market prices will dictate whether the 80% of good melons go to the grocery store or to the melon refinery
More likely subsidies will dictate their use. Corn would not be used if it wasn't a heavily subsidized way to get votes (it takes more energy to create a gallon of corn-ethanol that you get from using it). You will never see those subsidies go away, because that is how the politions are buying the farmers votes. For every $1 you spend on ethenol, the government gives away something like $30.
I think they should just skip the middleman, and just convert rain-forest directly into biofuels. Make a machine that they can take to a rain forest, and have it grind up all the plants, monkeys, snakes, insects, etc. and pump out biodiesel. It will, at least, save the "burn down the trees" part of the conversion.
Currently they are just going the long way around. 1. Convert corn to biodiesel. 2. 3rd world starving because of a lack of cheap corn. 3. Slash/burn rain forest to create fields. 4. Grow corn where rain-forest used to be.
So, you biofuel users: Thanks for distroying the rain-forests (and filling the atmosphere with the burned trees, monkeys, etc) with your more expensive fuel.
Actually, what is happening is that a lot of the acres of food-land that are lost to biofuels, are being replaced by burning down rain forests. The smoke from the burning rain forests more than make up for any reduction in greenhouse gases.
Now, they are apparently looking at more food-crops to convert to burning rain forests.
If you burn corn to power the thing, you should be able to get all sorts of government money. Burning corn for fuel if thought as a very good thing. What else could you do with the crud, eat it?
Al Gore: This proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man! Internet Journalist: Al Gore claims that he invented Wasp-18b. GW Crowd: Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, claims that man created Wasp-18b. Slashdot: Al Gore crates the innernet.
Maybe what they are seeing is the Fleet of Worlds. Instead of one planet, there are eight of them, which means that they are actually orbiting on an 8 day schedule instead of 1. That would place them much farther out from the sun.
Is that using the original scale, where 0 was the boiling point of water, and 100 the freezing point? Or are you using the mangled version that reversed that?
It's not like climate science consist of two scientists who decided to agree that there's a global warming.
What do you think the word "consensus" means. Look it up in wikipedia if you have to. The entire "proof" of global warming is a consensus of a bunch of politions, actors, ace reporters, groopies, and some scientists. The rallying cry seems to be "but what if it is true?"
The higher death rates are from two things - guns and a lack of a comprehensive health-care system.
Except that this isn't true.
From an article I read somewhere: If you generate your life expectancy charts based on race, you'll find out that the US white life expectancy are in line with the rest of the world. However, the US has a smaller percentage of whites than any other country. The assorted other races are more suseptable to genetic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and such, which lowers their life expectancy. Thus with them averaged in, it lowers the overall average, but per race, the life expectancy isn't out of line with other countries.
However, splitting out life expectncy by race is not politically correct, so you have to blaim something else, such as insurance. Being able to take over an additional 1/6 of the economy is just a bonus.
R2D2 was built by the Empires version of Microsoft. Remember, Luke's uncle had a 50% failure rate when he bought R2D2 (see recent XBOX360 article). With a penny-pinching maximize profit company like MS, you should expect profit-maximizing features like using a voice chip that an only beep and requires an additional protocol-droid to understand, instead of a $0.01 more expensive one that can actually make vocal noises.
Yes, but they are going to need enormous amounts of water to plit off the hydrogen. Where are they going to get all this out in the middle of the ocean? They will need constant resupply ships just to supply all the needed water. You might just as well have the supply ships carry finished fuel instead of water.
They actually built the engines for a nuclear powered aircraft, as well as a building to house the finished plane. The plan was finally scrapped, because at the time it was a really stupid idea. A plane of that size was going to be too slow and too easy to shoot down.
You can go see the engines if you want. Look at them in the photo of this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBR-1
You should realize that you could tie a string to your cell phone, and nail the other end of the string to the wall. You would then have all the advantages of a land line.
A cell phone is usually much cheaper, gives you more options, less downtime, better service support, you can take it anywhere.
You don't have to take time off your job to babysit the maintenance guy when you have problems, if they even bother to show up. You don't have to expect your phone to quit working every time it rains.
It's more suprising the number of people who still have landlines. Probably mostly for DSL.
Don't they make a claim like this every other week? It isn't getting any more interesting. Elements of life found in an old pile of pancakes left behind in an abandoned nuclear power plant, now that would be interesting.
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He should have added another 47 rockets for the return trip;
market prices will dictate whether the 80% of good melons go to the grocery store or to the melon refinery
More likely subsidies will dictate their use. Corn would not be used if it wasn't a heavily subsidized way to get votes (it takes more energy to create a gallon of corn-ethanol that you get from using it). You will never see those subsidies go away, because that is how the politions are buying the farmers votes. For every $1 you spend on ethenol, the government gives away something like $30.
