I think that this whole argument is laughably trivial.
Why does it matter? Should we call the Moon a moon, a co-planet... It's just a word!
I've seen a few times on here "When should planet/moon be considered double-planet?". This question illustrates the futility of talking so much about the first question. If you set some exact criteria, there will be a point in which we have a planet/moon system, and by adding a single atom's worth of mass to the moon, it would be a double planet system.
Obviously there are times that it is clearly Planet/Moon (Neptune/Triton for example), and if two bodies have mass within 10%, it is clearly a double planet. I just don't think that the argument of whether Pluto/Charon and Earth/Moon are double planets or planet/moon systems, just because it is a gradual change.
When are two galaxies said to be colliding, and when does it stop? At what instant is a person dead? Within.1 picoliters how much alcohol do you have to drink before you are considered drunk?
I spent the better part of this tuesday playing with Liquid Nitrogen. It turns out that you can stick your entire hand in it, and it won't hardly get cold at all for a second or two, so you can splash it at people with your bare hands. Because your hands (mouth) are so far above the boiling point of N2, it boils instantly upon contact with your skin. That means that you end up with a layer of gas around your hand, sheilding you from the brunt of the cold. Just don't leave it in for more than a second or two, because the LN2 WILL break through and give you cryo burn. Cryoburn (frostbite) is much much worse than a heat burn, partly because there has been little evolutionary reason to build up defences against it. Maybe Inuits would be better off.
Well, duh. What more do you expect from the very first flight of a completely new technology. As underfunded as these people were, you couldn't dream of anything more. The data gathered from this flight and subsiquent flights (they're hoping for 7 more) will lead to a much more practical model. I assume that that model would be for more research, until we get it safe and predictable. Then I would think that either the military or various satilite-launching organizations would jump on it and start using it.
They didn't just bring it up to high speed and turn the engine on. They shot the thing up to an altitude of 314 km, pointed it to the ground, and let it fall, all the way (it is unclear to me if it was a powered dive (before the scramjet)). Only as it got near the ground did the engine activate, and then only for a few seconds before it heated up from re-entry. Then it cratered into the desert.
Scientists believe that they can maintain contact with the spacecraft for at least 20 more years, and they hope that the spacecraft passes the heliopause, the boundary for interstellar space, during this time.
So they don't know if they will pass the heliopause during these 20 years? I assume that they know exactly where the probes are, so they must not know where the heliopause is. Does anybody know anything about this?
So, are we measuring time in terms of Presidential Adminstrations now?
Yes. Time is measured by the executive branch (didn't you notice how much time slowed down in the long FDR years?). Physical laws and geologic facts are dictated by the legislative branch (as is evidenced by their energy policy of "burn lots of oil, and only oil, and we'll be fine for at least the next 50 Presidents).
Morals and Religion are governed by the Judicial branch, but they're much lower-profile, so most Americans don't even know about them.
are we forced to conclude that homosexuality (true ones, not Greece virgins) is a disease? If it is true we should try to cure them instead/
Before you go and say that it needs to be cured, you have to ask if it is a bad thing. I don't know if it is or not, but the only gay people I know seem to be happy, so why mess with it?
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This is only a test run. I imagine that if we were to actualy try to save the planet, we would hit it with a MUCH bigger satalite, moving MUCH faster. And paint it white. And maybe hit it with some nukes. Add it all up, and you'll get more than just that
I don't know if that was a troll or not, but I'm going to respond anyway.
First, what makes you think that more people are becoming gay? And second, that can't be an evolutionary change. IF homosexuality is geneticly determined, it seems to me that it would be quickly rooted out and would vanish inside a generation. Why? Becuase gay people don't have kids (well, the vast majority). In order for a genetic alteration to stick around, the carrier has to reproduce.
In ancient Greece, homosexuality was encouraged, because it kept you a 'technical' virgin. A HUGE chunk of the population became homosexual. Whether or not they stayed that way their whole lives, I don't know.
Will be an interresting population to look at to verify if natural selection still exists for humans
Uh... how could it not in this case. Since they don't have kids, they don't pass on any genes (even your hypothetical "gay" gene), so it ends. I think that this simple fact is a good argument against homosexuality being genetic.
Mandatory quote form Hot Shots Part Deux: They've taken a vow of celebecy, like their fathers before them...
