Galactic merging can be tied to an increase in the rate of supernova formation, not through actual mass accretion from stars between galaxies, as galaxies usually just past right through each other when they merge, but rather through gravitational interactions that somehow destabilize binary systems that would have previously not have resulted in a supernova.
For instance, gravitational tides resulting from merging galaxies could change a distant circular orbit between two stars, one a white dwarf, the other a red giant, into an elliptical orbit, resulting in a higher rate of mass accretion from the red giant. By the way, mass accretion happens when a white dwarf steals mass from a nearby red giant. Once it reaches 1.4 solar masses, kaboom.
Hence, if gravitational interactions between merging galaxies causes supernovae, then it promotes a clear case that we should find a high rate of supernova formation in older galaxies. This hasn't been definitively proven yet, but there is some strong evidence to support that. There also may be some other factors, such as the elements that dominate the galaxy, as well as its age.
If this technology were to fall into the wrong hands (read government, RIAA, others) life could truely suck. I hope it never materializes in its current form, or we could have a rather large problem on our hands.
hawking radiation is not blackbody radiation. Hawking radiation comes from the spontaneous creation of particle pairs very close to the event horizon. Before they are able to annihilate each other, one is pulled in, and the other one escapes. I guess radiation isn't the right name for it, but that's what it's called.
However you are correct in that we have no idea if Hawking radiation even exists. If it did, we would observe GRBs of a specific type, yet we haven't. I think we should look for these GRBs some more before we start cooking up black holes.
and of course the problems arise when the government gets to decide who the "evildoers" are and who are regular Joes. Once the hackers start getting jailed, we will suddenly find ourselves in a situation where protestors and dissident voices are "evildoers." Amazon.com collecting my personal information for better selling me goods is one thing, the government collecting that same information towards my eventual arrest is another.
oh yeah, that whole arresting thing is going out the window too. It's become unfashionable to arrest people, now you just throw them in a cell forever in connection with another case, one which you are not required to mention.
The phrase, "May you live in interesting times" never sounded so scary...
great, just great. Slashdot linking to a quicktime movie, it's that time again! Place your bets on how long their server will exist in a recognisable form! 5 minutes? an hour?
Your best option is flash media or a bunch of IBM minidisks. I've had mine for over 50, and they still work like new.
But seriously, nothing digital lasts long. Your (seriously now) best option is to engrave all your data into granite. I hear you can buy the stuff in bulk now.
Vaporware? If I'm not mistaken, the PPC 970 is ahead of schedule. In fact, it's hitting the market a good deal faster than many other chips out there, so i wonder why you're calling it vaporware. IBM is not dragging their feet. On the contrary, they're moving extremely fast.
What's more, the PPC 970 is not shrouded in secret, (at least from an apple hardware point of view) If you think the 970 is shrouded in secret and is vaporware, I wonder what you think of the Moto G5.
hmm, yes, but that's not what I was referring to. You seem to be rather knowledgeable on this front, so maybe you could help me out?
My OS X partition currently has my home folder in the usual place, however I also have another partition that I use for all my files. Is it possible to make a partition a home folder? That is, not put the home folder in a partition, but have the partition itself be the home folder? now THAT would be sweet.
what about those of us whose home folders are gigabytes in size? This new feature eweek is talking about would work well for small home folders, but I'm not so sure about large ones. However, I hope that this means that we can easily switch our home folder to a different partition or disk.
"These three words are about as non-exchangable as three words can be."
As you said, they're words. Just words. I'm sorry I don't have the correct vocabulary to express my view on the subject, I as of yet have not taken a course on genetics or for that matter biology, but don't assume for a second that I "don't understand." For god's sake, you sound as if you were talking down to me!
"If you don't want anyone to insult you, don't comment on things you don't understand."
