The sheets remain stable when exposed to air, says Ruoff, but immersing them in water slowly loosens the bonds. Also, says materials scientist Boris Yakobson of Rice University in Houston, Texas, because water is so common as either liquid as rain or vapor as humidity, it will likely affect graphene sheets exposed to the environment in the long run if the material can't be protected from water's effects.
Coat it in teflon. Teflon stretches very easily and is water tight.
I look at it this way, if they are successful by the time they are 18, they will be in an extremely rare position.
They will have: The freedom to do what they want. The time to do what they want. The means to do what they want. The energy to do what they want. The health to do what they want.
Because the typical minor: Does not have the freedom. Does have the time. Does not have the means. Does have the health.
The typical adult: Does have the feedom. Does not have the time. May have the means (in debt basically). Does have the health, albeit fading.
The typical retiree: Does have the freedom, unless they are institutionalized. Does have the time. May have the means. Does not have the health.
Eh, what's the price of a motherboard that can take 4 sticks of cheapass DDR without the hardware crashing? Will that motherboard take a current generation processor and video card?
Interesting. Do you happen to know of any easy to access graphs of that data, preferably mapped up against CO2 and/or estimated world temperatures for the time?
The article is purely speculative pertaining to the topic at hand. The only time anything of any scientific value is referenced at all in that article are the potential consequences. Journalists are not scientists. Speculation is not scientific theory. At best it is a hypothesis which would then have to be tested.
The article is structured as such:
Wild ass guess. Pointing to convienently limited data. Speculation. Comment from scientist about what would happen if speculation where true. Speculation. Comment from scientist about what would happen if speculation where true. etc...
or...
There has been a distrubing trend towards sulfuric acid in the atomosphere. Over the past century, the levels of sulfuric acid have increased. What would happen if the atmosphere became 10% sulfuric acid next Wednesday? Some Scientists says, "Well, that would suck."
There, proof that the scientific community thinks the atmosphere will become 10% sulfuric acid next Wednesday.
"1. Global warming isn't caused by carbon in the atmosphere -- it's cause by (drum roll please) THE SUN!! [GASP!!]"
Do me a favor and plug up all the fan holes in your PC. After all, it's the current that is causing the warming in it, so fuck the vents. All those fans are just a waste of money.
"2. I'll wager Sir Branson his $25M that global warming "mysteriously" reverses itself in 20 years (coincidentally at the bottom of the sun's gamma cycle)"
[Sigh!] A fool and his money...
"3. Anyone but me remember the "coming ice age" back in the early 70's?"...only the other people that believe what they read in the tabloids.
I was hoping my idea was original, but I guess not. In addition, mine was to to take the post oil press waste and place it in old strip mine pits of significant depth, then cover it with mine slag. Place some venting pipes down to the heap and capture the methane (for CNG use?) coming off of the decaying mass as it gradually turned into some kind of coal.
Oh, and use organic waste (sewage, garbage) to feed the algae blooms. The only thing I couldn't think of an easy fix was the ground water issue beyond what we already do for landfills.
"I don't know, what was the dominant opinion? It seemed pretty divided."
The initial opinion thanks to that first propaganda piece was definately in favor of striking it down. Only in later follow up stories did the opinion become divided. It's a good sign though that a great many people here at least check into such stories at some point.
"Anyway, what does making poilitical lobbyists register have to do with fake blogs for marketing purposes?"
Because, lobbyists are paid to market political ideas to polititians and their constituents. A lobbyist that pretends to be a "concerned citizen" (and sometimes a group of concerned citizens) and spreads disinformation should be exposed to the public.
Personally, I have not made up my mind on that proposed amendment to that bill, however. The federal government has a way of fucking up even simple things...
I'm not any sort of expert or anything either, but I'll try to help explain how it is at least possible. It's because global warming has to do with mean average global temperature, not the offset of temperature variance. For example, let's limit the scope to 3 data points in order to make it easier to explain. At T1, P1 was at 20C, P2 was at 10C, and P3 was at 0C. The mean would be 10C for T1. At T2, P1 is at 30C, P2 was at -5C, and P3 was at 8C. The mean for T2 would be 11C, only one degree warmer, but has both a significantly higher and lower temperature than the previous set.
