Um, not it didn't. The engines used in Deep Impact were way too smooth for an Orion-type engine. I think the writers either thought the name was cool (and didn't realize it had already been used), or found a some info on Orion engines but didn't understand it.
After seeing the movie, I'm betting on the latter explaination. I doubt the writers understood basic astronomy and physics. I mean, c'mon, how could you see the asteroid both day and night? Was it circling the earth?
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If you're going to buy a diamond for your SO, here's a trick I learned when I bought my (now) wife's engagement ring: Buy a smaller diamond, and put 2 darker colored stones around it in a jacket (rubies worked well for me, but you could use anything that's darker in color than the diamond). I had 2 marquise-cut rubies put in a jcaket around the diamond (1/3-1/2ct), and it makes the diamond look much bigger because of the contract between the stones.
Your SO will think they are getting a larger stone, and you wont have to break you wallet.
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There are only about 100 of them frozen right now. And 1000 on the waiting list. Hardly a lucrative source for organs. Besides, theraputic cloning and stem cell research are already on the track to growing organs from your own tissues. There is way more potential there than in developing further immunosupressant drugs for organ transplant. There is no reason to "harvest" organs out of corpsicles.
One word: cost. I'll bet it'll cost more to clone/grow a new organ than it will to harvest an organ from someone who can't complain.
And since, as some other people have mentioned, it's going to be costly to reanimate these corpses, so you might as well get some use out of them.
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...are closer than you think. Read some of Niven's Gil "The Arm" stories to see what could happen. (corpsicle is a contraction of corpse and popsicle)
All we need now is perfect organ transplants (no chance of rejection), and these frozen people will be harvested sooner than you could say "raw materials".
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Of course they have to. It's their job as a parent. It's the parent's responsibility to protect their children until the children are old enough to protect themselves. Ignoring the problem (like many parents do), or insisting that someone else do their job is just delusional.
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When I was a senior in high school, a group of us would hang around in the ahlls before calss and talk. Most of us were "mad-scientist wannabes", and we would discuss our current projects (one guy was trying to make napalm, IIRC).
Anyway, there was this one sophmore who hung around with us, who was always trying to immitate our projects (usually badly). He was ok, I guess, and it was usually funny to listen to his recent mistakes/problems (like accidently land-mining his room in the middle of the night with exploding paper strips.)
The hallway at our school were long, with lots of glass, and metal rails running along at about waist height. Usually, all the students would lean against the rails before class.
Well, one guy in our group had torn apart a disposible lighter and had gotten the electronic igniter out of it. He would touch the wire to the railing, and when he pushed the button, everyone touching the rail would get a shock (very minor shock). It was irritating and fun!
Well, this sophmore decided to "one-up" us, and managed to get hold of the igniter from a gas stove. The thing was about 10 times as big as the small igniter, and produced a nice, fat spark when pressed.
IIRC, he managed to shock himself, while the rest of us stood around laughing. I think he finally gave up on trying to shock anyone with that.
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Wouldn't it depend on the type of video game? I could see that playing a FPS type games for 7 hours a day would cause the subject to loose creativity, but what about the people that play RTS games? Wouldn't games like Warcraft3 cause more creativity, since they have to think in terms of strategy and tactics?
Real gamers want to know!
-Ed
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The new "Star Trek: Nemesis" trailer runs 1:34 and will also play in theaters, starting with the July 4th weekend. The official "Star Trek: Nemesis" movie site will give fans plenty to whet their appetites, with stunning imagery from the film, a 360-degree IPIX view of the Romulan Senate set
I guess they finally got the bugs worked out of IPIX in the 24th century.
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Slashdot Mirror
Dont forget the hangliders.
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Um, not it didn't. The engines used in Deep Impact were way too smooth for an Orion-type engine. I think the writers either thought the name was cool (and didn't realize it had already been used), or found a some info on Orion engines but didn't understand it.
After seeing the movie, I'm betting on the latter explaination. I doubt the writers understood basic astronomy and physics. I mean, c'mon, how could you see the asteroid both day and night? Was it circling the earth?
-Ed
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Forged Header easy
Spammers do it all the time
What is to stop them?
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I'm guessing you haven't read any romance novels recently? Some of the thing in there would put a soft-core pr0n book to shame.
(They're my wife's books! Really!)
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If you're going to buy a diamond for your SO, here's a trick I learned when I bought my (now) wife's engagement ring: Buy a smaller diamond, and put 2 darker colored stones around it in a jacket (rubies worked well for me, but you could use anything that's darker in color than the diamond). I had 2 marquise-cut rubies put in a jcaket around the diamond (1/3-1/2ct), and it makes the diamond look much bigger because of the contract between the stones.
