Suggest that there are biological differences in intelligence, skill, or behavior between the sexes or races, and the villagers race out with their pitchforks.
There is one notable exception: homosexuality. Find a gene that proves homosexulaity can be determined before birth, and you will be celebrated! Everything else must be free will and environment, except sexuality, according to many. Why is that?
Every country in South America is a 3rd world country.
Argentina, Uruguay and Chile may disagree. Brazil is catching up, sure they have a lot of poverty, but so does the US. Sometimes I fear the US and Brazil are converging.
Most American appliances can use 120 or 240 without any need for conversion these days
Better yet, they sell upside-down fridges to suit the Australian market. Dishwashers are easily adapter with counter-rotating washer arms purchased locally.
Ah. You would think someone would just spell that out, rather than using an obscure acronym.
R&PG is as obscure as WYSIWYG.
You seem to be mistaking your local slang for global English. WYSIWYG has entered the English language, R&PG is "rules and policy guidelines" according to the top results on google, though there was one Canadian website with the above usage.
And isn't it an odd term? If the police have probable grounds for arrest, what makes them reasonable or unreasonable? Do the police have to decide if it is a stupid law?
Isn't it true that any effective FTL journey from one point of view (e.g. earth), will be travelling back in time in another reference frame? And there is then nothing to stop a second such journey getting you back to earth before you left? Doesn't matter if it is wormholes or hyperspace, unless all wormholes exist in the same reference frame, ie entry and exit points at the same time in the same reference frame. And physics says there is no absolute reference frame, CBR notwithstanding.
On top of that, physics has nothing against time travel or breaking causality.
Second law of theromodynamics? Entropy is physics.
Anthropic principle: we can only be searching for Aliens in spaces/universes where they do not exist. If they did exist in our part of the universe we'd be dead already. (If they were friendly, they'd have been wiped out already by another race that is not.)
Do you really think any time traveler will risk the possibility that something they do will cause them to have never existed?
You are just making fun of bad sci-fi plots. (No offense to Star Trek or Back to the Future fans:-)
The Butterfly Effect says that the most minor change in the distant past will cause huge changes in the future, so nobody can travel back and live in their own past. At best, by arriving you fork a new timeline (or a new branch of time-lines, if you follow the Many-worlds interpretation, as sensible people do.) The problem I have with this is how can you possibly find your way back to your original time-line?
I will had knownest that until I had wenting back.
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother.... The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations.
To be fair, there was a time where travel to China from the UK was considered impossibly far, taking months of time assuming you didn't get killed along the way.
From the very beginning of the UK in 1707, they had a blue-water navy that circled the globe.
And from pre-UK England, it was hardly impossible, just expensive and dangerous. But trivially cheap and easy compared to sending a robot to Mars today.
FTL implies time travel. Relativity may not strictly prohibit it, but there is the small matter of causality to deal with. And the lack of reports of hordes of strange tourists at major historical events.
If we detonated every nuke we had on one side of the planet, we'd succeed only in leaving one side of the planet uninhabitable.
You've been watching too many bad movies. Modern H-bombs cause severe damage up to 10km from the blast. The world arsenal might "destroy" a couple of million square km, if spaced evenly - say the size of Mexico or Saudi Arabia. Most concrete structures (outside a 1-2km destruction radius) would still be standing though. OK, maybe not the Mexican ones. And this hardly makes them uninhabitable. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt fairly quickly.
But if the incomings are nukes and they destroy all the farmland
Farmland!? They might destroy some crops, barns and even irrigation dams, but nukes can hardly destroy large areas of farmland. Starving people are not going to worry about a miniscule amount of residual radiation after a few weeks.
Another problem France and the US have in common: all those damned tourists. They ride the subsidised public transport, drive on the subsidised roads, see many grand sights and museums for little or nothing. And they pay no income tax.
but the Ozzie politicians want to be just like US, mostly the bad part.
