There's a big difference between video (analogue VHS tapes which wear out and get chewed by vidoe players versus digital DVD) and one digital format versus another - especially if only a music fanatic with a top of the range system could tell the difference in the quality. My prediction is that unless they add value in some way (i.e. have more than just the music on them), they'll go the the way of all the previous attempts to replace the CD.
Right, fine. But I'll go to bed. And eight hours later, when I come back bright and refreshed, my now superior reaction times and clearer thought processes will wipe the floor with your error-ridden sleep addled mind.
If any management person ever says sleep is for the weak, it just means he can't manage.
Peaceful? I bet it's not hard to find people who wouldn't describe Theodore Roosevelt ("No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war"), Henry Kissinger or Yasser Arafat as peaceful...
Coldest spot on Earth compared to average temperature on Pluto. If there are any 'hotspots', then they could get up to near that of the coldest spots on Earth. Also of course, whether water is a liquid or solid depends not only on temperature but pressure.
Once again I demonstrate that there is no point hitting preview unless I actually check what I write makes sense on its own. What I meant to say is that 70 degrees and one atmoshphere is a hell of a lot less than the Venusian surface. Plus, all they are doing is sending a small sample of the atmosphere up into orbit. It's definitely doable.
Dynamic is one thing, but if the internet changed fundamentally every six months, the average person wouldn't be able to understand it enough to use it. If you look at things in general sweeping terms, the change is not happening so rapidly that it is impossible to comment on them. Even if it was, if can't know where you are going, you could at least know where you've been.
Who cares? I mean, no-one noticed the first six plagues. Or have I just missed the ulcers, death of everything in the seas, rivers turning to blood, the Sun increasing in temperature to the extent that people are burned, the river Euphrates drying up, and the largest earthquake in history?
The Fundies can refer to this story for as long as they like, as nothing is going to happen.
You need an Ariane or Proton to get a large payload off the surface of the Earth. They would be talking about a small payload from the upper atmosphere, where it will be both cooler and a lot less dense (70 degrees C, one atmosphere). Basically, they're not landing, they're just skimming the atmosphere.
The article should appear in an ESA special publication (ESA SP-518). If the author submits it, it might appear in the new peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Astrobiology
To test the theory, obviously you'd need a sample of the atmosphere. Although New Scientist mentions ESA's Venus Express mission, it doesn't say whether the mission would have the necessary equipment to check for life.
Within limits. Only if the woman in question is walking around in a public area (a quiet beach is public, your back garden probably isn't). English law has no right to privacy, but the European Convention of Human Rights states
"Everyone has the right for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence." (Article eight, section one)
So applying this to genetics - my guess (IANAL) they probably could use your genetic information to make a discovery, and you wouldn't be able to stop them, but they couldn't publish your genetic material, identifying it as coming from you, without violating your right to privacy. Since the DNA make-up isn't as obviously identifying someone to the general public as a photograph, they might be able to publish it as the DNA of 'Mr X'...
Wrong Hugh. Hugh Laurie would be better. If you want pointed sarcasm, his Mr Palmer in the Ang Lee version of Sense and Sensibility was nothing but pointed sarcasm, and he is similiary sarcastic in his role as the head of MI5 in the recent series 'Spooks'.
He's not a totally unknown name in the US either, as he's the father in Stuart Little. On TV he was in the third and fourth Blackadder series (as Prince George and Lieutenant George), and also Wooster in the 1990 series.
Finally, and the clincher - I'd heard it reported on more than one occasion that Adams himself liked the idea of Hugh Laurie.
Basically, they want people who will look at the scientific data, and tell them the result they want to hear? Putting people from industrial companies on a review body to investigate the effects of industrial companies is going to give you a biased report (equally if you staff the board entirely with environmental activists) If these bodies aren't impartial, they'll be useless.
2% body fat? Isn't that rather unhealthy given that the healthy level is more like 10% for an adult male?
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I think they're still quite keen on their own rights, it's other people's rights (Muslims being the group named in the article) that they'd like to do something about...
The coolest gas you could get normally would be liquid Helium, at about five degrees above absolute zero. Believe me, it's not easy to work with in the lab (and if you think waving a vacuum cleaner around is the way to reduce surface pressure, you shouldn't go anywhere near it).
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Step 2: Download mind onto computer
Step 3: Profit.
Well, it makes a change I suppose. But seriously, sentience on a computer is one of those ideas that always seems to be 30 years away.
