OK, let's assume the Sun has no hydrogen at all, and all its mass is made of the same material as Earth.
According to http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pla... the Sun is about 2e30 (i.e. 2x10^30) kg.
According to ditto, luminosity is 3.85E26 J/s, or W.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... the Earth's inner lava heat comes from
232 Th at 3.27E-12 W/kg mantle
238 U at 2.91E-12
40 K at 1.08E-12
235 U at 0.125E-12
Adding these up you get 7.39E-12 W/kg mantle. Multiplying by the solar mass you get 1.47E19 W, which is much less than the luminosity, by about 26E6 times.
Btw, at 3000 solar neutrinos a year, that's one every 2.92 hrs, out of the 10^28/s*3600*2.92=1.05E32 neutrinos per year (granted most of them fly off to somewhere else, the solid angle of Earth from the Sun is small.) With Avogadro number at 6.023E23, 1E28/s is 16603 moles of neutrino/s, or, on the ballpark of 1 hydrogen atom per neutrino at 16.6 kg/s converted, while the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... page has a picture saying the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen per second. So the fraction of hydrogen atoms fusing that produce a neutrino is that small? 620E9 kg/s vs. 16.6 kg/s?
I'm sleepy now, and I haven't even read the wikipedia page on neutrino detectors yet. But it's the weekend, I'll read up on it, and maybe post more later.
I've had thoughts about how we assume that extragalactic space is pure vacuum, when it might actually be pretty dense gas compared to what we think it is, and that could explain why so many galaxies are spiral (spiral galaxies are like fish-swirls on the surface of a pond, when there was no rotation to begin with, just a downward sinking motion, rotation, angular momentum, and swirls generated by the sinking from slight instabilities) and vacuum happens only where the extragalactic smooth uniform gas-soup collapses gravitationally, kind of like throwing a magnet on an iron dust filled paper, it's vacuum near the magnet, and there might be a minimum vacuum point in the solar system), why they lost track of the Voyager probes (true the antenna distance was huge, but it might have been an aerodynamic drag by the weak vacuum,) why extra solar system spaceships then need to be aerodynamic with shuttle like reentry heat shields, and then how other fast flying objects out there impacting this ever permeating "dark energy" hydrogen soup would glow from shuttle like reentry heat shield effects, or shooting star meteorite heating effects, stuff you see on a lot of astronomical pictures (the heat in the rings might be partly exploding material, but what if it wasn't originally glowing when it was propelled to high speed - I don't know, can such a thing be out there? Like what's the temperature of a black hole, can it be cold and can that explode? So anyway, if there is aerodynamic drag past Pluto, then the Voyager probes have a finite distance from us where they will stop due to that drag, and interstellar travel then requires continuous propulsion and very low speeds, but possibly abundant fuel everywhere.
What are the proofs that extragalactic space is full vacuum? Even if all matter has coalesced into mostly galaxies, quite a bit may still be out there, and the vacuum inside galaxies might be stronger than outside them.
us Still, what kind of rate of neutrinos does a calibration device generate, and do you have to wait like a whole year before you pick up a signal?
Where are these new detectors, and how do they detect different flavors of neutrinos? Neutrino detectors are humongous contraptions deep underground, most catching scintillations. There isn't much to "tune" to catch, and the 1987 event catching two different types of neutrinos from a single event (unless you have a theory of stage-wise double step collapse, the first one giving electron neutrinos, the second muon neutrinos, or even if same kind, but different kabooms) shows that old school detectors have no problem picking up small amounts of neutrinos from a tiny portion of the sky, and they interact just fine, and the stuff we measure as solar neutrinos is probably coming from actual neutrino producing things, but not our Sun.
Btw, exactly. Occam's razor http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/... cuts out any such superfluous bs from science. We have a solar neutrino problem, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... , we cannot detect all the neutrinos that are supposed to be flooding us from the Sun, so we suppose that they have a very weak interaction coefficient, but to really fit the graph, we need one more object concocted, a neutrino mass. My college professor said give me 19 independent variables, and I can fit an elephant with a graph. Give me 20, and I can accurately fit the tail too. Occam's razor is against such things. Observational evidence showing neutrinos propagating faster than light is exciting, not disheartening!
The real answer to the solar neutrino problem is that there is no fusion going on inside the Sun. Yeah, you heard that right, time to revise all science textbooks. Or how else do you explain that a tiny little object in the night sky sets off not one, but three neutrino detectors worldwide, but we keep listening to the neutrinos from the Sun and they ain't coming, when in fact the detectors should be flooded and drowned in solar neutrino signals, and ignore distant galaxy events. Fact is there is no fusion going on inside the Sun, the Sun is only hot for the same reason the inside of the Earth is hot: Thorium, Uranium 238 and 235, and Potassium-40. In fact that is why an asteroid is cold, the Moon has no molten lava, because it's too small, nor does Mars, or Mercury, but Venus is sufficiently large to possess one, Earth is larger, and Jupiter, underneath all that hydrogen, is probably even hotter than Earth, and so are probably Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, depending on the size of their silicate-cores. If you dumped a bunch of silicate asteroids with terrestrial abundance of thorium, uranium and potassium-40, together, into an Earth-sized mass, you'd get a planet with a molten inside, and a certain degree of surface temperature just from that, and total heat emissions. If you gathered enough similar asteroids and planets in extra-solar-system space, and dumped it all together to form an object the mass of the Sun, you'd pretty much get a Sun, with 5778 K surface temperature, not just molten volcano lava underneath a cold crust, but the whole surface would be volcano lava. Under such mass the gravity would be big enough to hold back even hydrogen, even at that 5800 K temperature, but as holding more and more back increases size, it increases gravity and increases compression and accelerates the nuclear reactor, i.e., the temperature goes up, and hydrogen gets boiled off and shot off as solar wind, and the Sun has a somewhat steady size, instead of an ever-growing one. Such compression/temperature rise cycles, blowing off hydrogen into outer space, it cooling by thermal radiation, falling back onto the Sun, with very long characteristic times, could explain ice-ages and global warming ages, as hydrogen can take a long trip all the way past Pluto, then stop, then get slowly accelerated back and fall back unto the Sun, and this whole thing could be steady state, but once in a while you have a massive comet or what not bring new fuel, or create a cold spot, or what not, and create minute fluctuations that could self amplify into full scale ice ages. But helium, being 4 times heavier than hydrogen, stays down, so the reason for the 75% hydrogen and 25% He in the Sun is a simple distillation process by molten lava down below, not a fusion conversion of hydrogen to helium, else our neutrino detectors would be screaming and not even noticing a distant SN1987A under the heavy noise. In fact when you look up in the sky and you see all the stars, that's pretty much all the matter there is in the Universe, so to speak, because if it gets massive, it gets hot by the natural abundance of nuclear isotopes, everything massive enough is a natural nuclear reactor fueled by the diffuse, trace, nuclear isotop
I bet the new record keeping software runs on java or MS bastardized java (aka. dotnet). Maybe that's part of the problem. I personally can't stand java or dotnet, just the way it reads is way too bloated. By the way the overhead of programming and customizing Excel (97 and 2000, anything later sucks, if nothing else, requires "activation.") spreadsheets with VBA is minimal compared to having to read through and comprehend the intricacies of standard WinAPI, or even Java or dotnet. We used to have C, Basic, Fortran and Pascal as main high level programming languages in the old days, but now we have java, dotnet, python, javascript, etc., all of which are very heavy, bloated, and mental comprehension complexity a lot higher than the oldschool stuff, so it's hard not to make mistakes, or even customize and prettify it is very expensive, so stuff slips by the programmer's common sense checks.
Oh, I just saw the post below. They are talking about spraying insecticides right before inviting a bee pollinator on a contract. Now that is sick, and the beekeeper has no idea his bees are getting poisoned, so it makes good financial sense for the farmer. Again, if you absolutely have to spray insecticides, wait till the bees come and go, and spray only after. But Monsanto should get into selling natural predators instead of insecticides or insecticide-making genetically engineered plants. Spiders are hard to farm like chickens, you can't keep them together because they eat each other, (the chickens only peck each other bloody when too congested above their natural sense of equilibrium population density, so they get debeaked). They should figure out at Monsanto how to farm spiders isolated from each other, in like an apartment-complex-matchbox way, and sell them to farmers to release in their fields to control bugs, instead of spraying insecticides. Spiders are gonna be like weeeeee, yo what fun! And the other insects are gonna be like warning, spiders, but at least they've dealt with spiders for hundreds of millions of years, unlike these insecticides.
