If you can get a missile to go to the moon from Earth it's easier for it to get to Earth from the moon. Remember, this was in the late 50s when the only thing that had travelled in space at all was Sputnik.
It lost it by the end of the article. Maybe that was on purpose to tip off the gullible, or maybe the author just got tired of pretending to be educated.
That's also NOT a JPL press release. They can't keep Opportunity and Curiosity straight, talk about scientists "ranting" and capitalize Random words. The last is especially indicative of crackpottery.
The geography statement was ironic. So is this one, referring as it does to one country with one of the few successful centrally planned totalitarian regimes and another with one of the largest governments in the present world.
All right. This is getting boring. Let's take a quick look at your claim earlier that undiluted camomile was a valid homeopathic remedy.
Here's the definition of homeopathy from, you know, an actual dictionary:
: a system of medical practice that treats a disease especially by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in larger amounts produce in healthy persons symptoms similar to those of the disease
Don't like Merriam-Webster? What's Oxford have to say?
a system of complementary medicine in which ailments are treated by minute doses of natural substances that in larger amounts would produce symptoms of the ailment. Often contrasted with allopathy.
Hm. How about the society of homeopaths, the UK "professional" organization for homeopaths? (http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/about-homeopathy/what-is-homeopathy/)
Homeopathy is a system of medicine which involves treating the individual with highly diluted substances
Homeopathy is based on the principle that you can treat ‘like with like’, that is, a substance which causes symptoms when taken in large doses, can be used in small amounts to treat those same symptoms.
Homeopathic medicines (which homeopaths call remedies) are prepared by specialist pharmacies using a careful process of dilution and succussion (a specific form of vigorous shaking).
Okay, but what does the originator of homeopathy have to say. Why yes, I HAVE read Hahnemann have you? Okay, read is maybe a strong word. His writing style is generously called rambling. Anyway, from The Homeopathic Medical Doctrine or Organon of the Healing Art by S. Hahnemahn, translated from German by Charles H. Devrient:
There remains, accordingly, no other method of applying medicines profitably in diseases than the homeopathic, by means of which, we select from all others that medicine (in order to direct it against the entire symptoms of the individual morbid case) whose manner of acting upon persons in health is known, and which has the power of producing an artificial malady the nearest in resemblance to the natural disease before our eyes.
Plain experience, an infallible oracle in the art of healing, proves to us, in every careful experiment, that the particular medicine whose action upon persons in health produces the greatest number of symptoms resembling those of the disease which it is intended to cure, possesses also in reality (when administered in convenient doses) the power of suppressing in a radical, prompt, and permanent manner, the totality of these morbid symptoms -- that is to say, the whole of the existing disease; it also teaches us that all medicines cure the diseases whose symptoms approach nearest to their own, and that among the latter none admit of an exception.
This phenomenon is founded on the natural law of homeopathy....
The curative powers of medicines are therefore grounded upon the faculty which they possess of creating symptoms similar to those of the disease itself, but which are of a more intense nature.....
The appropriation of a medicine to any given case of disease does not depend solely upon the circumstance of its being perfectly homeopathic, but also upon the minute quantity of the dose in which it is administered. If too strong a dose of a remedy, that is even entirely homeopathic, be given, it will infallibly injure the patient.......
He goes on in later editions of the book, which I don't have copies of (one can only collect so much crap) to talk about the repeated dilution of substances and forceful striking of the containers, called succussion, both of which are supposed to increase the potency.
All right, enough of that. So you see, yes, you are ignorant. Your camomile example fails to be homeopathy both because it is not an example of the "natural law of homeopathy" that like cures like, and it does not use the dilution methodology.
I come from Canada and I'm not supposed to eat too much tuna, no matter where in the world I am or it comes from, because of the nasty isotopes from the coal plants, in many cases thousands of miles away.
You're going to use insurance as a standard? If coal plant operators started getting sued for the subtle health problems and mortality they cause coal plant insurance would go up WAY higher than nuclear. Coal, depending on what part of the world you're in, is either by far the most dangerous source of power or a very close second to oil. Both are orders of magnitude more dangerous than nuclear in actual deaths per kilowatt hour.
When coal power was the same age as nuclear is now you guys were sending children down mines to get it for you. That's great that you require coal plants to clean up the site though (I assume you also require nuclear plants to do so). Do you also require them to clean up all the toxic waste products that are conveniently dispersed on the wind?
Issues with decommissioning nuclear plants and safely storing (or better, reusing) waste aren't trivial but suggesting coal is safer because you don't have store the waste for 100,000 years is pretty naive. The mortality statistics certainly paint a very different picture: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/
The original structure was estimated to last for 25 years... which is why they're replacing it now. People sacrificed their lives to get that initial containment in place so that today it could be replaced without anyone dying.
