What I don't quite understand, and the article doesn't make clear; is this thing essentially reading what you're verbally thinking? Or is it just intercepting those nerve signals which you use to inaudibly mumble to yourself with? If the first is true, then wow, imagine just thinking to your computer and it doing it. If the second is true then I don't really see what's so great about it:/
Actually you're definition of a blackhole is a bit off.
Every object has a point at which gravity is so intense that light cannot escape it. This is called the schwarzschild radius. However, black holes are unique in that their radius lies OUTSIDE the object, whereas every non-black hole object's radius lies INSIDE the object.
The earth, even you or I have this radius too. For the earth however it is underground; were you to attempt to approach it (by digging down for instance) gravitational force would decrease as you decsended. As this force decreases the schwarzschild radius would decrease as a result. Thus you would never be able to reach the schwarzschild radius of the earth because it would always be receeding from you the closer you approached it.
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Oh god. Yes the doctor is part of a vast conspiracy to screw you out of money.
Could you have thought that maybe, just maybe, he really did care about making you feel better, and perhaps that's why he was doing his job?
So his dosage was low, maybe in his experience such a dosage works fine, or whatever you had was unique enough for him to lack an encyclopedic knownowledge of. He's only human and can't possibly know everything or keep up with every drug out there.
Seriously, not everything is a conspiracy, people are just human.
Because: "Clues to the source code's origin lie in a "core dump" file, which is left by the Linux operating system to record the memory a program is using when it crashes."
I'm so going to get modded down for this "negative opinion" but here it goes anyway.
Yes, a private club should be able to do anything they please. A company that provides a free service should be allowed to give it to whomever they please.
Hey, if I don't want you coming to my house, I can kick you out. If I were to give free car-washes down the street and I don't like you, too bad, you're not getting one.
The hiring practices of corporations is unrelated to the issue. No one is hiring anyone to work at monster.com, they're simply denying their FREE SERVICE to whomever they please.
Remember when you walk into a store and they " reserve the right to kick you out for any reason?" Yeah, same idea.
Public does not equal private. Paying service does not equal gift.
True, but you could say "If I am a man, and Mary over there is a woman, Mary WILL MOST PROBABLY BE worse at spatial tasks than me."
Remember they are AVERAGES of the population. Any random sample set SHOULD exhibit the same gender disparity REGARDLESS of who they are or where they are chosen from, including your little example.
Wasn't Majestic, the game released by EA pretty much the same thing? Charged a monthly fee to get calls in the wee hours of the morning, e-mails, movies, what-not. It didn't do so well, I guess customers didn't like waking up at 3 am to hear a poorly delivered line about the imminent danger they were in.
Last I heard EA scrapped the idea since no one bothered to keep paying.
Actually nicotine is a carcinogen, just like all the tar and other chemicals in the cigarette. Naturally though it's alot less cancerous than the other chemicals.
In response to your question about the other substances, they're in there to quicken the delivery of the nicotine to your brain.
Never. Although I can't remember exactly what the law is called, the gist of it is this: political parties can only call you concerning politics, it's illegal for them to use it (political funding) for anything else. You'd be suprised how well organized and legislated the whole political commitee system is.
Yeah, far be it for the USSR, at the height of the cold war to call the bluff. They had soooo much to gain by acknowledging that their absolute enemy had landed on the moon.
The moon is not flat, shadows do not appear to point in the correct directions on curved surfaces.
The c was a hair or some particle introduced into the copies. The original doesn't have it.
Bright objects "dissolve" cross hairs (they're so bright as to white them out).
And that bit about moonrocks? Where did you pull THAT from?
Slashdot Poster Attempts to Sound Intelligent by Pulling Numbers Out of Ass; Readers Not Suprised, Poster Seen Standing Up in Anger and Promptly Sitting Back Down -- Panting.
Gene therapy works even better at curing incurable genetic diseases. My lab for example is pretty much focused on injecting specimens with an adenovirus that attempts to reintroduce a deleted gene. The problem around killing cancer cells with virii is that, adenovirus especially, creates only localized effects. And the actual creation of such virus, at least in large quantities is nowhere near easy without the right equipment.
I'm pretty sure the reasons for them dropping had most to do with profitability. The fact of the matter is so few people bought them that there was no point to further create them.
