The do post their opinion it reads, "Global Warming is accepted as fact by most of the scientific community." And this is with a president denying that it exists. That is a very strong statement to be making in this political climate.
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The Problem here is that NPR listeners are well informed and Fox News listeners are not well informed.
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For example, according to the report (pp 13) 67 percent of Fox News listeners think there is an Al-Qauda Iraq link. only 16% of NPR-PBS listeners/watchers had the same wrong idea. If you think that there was such a link you may care to kno that the President of the United States said there was no evidence of any such link.
All right, mod me down as not conservative now.
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That the parent is modded down as flame bait shows you just how even handed conservatives are in arguments.
especially countries like France where over 80% of energy is nuclear
Well, kind'a. The thing with nuclear power is that it is always on. It is typically "base load" power--i.e. you only generate the amount of energy that you use at the lowest usage time. Then you need variable power generators (usually natural gas in the US) to make up the difference in the summer. As a result, in France, when you turn on your AC in the afternoon, you are using some poluting electricity generation.
France can get to an apparent 80% because they sell base load to the rest of Europe. Not all or Europe could be at the 80% nuclear point becase there would be massive amounts of electricity to waste then.
Voting is essentially private because of possible trading or other pratices that can not work of voting is private.
Consider a few scenarios:
A boss who tells (or implies) that all their employees had better vote for X, then checks up on it.
OR even the same boss, who just gives the feeling to the employees who then do this despite no threat having been made (or perhaps having even been there).
A government contractor... well, nuf said.
A scheme for buying votes (voting contract can not be verified if the voters have entirely private voting). Obviously no court would uphold a voting purchase contract, but some thugs could.
(For example, why does Mozilla and iTunes put the Prefs menu under Edit? What the hell does changing options have to do with copy/paste and text editing operations? In Windows, that goes under the Tools menu. They are little things, but they make a big difference.)
Eh, preferences are not a tool either. Really, the only sensical way is to put it under the applications menu (as in OS X).
If you want to get into it, why is it that when i close the last window of a app in windows, they app closes? And why is it that a new instance (uncombinable with the first) launches when i open a file from outside the first instances... these UI decisions make _no_ sense.
When i use my win2k computer at work i am constantly baffeled by this. I have been using it since July 2000, so i am not going to get used to it).
I actually knew a guy who used to work with 4 21" monitors (and this is back when they were about $4000 each). He said that he wanted to be able to see 8 pages of his book when he wrote, so he needed 4 two page monitors I guess.
Thats because you went for the 20" instead of the 23". I use a 19" and sometimes add in a 15" when I want some more space and I generally like it, but I have used a computer with the 23" on it, and man was that amazing.
BTW, window management in the Mac OS is so much easier than it is in Windows that the argument for 2 monitors over one wide screen "yeah, but i can just maximize both in their own little box" is gone. In windows I am constantly managing my apps windows, on the mac, everything just seems to flow.
There are people who sincerely wish that by withholding their $20.00 donation to the police department, that some cop gets popped. And they think it's too bad that it's not 1:1. Get it?
Uh, you can't legaly withhold money form the police department... see, they get thier money from taxes. When somebody calls you and says they are with the PD or FD and they want money, they are full of it. THE POLICE HAVE A BUDGET.
You have some good a priori ideas. However, a posteriori most of them are wrong. If you look at fatality data from the U.S. (as a DOE report I can't now locate did) You find that sports cars are significantly more dangerous than other cars. Similarly, motorcycles are the most dangerous vehicles.
Your more right than you give yourself credit for. "but i thing you also get a small problem with entropy and thermodynamics".Relativity has no second law and Hawking radiation is the exception.
They would have been killed. This is one of the biggest problems for sending people to Mars. If there were such an event durring the mission (which there almost certainly would be durring the two year mission) they would have to be in a well shielded room or would die.
How well shielded? a few meters of water would sufice, but this is getting expensive to send into space. BTW, water would be used because it is the best shield of high energy neutrons which can break up say, lead, into many protons and neutrons each of which could be more dangerous than the original particle.
Presnetly NASA keeps people on call to determine if all astronauts need to come down after each solar flare. This person has 15 minutes to make the call... Talk about stress.
Well... Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe
is more of a story than a book that allows you to understand physics. That said, it does show you what the life of a Physicist is like more than most. However, none of what is in his book will come up in a highschool class.
He is actually talking about a STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope). The STM is similar to AFM. The AFM basically drags an attomicaly pointy (if you are lucky) pyramid over a surface and measures the height of the apparatus to insane accuracy so that a map of the surface is produced. Notably, it is extreemly hard to get AFM to show attomic level detail but it can be done.
STM, however, is based on quamtum tunneling and is easier to get attomic level detail. One takes a Pt-Ir needle and cuts it to an attomic point. This is done using a wirecutter at about a 60 degree angle which for unknown reasons allows you to "get lucky" often (not always--yes I have done this). Having this attomically pointy needle, you can measure the current passing between it and some surface while its height is known with extream precision. Because the quantum tunneling current is highly distance dependant, the distance between the point of the needle and the nearest atom on the observed surface can be known with great precision.
