
in the first place.
On a different thought, I haven't seen Infinity. Is it worth it? Is it something, say, Blockbuster would have?
I had a double bill last night. The Man who would be King, on TVO
and Infinity on the CBC. Infinity was good. Of course there were
no car chases or anything like that. But a fair number of real
incidents from his life made it into the movie. I'll forgive the
Brodericks for the liberties they took. (Mathew Broderick directed
as well as starred. His mother was credited as the writer.
I thought Broderick did a pretty good job of capturing Feynman's
playful character. I wouldn't mind him doing another movie
from later in Feynman's life. Although the pinched a few from
his later life. Mind you they left out the whole safecracker thing,
which could almost make a movie all by itself.
One of the question discussed here was how intelligent does an actor
have to be to convincingly play a scientist, to our exacting standards.
I'd say Broderick managed it.
It was my impression that Lieghton did more than merely transcribe
Feynman's stories. Leighton had been Feynman's protege from his
teenage years -- lucky stiff. He had probably heard most of them
dozens of times. I imagine he did a fair bit of polishing.
What makes Keanu a worse actor than say Sean Connery?
Good point.
Acting is an artificial thing. And conventions change.
Consider Burt Lancaster or Kirk Douglas. Those guys had
particularly scenery-chewing styles -- especially when
they were young.
Conventions change.
Speed wasn't his only good performance.
Didn't he do a good job in Devil's Advocate?
Slashdot Mirror
How about the terraforming aspect? If I heard the narration properly, Earth has been abandoned, or reasonable equivalent. All of this action is supposed to have taken place in another stellar system, where early settlers terraformed a large number of worlds.
How long would terraforming a world take? What would a candidate for terraforming look like?
SETI Astronomers posit a zone where a planet would have to be to have possibility of liquid water. It is narrow. Two planets in this zone is probably the limit, not the multitude that the shows creators have.
Could those settlers have moved Titan sized bodies to the habitable zone, for terraforming? That would take a lot longer than a few hundred years. Terraforming, even with nanomachines, and perfectly genetically engineered bugs, would take a lot longer than a few hundred years.
One thing I feel sure of, no culture that had the tools for terraforming at its command would still employ labour intensive hard rock miners.
This is, IMO, their wisest, most insightful album.
Now don't be afraid here in the New Age, because there is a seeker born every minute.
Okay, now try this thought experiment. Hold a length of window screen an inch off the ground. If it is close enough to the ground you will see the individual wires. Now raise that screen up a yard or two. The shadows of the individual wires will fade away. But you will still have a shadow the shape of the screen. Raise that window screen the 1000 feet you mention, you won't be able to detect the drop in insolation it causes. But tell me, if the window screen was a couple of square miles in area, do you think the drop in insolation would still be undetectable?
It seems to me the smaller the particle size the greater its ability to block or reflect light. Wouldn't you agree?
Proof by assertion? Cab you do the math to prove this assertion? Exceot I want you to assume the average particle size is 0.01 millimetres, not the size of a pencil, okay?What?
Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe the way to counter a view you don't agree with is to suppress it? Do you believe the way to counter a view you don't agree with is to swear, and call the other person names?
Did you know there is another approach? You could try to explain what you disagreed with.
Read what the guy said. He said the USA was justified to issue wiretaps to suppress violence. He said that the USA needed more wiretaps because it had an ethnically diverse population.
What about due process? Should tools like wiretaps be used for suppression, or should the authorities wait until they can document good reasons for their use?
My reading of El Camino SS's contribution was that he was prepared to see wiretaps used for suppression, without any of this time-consuming respect for civil rights. That is my honest interpretation -- not a troll.
Dresden and Hiroshima being two more consequences to being an asshole...
For the record, the bombing of Dresden was an experiment. Dresden had escaped being bombed up until a few months before Germany's defeat. It didn't have any military targets. It hadn't been considered a military threat. Bombing it didn't have enough military value.
Bombing military bases is considered "counterforce", because the base has weapons that can be used against you. Bombing military barracks is considered "counterforce", because it houses soldiers who could fight against your soldiers. Bombing factories that produced strategically important supplies is similarly "counterforce". Allied strategic bombing during World War II wasn't very accurate. Jacob Bronowski, whose war work was to analyze how successful strategic bombing was, said the average ww2 bomb had a 50% chance of landing within five miles of its target.
So, is bombing the apartment buildings around a strategically important factory "counterforce" or "countervalue"?
Whatever. Dresden didn't qualify. IMO Dresden was terrorism writ large. IMO Dresden was a war crime.
So Dresden provided a perfect experimental subject to answer the question "what happens when you dump enough incendiary bombs to generate a firestorm in a intact city?"
If a fire is large enough, and hot enough, the updraft it generates can be so strong that it causes hurricane force winds to rush towards it, from all directions. Even people in deep bomb shelters in Dresden died. The firestorm consumed all the oxygen, and they suffocated.
