A single human on Mars could do in a week more than every previous rover on mars put together has accomplished to date.
Yes, if you wait to start the clock when the first human steps foot on Mars. But the clock has been running for a while, and robots have a big head start in results.
Maybe they had them in their front pockets. Or they were used to having a smaller phone in their back pocket that they could sit down with. Notice how people typically don't sit on their pockets.
Not likely. Modern LED fixtures are better designed to aim the light down to the street, they are often dimmable so they can be dimmed down during the really dark hours.
The problem is that the lifespan of a LED/CFL bulb depends on temperature, hours/day, and how many times it's switched on. A simple date wouldn't be able to capture all those variables.
I've tried every brand of CFL, including the expensive ones, and it's hit or miss. I've had several expensive name brand CFLs (e.g. Philips) fail within a year.
A refrigerator just needs some electricity. Whether that is provided by something alive or not doesn't matter. The sun wasn't designed and built by something alive, and yet it provides energy for plenty of life forms on Earth.
Yet both will burn out and extinguish themselves, and neither can evolve in a Darwinian sense.
Unfit replicators will die out. That's one aspect of evolution, and it happens all the time. I wouldn't classify fire as a molecular replicator, by the way.
There are already satellites with good camera's orbiting Mars, so it's smarter to allocate the mass budget of a new orbiter to different types of sensors, rather than clones of stuff we already have.
Evolution happens as soon as you have a simple molecule that can replicate itself, or at least catalyse some reaction that leads to more copies of itself. If your definition of life does not include self-replicating molecules, then there was evolution before life.
How about people making the choice not to take out a high interest loan ? Same effect, but it doesn't involve waiting for the schmuck in the suit to get honest.
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A single human on Mars could do in a week more than every previous rover on mars put together has accomplished to date.
Yes, if you wait to start the clock when the first human steps foot on Mars. But the clock has been running for a while, and robots have a big head start in results.
It's fun ?
Maybe they had them in their front pockets. Or they were used to having a smaller phone in their back pocket that they could sit down with. Notice how people typically don't sit on their pockets.
Just give them a new battery. Apple customers typically buy the next model long before the battery wears out, so that's not a problem.
how do you get away from the "I nicked my iPhone dropping it out of my car, let me bend it and get a new one" crowd?
1. Examine old phone carefully for damage
2. Damage the new phone in the same way (minus the bend), before handing it to the customer.
More likely, pound is short for pound force, so they're talking about a force, not pressure.
Not likely. Modern LED fixtures are better designed to aim the light down to the street, they are often dimmable so they can be dimmed down during the really dark hours.
Even better is to clench the handle of a spoon between your teeth, and then pluck the end to make it vibrate.
I would hire him as a script writer for the technobabble parts in Star Trek. Apart from that, forget it.
Depends. If the lamp was hot when it broke, the mercury vapor has already escaped.
There's no guarantee that the bulb that is sold for a high price isn't actually the same piece of cheap shit inside, just sold for a greater profit.
The problem is that the lifespan of a LED/CFL bulb depends on temperature, hours/day, and how many times it's switched on. A simple date wouldn't be able to capture all those variables.
I've tried every brand of CFL, including the expensive ones, and it's hit or miss. I've had several expensive name brand CFLs (e.g. Philips) fail within a year.
CFL have electrodes at the end of the tube, which will fail over time. You can tell by the fact that the ends of the tube start to get black.
Well, the sun not organized to continually minimize local entropy, which was the definition I was going by in this tangent.
A refrigerator just needs some electricity. Whether that is provided by something alive or not doesn't matter. The sun wasn't designed and built by something alive, and yet it provides energy for plenty of life forms on Earth.
That's not a good definition
I didn't state a definition.
Yet both will burn out and extinguish themselves, and neither can evolve in a Darwinian sense.
Unfit replicators will die out. That's one aspect of evolution, and it happens all the time. I wouldn't classify fire as a molecular replicator, by the way.
A living chemical system is organized to continually minimize local entropy
A refrigerator lowers local entropy. Is it alive ?
There are already satellites with good camera's orbiting Mars, so it's smarter to allocate the mass budget of a new orbiter to different types of sensors, rather than clones of stuff we already have.
Evolution happens as soon as you have a simple molecule that can replicate itself, or at least catalyse some reaction that leads to more copies of itself. If your definition of life does not include self-replicating molecules, then there was evolution before life.
There are no controversial spots. There are just a bunch of idiots, and they can't be reasoned with.
How about people making the choice not to take out a high interest loan ? Same effect, but it doesn't involve waiting for the schmuck in the suit to get honest.
But shit happens and oh my god you could be a whole 3 days late on a payment!
Just keep a spare payment ready in a savings account, and then you can always make it on time, even if shit happens.
I bet it also bends in your pocket.
Plants need plenty of water, and the places where good water is available are already covered in plants.