I'm sure all this shit is just going to make people use mp3s more. Even if i wanted to by the album to support the artist, i'm not going to bother now cos i'll be giving money to the RIAA and i can't rip it to play on my Archos even if i do.
I'm over in europe, recycling my waste, cycling to work, using public transport, driving a car that does 50mpg and getting an ever increasing percentage of my electricity from renewable resources
The roads would be chaos if everyone stuck 2 the speed limit.Everyone....EVERYONE drives at 35 in a 30 zone, 45 in a 40 zone, and 80 on the 70mph motorways. Think how many more cars there would be on the road if everyone stuck to the limits. It would be a total nightmare.
Just felt the need to reiterate this point. For those who aren't British, the Sun (or currant bun as it is affectionatly known) is absolute drivel, sensationalist pseudo news.
It the second most dumbed down paper in the uk, with a reading age of about 7, as is patently obvious from the first sentence "DRIVERS were reeling last night at Government plans to put a computerised spy in EVERY car.".The only daily paper any less reliable is the Daily Star, famed for the occasional rediculus headline. e.g. "Freddie Star ate my Hamster" and "Nazi uboat found in Loch Ness"
Mot is the Motor Ordinance Test. All cars in the uk over 3yrs old have to have an annual inspection of there road worthyness. Without which one can not tax or insure a car.
Introduced in 1960 to ensure a minimum level of car safety, the test now includes regulations on the car emmisions. A brief history can be found here (link on right)
I agree that taking large amounts of vitamins can have serious health issues. The effects of Roaccutane the acne drug are effectivly those of vitamin A poisoning due to the compounds similar nature, and believe me it's not nice stuff. However
Relying on the quoted RDA standards is a bit overly trusting as well. Though they have all been well studied and recommended by scientist, at the minute we simply don't know enough about the bodies chemistry to give an accurate assesment of RDA. For example the Vitamin C RDA level is considered to be particularly low, with consumtion of 10x the RDA being perfectly ok and indeed recommended by some.
Just because they print it on every food item in america....doesn't mean it's right
Journalists should stop coming out with this crap and cover real scientific stories.
Or better still, stop covering science stories all together. Leave science in the journals or topical weeklys, where people who can understand the stories will read them. And stop trying to dumb it down to the same level as 'J Lo. gets botox' or 'German U-boat found in Loch Ness', so the proletariat don't get confused.
Some people say my ideas are elitist, but i tell them there not smart enough
Incidently, if anyone is holidaying in the area of Rotherham(Not sure why you would be, but...) I can recommend it as a fun day out. Most of the stuff is aimed at young teenagers, but there's enough cool sciencey things to keep most of the/. crowd happy. My personal favourites where the JCB digger game, in which you race against two other players to put as many foam blocks into a skip as you can, the cool thing is your using real lifesize diggers. My other favourite was the fire tornado. You'll probably have seen the little demo tornadoes made by a few jets of air blowing tangentialy to a circle, filled with smoke so you can see them. Well this is a similar thing, but 5m high and instead of smoke they use some Kerosene. They poor it in the bottom, wait for it to evaporate into the twister and then light it, for an awesome fire tornado effect. There's a pic of it on there website in the 'fire' section.
And lets face it if your in Rotherham you've probably not got much better to do;-)
How dense are these things, say, compared to a black hole?
Density is an objects mass/volume (kg/m^3). Now, being a singularity a black hole doesn't have a volume, so no matter what it's mass is, it will always have an infinite density.
Incidently the volume of the event horizon, is proportional to the mass that the hole contains, so a supermassive blackholes' horizon, would look bigger, even though it still had no volume. It just has more gravity to suck in light (and anything else) from a larger volume around it.
At ultra high G's (say 100+) what kills you is the different strengths and densities within your body. And also the difference between you and the environment your in.
For example the brain gets squashed and bruised when it is accelerated by the solid skull around it, however if you were to put the brain in a solution of a similar consistancy and accelerate that it would be far less damaged.
The thing about G's that is important is the amount of time which you are subjected to it.
Which is proportional to the energy you need to absorb in your body.
A modern rollercoaster will peak at around +3.5 or -1 G when averaged over say a 10th of a second, but at higher resolution the noise on that signal might reach +5 and -2 G enough to blackout/redout most people if it were sustained. This of course is in the vertical direction.