I really don't care if you feel insulted. The fact is, your ignorance is dangerous. If you were only endangering yourself that's one thing. I fully support your right to do that if you so choose. The problem is, you seem to insist on advancing your ignorance as fact, in a public forum. Now, you're not very good at it, so you're also not terribly dangerous, but others like you ARE good at telling falsehoods in the guise of authority and they ARE dangerous. Jenny McCarthy springs first to mind.
It is a shame though. So much information surrounds you, and you refuse to take advantage of it.
Radiation levels drop considerably over the first few decades as the short half life, intensely active elements decay. Why not leave it for 25 years? It hasn't been hurting anyone and waiting will probably save several lives and lessen the cost of this phase of the cleanup.
"but a coal power station can be dismantled in a few years without breaking too much of a sweat."
There are lots of toxic areas left behind by coal power plants or coal mines a century after the plant has been closed. And that's with normal operation.
The TPF-I was an infrared interferometer that did most certainly use optical interference. Several designs were suggested but they all involved actual light from each telescope being collected and allowed to interfere at the combiner. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA484941
Theoretically you don't require a fibre optic link (some TPF proposals didn't have one) if you can send the light through free space, but you still have to send the actual light from each telescope to a combiner. That will not work over distances like the diameter of Earth's orbit, as the OP suggested.
All US law applies to all people and corporations, excepting those with special immunity, in the US. This one isn't any different, and its not being applied indirectly. InTrade must have some US assets and they are enacting this policy to prevent them from being seized as the result of a lawsuit.
What? A complaint was filed in a US court, which has the power to do bad things to any part of InTrade that exists in the US. In response, InTrade is almost certainly blocking US IP addresses. That is, IP addresses belonging to computers in the USA. That is, computers under US jurisdiction.
Most modern machine learning algorithms don't really care what their inputs are. Give them a completely new situation and they'll do poorly. Let them learn for a bit and they'll improve. Just like humans. There are also "learn by imitation" algorithms. Modern machine intelligence is NOT programmed. They run general purpose machine learning code and learn to do particular tasks. Today's systems are limited in capacity and the inputs and outputs we give them, but the notebook I'm typing this on can easily meet your definition of a degree of "general AI" (which I think is actually much too simplistic).
In I, Robot there's a short story about when the machines take over the world. Asimov didn't think it would be a military coup, the machines would just end up in charge one day. "Robots" were used to calculate optimal allocations of resources, project planning, policy decisions, etc. These robots were hooked up to various datastreams so they could learn the impact of their decisions and improve based on it. Eventually, anybody who didn't use a robot to make such decisions was doomed to failure because everyone who did was more efficient. Anyone who ignored the robot's decisions was also inefficient. But that was okay, the robots learned who obeyed and who didn't and would purposely tell disobeyers the opposite of what the robot wanted to happen. People and groups in outright opposition to robot control were told whatever they needed to be to make bad decisions and so were marginalized.
What Asimov described were really just big computers running machine learning algorithms and hooked up to the Internet. His fictional robots were a bit better at extrapolation and human psychology than ours are, but marketers are quickly trying to address the latter shortcoming and everyone else is working on the former.
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If you can get a missile to go to the moon from Earth it's easier for it to get to Earth from the moon. Remember, this was in the late 50s when the only thing that had travelled in space at all was Sputnik.
Wow... the things that will set off crazy Slashdot downmodders.
Yup, this article definitely has some things in common with many of the abiogenic petroleum believers.
It lost it by the end of the article. Maybe that was on purpose to tip off the gullible, or maybe the author just got tired of pretending to be educated.
That's also NOT a JPL press release. They can't keep Opportunity and Curiosity straight, talk about scientists "ranting" and capitalize Random words. The last is especially indicative of crackpottery.
The FAA has started certifying rockets.
Fuel is not cheap when you need to carry it partway into orbit.
"(and it's love of government power)"
The geography statement was ironic. So is this one, referring as it does to one country with one of the few successful centrally planned totalitarian regimes and another with one of the largest governments in the present world.
Funded in part (and they hope a lot more) by the ESA.
All right. This is getting boring. Let's take a quick look at your claim earlier that undiluted camomile was a valid homeopathic remedy.
Here's the definition of homeopathy from, you know, an actual dictionary:
Don't like Merriam-Webster? What's Oxford have to say?
Hm. How about the society of homeopaths, the UK "professional" organization for homeopaths? (http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/about-homeopathy/what-is-homeopathy/)
Okay, but what does the originator of homeopathy have to say. Why yes, I HAVE read Hahnemann have you? Okay, read is maybe a strong word. His writing style is generously called rambling. Anyway, from The Homeopathic Medical Doctrine or Organon of the Healing Art by S. Hahnemahn, translated from German by Charles H. Devrient:
He goes on in later editions of the book, which I don't have copies of (one can only collect so much crap) to talk about the repeated dilution of substances and forceful striking of the containers, called succussion, both of which are supposed to increase the potency.
All right, enough of that. So you see, yes, you are ignorant. Your camomile example fails to be homeopathy both because it is not an example of the "natural law of homeopathy" that like cures like, and it does not use the dilution methodology.
