Why is this the classic "Oh, don't worry" response? "It's not Earth that is doomed, just humans." Does anyone read that and go "Whew! I was worried, but now I'm not."??? Destroying the planet, versus destroying it for human habitability, is pretty much the same damn thing as far as my concerns go. If Earth becomes inhabitable to people, I'm not going to sleep better knowing the rest of nature will survive.
"But the new site will just hire 3 and have a bunch of robots instead. And 994 still need to eat. This is the problem a lot of people seem to have trouble grasping."
Ok, so it sounds like there's enough manpower to support... 300 some-odd new sites! This is the reality of what happens when jobs become obsolete. Sure, if all you know if manufacturing, you personally may be in a bit of a pickle. But the world was full of people that knew nothing but taking care of livestock, or riding horses, or hunting bison, or reaping wheat, and their children's children do other things now.
Besides this mundane quibble, what would the alternative be? Stop making new stuff? Purposely promote advanced technology that doesn't make anything easier for people? The back-face of this "woe is me, my simple job is gone now" mentality is, "finally, no one has to do that boring shit anymore!"
The other 997 people do something else entirely, or work at some new company at some *new* site as their operators/techs/engineers. That's just "economic growth".
You don't understand how we use parallax. We measure how much the object shifts 6 months apart, when we have moved 2 AU. Further distances will shift less, and the amount that an object moves that far away is too small for us to measure with current technology. Plus, it requires a backdrop of relatively much-more-distant objects to actually measure the shift (they too move, but so much less so that it's close enough for a good estimate). The other galaxies out there that would be the backdrop are not orders of magnitude further away necessarily, making the measurement even more difficult.
So yes, in this context a milli arc-second does indeed correspond to a fixed distance. The Earth is what moves to make the parallax, and that is a fixed distance. The distance to the object is not required to know what the angular measurement means; rather, the angular measurement given our displacement on Earth is precisely what we use to determine the distance to the object. You're thinking of it backwards.
In this case, I think I would classify getting in an aircraft and flying past birds far, far more quickly than anything else they have to dodge in the sky as the "human error" which causes birds to hit aircraft. So... let's just not fly drones near actual aircraft. Birds not hitting each other (hunting aside) works well enough, why not drones not hitting each other?
I remember mention during the recession about a gas station in upstate Washington that to this day will accept silver pre-64 quarters for a gallon of gas (in addition to regular currency at today's prices).
How does being the largest or smallest of something tend to make it the most efficient (which is typically what "for its size" equates to)? Some much larger one could very well have much larger output to the point that it's actually the most efficient.
Was this slashdot submission just a glorified "hey let's talk about space again!" attempt?
If we violated known physics we could do foo. If we could teleport we could do bar. If we could travel FTL we could do baz.
Well if I farted gold dust I could be rich. Next let's get a slashdot post about what we could do with a BAJILLION GAZILLION dollars, world piece, and flying puppies.
It positions itself as a C/C++ killer but benchmarks closer to Java in performance. Like other languages that try to be a better C/C++, it has a steep road ahead. Time will tell this one, not slashdot users. If making a C/C++ replacement was all it takes, D would have taken off.
I'm sorry. Most of the time I use keepassx on Lin/Mac, and some other keepass app on my phones. I guess I should have said the keepass format is cross-platform.
Keepass is also (correct me if I'm wrong: I'd love to hear there is another) the only password manager I know of which is fully cross platform. Combined with Dropbox or some private file sync tool (I host a seafile installation), I have a synced password manager that works on Linux/Win/Mac/iOS/android.
And I keep the key separate and move that to devices I use manually, so I'm almost totally unafraid of my vault being intercepted/stolen. Without my master pass phrase AND the encrypted key itself, breaking it is.... way harder than my passwords are worth.
They weren't working for rewards. TFA says they were deprived of water until forced to cooperate.
I can totally understand animal experimentation for medical advancement (live saved > lives lost). I can even understand killing rats as pest control (those rats in particular need to leave).
THIS, however, was purposely acquiring rats in order to perform this test, in which they were indeed threatened with death lest they perform. Disgusting.
Google much? *Social* justice warrior. Your definition is amusing nonetheless. Enjoy the next few minutes of thinking back to all those times you thought you were using "SJW" correctly.
I must point out that "the 10 tallest NBA players ever" and "the 10 best NBA centers ever" are disjoint sets.
