Ouch. Good point. The reason I suggested neutron stars is that they are much easier to observe with a small aperture radio "scope", but you're right about the variations likely being inside the limits of the scope for a consistant neutron star.
Perhaps radio-loud neutron star / binary systems? That fulfills the easy to observe requirement and the signal synch, I think.
That there is a damned brilliant idea. I wonder if there are any easier to observe atronomical sources that would be just as good? Neutron stars, perhaps? (strip out the pulses and use the noise and pulse variations?)
Minutes before I caught this story, I read my email... and in there was the NASA Science News mailing for today. It is entitled: "Was Einstein Wrong About Space Travel?" While the article body wasn't quite as sensationalist, the title makes me wonder just who's penning articles for PR.
Something else to note is that much more of the population back then was rural, and had better means of supporting themselves (gardens, livestock) than now. So that would make the food situation much, much worse.
Kudos. I've been doing that for several years, and I've had happier customers all around. Use what works.
Norton in particular has become nearly as much a plague on system resources (on 2Ghz+ computers! - anyone remember just a few years ago when it wasn't so? Have we forgotten so quickly? ) as the malware that circumvents it.
The whole antivirus/antispam/antimalware industry has become a self-feeding plague. It's time it was circumvented completely by BETTER OPERATING SYSTEMS.
I fail to see why that's so much rocket science, other than the influence of moneyed industry. It's not like we don't know how to do computer security.
Pardon my ignorance, but can't all three theories be true, in that all of them (and likely other things we don't understand yet) be driving forces of evolution?
For one, you'd likely need a nuclear reactor to keep the mesh charged.
For another, to be effective, it'd have to be at least hundreds of miles across. Tides would play merry hell with a structure like that, as would other particles, like sunlight and the upper atmosphere. You'd have to have ion thrusters on the outsides to keep it open and oriented (oh well, we already have a nuclear reactor, just need some working mass)
Anything larger than perhaps a kilogram, depending on your field strength, is going to make a hole in the mesh.
There are satellites in LEO we want to keep, too:)
FWIW, I think it can be done, I'm just not sure how practical it is. Of course, once we develop 'turbo-laser blasters and photon torpedoes', we can simply blast the junk to oblivion;-)
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It's practical is you want to use an engine with a very high ISP, but it's not going to get there within the time alotted for the project budget:)
My impression was that the energy that they observed emitting from the fireball didn't match what they'd expected thru calculations. IANAP either, so the technical article was over my head, but that's what I gleaned from it.
So either the theory isn't complete, or the universe is still weirder than we suspect:) Well, that's redundant...
Go haunt around some of your local computer stores. I'm sure you could find somebody willing to unload an old PI or PII:). Get W95 (if you don't have it already) and go thru a weekend installing drivers... *grin*
Somebody dumped (I'm not making this up) a box full of old win95/W3 game disks on my doorstep some months back. If only I had time...
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What, is it going to be satisfied with eating, uh, killing only some of us?
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As long as we can still destroy them with a homemade pipe bomb, I'll feel safe. ;-)
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Tonight we slashdot the Internet, Pinky.
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I live in a previously tundral oasis, you insensitive clod. The Toasters here are still confused
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You forgot Snort.
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Slashdotting Hemo's inbox? Are you kidding? This is a rare, RARE opportunity! T'will be a decade before it presents itself again...
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Source?
Face it. Slashdot has gone warm and fuzzy before it's time.
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Ouch. Good point. The reason I suggested neutron stars is that they are much easier to observe with a small aperture radio "scope", but you're right about the variations likely being inside the limits of the scope for a consistant neutron star.
Perhaps radio-loud neutron star / binary systems? That fulfills the easy to observe requirement and the signal synch, I think.
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Wow. Thanks for the explanation.
That there is a damned brilliant idea. I wonder if there are any easier to observe atronomical sources that would be just as good? Neutron stars, perhaps? (strip out the pulses and use the noise and pulse variations?)
SB
Minutes before I caught this story, I read my email... and in there was the NASA Science News mailing for today. It is entitled: "Was Einstein Wrong About Space Travel?" While the article body wasn't quite as sensationalist, the title makes me wonder just who's penning articles for PR.
Sigh.
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Something else to note is that much more of the population back then was rural, and had better means of supporting themselves (gardens, livestock) than now. So that would make the food situation much, much worse.
Stock seeds
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Is there anything a supercomputer can do that thousands of clustered machines can't? (Honest question)
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Kudos. I've been doing that for several years, and I've had happier customers all around. Use what works.
Norton in particular has become nearly as much a plague on system resources (on 2Ghz+ computers! - anyone remember just a few years ago when it wasn't so? Have we forgotten so quickly? ) as the malware that circumvents it.
The whole antivirus/antispam/antimalware industry has become a self-feeding plague. It's time it was circumvented completely by BETTER OPERATING SYSTEMS.
I fail to see why that's so much rocket science, other than the influence of moneyed industry. It's not like we don't know how to do computer security.
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It's not going to get better.
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Pardon my ignorance, but can't all three theories be true, in that all of them (and likely other things we don't understand yet) be driving forces of evolution?
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Hell, no. That's the funniest damned rant I've read in days.
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I can't see any reason why it couldn't be done.
I can think of a few problems, however
For one, you'd likely need a nuclear reactor to keep the mesh charged.
For another, to be effective, it'd have to be at least hundreds of miles across. Tides would play merry hell with a structure like that, as would other particles, like sunlight and the upper atmosphere. You'd have to have ion thrusters on the outsides to keep it open and oriented (oh well, we already have a nuclear reactor, just need some working mass)
Anything larger than perhaps a kilogram, depending on your field strength, is going to make a hole in the mesh.
There are satellites in LEO we want to keep, too
FWIW, I think it can be done, I'm just not sure how practical it is. Of course, once we develop 'turbo-laser blasters and photon torpedoes', we can simply blast the junk to oblivion
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It's practical is you want to use an engine with a very high ISP, but it's not going to get there within the time alotted for the project budget :)
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My impression was that the energy that they observed emitting from the fireball didn't match what they'd expected thru calculations. IANAP either, so the technical article was over my head, but that's what I gleaned from it.
:) Well, that's redundant...
So either the theory isn't complete, or the universe is still weirder than we suspect
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Same goes for magazines. You can choose to trust them, but I would research the topic first.
So how would you start researching the topic, then?
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You make it sound like you personally ordered a whole bunch of computers because of one security hole.
Well, since Linux On The Desktop apparently "isn't ready yet" then what other choice did he have?
How could a single exploit cause you to stop being a Windows fan, considering the hundreds and hundreds that came before this?
If you even have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.
I'm not going to comment on the "newb" because it'd be redundant.
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Well, I welcome our new Invisible Spaghetti Strand Overlords... Pasta Rules :)
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I guess you've got fewer 'puters to fix than we do.
:)
Eat my shorts
Plus some smart alec in the office keeps getting his boxer's chewed on and we have to keep patching them.
Fewer 'puters, many other things. No duct tape on my 'puters... well, the laptop has a bit...
You need to get the vicious automagical ass-chewing dog out of your office. You know who he is...
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Go haunt around some of your local computer stores. I'm sure you could find somebody willing to unload an old PI or PII
Somebody dumped (I'm not making this up) a box full of old win95/W3 game disks on my doorstep some months back. If only I had time...
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