I find the conclusion that there is an absolute limit to the human life span because at some point the stem cells producing white blood cell all die out quite strange.
A few centuries ago, we could have concluded that there is an absolute limit to human life span because at some point someone can't eat anymore while he lost all his teeth. Any similar logical train of though could lead to the same conclusion.
And now, what if you find out why the cells die and manage to prevent it? Then the next thing that kills us will limit our life span, until we find out how to fix that as well. Absolute limits are difficult to set.
How about just sending the stuff by snail mail? I'd bet my cup of coffee that they completely lost the expertise and interest on this form of communication.
I disagree. The only systematic guess in the game is the first click. If you generally have to guess afterwards, you are doing something wrong and misunderstood the game. At most you'll have to guess once or twice, if at all, through the game.
This is the solution we are implementing in most cases. Firewall the computers with hardware bridges (either other computers or otherwise). We have been using local independant LANs in laboratory environment all the time for different reasons.
But in some cases, the computers running the old hardware must also communicate with other computers in the institutional network. Examples I can give are for floating network licences of specific software or for high-load data production/tranfer.
Yes! I'll make sure to pass on the message to that company that closed down 3 years ago and to the guy who retired 8 years ago. Its a shame indeed, all the self inflicted toture they are causing me.
But I'll bet they answer that themselves find it a shame that non of the companies producing the hardware respecting the requirements for the sub-components themselves only supported windows. In that sence, I guess on could say it's a second level indirectly self inflicted toture.
Or they will remind me how there is a real world, with real problems, real limations and where you do not have the control on everything.
Everyone running old specfialized hardware which is not compatible with windows 7 or later feel the pain of the XP end of life. Its not about refusing or not. Some simply don't have the choice and must stick with XP.
We migrated 100% of our windows-based computers used for typical applications (office work, CAD, data analysis, etc.) to windows 7 or 8. But some machines working with specialized hardware, that is either too expensive to replace or for which simply no replacement exist, can't be migrated. They must remain with XP.
This actually creates a lot of frustration and administrative problems, as after the end of the XP support, those computers are not allowed to remain on the institution network anymore. A clear solution has still to be found (hint: ghostery and co. are not part of the solution).
Going back to my original thought and question... Why is exobiology one of the most well-funded "division" of the administration? What does it bring us, as a society (or to the scientific community), if not in parallel to equally or more important goals? Why put this goal before most others?
It almost feels like Christopher Columbus going to the King, asking for ship and crew to see if grass may grow somewhere else,
I have the feeling at every new news report from or about NASA, that its all about "finding life somewhere else". Of course, there is much more to it and this is only the perception.
Still, this seems to be the main message/theme/goal. How about bringing life somewhere else? How about engineering goals and challenges? Why not "because we want to see if we can"?
I known these are harder to "sell", but thats also the outreach job of NASA. If they cannot sell the importance of developing new technologies, them who can?
Im not implying not development is being made. Its just not set as a goal. And I can only wish for more and more diversifiied goals them.
I beg to differ. For critical applications where down time costs millions, I would use a dedicated line. I'd even consider a dial-in modem interface rather than an Internet connexion. I'd even rethink remote monitoring. Is it really needed? But connecting critical applications to the Internet, especially when you have hardware requirering old OS verions that are full of holes and unsupported, is playing with fire.
I agree. This is also why I was pondering about interplanatary travel... Once we are well established on the boundry of our own solar system, I will start to speculate about deep space travel.
Sometimes its small details that make a huge difference and allow old ideas to become reality.
Just think about blood tranfusions. The first attemps to store blood to transfuse it at a later point all failed. A simple stabilisation agent made the procedure possible. I wouldn't expect the New Scientist to produce such details in their publications though.
It would be interesting to see a paper from a medical journal on this topic.
This sounds more like science fiction than anything else to me. But if it works and the technique becomes viable to handle patient with heavy injurie - and assuming the patients can be kept suspended for long periods of time without creating further damages, I wonder if the technique could be adapted for space travel. It would solve a lot of problems related to long-duration interplanetary travel.
The idea is not new. I just wonder if this could be the first step in this direction.
Obviously, the crew became incapacitated after they - or someone else - maneuvered the aircraft to its last course. I haven't seen anyone suggest it could have been the other way around.
On the contrary. A completely silent CVR tells you a lot; it tells you that the airplane kept on flying with every one on board either unconscious or dead for at least 2 hours before the crash. That's a critical information for the investigation.
Furthermore, through data/media forensic, you might be able to recover the previous data that was overrecorded, although I wouldn't count on it after 3 to 4 record cycles.
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I find the conclusion that there is an absolute limit to the human life span because at some point the stem cells producing white blood cell all die out quite strange.
A few centuries ago, we could have concluded that there is an absolute limit to human life span because at some point someone can't eat anymore while he lost all his teeth. Any similar logical train of though could lead to the same conclusion.
And now, what if you find out why the cells die and manage to prevent it? Then the next thing that kills us will limit our life span, until we find out how to fix that as well. Absolute limits are difficult to set.
