There's a chemical that poses deadly danger to us all
If we don't eliminate it, we are headed for a fall
But our governments refuse to see the writing on the wall
They're going to let us die!
CHORUS (after every verse):
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
Ban dihydrogen monoxide
Before it kills us all!
Dihydrogen monoxide is a chemical to fear
Uncounted thousands die of inhalation every year
Yet the FDA allows it in our burgers, beans, and beer
And never questions why!
In gaseous form it's subtle, without color, taste, or smell
But it's part of acid rain, and it's a greenhouse gas as well
It's also found in car exhaust, which makes our cities Hell
And dirties up the sky!
It's widely used by industry, and agriculture too
They dump it on the ground or in the river when they're through
And from the ecosystem it gets into me and you
Which they dare not deny!
You'll find dihydrogen monoxide everywhere you go
In rivers, oceans, lakes, and streams, in air and soil and snow
Its quantitative formula is simply H2O --
You'll get it if you try!
......[This verse contributed by Gary McGath]
How far DHMO has spread no one can safely tell.
They've found it on Europa, and it's on our Moon as well.
It may well turn our Solar System to a living hell!
It's filling up the sky!
Let's see... keyboard gets used a maximum of 12 hours a day, and an engineer types 50, 5-letter words a minute. That's 12 x 60 x 50 x 5 = 180,000 bytes of info a day to store in the keyboard...
On the other hand, something that only records the first few dozen keystrokes after a reboot would be great for stealing passwords.
"Do not kill." is often considered "Do not commit civil murder." Killing on the battlefield has been accepted by Jews in the first conquest of Israel, Christians in the Crusades, and by Islam when it was first spreading. Islam did a lot of converting by the sword in it's first century or two.
XNS has most of the features that people here have been mentioning, but they still haven't released the source for it. They're still saying they plan to, but they're about a year behind schedule in doing so.
With all the complaints about CO2 emissions, I'm surprised more people are talking about burning grain alcohol or other biomass.
Plant uses photosynthesis to convert H20 and CO2 into sugar. We use yeast to convert sugar into alcohol. (Or other biological fuels such as methane.) Then we burn the alcohol. CO2 is released, but it is never more than the plants first took out of the air with photosynthesis.
On the other hand, how much cropland would be required to produce amounts of alcohol equivalent to the amount of petroleum we currently consume? How long before we see food vs fuel protests?
Final note; I believe corn (one of the more common plants used to create alcohol) typically requires a fair amount of nitrogen fertilizer. For a truly reusable energy source, does anyone know of a nitrogen fixing crop that can be easily turned into alcohol?
Spinoffs? How about the SETI@Home Project popularizing distributed computing? Sure the idea was around for a long time, but SETI@Home brought it to the masses.
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On this date in 1961, Yuri Gagarin's flight.
On this date in 1981, first flight of the Space Shuttle.
In twenty years we went from a one man capsule to the space shuttle. In the next twenty we went from the space shuttle to...the space shuttle.
NASA isn't a space agency, it's a jobs program. Bring back the Delta Clipper.
I heard this story from my Naval Architecture professor in 1984. Supposedly the machine shop was discovered sometime in the 80's when they were trying to trace a leak in a pipe.
Pipe goes in here. Pipe comes out there. How do we get to to that 20 foot space in between?
I once spent two months working at a shipyard in Tacoma. We were working on the third in a series of medium endurance cutters for the Coast Guard. My team was working on ducts, in the same compartment another team was working on piping. During coffeebreak, we compared plans.
Your pipes go through our ducts!.
Your ducts go through our pipes!.
Trundle off to Engineering for a solution..
The solution? Both teams were sent back to work, whoever got to the disputed space first was fine, the second place team would have to have a rework drawing drawn up..
I could see this on the first ship in a series, but the third?
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While we are talking about dangerous chemicals...
The DHMO Song
Mark A. Mandel, © 1997
to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
There's a chemical that poses deadly danger to us all
If we don't eliminate it, we are headed for a fall
But our governments refuse to see the writing on the wall
They're going to let us die!
CHORUS (after every verse):
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
Ban dihydrogen monoxide
Before it kills us all!
Dihydrogen monoxide is a chemical to fear
Uncounted thousands die of inhalation every year
Yet the FDA allows it in our burgers, beans, and beer
And never questions why!
