I have a similar setup with my large monitor above my laptop monitor. I have the big monitor sitting atop a stack of old catalogs. I hadn't even considered shopping around for a solution but I'm not very uptight about the tidiness of my desk (massive understatement).
And how about the children that are too young for the vaccine? Or the ones with allergies to common components of vaccines (such as eggs). I believe both of those represented children in the story who ended up with a measles infection. That is also one of the reasons we depend on herd immunity.
"...on evolution, embryology, and the big bang theory as 'lies straight from the pit of Hell.'"
By the way, it would be nice if the quote was an actual quote.
When I see a semi-quote like this one, I tend to think there's a bit of bias involved with the citation...
That was pretty much a direct quote. Here is a video of him saying that and more.
Why not a lighter than air balloon? A canister of compressed hydrogen gas could fill a balloon. It would eventually leak out but how long would the scientific instruments last? Alternatively a probe sent to analyze the hydrocarbon makeup could precede a craft powered by fuel cells since there is apparently a large hydrocarbon component of the atmosphere. If the atmosphere is dense enough perhaps a fuel cell powered winged aircraft would work.
They contemplated a system to clean dust off of the solar panels when they made the rovers. In the end they decided not to go with a complex cleaning system and just make the solar panels larger.
They discussed it on some TV show a few years ago.
I used a linux type OS fr the first time in the late 90's at a computer lab at the university I went to. Mosaic worked and later netscape worked. I thought it was fine as a way to access the internet. I still used word perfect (on a windows system) for word processing. Hell... I remember telling my dad that you could find anything on the internet. i told him if you want to find out more about "nose picking" just type it into a search engine and you will discover new ways to pick your nose (there were less than 10 hits back then on fast.com compares to 400,000+ on google now)
So recently I downloaded and burned a gutsy gibbon boot disk. I was not a Comp Sci major. I am not some computer guru even though i built all my computers and my parents computers (the only exception being the laptop I am currently posting from. Booting to GG showed me a desktop that I was almost familiar with (things do change a bit with time). I immediately discovered that my bluetoooth mouse and my internet connection did not work.
Obviously without internet it becomes impossible to research solutions to a problem on the internet. Without bluetoooth I could not use my mouse and I hate using a touchpad.
I would like to use some sort of Linux distro but I don't seem to have the specialized knowledge required to do so.
If, eventually it becomes a system where all you have to do is install it and almost everything works then I will gladly become faithful fan. Until then I will continue to use windows products because I have a lot of other things on my plate than learning how to finagle an operating system to meet my needs when there is one that already does.
Actually when this first showed up in the news the blog was just one post with a place to put comments/complaints. It wasn't until after seeing all the complaints that the blogger created the sections that seemed make up the most complaints.
Other links that discuss this plant mention pitchers that are 15cm. A 6 in pitcher is going to have a hard time holding onto a rat. Pitchers capture their prey by drowning. Fine, downward pointing hairs prevent creatures from crawling back out of a pitcher once they have entered. Again I have a hard time believing that this plant can regularly restrain small mammals. I don't doubt that an occasional small mammal may get trapped but I bet most escape. And a 6 inch pitcher is not all that big. The yellow pitcher plant of North America (genus Sarracenia (no close relation to Nepenthes))can have pitchers that exceed a 12 inches in length (they are more narrow however). Also, many Nepenthes species are vine so that mention in the article is likely from a journalist trying to increase his/her word count.
A double yolk egg would not be a clone. If fertilized it would be a case of fraternal twins. Each yolk is the product of meiosis. Of course if one egg resulted in two undersized yolks then the mother's genetic material would be be the same but they would be fertilized by two different sperm.
But where does this confidence come from that they know that all of these formations are caused by water?
We use our experience on Earth to form a hypothesis about similar features on another planet.
Every week that goes by, our probes and telescopes bring more unexpected observations. Our theories of the universe are constantly changing. Objects that we thought were completely different increasingly appear to have similar characteristics.
We form a hypothesis but we can't support or deny it until we observe evidence. If the evidence supports then it looks like we knew it all along. If the evidence denies then it raises more questions.
As far as I can tell, nobody's ever even observed an impact occur on any planet.
We have observed minor impacts on the Moon and a major one on Jupiter.