PS. When I removed a tent I had standing for almost three years out in the wooded countryside - as I never really had time to go be in it - there were all kinds of bugs that found home in it - large carpenter ants, spiders - all hiding from the constant monsoon-like rain. I was not aware it was so difficult to find a dry spot for acres in the forest, (as the same exact gang of ants found my stuff like a few acres away before, and settled into it, making my sleeping bags full of ant-smell) One of the guests I had to shake off when folding the tent was a pretty large sized (like a quarter inch), spider mother, (I'm assuming it was the female, not sure), with over a hundred tiny spider babies packed tight on her back, and they all fell off her back during the scare, unto the forest floor full of dead leaves. I was thinking about them driving home, if they have any way of finding each other again to reunite, by smell, or sight, I don't know how it'd be possible. But it shows some spiders don't each other as a default behavior when congested. But the last one of the ants I had a really hard time getting rid of, like it would keep clinging to stuff with her antlers for forever, and not let go. I accidentally had brought home one of her sisters like 2 years earlier, when I thought my sleeping bag was all clear, but obviously one got stuck in it, cuz I saw it escape and run when I put my sleeping bag in the tub, and it'd come out once every few months, all alone, then, I guess it doesn't live that long. I saw some more ants, a few of them like last year in the summer, by the garage, but they were not as big, and not alone, they were a different gang. I should have tried to catch her and take her back to her gang? Yeah good luck with that, cuz it moves really fast, and then driving well over an hour wasting all that gas just for an ant to reunite with her peers, then drive back! What a noble thought! By the way carpenter ants can turn your wooden home into sawdust pretty quickly, should your home be wooden, and them not finding a dry and warm place for themselves. That's a bit hit to the bottom line for people that pay say 50,000 for land value, then 350,000 for wooden house value on that land. Somehow such prices seem distorted, it should be the other way around, but then construction folks can't make a killing.
It's not the farmers that are killing wild bees and butterflies, because they grow crops that actually need protection (true some of that could wait for protecting the grain when put into storage from bugs, not while it's growing in the open fields, and in the open fields supplying predators are a better natural harmony), but it's the urban sprawl idiots pushing their lawns all over the place, and keeping it pure green, all flowerless. There is simply no fucking reason to mow a lawn, let alone spray it with chemicals. It's a highly distorted sense of beauty, everyone is bankrupt, yet has the time and money for gas and mowers to waste on grascutting! Just let nature be. Leave it the fuck alone. You don't have to mow it. Let the grass grow knee high, then let a farmer cut it for free, or even sell it to him, as hay for his horses, and let him make a nice drying haystack on your "lawn" out of it. Haystacks like you see when you drive through the country side. Make some money on the bitch while sitting back and relaxing on your porch, let alone pumping money and time and effort into it, wasting it all, over your distorted sense of beauty. Money in the bank is beautiful. Bank account empty, financing a lawnmower, paying for gas, and wasting your time, is not.
The true cure of HIV is a genetic mutation in a human, with HIV resistant genes. The highest likelihood of such a mutation emerging is in an area ravaged by HIV deaths, such as South Africa. If HIV doesn't really cause death (i.e. does not really increase mortality) then it's not really a disease worth mutating against. There are probably a gazillion kinds of bacteria and viruses that live in you, that do nothing special, and these HIV FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) spreading people will use one of these standard viruses, and call it the AIDS virus. By the way it's extrememly, extremely difficult, if not impossible, to properly select and filter for a virus - a sodium bloodtest is easy, so is low molecular weight stuff like sugars, etc, but fishing out a virus, staining it with a dye under an electron microscope (because it's too small for optical microscopes, and the electric microscope requires a gold or osmium tetroxide gas layer coating and even then it vaporizes the metal as the electron beam scans, so you can't really dye a metal coating like you can dye the naked virus), then calling it HIV after you stained in with 8 different dies giving you a yes no answer (i.e. 256 bits, as in there are only 256 different viruses out there.) (Notice my recent love of grammatically incomplete/incorrect sentences lacking a verb.) Going for DNA fragment special short chain combination abundance (such as ACTGCTCAACTGACG, a couple of these fingerprint markers specific to each virus) might work, but it's hard to accurately chop DNA to sticks of say 22 units each, and not fully disassemble it to just A, C, T, G, and even then there is a lot of noise, because all life on the planet is based on DNA, and all DNA is made of 2 bit(i.e. 4 variations, 8 bit having 256 variations, and 1 bit 2 variations) A, C, T, G units.
Oh blow some more smoke up my ass with these naive "safety measures", "regulating drones", "areas such as Afganistan." Drones are used today, in areas such as US of A, against citizens who have been declared witches.
By the way next time you feel there is a worm chewing your brain, don't hit the hospital ER, cuz they'll laugh you in the face and tell you to lay off the crack, cuz you're hallucinating. You go there more than once, they take you to the nuthouse and, like good samaritans, help you out by holding you down and shooting you up with Haldol. Good luck keeping a job when you're on Haldol, your hands refuse to follow instructions on it. In fact the worm in your head is a remote cancer-treating-gamma-knife-like x-ray, but because it's coming from a drone up high, it's low powered, and takes friggin forever to cause a boiling hole inside your head, and then when you feel it, all you have to do is move your head faster than the automatic tracker can follow it, or move it back and forth to create an oscillation in the tracker, hopefully resonance, and wear the motor out, at least lower its accuracy from a distance. The real reason why they want regulations public, because they do these things mostly under the cover of darkness at night, and if you work a nightshift job, there is not enough darkness time to remotely lobotomize you enough from a drone, when you're sleeping in a cast iron tub and the high powered appliance x-rays of your neighbors are shielded out, and they have to come at you from above. So under "open regulations" people spotting these things during broad daylight during "routine surveillance operations" is gonna be OK. By the way your brain can be lobotomized quite a bit, if it happens little bit at a time, it will adapt, as shown by surgeries of children with seizures lasting 10 hrs out of 24 in a day, who, after removing the left side, or right side of their brain completely, still function fine. Also people with hydrocephalus - huge water filled holes in their brains expanding their skull to humongous size, and leaving only a micron thin sheath of brain tissue next to the skull - function like other normal people, and show up at the hospitals for a CT scan complaining of "minor headaches." Of course you're not gonna get the real CT scan images, that'd be too scary, there are a bunch of standard files on the computer to show people, some faking a broken arm, so they get a broken arm bone x-ray image, and a cast, with the "manufacturer assuming the warranty repair" on the bone (i.e. the Lord Almighty.) It's the real world, if you see a drone in the sky, so what, if you got holes in your brain, got gassed with anesthetics, infected with all kinds of genetically engineered and trackable things - all to erode your ethics, your humanity - just piss on it and get on with your life and try to make the best of it, enjoy it anyway. Life is like playing cards, sometimes luck in the cards dealt to you is cruel, and you have to play a shitty hand. So what.
And by the way, speaking of CT scans looking at the holes in your brain created by remote gamma knives operating from drones, what's with this naiveness about unlimited coverage requirement in Obamacare? You know what automatically happens? Doctors know the money is coming, so they'll hold the patient forever. It's like free money falling out of the sky, the insurance companies can't resist, and exercise checks and balances, but that does not matter for now, lets get everyone aboard of having mandatory insurance first, then we'll jack up the price to 90% of your income, of course you only have to pay the 10%, and Obamacare will fund the 80% from your taxes. The only proper insurance premium to infinite coverage is infinite premium. Or it's a lie. As in, back in the 90's there were these dialup ISP's who said for $99 you can have free internet for the rest of your life, but they were outcompeted by the ones like juno or netzero who did not even ask for $99 but just gave you free internet if you were willing to watch an ad on your computer, f
By the way there are pictures on the web how the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) figured out how to conquer all the hillsides into level terraces to grow more rice and sustain their ever growing population. Problem is once you run out of those unfarmable areas to convert into farmable areas, there is nowhere left to grow. Are you gonna have floating platforms on the sea to have farms on?
