What I want to know is how this will be much better than regular tv. Say the image depth is three feet. Most TV pictures have camera shots going back many feet. Now I guess this 3d tv will just have much reduced depth or somthing, kind of flattening out everything. It seems that that would confuse the senses.
Why not just have high-definition OLED goggle tv. That would look a lot better than this 3d tv and it would be much cheaper.
What really excites me about this is the optical computing potential.
However, these new solar cells are made from plastic, which doesn't help our dependency on oil
To power your house for 20 years, you might need 10 pounds of plastic. That is 10 pounds of oil, or roughly a little over a gallon. Compare that to the thousands of gallons you would otherwise use. Just think more critically. Even with all the plastic we use today, it barely makes a dent in oil usage.
We can use nuclear power until cheap solar, and hydrogen from solar power, becomes a reality. We can build lotsa nuclear plants to make hydrogen to power pollutant-free hydrogen fuel cell cars.
One of the big culprits of smog is obviosly cars. We need to switch to hydrogen fuel cell cars. However, many people seem to think of hydrogen as an energy source. It isn't. You need electricity to make hydrogen.
Until we have cheap solar, you need to get the electricity from one of our old sources: coal, oil, nuclear, natural gas, etc.
Coal pollutes too much. We'd be overrun with smog if we built many more coal plants for hydrogen cars, much more so than if we used gasoline engines. We don't have enough oil to be energy independant. Natural gas is too expensive and we will run out of it in about 30 years. That leaves us with nuclear. Nuclear power is not as dangerous as people think. Also, Chernobyl-scale meltdowns in U.S. PWR are impossible. The Chernobyl reactor was a crappy commie RBMK reactor with no containment building. Of course we had the TMI reactor problem. However, that killed or injured no one. And, according to the World Health Org, only 31 people were killed in Chernobyl.
Fears of nuclear power are overblown. Radiation is just like any other pollutant. And you need a shyteload of radiation to really harm you. Nuclear power has killed a grand total of 35 people in it's entire exsistence. Coal power has killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 million people in this century, of emphysema, lung cancer, etc, etc.
Little known fact, but according to the Lawrence Livermore Nat'l lab, coal power realeases more radiation than nuclear power. Coal naturally contains some thorium and uranium. When you burn coal, this is realesed into the air. We burn so much fscking coal that we realease around 150 thousand tons of uranium and 350 thousand tons of thorium!!! The study is here. Nuclear power is also cheap. With some new tech, they have gotten the cost of some nuclear power plants below the cost of coal.
There is not mountains of nuclear waste made by our plants. Each plant only uses several tons of uranium a year. That would fit in an area just a few feet square. The total amount of waste ever created for a whole family for their whole lives would fit in a shoebox. If we reprocessed our fuel, it would fit in a pill bottle. Compare that to mountains of highly toxic coal waste with arsenic, cyanide, and other good stuff that just sits on the ground and leaches poisons into the groundwater.
Nuclear waste storage is very good. It's not like they are hauling it around in thin metal barrels like the environmentalists want you to think. No. The waste is transported in thick metal containers that have been tested by being thrown off cliffs, rammed into locomotives, and all sorts of crap. In Yucca mountain, the waste is stored inside these metal casks, which are in turn inside an ultra-thick concrete subterrainean room. Also, the storage place is 2,000 feet above the water table, so you're OK there.
Anyway, this plastic solar thing looks like it could be amazingly cheap and very clean. It would probably be easier for everyone to have these solar cells at their own homes. If Joe Smith put up 3,000 dollars worth of these solar cells, he could power his house for much cheaper than coal or nuclear.
However, you still have the energy storage problem. What happens to the power after dark or when it's cloudy? With this, you have an electrolyzer that takes some of your solar cell power during the daytime and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen. Then at night you recombine these components in a fuel cell to get power.
Home based solar plants are better than centralized ones for a few reasons:
1. Power loss over the lines. You lose over 10% of your electicity in the lines. Plus loss in transformers, etc.
2. Fuel cells are small devices. They are more suited for home use.
3. Independance from power companies (i.e. Enron)
Anyway, I don't think these solar cells will be ready for another 30 years or more. That is just my gut feeling. In the meantime:
1.Replace your incandescent bulbs with compact flourescent!!! The better brands put off a better, more natural light than even incandescent. They use so little electicity and last for so goddamn long that they are cheaper in the longrun.
