It should be noted that Chernobyl is a rather special case.
They were running a test to determine the amount of power that could be extracted from a reactor in meltdown to fight the meltdown.
Which test required them to push the reactor as close to meltdown as they safely could. Alas, they guessed wrong about which side of "safely" they were on....
Tell me, can you route your income through a shell company in the Bahamas so you don't pay taxes ?
Yes. Incorporate in the Bahamas. Set things up so the corporation pays you a salary. Then have the corporation sell your services to whomever. They pay the corp, the corp pays you. Neither of you pays taxes to the USA, though you'll both be paying taxes in the Bahamas.
We are the only country to have a reality TV star with neither any political experience nor any experience in international relations as our president
And last time, we had a college professor. He worked out reasonably well, other than a tendency to use Executive Orders when Congress wouldn't cooperate. Which left Trump a "wonderful" example....
Maybe a pro-science country can step up and provide the data. India, China, this is your chance to show the world that you have more sense than Trump's America, though I admit this is a very low bar.
I take it you missed the part about this happening in 2016? You know, back when it was Obama's America....
This was, in essence, my first thought on reading the headline. C'mon, guys, there's nothing you really NEED a printer for on the ISS. Or much of anywhere else. Mostly, they're just legacy because some management type somewhere thinks that they need a "paper trail" for something. Not realizing you can accomplish the same end electronically....
In 50 years, hopefully we will have done away with daylight savings time completely and this topic will be dead, but if we have not, Daylight Savings Time will be the correct way to say it.
Perhaps, at that same time, it will also be grammatically correct to insert superfluous apostrophes willy-nilly.
Hopefully it'll also be correct to call commas apostrophes by then....
I hope it won't be (ab)used till it's a bit more accurate.
Assume one person in 1000 is suicidal. 90% accuracy means that out of 1 million people (1000 suicidal), it'll correctly identify 900 suicidal people as suicidal, and misidentify 99,900 non-suicidal people as suicidal.
This is not particularly useful at this time. Perhaps when the fraction of the population that is suicidal at any given time is up to 30%+....
Like Smith or Jones, you say? Both quite common surnames among Englishmen and Welshmen (respectively). Or Baker. Barber. Cook. Farmer
Yes, a lot of people, black, white, everything in between have "profession" surnames from back in the day.
Note that my own last name isn't a "profession" surname, it's a "location" surname. I used to think it was rare, till I found myself in an airport in northern England and discovered it was (relatively) common in that particular place....
2) They're going to put people out of work. These are important jobs for many people and to have them eliminated or largely reduced would affect a lot of people negatively.
Good point. Assuming, of course, that you use a palanquin to get about town, of course. Or are palanquin-bearers more expendable than cashiers?
Oh, and how do you feel about using cranes to lift heavy loads rather than a whole bunch of people heaving on the line? Another bad thing?
It's heading toward the constellation Pegasus at over 97000 mph.
It's got a lot of energy to lose yet as it gets further from Sol. Hyperbolic excess speed is in the vicinity of 10-15 km/s, depending on which way it is heading (10 if it's still basically at the same radius from the Sun as Earth, 15 if it's basically headed straight out).
So it's going to be about six to ten times as long in transit as "97000 mph" suggests....
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.
Umm, no. Any fraction (other than 0) of infinity is, well, infinity. If there were an infinite number of worlds, and one in a million had intelligent life, then there would be an infinite number of worlds with intelligent life....
I stopped carrying "emergency" cash, oh, five or six years ago. I think my wife still keeps a twenty in her purse, just in case, but I haven't asked in years....
And haven't been anyplace I couldn't use a credit card in all that time....
Ahh, yes. That's pretty much the same as the combined murder/suicide rate using firearms.
So cellphones are every bit as deadly as guns, eh? Or even more so, since it's likely that a significant fraction of the older population doesn't text at all. Once that group finishes dying off, the remaining population should be killing each other off even faster with cellphones that they ever did with guns...
The second you lose power, you're fucked. This is why cash is king, always has been, always will be.
Of course, the definition of "cash" does change from time to time. Less than a century ago, "cash" meant gold or silver, not paper. At that time, paper money was considered a "banknote", and not at all the same as cash....
Zero unemployment is impossible, because zero unemployment means, among other things, that there is zero possibility of starting a new business/industry/whatever - where are you going to get people?
Unless "zero unemployment" is a code phrase for "everyone has some makework to do", you won't be able to hire them away without damaging the place you hired them from...
Which is why, in the Real World (tm), we actually aim for somewhere around 5% unemployment as our target....
~1/13th of the Sun's diameter is about 4 minutes of arc. Trust me, we can measure things MUCH smaller than 4 minutes of arc with trivial effort. We'd have noticed.
Also, don't forget that the planet is moving relative to the Sun.
Note that gravity seems to pull the Earth toward the Sun.
If gravity were acting faster then lightspeed, it would appear to pull us toward where the Sun was several minutes (depending on how ftl gravity was, could be anywhere up to about 500 seconds ago) in the past.
Do remember that when you look at the Sun, you're not looking at where it is NOW, but where it was when the light was emitted....
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We have a definition of "Right Wing" that makes sense - anything that disagrees with the Left Wing in any particular.