Ahh, the twisted web of alliances! Nation 1 is allied with nation 2. Nation 1 goes to war with nation 3, and requests nation 2 to pitch in, due to their alliance. Nation 2 says they cannot since they are also allied with nation 3. The relationship between nation 1 and nation 2 deteriorates, but they are still semi-allies. Add more than 3 actors to this game and it can get really complex. Two superpowers, like USA and USSR during cold war, never going to war with each other, and each other nation in the world allied to either one of them, was a very stable world, besides some Cuban missile crisis.
Now the US economy is plummeting from global competition from places like Bangladesh or Pakistan making all my shirts I buy at Walmart, and soon you can't tell who's who? Who's on top? China? Japan? The British Empire makes a comeback (proving once and for all that Monarchy is better than Democracy after all the democracy issues pile on in the US leading to a Lehman Brother's type collapse, and closing every single mall two, followed by closing every single factory?) Russia? India? I'm sure the muslims like Turks want to bring back some Ottoman empire too. How about the EU becoming militaristic overnight? They have some weapon's capabilities, and economic power, and may be getting low on resources, even with heavy renewable energy investment. I never heard of Indonesia, other than there are lots of people there too.
There are 330 million people in the US. 1300 million in China, 1000 million in India, and only "120" million in Japan. Japan is a tiny country compared to the US, but there is 1 Japanese for every 3 Americans, 9 Indians for every 3 Americans, and 13 Chinese for every 3 Americans. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the fuel supply to their industry, to their economic livelihood was cut off by the Dutch Indies (Indonesia) oil companies. They were sort of provoked into it. Being outnumbered 3 to 1, the odds are not that greatly against them, most Americans think Japan is a tiny island and we outnumber them at least 10 to 1 or even 100 to 1. Zrinski boldly made his final charge with 600 Croatians/others against 150,000 Turks. Because every time he forcibly took the tax from a serf, he justified it by saying when it's time to defend you, I will put my ass on the line for you. So he couldn't wave the white flag. But that's called being outnumbered, overpowered, and still attacking, as a matter of honor, of duty. The Japanese defenses at Iwo Jima during WW2 showed similar "honor":attitudes and no flag waving til extremely to the end.
In a world where gas prices went from $1/gal to $4/gal in a decade, and are on the rise, eventually something has got to give. But hopefully we can figure out a way to feed everyone, fuel everyone, and avert any kind of war. But there are no guarantees, the future is always uncertain.
In the Soviet Union human life was more expandable than in the USA, Had this attitude been different, it may have reflected itself in the accident rates.
So they could clone their own i386 system, with DR DOS (with source code) or FreeDOS. DOS is not to be underestimated for military use, especially russian mentality type one. DOS is like the ultimate Russian/Soviet design. Retardedly simple, fast, lacks basic features you think you absolutely need til you get used to the workarounds of not having them, it's idiot proof, unbreakable. For one it does not "crash" by sudden power loss, all you lose is whatever data you have in RAM since you last hit the save to disk button, it has no disk cache (other than some disk buffers that are pretty quick), and the way to power off DOS is by cutting the power to it.Even dead simple and barebones commandline linux console is not military enough in behavior compared to DOS, as in some versions it goes through a "Sending all processes the SIGHALT signal", then "Sending all processes the SIGKILL signal" masturbation, let alone Windows displaying a "Please wait", and "Windows is Shutting Down" masturbation in your face process.
Back in the late 90's when I was still a computing fan building custom computers and overclocking the CPU's by a few MHz to get extra speed, I remember when shopping online you had to pay extra based on serial numbers/batches, and origins of the Intel CPU's, and I think it was Malaysia and Puerto Rico Intel fabs that made the price difference for overclockability. That's kinda neat to know they have wafer processing in Ireland and Israel, I always assumed they'd do at least some of it in the US too, if nothing else, keep a pilot flame of production going just in case there is a global war and you can't get to places like Malaysia easily.
The thing about war is that it always bites you in the ass unexpected, it does not come preannounced 10 years before it, so you can prepare for it. Back in the feudal days there was a custom of honor of declaring war between neighbor princes, sending an ultimatum, and waiting for an answer, for an acceptance of war, before committing to any action. By WW2 the German blitzkrieg term's essence was not sending such an ultimatum. So you don't get a letter in the mail declaring war against you, with an adversary patiently waiting for you to reply and accept it, giving you a few years to prepare, and pull your manufacturing base from places like Malaysia.
Hahaha - 30 kg is like 66 lbs for a CPU (you'd need dolly for your military smartphone), consuming 5.4x18=97.2 Watts, from liquid nitrogen 90K to 600K-273.15=327C (327*9/5+32 = 620 Fahrenheit), 3 km/s2=3000 m/s2, divided by 9.806 m/s2 = 306g acceleration, and proton decay has never been observed, but, according to Wikipedia, by most recent grand unified theories of physics calculations the lowest possible limit on half life for proton decay is about 1.29×10^34 years via positron decay. That's a long MTBF, mean time between failures, when the age of the universe since the Big Bang is estimated at 13.8x10^9 years.
Those look like some Soviet/Russian specs. Inefficient as fuck, but when it comes to reliability, they stand up any kind of abuse, unbreakable, and idiot proof. And over engineered with safety factors of 9000x, and that's how you end up with 60+ lbs for a CPU.
Dude it's not openSSL that's really flawed, I mean boo hoo, they hid and passed under everyone's nose some faults then made it blow up in everyone's face, so what, even if you had a perfect OpenSSL, if the hardware itself is fucked, you're out of luck, you can throw any kind of software at it, they can watch the screen as you can watch it when you type, they can log the keystrokes, etc., the hardware itself is rigged. Why wouldn't it be? Duh! Which is what this whole Russian chip article is about, getting secure hardware, but they go about it by yet another anal retentive way, design your own custom code for an Arm processor, then send it off to a chip foundry somewhere (i'm guessing the chip foundries in Korea, Japan or Taiwan, maybe US for IBM, or Puerto Rico and Malaysia for Intel, if IBM and Intel are willing to do subcontracting for Arm), then voilà, get your own secure chip the easy way. Yet another bullshit they are trying to pass by everyone, hey, everyone, your computer is secure, start hiding some secrets in it, we swear we can't see them! By the way Arm is retarded in the way that they are a pure intellectual property company, they own absolutely no physical manufacturing facilities, and most of the Arm chips are made in the East Asian Tiger countries. At least IBM and Intel does have their own fabs and don't trust it to someone else, in fact I was looking to get different commercial versions of Unix instead of Linux on ebay for cheap, and guess what, I got Solaris 8 for like 8 bux for Intel platform, but there is no way to get IBM AIX for intel platform, can you guess why? Because IBM is not retarded enough to trust Intel chips and assume liability over what happens on them. Which is why Microsoft ditches any liability too for their software, because they don't make the whole shebang computer. If you want trustworthy computing, get it from IBM that makes both the AIX Unix software, and the chips, be it RS/6000, or PowerPC, or System/370 Mainframes, but in each case IBM controls both the hardware and the software part, so they can assume liability when the shit hits the fan, as opposed to going after Microsoft or Intel, and they point the finger at each other, saying it's not my fault, it's the other guy's responsibility. Maybe that's why the computing business moved from IBM dominance into the MS/Intel way of doing business, of evading responsibility reasons. Dividing up responsibility between two or more people means no responsibility, the best slogan in a team environment when trying to find who's responsible is the standard answer from every single person: it wasn't me, I didn't do it. In a job environment if you can figure out a way to make people work alone, divide up the work to single person unit stages, with personal responsibility in each, you automatically get a magical improvement in quality, productivity and profitability. If you can't divide up the responsibility, then military style top down command works better than some ad-hoc gang of nobody's in charge and responsible. And in such cases being on the bottom keeps you out of the responsibility most, saying I was just following the command of my superiors, and didn't really care, (care is not the best word, didn't really fight them, didn't really hold up production over an issue i felt was not right) because they were responsible if it didn't work out correctly. Monarchy style top down command if often more efficient than Congress-like debate between a few hundred elected representatives, who take forever to decide, so in time of war the President is like a dictator for the military, and Congress and Senate can criticize or overrule weeks of months later, but they cannot make the on time, millisecond decisions required by war, like a monarch, or dictator-like president. Which is how teamwork in a work environment is often most efficient, we all listen to one guy, and do what he says, not because we agree with it, or he is the smartest, in fact he could be the dumbest of us but we put him in charge and listen to him and do what he says, beca
You can't capture a 10-20 mile per second asteroid, unless you speed up to that speed, and go along with it, or you ping pong it with weapons/bullets/objects to another desired speed, but if you're not going the same speed, it flies by you off and away like an ambulance with a siren. The best way to capture asteroids is to seek ones with near-miss orbits with the Moon or Earth, like (i'm talking shooting stars in August, when Earth flies through that domain) and modify their path to impact directly into the Moon. Kaboom, captured, even if you have to dig deep for it, and it splashes all over the place in the form of a crater. In fact why bother ping pong-ing asteroids into the Moon, when it already has all these craters. Maybe that's what the most detailed ever survey of the Moon by the Chinese a few years ago was about, heavy metal stuff - osmium (22.6), iridium (22.4), platinum (21.45), rhenium (21.04), Uranium (20.2) (usually combined with oxygen, and then not so dense), tungsten (also with oxygen) (19.35), gold (19.32) (btw archimedes' Eureka! method may not have been accurate if the king's crown was made of tungsten, but then the color would be off, it's hard to forge gold color and forge the density too; you could also try blends of copper and say, uranium (not being a precious metal like gold), but you probably could not get the color and density both right), The list continues, but not that heavy anymore: tantalum (16.65). thorium (15.4), mercury (13.55, but very volatile), hafnium, rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, lead (11.35), silver (10.5), molybdenum (10.22), copper (8.96), nickel (8.9), iron (7.87 sp.gr (specific gravity)),
Apropo who cares, I recently got a shortwave radio again, and guess what, only bible thumpers are available on it anymore. Ehh, even a decade ago you could listen to BBC world news, but they no longer broadcast to Europe or America on shortwave. Can you believe that? Shortwave and BBC used to be inseparable! And you assumed even in an apocalypse you could get at least some somewhat unbiased news from them and know whats going on in the bigger world past your daily local newspaper brainwashing, you'd get a different perspective of the world.
