I just wish we had gotten that huge particle accelerator and congress hadn't overturned it, oh for the chance to produce new and undiscovered particles...
the only reason "recylcing" ever came into existence is because of our bloated asses having to use grams and grams of paper, plastic, etc to wrap things like one snickers bar.
I think we're forgetting something very important, event horizon. Cosmologists have already declared that we do not have a view of the entire universe, therefore any shape we assign to the universe will presently be nullified when we discover that the universe is a lot more "whack" than we think...lets all just wait about 50-100 more years until our technology actually ripens...
for that matter what about the minute changes that our orbit undergoes when we acquire more space dust (pounds and pounds a day) or send people/spacecraft into space. Losing or gaining mass effects orbit, too, in addition to meterological events.
It's great they're pointing out FLAWS in nanotechnology, but I wish they'd get going on more outlandish product development...like "porno star in a can", just spray it on your bed and bingo...
thats how people formulate scientific theories based on empiricism, they interpret data into their own ideas. This theory, along with every new theory, is now standing to be negated and scrutinized by anyone with the knowledge/ability to do so
that someday when mar's core stops spinning we're going to have to tunnel to it blast it with nuclear weaponry and then outrun the biggest shockwave in recorded history?!?!?
I see it as launching a craft that would put into orbit around europa and detach mini probes that would plunge/melt through the surface, transmitting discoveries to the "mother ship" and thus back to earth. All very "simple", electromagnetic waves can go through water, you know...
what about our galaxy being destroyed/consumed by andromeda in roughly one billion years? This rip sounds pretty stupid if you ask me, I think as it approached that critical expansion speed life would start faltering, i.e. gestation, procreation, etc etc. The last few seconds of life will NOT be "ripped".
I think the problem with the above comments are that they are equating imaging with seeing. They are truly not the same, I see this as a useful tool to feed into a computer for the computer to "see" the image. Can you say quantum physics?
this reminds me of the terraforming discussion we had a few days ago. Accelerated technology on ozone production is not only good for our planet, but for others in the future. Wasn't there a release in Nature or some such magazine that stated that the hole in the ozone wall was repairing itself, though? Kinda harsh if we get up these billion dollar ozone making plants and they're obsoleted by good old mother earth...
we'll be staying in our galaxy for the rest of the existence of life most probably. Until we figure out how to travel past the little universal speed limit of 300k kilometers per sec that is...
second 0 = point of singularity. I'm sure physicists across the world are wondering exactly what the rules of physics are for such a situation. You are wrong in saying we are close to knowing what second 0.00 is, we are VERY far from understanding even the basic rules that would govern such a situation.
it's funny that the article remarked about the ISS astronaut painting on the water, which reminds me of the art gallery that is proposed to be built and launched into deep space. I can't seem to find the link at the moment, but it discussed an art gallery that was supposedly going to be launched into space and would have an onboard camera that displayed the contents of the gallery to earth. I wonder if any artist's interest was piqued with this painting on water idea...
Here's a link to art in space: http://arttech.about.com/library/weekly/aa080698.h tm
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I just wish we had gotten that huge particle accelerator and congress hadn't overturned it, oh for the chance to produce new and undiscovered particles...
the only reason "recylcing" ever came into existence is because of our bloated asses having to use grams and grams of paper, plastic, etc to wrap things like one snickers bar.
I think we're forgetting something very important, event horizon. Cosmologists have already declared that we do not have a view of the entire universe, therefore any shape we assign to the universe will presently be nullified when we discover that the universe is a lot more "whack" than we think...lets all just wait about 50-100 more years until our technology actually ripens...
for that matter what about the minute changes that our orbit undergoes when we acquire more space dust (pounds and pounds a day) or send people/spacecraft into space. Losing or gaining mass effects orbit, too, in addition to meterological events.
It's great they're pointing out FLAWS in nanotechnology, but I wish they'd get going on more outlandish product development...like "porno star in a can", just spray it on your bed and bingo...
thats how people formulate scientific theories based on empiricism, they interpret data into their own ideas. This theory, along with every new theory, is now standing to be negated and scrutinized by anyone with the knowledge/ability to do so
who can forget NASA's discovery of faeries, sprites, and elves, as well...
that someday when mar's core stops spinning we're going to have to tunnel to it blast it with nuclear weaponry and then outrun the biggest shockwave in recorded history?!?!?
I see it as launching a craft that would put into orbit around europa and detach mini probes that would plunge/melt through the surface, transmitting discoveries to the "mother ship" and thus back to earth. All very "simple", electromagnetic waves can go through water, you know...
what about our galaxy being destroyed/consumed by andromeda in roughly one billion years? This rip sounds pretty stupid if you ask me, I think as it approached that critical expansion speed life would start faltering, i.e. gestation, procreation, etc etc. The last few seconds of life will NOT be "ripped".
man, I'd hate to be the guy that has to go up on that thing every day and clean the bird shit off...
I think the problem with the above comments are that they are equating imaging with seeing. They are truly not the same, I see this as a useful tool to feed into a computer for the computer to "see" the image. Can you say quantum physics?
a DNA is forever...
I can just imagine the way the noise reduction frames would look to clean those pics up...God, that camera had better be COOLED.
actually current historians claim that no actual knowledge was lost when the library of Alexandria burned.
it would be more cost effective to do it on the ground and let the ozone make it's way up to the atmosphere.
this reminds me of the terraforming discussion we had a few days ago. Accelerated technology on ozone production is not only good for our planet, but for others in the future. Wasn't there a release in Nature or some such magazine that stated that the hole in the ozone wall was repairing itself, though? Kinda harsh if we get up these billion dollar ozone making plants and they're obsoleted by good old mother earth...
I suggest they check out the moon's craters for the dust residue from asteroid impacts...
we'll be staying in our galaxy for the rest of the existence of life most probably. Until we figure out how to travel past the little universal speed limit of 300k kilometers per sec that is...
at first I thought this was an article about can organs being donated to humans.
second 0 = point of singularity. I'm sure physicists across the world are wondering exactly what the rules of physics are for such a situation. You are wrong in saying we are close to knowing what second 0.00 is, we are VERY far from understanding even the basic rules that would govern such a situation.
one step foward to achieving technology that can approach modeling the universe at 0 seconds old...
oh nanotechnology, when will you come and obsolete these crazy baseball type ideas!
it's funny that the article remarked about the ISS astronaut painting on the water, which reminds me of the art gallery that is proposed to be built and launched into deep space. I can't seem to find the link at the moment, but it discussed an art gallery that was supposedly going to be launched into space and would have an onboard camera that displayed the contents of the gallery to earth. I wonder if any artist's interest was piqued with this painting on water idea... Here's a link to art in space: http://arttech.about.com/library/weekly/aa080698.h tm
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