***looks at definition provided***. Yep, Hitler and Ayn Rand are both Right Wing....
It should be noted that Chernobyl is a rather special case.
They were running a test to determine the amount of power that could be extracted from a reactor in meltdown to fight the meltdown.
Which test required them to push the reactor as close to meltdown as they safely could. Alas, they guessed wrong about which side of "safely" they were on....
You heat water or hydrogen (probably hydrogen,since it gives you a higher Isp at lower temps). And squirt it out the back...
Yes. Incorporate in the Bahamas. Set things up so the corporation pays you a salary. Then have the corporation sell your services to whomever. They pay the corp, the corp pays you. Neither of you pays taxes to the USA, though you'll both be paying taxes in the Bahamas.
And last time, we had a college professor. He worked out reasonably well, other than a tendency to use Executive Orders when Congress wouldn't cooperate. Which left Trump a "wonderful" example....
I take it you missed the part about this happening in 2016? You know, back when it was Obama's America....
This was, in essence, my first thought on reading the headline. C'mon, guys, there's nothing you really NEED a printer for on the ISS. Or much of anywhere else. Mostly, they're just legacy because some management type somewhere thinks that they need a "paper trail" for something. Not realizing you can accomplish the same end electronically....
Hopefully it'll also be correct to call commas apostrophes by then....
I hope it won't be (ab)used till it's a bit more accurate.
Assume one person in 1000 is suicidal. 90% accuracy means that out of 1 million people (1000 suicidal), it'll correctly identify 900 suicidal people as suicidal, and misidentify 99,900 non-suicidal people as suicidal.
This is not particularly useful at this time. Perhaps when the fraction of the population that is suicidal at any given time is up to 30%+....
Like Smith or Jones, you say? Both quite common surnames among Englishmen and Welshmen (respectively). Or Baker. Barber. Cook. Farmer
Yes, a lot of people, black, white, everything in between have "profession" surnames from back in the day.
Note that my own last name isn't a "profession" surname, it's a "location" surname. I used to think it was rare, till I found myself in an airport in northern England and discovered it was (relatively) common in that particular place....
Actually, that's pretty much true everywhere, not just the USA. Anyone can APPLY, anywhere, for credit. It's what happens after that matters...
Now, the USA is the place you can GET credit with essentially no verification of ID....
Yeppers.
Ultimately, it was about rich people in either the North or the South losing their influence and power.
Slavery was the proximate cause, of course. No doubt about that. And that radical in the White House...
Good point. Assuming, of course, that you use a palanquin to get about town, of course. Or are palanquin-bearers more expendable than cashiers?
Oh, and how do you feel about using cranes to lift heavy loads rather than a whole bunch of people heaving on the line? Another bad thing?
It's got a lot of energy to lose yet as it gets further from Sol. Hyperbolic excess speed is in the vicinity of 10-15 km/s, depending on which way it is heading (10 if it's still basically at the same radius from the Sun as Earth, 15 if it's basically headed straight out).
So it's going to be about six to ten times as long in transit as "97000 mph" suggests....
Umm, no. Any fraction (other than 0) of infinity is, well, infinity. If there were an infinite number of worlds, and one in a million had intelligent life, then there would be an infinite number of worlds with intelligent life....
Your questions seem to reduce to "I have a Right to Repair my stuff, and HE has an OBLIGATION to help me do so".
While the first clause is unarguable, the second is a bit iffy - are YOU obligated to help other people repair their stuff?
And I'll bet not a one of them is an expert car designer. Or even capable of designing a basic internal combustion engine....
I stopped carrying "emergency" cash, oh, five or six years ago. I think my wife still keeps a twenty in her purse, just in case, but I haven't asked in years....
And haven't been anyplace I couldn't use a credit card in all that time....
Ahh, yes. That's pretty much the same as the combined murder/suicide rate using firearms.
So cellphones are every bit as deadly as guns, eh? Or even more so, since it's likely that a significant fraction of the older population doesn't text at all. Once that group finishes dying off, the remaining population should be killing each other off even faster with cellphones that they ever did with guns...
Of course, the definition of "cash" does change from time to time. Less than a century ago, "cash" meant gold or silver, not paper. At that time, paper money was considered a "banknote", and not at all the same as cash....
Zero unemployment is impossible, because zero unemployment means, among other things, that there is zero possibility of starting a new business/industry/whatever - where are you going to get people?
Unless "zero unemployment" is a code phrase for "everyone has some makework to do", you won't be able to hire them away without damaging the place you hired them from...
Which is why, in the Real World (tm), we actually aim for somewhere around 5% unemployment as our target....
~1/13th of the Sun's diameter is about 4 minutes of arc. Trust me, we can measure things MUCH smaller than 4 minutes of arc with trivial effort. We'd have noticed.
Also, don't forget that the planet is moving relative to the Sun.
Note that gravity seems to pull the Earth toward the Sun.
If gravity were acting faster then lightspeed, it would appear to pull us toward where the Sun was several minutes (depending on how ftl gravity was, could be anywhere up to about 500 seconds ago) in the past.
Do remember that when you look at the Sun, you're not looking at where it is NOW, but where it was when the light was emitted....
Rape sometimes happens, therefore rape is normal?
Likewise mass murder?
Or even travel to Luna?