Nah, they just want to kiss arse, be photographed with Obama and Hillary, and get invited to cool parties. Much as we take an interest in copyright law here, its really a minor issue in the scheme of things, and one of the few ways Australia is really following the US policies.
People here love the US, or at least the Hollywood version of the US, where everybody is beautiful and lives in a big house. Our kids mimic US fashions, but it is mostly superficial. We love McDonalds, but not Starbucks (they failed here).
So that would be... basically, Israel. (Recipient of 25% of the total US foreign aid budget, and the only long-term beneficiary over that timescale.)
The other big recipent over the long term is their neighbor Egypt, though since that was mostly to prop up the Mabarak regime, there may not be so much love.
According the Wikipedia, other top-5 US "aid" recipients include Iraq and Afghanistan. I do not see others queuing up to join the list.
Austin... We have a 20 million dollar [annual operating cost?] "commuter rail" that transports maybe a few hundred a day.
What the ???? A city of 1.7 Million, with only one train line that is barely used? How is that possible? I live in a city only slightly larger, with massive sprawl and cars rule, but the 5 rail lines carry 360,000/day, many down the middle of congested freeways.
Is Austin some Green paradise where everybody lives close to their work and the roads are clear? Nobody works downtown? How does a rail line like that fail so badly?
. For a woman to succeed in science she has to work 3 time harder than a man, undergo 3 times as much critical scrutiny by a male dominated peer review and sweat 3 times harder
Oh please. Men have to work just as hard, they just don't bitch about it as much.
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Suggest that there are biological differences in intelligence, skill, or behavior between the sexes or races, and the villagers race out with their pitchforks.
There is one notable exception: homosexuality. Find a gene that proves homosexulaity can be determined before birth, and you will be celebrated!
Everything else must be free will and environment, except sexuality, according to many. Why is that?
Every country in South America is a 3rd world country.
Argentina, Uruguay and Chile may disagree. Brazil is catching up, sure they have a lot of poverty, but so does the US.
Sometimes I fear the US and Brazil are converging.
Most American appliances can use 120 or 240 without any need for conversion these days
Better yet, they sell upside-down fridges to suit the Australian market.
Dishwashers are easily adapter with counter-rotating washer arms purchased locally.
I wonder how you spell "whoosh" in Australian.
We don't say that. But there is an idiom: "That went right under your head, mate."
Nope, it is just a Canadian thing.
Ah. You would think someone would just spell that out, rather than using an obscure acronym.
R&PG is as obscure as WYSIWYG.
You seem to be mistaking your local slang for global English. WYSIWYG has entered the English language, R&PG is "rules and policy guidelines" according to the top results on google, though there was one Canadian website with the above usage.
And isn't it an odd term? If the police have probable grounds for arrest, what makes them reasonable or unreasonable? Do the police have to decide if it is a stupid law?
Isn't it true that any effective FTL journey from one point of view (e.g. earth), will be travelling back in time in another reference frame?
And there is then nothing to stop a second such journey getting you back to earth before you left? Doesn't matter if it is wormholes or hyperspace, unless all wormholes exist in the same reference frame, ie entry and exit points at the same time in the same reference frame. And physics says there is no absolute reference frame, CBR notwithstanding.
On top of that, physics has nothing against time travel or breaking causality.
Second law of theromodynamics? Entropy is physics.
BUT...they don't include the "coin battery" that it runs on...I'm guessing a 2032 or 2025, which will cost close to as much as the rest of the device.
They don't buy them individually from the local 7/11 . More like under 10c each in bulk from Alibaba .
They've all moved on to cable TV.
Switch to the 900nm infrared band - we might still be able to see their remote controls.
They should be hiding.
Monty Python provided a good illustration of the importance of Not Being Seen:
http://youtu.be/zekiZYSVdeQ
Anthropic principle: we can only be searching for Aliens in spaces/universes where they do not exist.
If they did exist in our part of the universe we'd be dead already.
(If they were friendly, they'd have been wiped out already by another race that is not.)
