You are assuming that always happened when she made sex. It could be simply that the lights were from a mechanism to insert some device into him. Perhaps that is why he keeps having recurrent visions?
I have also thought a bit about this. One other reason is that she was simply testing just how strong the baby's material was and "accidentally" broke him.
No kidding. That was one of the stupidest motivation speeches I have ever seen. The only thing left for him to say was that we should go all back to hide in caverns, because we are too moronic to do anything correctly.
Actually, I think that would help. They should invade Saudi Arabia as well. It would cut the terrorist supply corridors to Iraq. The thing is, I don't think the USA has the manpower or support from the other powers to sustain a peacekeeping operation as large as that. It would take a very long time, decades, plus substancial money flows to rebuild those economies.
This is why I think the whole idea of invading Iraq was nonsense in the first place.
That is because education costs keep piling up. You need more and more books, more and more teachers. As our knowledge increases, so does the amount of money required to educate someone.
How would privatizing help with that problem?
Same thing about medicine. The thing about medicine is that I believe, eventually, we will know enough about how our bodies work to be able to substancially reduce the costs of basic maintenance.
There is waste and fraud in any large system.
But yeah, that shouldn't stop us from investing in space technologies.
Not really. They preserved ancient Greek and Latin books, among others. It is true that after a certain point there were radical movements in the church that advocated burning those books which had knowledge claimed to be in contradiction to the scriptures, but this was only later on.
There is plenty of research on Magneto-Hydrodynamic (MHD) propulsion. The problem with it is that it has a low thrust/weight ratio, hence it is no good for space launch where you need to climp up the gravity well. It is good for transplanetary travel however.
The nuclii of elements with atomic number greater than lead are all bigger than the range of the strong nuclear forces, so it's as if they're too big to fit inside the space assigned them. They therefore decay to lead to alleviate their instability. It follows that all the trans-plumbumic (i just made that term up, it's meant to be a fancy word for 'bigger than lead') must eventually decay into lead, and at the very least implies that the half-life of an element is inversely proportionl to its atomic numeber (plutionium decays faster than uranium, which decays faster than thorium...).
Nice theory. But Actinium (element 89) has a shorter half-life than Uranium (element 92). Lead is element 82. Seemingly element 109 also has more stable isotopes (3.4ms half-life) than element 108 (2ms half-life).
So much for strictly inversely proportional half-lifes versus atomic number past Lead. Next theory please?
For one, you don't know for sure if elements with higher atomic weight than we have found on Earth exist or not. They could be extremely rare or just not have been discovered yet, yet not be radioactive.
Regarding stability and element size... Technetium (element 43) is radioactive, yet Gold (element 79) is stable. It is even one of the less reactive materials we know...
If DDT was that lethal, why did the life expectancy of Americans actually increase over the period? I know many Americans don't exercise (at least they don't seem to) but that still doesn't explain why they didn't drop like flies. If you'll pardon my pun.
Mind you, I'm not saying it isn't toxic or dangerous and shouldn't be regulated, but it is quite likely it in the end actually saved more people from famine caused by insect plagues or disease carrying mosquitoes than it killed. I know for a fact that Europe used to have malaria until heavy insecticides like DDT erradicated it.
The worst thing about X is colour management. GDK does it better, but it still isn't good enough. Also, most of the time you just want to draw in RGBA format and X11 is a pig for this sort of thing.
For those reading from around the world, it should be noted that few if any such spin-offs come from the (non US) Military operations around the world. This comes from a completely different point of view of what we are about than what the other nations have been about in the past.
English military: Radar, Jet engines.
German military: Practical liquid fueled rockets, asphalted highway network.
I could likely come up with more examples, but I will stop here. The fact is the military has always pushed technology since the dawn of time. Or at least most militaries did. Those which did not often paid the price. Just ask the Byzantine empire which refused to buy the cannon technology from a guy who afterwards sold it to the Turks. Oh right, you can't ask them anymore.
Actually, one of the big obstacles to using hydrogen as a fuel is that it ISN'T very easily transportable. As a gas, you have to employ very high pressures that involve expensive tanks. Compress it all the way to a liquid and you've burned up so much energy that its no longer attractive as a more efficient source. Chemical storage (metal hydrides, etc) is being researched, but AFAIK, it isn't ready to be main-streamed.
Yes, elaborating further, the main problem of hydrogen is that despite having a high energy per mass, it is very low density. Liquid hydrogen @ -253C is 0.071 g/cc, gaseous is even worse, Hydrocarbons like Kerosene have 0.81 g/cc. So you need large and heavy tanks for hydrogen. Compressing it or making it colder so it gets into the liquid or even solid state doesn't help enough. Hence this research into the lithium hydrides, borax, etc. To have a compromise that has about the same energy per weight, but much more energy per volume. BTW, this is one reason why rockets are huge like blimps.
