with all due respect, how good will they feel when she dies waiting for a better commercial solution. Do you think radio shack *builds* those capacitors themselves?
Probably because "clean" fuels are so in demand by environmentalists that there is a much greater novelty profit in selling a gallon of corn ethanol than in selling an equivalent amount of fossil fuel.
Thus if ethanol becomes used on a widespread basis they probably would do so.
Of course there are other ways to measure a stars distance also
For example if you look at the 21 cm band it gives you a pretty good guess as to how much dust is between you and your target. then you know how bright it really is and therfore, how far away based on its spectrum
Or red shifts in the outer rim work fairly well as long as your not staring at a globular cluster.
But then, like you said, most of that isn't really that accurate either
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Perhaps "relax" is too strong a word for what I meant.
I meant, lets not go dumping chemicals that will have other effects till we really know whats going on.
Lets also not require car exhaust to be cleaner than the air I breathe out.
Humans have still as far as I know managed not to cause a world wide devastation of anything. Have a little fait that mother nature can take care of herself but take enough precautions so that we don't all kill ourselves with the plague or something.
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My last phyical science teacher(hes got a Dr in fromt of his name, I don't) mentioned that back in the good old days they said we'd raise the tempature by like 10 degrees by 2020 or something like that. the kicker is that there current estimate of tempature rise is something like one tenth what it was at first
And there are other scientests that think that the whole thing is one long cycle and we just haven't been watching long enough to see one complete period.
So until we know if Global Warming is happening I say we relax
Leave nothing above ground that indicates anything ever happend but put it in a location that is not convienient to water/ food etc. Since its in the middle of a desert the only people that might encounter it would be nomads seeking to go somewhere else and thus probably wouldn't get too exposed.
Only very intelligent cultures would ever be able to find it. i.e. ones who can do ariel radar/radiation scans.
For these cultures bury underground, maybe 10 feet down some, kind of message they will understand. sort of like the message in the "book" Contact(yes the movie was based on it, the book was better)
This could serve a dual purpose. speak in a language of science to our decendants to teach them enough to understand the science/technology and at once teach them the dangers of using it.
I have to admit they seem to have done a good job picking languages that at least someone will remember in 10,000 years. It looks like a fairly broad spread over the differnt roots that exist although there seems to be some bias towards romance languages. I think they should include maybe a few more like an island launguage and an african language.
Don't look at it in a sense of, oh my gosh they're still going to come and look. Think of it as what do we want to tell them once they are smart enough to know its there.
yes, I know all that, but the particular lattice structure of some carbon nanotubes makes them better than conductors than copper by some calculations and by some experiments. Some people even think they have shown some carbon nanotubes to be balistic conductors (i.e. it dosn't matter how long you make it the only resistance in the tube is contact resistance with other stuff)
So in this field we call them "metallic" if they conduct as good or better than metals. Other tubes with slightly different structure do behave more like semiconductors. but I see how that would be confusing if you hadn't read a ton of technical papers on the subject.
Just out of curiosity does anyone know what kind of nanotubes are being produced here?
I did some work on theory behind making these things into digital circuits but it was really sensitive to the kind of tube you could get. Some are metalic, some are semiconductors, some are skinnier than others which actually matters.
When I was up on the research to get conducting tubes the best process was DC electric arcing of carbon rods mixed w/ boron.
Last I checked, Gravity was one of the four fundamental forces in the universe and the least understood at that. I agree it sounds like this guys a crackpot but then what the hey, Galileo wasn't the most conventional guy either.
I say whatever we can do to understand the stuff better is fine w/ me
Don't take knives from people, hand them out in the terminal. Make sure every passenger over 18 is armed and dangerous and then we'll see who tries to hijack our planes.
I remember hearing in my chemistry class that Ben and Jerry's puts tons of money into deep sea research so they can figure out how the fish at such cold temperatures keep ice crystals from forming. The theory being that ice crystals make for bad ice cream
Does studying tube worms from hot volcanic vents mean that now Ballpark will have higher quality hot dogs?
with all due respect, I think your right on the point of being able to do enough easily without much harm but to be able to pull of 9/11 or bigger I think is harder to pull off than you might think.