I love Chinese, Japanese and Asians, as nations, like I love tigers, as creatures. I want them to live well and prosper, I admire their culture and beauty, but I would not trust them completely not to eat me, I still need defenses against them. Just watch how they eat live octopus in Korea, that's like the uber definition of unkosher food, ripping limbs off of live animals. And these animals are quite intelligent too. So if we lose our strong military protection, it may become quite enticing to them to attack us. Which is what I'm paying taxes for, military protection, not for even more non-self-sufficient young people to multiply out of control on Social Security money that was meant for the elderly. I mean we don't want anyone starving, but come on man. Put a leash on your dick, it's not her fault, she can't resist dick, it's your fault if she gets pregnant and you can't stay with her to help out raise the baby. Baby momma baby daddy stuff. At least be husband and wife for that welfare money, that's one degree better. But I'm paying tax money mostly for military protection, and Obama is too fucking naive to realize just how important that is. If they introduced a law that the insurance companies getting fat on Obamacare maintain private armies that supplement our defenses in case an invasion happens from Japan, or a united Korea, China and Japan trio, then I wouldn't mind paying them all that dough, as long as they do yearly parades with the tanks, troops and planes for me to see, this is what all that money buys. But I bet the profit goes for dirty old men executives' country club memberships to get sucked by a teenage girl, and golf club memberships, not weapons or supporting private armies. And what's this disarming the nation stuff, gun control? Plus private armies in a democracy? But if they'll say it means zero taxes absolutely, no property, income tax, and even no mandatory insurance, just let private armies coexist with the national military, and if these private armies can defend my country, and I don't have to pay anything into them, that sounds like an alternative to look at.
In the bible it says it is immoral to be a slut. Read Ezekiel 23. Moreover it says anonizing(masturbation, pulling out when you come and coming on the ground instead, wasting sperm) and sodomizing (this includes anal sex, but also oral sex, any kind of sex where you may come somewhere else but the proper hole, i think also sex between two men or two women, but tittyfucking is probably anonizing, I'm not sure it has ever been defined as such) are also immoral. I'm not sure about the chapters, I'm not enough of a bible thumper yet. But as far as I understand the only appropriate sex is one between a husband and wife and ejaculating into the vagina, except when she's on her period when there should be abstinence. That's what the bible says, as far as I can tell. It was written in a day and age where people died young and the world had plenty room for new people. These days we talk about global overpopulation problems, and the answers to it, besides contraceptives that we can't manufacture properly, are anonizing and sodomizing, or abstinence. Also abortions, but now you're talking heavy duty decisions and very serious stuff. Abstinence is difficult, and there may be proven health benefits to having a sex life, if nothing else, masturbation at the very least.
I recently found some Ambrosia Honey Co. stuff from Colorado at Walmart. Being from the mountains you assume there is less agriculture, and less Monsanto biotech stuff, like sprayed insecticides or insecticide-producing genetically modified plants, but it's not certain how they get the honey, but there is a higher chance that it's clean and it's made by healthy bees. As you say Desert Honey has the least chance of insecticides, as who will spray it in the desert? There is no agriculture there, but some wild flowers.
Healthy bees are becoming rare. Especially the wild variations. Bees and other bugs have been around for a long time, they've seen dinosaurs, they've seen humans appear out of nowhere, but up until a century or two ago they were mostly fine, and these days they are under deadly attack from very specific chemicals called insecticides, each decade getting more and more potent. Also lawn mowing killing anything of color on the lawn, such as white, yellow, red or blue, is widespread, the acceptable lawn being one that's pure green, hosed with all kinds of chemicals. What are the butterflies and bees supposed to eat? You know what a butterfly's face looks like? It has a huge dildo sticking out of it, it has no teeth, no lips, no tongue, but one long tube only, and it lowers it into a flower to suck nectar. Bees are more complex, they have the sucker and the chewing mandrils, both, while grasshoppers only have the mandrils, but no suckers. Every single colored flower means a bug with color vision. The flower and the pollinating bug - one cannot live without the other.
Besides insecticides being widespread, I think another cause of CCD (colony collapse disorder) was overharvesting of honey. A beekeeper is stuck in a financial pinch, he's forced to take more honey and feed more sugar solution instead of what he feels is appropriate, and by bees not consuming enough honey that's full of antibiotics and moderating agents, keeping traditional parasite levels at, say 0.03% level, in balance, by not letting bees eat honey but have them eat sugar instead, such diseases grow to, say, 40% in the population, and many of these occurring simultaneously succumbs the population. The answer to the problem is to lower insecticide use, and keep beekeepers out of financial hardship, so they don't have to kill their own bees and can maintain a better balance on how much honey he (or she) takes.
That's retarded, as ammonium nitrate is an excellent fertilizer, and the cost of finding enough horse shit to get the same level of nitrogen in the soil is too high, it is not optimum economics. I think "chemical free" means the funky organic toxins used as pesticides - insecticides, rodenticides and herbicides - which are potentially toxic to humans too, not just anything man made synthetic. Also when it comes to animal derived foods, antibiotic and hormone free stuff, such as meat and eggs. I eat a lot of eggs, and I think they use arsenic compounds as the cheapest means of mass-controlling the nastiness of congested chickens sitting on top of each other and shitting on each other and sitting covered in shit all day, so in that disease hell the only way to stay alive is by being pumped full of antibiotics, and all that arsenic ends up in the eggs too or wherever phosphorous goes, it also has the side effect of blowing chickens suddenly up with fatty tissue for a good price (cha-ching!), so I eat chicken or eggs to get this free arsenic antibiotic, but with the side effect of having excess fatty tissue too. What's worse, being sickly, or being a bit fluffy, having extra fat in places you'd rather not? So I think organic chicken is arsenic and antibiotic free too, and I would avoid it for that reason, if I wanted the antibiotics, since I live in a congested urban area, where, even if people don't shit on each other from being crowded, being crowded means the bacteria floating in the air have a higher chance of being a human disease, than out in the middle of nature where there is nobody else but you for miles, and then the bacteria there have a very small chance of being a human disease. I don't understand people that yearn to go to concerts and crowded venues like that, to me that spells disease, there is this natural sense of appropriate amount of human population density that's still balanced out enough by regular nature and abundance of other lifeforms. A healthy harmony.
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OK, let's assume the Sun has no hydrogen at all, and all its mass is made of the same material as Earth.