This is not to say this is how the situation actually pans out though. I don't know enough to make that kind of call.
This is because what inevitably happens is large scale economic powers eventually gain government level power within the so called free market. And, natually, such economic powers find it irresistible to regulate the market in their favor. Such entities have a significantly high amount of immunity to individual action because it is extremely difficult to organize a viable alternative in a market regulated by said entity. In extreme cases they can simply arrange it so that they extract their profits, not just simply revenue, directly from your tax dollars and effectively outlaw competition.
Judging from varius tidbits I've gleaned from her since her husbands end of term, I'd say the first choice is very likely. I can't think of anything specific other than the PATRIOT Act at the moment. Although, I have caught her in the past saying one thing to one group with one set of political leanings, then saying the exact opposite to a different group. Ms. Clinton worries me not because any percieved idiological leanings, but because she seems to only tell people what they want to hear. Such attempts to brainwash people into following someone gets under my skin rather severely. I do not take kindly do those that attempt to manipulate me to their will.
But, hell, do some research. The information is out there. For all you know, I may be doing to you exactly what I'm accusing Ms. Clinton of.
Perhaps all that is neccessary is the realization that as any entity gains significant power over people, it becomes an ad hoc government, regardless as to whether or not it is elected or is explicitly called a government. There are reasons why government should be limited. Just calling a government something else does not change that fact.
I don't care if they are smoking weed and wearing big tie-dye peace sign t-shirts with Kerry '04 tatood on their foreheads. Election fraud is election fraud. If they are guilty let them be proven so.
I wish news, was actual news. You know, with facts and some attempt to determine what the truth is, and the like. Good luck with that. Start talking about anything with a political string attached an all of a sudden facts are underhanded conspiracies to cloud the faith in the glorious party/polititian. Evidence takes a back seat to what "feels" right. And, anyone that tells someone different is in a conspiracy to persecute their faith, destroy their country, enslave them, rape their daughter, eat their babies, steal their wallet, cut them off in traffic, and kick their dog.
If you could then all my suggestions would have been moot anyway.
"Maybe a shell over a balloon, sure but that's not compatible with a rectilinear architecture."
You can if you use an archway instead of a dome. But, that would require asinine amounts of removable support structure to be put in place before it could be "printed."
"And straight beams can't economically support high loads either, so floors above the ground floor would have difficulty in construction."...and what construction method is used in normal stick built houses for additional floors? I was under the impression it was straight beams held in place by brackets, interconnected with subflooring with additional support provided via the interior walls of the structure. Am I wrong?
Oh, an as for the truss based roofing, that's what I was getting at. But, I guess you couldn't figure that out. Why would I specifically mention placing anchors in the gypsum? Because, I wanted to attach something to the gypsum that was already fabricated, like the wooden or steel supports you already find in normal houses.
You know, it could just drop anchors into the gypsum so that a sloped roof could be attached to it. Maybe that "I Beam" robot someone else mentioned earlier could also be rigged to drop pre-constructed roofing panels in place at an incline.
Good lord. That signing statement says 2 very different meanings, buried under tons of important sounding bullshit.
One says roughtly: "The president interprets that he can open mail in emergency circumstances in order to protect life and national security.
That would be both sane and legal. However:
The other says: "The president interprets that he can open mail in emergency circumstances, or when he considers it legally allowed for intelligence purposes.
Almost anything dealing with foriegn intelligence is classified to the point where Congress and the Supreme Court can not even review it, much less do anything about it. Even the Foreign Intelligence Subcommitee is limited in classification, if I remember correctly. They can only review intelligence that is provided willfully by the Executive.
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Coat it in teflon. Teflon stretches very easily and is water tight.
I look at it this way, if they are successful by the time they are 18, they will be in an extremely rare position.
They will have:
The freedom to do what they want.
The time to do what they want.
The means to do what they want.
The energy to do what they want.
The health to do what they want.
