From what I know the Earth magnetic field reverses it's poles regularly (in geological scale) and all signs indicate it is happening now. The process takes quite long in human life scale and the intermediate state goes through many poles magnetic field, a weak one and even no magnetic field.
It's not a new news, the magnetic anomalies have been observed for a while and it will have impact on our lives, and I hope that more and more elected politicians will be either scientific savvy, or at least will appreciate its importance, because we will need it more then ever.
What is this "companies accountability" for misuse of data collected about their prod..., I mean consumers I've been hearing about, you mean like the Equifax?
It's a very insightful comment, however crowd-funding science is quite tricky - as humans react well to what is directly ahead, and not so well for things beyond time horizon, and flowers of science usually take more than 100 years to bloom. Today we benefit from quantum and general relativity theories, even more, we cannot leave houses without gadgets rooted in them. I do not think that any company would fund something with more than 100 years of return and very few people would as well, yet due to more and more complexity science becomes more expensive. Let's consider MRI, try to think of making a project like this without any basic science in physics, math, chemistry, biology, etc, in my opinion it would be inconceivable as a crowd-funding project even less so as a private company project without all the basic knowledge accumulated through just curiosity and basic research.
And for 2 years of full control of the government, the republican party was waiting for.... (fill in the blanks), to finally blackmail US taking the government hostage once there is someone else to blame.
Facebook, a private company, created a medium to exchange ideas (communicate), they set up the rules on this new platform, a politician (being a public persona) cannot silence (ban) criticism, whilst a private person can - plain and simple.
For me this limited privacy for politicians (for the time of their service) is a fair price to pay for the power bestowed on them by people they (suppose to) represent.
The Omen 15 with a regular display arrives in February at a starting price of $1,370, while the 240 Hz version comes in July at a yet-to-be-disclosed price.
...so you want to monitor who will download it, isn't it ?!?
Sorry, no mod points - well deserved here:-)
I would guess that it's not only download monitoring - how many people will use this tool to analyze the very tool itself?
CPU performance between 28 nm and 22 nm isn't significant unless you can add more units or cache (you generally don't). The main advantage is a die shrink that reduces costs...
Additionally smaller size gives more room for either higher clock frequency or less energy usage, which (the latter) is one of the important factors for notebooks (and chromebooks in particular).
Thank you for this informative post. I am glad that people appreciate this remarkable achievement and the crazy ones are still a minority.
As you said, considering object's reflectivity and size, sunlight at this distance, the probe speed, uncertainty (or error) of the orbit calculation it is remarkable that we have images at all. NASA (in this case Alan Stern and his team from applied physics at Johns Hopkins University) makes these amazing achievements look so easy.
I recommend a book "Chasing New Horizons", which gives an idea of how much devotion and efforts is behind these short news reports and images we enjoy.
We should have a reward here for the most misleading topic.
The very linked article itself, and further research about "Great Unconformity" clearly state that this particular unconformity is limited to the Great Canyon GRAND CANYON - THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY and from wikipedia Great Unconformity one can further learn about this "annomaly" together with it's explanation:
Unconformities in general tend to reflect long-term changes in the pattern of the accumulation of sedimentary or igneous strata in low-lying areas (often ocean basins, such as the Gulf of Mexico or the North Sea, but also Bangladesh and much of Brazil), then being uplifted and eroded (such as the ongoing Himalayan orogeny, the older Laramide orogeny of the Rocky Mountains, or much older Appalachian (Alleghanian) and Ouachita orogenies), then subsequently subsiding, eventually to be buried under younger sediments.
We could've avoid all the wide speculations if only the topic was reflecting the content, as "Hi, look what interesting about geology I found - it's old but a great read".
Lets not forget that:
- there are always people behind any corporation, there is a person writing, reading and executing these directives
- there are no black and white situations when considering human beings (mostly - as otherwise this very statement would contradict itself)
- there is no country implementing pure capitalism, it's usually various blends
- countries implementing various blends of capitalism having democratic governance are the best places for people to live guaranteeing them stability, freedom and prosperity
- we the people (in democracies) have the power to fix the problems of our state
- the time we live is the best so far in human history, the most stable, the easiest - especially in the so called "western democracies"
I disagree, people are now more educated than any time in history, we have access to more (dis)information. The reason I think we don't vote is we don't think it makes any difference and all politicians are just liars...