In gaseous form it's subtle, without color, taste, or smell
But it's part of acid rain, and it's a greenhouse gas as well
It's also found in car exhaust, which makes our cities Hell
And dirties up the sky!
It's widely used by industry, and agriculture too
They dump it on the ground or in the river when they're through
And from the ecosystem it gets into me and you
Which they dare not deny!
You'll find dihydrogen monoxide everywhere you go
In rivers, oceans, lakes, and streams, in air and soil and snow
Its quantitative formula is simply H2O --
You'll get it if you try!
......[This verse contributed by Gary McGath]
How far DHMO has spread no one can safely tell.
They've found it on Europa, and it's on our Moon as well.
It may well turn our Solar System to a living hell!
It's filling up the sky!
"All models are wrong. Some are useful."
The Russians have some huge ex-military transport planes that they rent out for large payloads.
Let's see... keyboard gets used a maximum of 12 hours a day, and an engineer types 50, 5-letter words a minute. That's 12 x 60 x 50 x 5 = 180,000 bytes of info a day to store in the keyboard...
On the other hand, something that only records the first few dozen keystrokes after a reboot would be great for stealing passwords.
I like the sentiments expressed in The Word of God by Cat Faber. Here's the first verse.
Lyrics and melody © 1994 by Catherine Faber
From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design,
Strike-slip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline. . .
We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known,
And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone.
Odd, long-vanished creatures and their tracks & shells are found;
Where truth has left its sketches on the slate below the ground.
The patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks.
Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the rocks.
> This is a tad off-topic, but I suppose I'm not the only one wondering what TANSTAAFL stands for.
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, came from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.
"Do not kill." is often considered "Do not commit civil murder." Killing on the battlefield has been accepted by Jews in the first conquest of Israel, Christians in the Crusades, and by Islam when it was first spreading. Islam did a lot of converting by the sword in it's first century or two.
XNS has most of the features that people here have been mentioning, but they still haven't released the source for it. They're still saying they plan to, but they're about a year behind schedule in doing so.
XNS (extensible name service) already addresses some of this. See their webpage for general information, or this page for a nutshell description
Said the old guy of the Assembler coder: "He doesn't even know how to change tubes!"
The Three Stooges were using seltzer bottles as water pistols before most of the people in this discussion were born.
With all the complaints about CO2 emissions, I'm surprised more people are talking about burning grain alcohol or other biomass.
Plant uses photosynthesis to convert H20 and CO2 into sugar. We use yeast to convert sugar into alcohol. (Or other biological fuels such as methane.) Then we burn the alcohol. CO2 is released, but it is never more than the plants first took out of the air with photosynthesis.
On the other hand, how much cropland would be required to produce amounts of alcohol equivalent to the amount of petroleum we currently consume? How long before we see food vs fuel protests?
Final note; I believe corn (one of the more common plants used to create alcohol) typically requires a fair amount of nitrogen fertilizer. For a truly reusable energy source, does anyone know of a nitrogen fixing crop that can be easily turned into alcohol?
Yes. Here's a chart.
Yes, but the big black rectangular thing says that we should go over there.
The penguins in the aquarium are part of the underwater IP working group.
Spinoffs? How about the SETI@Home Project popularizing distributed computing? Sure the idea was around for a long time, but SETI@Home brought it to the masses.
On this date in 1961, Yuri Gagarin's flight.
On this date in 1981, first flight of the Space Shuttle.
In twenty years we went from a one man capsule to the space shuttle. In the next twenty we went from the space shuttle to...the space shuttle.
NASA isn't a space agency, it's a jobs program. Bring back the Delta Clipper.
I heard this story from my Naval Architecture professor in 1984. Supposedly the machine shop was discovered sometime in the 80's when they were trying to trace a leak in a pipe.
Pipe goes in here. Pipe comes out there. How do we get to to that 20 foot space in between?
I once spent two months working at a shipyard in Tacoma. We were working on the third in a series of medium endurance cutters for the Coast Guard. My team was working on ducts, in the same compartment another team was working on piping. During coffeebreak, we compared plans.
Your pipes go through our ducts!.
Your ducts go through our pipes!.
Trundle off to Engineering for a solution..
The solution? Both teams were sent back to work, whoever got to the disputed space first was fine, the second place team would have to have a rework drawing drawn up..
I could see this on the first ship in a series, but the third?