If I recall correctly the current theory on gravity is that it moves instantaneously, or at some incredible speed of about 2 galaxy's worth of space in under a second. Well, if we can create gravitational waves that, in theory, can traverse vast expanses of space, couldn't it be used as a form of long range communication?
For all we know aliens may have been using this kind of communication all along, only we never had a gravitational antenna to pick it up.
Actually the ISS experiences an INWARD acceleration from the Earth. If it had an outward acceleration it would fly into space rather than orbit around the Earth. Its this very acceleration that keeps it in perpetual freefall. Furthermore the gravity on the ISS is about 89% that of what is on Earth no just "very little." The slight change in ticking rate is caused by this acceleration which is lower than that on the face of Earth.
Earth is about 10 meters per second squared, while the ISS accelerates at about 8.9 meteres per second squared.
I donno, I mean with the fear from everyone and their mother that communication signals cause cancer (mostly cell-phones), would people actually want that much more radiation being beamed toward them 24/7? Anyone with half a brain could probably see that its harmless low-level, but the public generally lacks that half. I wonder if they can guarantee safety with this system, I doubt they can get the backing of the populous without it.
Far away galaxies? Slow down slugger, maybe we can find a way to go to our nearest neighbouring star system.
Anyway, you CAN make photons travel faster than the speed of light, by a rather large amount -- 300x last time I checked. The problem is that any information carried in them is lost. As for traveling to other systems/planets I would imagine that once a colony ship or whatever reaches its destination, its pretty much on its own, communication=none.
1. We can manipulate DNA
2. We can create clones
3. Those clones no longer need wombs
Am I the only one that envisions super-soldiers? Seriously, the possiblity of creating a race of super-people didn't seem feasable, that is until someone finally developed a way to cut out the middle man (women).
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but technology like this should be kept under very VERY close guard. Imagine a dictator like Hussein getting his hands on something like that...
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actually there is no paradox. if you're looking at something that isnt changing, time still passes.
how can you tell?
thought - chemicals are changing in your brain bringing about your sense of being or conciouness.
oh and this do change - constantly, even if you can't see it happening.
What I don't quite understand, and the article doesn't make clear; is this thing essentially reading what you're verbally thinking? :/
Or is it just intercepting those nerve signals which you use to inaudibly mumble to yourself with?
If the first is true, then wow, imagine just thinking to your computer and it doing it.
If the second is true then I don't really see what's so great about it
Actually you're definition of a blackhole is a bit off.
Every object has a point at which gravity is so intense that light cannot escape it. This is called the schwarzschild radius. However, black holes are unique in that their radius lies OUTSIDE the object, whereas every non-black hole object's radius lies INSIDE the object.
The earth, even you or I have this radius too. For the earth however it is underground; were you to attempt to approach it (by digging down for instance) gravitational force would decrease as you decsended. As this force decreases the schwarzschild radius would decrease as a result. Thus you would never be able to reach the schwarzschild radius of the earth because it would always be receeding from you the closer you approached it.
Oh god. Yes the doctor is part of a vast conspiracy to screw you out of money.
Could you have thought that maybe, just maybe, he really did care about making you feel better, and perhaps that's why he was doing his job?
So his dosage was low, maybe in his experience such a dosage works fine, or whatever you had was unique enough for him to lack an encyclopedic knownowledge of. He's only human and can't possibly know everything or keep up with every drug out there.
Seriously, not everything is a conspiracy, people are just human.
Because: "Clues to the source code's origin lie in a "core dump" file, which is left by the Linux operating system to record the memory a program is using when it crashes."
Take the tin-foil cap off, my friend. Seriously this is for a single contest, chill. They're not sticking these things in every can
Now with the hottest brain and nasal cavities you've ever seen!
I'm so going to get modded down for this "negative opinion" but here it goes anyway.
Yes, a private club should be able to do anything they please. A company that provides a free service should be allowed to give it to whomever they please.
Hey, if I don't want you coming to my house, I can kick you out. If I were to give free car-washes down the street and I don't like you, too bad, you're not getting one.
The hiring practices of corporations is unrelated to the issue. No one is hiring anyone to work at monster.com, they're simply denying their FREE SERVICE to whomever they please.
Remember when you walk into a store and they " reserve the right to kick you out for any reason?" Yeah, same idea.
Public does not equal private.
Paying service does not equal gift.
That's my 2 cents.
True, but you could say "If I am a man, and Mary over there is a woman, Mary WILL MOST PROBABLY BE worse at spatial tasks than me."
