He may be correct, so long as he was using the correct place to measure time. "Now" is dependent on your frame of reference, if the frame of reference is earth then "now" there is a metric fuck-ton of water around that super massive black hole, if the frame of reference is there then there may be "now," a lot less. Who know's what "now" via an earth based frame of reference +12 billion years will hold.
This reminds me of an old simulation like this that was done in 3d. At the time it had to be run on a uni mainframe, but this was years ago... would love to find that and see what could be done with my desktop rig.
I mostly agree with you, however I was very impressed with the Chicago Electric cutting torch I got for $50. I used it almost everyday for 2 years in a shipyard, made better cuts than a $300 victor. It even worked after someone ran it over with a fork.
No, as a metal worker I can say that the mild steel, stainless, mag and aluminum that our shop gets from China is FULL of impurity. I can tell if the steel is from America vs. China / Mexico by the amount of crap that sticks to my tungsten. If after a rod of GOOD filler rod and no dips you need to re-grind your tungsten, it isn't a pure aloy. The issue gets worse and worse the more the more specialized the alloy. Having worked in airspace, if you don't dip your tung in the Al alloy you should NEVER have spit, and should have a weld stronger than the base metal.
That is unless someone has some fun with you.... Try a simple exchange of magnisum filler rod for Al. Welds the same, however the bead just falls off when done. If you try this just know when to run.
As far as I know that is the general rule in the US, not sure about 401k... I'm under the impression that 'our dear mayor' Bloomburg had to sell his stake in Bloomburg TV upon taking the thron^h^h^h mayorship.
I have the t-mobile version (vibrant) and haven't had an issue with it other than when I'm in midtown Manhattan, and then the wifi/celltower feature pegs me with in half a block.
The difference is that when an automatic does go, the parts are more expensive and the job is more complex because there is no convenient place to put a point of failure. In a manual, the designed point of failure is the clutch pads. it is relatively simple to pull it apart and replace the pads. At most, in a well designed car like a Subaru, it is a 2 or 3 hour job. I've seen automatics take 2 days. At $90/hour for shop time the repair of an automatic means you eat ramen for a month, while the servicing of a clutch means you can have some steak.
When I worked in the ship yards as a welder, I would find a job to do that involved using a cutting torch when I was hung over. For the first few hours of the day I would take regular "hits" of pure O2 from the tank, worked like a charm.
Earth may have resources that are "useful," however all the stuff we have on earth is found further out of the Sun's gravity well. Main belt asteroids have more heavy metals than earth, and you don't need to crawl out of a deep well to remove them from the solar system. And if you are only after water and gases, the oort cloud has more than enough that the cost to weight of getting the minuscule amount we have here on earth just isn't worth the energy. The ONLY reasons I can see for a hostile race to worry about humans is our technology (not likely if they are interstellar race), genetic mapping for bio war, to remove a possible future threat (the most probable reason I can think of) or, finally to colonize a planet in the "Goldie Locks zone." That last one has a lot of issues that may make it more beneficial to sterilize the planet due to biological contamination, and in that case mars would seem to be the better planet to transform IMHO.
In any other case I can think of, they would contact us and see what they could learn or teach us, or place a probe in the outer solar system to watch us. Not a lot of reason to worry about it all.
We get observed, first contact or death and there is nothing we can do to change it.
Well It is a good thing that planet hunters are better at finding things than you, seeing as they have found 358 extrasolar planets. From what I hear, it is much harder to observe the wobble of a star's red shift or see the wink of a star as a planet travels between us and it, than it is to break open a rock in a known trilobite bed.
I've been prepping my sons (3.5 years and 7 months) for their first viewing of Alien/Aliens since birth by grabbing their entire face with my hand. They think its funny... at least for now.
This reminds me of when my parents took me to see Alien when I was 5. Good time had by all due to a weeks worth of sleep deprivation.
