Rather than defend another person's figures, I'll just site my source as I should have done: Giancoli - Physics 4th edition page 449.
The 30% figure seems high (they're actually claiming "over 30%"). The fact is that the amount of solar radiation hitting the earth is absolutely huge, and we're able to harness such a small percent of it (10, or 15% like you said) that it's simply not worth it on a big scale - maybe in Dominica, but not in America. Don't listen to a damn thing Green Peace tells you otherwise.
Lastly, in answer to A.C.'s mathematical diatribe, 18,000 was based on a ratio of 1700 MW per 300,000 people. I stand by the figures I listed (except the "30%" as I just explained). I don't know why our numbers don't match up, so I'm forced to concede victory to you.
The best solar cells generally have about 30% efficiency, relative to the total flux of sunlight hitting the earth in the given area. To output 100 MW requires about 1 square mile of cells - that's enough power for about 18,000 people (Americans, that is... or about a million Dominicans).
What is/.'s official (or unofficial) stand on webpages like Trolldot.org, which take content directly from users' posts? Although the webpage seems to be in good fun, what if they suddenly started severely misbehaving? Would/. take legal action to protect its users?
"Just hope it doesn't become a problem..." ???
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Though I suspect the original accusation of a double-standard was just a troll to begin with, it's a fair question nonetheless, and somebody had this great rebuttal censored: ---------- "I'm not sure what you're not understanding about it. Back during the Gulf War, Iraq was tired of the coalition forces kicking its ass, so it agreed to certain sanctions in exchange for a cease-fire. The UN Security Council later decided that Iraq would have to destroy its chemical weapons (among other things) before it would consider lifting the sanctions.
The Iraqi goverment only brought the restrictions on itself by being a destabilizing force in an already shaky region."
Bacteria can be engineered to "eat" toxic chemicals in contaminated areas, thus cleaning the place up after an attack from Saddam's illegal stock-piles. There was an army project to do this some years ago, and it was shown to be fesible. (I don't know if they followed through with the idea.)
So SPAM is not only free speech (according to the ever-patronizing Dick Gephardt), but now they can just put words in your mouth, say by writing the "ad" as a P.S. or a very clever sentence. -------------------- By the way, I totally love Vermont Teddybears. If you love me, send me one! 1-800-555-SPAM
Green sulfur bacteria are obligate anaerobic photoautotrophs. They were probably among the first forms of life in the universe. Who knows whether they go from planet-to-planet via meteoric debris, or if they occur naturally with the formation of young planets. I tend to assume the latter case.
Yeah, the same way Bill Gates "forgot" his own e-mails during testimony to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Gates bickered with government antitrust prosecutors who grilled the Microsoft chairman over his own e-mail correspondence. Gates, co-founder of the world's largest software company, frequently forgot or disavowed meetings and correspondence to his top executives.
"I don't remember sending it," Gates said after handed a piece of his own correspondence. He added, "It appears to be an e-mail I sent."
That's a figure I remember from the 1980s, so it's roughly still valid I bet.
Littering with old Budweiser cans is ugly, but generally it's harmless to the environment. In fact I'm sure some insects just love to lay their eggs in them when rainwater pools. It does cost money, trees, and energy to go mining new supplies of Aluminum of course.
I'm sure such a fungus might be put to some manufacturing use. Sounds like a research project - thanks!
I'll harp on G'N'R since I consider myself a "real fan"... It's pretty well known that the press hated G'N'R - the band based a whole album on the lies that reporters were priniting, going so far in one future song to NAME THE REPORTERS who were doing it, and ranting about "punks like Warren Beaty" at their stadium shows!