Well, agree. But still there are vast groups of people not well informed about politics, political processes, world in general and most importantly about scientific process of false/true recognition, who are thus easy to be manipulated - hence my "better education" argument.
Here are things that I think we need for democracy to work better:...
In general agree with all the points, however this can happen only through voting, and to have support for it people have to have historical and sociological knowledge and understanding of human beings and societies, hence my "better education" argument.
Education is not a panacea for all the problems, it is however a good start to make improvements. Most of the good stuff is already in the Constitution, however (in my opinion) it was diluted by some interests groups or simply ignored.
Corruption is one of the biggest problems of democracy - it has many forms (like sponsored vacation in the form of conferences, money in the form of payed speeches or promise of well payed positions in the future) - it's hard to fight, but transparency, limiting power of the government and dealing with the problem of "sponsored" representatives would help, which can only come with better understanding of the world, hence "better education".
... I am not sure if there is cure for this. I suppose not....
I think education is an answer, a democracy works well only in a well educated society, which keeps practicing it. And the education not as just preparing for a job, but wide and thorough. There are societies (few but still), where democracy is practiced by majority and which put education as an important part of their state responsibilities voting participation.
Also I would not disrepair, democracy truly works - it's better than anything else tried so far.
... No amount of democracy can fix shaking and pain caused by the bumps. A skillful leadership (democratically elected or not) may help....
Strongly disagree, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - there's only one way forward for a not democratically elected government, and it's not a way of freedom, it's a way of oppression, censorship, corruption, political imprisonment, followed by more oppression.
An interesting post, however Apple did not refuse to unlock the shooters phone (they provided all the cloud data they had except the keys they didn't have), but refused to implement a backdoor so that any apple phone can be unlocked on government request - a significant difference.
Can the world survive it becoming impossible to tell truth from fiction? The optimistic view is we will somehow get better at detecting the lies, perhaps using more AI. I'm needless to say skeptical.
The world existed before invention of photographs and cameras and any recording devices, when all there was were human words and drawings, so I guess we'll adapt - as we always do, there'll be some chaos time though - as there always is. Unless, of course, this time there will not be enough wise people and thanks to our technology it would be the last humanity chaotic period.
Voyager 2 is also at 120 AU from earth, and is said to have left our solar system. So "farout" is outside?
Voyager 2 (recently) and 1 (some time ago) are said to have left the Solar System in the meaning that they have crossed Heliopause and entered Interstellar medium - as a space where solar wind is not a dominating force, they still are, however, far withing the gravitational influence of the Sun, which reaches estimated 1ly (which is about 65700AU), where it is speculated that the spherical Oort cloud stretches out.
Personally I watched all the series with Matt Smith, some episodes were great, some just fine, but overall it was excellent - had an interesting plot and a brilliant performance. As regard to others, I tried some, but haven't gotten involved - plots mostly silly and dr. Who never reached the level of Mr. Smith.
If the electricity to charge electric vehicles comes from dirty sources, how are they cutting emissions?
Electric cars even when powered from coal base power plants are "mostly" cleaner then combustion cars with lots of room to improve when electrical generation infrastructure improves:
https://greentransportation.in...
The word "mostlly" is because there are third-world coal power plants so polluting, that even electric engine efficiency cannot come clean when powered from them, however as the provided link shows it's rarity and with time less and less of an issue.
Ye!
In meantime all they income indicators for 2017 are green and seems like "one of the largest in U.S. history" data breach does not even deserve congress hearings.
I see your point, and personally have nothing against your interpretation: dark - unknown, just heard some astronomers correcting to 'far side'.
I think we can settle to "far side" as scientific term and "dark side" as a poetic term.
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Not sure if the article mentions this, but this fired Huawei employee is a former China consulate employee - how odd.