Remember they are AVERAGES of the population. Any random sample set SHOULD exhibit the same gender disparity REGARDLESS of who they are or where they are chosen from, including your little example.
I'm really interested about virtual particles. Never heard of clusters, got any links or info?
Wasn't Majestic, the game released by EA pretty much the same thing? Charged a monthly fee to get calls in the wee hours of the morning, e-mails, movies, what-not. It didn't do so well, I guess customers didn't like waking up at 3 am to hear a poorly delivered line about the imminent danger they were in.
Last I heard EA scrapped the idea since no one bothered to keep paying.
Actually nicotine is a carcinogen, just like all the tar and other chemicals in the cigarette. Naturally though it's alot less cancerous than the other chemicals.
In response to your question about the other substances, they're in there to quicken the delivery of the nicotine to your brain.
Never. Although I can't remember exactly what the law is called, the gist of it is this: political parties can only call you concerning politics, it's illegal for them to use it (political funding) for anything else. You'd be suprised how well organized and legislated the whole political commitee system is.
Yeah, far be it for the USSR, at the height of the cold war to call the bluff. They had soooo much to gain by acknowledging that their absolute enemy had landed on the moon.
The moon is not flat, shadows do not appear to point in the correct directions on curved surfaces.
The c was a hair or some particle introduced into the copies. The original doesn't have it.
Bright objects "dissolve" cross hairs (they're so bright as to white them out).
And that bit about moonrocks? Where did you pull THAT from?
Slashdot Poster Attempts to Sound Intelligent by Pulling Numbers Out of Ass; Readers Not Suprised, Poster Seen Standing Up in Anger and Promptly Sitting Back Down -- Panting.
Relating to the topic but not really; has anyone found a Prophet view 920 ANYWHERE?
Seriously I've been looking for months, both this and Tom's give it good reviews.
Gene therapy works even better at curing incurable genetic diseases. My lab for example is pretty much focused on injecting specimens with an adenovirus that attempts to reintroduce a deleted gene. The problem around killing cancer cells with virii is that, adenovirus especially, creates only localized effects. And the actual creation of such virus, at least in large quantities is nowhere near easy without the right equipment.
I'm pretty sure the reasons for them dropping had most to do with profitability. The fact of the matter is so few people bought them that there was no point to further create them.
If I recall correctly the current theory on gravity is that it moves instantaneously, or at some incredible speed of about 2 galaxy's worth of space in under a second. Well, if we can create gravitational waves that, in theory, can traverse vast expanses of space, couldn't it be used as a form of long range communication?
For all we know aliens may have been using this kind of communication all along, only we never had a gravitational antenna to pick it up.
Actually the ISS experiences an INWARD acceleration from the Earth. If it had an outward acceleration it would fly into space rather than orbit around the Earth. Its this very acceleration that keeps it in perpetual freefall. Furthermore the gravity on the ISS is about 89% that of what is on Earth no just "very little." The slight change in ticking rate is caused by this acceleration which is lower than that on the face of Earth.
Earth is about 10 meters per second squared, while the ISS accelerates at about 8.9 meteres per second squared.
I donno, I mean with the fear from everyone and their mother that communication signals cause cancer (mostly cell-phones), would people actually want that much more radiation being beamed toward them 24/7? Anyone with half a brain could probably see that its harmless low-level, but the public generally lacks that half. I wonder if they can guarantee safety with this system, I doubt they can get the backing of the populous without it.
Why not d for denounce? Maybe because f stands for FAST.
Far away galaxies? Slow down slugger, maybe we can find a way to go to our nearest neighbouring star system.
Anyway, you CAN make photons travel faster than the speed of light, by a rather large amount -- 300x last time I checked. The problem is that any information carried in them is lost. As for traveling to other systems/planets I would imagine that once a colony ship or whatever reaches its destination, its pretty much on its own, communication=none.
2 and 3 are both being filmed at once.
So lets sum up what humans can do so far.
1. We can manipulate DNA
2. We can create clones
3. Those clones no longer need wombs
Am I the only one that envisions super-soldiers? Seriously, the possiblity of creating a race of super-people didn't seem feasable, that is until someone finally developed a way to cut out the middle man (women).
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but technology like this should be kept under very VERY close guard. Imagine a dictator like Hussein getting his hands on something like that...
Just a thought.