Appetite was great, mostly because it was the right sound at the right time, and the band's image certainly helped sell the album. Then they came out with Lies, a decent album and a "must-have" for any true fan. Along came 1992, and they proceeded to go on a huge world tour to promote Use Your Illusion 1 and 2. Of course they were famous for filling stadiums and putting on a great show - but the real strength of the band at that point was in the albums themselves, UYI 1&2. To this day, I'm still trying to figure out from where they stole their songs (OK - Heaven's Door is a cover...). I can't believe that Axl et al. have the depth of thought to put together a song like Estranged - in short, both albums are timeless, not reflecting "the scene" of rock in any city, or of the early 1990s, or whatever. The songs sold themselves, and (in my unbiased opinion...) deserve true artistic recognition - they're not just pop rock (don't get me started on how Kid Rock whored the G'N'R sound and image). And then there were the videos that they made for UYI - also extremely well done considering how needless they were - like the extra stroke on a canvas that may just ruin a masterpiece, the videos came out OK.
Then came "The Spaghetti Incident?", a punk album. Punk (almost by definition) lacks the constraints of dramatic composition, the hallmark of the UYI albums. Maybe the band just wanted a change from... *cough* putting effort into their songs, most likely they were just burned out at that point. To summarize, the only good song they've made since UYI is Sympathy for the Devil, a cover used in the Interview With the Vampire soundtrack that totally puts the Rolling Stones version to SHAME.
To summarize, G'N'R's success and failure correlated with the quality of their work, and I don't think they're a good example of how promotional campaigns can make-or-break a band.
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That's hilarious... but it got me thinking - if you could magically construct a planet, say a gas giant, and keep a good proportion of it as oxygen, how long could it last before spontaneous ignition occurs? I remember touching on certain rare chemical events in an astronomy class - like a star depends on these events for fusion to occur, something like 14 times per second it occurs in our sun (not combustion, but some sort of rare collision between certain atoms). I'd imagine the crushing pressure from gravity would limit the size of such a planet, but how big could it get? (... sounds like a fair question for the final exam!)
I hope they don't go giving it some ridiculous body design like you see at car shows. If the they actually made hybrid/electric cars that LOOK NORMAL, I think there'd be more interest.
I wouldn't be caught dead in all kinds of cars, simply because some models have a very un-manly perception. Among them:
anything from Toyota or Nissan. They're built well enough, but God they're ugly!
the VW Bug, or anything from VW - forgive me, but I'm not a big fan of post-Nazi automakers
any kind of hatch-back. I don't want to look like a fucking soccer-mom. This knocks off about 75% of all prototype cars.
Trucks are fine, but SUVs are NOT ok. They're for yuppie scum, and I'm no yuppie.
Lastly, the Kia, Neon, Honda, and Saturn all make my "bad list" - they're "sensible" cars. Yeah, real fun.
Give me a 1978 Chevy Impalla any day - or an early 80s model Ford Bronco. Actually, I'd love to have a Chevy Suburban except for one thing - they named it "The Suburban"... sorry, no deal!
I don't have kids either, but if I did I'm sure I could explain it to them with what all kids understand - a little bit of humor. Just tell them with a smile that there are some sick, sick people in the world. If they don't get it right away, they'll eventually see that "nasty porn" at their friends house, and probably go "Eeeeeeewwww!!"
To put it in perspective - explaining deviant sex is PEANUTS compared to explaining other things - like why people kill, how wars happen, and everything else you see on the nightly news.
I was standing toward the left door, where pieces of the roof fell down. You might have noticed they cleared away a small area during the show. Anyways I haven't seen them come back since then. If anyone wants to go see a show sometime in Worcester or Boston, maybe we could get a regional/. club going.
I saw it live in Worcester, when they toured with Crystal Method and Low Fi Allstars - it was definitly one of the high points of my life. Unfortunately all the bootlegs I've heard are poor quality, or they have annoying fans cheering over the music, so I was very happy that they put out a studio version. Nothing beats seeing it live though!
I'm guessing it's a matter of what the engineers consider acceptable safety margins. Assuming they want 30 years out of the aircraft without it falling apart, it's better to put less strain on it during long stretches of peace-time. During wartime, who cares about a little extra wear-and-tear on the plane when urgent supplies need to be flown...
... a helium-filled airship that can carry 350,000 pounds.
Compare that to the C-5 Galaxy, max wartime payload: 291,000 lbs (source: U.S. Air Force Online Encyclopedia). More than the biggest transport aircraft in the US! But easier to shoot down of course.