I think they should just skip the middleman, and just convert rain-forest directly into biofuels. Make a machine that they can take to a rain forest, and have it grind up all the plants, monkeys, snakes, insects, etc. and pump out biodiesel. It will, at least, save the "burn down the trees" part of the conversion.
Currently they are just going the long way around.
1. Convert corn to biodiesel.
2. 3rd world starving because of a lack of cheap corn.
3. Slash/burn rain forest to create fields.
4. Grow corn where rain-forest used to be.
So, you biofuel users: Thanks for distroying the rain-forests (and filling the atmosphere with the burned trees, monkeys, etc) with your more expensive fuel.
Actually, what is happening is that a lot of the acres of food-land that are lost to biofuels, are being replaced by burning down rain forests. The smoke from the burning rain forests more than make up for any reduction in greenhouse gases.
Now, they are apparently looking at more food-crops to convert to burning rain forests.
If you want backwards compatibility, shouldn't you get an XBOX 180?
If you burn corn to power the thing, you should be able to get all sorts of government money. Burning corn for fuel if thought as a very good thing. What else could you do with the crud, eat it?
Al Gore: This proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man!
Internet Journalist: Al Gore claims that he invented Wasp-18b.
GW Crowd: Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, claims that man created Wasp-18b.
Slashdot: Al Gore crates the innernet.
Maybe what they are seeing is the Fleet of Worlds. Instead of one planet, there are eight of them, which means that they are actually orbiting on an 8 day schedule instead of 1. That would place them much farther out from the sun.
Or else it is protected by a simple warp field.
Concrete is not a great electrical insulator, but it's not a great conductor either.
Doesn't that make it a semiconductor? Can we build a concrete transistor?
Is that using the original scale, where 0 was the boiling point of water, and 100 the freezing point? Or are you using the mangled version that reversed that?
It's not like climate science consist of two scientists who decided to agree that there's a global warming.
What do you think the word "consensus" means. Look it up in wikipedia if you have to. The entire "proof" of global warming is a consensus of a bunch of politions, actors, ace reporters, groopies, and some scientists. The rallying cry seems to be "but what if it is true?"
Let them run McAfee. Those Macs run too fast as it is, and that should make those shooter games playable by us mere humans.
Wasn't that "Foundation, and Zombies"?
http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347
Wheres the expected slashdot comment "that sounds like my old girlfriend"?
The higher death rates are from two things - guns and a lack of a comprehensive health-care system.
Except that this isn't true.
From an article I read somewhere: If you generate your life expectancy charts based on race, you'll find out that the US white life expectancy are in line with the rest of the world. However, the US has a smaller percentage of whites than any other country. The assorted other races are more suseptable to genetic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and such, which lowers their life expectancy. Thus with them averaged in, it lowers the overall average, but per race, the life expectancy isn't out of line with other countries.
However, splitting out life expectncy by race is not politically correct, so you have to blaim something else, such as insurance. Being able to take over an additional 1/6 of the economy is just a bonus.
R2D2 was built by the Empires version of Microsoft. Remember, Luke's uncle had a 50% failure rate when he bought R2D2 (see recent XBOX360 article). With a penny-pinching maximize profit company like MS, you should expect profit-maximizing features like using a voice chip that an only beep and requires an additional protocol-droid to understand, instead of a $0.01 more expensive one that can actually make vocal noises.
The really sad part of this, is that this is how our legislators actually think about nuclear power.
Yes, but they are going to need enormous amounts of water to plit off the hydrogen. Where are they going to get all this out in the middle of the ocean? They will need constant resupply ships just to supply all the needed water. You might just as well have the supply ships carry finished fuel instead of water.
They actually built the engines for a nuclear powered aircraft, as well as a building to house the finished plane. The plan was finally scrapped, because at the time it was a really stupid idea. A plane of that size was going to be too slow and too easy to shoot down.
You can go see the engines if you want. Look at them in the photo of this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBR-1
You should realize that you could tie a string to your cell phone, and nail the other end of the string to the wall. You would then have all the advantages of a land line.
You cell phone quits when you lose power? How does that work?
A cell phone is usually much cheaper, gives you more options, less downtime, better service support, you can take it anywhere.
You don't have to take time off your job to babysit the maintenance guy when you have problems, if they even bother to show up. You don't have to expect your phone to quit working every time it rains.
It's more suprising the number of people who still have landlines. Probably mostly for DSL.
Don't they make a claim like this every other week? It isn't getting any more interesting. Elements of life found in an old pile of pancakes left behind in an abandoned nuclear power plant, now that would be interesting.
Is it me, or is the scientific knowledge of these school officials even worse than the slashdot crowd?
Why don't they just select that blank textbook for all science programs, thus eliminating most of the stupid problems in all the other textbooks.