There's a big difference between video (analogue VHS tapes which wear out and get chewed by vidoe players versus digital DVD) and one digital format versus another - especially if only a music fanatic with a top of the range system could tell the difference in the quality. My prediction is that unless they add value in some way (i.e. have more than just the music on them), they'll go the the way of all the previous attempts to replace the CD.
Right, fine. But I'll go to bed. And eight hours later, when I come back bright and refreshed, my now superior reaction times and clearer thought processes will wipe the floor with your error-ridden sleep addled mind.
If any management person ever says sleep is for the weak, it just means he can't manage.
Peaceful? I bet it's not hard to find people who wouldn't describe Theodore Roosevelt ("No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war"), Henry Kissinger or Yasser Arafat as peaceful...
Also 'Moe', but that was in Homer's deranged imagination.
Well, where can you go after you've got Orson Welles to play a planet?
And their website is here.
Coldest spot on Earth compared to average temperature on Pluto. If there are any 'hotspots', then they could get up to near that of the coldest spots on Earth. Also of course, whether water is a liquid or solid depends not only on temperature but pressure.
Shock horror! An Institute holding it's LAUNCH CONFERENCE hasn't produced any results you've heard of yet...
I mean, give them a break, they haven't finished taking the plastic wrapping off their office chairs and you're demanding results already!
Once again I demonstrate that there is no point hitting preview unless I actually check what I write makes sense on its own. What I meant to say is that 70 degrees and one atmoshphere is a hell of a lot less than the Venusian surface. Plus, all they are doing is sending a small sample of the atmosphere up into orbit. It's definitely doable.
Dynamic is one thing, but if the internet changed fundamentally every six months, the average person wouldn't be able to understand it enough to use it. If you look at things in general sweeping terms, the change is not happening so rapidly that it is impossible to comment on them. Even if it was, if can't know where you are going, you could at least know where you've been.
The Fundies can refer to this story for as long as they like, as nothing is going to happen.
Or that you really should move away from the flight path for the international airport...
You need an Ariane or Proton to get a large payload off the surface of the Earth. They would be talking about a small payload from the upper atmosphere, where it will be both cooler and a lot less dense (70 degrees C, one atmosphere). Basically, they're not landing, they're just skimming the atmosphere.
To test the theory, obviously you'd need a sample of the atmosphere. Although New Scientist mentions ESA's Venus Express mission, it doesn't say whether the mission would have the necessary equipment to check for life.
"Everyone has the right for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence." (Article eight, section one)
So applying this to genetics - my guess (IANAL) they probably could use your genetic information to make a discovery, and you wouldn't be able to stop them, but they couldn't publish your genetic material, identifying it as coming from you, without violating your right to privacy. Since the DNA make-up isn't as obviously identifying someone to the general public as a photograph, they might be able to publish it as the DNA of 'Mr X'...
...oh, we all end up crucified. Oh well.
So, will their software favour their hardware? How soon before the lawyers smell blood in the water?
As long as 'thirsty' is another word for 'every atom in your oesophagus exploding'...
Wrong Hugh. Hugh Laurie would be better. If you want pointed sarcasm, his Mr Palmer in the Ang Lee version of Sense and Sensibility was nothing but pointed sarcasm, and he is similiary sarcastic in his role as the head of MI5 in the recent series 'Spooks'.
He's not a totally unknown name in the US either, as he's the father in Stuart Little. On TV he was in the third and fourth Blackadder series (as Prince George and Lieutenant George), and also Wooster in the 1990 series.
Finally, and the clincher - I'd heard it reported on more than one occasion that Adams himself liked the idea of Hugh Laurie.
Basically, they want people who will look at the scientific data, and tell them the result they want to hear? Putting people from industrial companies on a review body to investigate the effects of industrial companies is going to give you a biased report (equally if you staff the board entirely with environmental activists) If these bodies aren't impartial, they'll be useless.
2% body fat? Isn't that rather unhealthy given that the healthy level is more like 10% for an adult male?
I think they're still quite keen on their own rights, it's other people's rights (Muslims being the group named in the article) that they'd like to do something about...
The coolest gas you could get normally would be liquid Helium, at about five degrees above absolute zero. Believe me, it's not easy to work with in the lab (and if you think waving a vacuum cleaner around is the way to reduce surface pressure, you shouldn't go anywhere near it).
Members of the open source community who also work as professional programmers could tell you otherwise... see This article