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I once mounted this chick's rack... too bad it was just a magazine.
Rather than defend another person's figures, I'll just site my source as I should have done: Giancoli - Physics 4th edition page 449.
The 30% figure seems high (they're actually claiming "over 30%"). The fact is that the amount of solar radiation hitting the earth is absolutely huge, and we're able to harness such a small percent of it (10, or 15% like you said) that it's simply not worth it on a big scale - maybe in Dominica, but not in America. Don't listen to a damn thing Green Peace tells you otherwise.
Lastly, in answer to A.C.'s mathematical diatribe, 18,000 was based on a ratio of 1700 MW per 300,000 people. I stand by the figures I listed (except the "30%" as I just explained). I don't know why our numbers don't match up, so I'm forced to concede victory to you.
The best solar cells generally have about 30% efficiency, relative to the total flux of sunlight hitting the earth in the given area. To output 100 MW requires about 1 square mile of cells - that's enough power for about 18,000 people (Americans, that is... or about a million Dominicans).
No kidding, I always thought CMB" stood for Cosmic Microwave Burrito.
(Taco Bell has its own space program you know...)
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"Just hope it doesn't become a problem..." ???
Though I suspect the original accusation of a double-standard was just a troll to begin with, it's a fair question nonetheless, and somebody had this great rebuttal censored:
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" I'm not sure what you're not understanding about it. Back during the Gulf War, Iraq was tired of the coalition forces kicking its ass, so it agreed to certain sanctions in exchange for a cease-fire. The UN Security Council later decided that Iraq would have to destroy its chemical weapons (among other things) before it would consider lifting the sanctions.
The Iraqi goverment only brought the restrictions on itself by being a destabilizing force in an already shaky region. "
Bacteria can be engineered to "eat" toxic chemicals in contaminated areas, thus cleaning the place up after an attack from Saddam's illegal stock-piles. There was an army project to do this some years ago, and it was shown to be fesible. (I don't know if they followed through with the idea.)
So SPAM is not only free speech (according to the ever-patronizing Dick Gephardt), but now they can just put words in your mouth, say by writing the "ad" as a P.S. or a very clever sentence.
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By the way, I totally love Vermont Teddybears. If you love me, send me one! 1-800-555-SPAM
Green sulfur bacteria are obligate anaerobic photoautotrophs. They were probably among the first forms of life in the universe. Who knows whether they go from planet-to-planet via meteoric debris, or if they occur naturally with the formation of young planets. I tend to assume the latter case.
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That's a figure I remember from the 1980s, so it's roughly still valid I bet.
Littering with old Budweiser cans is ugly, but generally it's harmless to the environment. In fact I'm sure some insects just love to lay their eggs in them when rainwater pools. It does cost money, trees, and energy to go mining new supplies of Aluminum of course.
I'm sure such a fungus might be put to some manufacturing use. Sounds like a research project - thanks!
I'll harp on G'N'R since I consider myself a "real fan"... It's pretty well known that the press hated G'N'R - the band based a whole album on the lies that reporters were priniting, going so far in one future song to NAME THE REPORTERS who were doing it, and ranting about "punks like Warren Beaty" at their stadium shows!
Appetite was great, mostly because it was the right sound at the right time, and the band's image certainly helped sell the album. Then they came out with Lies, a decent album and a "must-have" for any true fan. Along came 1992, and they proceeded to go on a huge world tour to promote Use Your Illusion 1 and 2. Of course they were famous for filling stadiums and putting on a great show - but the real strength of the band at that point was in the albums themselves, UYI 1&2. To this day, I'm still trying to figure out from where they stole their songs (OK - Heaven's Door is a cover...). I can't believe that Axl et al. have the depth of thought to put together a song like Estranged - in short, both albums are timeless, not reflecting "the scene" of rock in any city, or of the early 1990s, or whatever. The songs sold themselves, and (in my unbiased opinion...) deserve true artistic recognition - they're not just pop rock (don't get me started on how Kid Rock whored the G'N'R sound and image). And then there were the videos that they made for UYI - also extremely well done considering how needless they were - like the extra stroke on a canvas that may just ruin a masterpiece, the videos came out OK.