At some point in time, their speculation hardened into consensus without ever thinking to validate it. Many of the craters we observe in the universe have highly unusual features that don't appear to strictly correlate with physical impacts.
Consensus is built with mathematical models. Probes and telescopes are used to validate our hyptheses. Again, if observational evidence does support a hypothesis then more questions are raised and new ones are formed. As for not correlating with physical impacts (I'm not entirely sure what you are referencing here) there are craters formed by volcanoes and probably some caused by exploding meteors (meteorites).
My point is that the overall predictive track record and the large number of unsubstantiated consensuses within astrophysics today do not support the notion that we should be able to accurately predict our findings on Mars at this point in time.
We have hypotheses. Yes we want water to be found on Mars and it shouldn't be unexpected. There is an incredible amount of water in the universe and it would be foolish to only expect to find it on Earth or the moons of Jupiter.
Mars was a molten ball of magma that eventually began to cool. Why would anyone not expect that sometime between being a molten ball of magma and its current state as a presumably cold, dead world that there wasn't flowing water on it?
The point of this may be that the first people to respond to heart attack victim are those who are not first responders or medical professionals. Those who are casually trained in CPR (such as myself and many other people who get a yearly refresher course) are often those who start CPR. We may not have the experience to know if rescue breaths are effective. Since blood circulation seems to be the most important it makes sense to abandon ventillation until medical help arrives.
This year the Red Cross changed their standard from 2 rescue breaths every 15 compressions to 2 rescue breaths every 30 compressions (or that is what my yearly training reflected). They also removed abdominal thrusts for unconscious choking victims and basically made the care the same as for a heart attack (minus the AED). I had thought they were dumbing the program down (in the case of choking)so the average person who takes first aid/CPR wouldn't have too many things to remember. Now I see that rescue breaths are generally without merit. I wonder if my training next year will reflect this particular study.
Well, that is an interesting thought that had not crossed my mind. There is a question if the influence of an influx of CO2 can be seperated from the seasonal temperature differences. The planet is likely at an equilibrium point where the greenhouse effect of the CO2 influx is just part of the seasonality of Mars. Obviously, further exploraion of this idea is needed.
Does Mars' atmosphere appreciably thicken during the summer?
It is common knowledge that the sun goes through cycles in which its output is increased thereby increasing the the solar radiation that strikes its planets. However we are still putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere which act to trap the solar radiation on the Earth. No reputable scientist will claim that every fraction of a degree in temperature increase is due to human influence on our atmosphere but they do know that the methane and carbon dioxide that we put continually pump into the atmosphere acts as a solar trap and can't help but raise the overall temperature of the planet.
The navy can probably put more than one gun on a ship using a common electrcity source. Assuming that the 10 shots per day comes from the damage done to the gun with each shot "multiple barrels" can increase the number of shots allowed each day. I would assume that main cost with the rail gun comes from the source to power it.
You need to play Deus Ex. It has got to be one of the best games I have ever played. I have replayed it about a dozen times because it has real replayability. In addition it has great cheats that makes playing it even more fun. When friends ask for game reccomendations it is always the first one I mention. Plus it is old enough that most computer systems can handle the computer requirements quite easily
Thorium is at least as 3x as abundant as uranium and can be used in a breeder reactor to create nuclear fuel. Also, plutonium, as a by product of fission reactions, can be used as a nuclear fuel. Just look to Japan for an example.
It's about time. I agree that nuclear waste is currently a very real problem. However, I believe in the ingenuity of people and am confident that in the next 100 years we will have solced the nuclear waste issue. Just look how far we have come in technologically in the past 100 years.
People think that this is a strange sentiment coming from me because I am an environmental scientist and am as liberal as they come. We need to reduce our CO2 output and wean ourselves off of petroleum and nuclear energy is currently our best bet. Hydrological power is clean but is an environmental disaster. Wind power shows some promise but is associated with bird and bat kills and can never scale up to meet our energy consumption. Solar is great for small energy requirements but scaling up requires hectares of land and is currently inneficient. Nuclear is the way to go for the time being. Temporarilly store the waste for a couple of hundred years until our technology develops to deal with it.
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I have a similar setup with my large monitor above my laptop monitor. I have the big monitor sitting atop a stack of old catalogs. I hadn't even considered shopping around for a solution but I'm not very uptight about the tidiness of my desk (massive understatement).