2. Turn off the lights when you are not in the room!!!! There is no reason to have all the lights on. If you live in a house with you and your spouse, only one or two rooms should have the lights on. If you have your whole house lighted at night, you are really wasting energy.
3. During the daytime, set your hot water heater to "vacation." You don't need it to keep your water continously warm when you are at work. Turn it on when you get home. By dinnertime you will have plenty of hot water.
4. Buy "Energy Star" appliances. These will save you money in the long run.
It's pushback.com, San Francisco talk show host Dr. Bill Wattenburg's website. Lots of info on energy conservation and lots of other stuff, coming from someone with a doctorate, a masters, and a B.S., whos worked for Lockheed Missile and Space company, IBM, Lawrence Livermore, and other places. He is a rocket scientist. Listen to what he has to say.
Think of the sun and the solar wind as just winds here on earth. Sails and M2P2's can "tack" the solar wind and light just as sailboats tack into the wind.
BTW, M2P2's are an excellent idea. They only work for small probes (~200 lbs). But for small probes, nothing beats them for speed and price. They can go over 150,000 miles an hour, many times faster than the Voyager.
Also, they are cheap. M2P2's use plasma to form a magnetosphere around them. This catches the solar wind and can propel them.
Heres how it works: You just have a regular electromagnet just weighing a couple lbs. Normally, the magnetic field of a magnet such as this would only be inches wide. However, helium plasma is formed by coronally discharging electricity through thin helium gas. This plasma is pumped into the magnetic field of the soleniod. The plasma would drag the field lines out to 10 miles!! This would create a solar sail 10 miles in diameter, with only a magnet and a couple electrodes. It produces about a newton of thrust continously.
We will not likely go to Europa in the near future. However, we should go there.
Europa has probably the best prospeacts for life anywhere in the solar system. It most likely has a liquid ocean underneath the ice, warmed by the tidal effects of Jupiter. Deep sea vents would emit chemicals that could start life. Some people think now that life on earth may have started near deep-sea vents.
We would probably get there using nuclear propulsion if we were using a probe. Nuclear-thermal propulsion has around twice the specific impulse of conventional chemical rockets. When the probe gets to Europa, it will send down a small submersible. It will burrow through the thick ice by melting it with radioisotopes.
For a manned mission to Europa and the Jovian system, which may happen in maybe 60 years, we would probably use VASIMR engines. These are plasma rocket engines under development that would get around 30,000 seconds, or 60 times the efficiency of conventional rockets. They work by using magnetic fields to accelerate high-temperature hydrogen plasma.
VASIMR is so efficient that it would allow slow intersteller missions with 1-2% C.
For interplanetary missions, it would allow missions to Mars in about 2 months and missions to Jupiter lasting a year. Also, upon return to earth, the VASIMR ships can just be refueled and resupplied and sent on their way for very cheap.
Also, VASIMR's have some power. They have more power than ion engines.
For interplanetary missions, we really need an inexpensive space plane, like the X 34. That would slash launch costs.
Amino acids don't make DNA. Amino acids make protein. Check your facts.
Here is how protein is made:
Base pairs (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine) self-assemble into DNA. If you put base pairs together, they will assemble, all completely by themselves. Base pairs are 2 bases (adenine and thymine, or guanine and cytosine) connected to eachother by hydrogen bonds. These base pairs are connected to other base pairs by alternating deroxyribose and phosphates.
Now, BTW, I haven't mentioned this important bit: DNA and RNA are divided into sections called codons. These are 3 base pairs that code for a particular protein.
DNA can catylise single-stranded mRNA. The DNA splits, and an RNA molecule forms on each strand of DNA. RNA is the same as DNA except it is single stranded and instead of Thymine it has Uricil. Now when the RNA molecule forms on the DNA, it makes a perfect anti-copy of the DNA.