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It doesn't take much stats knowledge to work out that if you have say...
3 trips on which you might expect to find the things
A volume of sea in which they might exist of several 1000 km^3
And a net that can trawl 100 m^3 with big holes in it
That the probability of knowing anything about the species can be calculated to be... Jack all.
It's daft to put it on the endangerd species list, because you haven't got a clue whether it is or not.
Why don't they use something like a maglevel/chairlift. On which individual carriages are propelled (at any acceleration you like:-) down a track that doesn't have the limitation of being flat and straight.
I'm not sure if you've ever tried jumping on or off a moving car/bus/boat onto terra ferma or vica versa. But it's not all that hard once you've done it a couple of times. You just have to get it set in your mind that you have to go from standing still to running (or vica versa) without actually having to change your velocity (i.e. accelerate/decelerate).
Of course this isn't particularly practical for the general public...but it would be fun to watch the brave take a running leap onto a belt moving at say 5ms^-1
I don't mean to be an intelligence snob, but I guess i the/. crowd has a pretty high avg. iq, so i can get away with it.
There are A LOT of people who are capable of operating a jackhammer who aren't capable of operating a high-tec robot. Lets face it we've all experianced having a boss who doesn't seem capable of handeling a mouse nevermind managing the operations of a team of workers. What do these people do when all the jobs that require people to act as automata are taken up by automata.
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Sure, there are lots of languages in Europe. But do you really need to have half a dozen of them in a project which only has a hundred people?
So long as they all code in Fortran with MPI .... it doesn't matter
The population of London is just over 7 million at last estimate. But the conclusions still hold.
I'm sure all this shit is just going to make people use mp3s more. Even if i wanted to by the album to support the artist, i'm not going to bother now cos i'll be giving money to the RIAA and i can't rip it to play on my Archos even if i do.
Kazaa, Direct Connect, IRC, etc ... here i come.
anthropogenic climate change
Surely u mean americogenic climate change
I'm over in europe, recycling my waste, cycling to work, using public transport, driving a car that does 50mpg and getting an ever increasing percentage of my electricity from renewable resources
A good idea!
The roads would be chaos if everyone stuck 2 the speed limit.Everyone....EVERYONE drives at 35 in a 30 zone, 45 in a 40 zone, and 80 on the 70mph motorways. Think how many more cars there would be on the road if everyone stuck to the limits. It would be a total nightmare.
Do you have any fucking idea what "The Sun" is?
Just felt the need to reiterate this point. For those who aren't British, the Sun (or currant bun as it is affectionatly known) is absolute drivel, sensationalist pseudo news.
It the second most dumbed down paper in the uk, with a reading age of about 7, as is patently obvious from the first sentence "DRIVERS were reeling last night at Government plans to put a computerised spy in EVERY car.".The only daily paper any less reliable is the Daily Star, famed for the occasional rediculus headline. e.g. "Freddie Star ate my Hamster" and "Nazi uboat found in Loch Ness"
Mot is the Motor Ordinance Test. All cars in the uk over 3yrs old have to have an annual inspection of there road worthyness. Without which one can not tax or insure a car.
Introduced in 1960 to ensure a minimum level of car safety, the test now includes regulations on the car emmisions. A brief history can be found here (link on right)
Outlawing the construction of cockpits for flight sims would be ridiculous, and is something I highly doubt will ever happen.
You might have said the same about renaming french fries a year ago....only in America.
Ye, but no matter how advanced technology gets. A gun is still small, quick and lethal.
Even 2 someone with a hella laser phaser weapon.
Hey...my elitism only extends to intelligence.....(not spelling which i happen to be bad at, lol)
Lie detectors are at best random
and at worst there.....? Even if they consistently said you were lieing when you were not that is statistically significant.
I agree that taking large amounts of vitamins can have serious health issues. The effects of Roaccutane the acne drug are effectivly those of vitamin A poisoning due to the compounds similar nature, and believe me it's not nice stuff. However
Relying on the quoted RDA standards is a bit overly trusting as well. Though they have all been well studied and recommended by scientist, at the minute we simply don't know enough about the bodies chemistry to give an accurate assesment of RDA. For example the Vitamin C RDA level is considered to be particularly low, with consumtion of 10x the RDA being perfectly ok and indeed recommended by some.