And how about the children that are too young for the vaccine? Or the ones with allergies to common components of vaccines (such as eggs). I believe both of those represented children in the story who ended up with a measles infection. That is also one of the reasons we depend on herd immunity.
"...on evolution, embryology, and the big bang theory as 'lies straight from the pit of Hell.'"
By the way, it would be nice if the quote was an actual quote. When I see a semi-quote like this one, I tend to think there's a bit of bias involved with the citation...
That was pretty much a direct quote. Here is a video of him saying that and more.
Why not a lighter than air balloon? A canister of compressed hydrogen gas could fill a balloon. It would eventually leak out but how long would the scientific instruments last? Alternatively a probe sent to analyze the hydrocarbon makeup could precede a craft powered by fuel cells since there is apparently a large hydrocarbon component of the atmosphere. If the atmosphere is dense enough perhaps a fuel cell powered winged aircraft would work.
It would be nice if we could nudge it into an orbit around Earth. That way we would have a handy counterweight available for a space elevator.
They contemplated a system to clean dust off of the solar panels when they made the rovers. In the end they decided not to go with a complex cleaning system and just make the solar panels larger. They discussed it on some TV show a few years ago.
I used a linux type OS fr the first time in the late 90's at a computer lab at the university I went to. Mosaic worked and later netscape worked. I thought it was fine as a way to access the internet. I still used word perfect (on a windows system) for word processing. Hell... I remember telling my dad that you could find anything on the internet. i told him if you want to find out more about "nose picking" just type it into a search engine and you will discover new ways to pick your nose (there were less than 10 hits back then on fast.com compares to 400,000+ on google now) So recently I downloaded and burned a gutsy gibbon boot disk. I was not a Comp Sci major. I am not some computer guru even though i built all my computers and my parents computers (the only exception being the laptop I am currently posting from. Booting to GG showed me a desktop that I was almost familiar with (things do change a bit with time). I immediately discovered that my bluetoooth mouse and my internet connection did not work. Obviously without internet it becomes impossible to research solutions to a problem on the internet. Without bluetoooth I could not use my mouse and I hate using a touchpad. I would like to use some sort of Linux distro but I don't seem to have the specialized knowledge required to do so. If, eventually it becomes a system where all you have to do is install it and almost everything works then I will gladly become faithful fan. Until then I will continue to use windows products because I have a lot of other things on my plate than learning how to finagle an operating system to meet my needs when there is one that already does.
Actually when this first showed up in the news the blog was just one post with a place to put comments/complaints. It wasn't until after seeing all the complaints that the blogger created the sections that seemed make up the most complaints.
Other links that discuss this plant mention pitchers that are 15cm. A 6 in pitcher is going to have a hard time holding onto a rat. Pitchers capture their prey by drowning. Fine, downward pointing hairs prevent creatures from crawling back out of a pitcher once they have entered. Again I have a hard time believing that this plant can regularly restrain small mammals. I don't doubt that an occasional small mammal may get trapped but I bet most escape. And a 6 inch pitcher is not all that big. The yellow pitcher plant of North America (genus Sarracenia (no close relation to Nepenthes))can have pitchers that exceed a 12 inches in length (they are more narrow however). Also, many Nepenthes species are vine so that mention in the article is likely from a journalist trying to increase his/her word count.
A double yolk egg would not be a clone. If fertilized it would be a case of fraternal twins. Each yolk is the product of meiosis. Of course if one egg resulted in two undersized yolks then the mother's genetic material would be be the same but they would be fertilized by two different sperm.
But where does this confidence come from that they know that all of these formations are caused by water?
We use our experience on Earth to form a hypothesis about similar features on another planet.
Every week that goes by, our probes and telescopes bring more unexpected observations. Our theories of the universe are constantly changing. Objects that we thought were completely different increasingly appear to have similar characteristics.
We form a hypothesis but we can't support or deny it until we observe evidence. If the evidence supports then it looks like we knew it all along. If the evidence denies then it raises more questions.
As far as I can tell, nobody's ever even observed an impact occur on any planet.
We have observed minor impacts on the Moon and a major one on Jupiter.
At some point in time, their speculation hardened into consensus without ever thinking to validate it. Many of the craters we observe in the universe have highly unusual features that don't appear to strictly correlate with physical impacts.