At least as far as nuclear weapons go getting uranium isn't the hard part its getting enough of the bomb grade isotope to make it go boom big enough thats the tough thing. I can't remember if its u-235 or u-238 thats the bad one but somehow you have to seperate two chemically identical kinds of atoms to purify the stuff. Even then you can get plans or at least priciples of design for the machine that will do it but they tend to cost so much that last time I checked(2-4 years ago) there were 6 plants in the world. 4 in the US and 2 in Russia.
A dirty bomb would be a good bit easier but I think it wouldn't cause the scare that a suitcase nuke would.
I wonder why anthrax if the recent attackers could have used something else more contagious like smallpox or plague. I think it is because that stuff is just harder to get and dispense than we think.
hmmm...
"According to the listed standard, I think I could be described as sleep addicted, food addicted, air addicted, and for that matter addicted to converstations with my wife and playing with my kids! "
Probably true. In fact I know some psychologists would say that all of those are addictions. I think for most people the difference is when you feel a strong almost uncontrolable urge to do something that isn't productive or even what you really want to be doing. Game a few hours or a few nights a week it's recreation, game a few nights in two days and its a problem
"The problem is a lack of will, and the consequences are simply the results of bad choices"
Also probably true for many cases but i'm not convinced it's true for everyone. Paranoid schizofrenics(spelling?) aren't blamed for there problems. Some things really are beyond our ability to control. Thats different for every person. Me, you, them
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with all due respect, how good will they feel when she dies waiting for a better commercial solution. Do you think radio shack *builds* those capacitors themselves?
Think we want this built tomorrow or sooner
Probably because "clean" fuels are so in demand by environmentalists that there is a much greater novelty profit in selling a gallon of corn ethanol than in selling an equivalent amount of fossil fuel.
Thus if ethanol becomes used on a widespread basis they probably would do so.
is it more difficult to get a patent in Europe? (i.e. do you issue fewer patents due to more stringent requirements?)
GOOOD, now I can continue my ooops "our" plans to dominate the universe uniterupted by the galactict justice league finding out :)
Of course there are other ways to measure a stars distance also
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For example if you look at the 21 cm band it gives you a pretty good guess as to how much dust is between you and your target. then you know how bright it really is and therfore, how far away based on its spectrum
Or red shifts in the outer rim work fairly well as long as your not staring at a globular cluster.
But then, like you said, most of that isn't really that accurate either
with the release of the GeForce 5 and quake 4 all rendering will be ray traced and run at max frame rates of 1 fps on P5 10GHz cpus
Enjoy
All you really need is one giant neutron source?
Perhaps "relax" is too strong a word for what I meant.
I meant, lets not go dumping chemicals that will have other effects till we really know whats going on.
Lets also not require car exhaust to be cleaner than the air I breathe out.
Humans have still as far as I know managed not to cause a world wide devastation of anything. Have a little fait that mother nature can take care of herself but take enough precautions so that we don't all kill ourselves with the plague or something.
My last phyical science teacher(hes got a Dr in fromt of his name, I don't) mentioned that back in the good old days they said we'd raise the tempature by like 10 degrees by 2020 or something like that. the kicker is that there current estimate of tempature rise is something like one tenth what it was at first
And there are other scientests that think that the whole thing is one long cycle and we just haven't been watching long enough to see one complete period.
So until we know if Global Warming is happening I say we relax
Leave nothing above ground that indicates anything ever happend but put it in a location that is not convienient to water/ food etc. Since its in the middle of a desert the only people that might encounter it would be nomads seeking to go somewhere else and thus probably wouldn't get too exposed.
Only very intelligent cultures would ever be able to find it. i.e. ones who can do ariel radar/radiation scans.
For these cultures bury underground, maybe 10 feet down some, kind of message they will understand. sort of like the message in the "book" Contact(yes the movie was based on it, the book was better)
This could serve a dual purpose. speak in a language of science to our decendants to teach them enough to understand the science/technology and at once teach them the dangers of using it.