But this is from a comet. Assuming that it comes from the Oort cloud, does that count as interstellar? Is the "border" of our solar system the end of the sun's heliopause? And where is that in relation to the Oort cloud?
You're right. That's never happened to me before. Wow. It was a well crafted troll though. I guess that whole council thing should have given it away... and the fact that aerogel is made of Si.
Would it be OK to kill human children in order to figure out how to quickly factor prime numbers?
Your argument sucks. Is it OK to kill humans for meat? No, but I and most of the rest of the world thinks that it's ok to kill animals for meat.
Anyway, Gelatin doesn't come primarily from Horse Hooves. It is is made from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals, which is produced anyway by the meat industry as a byproduct. Get your facts straight before you start ranting.
If you haven't, read the article. It says that these retroviruses have been a significant driving force for evolution.
Some people claim that evolution has stopped in humans, but this shows us that maybe it hasn't. Maybe through more retroviruses getting into the system, and this "giant game of chess" being played in our DNA, we will continue to evolve. For better or for worse, I don't know, but I see it as a major chance for improvement.
There are some that we can use. Pythia, Herwig, Bgenerator. I think I've seen EvtGen listed, but don't know anything about it. Pythia is really the one that suits our needs at the moment, but we may be switching to Herwig at some point.
I worked at a movie theater (GKC) back in high school. We had the child size, small, medium, and large (14, 20, 32, and 44oz). The large was nearly big enough to break your foot if you dropped it. Anyway, we offered free refills, and even though the large is a maddening 44oz, we had people come back for 1, 2, even 3 refills. And no, it wasn't a family sharing the drink, one person (and no they weren't carrying a jug that they poured it in). Some people (they're not all fat either) actualy do drink that much in a 2 hour movie.
Seems to me that that would make your head explode.
I'm a physics student working for an experimental physicist. He uses FORTRAN, so I use FORTRAN (only when I can't avoid it). You are right. Pythia (google search the word, and feel lucky) is a great program for simulating High Energy particle collisions (I'm doing Tevatron simulations in the background as I type), but since it was started a couple of decades ago, it's written in FORTRAN. They're trying to convert to C/C++ (can't remember which), but it's a multi-year project for code that's already written. They've put it off for so long because the FORTRAN code works just fine (for the most part). There are some memory considerations and interface issues that make them want to switch over.
Perhaps I am just misreading what the reply to the original post meant to say.
A pet peave of mine is people who react way too harshly to others. While this is a minor thing, you see it on much larger scales all over the world, and it really sucks.
Of course, part of the point of this news item is that nobody has been able to implement this in a truly stable way.
I didn't intend to refute his point, I just thought he missed the point and was trying to politely elaborate. He said that nobody has been able to do it stabley, I said that nobody has gotten an energy payback.
Weird Dave, if I've offended you or unfairly quoted you, I apologize.
Not from IBM, but how's Sony? I accidently signed up for a Sony mailing list, so the e-mails were valid at first. But for some reason everytime I tried to get off the list, it would fail. Now I get e-mails every time Sony releases a new movie telling me how great it is.
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I think that this whole argument is laughably trivial.
.1 picoliters how much alcohol do you have to drink before you are considered drunk?
Why does it matter? Should we call the Moon a moon, a co-planet... It's just a word!
I've seen a few times on here "When should planet/moon be considered double-planet?". This question illustrates the futility of talking so much about the first question. If you set some exact criteria, there will be a point in which we have a planet/moon system, and by adding a single atom's worth of mass to the moon, it would be a double planet system.
Obviously there are times that it is clearly Planet/Moon (Neptune/Triton for example), and if two bodies have mass within 10%, it is clearly a double planet. I just don't think that the argument of whether Pluto/Charon and Earth/Moon are double planets or planet/moon systems, just because it is a gradual change.
When are two galaxies said to be colliding, and when does it stop? At what instant is a person dead? Within
You see?
I spent the better part of this tuesday playing with Liquid Nitrogen. It turns out that you can stick your entire hand in it, and it won't hardly get cold at all for a second or two, so you can splash it at people with your bare hands. Because your hands (mouth) are so far above the boiling point of N2, it boils instantly upon contact with your skin. That means that you end up with a layer of gas around your hand, sheilding you from the brunt of the cold. Just don't leave it in for more than a second or two, because the LN2 WILL break through and give you cryo burn. Cryoburn (frostbite) is much much worse than a heat burn, partly because there has been little evolutionary reason to build up defences against it. Maybe Inuits would be better off.
