> I like that idea, faster than light travel should have happened during the big bang > because matter did end up somewhere further than light can travel in that time.
The trouble with your inflation drive is that you will always end up farther from both your starting point and your destination than you were when you departed.
In fact, the particles that comprise you will all end up farther apart then they were when you fired up the drive. That could have unpleasant side effects.
Under US law there is no such thing as theft of data. There is "theft" of trade secrets, but trade secret law would not apply here. Merely receiving this data was not any sort of crime.
> If H1N1 is able to infect humans... and it's able to infect swine... and it's > transferable from swine to humans... why wouldn't it be transferable from human to > swine? How is this news?
a) It was not known for sure before this that it could infect swine (and be transferred among them).
b) It has never been known to be transmitted from swine to humans.
> I read a survey that showed that 27% of people who identified as conservative/Republican > believed that "Colbert was making serious points, delivered in a humorous manner".
Whereas 87% of people who identified as liberal/Democrat agreed with them, differing only on the exact nature of the points made.
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Weapons do not contain Pu-238 which is what NASA needs for their thermoelectric generators. Pu-239, which is what is used in weapons, won't do.
This about Pu-238 for use in thermoelectric generators. Pu-239 does not produce enough heat.
> That's because those isotopes were created the last time the sun went nova...
Speak for yourself. Our sun has never gone nova.
> A main part of the problem is that sand storms blow so much sand on surrounding
> grasslands, it kills the plants and spreads the desert.
Then why is the entire world not desert?
> I like that idea, faster than light travel should have happened during the big bang
> because matter did end up somewhere further than light can travel in that time.
The trouble with your inflation drive is that you will always end up farther from both your starting point and your destination than you were when you departed.
In fact, the particles that comprise you will all end up farther apart then they were when you fired up the drive. That could have unpleasant side effects.
So you are saying that "active galaxies" are just evidence that somebody is in a hurry?
And don't forget the "impact absorbing" hoods. They'll leave buttprints.
So if some guy leans on your hood he does $800 damage?
> But how does it taste?
Like chicken.
But where is the male morning after pill?
"poundal", not "poundle". However, the pound is now "officially" a unit of mass, at least in the USA.
> ...being in receipt of stolen data...
Under US law there is no such thing as theft of data. There is "theft" of trade secrets, but trade secret law would not apply here. Merely receiving this data was not any sort of crime.
> The drift from pigs to humans...
Citation, please?
And that reaction is why it should not be called swine flu.
> I'd be far more worried if the swine hadn't been infected.
While it is not too surprising that it can infect swine, it also would not have been too surprising if it couldn't. It's a human inluenza.
> That implies a mutation.
Flu mutates all the time.
> That the disease has taken root in the human population.
Flu took root in the human population a long, long, long time ago.
> If H1N1 is able to infect humans... and it's able to infect swine... and it's
> transferable from swine to humans... why wouldn't it be transferable from human to
> swine? How is this news?
a) It was not known for sure before this that it could infect swine (and be transferred among them).
b) It has never been known to be transmitted from swine to humans.
Not doing it at all is one alternative.
> Note that they're talking about "premium content".
Then I'll never pay, since I never watch "premium content" (on YouTube or anywhere else).
> You're never going to be charged to watch a prairie dog turn around to dramatic sounding
> music.
Don't be so sure. If Disney does it and markets it well enough...
None.
No, I would not.
I thought this was about social networking sites.
> I read a survey that showed that 27% of people who identified as conservative/Republican
> believed that "Colbert was making serious points, delivered in a humorous manner".
Whereas 87% of people who identified as liberal/Democrat agreed with them, differing only on the exact nature of the points made.
> Ye gods.
Indeed.
Onwers of the result of breeding a stallion to a jennet will object.
> A) Stupid people stop eating pork. -- Good! Prices will fall, and I like cheap pork.
Some people make their livings producing pork.
> B) Stupid people feel there's a stigma attached to swine. They may not seek treatment.
Right. Instead they will ride the subway and sneeze on you.
> H1N1 is believed to have been initially spread from a rather unkempt pig farm in
> Mexico...
There is no evidence whatsoever for that, and considerable evidence against it.