Just because they print it on every food item in america....doesn't mean it's right
Journalists should stop coming out with this crap and cover real scientific stories.
Or better still, stop covering science stories all together. Leave science in the journals or topical weeklys, where people who can understand the stories will read them. And stop trying to dumb it down to the same level as 'J Lo. gets botox' or 'German U-boat found in Loch Ness', so the proletariat don't get confused.
Some people say my ideas are elitist, but i tell them there not smart enough
Incidently, if anyone is holidaying in the area of Rotherham(Not sure why you would be, but...) I can recommend it as a fun day out. Most of the stuff is aimed at young teenagers, but there's enough cool sciencey things to keep most of the /. crowd happy. My personal favourites where the JCB digger game, in which you race against two other players to put as many foam blocks into a skip as you can, the cool thing is your using real lifesize diggers. My other favourite was the fire tornado. You'll probably have seen the little demo tornadoes made by a few jets of air blowing tangentialy to a circle, filled with smoke so you can see them. Well this is a similar thing, but 5m high and instead of smoke they use some Kerosene. They poor it in the bottom, wait for it to evaporate into the twister and then light it, for an awesome fire tornado effect. There's a pic of it on there website in the 'fire' section.
And lets face it if your in Rotherham you've probably not got much better to do ;-)
In Soviet Russia Pravda logs in to you
So why do we have this tedious bitching about the NY times every time a link is posted?
Because lets face it, in jokes (cowboyneal poll option,in soviet russia...,1.xyz 2.????? 3.profit, etc) are funny.
You've got to feal sorry for the guys who actually own: xx.com xxx.com abc.com qwert.com etc there spam boxes must be enourmous.
And for those who can't use google ...here's what it looks like
IANAAP...but
How dense are these things, say, compared to a black hole?
Density is an objects mass/volume (kg/m^3). Now, being a singularity a black hole doesn't have a volume, so no matter what it's mass is, it will always have an infinite density.
Incidently the volume of the event horizon, is proportional to the mass that the hole contains, so a supermassive blackholes' horizon, would look bigger, even though it still had no volume. It just has more gravity to suck in light (and anything else) from a larger volume around it.
At ultra high G's (say 100+) what kills you is the different strengths and densities within your body. And also the difference between you and the environment your in.
For example the brain gets squashed and bruised when it is accelerated by the solid skull around it, however if you were to put the brain in a solution of a similar consistancy and accelerate that it would be far less damaged.
The thing about G's that is important is the amount of time which you are subjected to it.
Which is proportional to the energy you need to absorb in your body.
A modern rollercoaster will peak at around +3.5 or -1 G when averaged over say a 10th of a second, but at higher resolution the noise on that signal might reach +5 and -2 G enough to blackout/redout most people if it were sustained. This of course is in the vertical direction.
It doesn't take much stats knowledge to work out that if you have say...
3 trips on which you might expect to find the things
A volume of sea in which they might exist of several 1000 km^3
And a net that can trawl 100 m^3 with big holes in it
That the probability of knowing anything about the species can be calculated to be ... Jack all.
It's daft to put it on the endangerd species list, because you haven't got a clue whether it is or not.
Why don't they use something like a maglevel/chairlift. On which individual carriages are propelled (at any acceleration you like :-) down a track that doesn't have the limitation of being flat and straight.
I'm not sure if you've ever tried jumping on or off a moving car/bus/boat onto terra ferma or vica versa. But it's not all that hard once you've done it a couple of times. You just have to get it set in your mind that you have to go from standing still to running (or vica versa) without actually having to change your velocity (i.e. accelerate/decelerate).
Of course this isn't particularly practical for the general public...but it would be fun to watch the brave take a running leap onto a belt moving at say 5ms^-1
I don't mean to be an intelligence snob, but I guess i the /. crowd has a pretty high avg. iq, so i can get away with it.
There are A LOT of people who are capable of operating a jackhammer who aren't capable of operating a high-tec robot. Lets face it we've all experianced having a boss who doesn't seem capable of handeling a mouse nevermind managing the operations of a team of workers. What do these people do when all the jobs that require people to act as automata are taken up by automata.