Because the typical minor:
Does not have the freedom.
Does have the time.
Does not have the means.
Does have the health.
The typical adult:
Does have the feedom.
Does not have the time.
May have the means (in debt basically).
Does have the health, albeit fading.
The typical retiree:
Does have the freedom, unless they are institutionalized.
Does have the time.
May have the means.
Does not have the health.
Oh, I see Baghdad Bob landed on his feet.
It's likely slip of:
"We won the cold war."
and...
"We're number one!"
You laugh, but they could use it to guide a bomb from orbit.
Eh, what's the price of a motherboard that can take 4 sticks of cheapass DDR without the hardware crashing? Will that motherboard take a current generation processor and video card?
Or, am I guessing wrong here...
Interesting. Do you happen to know of any easy to access graphs of that data, preferably mapped up against CO2 and/or estimated world temperatures for the time?
I did find this off of wikipedia: Carbon 14 graph
The article is purely speculative pertaining to the topic at hand. The only time anything of any scientific value is referenced at all in that article are the potential consequences. Journalists are not scientists. Speculation is not scientific theory. At best it is a hypothesis which would then have to be tested.
The article is structured as such:
Wild ass guess. Pointing to convienently limited data. Speculation. Comment from scientist about what would happen if speculation where true. Speculation. Comment from scientist about what would happen if speculation where true. etc...
or...
There has been a distrubing trend towards sulfuric acid in the atomosphere. Over the past century, the levels of sulfuric acid have increased. What would happen if the atmosphere became 10% sulfuric acid next Wednesday? Some Scientists says, "Well, that would suck."
There, proof that the scientific community thinks the atmosphere will become 10% sulfuric acid next Wednesday.
Tabloid article. ID-10-T error: FA17
"1. Global warming isn't caused by carbon in the atmosphere -- it's cause by (drum roll please) THE SUN!! [GASP!!]"
...only the other people that believe what they read in the tabloids.
Do me a favor and plug up all the fan holes in your PC. After all, it's the current that is causing the warming in it, so fuck the vents. All those fans are just a waste of money.
"2. I'll wager Sir Branson his $25M that global warming "mysteriously" reverses itself in 20 years (coincidentally at the bottom of the sun's gamma cycle)"
[Sigh!] A fool and his money...
"3. Anyone but me remember the "coming ice age" back in the early 70's?"
I was hoping my idea was original, but I guess not. In addition, mine was to to take the post oil press waste and place it in old strip mine pits of significant depth, then cover it with mine slag. Place some venting pipes down to the heap and capture the methane (for CNG use?) coming off of the decaying mass as it gradually turned into some kind of coal.
Oh, and use organic waste (sewage, garbage) to feed the algae blooms. The only thing I couldn't think of an easy fix was the ground water issue beyond what we already do for landfills.
"I don't know, what was the dominant opinion? It seemed pretty divided."
The initial opinion thanks to that first propaganda piece was definately in favor of striking it down. Only in later follow up stories did the opinion become divided. It's a good sign though that a great many people here at least check into such stories at some point.
"Anyway, what does making poilitical lobbyists register have to do with fake blogs for marketing purposes?"
Because, lobbyists are paid to market political ideas to polititians and their constituents. A lobbyist that pretends to be a "concerned citizen" (and sometimes a group of concerned citizens) and spreads disinformation should be exposed to the public.
Personally, I have not made up my mind on that proposed amendment to that bill, however. The federal government has a way of fucking up even simple things...
I'm not any sort of expert or anything either, but I'll try to help explain how it is at least possible. It's because global warming has to do with mean average global temperature, not the offset of temperature variance. For example, let's limit the scope to 3 data points in order to make it easier to explain. At T1, P1 was at 20C, P2 was at 10C, and P3 was at 0C. The mean would be 10C for T1. At T2, P1 is at 30C, P2 was at -5C, and P3 was at 8C. The mean for T2 would be 11C, only one degree warmer, but has both a significantly higher and lower temperature than the previous set.
This is not to say this is how the situation actually pans out though. I don't know enough to make that kind of call.
