On a somewhat related note, it took my girlfriend and I about 2 hours to cross into the States in late June. we were "pulled" aside - told to turn off our cell phones, remove all valuables from her car (but no camera's or recorders please!) and go into a building while they searched her car. After sitting there about an hour, a person who I assumed was the supervisor came over to us and said "Why are YOU here?" (being the only caucasian couple in "waiting"). We showed him the slip of paper they had given us - he wrinkled his nose, peered at us, went "hmmmmm" and handed the slip to a INS agent and went on his way. We were then very rudely "interviewed" by said agent. Even though my girlfriend drives a very nice 2000 model Grand Am - they wanted to know how much money we had on us - when I told them none, as we intended to use americna funds we would get from bank machines, they demanded to know how much money we had on our credit cards and in our bank accounts! Were they stupid enough to think we would leave the relative freedom of Canada to sneak into the States? Give me a break. I am happy to say that after that, our trip down to St. Louis and back was wonderful.
Oddly enough coming home, we got waved through Canadian Customs in about 30 seconds.
This is almost an exact replay of my and my girlfriend's trip to Canada. Luckily, I had bank statements in my wallet that cleared that up. When this happened to a friend of mine and they found a gun holster (no gun) under the back seat, they didn't even get into the country.
Driving back into the US, they asked if I was brining anything back and I said a trunk full of Coke-a-Cola (made with sugar) and Katsup Chips and they waved us through.
GE PACS is all Windows*. Agfa Talk is Windows. IDX 9 RIS needs a Windows GUI and IDX 10 is a Windows web/database app on Windows servers. The PACS subnet is secured by a pretty sturdy firewall but we still need all sorts of holes punched in it so various systems can talk to it and clinicians can access the images for all the things we need to have done.
* the viewing stations and many of the intermediate stations are Windows. GE PACS is actually a room of computers running Apple, Windows, Solaris, etc. for all the SAN, brokers, etc. the viewing stations are the real issue because they are all Windows, GE won't certify the patches till they're done testing and the stations are spread all over the hospital and used for everything since we've gone filmless including in the OR. They all have to communicte with the PACS subnet but still have to be on regular subnets that aren't as secure.
I bet that most of what they're talking about are PACS systems in Radiology. All those companies do PACS and we're having just those issues with our PACS system. Almost all X-Ray, CT, and MRI are done electronically these days and even when film is printed, it's done off a digital file. Most are trying to get away from printing film alltogether. So, you've got all the computers that take the images, the computers that handle and store the images, the computers that the radiologists study the images on and the computers that other doctors look at the images and reports on.
No, I talk briefly about their ability to change the genetic makeup due to technology. Uploading to a computer would definaltly be a change in genetic makeup. If such a thing is done, then they most likely remember it being done and preform the same operation on humans if so desired. Once you gain the ability to expand beyond the original genetic makeup* of your species, then the differences between yourself, your former self, apes and ants means even less because the same can be done to any creature. It can possibly be done from nothing at all, creatig life from scratch. once again, how we are treated by such a race will not depend on technology, but culture and philosophy.
*I feel like I should plug one of my favorite authors, Bruce Sterling, and my favorite series of stories by him, dealing with the Shapers and Machinists.
Whatever. A few hundred years in technological advancement means nothing in the terms of "apes" or "ants" as you infer. Technology does not affect the ability of a race to learn, conceive, or use said technology. We've come across a number of stone age civilizations on our own planet and they are not like apes compared to us. They can learn and be integrated in rather well. Japan went from a fuedal society to a technological world power through their own acheivements in a few decades. Biological matters that will require us to think of other races as either apes or ants take evolutionary changes that are factors of millions of years. Even if they have the technology to change their genetic make-up to something advanced enough to consider us "apes", they'd have the same abilty to advance us the same way should they choose.