The allies had already firestormed Hamburg. But Hamburg had already been bombed up during more conventional attacks. Its streets had been torn up. Fire mains probably required repair. Fire engines and fire stations were damaged or destroyed. So it wasn't a sufficient test of how a city with an intact fire-fighting infrastructure would survive a firestorm.
Because Dresden hadn't been bombed it was more like a peacetime city. Because Dresden hadn't been bombed, bombing it could provide strategic planners with clues as to how to fight world war three. It could provide strategic planners with clues as to how damaging a sneak attack with atomic weapons could prove, after the war was over.
Tokyo too was firestormed.
I believe that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had escaped attack up until the atomic bombs were dropped on them.
So, remind me, who were the assholes in these cases again?
Third world is a term from early in the Cold War. Those who coined the term saw all developed Western nations lined up against a monolithic communist bloc. In those days there was hardly any trade between Capitalist countries and Communist countries. It was like they were on two separate planets. The third world referred to technologically underdeveloped, non-aligned nations.
Nowadays third world may have lost its idealogical roots. But it still bugs me when people invent their own meanings for 2nd world, 4th world, etc.
The 2nd world would be former communist bloc nations. Don't use it for other meanings, OK?
I like MickLinux's characterization of IMF loan repayments as "tribute". In the most (formerly?) corrupt nations the west made huge loans to these countries. On paper the loans were made to aid development, but corrupt cronies the west installed, like Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire, diverted those funds offshore to their Swiss bank accounts.
Yes, the "middle east" was more advanced than Europe for a long time. I am not sure that corruption is the explanation of Europe's rise over the "middle east". By today's standard things were pretty corrupt in Britain even 200 hundred years ago. Somewhere I have a copy of Marvin Kitman's very funny "The making of the President, 1789" and "George Washington's expense account". By today's standards Washington's corruption make the Gates, Ballmer, and the CEOs of worldcom, ENRON etc look like choir-boys.
We may think of India as a very poor country. But I had an Indian buddy, 20 years ago in University, who used to remind me that India was the 10th most industrialized nation on Earth. Kind of like that saying that inside every large person there is a skinny person screaming to get out. So the billion or so people in India includes more college grads than many smaller nations.
I don't know where India ranks now. But I read an editorial when the leaders of the G7 were thinking of letting Russia join them, to make the G8. The editorial writer said that the G7 would really have to be enlarged to be the G18 to include Russia if admission was based solely on GNP.
Concerning the term "middle east" -- this is also a new term. What we now call the "middle east" used to be referred to as the "near east".
A vet goes to their doc, and gets impatient with all the questions.
"What is it with you MDs? What is with all the questions? I don't have to ask my patients a bunch of questions! Am I a better diagnostician than you are?
"OK" says the doc. "We'll try it your way." So the MD does all the physical stuff. Temperature, blood pressure, reflexes, and so on.
Then they write out a prescription. "I want you to talk two of these a day, for ten days."
"But I'm afraid, if that doesn't work, we'll have to have you put down ."
The lid of the sarcophagus was a flat stone(?) slab. It was sealed to the rim of the sarcophagus with mud, or clay or mortar of some kind. It was friable enough that, at one point, Hawiss was poking at the sealant with a chisel, that he was holding like an ice-pick.
The handprint was in the sealant, not the stone.
To fill time they showed a clip, filmed earlier, of Hawiss checking up on an image in one of the earlier pyramids. This one had a warren of underground passages beneath it. It had been closed for decades because it was dangerous. Hawiss kept saying how dangerous it was -- because of the possibility of falling rock...
Okay buddy, they why aren't you wearing a hard hat?
Yes, it was interesting to look around. But it would have been more interesting with less of the Gee-whiz and phony human interest BS.
The one pictured here is pictured here bores a hole one foot in diameter. Who would have thought there was a whole website devoted to selling used tunnel boring machines ? They list one that bores six inch holes, that costs only $155,000 USD.
There could have been an inscription, or reasonable equivalent, on the other side of the door they drilled through last night. Disappointing they didn't think to check...
What we need here is a minature tunnel boring machine .
Other respondents here have suggested digging through to the hidden chamber from outside. With a minature tunnel boring machine Archeologist could bore through to the mystery chamber without marring the appearance of the pyramids outside or any of the passages.
What? That would cost a mint! Well maybe, but afterwards it could be used to lay cable under the streets of congested city centers. We discussed the pneumatic tubes being recycled into internet conduit a little while ago.
When did electric mowers start being battery powered? The mower I used to mow my parent's lawn had a big old extension cord, not batteries. Our yard was big enough we needed two cords. I guess it meant we couldn't mow the lawn if there was a power outage. But we never got it half mowed, and then had to wait to recharge...
There are complicating factors -- like the hangers on from previous generations that are still fertile, and that with fewer carp eggs are hatched maybe more of them will survive, since they won't have as many other carp to compete with. Let's ignore those factors, and, for the sake or argument, work with thought carp that only breed once.
Your assumptions were 250 normal females, 200 normal males, and 50 males with the daughterless gene, correct?
