Back in April, Scientific American Frontiers had part of an episode (video here, transcript here) that talked about this same thing - including face recognition, with a blip of 1/3 of a video frame... I forget whether video frames are 24 or 30 frames per second, but if it's 30, than it would be consistent with the article above.
Assuming you mean 20 grams of carbs per day, that's like half a piece of bread.
Actually, most bread is 10-15 carbs per slice. There's even bread out there that's only 8 carbs per slice.
One french frie puts you over the limit.
French fries are made out of potatoes, which I believe have slightly less carbos than grains. Still, I'd say that 'one french fry' would probably be 1-2 carbos. Hardly anything that would put you over the limit, but would it really be all that satisfying to eat just one?
Which brings up another point:
When you're on the Atkin's diet, you choose your carbos carefully. Would you rather have a jelly-filled donut, or a medium bowl of pasta? Both have about the same carbos (about 25-35), but I'd take the pasta any day.
Another interesting fact: Most non-diet soft drinks have anywhere from 30-60 carbos worth of sugar per can. And even the 30 is a rather low estimate. Now, brownies are about 15-25 carbs per brownie. Which would you rather have, 2-3 brownies, or a can of soda?
Since the space shuttles are already being launched, why not add a retractable magnet that acts like a lightning rod to them?
The purpose of a lightning rod is to attract lightning where you want it, so it doesn't go in any random place it wants to.
If a shuttle was launched with retractable magnets on various places of the ship, at least some of the objects out there, especially the smaller, magnetic ones, will be picked up.
Just extend the arms out once in space, let them collect the debris, and then retract them when they're about to leave. The material brought back can be reused for whatever the space agency wants.
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Back in April, Scientific American Frontiers had part of an episode (video here, transcript here) that talked about this same thing - including face recognition, with a blip of 1/3 of a video frame... I forget whether video frames are 24 or 30 frames per second, but if it's 30, than it would be consistent with the article above.
Assuming you mean 20 grams of carbs per day, that's like half a piece of bread.
Actually, most bread is 10-15 carbs per slice. There's even bread out there that's only 8 carbs per slice.
One french frie puts you over the limit.
French fries are made out of potatoes, which I believe have slightly less carbos than grains. Still, I'd say that 'one french fry' would probably be 1-2 carbos. Hardly anything that would put you over the limit, but would it really be all that satisfying to eat just one?
Which brings up another point:
When you're on the Atkin's diet, you choose your carbos carefully. Would you rather have a jelly-filled donut, or a medium bowl of pasta? Both have about the same carbos (about 25-35), but I'd take the pasta any day.
Another interesting fact: Most non-diet soft drinks have anywhere from 30-60 carbos worth of sugar per can. And even the 30 is a rather low estimate. Now, brownies are about 15-25 carbs per brownie. Which would you rather have, 2-3 brownies, or a can of soda?
Since the space shuttles are already being launched, why not add a retractable magnet that acts like a lightning rod to them?
The purpose of a lightning rod is to attract lightning where you want it, so it doesn't go in any random place it wants to.
If a shuttle was launched with retractable magnets on various places of the ship, at least some of the objects out there, especially the smaller, magnetic ones, will be picked up.
Just extend the arms out once in space, let them collect the debris, and then retract them when they're about to leave. The material brought back can be reused for whatever the space agency wants.