What will matter will be cultural differences. They will encounter us, we might be unwilling to accept their culture and technology, at least in a large enough step to catch up with them. They will have the advantage of a higher technology and how they treat us may depend if they have a klingon type of civilization and enslave us or Federation and simply leave us alone. Most lilkely it will be something in between and they'll off shore factories and work to our world because we're backwards, have unexploited natural resources and work for cheap.
radio is too slow, what is it that the sun produces that travels way faster than light and goes through everything? if anyone is out there, thats what they are using...what ever happened with that experimental thing they buried 1/2 mile underground filled with water to catch those things the sun produces?
my prediction? we will learn how to use that and will be connected to countless civs' (if they out there)
Tachyons? They're the only class of things that moves faster than light and can carry information. We've not only yet to observe any of them but half the physicists flat out claim they don't exist. Another half simply state that they're not prohibited. There's always the possiblity that we're already seeing them in positrons which would be electroncs moving backwards in time. If they do move backwards in time, then all sorts of causality issues appear.
I suspect you mean neutrinos which we are trying to detect frm supernova with water filled tanks. Sorry to break this to you, but they move at the speed of light also or perhaps even a little slower.
future advances in communications may be possible, perhaps even in FTL speeds, but I doubt that it will because of anything we are trying to detect curently. Such breakthroughs will need a change in the overall way we view the physics of the universe.
Not only that, but there is the theory of panspermia. Basically, spores and microbes are constantly entering the upper atmosphere and from there entering space and have been at a slow but contant rate for millions if not billions of years. if protected in a body of dust or resistant to ultraviolet light such as many spores are it's possible for them to remain viable after a trip through space. As they head out in random directions from Earth, it stands to reson that eventually some of them would have been captured by Mar's gravity and entered their atmosphere and made it back to the surface where they could begin to prosper. Some people put forth that life could have originally been birthed on Mars and made it to Earth is such a manner.
Say "Bad web designer! No cookie!"
Hit the back button and find something else to read.
...or enter the late 90's and install Flash.
Simply put, designers are going to want a method of presenting their material in a non-browser determined environment similar to print. They get paid lots of money to put their deisgn skills (good or bad) to work, and letting a browser reformat everything according to local settings throws that money away and breaks design even worse. Developing in any sort of HTML based evironment for different browsers and platforms takes too much time and money. Flash is the answer. It allows for dynamic presentation that is rendered the same (for the most part) between all browsers and platforms. The ony thing really holding it up has been download speeds and that is disappearing as they increase and it (or something similar) will be the standard in advertising websites similar to PDFs and documents.
Hrrm. Works fine on my G4 400 running 10.2. Somehow I don't think hardware specs are to blame. Design isn't really what I'd do, but I highly doubt it is the cause for any of your problems.
Download speed maybe. I suspose there are some design things you can do with keeping people with anemic connections occupied while the site downloads.
First they shut down stormfront.org, but I didn't read stormfront so I did nothing.
Then they shut down earthfirst.org, but I didn't read earthfirst so I did nothing.
Then they shut down kmfms,com, but I didn't read kmfms so I did nothing.
Then they shut down slashdot.org, and there was nowhere left to report that it had been taken down.
Thing is, who gets to decide which sites get shut down and which don't? How can we be sure that we're fully informed if speech is limited? What do you do once speeking out against Microsoft is considered hate speech? Not meant to present an slipery slope arugment, but rather point out that people are already complaining that government powers are too strong. give them the power to take down websites and somebody in the government will thnk that it is their duty to take down even more websites past what the spirit of the law was. Now power has been given to a government that hasn't been abused.
Well, if they'd expand this idea ot to something like a Bluetooth pen that acted as a key drive that i didn't keep having to conencting and disconnecting, it'd be worth it to me (assuming that the local computers supported it). Double-click on the desktop and a shelf appears with your stored files that are on the pen drive in a stack. Drag and drop them on or off your shelf and have the shelf disappear once done. maybe control click with a button on the pen to automatically copy a clicked file to a pen and control click to deposit the last file on the local desktop. As an IT guy, i have my little key drive with all the various support files on it and I'm sick of having to climb under the desk to plug it in, and then have to click on several buttons to be able to disconnect it again (requiring me climb back under the desk to physically unplug it again).
Totally the NIH syndrome, but they're probably willing to spend the time and effort to control what and how their population views media.
