I'm American and I moved to Germany five years ago. It's difficult perhaps for an American to imagine, but lotsa of nudity actually becomes a major turn-off, which usually has the added result of "tame" pornography and nudity not being such a big deal. Here, as in England, daily newspapers (also bought by women!) carry a naked women on the cover page every day (www.bild.de), and nudity can be seen everywhere. This is mostly because I get the impression that Germans are very comfortable with their bodies and nudity. Just look in the sauna here to see all the naked sweating bodies - it's not very erotic though.
Nevertheless, the effects of banalizing pornography (which I wouldn't label BMX XXX as being, so perhaps this is off-topic) seems to be coming to light, and the results can be disturbing, especially since, pornography, in order to sell more, has had to concentrate on more extreme aspects (fisting, rape, gangbangs, etc.)...which eventually, due to their wide availability, become "accepted".
Adolescents have access to this material, whatever the laws and legal ages (in any country, for that matter) and, consciously or unconsciously, use this material as sex education. It's easy to imagine how vicious teen sex could become if the majority of young boys think that ALL girls have a rape fantasy and take a "no" for a sign of excitation.
If you can't bring the sample to the lab, just bring the lab to the sample...what's wrong with a Venus lander similar to the Martian one (ok, the environment is much harsher) that will collect a sample, pick it apart and send all data back via radio before the Venusian "air" eats the lander. Radio waves are lighter than payload after all. One would probably still have to speculate if radio waves could penetrate.
Conspiracy theories and all notwithstanding, I get the creeps when I think about what would happen if there really WAS bacteria there and the government (any gov't) got there hands on it. You could probably FORGET heat disinfection for this particular strain...
Hm. The word "strain" make me think of a certain novel/film...
Anybody know how much carbon the human body can yield? Is it higher or lower from freshmean (not the Slashdot variety) or from already overeasy-welldone?
Why not relate this to previous discussion? Hack off your own finger (and have it converted) to put a shiner on hers. This is the added plus of not supported the De Beers inhumanity to man, and diamonds for guns programs, but you can avoid future wartime drafts without having to relocate to Canada.
You can also try for the "Van Gogh" option - your new artsy look will be a hit with the chicks!
Chrononauts end up breathing vacuum.
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I think that one has to seriously take astrophysics into account when you travel in time. The reason that we've never been visited by future time travelers is that every single one has ended up breathing vacuum.
Imagine you are in a trolley car, and a time machine sends you 30 seconds back into the past. Where would you be? Exactly in the same place (define place) 30 seconds ago? Watching yourself prepare the time machine? No, you'd be occupying the space a few feet off the ground where the trolley car is due to arrive in 30 seconds.
OR WORSE YET...you'd be where the EARTH should be (taking into account rotation and its orbit around the sun, etc.) 30 seconds before its arrival there.
Imagine if you moved six months? If somehow the center of all motion is the sun at the center of the solar system, you'd be on the other side of earth's orbit, floating around, getting a super tan.
But why shouldn't we also take into account all celestial movement? The universe expanding, etc.?
Time travel probably works. But when you play with "time" don't forget "space."
How feasible is it to use electromagnetic waves to transport energy? IANAP (P=Physicist), but a science fiction fan, who once read a short story how solar energy was collected and "beamed" from an orbital to the earth...und woe to any airplane that flew through that beam.
I was only thinking that since batteries are a problem (because of size and durability) why not take them out of the gadget. Actually, even without being a PhD in Physics I could probably think of many reasons why not, but could anyone tell me how and if this could be feasible?
Naturally if such a energy transport system were to be possible, it would only be feasible in mostly urban areas with infrastructure resembling that of cell phone networks.
- Is it possible to transport _enough_ energy (and not lose too much in the conversion? - Would a direct line-of-sight be necessary, and would crossing it be hazardous? - Would it be possible to "encrypt" this energy to make it possible to subscribe and protect from freeloaders? - What types of waves (and/or photon beams?) are best suited for this application? - How long would it be before we all die with brain cancer because of the free energy being transmitted around?
