no, seriously! Strip mine it for everything it's worth! Do it on the far side, if you don't want to look at it, but do it because the only incentive that will encourage colonization is one that will make someone rich.
It would probably be cheaper to mine the moon and use the minerals to build space stations orbiting earth than to extract terrestrial ones and pull them out of the gravity well.
That is actually a really interesting discussion. Coming from a perspective of quantum mechanics, if you're somehow able to instantly destroy the original while simultaneous creating a copy, that is teleportation in every sense of the word. Pauli's exclusion principle *dictates* that one electron is not only indistinguishable from another, but that, freakily enough, they *are* the same particle. This gives me quite a headache, because it could quite reasonably lead to the conclusion that consciousness is just an illusion, that there is no inherent essence to my being. You and I are just what resides in the pattern of our molecular configurations.
If the dinosaurs hadn't fallen victim to $extinctionLevelEvent, they could easily have become as evolved as we are now - just a whole lot earlier. Or, no species would ever have emerged with the foundations and need for higher cognitive functions. Mammals were essentially smarter than dinosaurs because they were small and vulnerable, and as the dinosaurs dissapeared, they got the opportunity to evolve that intelligence into something that could be used for things other than escape&evasion.
I'm with you on the overall point, though
Just because there is evidence that rings could be ancient, doesn't mean that they are. They could still go through this recycling process and still be formed by cometary impacts at a time later than the planetary formation phase.
But he also said that he "would never change who I am or what I do because of what society thinks is right or not right. I have always been who I am and always will be."
Then he belongs in jail until such a time that he changes his mind. A man of such 'morals and family values' has no business raising a son.
I think it will simply turn into good business sense to assure interoperability: a new social website will do *much* better because it is easily integrated into the user's existing networks and require less effort to implement.
I believe this is one of the reasons Google's services have become so popular.
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Since you're an astrophysicist, let me ask you something related to this topic. Do you think that the discovery of the OMG proton and the fact that its observation casts doubt on the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit could be an indicator that new physics are needed?
I've always been sorta partial to Lee Smolin's hypothesis that universes can beget universes. The consequence of this assumption is that the parameters of universes, like the constants of nature there, will evolve by natural selection into sets of universes more likely to breed.
It's not totally implausible that having parameters conducive to life and complexity in general would be a good reproduction strategy down the road.
I work at a bar, and sometimes i see an interesting phenomenon in beer glasses. If you leave a draft beer out and let the foam fizzle away, after a while(but not too long or the foam will disappear completely) the foam will coalesce into a ring shaped pattern of circles, equally sized and spaced and at the same distance from the rim and centre of the glass. It takes about half an hour for this pattern to form, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what makes it! Anyone?
Exactly. I've never seen a zero tolerance reaction that was anything but a panicked reaction to a problem gone out of control due to a complete inability to see the bigger picture.
From my currently favorite starry-eyed scifi brick, Accelerando by Charles Stross, which basically deals with the ultimate consequences of a runaway Moores Law:
Manfred, the protagonist, is sitting at a bar discussing future projects:
"Long-term, it's the only way to go. The solar system is a dead loss right now - dumb all over! Just measure the MIPS per milligram. If it isn't thinking, it isn't working. We need to start with the low-mass bodies, reconfigure them for our own use. Dismantle the moon! Dismantle Mars! Build masses of free-flying nanocomputing processor nodes exchanging data via laser link, each layer running off the waste heat of the next one in. Matrioshka brains, Russian doll Dyson spheres the size of solar systems. Teach dumb matter to do the Turing boogie!"
Annette is watching him with interest, but Bob looks wary. "Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?"
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no, seriously! Strip mine it for everything it's worth! Do it on the far side, if you don't want to look at it, but do it because the only incentive that will encourage colonization is one that will make someone rich.
It would probably be cheaper to mine the moon and use the minerals to build space stations orbiting earth than to extract terrestrial ones and pull them out of the gravity well.
That is actually a really interesting discussion. Coming from a perspective of quantum mechanics, if you're somehow able to instantly destroy the original while simultaneous creating a copy, that is teleportation in every sense of the word. Pauli's exclusion principle *dictates* that one electron is not only indistinguishable from another, but that, freakily enough, they *are* the same particle. This gives me quite a headache, because it could quite reasonably lead to the conclusion that consciousness is just an illusion, that there is no inherent essence to my being. You and I are just what resides in the pattern of our molecular configurations.
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Couch potato -> Mouse potato
Try learning some physics before you post.
Indeed.
Are those like, Nintendo Tomahawks?
and it fits right in your pocket protector!
Just because there is evidence that rings could be ancient, doesn't mean that they are. They could still go through this recycling process and still be formed by cometary impacts at a time later than the planetary formation phase.
Then he belongs in jail until such a time that he changes his mind. A man of such 'morals and family values' has no business raising a son.
Then download it. And then buy the dvd for the reviewability and the 22 minute episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad.
I think it will simply turn into good business sense to assure interoperability: a new social website will do *much* better because it is easily integrated into the user's existing networks and require less effort to implement.
I believe this is one of the reasons Google's services have become so popular.
Nah go awey or I shall taunt you a seconde time!
I dare you to argue that any other organ in the bird could possibly house the sense of geomagnetism that it obviously has.
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I would hold to Alien vs Predator instead. Playing that game i had to take breaks every 20 minutes to slow my heart rate...
Very funny. Get back to work!!!
Since you're an astrophysicist, let me ask you something related to this topic. Do you think that the discovery of the OMG proton and the fact that its observation casts doubt on the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit could be an indicator that new physics are needed?
I've always been sorta partial to Lee Smolin's hypothesis that universes can beget universes. The consequence of this assumption is that the parameters of universes, like the constants of nature there, will evolve by natural selection into sets of universes more likely to breed.
It's not totally implausible that having parameters conducive to life and complexity in general would be a good reproduction strategy down the road.
Now, where did i put my bong?
I work at a bar, and sometimes i see an interesting phenomenon in beer glasses. If you leave a draft beer out and let the foam fizzle away, after a while(but not too long or the foam will disappear completely) the foam will coalesce into a ring shaped pattern of circles, equally sized and spaced and at the same distance from the rim and centre of the glass.
It takes about half an hour for this pattern to form, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what makes it!
Anyone?
Exactly. I've never seen a zero tolerance reaction that was anything but a panicked reaction to a problem gone out of control due to a complete inability to see the bigger picture.
I wonder where I've heard this here "We'll ship it when it's finished" rhetoric before?
From my currently favorite starry-eyed scifi brick, Accelerando by Charles Stross, which basically deals with the ultimate consequences of a runaway Moores Law:
Manfred, the protagonist, is sitting at a bar discussing future projects:
Give it a read, it's great stuff!
There's probably someone just starting out in college who will be there for the next ten to fifteen years because of Civilization!
Ah, the infamous and controversial "Don't stuff your face" argument...