I think its great that former weapons are being used for constructive science. Continues a long tradition. Plus, I bet those missiles are the most reliable chemical launch vehicles around -- the military does not mess around when trying to kill people, and frowns heavily on equipment failure. (as a rule)
And was all that talk (Sagan's wife) about it being visible to the world true? Or was it metaphorical? I can't imagine it being THAT big at this point...
Wow...that's a great idea. I mean, what we need is more devices shining UV and IR light directly into our eyes and onto our skin that we willingly stare at for hours at a time. Vibrant colors are worth it!
...Nature finds a way. The only "downside" to this good news is that people may decide that the environment is very resilient and will care less about preservation and ecological awareness. Yes, earth can bounce back from a lot, but that doesn't mean we should try and stress it from all angles at all times!
im not saying they were EXACTLY like lions. just similar in that i bet when they weren't hunting, they were very sedentary. probably gorged on huge meals so that they wouldnt have to hunt every moment. Remember, their prey was giant sauropods...HUGE meals. could eat for a couple days on it as long as they sat by the kill.
i just dont think that a creature could sustain a growth rate like that by waiting to find some food. its gonna have to hunt, a lot. even if that means hunting for food to scavenge, its still a lot of moving around!
yeah it burns more calories, but the rewards are MUCH higher. otherwise you have to wait for something to die, or be in the right place at the right time to chase someone else off.
I bet t. rex followed a pattern like lions....mostly lazy, but hunt when hungry....and if they happen on something dead, fantastic! bonus!
To sustain that kind of growth rate, i think that pretty much proves t. rex was a predator first and a scavenger second, and a pretty fearsome predator at that.
Do people get motion sick on treadmills? Because this would solve the motion sickness problem. Youre eyes tell you youre moving (thats the VR job) and your feet are moving, your balance is shifting, your inner ear should be happy. As long as the VR accurately models what you're actually doing, it should work.
I didn't even realize people were working on VR still. Are the graphics getting better too? Id assume so. This thing looks like a really nifty fun invention. Of course, I'm wary since practical applications are the ubiquitous "5 years" away. Hopefully unpractical applications come sooner...I can see VR-DDR now with shifting tiles for people to dance on...
Well, if it racks up enough charges that you can't afford to pay your bill, then your service will be terminated. That's a pretty big modification to you phone services!
the ripple thing was a joke. if you were actually trying to bleed heat off from the inside, you would want it rippled with a fan, and attached to your house with heat-conductive goo.;)
Yellow tint, ew, but as for the Vanadium, if you have a double paned window, treat the inner side of the outer pane. No leakage or exposure to Vanadium, unless you break the glass. And no exposure to H2S rain.
If you've got heat coming through the walls, just get some old-fashioned IR reflectors -- Aluminum Foil! Put it up to reflect heat away from your walls, and maybe an old fan to blow the heat off of it. Oh, and ripple it. Your very own House Heat Sink. Overclock your house!
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, and as usual the patients suffer. Maybe Microsoft should have a Health Services division to test out patches on stuff WITH the companies.
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but quantum encrypted stuff can be decrypted....so isnt it just one more step to make the quantum bits the information instead of the wrapper?
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Early Gibson is tough to read. Give him another shot with Pattern Recognition, and if you like it, Idoru. His writing style has come a long way.
I don't normally pimp my site in a comment, but you might want to bookmark my new review site (as seen in my sig) so that you can find more sci-fi books. The initial group I have is very sci-fi friendly.;) It's not live yet, but it will be very soon (less than a week) and if you like what you see, feel free to join.
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you sure? the way i understood it, if you have a quark spinning one way, and the entangled on the other, thats 1 bit of information a quark can hold. spin left, thats 0. spin right, 1. thats binary, and you can use that to transmit information. alter the spin on one end, and it reverses on the other.
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Well Richard K Morgan's two books discussed here are more Cyberpunk than SciFi. That said, top three books?
A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge. I'd recommend the second over the first for you. It's great sci-fi, great characters, and a little weird but fascinating.
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. Amazing.
I'll go a little ways back here and recommend The Time Machine or War of the Worlds, HG Wells. Fantastic must-read for any real SF fan.
Because once the antiphotons hit our eyes we'd all annihilate.
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If you had gotten it, you would have liked it. Endings like that happen when there are what sequels are made of! Second, what he did with Hyperion was create a SciFi Canterbury Tales, and he did it really well. If you don't get Canterbury Tales and why its good, you definitely won't get Hyperion. Sometimes a greater story or a greater point can be woven with a set of of small, seemingly disjoint stories than one long contiguous novel. For classic examples, see Canterbury Tales and The Decameron.
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I think its great that former weapons are being used for constructive science. Continues a long tradition. Plus, I bet those missiles are the most reliable chemical launch vehicles around -- the military does not mess around when trying to kill people, and frowns heavily on equipment failure. (as a rule)
And was all that talk (Sagan's wife) about it being visible to the world true? Or was it metaphorical? I can't imagine it being THAT big at this point...