That's a great plan, except that the energy to do those things has to come from somewhere. It can't be hydrogen, because it would take more hydrogen than you are making to do it.
The idea is to replace heavy and slow charging batteries, not to have a new energy resource. Electricity is not an energy resource, yet we use it because it is easy to transport on cable and is readily convertable to heat, light, mechanic energy, etc. Despite the minor conversion losses.
Actually, ESA had some concepts for a Crew Transfer Vehicle capsule, after the Hermes mini shuttle proved to be a failure. However it was decided not to fund development besides the ARD reentry demonstrator. They decided to help the USA in the "more advanced" X-38 CRV instead. But then NASA pulled the plug and the rest is history.
There are currently moves to design the next generation launch system after Ariane 5. It is supposed to come online sometime after 2020. The Germans made a study called FESTIP. They studied several alternatives. SSTO and TSTO, winged, ballistic, etc. They identified two concepts as having the highest payoff and highest chance of success: a TSTO winged launch system and a suborbital so-called HOPPER space vehicle. They settled on HOPPER as the lower cost and risk approach and are currently doing a prototype.
In the meantime the French recently awoke to the necessity of an Ariane 5 replacement and have signed a deal with the Russians to develop two new reusable high performance engines. One using LOX/Hydrocarbon and another using LOX/LH2. They also started their own study, called FLPP. FLPP will build a test vehicle called Socrates using the Russian engines and the thermal protection systems pioneered in the yet to be launched EXPERT test vehicle. Talk about NIH syndrome. In their defense, the French are responsible for the Ariane 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 designs, so they probably think they have more experience to be able to pull this one off. That has some merit, but then again CNES was also responsible for the Hermes boondoggle...
Not that the Germans are any better, with plans for expensive vapourware like this in the past.
I assume it is a photograph of Mars overlayed on top of a 3D topographical heightmap of the surface. The 3D renderer probably added reflections to the surface, don't have a clue why they didn't turn that off. Looks like colored glass.
That plus some smoothing filters make the whole thing look a bit artificial, but that is life.
Starsem (a Franco-Russian join-venture) is building a Soyuz launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. Once it is built, in a couple of years, there will be an alternate launch site.
ESA is also finishing up production of the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle), which will provide a station resupply capability using the Ariane-5 launch platform. The prototype of the ATV has already been built. The first ATV will be launched to ISS this year.
Japan still has a chance to catch up I guess. The H2-A launch vehicle has had some teething troubles, but they should be able to fix it.
The Shuttle is still required to finish building the ISS. But since Bush said they would do it, it isn't a problem.
Cantate Domino:
"It firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord's coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors. Therefore, it commands all who glory in the name of Christian, at whatever time, before or after baptism, to cease entirely from circumcision, since, whether or not one places hope in it, it cannot be observed at all without the loss of eternal salvation. Regarding children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, when no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the Devil and adopted among the sons of God, it advises that holy baptism ought not to be deferred for forty or eighty days, or any time according to the observance of certain people, but it should be conferred as soon as it can be done conveniently, but so,that, when danger of death is imminent, they be baptized in the form of the Church, early without delay, even by a layman or woman, if a priest should be lacking, just as is contained more fully in the decree of the Armenians."
Because I am a male and I am not circumcised. Neither is my father. Neither is anyone else. The whole concept of circumcision is foreign to us.
According to Roman Catholic doctrine, you are not supposed to mutilate your body unless you explicitly need it for health reasons, or to benefit another without prejudice of your health.
Read this for more info. Circumcision used to be strictly forbidden according to canon. Only in 1952 was it considered permissible but only for health reasons.
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You are assuming that always happened when she made sex. It could be simply that the lights were from a mechanism to insert some device into him. Perhaps that is why he keeps having recurrent visions?
I have also thought a bit about this. One other reason is that she was simply testing just how strong the baby's material was and "accidentally" broke him.
Being heterosexual didn't seem to stop the Romans or the Mongols from doing their thing. Next theory!
No kidding. That was one of the stupidest motivation speeches I have ever seen. The only thing left for him to say was that we should go all back to hide in caverns, because we are too moronic to do anything correctly.
This is why I think the whole idea of invading Iraq was nonsense in the first place.
How would privatizing help with that problem?
Same thing about medicine. The thing about medicine is that I believe, eventually, we will know enough about how our bodies work to be able to substancially reduce the costs of basic maintenance.
There is waste and fraud in any large system.
But yeah, that shouldn't stop us from investing in space technologies.
Not really. They preserved ancient Greek and Latin books, among others. It is true that after a certain point there were radical movements in the church that advocated burning those books which had knowledge claimed to be in contradiction to the scriptures, but this was only later on.
Silly me, it's Magneto-Plasmadynamic (MPD), MHD is used for water propulsion...