According to http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pla... the Sun is about 2e30 (i.e. 2x10^30) kg.
According to ditto, luminosity is 3.85E26 J/s, or W. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... the Earth's inner lava heat comes from
232 Th at 3.27E-12 W/kg mantle
238 U at 2.91E-12
40 K at 1.08E-12
235 U at 0.125E-12
Adding these up you get 7.39E-12 W/kg mantle. Multiplying by the solar mass you get 1.47E19 W, which is much less than the luminosity, by about 26E6 times.
Btw, at 3000 solar neutrinos a year, that's one every 2.92 hrs, out of the 10^28/s*3600*2.92=1.05E32 neutrinos per year (granted most of them fly off to somewhere else, the solid angle of Earth from the Sun is small.) With Avogadro number at 6.023E23, 1E28/s is 16603 moles of neutrino/s, or, on the ballpark of 1 hydrogen atom per neutrino at 16.6 kg/s converted, while the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... page has a picture saying the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen per second. So the fraction of hydrogen atoms fusing that produce a neutrino is that small? 620E9 kg/s vs. 16.6 kg/s?
I'm sleepy now, and I haven't even read the wikipedia page on neutrino detectors yet. But it's the weekend, I'll read up on it, and maybe post more later.
I've had thoughts about how we assume that extragalactic space is pure vacuum, when it might actually be pretty dense gas compared to what we think it is, and that could explain why so many galaxies are spiral (spiral galaxies are like fish-swirls on the surface of a pond, when there was no rotation to begin with, just a downward sinking motion, rotation, angular momentum, and swirls generated by the sinking from slight instabilities) and vacuum happens only where the extragalactic smooth uniform gas-soup collapses gravitationally, kind of like throwing a magnet on an iron dust filled paper, it's vacuum near the magnet, and there might be a minimum vacuum point in the solar system), why they lost track of the Voyager probes (true the antenna distance was huge, but it might have been an aerodynamic drag by the weak vacuum,) why extra solar system spaceships then need to be aerodynamic with shuttle like reentry heat shields, and then how other fast flying objects out there impacting this ever permeating "dark energy" hydrogen soup would glow from shuttle like reentry heat shield effects, or shooting star meteorite heating effects, stuff you see on a lot of astronomical pictures (the heat in the rings might be partly exploding material, but what if it wasn't originally glowing when it was propelled to high speed - I don't know, can such a thing be out there? Like what's the temperature of a black hole, can it be cold and can that explode? So anyway, if there is aerodynamic drag past Pluto, then the Voyager probes have a finite distance from us where they will stop due to that drag, and interstellar travel then requires continuous propulsion and very low speeds, but possibly abundant fuel everywhere.
What are the proofs that extragalactic space is full vacuum? Even if all matter has coalesced into mostly galaxies, quite a bit may still be out there, and the vacuum inside galaxies might be stronger than outside them. us Still, what kind of rate of neutrinos does a calibration device generate, and do you have to wait like a whole year before you pick up a signal?
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..said Socrates to pretty much everybody.
I beg to differ.
Where are these new detectors, and how do they detect different flavors of neutrinos? Neutrino detectors are humongous contraptions deep underground, most catching scintillations. There isn't much to "tune" to catch, and the 1987 event catching two different types of neutrinos from a single event (unless you have a theory of stage-wise double step collapse, the first one giving electron neutrinos, the second muon neutrinos, or even if same kind, but different kabooms) shows that old school detectors have no problem picking up small amounts of neutrinos from a tiny portion of the sky, and they interact just fine, and the stuff we measure as solar neutrinos is probably coming from actual neutrino producing things, but not our Sun.
Btw, exactly. Occam's razor http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/... cuts out any such superfluous bs from science. We have a solar neutrino problem, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... , we cannot detect all the neutrinos that are supposed to be flooding us from the Sun, so we suppose that they have a very weak interaction coefficient, but to really fit the graph, we need one more object concocted, a neutrino mass. My college professor said give me 19 independent variables, and I can fit an elephant with a graph. Give me 20, and I can accurately fit the tail too. Occam's razor is against such things. Observational evidence showing neutrinos propagating faster than light is exciting, not disheartening!
The real answer to the solar neutrino problem is that there is no fusion going on inside the Sun. Yeah, you heard that right, time to revise all science textbooks. Or how else do you explain that a tiny little object in the night sky sets off not one, but three neutrino detectors worldwide, but we keep listening to the neutrinos from the Sun and they ain't coming, when in fact the detectors should be flooded and drowned in solar neutrino signals, and ignore distant galaxy events. Fact is there is no fusion going on inside the Sun, the Sun is only hot for the same reason the inside of the Earth is hot: Thorium, Uranium 238 and 235, and Potassium-40. In fact that is why an asteroid is cold, the Moon has no molten lava, because it's too small, nor does Mars, or Mercury, but Venus is sufficiently large to possess one, Earth is larger, and Jupiter, underneath all that hydrogen, is probably even hotter than Earth, and so are probably Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, depending on the size of their silicate-cores. If you dumped a bunch of silicate asteroids with terrestrial abundance of thorium, uranium and potassium-40, together, into an Earth-sized mass, you'd get a planet with a molten inside, and a certain degree of surface temperature just from that, and total heat emissions. If you gathered enough similar asteroids and planets in extra-solar-system space, and dumped it all together to form an object the mass of the Sun, you'd pretty much get a Sun, with 5778 K surface temperature, not just molten volcano lava underneath a cold crust, but the whole surface would be volcano lava. Under such mass the gravity would be big enough to hold back even hydrogen, even at that 5800 K temperature, but as holding more and more back increases size, it increases gravity and increases compression and accelerates the nuclear reactor, i.e., the temperature goes up, and hydrogen gets boiled off and shot off as solar wind, and the Sun has a somewhat steady size, instead of an ever-growing one. Such compression/temperature rise cycles, blowing off hydrogen into outer space, it cooling by thermal radiation, falling back onto the Sun, with very long characteristic times, could explain ice-ages and global warming ages, as hydrogen can take a long trip all the way past Pluto, then stop, then get slowly accelerated back and fall back unto the Sun, and this whole thing could be steady state, but once in a while you have a massive comet or what not bring new fuel, or create a cold spot, or what not, and create minute fluctuations that could self amplify into full scale ice ages. But helium, being 4 times heavier than hydrogen, stays down, so the reason for the 75% hydrogen and 25% He in the Sun is a simple distillation process by molten lava down below, not a fusion conversion of hydrogen to helium, else our neutrino detectors would be screaming and not even noticing a distant SN1987A under the heavy noise. In fact when you look up in the sky and you see all the stars, that's pretty much all the matter there is in the Universe, so to speak, because if it gets massive, it gets hot by the natural abundance of nuclear isotopes, everything massive enough is a natural nuclear reactor fueled by the diffuse, trace, nuclear isotop
I bet the new record keeping software runs on java or MS bastardized java (aka. dotnet). Maybe that's part of the problem. I personally can't stand java or dotnet, just the way it reads is way too bloated. By the way the overhead of programming and customizing Excel (97 and 2000, anything later sucks, if nothing else, requires "activation.") spreadsheets with VBA is minimal compared to having to read through and comprehend the intricacies of standard WinAPI, or even Java or dotnet. We used to have C, Basic, Fortran and Pascal as main high level programming languages in the old days, but now we have java, dotnet, python, javascript, etc., all of which are very heavy, bloated, and mental comprehension complexity a lot higher than the oldschool stuff, so it's hard not to make mistakes, or even customize and prettify it is very expensive, so stuff slips by the programmer's common sense checks.
Oh, I just saw the post below. They are talking about spraying insecticides right before inviting a bee pollinator on a contract. Now that is sick, and the beekeeper has no idea his bees are getting poisoned, so it makes good financial sense for the farmer. Again, if you absolutely have to spray insecticides, wait till the bees come and go, and spray only after. But Monsanto should get into selling natural predators instead of insecticides or insecticide-making genetically engineered plants. Spiders are hard to farm like chickens, you can't keep them together because they eat each other, (the chickens only peck each other bloody when too congested above their natural sense of equilibrium population density, so they get debeaked). They should figure out at Monsanto how to farm spiders isolated from each other, in like an apartment-complex-matchbox way, and sell them to farmers to release in their fields to control bugs, instead of spraying insecticides. Spiders are gonna be like weeeeee, yo what fun! And the other insects are gonna be like warning, spiders, but at least they've dealt with spiders for hundreds of millions of years, unlike these insecticides.