From what I know the Earth magnetic field reverses it's poles regularly (in geological scale) and all signs indicate it is happening now. The process takes quite long in human life scale and the intermediate state goes through many poles magnetic field, a weak one and even no magnetic field.
It's not a new news, the magnetic anomalies have been observed for a while and it will have impact on our lives, and I hope that more and more elected politicians will be either scientific savvy, or at least will appreciate its importance, because we will need it more then ever.
What is this "companies accountability" for misuse of data collected about their prod..., I mean consumers I've been hearing about, you mean like the Equifax?
I like the way you think.
It's a very insightful comment, however crowd-funding science is quite tricky - as humans react well to what is directly ahead, and not so well for things beyond time horizon, and flowers of science usually take more than 100 years to bloom. Today we benefit from quantum and general relativity theories, even more, we cannot leave houses without gadgets rooted in them. I do not think that any company would fund something with more than 100 years of return and very few people would as well, yet due to more and more complexity science becomes more expensive. Let's consider MRI, try to think of making a project like this without any basic science in physics, math, chemistry, biology, etc, in my opinion it would be inconceivable as a crowd-funding project even less so as a private company project without all the basic knowledge accumulated through just curiosity and basic research.
And for 2 years of full control of the government, the republican party was waiting for .... (fill in the blanks), to finally blackmail US taking the government hostage once there is someone else to blame.
Does not seem complicated to me.
Facebook, a private company, created a medium to exchange ideas (communicate), they set up the rules on this new platform, a politician (being a public persona) cannot silence (ban) criticism, whilst a private person can - plain and simple.
For me this limited privacy for politicians (for the time of their service) is a fair price to pay for the power bestowed on them by people they (suppose to) represent.
The Omen 15 with a regular display arrives in February at a starting price of $1,370, while the 240 Hz version comes in July at a yet-to-be-disclosed price.
...so you want to monitor who will download it, isn't it ?!?
Sorry, no mod points - well deserved here :-)
I would guess that it's not only download monitoring - how many people will use this tool to analyze the very tool itself?
CPU performance between 28 nm and 22 nm isn't significant unless you can add more units or cache (you generally don't). The main advantage is a die shrink that reduces costs...
Additionally smaller size gives more room for either higher clock frequency or less energy usage, which (the latter) is one of the important factors for notebooks (and chromebooks in particular).
They haven't mentioned about it on Fox & Friends yet?
Thank you for this informative post. I am glad that people appreciate this remarkable achievement and the crazy ones are still a minority.
As you said, considering object's reflectivity and size, sunlight at this distance, the probe speed, uncertainty (or error) of the orbit calculation it is remarkable that we have images at all. NASA (in this case Alan Stern and his team from applied physics at Johns Hopkins University) makes these amazing achievements look so easy.
I recommend a book "Chasing New Horizons", which gives an idea of how much devotion and efforts is behind these short news reports and images we enjoy.
We should have a reward here for the most misleading topic.
The very linked article itself, and further research about "Great Unconformity" clearly state that this particular unconformity is limited to the Great Canyon GRAND CANYON - THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY and from wikipedia Great Unconformity one can further learn about this "annomaly" together with it's explanation:
Unconformities in general tend to reflect long-term changes in the pattern of the accumulation of sedimentary or igneous strata in low-lying areas (often ocean basins, such as the Gulf of Mexico or the North Sea, but also Bangladesh and much of Brazil), then being uplifted and eroded (such as the ongoing Himalayan orogeny, the older Laramide orogeny of the Rocky Mountains, or much older Appalachian (Alleghanian) and Ouachita orogenies), then subsequently subsiding, eventually to be buried under younger sediments.
We could've avoid all the wide speculations if only the topic was reflecting the content, as "Hi, look what interesting about geology I found - it's old but a great read".
Lets not forget that:
- there are always people behind any corporation, there is a person writing, reading and executing these directives
- there are no black and white situations when considering human beings (mostly - as otherwise this very statement would contradict itself)
- there is no country implementing pure capitalism, it's usually various blends
- countries implementing various blends of capitalism having democratic governance are the best places for people to live guaranteeing them stability, freedom and prosperity
- we the people (in democracies) have the power to fix the problems of our state
- the time we live is the best so far in human history, the most stable, the easiest - especially in the so called "western democracies"
I think education is an answer, ...
