Yep, you're right about Australia. A CS degree is a BSc with some CS topics thrown in. The only arts subject I was required to do was "business management" which was more like simplified psychology than anything else. There are entrance requirements, eg: since I dropped out of HS, I had to pass a one year maths course to get into uni as a mature age student, (ie: sit the HS maths test). However much of the first year of uni (1989) was still largely spent getting everyone to a similar level in maths/physics/chemistry. Physics and Chemistry were dropped in second year. 120 out of the 160 students who started the degree with me dropped out before finishing first year (no, those who left that I knew personally were not in the "bored genius" category, the bored geniuses usually spent their spare time over-engineering their current software assignment. ).
Things with exoskeletons (the majority of critters) would be smaller, gravity is known to dictate their maximum size here on Earth. Things with internal skeletons might go the other way but are also ultimately limited by gravity. They may develop bird like bones to increase size while retaining strength and reducing mass or they may even develop bones that are made of something stronger and lighter than limestone.
When I was a kid in the 60's, nobody had observational data that planets outside our solar system even existed, many of the moons and rings around the gas giants were unknown, and black holes were nothing more than a "mathematical curiosity".
Life that evolves from planet with strong gravity would be massive and strong
More likely light weight and strong but I can see from the rest of your post you're not interested in heuristics based on what is more likely, it seems you would rather do a brute force search of the universe.
Single celled life appeared at the same time the Earth cooled enough to have a liquid ocean, multi-cellular life appeared several billion years later at the end of the last "snowball Earth" event.
"In truly great magnetic fields like those of Jupiter, atomic particles may be heated to millions of degrees, and a great electric arc flows between the planet and its moon lo." - NASA
I said "from say the French", meaning I was using France as an example. The fact remains the UEA was legally restrained from supplying a small amount of raw data to third parties by the governments who owned the data, there was nothing stopping genuinely interested researchers from obtaining the data from the primary source in the same way as the UEA, NOAA and others had done. And there's the rub, the people cough-climateaudit-cough who made over 50 FOI requests for this stuff in just two days were not the slightest bit interested in the data, they were interested in bogging down the research.
Here in Australia every ISPs must, by law, provide an option for a filtered connection at no extra cost to the customer, it has been this way for a number of years now. The filter is the same filter used on government computers (schools, libraries, etc). The uptake is not huge but the 5% of private connections that do opt in must see it as useful to them in some way. Besides, the scenario you paint would not happen in Oz due to simple competition between ISPs, and I strongly suspect the same is true in NL.
Nice spin. The UAE was in the past legally bound to keep an INSIGNIFICANT amount of raw data to themselves, but they also said anyone truly interested could spend 3-6 moths getting their own copy from say the French who own and until recently enforced THEIR copyright on French weather station data. That sort of research was surprisingly common before the internet.
One key difference is Libya is a UN action run by NATO. But it still fits the past pattern of the West's behaviour since they walked away from Saddam, ie:playing whack-a-mole with the dictators in the middle east and N.Africa.
Can anyone name the other fans of explosions that think this way?
The half a million people sitting in US jails because they dared to temporarily alter their own state of conciseness with something other than alcohol.
At best the general public just see computer Vandals as a sub tribe of vandals, much like graffiti is a form of vandalism. They care about the details as much as I, (a member of the general public), care about the details of graffiti tags.
The ecosystem is not fickle. It is astoundingly resilient. Amazing robust, and self healing.
Yep - "The planet is fine, it's the people who are fucked....The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas." - George Carlin.
My point was that regardless of the changes from the sun swamping ALL inputs from mankind....
Changes in solar irraidiance are insignificant compared to mankind's infuence on the climate, a quiet/missing solar cycle will do nothing more than slightly increase the noise around the current trend. If solar cycles did have a large influence on global temps there would be a matching 11yr sinusodal pattern in the historical temprature record, show me that pattern and we might have something to talk about.
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Yep, you're right about Australia. A CS degree is a BSc with some CS topics thrown in. The only arts subject I was required to do was "business management" which was more like simplified psychology than anything else. There are entrance requirements, eg: since I dropped out of HS, I had to pass a one year maths course to get into uni as a mature age student, (ie: sit the HS maths test). However much of the first year of uni (1989) was still largely spent getting everyone to a similar level in maths/physics/chemistry. Physics and Chemistry were dropped in second year. 120 out of the 160 students who started the degree with me dropped out before finishing first year (no, those who left that I knew personally were not in the "bored genius" category, the bored geniuses usually spent their spare time over-engineering their current software assignment. ).