PS. When I removed a tent I had standing for almost three years out in the wooded countryside - as I never really had time to go be in it - there were all kinds of bugs that found home in it - large carpenter ants, spiders - all hiding from the constant monsoon-like rain. I was not aware it was so difficult to find a dry spot for acres in the forest, (as the same exact gang of ants found my stuff like a few acres away before, and settled into it, making my sleeping bags full of ant-smell) One of the guests I had to shake off when folding the tent was a pretty large sized (like a quarter inch), spider mother, (I'm assuming it was the female, not sure), with over a hundred tiny spider babies packed tight on her back, and they all fell off her back during the scare, unto the forest floor full of dead leaves. I was thinking about them driving home, if they have any way of finding each other again to reunite, by smell, or sight, I don't know how it'd be possible. But it shows some spiders don't each other as a default behavior when congested. But the last one of the ants I had a really hard time getting rid of, like it would keep clinging to stuff with her antlers for forever, and not let go. I accidentally had brought home one of her sisters like 2 years earlier, when I thought my sleeping bag was all clear, but obviously one got stuck in it, cuz I saw it escape and run when I put my sleeping bag in the tub, and it'd come out once every few months, all alone, then, I guess it doesn't live that long. I saw some more ants, a few of them like last year in the summer, by the garage, but they were not as big, and not alone, they were a different gang. I should have tried to catch her and take her back to her gang? Yeah good luck with that, cuz it moves really fast, and then driving well over an hour wasting all that gas just for an ant to reunite with her peers, then drive back! What a noble thought! By the way carpenter ants can turn your wooden home into sawdust pretty quickly, should your home be wooden, and them not finding a dry and warm place for themselves. That's a bit hit to the bottom line for people that pay say 50,000 for land value, then 350,000 for wooden house value on that land. Somehow such prices seem distorted, it should be the other way around, but then construction folks can't make a killing.
It's not the farmers that are killing wild bees and butterflies, because they grow crops that actually need protection (true some of that could wait for protecting the grain when put into storage from bugs, not while it's growing in the open fields, and in the open fields supplying predators are a better natural harmony), but it's the urban sprawl idiots pushing their lawns all over the place, and keeping it pure green, all flowerless. There is simply no fucking reason to mow a lawn, let alone spray it with chemicals. It's a highly distorted sense of beauty, everyone is bankrupt, yet has the time and money for gas and mowers to waste on grascutting! Just let nature be. Leave it the fuck alone. You don't have to mow it. Let the grass grow knee high, then let a farmer cut it for free, or even sell it to him, as hay for his horses, and let him make a nice drying haystack on your "lawn" out of it. Haystacks like you see when you drive through the country side. Make some money on the bitch while sitting back and relaxing on your porch, let alone pumping money and time and effort into it, wasting it all, over your distorted sense of beauty. Money in the bank is beautiful. Bank account empty, financing a lawnmower, paying for gas, and wasting your time, is not.
The true cure of HIV is a genetic mutation in a human, with HIV resistant genes. The highest likelihood of such a mutation emerging is in an area ravaged by HIV deaths, such as South Africa. If HIV doesn't really cause death (i.e. does not really increase mortality) then it's not really a disease worth mutating against. There are probably a gazillion kinds of bacteria and viruses that live in you, that do nothing special, and these HIV FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) spreading people will use one of these standard viruses, and call it the AIDS virus. By the way it's extrememly, extremely difficult, if not impossible, to properly select and filter for a virus - a sodium bloodtest is easy, so is low molecular weight stuff like sugars, etc, but fishing out a virus, staining it with a dye under an electron microscope (because it's too small for optical microscopes, and the electric microscope requires a gold or osmium tetroxide gas layer coating and even then it vaporizes the metal as the electron beam scans, so you can't really dye a metal coating like you can dye the naked virus), then calling it HIV after you stained in with 8 different dies giving you a yes no answer (i.e. 256 bits, as in there are only 256 different viruses out there.) (Notice my recent love of grammatically incomplete/incorrect sentences lacking a verb.) Going for DNA fragment special short chain combination abundance (such as ACTGCTCAACTGACG, a couple of these fingerprint markers specific to each virus) might work, but it's hard to accurately chop DNA to sticks of say 22 units each, and not fully disassemble it to just A, C, T, G, and even then there is a lot of noise, because all life on the planet is based on DNA, and all DNA is made of 2 bit(i.e. 4 variations, 8 bit having 256 variations, and 1 bit 2 variations) A, C, T, G units.
Oh blow some more smoke up my ass with these naive "safety measures", "regulating drones", "areas such as Afganistan." Drones are used today, in areas such as US of A, against citizens who have been declared witches.
By the way next time you feel there is a worm chewing your brain, don't hit the hospital ER, cuz they'll laugh you in the face and tell you to lay off the crack, cuz you're hallucinating. You go there more than once, they take you to the nuthouse and, like good samaritans, help you out by holding you down and shooting you up with Haldol. Good luck keeping a job when you're on Haldol, your hands refuse to follow instructions on it. In fact the worm in your head is a remote cancer-treating-gamma-knife-like x-ray, but because it's coming from a drone up high, it's low powered, and takes friggin forever to cause a boiling hole inside your head, and then when you feel it, all you have to do is move your head faster than the automatic tracker can follow it, or move it back and forth to create an oscillation in the tracker, hopefully resonance, and wear the motor out, at least lower its accuracy from a distance. The real reason why they want regulations public, because they do these things mostly under the cover of darkness at night, and if you work a nightshift job, there is not enough darkness time to remotely lobotomize you enough from a drone, when you're sleeping in a cast iron tub and the high powered appliance x-rays of your neighbors are shielded out, and they have to come at you from above. So under "open regulations" people spotting these things during broad daylight during "routine surveillance operations" is gonna be OK. By the way your brain can be lobotomized quite a bit, if it happens little bit at a time, it will adapt, as shown by surgeries of children with seizures lasting 10 hrs out of 24 in a day, who, after removing the left side, or right side of their brain completely, still function fine. Also people with hydrocephalus - huge water filled holes in their brains expanding their skull to humongous size, and leaving only a micron thin sheath of brain tissue next to the skull - function like other normal people, and show up at the hospitals for a CT scan complaining of "minor headaches." Of course you're not gonna get the real CT scan images, that'd be too scary, there are a bunch of standard files on the computer to show people, some faking a broken arm, so they get a broken arm bone x-ray image, and a cast, with the "manufacturer assuming the warranty repair" on the bone (i.e. the Lord Almighty.) It's the real world, if you see a drone in the sky, so what, if you got holes in your brain, got gassed with anesthetics, infected with all kinds of genetically engineered and trackable things - all to erode your ethics, your humanity - just piss on it and get on with your life and try to make the best of it, enjoy it anyway. Life is like playing cards, sometimes luck in the cards dealt to you is cruel, and you have to play a shitty hand. So what.
And by the way, speaking of CT scans looking at the holes in your brain created by remote gamma knives operating from drones, what's with this naiveness about unlimited coverage requirement in Obamacare? You know what automatically happens? Doctors know the money is coming, so they'll hold the patient forever. It's like free money falling out of the sky, the insurance companies can't resist, and exercise checks and balances, but that does not matter for now, lets get everyone aboard of having mandatory insurance first, then we'll jack up the price to 90% of your income, of course you only have to pay the 10%, and Obamacare will fund the 80% from your taxes. The only proper insurance premium to infinite coverage is infinite premium. Or it's a lie. As in, back in the 90's there were these dialup ISP's who said for $99 you can have free internet for the rest of your life, but they were outcompeted by the ones like juno or netzero who did not even ask for $99 but just gave you free internet if you were willing to watch an ad on your computer, f
By the way there are pictures on the web how the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) figured out how to conquer all the hillsides into level terraces to grow more rice and sustain their ever growing population. Problem is once you run out of those unfarmable areas to convert into farmable areas, there is nowhere left to grow. Are you gonna have floating platforms on the sea to have farms on?