Then came "The Spaghetti Incident?", a punk album. Punk (almost by definition) lacks the constraints of dramatic composition, the hallmark of the UYI albums. Maybe the band just wanted a change from... *cough* putting effort into their songs, most likely they were just burned out at that point. To summarize, the only good song they've made since UYI is Sympathy for the Devil, a cover used in the Interview With the Vampire soundtrack that totally puts the Rolling Stones version to SHAME.
To summarize, G'N'R's success and failure correlated with the quality of their work, and I don't think they're a good example of how promotional campaigns can make-or-break a band.
That's hilarious... but it got me thinking - if you could magically construct a planet, say a gas giant, and keep a good proportion of it as oxygen, how long could it last before spontaneous ignition occurs? I remember touching on certain rare chemical events in an astronomy class - like a star depends on these events for fusion to occur, something like 14 times per second it occurs in our sun (not combustion, but some sort of rare collision between certain atoms). I'd imagine the crushing pressure from gravity would limit the size of such a planet, but how big could it get? (... sounds like a fair question for the final exam!)
24 seconds -- just the right time for a geek to get off if it's some kind of sex scene...
I wouldn't be caught dead in all kinds of cars, simply because some models have a very un-manly perception. Among them:
anything from Toyota or Nissan. They're built well enough, but God they're ugly!
the VW Bug, or anything from VW - forgive me, but I'm not a big fan of post-Nazi automakers
any kind of hatch-back. I don't want to look like a fucking soccer-mom. This knocks off about 75% of all prototype cars.
Trucks are fine, but SUVs are NOT ok. They're for yuppie scum, and I'm no yuppie.
Lastly, the Kia, Neon, Honda, and Saturn all make my "bad list" - they're "sensible" cars. Yeah, real fun.
Give me a 1978 Chevy Impalla any day - or an early 80s model Ford Bronco. Actually, I'd love to have a Chevy Suburban except for one thing - they named it "The Suburban"... sorry, no deal!
SPOKEN LIKE A HYPOCRITE. (Or maybe just a troll...)
I don't have kids either, but if I did I'm sure I could explain it to them with what all kids understand - a little bit of humor. Just tell them with a smile that there are some sick, sick people in the world. If they don't get it right away, they'll eventually see that "nasty porn" at their friends house, and probably go "Eeeeeeewwww!!"
To put it in perspective - explaining deviant sex is PEANUTS compared to explaining other things - like why people kill, how wars happen, and everything else you see on the nightly news.
"... goes to -- Brian 'Rocket Guy' Walker!"
Maybe David Cash can capture the Kodak moment when Brian goes up on Challenger Two.
I was standing toward the left door, where pieces of the roof fell down. You might have noticed they cleared away a small area during the show. Anyways I haven't seen them come back since then. If anyone wants to go see a show sometime in Worcester or Boston, maybe we could get a regional /. club going.
I saw it live in Worcester, when they toured with Crystal Method and Low Fi Allstars - it was definitly one of the high points of my life. Unfortunately all the bootlegs I've heard are poor quality, or they have annoying fans cheering over the music, so I was very happy that they put out a studio version. Nothing beats seeing it live though!
'Remembrance of the Daleks'
... in a 7th Doctor episode. It looked so stupid, I think it helped get the show off the air in the first place!
I'm guessing it's a matter of what the engineers consider acceptable safety margins. Assuming they want 30 years out of the aircraft without it falling apart, it's better to put less strain on it during long stretches of peace-time. During wartime, who cares about a little extra wear-and-tear on the plane when urgent supplies need to be flown...
Compare that to the C-5 Galaxy, max wartime payload: 291,000 lbs (source: U.S. Air Force Online Encyclopedia). More than the biggest transport aircraft in the US! But easier to shoot down of course.
Question: Have you ever tested your immortality devices in terminally ill patients in a double blinded placebo controlled study?
Alex: Gee. I think some doctor in New York is doing that for me right now.
"Some doctor in New York..." That's all I need to hear -- to hell with med school, put me down for a thousand of these rings!