The point is that the very large and active Mt. St Helens could be just a small vent for a much larger volcano. One who's crater / caldera is close to 2000 square miles. If true, something like this going off would make Krakatoa look like firecracker. As in, all of the US and a good chuck of Canada and Mexico covered with ash.
The reason the people are researching this is intellectual curiosity, and for the grant money that pays the scientists bills. This information may or may not have any use to anyone alive today, but it is a part of the puzzle of how the universe works. Perhaps in the distant future, this information and countless other data points will help humanity solve some problem. Or it may be just a useless piece of trivia. The point is, we do not, nor can can we know what things we learn about our universe will be useful down the road. Better to collect all the observations we can in hopes that it will be of use.
My last job was as a pipe fitter on a 220' research vessel. We had lots of downtime due to the incompetents of the management.
One day a coworker purchased a cheap taser to play with. We killed hours zapping other people and ourselves with it. I guess after years of getting zapped while welding in the rain has had made us able to deal with 50000 volts.
On a side note, a taser works great to light a cutting torch.
Thank you for putting into words what I've thought for as long as I've been old enough to understand the concept.
It should be added, that parents need to have the balls to do their job and say no. When the child asks, "Why not?" understand that, "Because I said so," is not a response that teaches anything. The only thing that accomplishes is the child thinking, 'It's fun and Mom/Dad doesn't want me to have any fun.' resulting in a child that has no understanding of logic or reason.
A woman goes to the doctor and tells him she is convinced she is dead. Doctor says, "But you are talking with me, if you were dead you wouldn't be able to do that would you?" She says, "I'm very sure I am dead." So the doctor says, "let me see your finger." He stabs it with a needle and says, "see, you are beeding." Woman responds, "I'll be damned, dead people do bleed!"
Moral of the story... People with an altered mental status don't always play by the same rules that the rest of the world play by.
I just moved to Houston a month or so ago, and didn't know a damn thing about what fire ants looked like. from what people had said I expeced something like the huge red ants we had in Colorado. I have to go out side every hour or so for my breathing treatment (read smoke) and got in the habbit of taking little bits of cookies and candy to the little cute ants out side... low and behold they are fire ants, and I've been feeding them...
to correct my mistake I got an air compresser out and started blowing the hill away... its been 3 days and there aren't any ants around the house still... hum... perhaps I should patent this..
Underworld - My faviorite "electronic" band. They do a littlebit of everything, slow and hypnotic to DropTrance. DropTrance is realy ment to be listened to on drugs, the music builds you up from slow to a frantic mad "I'm going to loose my mind." Then at the peak of the music it drops you (by stoping the music and having something like a heartbeat throb), lets you fall for a bit then catches you and brings you down. Best example I can think of is Moaner, but I can't remember what CD it's on.
other bands you should have in any collecton, IMHO:
oh, there is just a couple. Jedi Knight II was impressive, if you don't count the first few lvls. There was this little game a while back called x-wing, and Tie Fighter... there have been many good, solid Starwars games.
For a number of years I had your run of the mill, cheep keyboard. Once I started programming, my wrists started to hurt. A friend of mine gave me a PC concepts ergo keyboard and low and behold, my wrists no longer hurt. Now ever time I go back and work on an old keyboard, my hands start to hurt after only a few minutes using it.
I feel that my extensive use of a computer, and my 5 years working as a physical rehabilitation aid in a hospital give me a good perspective on this.
I spend 12 -16 hours a day on the computer, so I'm sure that my setup is a testament that ergo helps. But it's not just the keyboard. You need to have a good chair; the desk the correct height, your screen can't be too close or too faraway, etc. There are many factors in ergo, but to me the keyboard has been the defining part of the setup.
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On the plus side, you can hide your own Easter eggs.
He may be correct, so long as he was using the correct place to measure time. "Now" is dependent on your frame of reference, if the frame of reference is earth then "now" there is a metric fuck-ton of water around that super massive black hole, if the frame of reference is there then there may be "now," a lot less. Who know's what "now" via an earth based frame of reference +12 billion years will hold.