Consensus is built with mathematical models. Probes and telescopes are used to validate our hyptheses. Again, if observational evidence does support a hypothesis then more questions are raised and new ones are formed. As for not correlating with physical impacts (I'm not entirely sure what you are referencing here) there are craters formed by volcanoes and probably some caused by exploding meteors (meteorites).
My point is that the overall predictive track record and the large number of unsubstantiated consensuses within astrophysics today do not support the notion that we should be able to accurately predict our findings on Mars at this point in time.
We have hypotheses. Yes we want water to be found on Mars and it shouldn't be unexpected. There is an incredible amount of water in the universe and it would be foolish to only expect to find it on Earth or the moons of Jupiter.
Mars was a molten ball of magma that eventually began to cool. Why would anyone not expect that sometime between being a molten ball of magma and its current state as a presumably cold, dead world that there wasn't flowing water on it?
The point of this may be that the first people to respond to heart attack victim are those who are not first responders or medical professionals. Those who are casually trained in CPR (such as myself and many other people who get a yearly refresher course) are often those who start CPR. We may not have the experience to know if rescue breaths are effective. Since blood circulation seems to be the most important it makes sense to abandon ventillation until medical help arrives.
This year the Red Cross changed their standard from 2 rescue breaths every 15 compressions to 2 rescue breaths every 30 compressions (or that is what my yearly training reflected). They also removed abdominal thrusts for unconscious choking victims and basically made the care the same as for a heart attack (minus the AED). I had thought they were dumbing the program down (in the case of choking)so the average person who takes first aid/CPR wouldn't have too many things to remember. Now I see that rescue breaths are generally without merit. I wonder if my training next year will reflect this particular study.
Well, that is an interesting thought that had not crossed my mind. There is a question if the influence of an influx of CO2 can be seperated from the seasonal temperature differences. The planet is likely at an equilibrium point where the greenhouse effect of the CO2 influx is just part of the seasonality of Mars. Obviously, further exploraion of this idea is needed. Does Mars' atmosphere appreciably thicken during the summer?
It is common knowledge that the sun goes through cycles in which its output is increased thereby increasing the the solar radiation that strikes its planets. However we are still putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere which act to trap the solar radiation on the Earth. No reputable scientist will claim that every fraction of a degree in temperature increase is due to human influence on our atmosphere but they do know that the methane and carbon dioxide that we put continually pump into the atmosphere acts as a solar trap and can't help but raise the overall temperature of the planet.
It is a shame that I am not meta-moderating today. The person who troll rated this needs their hand slapped.
The navy can probably put more than one gun on a ship using a common electrcity source. Assuming that the 10 shots per day comes from the damage done to the gun with each shot "multiple barrels" can increase the number of shots allowed each day. I would assume that main cost with the rail gun comes from the source to power it.
He was delicious.
You need to play Deus Ex. It has got to be one of the best games I have ever played. I have replayed it about a dozen times because it has real replayability. In addition it has great cheats that makes playing it even more fun. When friends ask for game reccomendations it is always the first one I mention. Plus it is old enough that most computer systems can handle the computer requirements quite easily
That a fart was the sharpest thing in the world. It can cut through a pair of pants without leaving a hole.
Bruce Wayne can put on his bat outfit and defeat the Riddler before this invention destroys mankind.
Would that be +1 or a -1 dumbass mod?
no it's not.
Thorium is at least as 3x as abundant as uranium and can be used in a breeder reactor to create nuclear fuel. Also, plutonium, as a by product of fission reactions, can be used as a nuclear fuel. Just look to Japan for an example.
It's about time. I agree that nuclear waste is currently a very real problem. However, I believe in the ingenuity of people and am confident that in the next 100 years we will have solced the nuclear waste issue. Just look how far we have come in technologically in the past 100 years. People think that this is a strange sentiment coming from me because I am an environmental scientist and am as liberal as they come. We need to reduce our CO2 output and wean ourselves off of petroleum and nuclear energy is currently our best bet. Hydrological power is clean but is an environmental disaster. Wind power shows some promise but is associated with bird and bat kills and can never scale up to meet our energy consumption. Solar is great for small energy requirements but scaling up requires hectares of land and is currently inneficient. Nuclear is the way to go for the time being. Temporarilly store the waste for a couple of hundred years until our technology develops to deal with it.