Generation 1, 40% female, 40% male, 20% daughterless males
Generation 2, 33% female, 33% male, 33% daughterless males
Generation 3, 25% female, 25% male, 50% daughterless males
Generation 4, 8% female, 16% male, 75% daughterless males
Generation 5, 2% female, 4% male, 93% daughterless males
And each generation from generation 2 on, since there are less females there are fewer eggs laid, and therefore fewer fish reaching maturity. Ignoring those factors I mentioned above generation 3 would be down a third to 333 adult fish, 81 of which would be female. Generation 4 would be 162 adult fish, with about a dozen females. Generation 5 would be about two dozen adult fish.
Okay, they only plan to introduce males with the daughterless gene representing less than 1% of the current population, during the first year.
I don't have the right tools to do the math for an addition of 1% per year of males with the daughterless gene. Maybe when I get home.
El Camino SS said America was a more dangerous place and, needed more wiretaps, than countries with ethnically homogeneous populations. He said the ethnic heterogenity created arguments that made America less safe.
Wasn't he advocating, in his ramblings, that more widespread, less accountable, wiretaps were a perfectly acceptable solution to violence, terrorism, and obnoxious, annoying, "argumentative" foreign-born cab-drivers?
Please go re-read his article, and then tell me if you still think I am overlooking the obvious.
Oh yeah, and while you are at it, if you believe you live in the "land of the free", why are you hiding behind "anonymous coward"?
If El Camino SS really believes in freedom, he has to expect to be challenged when he advocates draconian surveillance for those who stand out as different.
Let me help you out here.
Sitting on your desk, there is a little plastic device with buttons on it.
It is called a mouse. It controls a mouse cursor on your screen. Try moving the mouse cursor around on your desk. See the mouse cursor move on the screen?
On your screen are special words, called links. If you click one of the buttons on the mouse, you can get more information!
Has anyone told you that you are a very special person today? Well, yes you are. Smart, helpful, grown-ups wrote these pages, just to help you learn things.
So now, when you write a comment, you can actually sound like an intelligent person!
Do you know why I am telling you this?
Cerf and Kahn were the guys who designed TCP/IP. If we were going to award credit to anyone for "creating" the internet, it would arguably, be them. In their defense of Gore they modestly decline that credit. They highlight Gore's role. They argue that since he did take legislative initiative to create bills that made the governmental infrastructure for the early internet possible, and that he then helped free the maturing internet from governmental control that his claim to have taken initiative is entirely a fair one.
I hope my lesson on how to follow links will help you write more informed contributions in the future.
I don't know who she was. But about two thirds of the way through I noticed that the producers had picked matching shirts for her and the other host. Odd.
This show bugged me because they dole out hard information so sparingly. Who cares whether Ms and Mr Brit announcer are short of breath. Why make us wait so long to see the CGI tour of the pyramids?
If this thing wasn't broadcast live, if they had cut back on the breathless chatter from the announcers, the informational part of this broadcast could have fit in half an hour.
Al Gore never said he invented the internet. Here is a defense of Gore from two guys whose views should really count.
Gore said he "took initiative" in creating the internet. It is a bum rap -- very unfair, and if we really are geeks here on slashdot, who care about what matters, we should quit repeating it, OK?
Worth noting that during the War of 1812 many of those living in the USA were living as slaves.
I believe that, during the War of 1812, the UK was farther along in abolishing slavery than was the USA. FWIW.
Sorry to nitpick, but I think that, in 1812, the USA fell a bit short of "great power" status.
Well, maybe you should have checked a little more carefully? Google found a lot of links under Netherlands peacekeeping .
Sheesh.
And your comment about cabbies? What are you trying to suggest here? That you would have a more pleasant cab ride if the authorities tapped your cab-driver's phone?
If their last gasp defense, "digital rights management", fails, I predict that those music industry executives who survive the shake-out, will try and claim that it was all their idea in the first place.
I had a double bill last night. The Man who would be King, on TVO and Infinity on the CBC. Infinity was good. Of course there were no car chases or anything like that. But a fair number of real incidents from his life made it into the movie. I'll forgive the Brodericks for the liberties they took. (Mathew Broderick directed as well as starred. His mother was credited as the writer.
I thought Broderick did a pretty good job of capturing Feynman's playful character. I wouldn't mind him doing another movie from later in Feynman's life. Although the pinched a few from his later life. Mind you they left out the whole safecracker thing, which could almost make a movie all by itself.
One of the question discussed here was how intelligent does an actor have to be to convincingly play a scientist, to our exacting standards. I'd say Broderick managed it.
It was my impression that Lieghton did more than merely transcribe Feynman's stories. Leighton had been Feynman's protege from his teenage years -- lucky stiff. He had probably heard most of them dozens of times. I imagine he did a fair bit of polishing.
Good point.
Acting is an artificial thing. And conventions change. Consider Burt Lancaster or Kirk Douglas. Those guys had particularly scenery-chewing styles -- especially when they were young.
Conventions change.
Speed wasn't his only good performance. Didn't he do a good job in Devil's Advocate?