They split, and the 2 single DNA strands recombine. Then the mirror-image mRNA binds to tRNA codons, and this creates a perfect copy of the original DNA, at least in respect to protein coding.
Now, if you have digested that, I will talk about how the protein is actually made:
Now the tRNA is at the ribosome, which is the protein manufacturing organelle of a cell.
Amino acids from around the cell then bind to their respective corresponding codons. This eventualy forms a protein chain. All our DNA does is make protein. That is how all life is made.
There are extremely high winds at these altitudes. But the air is sooo thin it really isn't that bad. At 50 KM the air would be so thin that a 200 mph wind would be like a 20 MPH wind down here. Not so horrible.
Really, wind force no matter at what altitude is usualy, but not always, the same as felt down here. Higher altitudes have higher winds but less force.
Also, BTW, geo orbit is at 24,000 miles, I believe. The further you put the counterweight out, the smaller it needs to be. That is why 50,000 miles is a good length. As an added bonus, you can launch spacecraft off the end. A spacecraft launched from the end of the rope would fly off into space at an extremely high rate of speed. This concept is called tethers. It's just like if you swung a bola around your head and let it go, it would fly off and hit somebody in the head real fast.
You are talking about orbital towers. That is an outmoded idea.
We will probably use a superstrong nanotube rope, instead. It would go out past GEO orbit. A weight, such as a smallish asteroid or something, would tethered past GEO. This would create tension on the rope, due to the counterweight wanting to fling off into space. This way, you would need no tower.
Tidal forces of the Earth on the structure call for superstrong material. Side tidal forces from the moon require it to be flexible as well. Really? We would need a superstrong material to build 50,000 miles high?:-P We would use ultra-strong carbon nanotubes. About 60 times as strong as steel.
How do you build it? Not in place... We pretty much know how to do it. We just have to improve our carbon nanotube manufacturing process.
Imagine that thing towering over your neighborhood. Pretty scary. Now realize that it is going to be visible from much of the Earth's surface and add NIMBY into the equation. It would be extemely doubtful that it would crash. With the counterweight, should it become detached from the ground, it would fly off into space!!! Also, this thing is badass. IWLTH1IMBY(I would love to have one in my backyard)
The voltage potential from top to bottom is going to make this thing deadly deadly deadly without ultra-secure precautions. You mean, kind of like a powerline??? If you touched a powerline you would be just as dead, if not moreso. Just put a fence around it.
Anyway, I think people are being too paranoid about the guvament.(pronounce in brain as paraniod Idahoan KKK heavily armed militia seperatist guy)
You think they would use a 1 billion dollar machine to see your internet credit card transaction to purchase a gay beastial midget pr0n website subscription?
No, they aren't going to use this on weirdo perverts like yourself. They will use this to decrypt important things, like Taliban and PLO communications and whatnot.
Anyway, its not like crackers, with malicious intent, would go buy themselves a 1 B dollar supa-puter to intercept your midget pr0n transaction.
So quit being paranoid, and go back to jacking off to your gay beastail midget pr0n.:-P
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Put the CD in a microwave. It looks really cool when it comes out.
I have always wondered if sometime microsoft is just going ditch the NT kernal, and maybe with their next version, use Mach or VMS or something for their kernal. Just like Apple did. Then finally they could claim that their product is stable.
This is real, and it is quite literally 'warp drive' unfolding before your eyes.
This ain't a warp drive. It is just an ionic wind generator. It's about like one of those "Ionic Breeze" machines you see advertised on TV for only 47 easy payments of $19.95. If NASA is developing this for space, they must be using some other device. I don't care what you say. This won't work in space.
Nasty little buggers have DNA in them that has to be filtered out.
DNA itself isn't harmful in any way, shape or form. I don't care if you eat the DNA from anthrax bacteria. All the base pairs are broken down by enzymes. After your enzymes get through with it, it is only base pairs of adenine and thymine, or cytosine and guanine.
In fact, we need DNA to provide us with valuable bases, phosphates, and deroxyribose so we can make more DNA for cell replication.
One way to tackle the problem is to take the excess DNA out (something about a gram per day max rings a bell)
Actualy, unless you are an anorexic, you are gettin WAY more than a gram of DNA a day. DNA is about 10% by weight of all living organisms. If you eat 2 pounds of food a day, you get over 3 ounces of DNA. Don't worry about it. You need it anyway.