Things with exoskeletons (the majority of critters) would be smaller, gravity is known to dictate their maximum size here on Earth. Things with internal skeletons might go the other way but are also ultimately limited by gravity. They may develop bird like bones to increase size while retaining strength and reducing mass or they may even develop bones that are made of something stronger and lighter than limestone.
I see you have already started on step 3.
"the Libs believe in freedom of choice" - Ha ha, ho ho, 'tis to laugh.
When I was a kid in the 60's, nobody had observational data that planets outside our solar system even existed, many of the moons and rings around the gas giants were unknown, and black holes were nothing more than a "mathematical curiosity".
Life that evolves from planet with strong gravity would be massive and strong
More likely light weight and strong but I can see from the rest of your post you're not interested in heuristics based on what is more likely, it seems you would rather do a brute force search of the universe.
Single celled life appeared at the same time the Earth cooled enough to have a liquid ocean, multi-cellular life appeared several billion years later at the end of the last "snowball Earth" event.
"In truly great magnetic fields like those of Jupiter, atomic particles may be heated to millions of degrees, and a great electric arc flows between the planet and its moon lo." - NASA
You need God's help to run a google query? - site:msdn.microsoft.com.
I said "from say the French", meaning I was using France as an example. The fact remains the UEA was legally restrained from supplying a small amount of raw data to third parties by the governments who owned the data, there was nothing stopping genuinely interested researchers from obtaining the data from the primary source in the same way as the UEA, NOAA and others had done. And there's the rub, the people cough-climateaudit-cough who made over 50 FOI requests for this stuff in just two days were not the slightest bit interested in the data, they were interested in bogging down the research.
Here in Australia every ISPs must, by law, provide an option for a filtered connection at no extra cost to the customer, it has been this way for a number of years now. The filter is the same filter used on government computers (schools, libraries, etc). The uptake is not huge but the 5% of private connections that do opt in must see it as useful to them in some way. Besides, the scenario you paint would not happen in Oz due to simple competition between ISPs, and I strongly suspect the same is true in NL.
hiding behind copyrights
Nice spin. The UAE was in the past legally bound to keep an INSIGNIFICANT amount of raw data to themselves, but they also said anyone truly interested could spend 3-6 moths getting their own copy from say the French who own and until recently enforced THEIR copyright on French weather station data. That sort of research was surprisingly common before the internet.
Michael Crichton wrote a book
Let me guess, it's about "science gone mad", right?
The problem with a joint project is that weather data is important to the military.
There are a *LOT* of big-time commercial orgs that make use of government funded weather sats.
Weather data is also important to Generals and commercial shipping. My guess, it's not going away any time soon.
One key difference is Libya is a UN action run by NATO. But it still fits the past pattern of the West's behaviour since they walked away from Saddam, ie:playing whack-a-mole with the dictators in the middle east and N.Africa.
I personally dont believe that its possible for a star to be "elongated" and stretched..
If a star can contort itself into odd shapes, what makes you think a black hole can't stretch one out of shape?
As an old fart, I claim prior art.
Posting to highlight parent's wit.
Your own body parts
Trivia: Some species of starfish will eat their own arms when food is in short supply.
I see a desperate need for a stupid idea wiki.
Can anyone name the other fans of explosions that think this way?
The half a million people sitting in US jails because they dared to temporarily alter their own state of conciseness with something other than alcohol.
At best the general public just see computer Vandals as a sub tribe of vandals, much like graffiti is a form of vandalism. They care about the details as much as I, (a member of the general public), care about the details of graffiti tags.
It's not easy being a whistle-blower.
No it's not, and I applaud you for speaking out publicly.
The ecosystem is not fickle. It is astoundingly resilient. Amazing robust, and self healing.
Yep - "The planet is fine, it's the people who are fucked....The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas." - George Carlin.
My point was that regardless of the changes from the sun swamping ALL inputs from mankind....
Changes in solar irraidiance are insignificant compared to mankind's infuence on the climate, a quiet/missing solar cycle will do nothing more than slightly increase the noise around the current trend. If solar cycles did have a large influence on global temps there would be a matching 11yr sinusodal pattern in the historical temprature record, show me that pattern and we might have something to talk about.