Still what are the chances that they develop cheap or even open standards to attempt to replace the rest of the world's? I'm sure that China would love to be the next Microsoft or Sony. Question is, are they capable of coming up with better standards, formats and devices and then will they be able to market them to the rest of the world?
I read a completly different article on the subject* that explains this. The use of two n's is to conform to an archaic spelling of nanobacteria that was used when fossils of such were first discovered in rocks dating back to the beginings of the 1900's.
*Of course this was Paranoia Magazine. Read into that what you will if anything.
Doesn't gravity effecct objects regardless of the distance between them? Meaning to say, that gravity, however weak, will always have this attractive force.
so, won't this energy causing this accelerating expansion eventually burn up/out?
The amount of gravitational energy between two objects is a static amount that can be determined. The amount of energy in kenetic motion can also be determined. As two objects move apart the gravetational potential grows while the speed they are traveling away from eachother decreases. If the kenetic energy is greater than the gravatational energy, then the two objects will continue to move apart. If the gravetational energy is greater than the kenetic energy causing them to separate, then their realative motion away from eachother will slow, stop and then they will begin to come back together. This is basically an explantion of escape velocity that you always hear about in rocket launches.
A condensed explantion of what would take too long to describe here in full basically says that the average kentic energy that the obejcts in the universe has been determined as well as the average gravatational energy. If the gravetatinal energy was greater then everything would eventually come back together in what is known as a "big crunch", but the kenetic energy is greater and thus the universe will continue to expand.
Now part of this probelms comes not from actual kenetic energy, but due to that space itself is increasing. So the distance between two objects is increasing proportional to the distance between them. the rate at which this is occuring also seems to be growing. This is the acceleration of the universe you are reading about here. Reasons for this are nt well known, but one theory is that there are something like 11 total dimentions and the other 7 after three spacial and time are shrinking, causing the others to expand. These other seven are already so small that they haven't been detected yet (we're way off in string theory territory here).
If this acceleration continues to increase, then eventually the rate at which space is expanding might grow so large that it will overcome not only gravity but even the other forces that hold atoms or particles together. This senario where everything is torn apart into component parts is called the "big rip".
There are still a significant number of politicians that want to see the information economy go away. Indiana is even worse in this regard. They have put tons of money in a dumb attempt to bring manufacturing jobs back and they leave in little things that give companies that could make real cash and create decent jobs major headaches.
If you are going to give out corporate welfare, at least give it out to people that could actually HELP you... jeesh.
Well, I think that it's more complex than that. Indiana wants to bring in work for the people who are already there. I imagien that would mostly be people who have lost or can work manufacturing jobs. I doubt that there is a large population of unemployed programers sitting around in Indiana wishing there were high tech companies to work for.
You could argue that bringing in high tech would help everybody except for two things. It woldn't directly employ the people who are already there, ie your voters and that just because companies may find it nice to work there doesn't mean that the workers would show up.I think Memphis discovered this. They went on a campain to encourage high tech companies to move into the city. The high tech companies did. The trouble was that not only were there not workers there to be employed but high tech workers didn't want to go work in Memphis because it was essentially BFE compared to a larger city. The young college graduate crowd who were the movers and shakers of the high tech industry would rather move to a larger city that had a night life and entertainment and worry about a job than move to a job and have nothing to spend their money on.
IIRC, the solution they were working on in tandem with getting more companies was spending money on the arts and music scene there to retain the desired workers so they weren't so ager to leave. While the specific case of Memphis is just something I read in an article, the theory behind it is something I've known for a long time. I moved to Seattle form OK and every time my parents bring up the subject of finding a good job back in Tulsa or OKC, and spending my savings on a nice house there that I could buy outright, I just laugh. I have plenty of friends, several from Indianapolis who wouldn't move back to the midwest (or south) even for better jobs (even if said jobs did exist there) than they have now although they could live like kings on their current salaries.
While I think that working on getting high tech industry in such places wouldn't hurt, it really doesn't have much to do with their current state or their consituants. Bringing in a factory or Wal-mart warehouse would immediatly give your voters jobs. Bringing in high tech industry would just bring in other people from out of state who may or may not show up, probalby won't vote for a few years, and might even hate where they live.