This is just the first baby-step.
They didn't just bring it up to high speed and turn the engine on. They shot the thing up to an altitude of 314 km, pointed it to the ground, and let it fall, all the way (it is unclear to me if it was a powered dive (before the scramjet)). Only as it got near the ground did the engine activate, and then only for a few seconds before it heated up from re-entry. Then it cratered into the desert.
Morals and Religion are governed by the Judicial branch, but they're much lower-profile, so most Americans don't even know about them.
This is only a test run. I imagine that if we were to actualy try to save the planet, we would hit it with a MUCH bigger satalite, moving MUCH faster. And paint it white. And maybe hit it with some nukes. Add it all up, and you'll get more than just that
First, what makes you think that more people are becoming gay? And second, that can't be an evolutionary change. IF homosexuality is geneticly determined, it seems to me that it would be quickly rooted out and would vanish inside a generation. Why? Becuase gay people don't have kids (well, the vast majority). In order for a genetic alteration to stick around, the carrier has to reproduce.
In ancient Greece, homosexuality was encouraged, because it kept you a 'technical' virgin. A HUGE chunk of the population became homosexual. Whether or not they stayed that way their whole lives, I don't know. Uh... how could it not in this case. Since they don't have kids, they don't pass on any genes (even your hypothetical "gay" gene), so it ends. I think that this simple fact is a good argument against homosexuality being genetic.
Mandatory quote form Hot Shots Part Deux:
They've taken a vow of celebecy, like their fathers before them...
But this is from a comet. Assuming that it comes from the Oort cloud, does that count as interstellar? Is the "border" of our solar system the end of the sun's heliopause? And where is that in relation to the Oort cloud?
You're right. That's never happened to me before. Wow. It was a well crafted troll though. I guess that whole council thing should have given it away... and the fact that aerogel is made of Si.
I think that the submiter just used the term thinking that it meant "anything in outer space". Interplanetary would be the term to use in this case
Anyway, Gelatin doesn't come primarily from Horse Hooves. It is is made from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals, which is produced anyway by the meat industry as a byproduct. Get your facts straight before you start ranting.
If you haven't, read the article. It says that these retroviruses have been a significant driving force for evolution.
Some people claim that evolution has stopped in humans, but this shows us that maybe it hasn't. Maybe through more retroviruses getting into the system, and this "giant game of chess" being played in our DNA, we will continue to evolve. For better or for worse, I don't know, but I see it as a major chance for improvement.
Humans are biological weapons put on earth to infect each other!
Oh wait...
There are some that we can use. Pythia, Herwig, Bgenerator. I think I've seen EvtGen listed, but don't know anything about it. Pythia is really the one that suits our needs at the moment, but we may be switching to Herwig at some point.
Um, that's what others are trying to do. They're called qbits (quantum bits).
No, I'm talking about paper cold drink cups that people would refill the same day.
It's definetly worth it to do what you do. GKC offered that a few years ago with plastic 32oz cups, and we still have people bringing those back in.
I worked at a movie theater (GKC) back in high school. We had the child size, small, medium, and large (14, 20, 32, and 44oz). The large was nearly big enough to break your foot if you dropped it. Anyway, we offered free refills, and even though the large is a maddening 44oz, we had people come back for 1, 2, even 3 refills. And no, it wasn't a family sharing the drink, one person (and no they weren't carrying a jug that they poured it in). Some people (they're not all fat either) actualy do drink that much in a 2 hour movie.
Seems to me that that would make your head explode.
I'm a physics student working for an experimental physicist. He uses FORTRAN, so I use FORTRAN (only when I can't avoid it). You are right. Pythia (google search the word, and feel lucky) is a great program for simulating High Energy particle collisions (I'm doing Tevatron simulations in the background as I type), but since it was started a couple of decades ago, it's written in FORTRAN. They're trying to convert to C/C++ (can't remember which), but it's a multi-year project for code that's already written. They've put it off for so long because the FORTRAN code works just fine (for the most part). There are some memory considerations and interface issues that make them want to switch over.
It will be nice when the finaly do.
Perhaps I am just misreading what the reply to the original post meant to say.
A pet peave of mine is people who react way too harshly to others. While this is a minor thing, you see it on much larger scales all over the world, and it really sucks.
Weird Dave, if I've offended you or unfairly quoted you, I apologize.