I come from Canada and I'm not supposed to eat too much tuna, no matter where in the world I am or it comes from, because of the nasty isotopes from the coal plants, in many cases thousands of miles away.
You're going to use insurance as a standard? If coal plant operators started getting sued for the subtle health problems and mortality they cause coal plant insurance would go up WAY higher than nuclear. Coal, depending on what part of the world you're in, is either by far the most dangerous source of power or a very close second to oil. Both are orders of magnitude more dangerous than nuclear in actual deaths per kilowatt hour.
When coal power was the same age as nuclear is now you guys were sending children down mines to get it for you. That's great that you require coal plants to clean up the site though (I assume you also require nuclear plants to do so). Do you also require them to clean up all the toxic waste products that are conveniently dispersed on the wind?
Issues with decommissioning nuclear plants and safely storing (or better, reusing) waste aren't trivial but suggesting coal is safer because you don't have store the waste for 100,000 years is pretty naive. The mortality statistics certainly paint a very different picture: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/
The original structure was estimated to last for 25 years... which is why they're replacing it now. People sacrificed their lives to get that initial containment in place so that today it could be replaced without anyone dying.
I really don't care if you feel insulted. The fact is, your ignorance is dangerous. If you were only endangering yourself that's one thing. I fully support your right to do that if you so choose. The problem is, you seem to insist on advancing your ignorance as fact, in a public forum. Now, you're not very good at it, so you're also not terribly dangerous, but others like you ARE good at telling falsehoods in the guise of authority and they ARE dangerous. Jenny McCarthy springs first to mind.
It is a shame though. So much information surrounds you, and you refuse to take advantage of it.
Why yes, I do have a PhD and am a working scientist doing clinical trials. And you?
Radiation levels drop considerably over the first few decades as the short half life, intensely active elements decay. Why not leave it for 25 years? It hasn't been hurting anyone and waiting will probably save several lives and lessen the cost of this phase of the cleanup.
"but a coal power station can be dismantled in a few years without breaking too much of a sweat."
There are lots of toxic areas left behind by coal power plants or coal mines a century after the plant has been closed. And that's with normal operation.
I asked you what you'd accept as "AI to any degree." I gave you examples of what you said you'd accept. Now you're making excuses.
Sure, intelligence might be magic. I doubt it, but it's possible.
The TPF-I was an infrared interferometer that did most certainly use optical interference. Several designs were suggested but they all involved actual light from each telescope being collected and allowed to interfere at the combiner. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA484941
LISA also involves sending light (laser light in this case, not astronomical light) along two different paths and optically combining it. http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~veronica/CaJAGWR/info/general/shaddock.pdf
Theoretically you don't require a fibre optic link (some TPF proposals didn't have one) if you can send the light through free space, but you still have to send the actual light from each telescope to a combiner. That will not work over distances like the diameter of Earth's orbit, as the OP suggested.
Problem is, we can't do VLBI at optical wavelengths yet.
Also, what is it you'd like to measure the size of?
Thus why one of the conditions was that NASA not use them for Earth observing.
It's not. Yet. Current optical interferometry requires a fibre optic link between the telescopes because the light has to physically interfere.
All US law applies to all people and corporations, excepting those with special immunity, in the US. This one isn't any different, and its not being applied indirectly. InTrade must have some US assets and they are enacting this policy to prevent them from being seized as the result of a lawsuit.
What? A complaint was filed in a US court, which has the power to do bad things to any part of InTrade that exists in the US. In response, InTrade is almost certainly blocking US IP addresses. That is, IP addresses belonging to computers in the USA. That is, computers under US jurisdiction.
Most modern machine learning algorithms don't really care what their inputs are. Give them a completely new situation and they'll do poorly. Let them learn for a bit and they'll improve. Just like humans. There are also "learn by imitation" algorithms. Modern machine intelligence is NOT programmed. They run general purpose machine learning code and learn to do particular tasks. Today's systems are limited in capacity and the inputs and outputs we give them, but the notebook I'm typing this on can easily meet your definition of a degree of "general AI" (which I think is actually much too simplistic).
In I, Robot there's a short story about when the machines take over the world. Asimov didn't think it would be a military coup, the machines would just end up in charge one day. "Robots" were used to calculate optimal allocations of resources, project planning, policy decisions, etc. These robots were hooked up to various datastreams so they could learn the impact of their decisions and improve based on it. Eventually, anybody who didn't use a robot to make such decisions was doomed to failure because everyone who did was more efficient. Anyone who ignored the robot's decisions was also inefficient. But that was okay, the robots learned who obeyed and who didn't and would purposely tell disobeyers the opposite of what the robot wanted to happen. People and groups in outright opposition to robot control were told whatever they needed to be to make bad decisions and so were marginalized.
What Asimov described were really just big computers running machine learning algorithms and hooked up to the Internet. His fictional robots were a bit better at extrapolation and human psychology than ours are, but marketers are quickly trying to address the latter shortcoming and everyone else is working on the former.