I'd like to see more research into replicator technology (maybe we will get there after enough nano-research?)
If we get replicators, we can solve a lot of problems at once:
- Food, nobody would have to grow hungry again
- Money, nobody would need it ever again
- Fuel, no more dependancies on oil
- Nuclear waste/pollution, easy to clean that up now
- Living forever, refreshing the building blocks of our bodies
- etc.
You're high. Successful nanotech replictors probaly wouldn't solve any of those problems. It does not allow for escaping from the law of conservation of mass and energy. Materials are still going to take resources and energy to manufacture. both are commodities that, even if cheap, will prevent free replication. We'll be able to make our own oil but the energy to do that will have to come from someplace and might not be efficient as simply running electric cars to begin with. In fact, it may still be cheaper to pump the stuff out of the ground and use it. It might even still be cheaper to grow food naturally.
"I'm hoping they'll hold out till that next medium gets popular, and everyone gets to buy everything over again," he says.
Already has, its called digital format, usually MP3. Rip them and create digital back ups and worry about the longevity of the media of your digital backups. This usually means regular backups with multiple copies to restore from. Don't forget to put a copy of your backups in your sfety deposit box or other off site safe place. (I keep a set in my car trunk and just hope nobody steals my car and reads through my files.)
The question remains though, should IRC be censored along with everything else...
Umm, what's censored currently? Nobody reviews my webpages before I put them up. There are plenty of porn and even illegal porn sites out there that you can get onto if you want to spend the time. Warez exist still and with a little work i coudl probalby find any program authentification code I want. The only place there might be censorship would/could be Google or other search engines if they blocked certain searches.
If by censorship, you mean when illegal activity is found it is acted against, it has been censored for a very long time. Long before the web became a household word, IRC warez were being traded and people were being arrested for doing so. Police are already in IRC looking for peadophiles just as they are chat rooms.
Is this Dark Matter the same thing as or related to anti-matter or something whole different?
Something compeltly different. Matter is dark because we cannot see it normally with telescopes. However, some dark matter might be anti-matter.
The basis for dark matter is that the galaxies are spinning and by how fast they are spinning and realative movements, we can figure out how much mass they contain. Yet, with telescopes we can only detect aobut 10% of the mass needed for make galaxies as massive as they are. Through various methods we can figure out how much normal matter (including anti-matter) might be around that we can't see because it's behind other matter, really dark, or otherwise undetecatble. This dark normal matter is only about another 10% of the mass needed. Thus we are needed much more mass to make up the difference.
Various explanations consist of superblack holes, exotic matter such as WIMPS, etc. one such solutions is MOND which says that our equations governing gavity need to be revised to match what we are seeing experimentally with the telescopes and other data. This theory has just as many problems as they others. Various phsysists have their pet theories but most seem to beleive there is mass or energy out there we cannot directly detect yet.
I assume you mean how do they cool it that low rather than how they found an abonadoned mine in Minnesota.
First, I imagene you have a series of refrigerators. If you've seen the movie Akira you have an idea what I'm talkign about. You put various types of refrigerators inside of eachother to limit the heat coming in from outside.
Take Helium (He) and put under pressure till it is in liquid form. If you let it boil, it will cool down to about 4K at atmospheric pressure. if you lower the atmospheric pressure by pumping out all the atmosphere, it will cool lower. This will take you to about 1K.
To get lower you can use a mixture of He3 and He4 (Helium atoms with different atomic weights) and cool it to make a dilution refrigerator. The lighter He3 will spearate from the He4. The He4 works to absorb the He3. You pump off He3 out of the He4 at the othe end of the tube and it cooles the remaining He3 as it is disolved into the He4. This should take you to the temperatures needed for this experiment. Simply put your experiment inside of the cold He3.
You can get even lower with various magnetic traps that allow fast atoms to "evoprorate" out of the traps but this tends to be for a small amount of atoms.