Why is it that one must insult ignorance? Is it a crime not to be as knowledgeable as some of you? Does it give you or anybody else an excuse to get off on talking down to somebody? I may not understand genetics, but you sir do not understand manners.
oh, by the way, you spelled "exchangeable" incorrectly.
oooh, harsh man, harsh. But you do understand my point? Replace the word "genome" with "chromosome" in my post. There are so many words to keep track of, do you expect me to get all of them right? And frankly, I didn't ask you to have faith in my scientific reasoning, as that post was in no way intended to be scientific. Please keep your insults to yourself.
We are simple creatures, no doubt. But the number of genomes does not point to our complexity. Rather, these genomes could be incredibly complex, controlling all sorts of things. They could intermingle, with no clear linear relationship between a single function and a single genome. It would have been easier to decode had there been more, because now it is clear that these genomes are more complex than originally thought.
I still think microwave T1 is better. For instance, Lick Observatory in the hills behind San Jose is linked to UC Santa Cruz by a line of sight microwave T1 connection. I would trade a non-requirement of line of sight for speed/distance any day.
Apply for an extension, turn your taxes in late. Ya see, the IRS has a quota to fill for audits, and by the time the late taxes come in, they have already filled it. The chances of getting audited are very slim if you turn in late as opposed to turning in on time.
Sofware wasn't even around at the time of the constitution, so how is it even relevant to the situation? We treat it like some holy document, yet it was drafted 200 years ago, many of whose clauses are outdated in today's modern society.
50 km... so you could get on your home network from the next city over? What about interference or hacking? If you have 1 million people using this standard, each overlapping, wouldn't that create massive headaches? Or, would that 50 km range be only applied by "select" companies that pay cash to the city(s) and maker of the hardware? It has the potential to become a disaster, but if done right... imagine surfing from home connected to work with a T1 line.
is it even possible to produce more energy out of fusion than is used up in running the reactor? I know it is possible on a solar scale but without gravity pushing everything together, how do we get things hot and close enough with as little energy as possible to create efficient fusion?
still, my favorite pun on fusion is in a starcraft cinematic, where a bunch of terrans go to destroy an infested science vessel. One of the marines says while opening a cooler with a fusion bomb and beers in it, "Thank god for cold fusion!"
ok, I was wrong on that, but in the end, Earth does act much like a closed system, as the wattage of the sun is pretty much constant. Think of it as a handicapped closed system, a system that must keep an equilibrium even with the sun shining down. But yeah, technically you're right.
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For instance, gravitational tides resulting from merging galaxies could change a distant circular orbit between two stars, one a white dwarf, the other a red giant, into an elliptical orbit, resulting in a higher rate of mass accretion from the red giant. By the way, mass accretion happens when a white dwarf steals mass from a nearby red giant. Once it reaches 1.4 solar masses, kaboom.
Hence, if gravitational interactions between merging galaxies causes supernovae, then it promotes a clear case that we should find a high rate of supernova formation in older galaxies. This hasn't been definitively proven yet, but there is some strong evidence to support that. There also may be some other factors, such as the elements that dominate the galaxy, as well as its age.
If this technology were to fall into the wrong hands (read government, RIAA, others) life could truely suck. I hope it never materializes in its current form, or we could have a rather large problem on our hands.
However you are correct in that we have no idea if Hawking radiation even exists. If it did, we would observe GRBs of a specific type, yet we haven't. I think we should look for these GRBs some more before we start cooking up black holes.
Are you guys telling me that every single person with a geforce fx wrote an online review?
oh yeah, that whole arresting thing is going out the window too. It's become unfashionable to arrest people, now you just throw them in a cell forever in connection with another case, one which you are not required to mention.
The phrase, "May you live in interesting times" never sounded so scary...
great, just great. Slashdot linking to a quicktime movie, it's that time again! Place your bets on how long their server will exist in a recognisable form! 5 minutes? an hour?
And to think I wasted a perfectly good Yahoo account on gamespot. I can smell my first piece of spam from here.
I had previously viewed the legacy trailer... is it just me, or do those guys look straight out of high school?