Anyway, I think using single-cell bacteria or other microorganisms as food is a great idea. In the future, perhaps we will be able to take raw protein and carbs from an abundant source such as kelp, and transform it into just about any food. Like in 2001: A Space Oddesey. We may have to work up somthing like that. The world population will be over 10 billion in 2050.
They could just retexture it. Have you ever had retextured turkey? (I'm sure you have. Deli turkey, cafeteria turkey, all retextured) When done well, retextured turkey is just about indistinguisable from regular turkey.
To get this bill not to pass all us slashdotters need to send soft money contributions to our politicians. Seriosly. We have to beat the RIAA's and the MPAA'S campaign contributions. Remember, a politician's vote goes to the highest bidder.
15,000 volts with some amperage is very deadly. It would definitely kill you or at least cause cardiac arrest. Any high-voltage electricity (except static, like from a Van De Graff generator) can kill you.
Do you know that if you take apart a disposable camera you can kill yourself with the flash bulb capacitor if it isn't drained? It doesn't take much power. That means, when properly transformed to a high voltage, you can kill yourself with the electricity from a AA battery!
I don't care how good a resistor you are 15,000 volts is a lot. Volts is more a measure of the resistance the electricity can take. 110 volts can jump through your body just fine, as I have found out. 15,000 volts would go through your body 100 times easier.
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What I want to know is how this will be much better than regular tv. Say the image depth is three feet. Most TV pictures have camera shots going back many feet. Now I guess this 3d tv will just have much reduced depth or somthing, kind of flattening out everything. It seems that that would confuse the senses.
Why not just have high-definition OLED goggle tv. That would look a lot better than this 3d tv and it would be much cheaper.
What really excites me about this is the optical computing potential.
Out of curiosity, do you have a reference for that? I've seen graphs that imply 2/3 (or 1/3?) of electricty produced is wasted
That is just what i have heard before. Are you sure about 2/3-1/3. That seems like a lot.
However, these new solar cells are made from plastic, which doesn't help our dependency on oil
To power your house for 20 years, you might need 10 pounds of plastic. That is 10 pounds of oil, or roughly a little over a gallon. Compare that to the thousands of gallons you would otherwise use. Just think more critically. Even with all the plastic we use today, it barely makes a dent in oil usage.
We can use nuclear power until cheap solar, and hydrogen from solar power, becomes a reality. We can build lotsa nuclear plants to make hydrogen to power pollutant-free hydrogen fuel cell cars.
One of the big culprits of smog is obviosly cars. We need to switch to hydrogen fuel cell cars. However, many people seem to think of hydrogen as an energy source. It isn't. You need electricity to make hydrogen.
Until we have cheap solar, you need to get the electricity from one of our old sources: coal, oil, nuclear, natural gas, etc.
Coal pollutes too much. We'd be overrun with smog if we built many more coal plants for hydrogen cars, much more so than if we used gasoline engines. We don't have enough oil to be energy independant. Natural gas is too expensive and we will run out of it in about 30 years. That leaves us with nuclear. Nuclear power is not as dangerous as people think. Also, Chernobyl-scale meltdowns in U.S. PWR are impossible. The Chernobyl reactor was a crappy commie RBMK reactor with no containment building. Of course we had the TMI reactor problem. However, that killed or injured no one. And, according to the World Health Org, only 31 people were killed in Chernobyl.
Fears of nuclear power are overblown. Radiation is just like any other pollutant. And you need a shyteload of radiation to really harm you. Nuclear power has killed a grand total of 35 people in it's entire exsistence. Coal power has killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 million people in this century, of emphysema, lung cancer, etc, etc.
Little known fact, but according to the Lawrence Livermore Nat'l lab, coal power realeases more radiation than nuclear power. Coal naturally contains some thorium and uranium. When you burn coal, this is realesed into the air. We burn so much fscking coal that we realease around 150 thousand tons of uranium and 350 thousand tons of thorium!!! The study is here. Nuclear power is also cheap. With some new tech, they have gotten the cost of some nuclear power plants below the cost of coal.