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wtf? Does the US not use sugar in their coke? What do they use instead, corn syrup?
Yep. High fructose corn syrup.
On a somewhat related note, it took my girlfriend and I about 2 hours to cross into the States in late June. we were "pulled" aside - told to turn off our cell phones, remove all valuables from her car (but no camera's or recorders please!) and go into a building while they searched her car. After sitting there about an hour, a person who I assumed was the supervisor came over to us and said "Why are YOU here?" (being the only caucasian couple in "waiting"). We showed him the slip of paper they had given us - he wrinkled his nose, peered at us, went "hmmmmm" and handed the slip to a INS agent and went on his way. We were then very rudely "interviewed" by said agent. Even though my girlfriend drives a very nice 2000 model Grand Am - they wanted to know how much money we had on us - when I told them none, as we intended to use americna funds we would get from bank machines, they demanded to know how much money we had on our credit cards and in our bank accounts! Were they stupid enough to think we would leave the relative freedom of Canada to sneak into the States? Give me a break. I am happy to say that after that, our trip down to St. Louis and back was wonderful.
Oddly enough coming home, we got waved through Canadian Customs in about 30 seconds.
This is almost an exact replay of my and my girlfriend's trip to Canada. Luckily, I had bank statements in my wallet that cleared that up. When this happened to a friend of mine and they found a gun holster (no gun) under the back seat, they didn't even get into the country.
Driving back into the US, they asked if I was brining anything back and I said a trunk full of Coke-a-Cola (made with sugar) and Katsup Chips and they waved us through.
GE PACS is all Windows*. Agfa Talk is Windows. IDX 9 RIS needs a Windows GUI and IDX 10 is a Windows web/database app on Windows servers. The PACS subnet is secured by a pretty sturdy firewall but we still need all sorts of holes punched in it so various systems can talk to it and clinicians can access the images for all the things we need to have done.
* the viewing stations and many of the intermediate stations are Windows. GE PACS is actually a room of computers running Apple, Windows, Solaris, etc. for all the SAN, brokers, etc. the viewing stations are the real issue because they are all Windows, GE won't certify the patches till they're done testing and the stations are spread all over the hospital and used for everything since we've gone filmless including in the OR. They all have to communicte with the PACS subnet but still have to be on regular subnets that aren't as secure.
I bet that most of what they're talking about are PACS systems in Radiology. All those companies do PACS and we're having just those issues with our PACS system. Almost all X-Ray, CT, and MRI are done electronically these days and even when film is printed, it's done off a digital file. Most are trying to get away from printing film alltogether. So, you've got all the computers that take the images, the computers that handle and store the images, the computers that the radiologists study the images on and the computers that other doctors look at the images and reports on.
"Well sir, the bolts to your air filter are remote controlled... You need this $300 remote to take the cover off and replace the filter"
Nothing five minutes with an angle grinder won't fix.
*I feel like I should plug one of my favorite authors, Bruce Sterling, and my favorite series of stories by him, dealing with the Shapers and Machinists.
Whatever. A few hundred years in technological advancement means nothing in the terms of "apes" or "ants" as you infer. Technology does not affect the ability of a race to learn, conceive, or use said technology. We've come across a number of stone age civilizations on our own planet and they are not like apes compared to us. They can learn and be integrated in rather well. Japan went from a fuedal society to a technological world power through their own acheivements in a few decades. Biological matters that will require us to think of other races as either apes or ants take evolutionary changes that are factors of millions of years. Even if they have the technology to change their genetic make-up to something advanced enough to consider us "apes", they'd have the same abilty to advance us the same way should they choose.
What will matter will be cultural differences. They will encounter us, we might be unwilling to accept their culture and technology, at least in a large enough step to catch up with them. They will have the advantage of a higher technology and how they treat us may depend if they have a klingon type of civilization and enslave us or Federation and simply leave us alone. Most lilkely it will be something in between and they'll off shore factories and work to our world because we're backwards, have unexploited natural resources and work for cheap.
radio is too slow, what is it that the sun produces that travels way faster than light and goes through everything? if anyone is out there, thats what they are using...what ever happened with that experimental thing they buried 1/2 mile underground filled with water to catch those things the sun produces?
my prediction? we will learn how to use that and will be connected to countless civs' (if they out there)
Tachyons? They're the only class of things that moves faster than light and can carry information. We've not only yet to observe any of them but half the physicists flat out claim they don't exist. Another half simply state that they're not prohibited. There's always the possiblity that we're already seeing them in positrons which would be electroncs moving backwards in time. If they do move backwards in time, then all sorts of causality issues appear.