There is plenty of research on Magneto-Hydrodynamic (MHD) propulsion. The problem with it is that it has a low thrust/weight ratio, hence it is no good for space launch where you need to climp up the gravity well. It is good for transplanetary travel however.
Nice theory. But Actinium (element 89) has a shorter half-life than Uranium (element 92). Lead is element 82. Seemingly element 109 also has more stable isotopes (3.4ms half-life) than element 108 (2ms half-life).
So much for strictly inversely proportional half-lifes versus atomic number past Lead. Next theory please?
Regarding stability and element size... Technetium (element 43) is radioactive, yet Gold (element 79) is stable. It is even one of the less reactive materials we know...
Mind you, I'm not saying it isn't toxic or dangerous and shouldn't be regulated, but it is quite likely it in the end actually saved more people from famine caused by insect plagues or disease carrying mosquitoes than it killed. I know for a fact that Europe used to have malaria until heavy insecticides like DDT erradicated it.
The worst thing about X is colour management. GDK does it better, but it still isn't good enough. Also, most of the time you just want to draw in RGBA format and X11 is a pig for this sort of thing.
What a mighty fine invention that is too. Remember what Napoleon said: an army marches on its stomach.
English military: Radar, Jet engines.
German military: Practical liquid fueled rockets, asphalted highway network.
I could likely come up with more examples, but I will stop here. The fact is the military has always pushed technology since the dawn of time. Or at least most militaries did. Those which did not often paid the price. Just ask the Byzantine empire which refused to buy the cannon technology from a guy who afterwards sold it to the Turks. Oh right, you can't ask them anymore.
That's a great plan, except that the energy to do those things has to come from somewhere. It can't be hydrogen, because it would take more hydrogen than you are making to do it.
The idea is to replace heavy and slow charging batteries, not to have a new energy resource. Electricity is not an energy resource, yet we use it because it is easy to transport on cable and is readily convertable to heat, light, mechanic energy, etc. Despite the minor conversion losses.
There are currently moves to design the next generation launch system after Ariane 5. It is supposed to come online sometime after 2020. The Germans made a study called FESTIP. They studied several alternatives. SSTO and TSTO, winged, ballistic, etc. They identified two concepts as having the highest payoff and highest chance of success: a TSTO winged launch system and a suborbital so-called HOPPER space vehicle. They settled on HOPPER as the lower cost and risk approach and are currently doing a prototype.
In the meantime the French recently awoke to the necessity of an Ariane 5 replacement and have signed a deal with the Russians to develop two new reusable high performance engines. One using LOX/Hydrocarbon and another using LOX/LH2. They also started their own study, called FLPP. FLPP will build a test vehicle called Socrates using the Russian engines and the thermal protection systems pioneered in the yet to be launched EXPERT test vehicle. Talk about NIH syndrome. In their defense, the French are responsible for the Ariane 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 designs, so they probably think they have more experience to be able to pull this one off. That has some merit, but then again CNES was also responsible for the Hermes boondoggle... Not that the Germans are any better, with plans for expensive vapourware like this in the past.
If your problem is carrying heavy fuel, just use a lightbulb or a cathode ray gun for your engine. Of course, the thrust will be nothing special...
That plus some smoothing filters make the whole thing look a bit artificial, but that is life.
Wasn't the GIMP started as some University project?
So I can get trapped inside my car? No thank you.
ESA is also finishing up production of the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle), which will provide a station resupply capability using the Ariane-5 launch platform. The prototype of the ATV has already been built. The first ATV will be launched to ISS this year.
Japan still has a chance to catch up I guess. The H2-A launch vehicle has had some teething troubles, but they should be able to fix it.
The Shuttle is still required to finish building the ISS. But since Bush said they would do it, it isn't a problem.
Actually it was Alcohol, not Kerosene. IIRC they made it out of sugar beets. Perhaps it was due to the lack of fuel because of the war, dunno.
Cantate Domino: ,that, when danger of death is imminent, they be baptized in the form of the Church, early without delay, even by a layman or woman, if a priest should be lacking, just as is contained more fully in the decree of the Armenians."
"It firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord's coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors. Therefore, it commands all who glory in the name of Christian, at whatever time, before or after baptism, to cease entirely from circumcision, since, whether or not one places hope in it, it cannot be observed at all without the loss of eternal salvation. Regarding children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, when no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the Devil and adopted among the sons of God, it advises that holy baptism ought not to be deferred for forty or eighty days, or any time according to the observance of certain people, but it should be conferred as soon as it can be done conveniently, but so
According to Roman Catholic doctrine, you are not supposed to mutilate your body unless you explicitly need it for health reasons, or to benefit another without prejudice of your health.
Read this for more info. Circumcision used to be strictly forbidden according to canon. Only in 1952 was it considered permissible but only for health reasons.