This reminds me of an old simulation like this that was done in 3d. At the time it had to be run on a uni mainframe, but this was years ago... would love to find that and see what could be done with my desktop rig.
I mostly agree with you, however I was very impressed with the Chicago Electric cutting torch I got for $50. I used it almost everyday for 2 years in a shipyard, made better cuts than a $300 victor. It even worked after someone ran it over with a fork.
No, as a metal worker I can say that the mild steel, stainless, mag and aluminum that our shop gets from China is FULL of impurity. I can tell if the steel is from America vs. China / Mexico by the amount of crap that sticks to my tungsten. If after a rod of GOOD filler rod and no dips you need to re-grind your tungsten, it isn't a pure aloy. The issue gets worse and worse the more the more specialized the alloy. Having worked in airspace, if you don't dip your tung in the Al alloy you should NEVER have spit, and should have a weld stronger than the base metal.
That is unless someone has some fun with you.... Try a simple exchange of magnisum filler rod for Al. Welds the same, however the bead just falls off when done. If you try this just know when to run.
As far as I know that is the general rule in the US, not sure about 401k... I'm under the impression that 'our dear mayor' Bloomburg had to sell his stake in Bloomburg TV upon taking the thron^h^h^h mayorship.
I have the t-mobile version (vibrant) and haven't had an issue with it other than when I'm in midtown Manhattan, and then the wifi/celltower feature pegs me with in half a block.
The difference is that when an automatic does go, the parts are more expensive and the job is more complex because there is no convenient place to put a point of failure. In a manual, the designed point of failure is the clutch pads. it is relatively simple to pull it apart and replace the pads. At most, in a well designed car like a Subaru, it is a 2 or 3 hour job. I've seen automatics take 2 days. At $90/hour for shop time the repair of an automatic means you eat ramen for a month, while the servicing of a clutch means you can have some steak.
Four years out of a 1k gaming rig? I'm a cheap bastard, and I still spend $400 a year to keep just above minimum specs for the new engines.
When I worked in the ship yards as a welder, I would find a job to do that involved using a cutting torch when I was hung over. For the first few hours of the day I would take regular "hits" of pure O2 from the tank, worked like a charm.
Earth may have resources that are "useful," however all the stuff we have on earth is found further out of the Sun's gravity well. Main belt asteroids have more heavy metals than earth, and you don't need to crawl out of a deep well to remove them from the solar system. And if you are only after water and gases, the oort cloud has more than enough that the cost to weight of getting the minuscule amount we have here on earth just isn't worth the energy. The ONLY reasons I can see for a hostile race to worry about humans is our technology (not likely if they are interstellar race), genetic mapping for bio war, to remove a possible future threat (the most probable reason I can think of) or, finally to colonize a planet in the "Goldie Locks zone." That last one has a lot of issues that may make it more beneficial to sterilize the planet due to biological contamination, and in that case mars would seem to be the better planet to transform IMHO.
In any other case I can think of, they would contact us and see what they could learn or teach us, or place a probe in the outer solar system to watch us. Not a lot of reason to worry about it all.
We get observed, first contact or death and there is nothing we can do to change it.
I second this
Well It is a good thing that planet hunters are better at finding things than you, seeing as they have found 358 extrasolar planets. From what I hear, it is much harder to observe the wobble of a star's red shift or see the wink of a star as a planet travels between us and it, than it is to break open a rock in a known trilobite bed.
Source http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php
I've been prepping my sons (3.5 years and 7 months) for their first viewing of Alien/Aliens since birth by grabbing their entire face with my hand. They think its funny... at least for now.
This reminds me of when my parents took me to see Alien when I was 5. Good time had by all due to a weeks worth of sleep deprivation.
The point is that the very large and active Mt. St Helens could be just a small vent for a much larger volcano. One who's crater / caldera is close to 2000 square miles. If true, something like this going off would make Krakatoa look like firecracker. As in, all of the US and a good chuck of Canada and Mexico covered with ash.