Tru 'dat, however "10 totally average-height individuals" is also disjoint. If you wanted your children to even have a likely chance, height is certainly desirable in this case. Being 8 ft. tall versus 7'1" might not help a whole lot, but being 7' vs. 5'10" will.
It should also be considered that for many animals, a gradual increase in intelligence and brain mass isn't much of an advantage. What would a smart cow do differently? I would argue that it was not until our ancestors were 1) standing with two very dexterous spare limbs to play with, and 2) out of our natural environment where there isn't food a-plenty, that even small increases in intelligence was a big advantage. We needed to hunt (communicate and coordinate), and we had the dexterity and capability to carry items over distance that made intelligence worthwhile.
It should also be considered that for many animals, a gradual increase in intelligence and brain mass isn't much of an advantage. What would a smart cow do differently? Would a mouse be able to use tools even if it knew how to make them? Even apes smart enough to use many tools can't do so effectively because they simply lack the fine motor skills to execute. I would argue that it was not until our ancestors were 1) standing with two very dexterous spare limbs to play with, and 2) out of our natural environment where there isn't food a-plenty, that even small increases in intelligence was a big advantage. We needed to hunt (communicate and coordinate), and we had the dexterity and capability to carry items over distance that made intelligence worthwhile.
The water near the center would boil, bubbling up through the water higher up in the tunnel to create a steady plume of steam at the surface. This would end up as increased cloud cover and precipitation over large parts of the world.
Really? I would think it would cool somewhere on the way up. Volcanic activity on the ocean floor that boils water doesn't make it to the surface as steam.
Probably for silly reasons like increasing speed and decreasing carpal tunnel,
Keeping your hands still and not moving them *helps* repetitive stress injuries??? The consensus nowadays with typing, sitting at a desk... anything repetitive, is that changing positions often is key.
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Why is this the classic "Oh, don't worry" response? "It's not Earth that is doomed, just humans." Does anyone read that and go "Whew! I was worried, but now I'm not."??? Destroying the planet, versus destroying it for human habitability, is pretty much the same damn thing as far as my concerns go. If Earth becomes inhabitable to people, I'm not going to sleep better knowing the rest of nature will survive.
"But the new site will just hire 3 and have a bunch of robots instead. And 994 still need to eat. This is the problem a lot of people seem to have trouble grasping."
Ok, so it sounds like there's enough manpower to support... 300 some-odd new sites! This is the reality of what happens when jobs become obsolete. Sure, if all you know if manufacturing, you personally may be in a bit of a pickle. But the world was full of people that knew nothing but taking care of livestock, or riding horses, or hunting bison, or reaping wheat, and their children's children do other things now.
Besides this mundane quibble, what would the alternative be? Stop making new stuff? Purposely promote advanced technology that doesn't make anything easier for people? The back-face of this "woe is me, my simple job is gone now" mentality is, "finally, no one has to do that boring shit anymore!"
The other 997 people do something else entirely, or work at some new company at some *new* site as their operators/techs/engineers. That's just "economic growth".
You don't understand how we use parallax. We measure how much the object shifts 6 months apart, when we have moved 2 AU. Further distances will shift less, and the amount that an object moves that far away is too small for us to measure with current technology. Plus, it requires a backdrop of relatively much-more-distant objects to actually measure the shift (they too move, but so much less so that it's close enough for a good estimate). The other galaxies out there that would be the backdrop are not orders of magnitude further away necessarily, making the measurement even more difficult.
So yes, in this context a milli arc-second does indeed correspond to a fixed distance. The Earth is what moves to make the parallax, and that is a fixed distance. The distance to the object is not required to know what the angular measurement means; rather, the angular measurement given our displacement on Earth is precisely what we use to determine the distance to the object. You're thinking of it backwards.
In this case, I think I would classify getting in an aircraft and flying past birds far, far more quickly than anything else they have to dodge in the sky as the "human error" which causes birds to hit aircraft. So... let's just not fly drones near actual aircraft. Birds not hitting each other (hunting aside) works well enough, why not drones not hitting each other?
Almost: they invented fragile bumper cars.
Terrible rubric if you don't call solar "renewable". There's no such thing as renewable energy if you follow this fully.
I remember mention during the recession about a gas station in upstate Washington that to this day will accept silver pre-64 quarters for a gallon of gas (in addition to regular currency at today's prices).