Ahh, the twisted web of alliances! Nation 1 is allied with nation 2. Nation 1 goes to war with nation 3, and requests nation 2 to pitch in, due to their alliance. Nation 2 says they cannot since they are also allied with nation 3. The relationship between nation 1 and nation 2 deteriorates, but they are still semi-allies. Add more than 3 actors to this game and it can get really complex. Two superpowers, like USA and USSR during cold war, never going to war with each other, and each other nation in the world allied to either one of them, was a very stable world, besides some Cuban missile crisis.
Now the US economy is plummeting from global competition from places like Bangladesh or Pakistan making all my shirts I buy at Walmart, and soon you can't tell who's who? Who's on top? China? Japan? The British Empire makes a comeback (proving once and for all that Monarchy is better than Democracy after all the democracy issues pile on in the US leading to a Lehman Brother's type collapse, and closing every single mall two, followed by closing every single factory?) Russia? India? I'm sure the muslims like Turks want to bring back some Ottoman empire too. How about the EU becoming militaristic overnight? They have some weapon's capabilities, and economic power, and may be getting low on resources, even with heavy renewable energy investment. I never heard of Indonesia, other than there are lots of people there too.
There are 330 million people in the US. 1300 million in China, 1000 million in India, and only "120" million in Japan. Japan is a tiny country compared to the US, but there is 1 Japanese for every 3 Americans, 9 Indians for every 3 Americans, and 13 Chinese for every 3 Americans. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the fuel supply to their industry, to their economic livelihood was cut off by the Dutch Indies (Indonesia) oil companies. They were sort of provoked into it. Being outnumbered 3 to 1, the odds are not that greatly against them, most Americans think Japan is a tiny island and we outnumber them at least 10 to 1 or even 100 to 1. Zrinski boldly made his final charge with 600 Croatians/others against 150,000 Turks. Because every time he forcibly took the tax from a serf, he justified it by saying when it's time to defend you, I will put my ass on the line for you. So he couldn't wave the white flag. But that's called being outnumbered, overpowered, and still attacking, as a matter of honor, of duty. The Japanese defenses at Iwo Jima during WW2 showed similar "honor":attitudes and no flag waving til extremely to the end.
In a world where gas prices went from $1/gal to $4/gal in a decade, and are on the rise, eventually something has got to give. But hopefully we can figure out a way to feed everyone, fuel everyone, and avert any kind of war. But there are no guarantees, the future is always uncertain.
Tee hee hee. Do unto others as though would have them do unto thee. Sometimes I'd like someone to explain a joke to me.
In the Soviet Union human life was more expandable than in the USA, Had this attitude been different, it may have reflected itself in the accident rates.
So they could clone their own i386 system, with DR DOS (with source code) or FreeDOS. DOS is not to be underestimated for military use, especially russian mentality type one. DOS is like the ultimate Russian/Soviet design. Retardedly simple, fast, lacks basic features you think you absolutely need til you get used to the workarounds of not having them, it's idiot proof, unbreakable. For one it does not "crash" by sudden power loss, all you lose is whatever data you have in RAM since you last hit the save to disk button, it has no disk cache (other than some disk buffers that are pretty quick), and the way to power off DOS is by cutting the power to it.Even dead simple and barebones commandline linux console is not military enough in behavior compared to DOS, as in some versions it goes through a "Sending all processes the SIGHALT signal", then "Sending all processes the SIGKILL signal" masturbation, let alone Windows displaying a "Please wait", and "Windows is Shutting Down" masturbation in your face process.
Back in the late 90's when I was still a computing fan building custom computers and overclocking the CPU's by a few MHz to get extra speed, I remember when shopping online you had to pay extra based on serial numbers/batches, and origins of the Intel CPU's, and I think it was Malaysia and Puerto Rico Intel fabs that made the price difference for overclockability. That's kinda neat to know they have wafer processing in Ireland and Israel, I always assumed they'd do at least some of it in the US too, if nothing else, keep a pilot flame of production going just in case there is a global war and you can't get to places like Malaysia easily.
The thing about war is that it always bites you in the ass unexpected, it does not come preannounced 10 years before it, so you can prepare for it. Back in the feudal days there was a custom of honor of declaring war between neighbor princes, sending an ultimatum, and waiting for an answer, for an acceptance of war, before committing to any action. By WW2 the German blitzkrieg term's essence was not sending such an ultimatum. So you don't get a letter in the mail declaring war against you, with an adversary patiently waiting for you to reply and accept it, giving you a few years to prepare, and pull your manufacturing base from places like Malaysia.
Hahaha - 30 kg is like 66 lbs for a CPU (you'd need dolly for your military smartphone), consuming 5.4x18=97.2 Watts, from liquid nitrogen 90K to 600K-273.15=327C (327*9/5+32 = 620 Fahrenheit), 3 km/s2=3000 m/s2, divided by 9.806 m/s2 = 306g acceleration, and proton decay has never been observed, but, according to Wikipedia, by most recent grand unified theories of physics calculations the lowest possible limit on half life for proton decay is about 1.29×10^34 years via positron decay. That's a long MTBF, mean time between failures, when the age of the universe since the Big Bang is estimated at 13.8x10^9 years.
Those look like some Soviet/Russian specs. Inefficient as fuck, but when it comes to reliability, they stand up any kind of abuse, unbreakable, and idiot proof. And over engineered with safety factors of 9000x, and that's how you end up with 60+ lbs for a CPU.
Dude it's not openSSL that's really flawed, I mean boo hoo, they hid and passed under everyone's nose some faults then made it blow up in everyone's face, so what, even if you had a perfect OpenSSL, if the hardware itself is fucked, you're out of luck, you can throw any kind of software at it, they can watch the screen as you can watch it when you type, they can log the keystrokes, etc., the hardware itself is rigged. Why wouldn't it be? Duh! Which is what this whole Russian chip article is about, getting secure hardware, but they go about it by yet another anal retentive way, design your own custom code for an Arm processor, then send it off to a chip foundry somewhere (i'm guessing the chip foundries in Korea, Japan or Taiwan, maybe US for IBM, or Puerto Rico and Malaysia for Intel, if IBM and Intel are willing to do subcontracting for Arm), then voilà, get your own secure chip the easy way. Yet another bullshit they are trying to pass by everyone, hey, everyone, your computer is secure, start hiding some secrets in it, we swear we can't see them! By the way Arm is retarded in the way that they are a pure intellectual property company, they own absolutely no physical manufacturing facilities, and most of the Arm chips are made in the East Asian Tiger countries. At least IBM and Intel does have their own fabs and don't trust it to someone else, in fact I was looking to get different commercial versions of Unix instead of Linux on ebay for cheap, and guess what, I got Solaris 8 for like 8 bux for Intel platform, but there is no way to get IBM AIX for intel platform, can you guess why? Because IBM is not retarded enough to trust Intel chips and assume liability over what happens on them. Which is why Microsoft ditches any liability too for their software, because they don't make the whole shebang computer. If you want trustworthy computing, get it from IBM that makes both the AIX Unix software, and the chips, be it RS/6000, or PowerPC, or System/370 Mainframes, but in each case IBM controls both the hardware and the software part, so they can assume liability when the shit hits the fan, as opposed to going after Microsoft or Intel, and they point the finger at each other, saying it's not my fault, it's the other guy's responsibility. Maybe that's why the computing business moved from IBM dominance into the MS/Intel way of doing business, of evading responsibility reasons. Dividing up responsibility between two or more people means no responsibility, the best slogan in a team environment when trying to find who's responsible is the standard answer from every single person: it wasn't me, I didn't do it. In a job environment if you can figure out a way to make people work alone, divide up the work to single person unit stages, with personal responsibility in each, you automatically get a magical improvement in quality, productivity and profitability. If you can't divide up the responsibility, then military style top down command works better than some ad-hoc gang of nobody's in charge and responsible. And in such cases being on the bottom keeps you out of the responsibility most, saying I was just following the command of my superiors, and didn't really care, (care is not the best word, didn't really fight them, didn't really hold up production over an issue i felt was not right) because they were responsible if it didn't work out correctly. Monarchy style top down command if often more efficient than Congress-like debate between a few hundred elected representatives, who take forever to decide, so in time of war the President is like a dictator for the military, and Congress and Senate can criticize or overrule weeks of months later, but they cannot make the on time, millisecond decisions required by war, like a monarch, or dictator-like president. Which is how teamwork in a work environment is often most efficient, we all listen to one guy, and do what he says, not because we agree with it, or he is the smartest, in fact he could be the dumbest of us but we put him in charge and listen to him and do what he says, beca
You can't capture a 10-20 mile per second asteroid, unless you speed up to that speed, and go along with it, or you ping pong it with weapons/bullets/objects to another desired speed, but if you're not going the same speed, it flies by you off and away like an ambulance with a siren. The best way to capture asteroids is to seek ones with near-miss orbits with the Moon or Earth, like (i'm talking shooting stars in August, when Earth flies through that domain) and modify their path to impact directly into the Moon. Kaboom, captured, even if you have to dig deep for it, and it splashes all over the place in the form of a crater. In fact why bother ping pong-ing asteroids into the Moon, when it already has all these craters. Maybe that's what the most detailed ever survey of the Moon by the Chinese a few years ago was about, heavy metal stuff - osmium (22.6), iridium (22.4), platinum (21.45), rhenium (21.04), Uranium (20.2) (usually combined with oxygen, and then not so dense), tungsten (also with oxygen) (19.35), gold (19.32) (btw archimedes' Eureka! method may not have been accurate if the king's crown was made of tungsten, but then the color would be off, it's hard to forge gold color and forge the density too; you could also try blends of copper and say, uranium (not being a precious metal like gold), but you probably could not get the color and density both right), The list continues, but not that heavy anymore: tantalum (16.65). thorium (15.4), mercury (13.55, but very volatile), hafnium, rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, lead (11.35), silver (10.5), molybdenum (10.22), copper (8.96), nickel (8.9), iron (7.87 sp.gr (specific gravity)),
Apropo who cares, I recently got a shortwave radio again, and guess what, only bible thumpers are available on it anymore. Ehh, even a decade ago you could listen to BBC world news, but they no longer broadcast to Europe or America on shortwave. Can you believe that? Shortwave and BBC used to be inseparable! And you assumed even in an apocalypse you could get at least some somewhat unbiased news from them and know whats going on in the bigger world past your daily local newspaper brainwashing, you'd get a different perspective of the world.