There is not mountains of nuclear waste made by our plants. Each plant only uses several tons of uranium a year. That would fit in an area just a few feet square. The total amount of waste ever created for a whole family for their whole lives would fit in a shoebox. If we reprocessed our fuel, it would fit in a pill bottle. Compare that to mountains of highly toxic coal waste with arsenic, cyanide, and other good stuff that just sits on the ground and leaches poisons into the groundwater.
Nuclear waste storage is very good. It's not like they are hauling it around in thin metal barrels like the environmentalists want you to think. No. The waste is transported in thick metal containers that have been tested by being thrown off cliffs, rammed into locomotives, and all sorts of crap. In Yucca mountain, the waste is stored inside these metal casks, which are in turn inside an ultra-thick concrete subterrainean room. Also, the storage place is 2,000 feet above the water table, so you're OK there.
Anyway, this plastic solar thing looks like it could be amazingly cheap and very clean. It would probably be easier for everyone to have these solar cells at their own homes. If Joe Smith put up 3,000 dollars worth of these solar cells, he could power his house for much cheaper than coal or nuclear.
However, you still have the energy storage problem. What happens to the power after dark or when it's cloudy? With this, you have an electrolyzer that takes some of your solar cell power during the daytime and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen. Then at night you recombine these components in a fuel cell to get power.
Home based solar plants are better than centralized ones for a few reasons:
1. Power loss over the lines. You lose over 10% of your electicity in the lines. Plus loss in transformers, etc.
2. Fuel cells are small devices. They are more suited for home use.
3. Independance from power companies (i.e. Enron)
Anyway, I don't think these solar cells will be ready for another 30 years or more. That is just my gut feeling. In the meantime:
1.Replace your incandescent bulbs with compact flourescent!!! The better brands put off a better, more natural light than even incandescent. They use so little electicity and last for so goddamn long that they are cheaper in the longrun.
2. Turn off the lights when you are not in the room!!!! There is no reason to have all the lights on. If you live in a house with you and your spouse, only one or two rooms should have the lights on. If you have your whole house lighted at night, you are really wasting energy.
3. During the daytime, set your hot water heater to "vacation." You don't need it to keep your water continously warm when you are at work. Turn it on when you get home. By dinnertime you will have plenty of hot water.
4. Buy "Energy Star" appliances. These will save you money in the long run.
For more info, go here.
It's pushback.com, San Francisco talk show host Dr. Bill Wattenburg's website. Lots of info on energy conservation and lots of other stuff, coming from someone with a doctorate, a masters, and a B.S., whos worked for Lockheed Missile and Space company, IBM, Lawrence Livermore, and other places. He is a rocket scientist. Listen to what he has to say.
A.D. 2020
After we land on Europa:
Back on earth:
We get signal!
Europan: How are you gentlemen?!
Europan: All your planet are belong to us!!!
Think of the sun and the solar wind as just winds here on earth. Sails and M2P2's can "tack" the solar wind and light just as sailboats tack into the wind.
BTW, M2P2's are an excellent idea. They only work for small probes (~200 lbs). But for small probes, nothing beats them for speed and price. They can go over 150,000 miles an hour, many times faster than the Voyager.
Also, they are cheap. M2P2's use plasma to form a magnetosphere around them. This catches the solar wind and can propel them.
Heres how it works: You just have a regular electromagnet just weighing a couple lbs. Normally, the magnetic field of a magnet such as this would only be inches wide. However, helium plasma is formed by coronally discharging electricity through thin helium gas. This plasma is pumped into the magnetic field of the soleniod. The plasma would drag the field lines out to 10 miles!! This would create a solar sail 10 miles in diameter, with only a magnet and a couple electrodes. It produces about a newton of thrust continously.
We will not likely go to Europa in the near future. However, we should go there.
Europa has probably the best prospeacts for life anywhere in the solar system. It most likely has a liquid ocean underneath the ice, warmed by the tidal effects of Jupiter. Deep sea vents would emit chemicals that could start life. Some people think now that life on earth may have started near deep-sea vents.