I'd so wish to see the tank of my car filled up after leaving it parked all day in the field.
That's bound to happen when those who can notice are found in less than 75% of the the surface of the planet.
How about just sending the stuff by snail mail? I'd bet my cup of coffee that they completely lost the expertise and interest on this form of communication.
Yes. No one drives short before sunrise in winter.
An this, is exactly why metaphors should not be weighted as facts.
Not that I'm particularly fond of that book, but only an idot would interprete a metaphor as fact.
I disagree. The only systematic guess in the game is the first click. If you generally have to guess afterwards, you are doing something wrong and misunderstood the game. At most you'll have to guess once or twice, if at all, through the game.
Of course we "demand" it. And of course the answer is "no thanks. But good luck finding another supplier"
This is the solution we are implementing in most cases. Firewall the computers with hardware bridges (either other computers or otherwise). We have been using local independant LANs in laboratory environment all the time for different reasons.
But in some cases, the computers running the old hardware must also communicate with other computers in the institutional network. Examples I can give are for floating network licences of specific software or for high-load data production/tranfer.
Yes! I'll make sure to pass on the message to that company that closed down 3 years ago and to the guy who retired 8 years ago.
Its a shame indeed, all the self inflicted toture they are causing me.
But I'll bet they answer that themselves find it a shame that non of the companies producing the hardware respecting the requirements for the sub-components themselves only supported windows. In that sence, I guess on could say it's a second level indirectly self inflicted toture.
Or they will remind me how there is a real world, with real problems, real limations and where you do not have the control on everything.
Would like some of that malware with sprinkle of virus with that XP patch from best-patch-torrent.ro?
Everyone running old specfialized hardware which is not compatible with windows 7 or later feel the pain of the XP end of life.
Its not about refusing or not. Some simply don't have the choice and must stick with XP.
We migrated 100% of our windows-based computers used for typical applications (office work, CAD, data analysis, etc.) to windows 7 or 8. But some machines working with specialized hardware, that is either too expensive to replace or for which simply no replacement exist, can't be migrated. They must remain with XP.
This actually creates a lot of frustration and administrative problems, as after the end of the XP support, those computers are not allowed to remain on the institution network anymore. A clear solution has still to be found (hint: ghostery and co. are not part of the solution).
Going back to my original thought and question... Why is exobiology one of the most well-funded "division" of the administration? What does it bring us, as a society (or to the scientific community), if not in parallel to equally or more important goals? Why put this goal before most others?
It almost feels like Christopher Columbus going to the King, asking for ship and crew to see if grass may grow somewhere else,
I have the feeling at every new news report from or about NASA, that its all about "finding life somewhere else". Of course, there is much more to it and this is only the perception.
Still, this seems to be the main message/theme/goal. How about bringing life somewhere else?
How about engineering goals and challenges? Why not "because we want to see if we can"?
I known these are harder to "sell", but thats also the outreach job of NASA. If they cannot sell the importance of developing new technologies, them who can?
Im not implying not development is being made. Its just not set as a goal. And I can only wish for more and more diversifiied goals them.
I beg to differ. For critical applications where down time costs millions, I would use a dedicated line. I'd even consider a dial-in modem interface rather than an Internet connexion. I'd even rethink remote monitoring. Is it really needed? But connecting critical applications to the Internet, especially when you have hardware requirering old OS verions that are full of holes and unsupported, is playing with fire.
And why would you need internet for this?
I seem to recall some horror film plots something like that.
You could say this about a lot of surgical and medical procedures.
I agree. This is also why I was pondering about interplanatary travel... Once we are well established on the boundry of our own solar system, I will start to speculate about deep space travel.
How do you believe that nuclear fusion would improve the speed of travel through the solar system?
Sometimes its small details that make a huge difference and allow old ideas to become reality.
Just think about blood tranfusions. The first attemps to store blood to transfuse it at a later point all failed. A simple stabilisation agent made the procedure possible. I wouldn't expect the New Scientist to produce such details in their publications though.
It would be interesting to see a paper from a medical journal on this topic.
This sounds more like science fiction than anything else to me. But if it works and the technique becomes viable to handle patient with heavy injurie - and assuming the patients can be kept suspended for long periods of time without creating further damages, I wonder if the technique could be adapted for space travel. It would solve a lot of problems related to long-duration interplanetary travel.
The idea is not new. I just wonder if this could be the first step in this direction.
Obviously, the crew became incapacitated after they - or someone else - maneuvered the aircraft to its last course. I haven't seen anyone suggest it could have been the other way around.
The sherif was the wrench.
It's only completely worthless if its silent.
On the contrary. A completely silent CVR tells you a lot; it tells you that the airplane kept on flying with every one on board either unconscious or dead for at least 2 hours before the crash. That's a critical information for the investigation.
Furthermore, through data/media forensic, you might be able to recover the previous data that was overrecorded, although I wouldn't count on it after 3 to 4 record cycles.