I suspect you mean neutrinos which we are trying to detect frm supernova with water filled tanks. Sorry to break this to you, but they move at the speed of light also or perhaps even a little slower.
future advances in communications may be possible, perhaps even in FTL speeds, but I doubt that it will because of anything we are trying to detect curently. Such breakthroughs will need a change in the overall way we view the physics of the universe.
Not only that, but there is the theory of panspermia. Basically, spores and microbes are constantly entering the upper atmosphere and from there entering space and have been at a slow but contant rate for millions if not billions of years. if protected in a body of dust or resistant to ultraviolet light such as many spores are it's possible for them to remain viable after a trip through space. As they head out in random directions from Earth, it stands to reson that eventually some of them would have been captured by Mar's gravity and entered their atmosphere and made it back to the surface where they could begin to prosper. Some people put forth that life could have originally been birthed on Mars and made it to Earth is such a manner.
So what you're saying is that designers are cheap and lazy so it's okay.
No, that would be publishers that are too cheap and developers that are too lazy.
Designers did exactly as they were told.
Say "Bad web designer! No cookie!"
Hit the back button and find something else to read.
...or enter the late 90's and install Flash.
Simply put, designers are going to want a method of presenting their material in a non-browser determined environment similar to print. They get paid lots of money to put their deisgn skills (good or bad) to work, and letting a browser reformat everything according to local settings throws that money away and breaks design even worse. Developing in any sort of HTML based evironment for different browsers and platforms takes too much time and money. Flash is the answer. It allows for dynamic presentation that is rendered the same (for the most part) between all browsers and platforms. The ony thing really holding it up has been download speeds and that is disappearing as they increase and it (or something similar) will be the standard in advertising websites similar to PDFs and documents.
I am using Safari on my Mac and it is suffering.
Hrrm. Works fine on my G4 400 running 10.2. Somehow I don't think hardware specs are to blame. Design isn't really what I'd do, but I highly doubt it is the cause for any of your problems.
Download speed maybe. I suspose there are some design things you can do with keeping people with anemic connections occupied while the site downloads.
First they shut down stormfront.org, but I didn't read stormfront so I did nothing.
Then they shut down earthfirst.org, but I didn't read earthfirst so I did nothing.
Then they shut down kmfms,com, but I didn't read kmfms so I did nothing.
Then they shut down slashdot.org, and there was nowhere left to report that it had been taken down.
Thing is, who gets to decide which sites get shut down and which don't? How can we be sure that we're fully informed if speech is limited? What do you do once speeking out against Microsoft is considered hate speech? Not meant to present an slipery slope arugment, but rather point out that people are already complaining that government powers are too strong. give them the power to take down websites and somebody in the government will thnk that it is their duty to take down even more websites past what the spirit of the law was. Now power has been given to a government that hasn't been abused.
Well, if they'd expand this idea ot to something like a Bluetooth pen that acted as a key drive that i didn't keep having to conencting and disconnecting, it'd be worth it to me (assuming that the local computers supported it). Double-click on the desktop and a shelf appears with your stored files that are on the pen drive in a stack. Drag and drop them on or off your shelf and have the shelf disappear once done. maybe control click with a button on the pen to automatically copy a clicked file to a pen and control click to deposit the last file on the local desktop. As an IT guy, i have my little key drive with all the various support files on it and I'm sick of having to climb under the desk to plug it in, and then have to click on several buttons to be able to disconnect it again (requiring me climb back under the desk to physically unplug it again).
It depends on what you mean by lazy.
Ever see someone toss a coat on the floor rather than hang it up, and then go back later to hang it up anyway?