We would probably get there using nuclear propulsion if we were using a probe. Nuclear-thermal propulsion has around twice the specific impulse of conventional chemical rockets. When the probe gets to Europa, it will send down a small submersible. It will burrow through the thick ice by melting it with radioisotopes.
For a manned mission to Europa and the Jovian system, which may happen in maybe 60 years, we would probably use VASIMR engines. These are plasma rocket engines under development that would get around 30,000 seconds, or 60 times the efficiency of conventional rockets. They work by using magnetic fields to accelerate high-temperature hydrogen plasma.
VASIMR is so efficient that it would allow slow intersteller missions with 1-2% C.
For interplanetary missions, it would allow missions to Mars in about 2 months and missions to Jupiter lasting a year. Also, upon return to earth, the VASIMR ships can just be refueled and resupplied and sent on their way for very cheap.
Also, VASIMR's have some power. They have more power than ion engines.
For interplanetary missions, we really need an inexpensive space plane, like the X 34. That would slash launch costs.
Amino acids don't make DNA. Amino acids make protein. Check your facts.
Here is how protein is made:
Base pairs (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine) self-assemble into DNA. If you put base pairs together, they will assemble, all completely by themselves. Base pairs are 2 bases (adenine and thymine, or guanine and cytosine) connected to eachother by hydrogen bonds. These base pairs are connected to other base pairs by alternating deroxyribose and phosphates.
Now, BTW, I haven't mentioned this important bit: DNA and RNA are divided into sections called codons. These are 3 base pairs that code for a particular protein.
DNA can catylise single-stranded mRNA. The DNA splits, and an RNA molecule forms on each strand of DNA. RNA is the same as DNA except it is single stranded and instead of Thymine it has Uricil. Now when the RNA molecule forms on the DNA, it makes a perfect anti-copy of the DNA.
They split, and the 2 single DNA strands recombine. Then the mirror-image mRNA binds to tRNA codons, and this creates a perfect copy of the original DNA, at least in respect to protein coding.
Now, if you have digested that, I will talk about how the protein is actually made:
Now the tRNA is at the ribosome, which is the protein manufacturing organelle of a cell.
Amino acids from around the cell then bind to their respective corresponding codons. This eventualy forms a protein chain. All our DNA does is make protein. That is how all life is made.
There are extremely high winds at these altitudes. But the air is sooo thin it really isn't that bad. At 50 KM the air would be so thin that a 200 mph wind would be like a 20 MPH wind down here. Not so horrible.
Really, wind force no matter at what altitude is usualy, but not always, the same as felt down here. Higher altitudes have higher winds but less force.
Also, BTW, geo orbit is at 24,000 miles, I believe. The further you put the counterweight out, the smaller it needs to be. That is why 50,000 miles is a good length. As an added bonus, you can launch spacecraft off the end. A spacecraft launched from the end of the rope would fly off into space at an extremely high rate of speed. This concept is called tethers. It's just like if you swung a bola around your head and let it go, it would fly off and hit somebody in the head real fast.
You are talking about orbital towers. That is an outmoded idea.
:-P We would use ultra-strong carbon nanotubes. About 60 times as strong as steel.
We will probably use a superstrong nanotube rope, instead. It would go out past GEO orbit. A weight, such as a smallish asteroid or something, would tethered past GEO. This would create tension on the rope, due to the counterweight wanting to fling off into space. This way, you would need no tower.
Tidal forces of the Earth on the structure call for superstrong material. Side tidal forces from the moon require it to be flexible as well.
Really? We would need a superstrong material to build 50,000 miles high?
How do you build it? Not in place...
We pretty much know how to do it. We just have to improve our carbon nanotube manufacturing process.
Imagine that thing towering over your neighborhood. Pretty scary. Now realize that it is going to be visible from much of the Earth's surface and add NIMBY into the equation.
It would be extemely doubtful that it would crash. With the counterweight, should it become detached from the ground, it would fly off into space!!! Also, this thing is badass. IWLTH1IMBY(I would love to have one in my backyard)
The voltage potential from top to bottom is going to make this thing deadly deadly deadly without ultra-secure precautions.