The reason the people are researching this is intellectual curiosity, and for the grant money that pays the scientists bills. This information may or may not have any use to anyone alive today, but it is a part of the puzzle of how the universe works. Perhaps in the distant future, this information and countless other data points will help humanity solve some problem. Or it may be just a useless piece of trivia. The point is, we do not, nor can can we know what things we learn about our universe will be useful down the road. Better to collect all the observations we can in hopes that it will be of use.
I'm running xp-64 and run Chrome just fine.
My last job was as a pipe fitter on a 220' research vessel. We had lots of downtime due to the incompetents of the management.
One day a coworker purchased a cheap taser to play with. We killed hours zapping other people and ourselves with it. I guess after years of getting zapped while welding in the rain has had made us able to deal with 50000 volts.
On a side note, a taser works great to light a cutting torch.
You think it smells bad when flux dissolves galvanised metal, try the smell when you dump a large part in a muriatic acid bath.
Thank you for putting into words what I've thought for as long as I've been old enough to understand the concept.
It should be added, that parents need to have the balls to do their job and say no. When the child asks, "Why not?" understand that, "Because I said so," is not a response that teaches anything. The only thing that accomplishes is the child thinking, 'It's fun and Mom/Dad doesn't want me to have any fun.' resulting in a child that has no understanding of logic or reason.
A woman goes to the doctor and tells him she is convinced she is dead. Doctor says, "But you are talking with me, if you were dead you wouldn't be able to do that would you?" She says, "I'm very sure I am dead." So the doctor says, "let me see your finger." He stabs it with a needle and says, "see, you are beeding." Woman responds, "I'll be damned, dead people do bleed!"
Moral of the story... People with an altered mental status don't always play by the same rules that the rest of the world play by.
I just moved to Houston a month or so ago, and didn't know a damn thing about what fire ants looked like. from what people had said I expeced something like the huge red ants we had in Colorado. I have to go out side every hour or so for my breathing treatment (read smoke) and got in the habbit of taking little bits of cookies and candy to the little cute ants out side... low and behold they are fire ants, and I've been feeding them...
to correct my mistake I got an air compresser out and started blowing the hill away... its been 3 days and there aren't any ants around the house still... hum... perhaps I should patent this..
... must haves in my collection are:
Underworld - My faviorite "electronic" band. They do a littlebit of everything, slow and hypnotic to DropTrance. DropTrance is realy ment to be listened to on drugs, the music builds you up from slow to a frantic mad "I'm going to loose my mind." Then at the peak of the music it drops you (by stoping the music and having something like a heartbeat throb), lets you fall for a bit then catches you and brings you down. Best example I can think of is Moaner, but I can't remember what CD it's on.
other bands you should have in any collecton, IMHO:
The Orb (anything from them is good)
Future Sounds of London - Dead Citys
Massive Attack - newest CD.
SNOG (if you can find it, Lies Inc.)
Meatbeat Manifesto - everything but 99%
oh, there is just a couple. Jedi Knight II was impressive, if you don't count the first few lvls. There was this little game a while back called x-wing, and Tie Fighter... there have been many good, solid Starwars games.
For a number of years I had your run of the mill, cheep keyboard. Once I started programming, my wrists started to hurt. A friend of mine gave me a PC concepts ergo keyboard and low and behold, my wrists no longer hurt. Now ever time I go back and work on an old keyboard, my hands start to hurt after only a few minutes using it.
I feel that my extensive use of a computer, and my 5 years working as a physical rehabilitation aid in a hospital give me a good perspective on this.
I spend 12 -16 hours a day on the computer, so I'm sure that my setup is a testament that ergo helps. But it's not just the keyboard. You need to have a good chair; the desk the correct height, your screen can't be too close or too faraway, etc. There are many factors in ergo, but to me the keyboard has been the defining part of the setup.