hopes for links explaining exactly what gravity is
That's a vain hope, nobody knows what gravity is, same goes for the other fundemental forces. Like time and space they can't be defined without self-reference.
I think you mean "they can't [be bothered to] configure their mail client to send encrypted emails". It may come as a great shock to many slashdotters but most people do not even own a tinfoil hat.
"It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible....from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence." - Feynman
Didin't RTFA but I did watch the video. They claim 3X improvement over a typical ICE and then mention MPG comparisons against an SUV. Their definition of typical is 15% and it sounds like a fair bit of the MPG improvement over an SUV comes from reduced weight. 45% is an extrodinary claim but not theorectically impossible, even if it works out at 30-35%, the significant weight reduction should give it an advantage. Also DARPA have given them $2.5M so their boffins (who are well aware of Carrnot) must think there is some potential in the idea. Weather it has the stamina to make it all the way to production...well...we will just have to wait and see.
The reps in the US system do not vote the party line anywhere near as much as in a westminster style system and in my own opinion I think the westmisnster system is superior in many ways. For example a grid locked budget would normally trigger an election, not a shutdown.
Morality and rationality, I wish those qualities were more common in slashdot summaries...
The summary says: "[T]he wombat has been classified as not worth saving."
TFA says: "Australian scientists say new research suggests it may not be worthwhile trying to rescue vulnerable species like the hairy-nosed wombat."
This is by no means a new suggestion, decisions on how much effort/money is spent trying to preserve species X have been going on since the first national park was established. These guys are just the latest bunch to propose a framework for those decisions.
People often bag on religion as deciding the moral code, but atheist morality puts a lot of this stuff in terms of helping other people, which will eventually serve your own interest.
I'm an atheist and believe my basic sense of morality is inate in the same way my sense of smell is inate, although I can rationalse my actions in term of evolution/culture, I do not calculate "what's in it for me" when returning a lost wallet, I do it because it's the "right thing" to do. The difference between a religious person and a moral person is that a moral person will do the right thing when nobody is watching, a religious person will do the right thing because they believe god is watching.
I read no such thing. Furthermore, if it was a former Soviet country, that test may have been a simple survey to verify people were still alive.
Jebus, I know it's traditional to not RTFA but you are supposed to at least read the comments. The GP stated the soil tests were conducted by a Dutch company under the auspices of an EU grant. Taken at face value that sounds like stringent testing to me - and I'm one of slashdot's resident "greenies".
Your story is interesting but I don't think it directly addresses the core question...[snip]....Does anyone know how long it takes for the toxic and radioactive waste to be deemed, "clean", after the operations stop.
Seems to me you didn't read the GP's entire post - "In the end, the city government got an EU grant for "eco tourism area", spent a small amount of money (in the one to two million euros range) on removing the few remaining concrete blocks and , had some Dutch organization test the soil. Since they got a certification that allowed them to cultivate organic vegetables on part of the territory, I assume it wasn't very polluted."
Spend a year or two drip feeding it into a down-welling ocean current. Seems to me the safest way to dispose of it but the problem is there are international treaties that prevent that sort of thing.
This judge is a great example of how to do it right!
Agreed. Points A and B taken together describe wisdom as opposed to intelligence which is described by point C. Take away the wisdom and you have Judge Judy.
Science ultimately depends on the faith that the real world exists independent of your thought processes, once you accept that the real world exists your parents bumping uglies is not a theory, it's a fact derived from deductive reasoning. If you don't accept the real world exists independent of your thought processes then the rest of us who do will simply classify you as a phycopath in the real world and ignore your nonsense rants.
And since we can not test the big bang theory, according to the GGP, it is religion.
The BBT has been tested extensively, it made very specific predictions which accurately described subsequent observations (eg:CMB). This is why it gained favor over competing theories such as the steady state universe. You seem to be (deliberately?) conflating proof with evidence, proof is a concept that only exists in axiomatic systems such as mathematics. Science is not an axiomatic system, nor does does it claim to prove anything, it does however claim to have the best explaination currently available and offers the modern world as evidence of it's utility. Religious faith by definition is no different to wishfull thinking, ie: belief despite the abscence of evidence, it's only utility is to serve as an emotional crutch for those who can't handle the real world on their own.
Defering to what Popper called "the republic of science" to supply the evidence is vastly different to faith, which by definition is belief without evidence. You may not understand a word of the theory relitivity but the accuracy of the GPS network is showing you the evidence that it works. Simarly the mere existance of your computer is showing you evidence to support quantum mechanics. The entire modern world is evidence that science works, weather or not you recognise or understand the evidence that is right under your nose has nothing to do with faith.
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." - Carl Sagan. A demon haunted world.
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Celebrating the victories of our enemies is like spitting on the graves of the hundreds of thousands who died in the cold war.
Says the guy who picked Stalin's forgien minister for a nickname.
If there is no way to ever write to a ROM, then what are you reading?
hopes for links explaining exactly what gravity is
That's a vain hope, nobody knows what gravity is, same goes for the other fundemental forces. Like time and space they can't be defined without self-reference.
