Well, if you take all the weird breeds of dog that we've deliberately created, and let them breed freely, in the wild, without our intervention, you end up with something like a coyote-ish mutt. Funny how all those look the same, too. Kinda like all the smart apes look the same.
Being in Canada, I can legally download as much music as I want from these networks, until our Supreme Court or our government tells me otherwise, which they haven't.
So... when their stupid trojan destroys my computer, I have the legal leg to stand on, and they don't. Hmm.
A big enough impact would restore the magma ocean. At that point, you've still got all of Earth there, but you can write off any possibility of survivors...
HIV's primary vector is blood-to-blood contact. I think it's just slightly more likely that someone became infected by butchering an SIV infected primate for food and getting blood contact, rather than the more sensational concept of interspecies sex. Of course, people always prefer the more lurid and shocking possibilities over more mundane (and likely) causes.
Not quite true. The neutron bomb was actually developed as an anti-armor technology, because tanks and their ilk are very resilient when it comes to 'normal' nuclear blasts. The fast neutron radiation from neutron bombs is excellent at penetrating armor and killing the crews of such vehicles. Unfortunately, the blast radius is roughly equivalent to the lethal radiation radius, so infrastructure still tends to be creamed by the blast.:)
Helium-3 is a pretty decent reason to go into space. It's not like you can find the stuff down here, at least in industrial quantities. The Moon's got lots, though!
I'd think that detonating a dirty nuke in orbit would be a very short-term problem. The solar wind and whatnot would probably clean all that out pretty quick... and it's not like space isn't terribly radioactive already. ^^
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*laugh* Uh... yeah.
So... the United States pays for every other nations' enlightened rehabilitative justice system, sure.
You DO realize that the prison industry in the United States is exactly that: a private industry? It's in their best interests to have as many people as possible in jail at any given time. That's how they get paid, silly.
That might not be your phone, so much as your network, in regards to the no-incoming-calls thing. I've seen the provisioning on the HLRs do some pretty bizarre things, some days.:)
No, only one player plays Apple's Proprietary DRM AAC files. You're making the rather large assumtion that they'll use Apple's Fairplay DRM technology. Why should they choose to pay Apple royalties, hmm, instead of developing their own or using an open standard?
Just take the satellite up to the geosynchonous point of the space elevator, release it, and it will stay in orbit right there. Then fire thrusters on the satellite to slow it down gradually, letting it drop to a lower orbit. Easy-peasy, and a heck of a lot cheaper than rocketing the damn thing up there...
... to stop an asteroid from striking the Earth, relatively speaking, of course. After all, you only have to alter the asteroid's arrival time by something like seven minutes (depending on the direction it's coming from, obviously) in order for it to completely miss the Earth, assuming it's starting on a collision course.
Give us 10 years of a headstart and a lot of white paint, and odds are the big rock will miss.
OMG Elite!!! If I could reach through this screen and hug you, I'd have been charged with harrassment already.:)
I'm still hoping for the day someone makes a -good- multiplayer spin-off of Elite. Possibly the only kind of MMO game I'd actually enjoy... *wistful sigh*
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Well, if you take all the weird breeds of dog that we've deliberately created, and let them breed freely, in the wild, without our intervention, you end up with something like a coyote-ish mutt. Funny how all those look the same, too. Kinda like all the smart apes look the same.
Being in Canada, I can legally download as much music as I want from these networks, until our Supreme Court or our government tells me otherwise, which they haven't.
So... when their stupid trojan destroys my computer, I have the legal leg to stand on, and they don't. Hmm.
Yes, but just because Pepsi chooses to call it a 'loss' does not in fact make it so.
Of course... a 3479km diameter object isn't even going to twitch when hit by a 400m asteroid.
My tool seems to detect pornography just fine! Why would anyone need theirs? :)
A big enough impact would restore the magma ocean. At that point, you've still got all of Earth there, but you can write off any possibility of survivors...
I assure you that the box has no such message printed on the outside of it.
The closest it comes is stating that an Internet connection is required for play. Nothing more.
Aw, come on, everyone else does it!
HIV's primary vector is blood-to-blood contact. I think it's just slightly more likely that someone became infected by butchering an SIV infected primate for food and getting blood contact, rather than the more sensational concept of interspecies sex. Of course, people always prefer the more lurid and shocking possibilities over more mundane (and likely) causes.
Not quite true. The neutron bomb was actually developed as an anti-armor technology, because tanks and their ilk are very resilient when it comes to 'normal' nuclear blasts. The fast neutron radiation from neutron bombs is excellent at penetrating armor and killing the crews of such vehicles. Unfortunately, the blast radius is roughly equivalent to the lethal radiation radius, so infrastructure still tends to be creamed by the blast. :)
Helium-3 is a pretty decent reason to go into space. It's not like you can find the stuff down here, at least in industrial quantities. The Moon's got lots, though!
I'd think that detonating a dirty nuke in orbit would be a very short-term problem. The solar wind and whatnot would probably clean all that out pretty quick... and it's not like space isn't terribly radioactive already. ^^
So... the United States pays for every other nations' enlightened rehabilitative justice system, sure.
You DO realize that the prison industry in the United States is exactly that: a private industry? It's in their best interests to have as many people as possible in jail at any given time. That's how they get paid, silly.
That might not be your phone, so much as your network, in regards to the no-incoming-calls thing. I've seen the provisioning on the HLRs do some pretty bizarre things, some days. :)
I mean, seriously, the script is practically already written! How hard could it be? :)
I don't know... "Ogg Vorbis" has a nice kind of flow to it. Rats, I'm going to be saying it all day, now. :P
No, only one player plays Apple's Proprietary DRM AAC files. You're making the rather large assumtion that they'll use Apple's Fairplay DRM technology. Why should they choose to pay Apple royalties, hmm, instead of developing their own or using an open standard?
It's roughly a radius of ~550km or so, given the equation:
D^2 = h*(2R+h), where D is distance to horizon, h is the altitude of the dirigible, and R is the radius of the Earth.
Just take the satellite up to the geosynchonous point of the space elevator, release it, and it will stay in orbit right there. Then fire thrusters on the satellite to slow it down gradually, letting it drop to a lower orbit. Easy-peasy, and a heck of a lot cheaper than rocketing the damn thing up there...
What the heck is 'Viral Glass'? Upper-class dining-ware made from crystalized viral protein or something?
... to stop an asteroid from striking the Earth, relatively speaking, of course. After all, you only have to alter the asteroid's arrival time by something like seven minutes (depending on the direction it's coming from, obviously) in order for it to completely miss the Earth, assuming it's starting on a collision course.
Give us 10 years of a headstart and a lot of white paint, and odds are the big rock will miss.
They've been working on creating anti-hydrogen in the lab, with some success, it seems...
:)
50,000 atoms of anti-hydrogen made
It's simply an anti-atom comprised of a single anti-proton nucleus orbited by a single positron (anti-electron).
Please don't wash your hair with 'real' poo.
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Where did you get that sig?
OMG Elite!!! If I could reach through this screen and hug you, I'd have been charged with harrassment already. :)
I'm still hoping for the day someone makes a -good- multiplayer spin-off of Elite. Possibly the only kind of MMO game I'd actually enjoy... *wistful sigh*
I'm hoping that Wil McCarthy is successful in his development of programmable matter, AKA Wellstone. I want a Bunkerlite(tm) jacket! :D