But seriously, nothing digital lasts long. Your (seriously now) best option is to engrave all your data into granite. I hear you can buy the stuff in bulk now.
I nominate R2-D2 for the hall of fame.
there's a thread on this at spymac, with a better picture: here
What's more, the PPC 970 is not shrouded in secret, (at least from an apple hardware point of view) If you think the 970 is shrouded in secret and is vaporware, I wonder what you think of the Moto G5.
Album covers? They should arrest the folks at amazon.com then.
hmm, yes, but that's not what I was referring to. You seem to be rather knowledgeable on this front, so maybe you could help me out? My OS X partition currently has my home folder in the usual place, however I also have another partition that I use for all my files. Is it possible to make a partition a home folder? That is, not put the home folder in a partition, but have the partition itself be the home folder? now THAT would be sweet.
what about those of us whose home folders are gigabytes in size? This new feature eweek is talking about would work well for small home folders, but I'm not so sure about large ones. However, I hope that this means that we can easily switch our home folder to a different partition or disk.
As you said, they're words. Just words. I'm sorry I don't have the correct vocabulary to express my view on the subject, I as of yet have not taken a course on genetics or for that matter biology, but don't assume for a second that I "don't understand." For god's sake, you sound as if you were talking down to me!
"If you don't want anyone to insult you, don't comment on things you don't understand."
Why is it that one must insult ignorance? Is it a crime not to be as knowledgeable as some of you? Does it give you or anybody else an excuse to get off on talking down to somebody? I may not understand genetics, but you sir do not understand manners.
oh, by the way, you spelled "exchangeable" incorrectly.
oooh, harsh man, harsh. But you do understand my point? Replace the word "genome" with "chromosome" in my post. There are so many words to keep track of, do you expect me to get all of them right? And frankly, I didn't ask you to have faith in my scientific reasoning, as that post was in no way intended to be scientific. Please keep your insults to yourself.
We are simple creatures, no doubt. But the number of genomes does not point to our complexity. Rather, these genomes could be incredibly complex, controlling all sorts of things. They could intermingle, with no clear linear relationship between a single function and a single genome. It would have been easier to decode had there been more, because now it is clear that these genomes are more complex than originally thought.
I still think microwave T1 is better. For instance, Lick Observatory in the hills behind San Jose is linked to UC Santa Cruz by a line of sight microwave T1 connection. I would trade a non-requirement of line of sight for speed/distance any day.
Apply for an extension, turn your taxes in late. Ya see, the IRS has a quota to fill for audits, and by the time the late taxes come in, they have already filled it. The chances of getting audited are very slim if you turn in late as opposed to turning in on time.
Sofware wasn't even around at the time of the constitution, so how is it even relevant to the situation? We treat it like some holy document, yet it was drafted 200 years ago, many of whose clauses are outdated in today's modern society.
since when did clouds of gas have enough power to act as gravitational lenses?
I beg to differ. With WiFi, you can leech bandwidth off your neighbor (ie the whole city with 16a.) with wired, it's a wee bit harder.
And I'm sorry I frustrate you, I'm doing all I can!
50 km... so you could get on your home network from the next city over? What about interference or hacking? If you have 1 million people using this standard, each overlapping, wouldn't that create massive headaches? Or, would that 50 km range be only applied by "select" companies that pay cash to the city(s) and maker of the hardware? It has the potential to become a disaster, but if done right... imagine surfing from home connected to work with a T1 line.
still, my favorite pun on fusion is in a starcraft cinematic, where a bunch of terrans go to destroy an infested science vessel. One of the marines says while opening a cooler with a fusion bomb and beers in it, "Thank god for cold fusion!"
ok, I was wrong on that, but in the end, Earth does act much like a closed system, as the wattage of the sun is pretty much constant. Think of it as a handicapped closed system, a system that must keep an equilibrium even with the sun shining down. But yeah, technically you're right.