I have to admit they seem to have done a good job picking languages that at least someone will remember in 10,000 years. It looks like a fairly broad spread over the differnt roots that exist although there seems to be some bias towards romance languages. I think they should include maybe a few more like an island launguage and an african language.
Don't look at it in a sense of, oh my gosh they're still going to come and look. Think of it as what do we want to tell them once they are smart enough to know its there.
oh big bad asteroid thought you could wipe out all our species huh???HUH???
We don't even have to touch you and you fall apart!!!
Look at you, all crumbly and stuff.
And you call yourself an "asteroid" More like a wusteroird if you ask me
yes, I know all that, but the particular lattice structure of some carbon nanotubes makes them better than conductors than copper by some calculations and by some experiments. Some people even think they have shown some carbon nanotubes to be balistic conductors (i.e. it dosn't matter how long you make it the only resistance in the tube is contact resistance with other stuff)
So in this field we call them "metallic" if they conduct as good or better than metals. Other tubes with slightly different structure do behave more like semiconductors. but I see how that would be confusing if you hadn't read a ton of technical papers on the subject.
Just out of curiosity does anyone know what kind of nanotubes are being produced here?
I did some work on theory behind making these things into digital circuits but it was really sensitive to the kind of tube you could get. Some are metalic, some are semiconductors, some are skinnier than others which actually matters.
When I was up on the research to get conducting tubes the best process was DC electric arcing of carbon rods mixed w/ boron.
Anybody know how this one stacks up?
Last I checked, Gravity was one of the four fundamental forces in the universe and the least understood at that. I agree it sounds like this guys a crackpot but then what the hey, Galileo wasn't the most conventional guy either.
I say whatever we can do to understand the stuff better is fine w/ me
They are doing this all wrong.
Don't take knives from people, hand them out in the terminal. Make sure every passenger over 18 is armed and dangerous and then we'll see who tries to hijack our planes.
I remember hearing in my chemistry class that Ben and Jerry's puts tons of money into deep sea research so they can figure out how the fish at such cold temperatures keep ice crystals from forming. The theory being that ice crystals make for bad ice cream
Does studying tube worms from hot volcanic vents mean that now Ballpark will have higher quality hot dogs?
with all due respect, I think your right on the point of being able to do enough easily without much harm but to be able to pull of 9/11 or bigger I think is harder to pull off than you might think.
At least as far as nuclear weapons go getting uranium isn't the hard part its getting enough of the bomb grade isotope to make it go boom big enough thats the tough thing. I can't remember if its u-235 or u-238 thats the bad one but somehow you have to seperate two chemically identical kinds of atoms to purify the stuff. Even then you can get plans or at least priciples of design for the machine that will do it but they tend to cost so much that last time I checked(2-4 years ago) there were 6 plants in the world. 4 in the US and 2 in Russia.
A dirty bomb would be a good bit easier but I think it wouldn't cause the scare that a suitcase nuke would.
I wonder why anthrax if the recent attackers could have used something else more contagious like smallpox or plague. I think it is because that stuff is just harder to get and dispense than we think.
It looks like they're planning on "fixing" these chips after they come out.
Could they fix them again later? While there running? As in reconfigurable computing.
how about an ultrasparc that can change from 80% graphics processor to 80% FPU on the fly?
sure no problem, now that we've got about 100x10^6 lines of code lets go through and ask ourselves which are not safe in combination =>
Hmmm... I'd like to see how this breaks down by major. I.E. CS, EE, CPE, IS, etc. I find the EE and CPE's much more informed about this sort of thing
hmmm... "According to the listed standard, I think I could be described as sleep addicted, food addicted, air addicted, and for that matter addicted to converstations with my wife and playing with my kids! " Probably true. In fact I know some psychologists would say that all of those are addictions. I think for most people the difference is when you feel a strong almost uncontrolable urge to do something that isn't productive or even what you really want to be doing. Game a few hours or a few nights a week it's recreation, game a few nights in two days and its a problem "The problem is a lack of will, and the consequences are simply the results of bad choices" Also probably true for many cases but i'm not convinced it's true for everyone. Paranoid schizofrenics(spelling?) aren't blamed for there problems. Some things really are beyond our ability to control. Thats different for every person. Me, you, them