You mean, kind of like a powerline??? If you touched a powerline you would be just as dead, if not moreso. Just put a fence around it.
2,048 bit encryption!!!
:-P
Anyway, I think people are being too paranoid about the guvament.(pronounce in brain as paraniod Idahoan KKK heavily armed militia seperatist guy)
You think they would use a 1 billion dollar machine to see your internet credit card transaction to purchase a gay beastial midget pr0n website subscription?
No, they aren't going to use this on weirdo perverts like yourself. They will use this to decrypt important things, like Taliban and PLO communications and whatnot.
Anyway, its not like crackers, with malicious intent, would go buy themselves a 1 B dollar supa-puter to intercept your midget pr0n transaction.
So quit being paranoid, and go back to jacking off to your gay beastail midget pr0n.
Put the CD in a microwave. It looks really cool when it comes out.
Here are the directions.
I'm just talking about static off a door knob or a Van De Graff generator.
I have always wondered if sometime microsoft is just going ditch the NT kernal, and maybe with their next version, use Mach or VMS or something for their kernal. Just like Apple did. Then finally they could claim that their product is stable.
This is real, and it is quite literally 'warp drive' unfolding before your eyes.
This ain't a warp drive. It is just an ionic wind generator. It's about like one of those "Ionic Breeze" machines you see advertised on TV for only 47 easy payments of $19.95. If NASA is developing this for space, they must be using some other device. I don't care what you say. This won't work in space.
Actualy it can kill you. Pretty much any high voltage electricity that comes out of a transformer can kill you. It has high enough amperage.
I have always heard that the stuff coming out of neon sign transformers is lethal.
The only HV electricity that won't kill you is static electricity.
MMMMMMMmmmm. Animal protein grown in bovine amniotic fluid! Just like mom used to make!
I'm sorry. I didn't put an tag at the end. The last paragraph is mine.
Nasty little buggers have DNA in them that has to be filtered out.
DNA itself isn't harmful in any way, shape or form. I don't care if you eat the DNA from anthrax bacteria. All the base pairs are broken down by enzymes. After your enzymes get through with it, it is only base pairs of adenine and thymine, or cytosine and guanine.
In fact, we need DNA to provide us with valuable bases, phosphates, and deroxyribose so we can make more DNA for cell replication.
One way to tackle the problem is to take the excess DNA out (something about a gram per day max rings a bell)
Actualy, unless you are an anorexic, you are gettin WAY more than a gram of DNA a day. DNA is about 10% by weight of all living organisms. If you eat 2 pounds of food a day, you get over 3 ounces of DNA. Don't worry about it. You need it anyway.
Anyway, I think using single-cell bacteria or other microorganisms as food is a great idea. In the future, perhaps we will be able to take raw protein and carbs from an abundant source such as kelp, and transform it into just about any food. Like in 2001: A Space Oddesey. We may have to work up somthing like that. The world population will be over 10 billion in 2050.
They could just retexture it. Have you ever had retextured turkey? (I'm sure you have. Deli turkey, cafeteria turkey, all retextured) When done well, retextured turkey is just about indistinguisable from regular turkey.
To get this bill not to pass all us slashdotters need to send soft money contributions to our politicians. Seriosly. We have to beat the RIAA's and the MPAA'S campaign contributions. Remember, a politician's vote goes to the highest bidder.
Jeez. Sounds bad. Giving your personal information away every time your credit card is scanned.
About as bad as giving your personal information away for a nytimes.com account.
15,000 volts with some amperage is very deadly. It would definitely kill you or at least cause cardiac arrest. Any high-voltage electricity (except static, like from a Van De Graff generator) can kill you.
Do you know that if you take apart a disposable camera you can kill yourself with the flash bulb capacitor if it isn't drained? It doesn't take much power. That means, when properly transformed to a high voltage, you can kill yourself with the electricity from a AA battery!
I don't care how good a resistor you are 15,000 volts is a lot. Volts is more a measure of the resistance the electricity can take. 110 volts can jump through your body just fine, as I have found out. 15,000 volts would go through your body 100 times easier.
Yeah. The capicitor used in this laser is designed for ultra-fast discharges. Less than a millionth of a second.