I disagree, people are now more educated than any time in history, we have access to more (dis)information. The reason I think we don't vote is we don't think it makes any difference and all politicians are just liars ...
Well, agree. But still there are vast groups of people not well informed about politics, political processes, world in general and most importantly about scientific process of false/true recognition, who are thus easy to be manipulated - hence my "better education" argument.
Here are things that I think we need for democracy to work better: ...
In general agree with all the points, however this can happen only through voting, and to have support for it people have to have historical and sociological knowledge and understanding of human beings and societies, hence my "better education" argument.
Education is not a panacea for all the problems, it is however a good start to make improvements. Most of the good stuff is already in the Constitution, however (in my opinion) it was diluted by some interests groups or simply ignored. Corruption is one of the biggest problems of democracy - it has many forms (like sponsored vacation in the form of conferences, money in the form of payed speeches or promise of well payed positions in the future) - it's hard to fight, but transparency, limiting power of the government and dealing with the problem of "sponsored" representatives would help, which can only come with better understanding of the world, hence "better education".
I think education is an answer, a democracy works well only in a well educated society, which keeps practicing it. And the education not as just preparing for a job, but wide and thorough. There are societies (few but still), where democracy is practiced by majority and which put education as an important part of their state responsibilities voting participation.
Also I would not disrepair, democracy truly works - it's better than anything else tried so far.
Strongly disagree, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - there's only one way forward for a not democratically elected government, and it's not a way of freedom, it's a way of oppression, censorship, corruption, political imprisonment, followed by more oppression.
An interesting post, however Apple did not refuse to unlock the shooters phone (they provided all the cloud data they had except the keys they didn't have), but refused to implement a backdoor so that any apple phone can be unlocked on government request - a significant difference.
You have your point, however you should check the history, otherwise the made mistakes undermines your otherwise insightful post.
Can the world survive it becoming impossible to tell truth from fiction? The optimistic view is we will somehow get better at detecting the lies, perhaps using more AI. I'm needless to say skeptical.
The world existed before invention of photographs and cameras and any recording devices, when all there was were human words and drawings, so I guess we'll adapt - as we always do, there'll be some chaos time though - as there always is. Unless, of course, this time there will not be enough wise people and thanks to our technology it would be the last humanity chaotic period.
Voyager 2 is also at 120 AU from earth, and is said to have left our solar system. So "farout" is outside?
Voyager 2 (recently) and 1 (some time ago) are said to have left the Solar System in the meaning that they have crossed Heliopause and entered Interstellar medium - as a space where solar wind is not a dominating force, they still are, however, far withing the gravitational influence of the Sun, which reaches estimated 1ly (which is about 65700AU), where it is speculated that the spherical Oort cloud stretches out.
Interesting, let's just hope that this "embracement" is more a "hug" then a "squeeze".
Personally I watched all the series with Matt Smith, some episodes were great, some just fine, but overall it was excellent - had an interesting plot and a brilliant performance. As regard to others, I tried some, but haven't gotten involved - plots mostly silly and dr. Who never reached the level of Mr. Smith.
If the electricity to charge electric vehicles comes from dirty sources, how are they cutting emissions?
Electric cars even when powered from coal base power plants are "mostly" cleaner then combustion cars with lots of room to improve when electrical generation infrastructure improves: https://greentransportation.in...
The word "mostlly" is because there are third-world coal power plants so polluting, that even electric engine efficiency cannot come clean when powered from them, however as the provided link shows it's rarity and with time less and less of an issue.
A scathing report? That will show them!
Ye!
In meantime all they income indicators for 2017 are green and seems like "one of the largest in U.S. history" data breach does not even deserve congress hearings.
I see your point, and personally have nothing against your interpretation: dark - unknown, just heard some astronomers correcting to 'far side'.
I think we can settle to "far side" as scientific term and "dark side" as a poetic term.