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I'm American and I moved to Germany five years ago. It's difficult perhaps for an American to imagine, but lotsa of nudity actually becomes a major turn-off, which usually has the added result of "tame" pornography and nudity not being such a big deal. Here, as in England, daily newspapers (also bought by women!) carry a naked women on the cover page every day (www.bild.de), and nudity can be seen everywhere. This is mostly because I get the impression that Germans are very comfortable with their bodies and nudity. Just look in the sauna here to see all the naked sweating bodies - it's not very erotic though.
Nevertheless, the effects of banalizing pornography (which I wouldn't label BMX XXX as being, so perhaps this is off-topic) seems to be coming to light, and the results can be disturbing, especially since, pornography, in order to sell more, has had to concentrate on more extreme aspects (fisting, rape, gangbangs, etc.)...which eventually, due to their wide availability, become "accepted".
Adolescents have access to this material, whatever the laws and legal ages (in any country, for that matter) and, consciously or unconsciously, use this material as sex education. It's easy to imagine how vicious teen sex could become if the majority of young boys think that ALL girls have a rape fantasy and take a "no" for a sign of excitation.
If you can't bring the sample to the lab, just bring the lab to the sample...what's wrong with a Venus lander similar to the Martian one (ok, the environment is much harsher) that will collect a sample, pick it apart and send all data back via radio before the Venusian "air" eats the lander. Radio waves are lighter than payload after all. One would probably still have to speculate if radio waves could penetrate.
Conspiracy theories and all notwithstanding, I get the creeps when I think about what would happen if there really WAS bacteria there and the government (any gov't) got there hands on it. You could probably FORGET heat disinfection for this particular strain...
Hm. The word "strain" make me think of a certain novel/film...
Anybody know how much carbon the human body can yield? Is it higher or lower from freshmean (not the Slashdot variety) or from already overeasy-welldone?
Why not relate this to previous discussion? Hack off your own finger (and have it converted) to put a shiner on hers. This is the added plus of not supported the De Beers inhumanity to man, and diamonds for guns programs, but you can avoid future wartime drafts without having to relocate to Canada. You can also try for the "Van Gogh" option - your new artsy look will be a hit with the chicks!
I think that one has to seriously take astrophysics into account when you travel in time. The reason that we've never been visited by future time travelers is that every single one has ended up breathing vacuum.
Imagine you are in a trolley car, and a time machine sends you 30 seconds back into the past. Where would you be? Exactly in the same place (define place) 30 seconds ago? Watching yourself prepare the time machine? No, you'd be occupying the space a few feet off the ground where the trolley car is due to arrive in 30 seconds.
OR WORSE YET...you'd be where the EARTH should be (taking into account rotation and its orbit around the sun, etc.) 30 seconds before its arrival there.
Imagine if you moved six months? If somehow the center of all motion is the sun at the center of the solar system, you'd be on the other side of earth's orbit, floating around, getting a super tan.
But why shouldn't we also take into account all celestial movement? The universe expanding, etc.?
Time travel probably works. But when you play with "time" don't forget "space."
How feasible is it to use electromagnetic waves to transport energy? IANAP (P=Physicist), but a science fiction fan, who once read a short story how solar energy was collected and "beamed" from an orbital to the earth...und woe to any airplane that flew through that beam.
I was only thinking that since batteries are a problem (because of size and durability) why not take them out of the gadget. Actually, even without being a PhD in Physics I could probably think of many reasons why not, but could anyone tell me how and if this could be feasible?
Naturally if such a energy transport system were to be possible, it would only be feasible in mostly urban areas with infrastructure resembling that of cell phone networks.
- Is it possible to transport _enough_ energy (and not lose too much in the conversion?
- Would a direct line-of-sight be necessary, and would crossing it be hazardous?
- Would it be possible to "encrypt" this energy to make it possible to subscribe and protect from freeloaders?
- What types of waves (and/or photon beams?) are best suited for this application?
- How long would it be before we all die with brain cancer because of the free energy being transmitted around?