This is because what inevitably happens is large scale economic powers eventually gain government level power within the so called free market. And, natually, such economic powers find it irresistible to regulate the market in their favor. Such entities have a significantly high amount of immunity to individual action because it is extremely difficult to organize a viable alternative in a market regulated by said entity. In extreme cases they can simply arrange it so that they extract their profits, not just simply revenue, directly from your tax dollars and effectively outlaw competition.
Judging from varius tidbits I've gleaned from her since her husbands end of term, I'd say the first choice is very likely. I can't think of anything specific other than the PATRIOT Act at the moment. Although, I have caught her in the past saying one thing to one group with one set of political leanings, then saying the exact opposite to a different group. Ms. Clinton worries me not because any percieved idiological leanings, but because she seems to only tell people what they want to hear. Such attempts to brainwash people into following someone gets under my skin rather severely. I do not take kindly do those that attempt to manipulate me to their will.
But, hell, do some research. The information is out there. For all you know, I may be doing to you exactly what I'm accusing Ms. Clinton of.
Perhaps all that is neccessary is the realization that as any entity gains significant power over people, it becomes an ad hoc government, regardless as to whether or not it is elected or is explicitly called a government. There are reasons why government should be limited. Just calling a government something else does not change that fact.
I wonder how my razing all the enemies cities and using the citizens as slaves or starving to death the cities that are likely to revolt fits into it.
I guess we'll figure it out by which half of the keyboard you end up typing your post surgery reply with.
I don't care if they are smoking weed and wearing big tie-dye peace sign t-shirts with Kerry '04 tatood on their foreheads. Election fraud is election fraud. If they are guilty let them be proven so.
I wish news, was actual news. You know, with facts and some attempt to determine what the truth is, and the like. Good luck with that. Start talking about anything with a political string attached an all of a sudden facts are underhanded conspiracies to cloud the faith in the glorious party/polititian. Evidence takes a back seat to what "feels" right. And, anyone that tells someone different is in a conspiracy to persecute their faith, destroy their country, enslave them, rape their daughter, eat their babies, steal their wallet, cut them off in traffic, and kick their dog.
"You inherently cannot spray-create a bridge."
...and what construction method is used in normal stick built houses for additional floors? I was under the impression it was straight beams held in place by brackets, interconnected with subflooring with additional support provided via the interior walls of the structure. Am I wrong?
If you could then all my suggestions would have been moot anyway.
"Maybe a shell over a balloon, sure but that's not compatible with a rectilinear architecture."
You can if you use an archway instead of a dome. But, that would require asinine amounts of removable support structure to be put in place before it could be "printed."
"And straight beams can't economically support high loads either, so floors above the ground floor would have difficulty in construction."
Oh, an as for the truss based roofing, that's what I was getting at. But, I guess you couldn't figure that out. Why would I specifically mention placing anchors in the gypsum? Because, I wanted to attach something to the gypsum that was already fabricated, like the wooden or steel supports you already find in normal houses.
I call dibs on the French Antarctic Islands and the shelf and minor islands surrounding it.
You know, it could just drop anchors into the gypsum so that a sloped roof could be attached to it. Maybe that "I Beam" robot someone else mentioned earlier could also be rigged to drop pre-constructed roofing panels in place at an incline.
"A concensus among scientists is NOT fact."
Then nothing is fact.
Good lord. That signing statement says 2 very different meanings, buried under tons of important sounding bullshit.
One says roughtly: "The president interprets that he can open mail in emergency circumstances in order to protect life and national security.
That would be both sane and legal. However:
The other says: "The president interprets that he can open mail in emergency circumstances, or when he considers it legally allowed for intelligence purposes.
Almost anything dealing with foriegn intelligence is classified to the point where Congress and the Supreme Court can not even review it, much less do anything about it. Even the Foreign Intelligence Subcommitee is limited in classification, if I remember correctly. They can only review intelligence that is provided willfully by the Executive.
"...to the maximum extent permissible..."
Quick quiz, what happens to overall fuel prices when supply increases far faster than demand?