That's not laziness. That's called "time management".
The plural of "anecdotal" is not "data".
Totally the NIH syndrome, but they're probably willing to spend the time and effort to control what and how their population views media.
Still what are the chances that they develop cheap or even open standards to attempt to replace the rest of the world's? I'm sure that China would love to be the next Microsoft or Sony. Question is, are they capable of coming up with better standards, formats and devices and then will they be able to market them to the rest of the world?
*Of course this was Paranoia Magazine. Read into that what you will if anything.
Doesn't gravity effecct objects regardless of the distance between them? Meaning to say, that gravity, however weak, will always have this attractive force.
so, won't this energy causing this accelerating expansion eventually burn up/out?
The amount of gravitational energy between two objects is a static amount that can be determined. The amount of energy in kenetic motion can also be determined. As two objects move apart the gravetational potential grows while the speed they are traveling away from eachother decreases. If the kenetic energy is greater than the gravatational energy, then the two objects will continue to move apart. If the gravetational energy is greater than the kenetic energy causing them to separate, then their realative motion away from eachother will slow, stop and then they will begin to come back together. This is basically an explantion of escape velocity that you always hear about in rocket launches.
A condensed explantion of what would take too long to describe here in full basically says that the average kentic energy that the obejcts in the universe has been determined as well as the average gravatational energy. If the gravetatinal energy was greater then everything would eventually come back together in what is known as a "big crunch", but the kenetic energy is greater and thus the universe will continue to expand.
Now part of this probelms comes not from actual kenetic energy, but due to that space itself is increasing. So the distance between two objects is increasing proportional to the distance between them. the rate at which this is occuring also seems to be growing. This is the acceleration of the universe you are reading about here. Reasons for this are nt well known, but one theory is that there are something like 11 total dimentions and the other 7 after three spacial and time are shrinking, causing the others to expand. These other seven are already so small that they haven't been detected yet (we're way off in string theory territory here).
If this acceleration continues to increase, then eventually the rate at which space is expanding might grow so large that it will overcome not only gravity but even the other forces that hold atoms or particles together. This senario where everything is torn apart into component parts is called the "big rip".
Sounds typical for the Midwestern states.
There are still a significant number of politicians that want to see the information economy go away. Indiana is even worse in this regard. They have put tons of money in a dumb attempt to bring manufacturing jobs back and they leave in little things that give companies that could make real cash and create decent jobs major headaches.
If you are going to give out corporate welfare, at least give it out to people that could actually HELP you... jeesh.
Well, I think that it's more complex than that. Indiana wants to bring in work for the people who are already there. I imagien that would mostly be people who have lost or can work manufacturing jobs. I doubt that there is a large population of unemployed programers sitting around in Indiana wishing there were high tech companies to work for.
You could argue that bringing in high tech would help everybody except for two things. It woldn't directly employ the people who are already there, ie your voters and that just because companies may find it nice to work there doesn't mean that the workers would show up.I think Memphis discovered this. They went on a campain to encourage high tech companies to move into the city. The high tech companies did. The trouble was that not only were there not workers there to be employed but high tech workers didn't want to go work in Memphis because it was essentially BFE compared to a larger city. The young college graduate crowd who were the movers and shakers of the high tech industry would rather move to a larger city that had a night life and entertainment and worry about a job than move to a job and have nothing to spend their money on.
IIRC, the solution they were working on in tandem with getting more companies was spending money on the arts and music scene there to retain the desired workers so they weren't so ager to leave. While the specific case of Memphis is just something I read in an article, the theory behind it is something I've known for a long time. I moved to Seattle form OK and every time my parents bring up the subject of finding a good job back in Tulsa or OKC, and spending my savings on a nice house there that I could buy outright, I just laugh. I have plenty of friends, several from Indianapolis who wouldn't move back to the midwest (or south) even for better jobs (even if said jobs did exist there) than they have now although they could live like kings on their current salaries.