I don't think this makes as much sense as you think it does.
There are, but they are inconsequential in a majority of games. Only in relatively strange situations do they affect the final score.
How does being the largest or smallest of something tend to make it the most efficient (which is typically what "for its size" equates to)? Some much larger one could very well have much larger output to the point that it's actually the most efficient.
Nothing new here for anyone!!! "I went on wikipedia and searched 'interstellar travel', and here's what I found:"
Was this slashdot submission just a glorified "hey let's talk about space again!" attempt?
If we violated known physics we could do foo. If we could teleport we could do bar. If we could travel FTL we could do baz.
Well if I farted gold dust I could be rich. Next let's get a slashdot post about what we could do with a BAJILLION GAZILLION dollars, world piece, and flying puppies.
It positions itself as a C/C++ killer but benchmarks closer to Java in performance. Like other languages that try to be a better C/C++, it has a steep road ahead. Time will tell this one, not slashdot users. If making a C/C++ replacement was all it takes, D would have taken off.
I'm sorry. Most of the time I use keepassx on Lin/Mac, and some other keepass app on my phones. I guess I should have said the keepass format is cross-platform.
Keepass is also (correct me if I'm wrong: I'd love to hear there is another) the only password manager I know of which is fully cross platform. Combined with Dropbox or some private file sync tool (I host a seafile installation), I have a synced password manager that works on Linux/Win/Mac/iOS/android. And I keep the key separate and move that to devices I use manually, so I'm almost totally unafraid of my vault being intercepted/stolen. Without my master pass phrase AND the encrypted key itself, breaking it is.... way harder than my passwords are worth.
They weren't working for rewards. TFA says they were deprived of water until forced to cooperate. I can totally understand animal experimentation for medical advancement (live saved > lives lost). I can even understand killing rats as pest control (those rats in particular need to leave). THIS, however, was purposely acquiring rats in order to perform this test, in which they were indeed threatened with death lest they perform. Disgusting.
Google much? *Social* justice warrior. Your definition is amusing nonetheless. Enjoy the next few minutes of thinking back to all those times you thought you were using "SJW" correctly.
I must point out that "the 10 tallest NBA players ever" and "the 10 best NBA centers ever" are disjoint sets.
Tru 'dat, however "10 totally average-height individuals" is also disjoint. If you wanted your children to even have a likely chance, height is certainly desirable in this case. Being 8 ft. tall versus 7'1" might not help a whole lot, but being 7' vs. 5'10" will.
Yes, because to be fun you have to believe in faerie tales rather and facts and reason.
Also, I am a grown man. Parties are for children.
You, sir, are missing out on some parties if you stopped going to them after childhood.
It should also be considered that for many animals, a gradual increase in intelligence and brain mass isn't much of an advantage. What would a smart cow do differently? I would argue that it was not until our ancestors were 1) standing with two very dexterous spare limbs to play with, and 2) out of our natural environment where there isn't food a-plenty, that even small increases in intelligence was a big advantage. We needed to hunt (communicate and coordinate), and we had the dexterity and capability to carry items over distance that made intelligence worthwhile.
It should also be considered that for many animals, a gradual increase in intelligence and brain mass isn't much of an advantage. What would a smart cow do differently? Would a mouse be able to use tools even if it knew how to make them? Even apes smart enough to use many tools can't do so effectively because they simply lack the fine motor skills to execute. I would argue that it was not until our ancestors were 1) standing with two very dexterous spare limbs to play with, and 2) out of our natural environment where there isn't food a-plenty, that even small increases in intelligence was a big advantage. We needed to hunt (communicate and coordinate), and we had the dexterity and capability to carry items over distance that made intelligence worthwhile.
The water near the center would boil, bubbling up through the water higher up in the tunnel to create a steady plume of steam at the surface. This would end up as increased cloud cover and precipitation over large parts of the world.
Really? I would think it would cool somewhere on the way up. Volcanic activity on the ocean floor that boils water doesn't make it to the surface as steam.
what does this rant accomplish?
It got you to reply. You have already helped achieve his goal. Congratulations, coward.
Probably for silly reasons like increasing speed and decreasing carpal tunnel,
Keeping your hands still and not moving them *helps* repetitive stress injuries??? The consensus nowadays with typing, sitting at a desk... anything repetitive, is that changing positions often is key.