Your SO will think they are getting a larger stone, and you wont have to break you wallet.
-Ed
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...decides to eat a tape, it'll eat an expensive MP3 player, rather than an inexpensive cassette!
I knew there was a reason that I replaced the cassette player in my car!
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drinking too much water ... explodes
:O
So that's what happens! Guess I'm not thirsty now.
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Why does it have to be snakes?
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There are only about 100 of them frozen right now. And 1000 on the waiting list. Hardly a lucrative source for organs. Besides, theraputic cloning and stem cell research are already on the track to growing organs from your own tissues. There is way more potential there than in developing further immunosupressant drugs for organ transplant. There is no reason to "harvest" organs out of corpsicles.
One word: cost. I'll bet it'll cost more to clone/grow a new organ than it will to harvest an organ from someone who can't complain.
And since, as some other people have mentioned, it's going to be costly to reanimate these corpses, so you might as well get some use out of them.
-Ed
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Actually, if they can fix the damage that the original death and freezing caused, making someone immortal should be easy.
They'll just pop you into the Microsoft Lazarus Chamber every couple of years to repair the damage to your new body, and you'll be all set.
Although, you better hope they worked all the bugs out of the software, or you'll end up with 5 butts or something...
-Ed
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...are closer than you think. Read some of Niven's Gil "The Arm" stories to see what could happen. (corpsicle is a contraction of corpse and popsicle)
All we need now is perfect organ transplants (no chance of rejection), and these frozen people will be harvested sooner than you could say "raw materials".
-Ed
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Of course they have to. It's their job as a parent. It's the parent's responsibility to protect their children until the children are old enough to protect themselves. Ignoring the problem (like many parents do), or insisting that someone else do their job is just delusional.
-Ed
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Apart from watching pr0n during a meeting/flight, what is the point ?
:)
Do you really need another reason?
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No :)
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Of course it is....it's /.
When I was a senior in high school, a group of us would hang around in the ahlls before calss and talk. Most of us were "mad-scientist wannabes", and we would discuss our current projects (one guy was trying to make napalm, IIRC).
Anyway, there was this one sophmore who hung around with us, who was always trying to immitate our projects (usually badly). He was ok, I guess, and it was usually funny to listen to his recent mistakes/problems (like accidently land-mining his room in the middle of the night with exploding paper strips.)
The hallway at our school were long, with lots of glass, and metal rails running along at about waist height. Usually, all the students would lean against the rails before class.
Well, one guy in our group had torn apart a disposible lighter and had gotten the electronic igniter out of it. He would touch the wire to the railing, and when he pushed the button, everyone touching the rail would get a shock (very minor shock). It was irritating and fun!
Well, this sophmore decided to "one-up" us, and managed to get hold of the igniter from a gas stove. The thing was about 10 times as big as the small igniter, and produced a nice, fat spark when pressed.
IIRC, he managed to shock himself, while the rest of us stood around laughing. I think he finally gave up on trying to shock anyone with that.
-Ed
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> No info on flux capacitors? Damn, guess I'll never get back to the 2030's...
Yes, you will. It just that the trip will take at least 28 or so years....
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IIRC, one of my images ("The Explorer") took somewhere around 2-3 weeks to render on my old AMD k-6 300mhz machine.
A few years later, after v 3.1 came out, I modified the code and re-rendered the image. IIRC, it took something like 20 or so hours to render.
It wasn't Moore's Law that got me....it was just older, slower code!
(BTW: you can see the latest version of "The Explorer" on my website in my Portfolio)
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...you cant run a car on the "Slashdot effect". If you could, all you'd have to do is post a link to your car to refuel!
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Wouldn't it depend on the type of video game? I could see that playing a FPS type games for 7 hours a day would cause the subject to loose creativity, but what about the people that play RTS games? Wouldn't games like Warcraft3 cause more creativity, since they have to think in terms of strategy and tactics?
Real gamers want to know!
-Ed
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Now I can listen to my Super Mario Bros MP3 file anytime I want!
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Hey! Some of us like eating soggy, greasy, cardboard-like substances!
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...or they might have been eaten by a Grue.
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...unfortunately, it was the "Star Trek:Nemesis" trailer, and the Trekkies did them in!
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The new "Star Trek: Nemesis" trailer runs 1:34 and will also play in theaters, starting with the July 4th weekend. The official "Star Trek: Nemesis" movie site will give fans plenty to whet their appetites, with stunning imagery from the film, a 360-degree IPIX view of the Romulan Senate set
I guess they finally got the bugs worked out of IPIX in the 24th century.
-Ed
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