Keep the hat but add some corks.
Fosters isn't "Australian for beer", we just tell you that so you won't guess our password.
"All secrecy is inherently evil!" - Anonymous.
I think you mean "they can't [be bothered to] configure their mail client to send encrypted emails". It may come as a great shock to many slashdotters but most people do not even own a tinfoil hat.
there are bigger morons than feynman, ridiculeing and calling impossible to things that we take as granted today
Read the quote again, you seem to be failing at comprehension as well as common sense..
Social conservatives don't want educated children, they want obidient children.
Aussie CS/OR degree, I could do 90% of the math and geography, but not a hope in hell with the latin and greek.
Melbourne supposedly has the largest Greek population of any city except for Athens.
"It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible....from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence." - Feynman
Didin't RTFA but I did watch the video. They claim 3X improvement over a typical ICE and then mention MPG comparisons against an SUV. Their definition of typical is 15% and it sounds like a fair bit of the MPG improvement over an SUV comes from reduced weight. 45% is an extrodinary claim but not theorectically impossible, even if it works out at 30-35%, the significant weight reduction should give it an advantage. Also DARPA have given them $2.5M so their boffins (who are well aware of Carrnot) must think there is some potential in the idea. Weather it has the stamina to make it all the way to production...well...we will just have to wait and see.
The reps in the US system do not vote the party line anywhere near as much as in a westminster style system and in my own opinion I think the westmisnster system is superior in many ways. For example a grid locked budget would normally trigger an election, not a shutdown.
Moral people do not masturbate.
Everyone masturbates, moral people don't lie about it.
The summary says: "[T]he wombat has been classified as not worth saving."
TFA says: "Australian scientists say new research suggests it may not be worthwhile trying to rescue vulnerable species like the hairy-nosed wombat."
This is by no means a new suggestion, decisions on how much effort/money is spent trying to preserve species X have been going on since the first national park was established. These guys are just the latest bunch to propose a framework for those decisions.
People often bag on religion as deciding the moral code, but atheist morality puts a lot of this stuff in terms of helping other people, which will eventually serve your own interest.
I'm an atheist and believe my basic sense of morality is inate in the same way my sense of smell is inate, although I can rationalse my actions in term of evolution/culture, I do not calculate "what's in it for me" when returning a lost wallet, I do it because it's the "right thing" to do. The difference between a religious person and a moral person is that a moral person will do the right thing when nobody is watching, a religious person will do the right thing because they believe god is watching.
I read no such thing. Furthermore, if it was a former Soviet country, that test may have been a simple survey to verify people were still alive.
Jebus, I know it's traditional to not RTFA but you are supposed to at least read the comments. The GP stated the soil tests were conducted by a Dutch company under the auspices of an EU grant. Taken at face value that sounds like stringent testing to me - and I'm one of slashdot's resident "greenies".
Your story is interesting but I don't think it directly addresses the core question...[snip]....Does anyone know how long it takes for the toxic and radioactive waste to be deemed, "clean", after the operations stop.
Seems to me you didn't read the GP's entire post - "In the end, the city government got an EU grant for "eco tourism area", spent a small amount of money (in the one to two million euros range) on removing the few remaining concrete blocks and , had some Dutch organization test the soil. Since they got a certification that allowed them to cultivate organic vegetables on part of the territory, I assume it wasn't very polluted."
Spend a year or two drip feeding it into a down-welling ocean current. Seems to me the safest way to dispose of it but the problem is there are international treaties that prevent that sort of thing.
1984 appears to be happening right now
Nah, it's not 1984 until someone ties a rat to your face.
This judge is a great example of how to do it right!
Agreed. Points A and B taken together describe wisdom as opposed to intelligence which is described by point C. Take away the wisdom and you have Judge Judy.
I'm not arguing with Feynmann, I was simply making an unstated assumption that testing is an essential step in the art of scientific modeling.
"You know, like global climate models that fail to predict actual global climate year on year."
Please learn the definition of climate before you embarrass yourself any further.
And since we can not test the big bang theory, according to the GGP, it is religion.
The BBT has been tested extensively, it made very specific predictions which accurately described subsequent observations (eg:CMB). This is why it gained favor over competing theories such as the steady state universe. You seem to be (deliberately?) conflating proof with evidence, proof is a concept that only exists in axiomatic systems such as mathematics. Science is not an axiomatic system, nor does does it claim to prove anything, it does however claim to have the best explaination currently available and offers the modern world as evidence of it's utility. Religious faith by definition is no different to wishfull thinking, ie: belief despite the abscence of evidence, it's only utility is to serve as an emotional crutch for those who can't handle the real world on their own.
Defering to what Popper called "the republic of science" to supply the evidence is vastly different to faith, which by definition is belief without evidence. You may not understand a word of the theory relitivity but the accuracy of the GPS network is showing you the evidence that it works. Simarly the mere existance of your computer is showing you evidence to support quantum mechanics. The entire modern world is evidence that science works, weather or not you recognise or understand the evidence that is right under your nose has nothing to do with faith.
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." - Carl Sagan. A demon haunted world.