Do you really think any time traveler will risk the possibility that something they do will cause them to have never existed?
You are just making fun of bad sci-fi plots. (No offense to Star Trek or Back to the Future fans :-)
The Butterfly Effect says that the most minor change in the distant past will cause huge changes in the future, so nobody can travel back and live in their own past.
At best, by arriving you fork a new timeline (or a new branch of time-lines, if you follow the Many-worlds interpretation, as sensible people do.)
The problem I have with this is how can you possibly find your way back to your original time-line?
How did you know he didn't?
I will had knownest that until I had wenting back.
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. ...
The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations.
To be fair, there was a time where travel to China from the UK was considered impossibly far, taking months of time assuming you didn't get killed along the way.
From the very beginning of the UK in 1707, they had a blue-water navy that circled the globe.
And from pre-UK England, it was hardly impossible, just expensive and dangerous. But trivially cheap and easy compared to sending a robot to Mars today.
FTL implies time travel. Relativity may not strictly prohibit it, but there is the small matter of causality to deal with. And the lack of reports of hordes of strange tourists at major historical events.
but I doubt even your great great great grandchildren will see FTL or time travel.
If it is possible, then one day my great great great grandfather will see it.
If we detonated every nuke we had on one side of the planet, we'd succeed only in leaving one side of the planet uninhabitable.
You've been watching too many bad movies. Modern H-bombs cause severe damage up to 10km from the blast.
The world arsenal might "destroy" a couple of million square km, if spaced evenly - say the size of Mexico or Saudi Arabia.
Most concrete structures (outside a 1-2km destruction radius) would still be standing though. OK, maybe not the Mexican ones.
And this hardly makes them uninhabitable. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt fairly quickly.
But if the incomings are nukes and they destroy all the farmland
Farmland!? They might destroy some crops, barns and even irrigation dams, but nukes can hardly destroy large areas of farmland.
Starving people are not going to worry about a miniscule amount of residual radiation after a few weeks.
How cynical! I'm sure Microsoft is genuine. They probably want to donate a large number of Raspberry Pis to the schools.
Another problem France and the US have in common: all those damned tourists.
They ride the subsidised public transport, drive on the subsidised roads, see many grand sights and museums for little or nothing.
And they pay no income tax.
but the Ozzie politicians want to be just like US, mostly the bad part.
Nah, they just want to kiss arse, be photographed with Obama and Hillary, and get invited to cool parties.
Much as we take an interest in copyright law here, its really a minor issue in the scheme of things, and one of the few ways Australia is really following the US policies.
People here love the US, or at least the Hollywood version of the US, where everybody is beautiful and lives in a big house. Our kids mimic US fashions, but it is mostly superficial. We love McDonalds, but not Starbucks (they failed here).
So that would be... basically, Israel. (Recipient of 25% of the total US foreign aid budget, and the only long-term beneficiary over that timescale.)
The other big recipent over the long term is their neighbor Egypt, though since that was mostly to prop up the Mabarak regime, there may not be so much love.
According the Wikipedia, other top-5 US "aid" recipients include Iraq and Afghanistan. I do not see others queuing up to join the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid#Recipients
Austin ... We have a 20 million dollar [annual operating cost?] "commuter rail" that transports maybe a few hundred a day.
What the ???? A city of 1.7 Million, with only one train line that is barely used? How is that possible? I live in a city only slightly larger, with massive sprawl and cars rule, but the 5 rail lines carry 360,000/day, many down the middle of congested freeways.
Is Austin some Green paradise where everybody lives close to their work and the roads are clear? Nobody works downtown? How does a rail line like that fail so badly?
I don't know - pure Debian tends to be a bit conservative and lagging. Have they made the switch to ELF yet?
. For a woman to succeed in science she has to work 3 time harder than a man, undergo 3 times as much critical scrutiny by a male dominated peer review and sweat 3 times harder
Oh please. Men have to work just as hard, they just don't bitch about it as much.