Wow...that's a great idea. I mean, what we need is more devices shining UV and IR light directly into our eyes and onto our skin that we willingly stare at for hours at a time. Vibrant colors are worth it!
...Nature finds a way. The only "downside" to this good news is that people may decide that the environment is very resilient and will care less about preservation and ecological awareness. Yes, earth can bounce back from a lot, but that doesn't mean we should try and stress it from all angles at all times!
im not saying they were EXACTLY like lions. just similar in that i bet when they weren't hunting, they were very sedentary. probably gorged on huge meals so that they wouldnt have to hunt every moment. Remember, their prey was giant sauropods...HUGE meals. could eat for a couple days on it as long as they sat by the kill.
i just dont think that a creature could sustain a growth rate like that by waiting to find some food. its gonna have to hunt, a lot. even if that means hunting for food to scavenge, its still a lot of moving around!
yeah it burns more calories, but the rewards are MUCH higher. otherwise you have to wait for something to die, or be in the right place at the right time to chase someone else off.
I bet t. rex followed a pattern like lions....mostly lazy, but hunt when hungry....and if they happen on something dead, fantastic! bonus!
To sustain that kind of growth rate, i think that pretty much proves t. rex was a predator first and a scavenger second, and a pretty fearsome predator at that.
uh, isnt that THREE words?
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Do people get motion sick on treadmills? Because this would solve the motion sickness problem. Youre eyes tell you youre moving (thats the VR job) and your feet are moving, your balance is shifting, your inner ear should be happy. As long as the VR accurately models what you're actually doing, it should work.
I didn't even realize people were working on VR still. Are the graphics getting better too? Id assume so. This thing looks like a really nifty fun invention. Of course, I'm wary since practical applications are the ubiquitous "5 years" away. Hopefully unpractical applications come sooner...I can see VR-DDR now with shifting tiles for people to dance on...
Well, if it racks up enough charges that you can't afford to pay your bill, then your service will be terminated. That's a pretty big modification to you phone services!
hmm, maybe we can get the spammers to play a song in the background during their spam messages...then RIAA will be all over them!
not to mention overrated. ;)
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the ripple thing was a joke. if you were actually trying to bleed heat off from the inside, you would want it rippled with a fan, and attached to your house with heat-conductive goo.
Yellow tint, ew, but as for the Vanadium, if you have a double paned window, treat the inner side of the outer pane. No leakage or exposure to Vanadium, unless you break the glass. And no exposure to H2S rain.
If you've got heat coming through the walls, just get some old-fashioned IR reflectors -- Aluminum Foil! Put it up to reflect heat away from your walls, and maybe an old fan to blow the heat off of it. Oh, and ripple it. Your very own House Heat Sink. Overclock your house!
Obligatory "This has nothing to do with my rights online, so why is it in YRO?" post.
For the Cubs, 220 at shortstop is a vast improvement.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, and as usual the patients suffer. Maybe Microsoft should have a Health Services division to test out patches on stuff WITH the companies.
but quantum encrypted stuff can be decrypted....so isnt it just one more step to make the quantum bits the information instead of the wrapper?
Early Gibson is tough to read. Give him another shot with Pattern Recognition, and if you like it, Idoru. His writing style has come a long way.
;) It's not live yet, but it will be very soon (less than a week) and if you like what you see, feel free to join.
I don't normally pimp my site in a comment, but you might want to bookmark my new review site (as seen in my sig) so that you can find more sci-fi books. The initial group I have is very sci-fi friendly.
you sure? the way i understood it, if you have a quark spinning one way, and the entangled on the other, thats 1 bit of information a quark can hold. spin left, thats 0. spin right, 1. thats binary, and you can use that to transmit information. alter the spin on one end, and it reverses on the other.
Well Richard K Morgan's two books discussed here are more Cyberpunk than SciFi. That said, top three books?
A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge. I'd recommend the second over the first for you. It's great sci-fi, great characters, and a little weird but fascinating.
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. Amazing.
I'll go a little ways back here and recommend The Time Machine or War of the Worlds, HG Wells. Fantastic must-read for any real SF fan.
A new car with old technology from another manufacturer! Sweet! I can't wait!
What's the damn point? I could just buy a used prius.
Because once the antiphotons hit our eyes we'd all annihilate.
If you had gotten it, you would have liked it. Endings like that happen when there are what sequels are made of! Second, what he did with Hyperion was create a SciFi Canterbury Tales, and he did it really well. If you don't get Canterbury Tales and why its good, you definitely won't get Hyperion. Sometimes a greater story or a greater point can be woven with a set of of small, seemingly disjoint stories than one long contiguous novel. For classic examples, see Canterbury Tales and The Decameron.