While I think that working on getting high tech industry in such places wouldn't hurt, it really doesn't have much to do with their current state or their consituants. Bringing in a factory or Wal-mart warehouse would immediatly give your voters jobs. Bringing in high tech industry would just bring in other people from out of state who may or may not show up, probalby won't vote for a few years, and might even hate where they live.
I'd like to see more research into replicator technology (maybe we will get there after enough nano-research?) If we get replicators, we can solve a lot of problems at once:
- Food, nobody would have to grow hungry again
- Money, nobody would need it ever again
- Fuel, no more dependancies on oil
- Nuclear waste/pollution, easy to clean that up now
- Living forever, refreshing the building blocks of our bodies
- etc.
You're high. Successful nanotech replictors probaly wouldn't solve any of those problems. It does not allow for escaping from the law of conservation of mass and energy. Materials are still going to take resources and energy to manufacture. both are commodities that, even if cheap, will prevent free replication. We'll be able to make our own oil but the energy to do that will have to come from someplace and might not be efficient as simply running electric cars to begin with. In fact, it may still be cheaper to pump the stuff out of the ground and use it. It might even still be cheaper to grow food naturally.
From article:
"I'm hoping they'll hold out till that next medium gets popular, and everyone gets to buy everything over again," he says.
Already has, its called digital format, usually MP3. Rip them and create digital back ups and worry about the longevity of the media of your digital backups. This usually means regular backups with multiple copies to restore from. Don't forget to put a copy of your backups in your sfety deposit box or other off site safe place. (I keep a set in my car trunk and just hope nobody steals my car and reads through my files.)
The question remains though, should IRC be censored along with everything else...
Umm, what's censored currently? Nobody reviews my webpages before I put them up. There are plenty of porn and even illegal porn sites out there that you can get onto if you want to spend the time. Warez exist still and with a little work i coudl probalby find any program authentification code I want. The only place there might be censorship would/could be Google or other search engines if they blocked certain searches.
If by censorship, you mean when illegal activity is found it is acted against, it has been censored for a very long time. Long before the web became a household word, IRC warez were being traded and people were being arrested for doing so. Police are already in IRC looking for peadophiles just as they are chat rooms.
Is this Dark Matter the same thing as or related to anti-matter or something whole different?
Something compeltly different. Matter is dark because we cannot see it normally with telescopes. However, some dark matter might be anti-matter.
The basis for dark matter is that the galaxies are spinning and by how fast they are spinning and realative movements, we can figure out how much mass they contain. Yet, with telescopes we can only detect aobut 10% of the mass needed for make galaxies as massive as they are. Through various methods we can figure out how much normal matter (including anti-matter) might be around that we can't see because it's behind other matter, really dark, or otherwise undetecatble. This dark normal matter is only about another 10% of the mass needed. Thus we are needed much more mass to make up the difference.
Various explanations consist of superblack holes, exotic matter such as WIMPS, etc. one such solutions is MOND which says that our equations governing gavity need to be revised to match what we are seeing experimentally with the telescopes and other data. This theory has just as many problems as they others. Various phsysists have their pet theories but most seem to beleive there is mass or energy out there we cannot directly detect yet.
How do they do it?
I assume you mean how do they cool it that low rather than how they found an abonadoned mine in Minnesota.
First, I imagene you have a series of refrigerators. If you've seen the movie Akira you have an idea what I'm talkign about. You put various types of refrigerators inside of eachother to limit the heat coming in from outside.
Take Helium (He) and put under pressure till it is in liquid form. If you let it boil, it will cool down to about 4K at atmospheric pressure. if you lower the atmospheric pressure by pumping out all the atmosphere, it will cool lower. This will take you to about 1K.
To get lower you can use a mixture of He3 and He4 (Helium atoms with different atomic weights) and cool it to make a dilution refrigerator. The lighter He3 will spearate from the He4. The He4 works to absorb the He3. You pump off He3 out of the He4 at the othe end of the tube and it cooles the remaining He3 as it is disolved into the He4. This should take you to the temperatures needed for this experiment. Simply put your experiment inside of the cold He3.
You can get even lower with various magnetic traps that allow fast atoms to "evoprorate" out of the traps but this tends to be for a small amount of atoms.