Now for the printer:
Every now and again the needle looses pointyness and you have to open this apparatus, cut a new needle, mount the new needle and then move it to within a few atom distances from the surface. This takes a long time. However, if you back off the needle and apply a huge voltage to the needle it will often deposit its tip on what you are observing and the new tip may be attomically pointy (saves a huge amound of time). Well, if you do this in a somewhat more controlled manner you can pick up an atom from the surface and then deposit it somewhere else. Now you have a printer.
The only thing is that while this printer prints very small things, it is itself large (about the size of a coffee can).
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The do post their opinion it reads, "Global Warming is accepted as fact by most of the scientific community." And this is with a president denying that it exists. That is a very strong statement to be making in this political climate.
The alpha particle absorber is normally the material itself. Alpha particles don't go anywhere in a solid. Even in air perhaps a few inches.
No, I'm a BBC man myself.
Check out For example, according to the report (pp 13) 67 percent of Fox News listeners think there is an Al-Qauda Iraq link. only 16% of NPR-PBS listeners/watchers had the same wrong idea. If you think that there was such a link you may care to kno that the President of the United States said there was no evidence of any such link. All right, mod me down as not conservative now.
That the parent is modded down as flame bait shows you just how even handed conservatives are in arguments.
Well, kind'a. The thing with nuclear power is that it is always on. It is typically "base load" power--i.e. you only generate the amount of energy that you use at the lowest usage time. Then you need variable power generators (usually natural gas in the US) to make up the difference in the summer. As a result, in France, when you turn on your AC in the afternoon, you are using some poluting electricity generation.
France can get to an apparent 80% because they sell base load to the rest of Europe. Not all or Europe could be at the 80% nuclear point becase there would be massive amounts of electricity to waste then.
Consider a few scenarios:
I would undertand this, but the CIA's mind controll device has taken over...can not...reach...tinfoil hat...
I get:
Very brave of them to predict that dot matrix is on its way out. I mean, that is a contentious claim!
If you want to get into it, why is it that when i close the last window of a app in windows, they app closes? And why is it that a new instance (uncombinable with the first) launches when i open a file from outside the first instances... these UI decisions make _no_ sense.
When i use my win2k computer at work i am constantly baffeled by this. I have been using it since July 2000, so i am not going to get used to it).
Favorite bloatware: Emacs
I actually knew a guy who used to work with 4 21" monitors (and this is back when they were about $4000 each). He said that he wanted to be able to see 8 pages of his book when he wrote, so he needed 4 two page monitors I guess.
BTW, window management in the Mac OS is so much easier than it is in Windows that the argument for 2 monitors over one wide screen "yeah, but i can just maximize both in their own little box" is gone. In windows I am constantly managing my apps windows, on the mac, everything just seems to flow.
Uh, you can't legaly withhold money form the police department... see, they get thier money from taxes. When somebody calls you and says they are with the PD or FD and they want money, they are full of it. THE POLICE HAVE A BUDGET.
The annoying thing about MI cell phones would be the cells every 4 feet. And one for every company too!
You have some good a priori ideas. However, a posteriori most of them are wrong. If you look at fatality data from the U.S. (as a DOE report I can't now locate did) You find that sports cars are significantly more dangerous than other cars. Similarly, motorcycles are the most dangerous vehicles.
Okay, I read some of his stuff, and it looks okay... unless there is a big fat solar flare. This guy is clearly a fanatic and not a scientist.
Where did Dr. Zubrin demonstrate this?
Your more right than you give yourself credit for. "but i thing you also get a small problem with entropy and thermodynamics".Relativity has no second law and Hawking radiation is the exception.
How well shielded? a few meters of water would sufice, but this is getting expensive to send into space. BTW, water would be used because it is the best shield of high energy neutrons which can break up say, lead, into many protons and neutrons each of which could be more dangerous than the original particle.
Presnetly NASA keeps people on call to determine if all astronauts need to come down after each solar flare. This person has 15 minutes to make the call... Talk about stress.
Well... Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe is more of a story than a book that allows you to understand physics. That said, it does show you what the life of a Physicist is like more than most. However, none of what is in his book will come up in a highschool class.
It is exactly because of myopic idiots like this that we have a constitution.
STM, however, is based on quamtum tunneling and is easier to get attomic level detail. One takes a Pt-Ir needle and cuts it to an attomic point. This is done using a wirecutter at about a 60 degree angle which for unknown reasons allows you to "get lucky" often (not always--yes I have done this). Having this attomically pointy needle, you can measure the current passing between it and some surface while its height is known with extream precision. Because the quantum tunneling current is highly distance dependant, the distance between the point of the needle and the nearest atom on the observed surface can be known with great precision.
Now for the printer:
Every now and again the needle looses pointyness and you have to open this apparatus, cut a new needle, mount the new needle and then move it to within a few atom distances from the surface. This takes a long time. However, if you back off the needle and apply a huge voltage to the needle it will often deposit its tip on what you are observing and the new tip may be attomically pointy (saves a huge amound of time). Well, if you do this in a somewhat more controlled manner you can pick up an atom from the surface and then deposit it somewhere else. Now you have a printer.
The only thing is that while this printer prints very small things, it is itself large (about the size of a coffee can).
Acceleration can be represented by a vector. That means that it has a direction and a magnitude.