No. My two grandfathers were different persons from my father.
I love Chinese, Japanese and Asians, as nations, like I love tigers, as creatures. I want them to live well and prosper, I admire their culture and beauty, but I would not trust them completely not to eat me, I still need defenses against them. Just watch how they eat live octopus in Korea, that's like the uber definition of unkosher food, ripping limbs off of live animals. And these animals are quite intelligent too. So if we lose our strong military protection, it may become quite enticing to them to attack us. Which is what I'm paying taxes for, military protection, not for even more non-self-sufficient young people to multiply out of control on Social Security money that was meant for the elderly. I mean we don't want anyone starving, but come on man. Put a leash on your dick, it's not her fault, she can't resist dick, it's your fault if she gets pregnant and you can't stay with her to help out raise the baby. Baby momma baby daddy stuff. At least be husband and wife for that welfare money, that's one degree better. But I'm paying tax money mostly for military protection, and Obama is too fucking naive to realize just how important that is. If they introduced a law that the insurance companies getting fat on Obamacare maintain private armies that supplement our defenses in case an invasion happens from Japan, or a united Korea, China and Japan trio, then I wouldn't mind paying them all that dough, as long as they do yearly parades with the tanks, troops and planes for me to see, this is what all that money buys. But I bet the profit goes for dirty old men executives' country club memberships to get sucked by a teenage girl, and golf club memberships, not weapons or supporting private armies. And what's this disarming the nation stuff, gun control? Plus private armies in a democracy? But if they'll say it means zero taxes absolutely, no property, income tax, and even no mandatory insurance, just let private armies coexist with the national military, and if these private armies can defend my country, and I don't have to pay anything into them, that sounds like an alternative to look at.
In the bible it says it is immoral to be a slut. Read Ezekiel 23. Moreover it says anonizing(masturbation, pulling out when you come and coming on the ground instead, wasting sperm) and sodomizing (this includes anal sex, but also oral sex, any kind of sex where you may come somewhere else but the proper hole, i think also sex between two men or two women, but tittyfucking is probably anonizing, I'm not sure it has ever been defined as such) are also immoral. I'm not sure about the chapters, I'm not enough of a bible thumper yet. But as far as I understand the only appropriate sex is one between a husband and wife and ejaculating into the vagina, except when she's on her period when there should be abstinence. That's what the bible says, as far as I can tell. It was written in a day and age where people died young and the world had plenty room for new people. These days we talk about global overpopulation problems, and the answers to it, besides contraceptives that we can't manufacture properly, are anonizing and sodomizing, or abstinence. Also abortions, but now you're talking heavy duty decisions and very serious stuff. Abstinence is difficult, and there may be proven health benefits to having a sex life, if nothing else, masturbation at the very least.
I recently found some Ambrosia Honey Co. stuff from Colorado at Walmart. Being from the mountains you assume there is less agriculture, and less Monsanto biotech stuff, like sprayed insecticides or insecticide-producing genetically modified plants, but it's not certain how they get the honey, but there is a higher chance that it's clean and it's made by healthy bees. As you say Desert Honey has the least chance of insecticides, as who will spray it in the desert? There is no agriculture there, but some wild flowers.
Healthy bees are becoming rare. Especially the wild variations. Bees and other bugs have been around for a long time, they've seen dinosaurs, they've seen humans appear out of nowhere, but up until a century or two ago they were mostly fine, and these days they are under deadly attack from very specific chemicals called insecticides, each decade getting more and more potent. Also lawn mowing killing anything of color on the lawn, such as white, yellow, red or blue, is widespread, the acceptable lawn being one that's pure green, hosed with all kinds of chemicals. What are the butterflies and bees supposed to eat? You know what a butterfly's face looks like? It has a huge dildo sticking out of it, it has no teeth, no lips, no tongue, but one long tube only, and it lowers it into a flower to suck nectar. Bees are more complex, they have the sucker and the chewing mandrils, both, while grasshoppers only have the mandrils, but no suckers. Every single colored flower means a bug with color vision. The flower and the pollinating bug - one cannot live without the other.
Besides insecticides being widespread, I think another cause of CCD (colony collapse disorder) was overharvesting of honey. A beekeeper is stuck in a financial pinch, he's forced to take more honey and feed more sugar solution instead of what he feels is appropriate, and by bees not consuming enough honey that's full of antibiotics and moderating agents, keeping traditional parasite levels at, say 0.03% level, in balance, by not letting bees eat honey but have them eat sugar instead, such diseases grow to, say, 40% in the population, and many of these occurring simultaneously succumbs the population. The answer to the problem is to lower insecticide use, and keep beekeepers out of financial hardship, so they don't have to kill their own bees and can maintain a better balance on how much honey he (or she) takes.
That's retarded, as ammonium nitrate is an excellent fertilizer, and the cost of finding enough horse shit to get the same level of nitrogen in the soil is too high, it is not optimum economics. I think "chemical free" means the funky organic toxins used as pesticides - insecticides, rodenticides and herbicides - which are potentially toxic to humans too, not just anything man made synthetic. Also when it comes to animal derived foods, antibiotic and hormone free stuff, such as meat and eggs. I eat a lot of eggs, and I think they use arsenic compounds as the cheapest means of mass-controlling the nastiness of congested chickens sitting on top of each other and shitting on each other and sitting covered in shit all day, so in that disease hell the only way to stay alive is by being pumped full of antibiotics, and all that arsenic ends up in the eggs too or wherever phosphorous goes, it also has the side effect of blowing chickens suddenly up with fatty tissue for a good price (cha-ching!), so I eat chicken or eggs to get this free arsenic antibiotic, but with the side effect of having excess fatty tissue too. What's worse, being sickly, or being a bit fluffy, having extra fat in places you'd rather not? So I think organic chicken is arsenic and antibiotic free too, and I would avoid it for that reason, if I wanted the antibiotics, since I live in a congested urban area, where, even if people don't shit on each other from being crowded, being crowded means the bacteria floating in the air have a higher chance of being a human disease, than out in the middle of nature where there is nobody else but you for miles, and then the bacteria there have a very small chance of being a human disease. I don't understand people that yearn to go to concerts and crowded venues like that, to me that spells disease, there is this natural sense of appropriate amount of human population density that's still balanced out enough by regular nature and abundance of other lifeforms. A healthy harmony.