Taumata-whaka-tangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-turi-puk aka-pikimaunga-horonuku-pokai-whenua-kitana-tahu, which means 'The hilltop where Tamatea with big knees, conqueror of mountains, eater of land, traveller over land and sea, played his koauau to his beloved.'
I believe if he had normal sized knees then the Welsh would probably have won out.
This has been a problem for the last 40 years and, as far as I know, hasn't suddenly become any worse.
Anyway all objects > 10cm are currently being tracked and catalogued by USSPACECOM radar. I guess eventually we'll reach a point where blasting these debris out of orbit with an Earth or space based laser will become a necessity.
I have in fact been in simulator training for just this job for the last 10 years, and as an added bonus I am also able to accurately hit those bloody annoying UFOS that make the woo woo woo noise.
I would tend to agree with you and even take things a step further, even if there is life on Mars I doubt the knowledge we'd gain from studying it would outway the benefits of starting terraforming as early as possible.
Why stop there though, why not start seeding the clouds on Venus with Extremophiles to start converting the CO2? I would have thought that given an environment lacking any competition, that the growth curve of a decently enginerred organism would approach exponential.
The year is 2005. We should be using ray guns on the moon by now!!
Interesting Article that seems fairly relevant, it apparently appears only in the international, and not the domestic, edition of Newsweek magazine: Dream on America
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Did you know?: The entire population of New Zealand was employed in making the Lord of the Rings films" - Where's My Cheque then?
You are missing some crucial facts concerning the theory of natural selection.
It is not the individual as a whole that is important when determining heritability, but rather the collection of their genes.
Given that each sibling of the same parents carries a very similar set of genes, it has been shown that when parents produce a number of offspring it is more likely that the later offspring will be homosexual, this is advantageous, in certain circumstances, for the heritability of the parents genes if the homosexual offspring then help in someway towards the survival of their siblings offspring.
To summarise, if you have alot of brothers and sisters its useful if some of them are homosexual to help out with your offspring, who in effect carry the same proportion of genes, as the homosexual sibling themselves would pass to their own children.
Geothermal power has been generated from this plant since the 1950's. Geothermal generation comes with its own set of environmental problems and associated costs.
Not only that but two French Agents were caught blowing up the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" in New Zealand, resulting in the death of a Norwegian foreign National.
Don't worry though because these two French Terrorists were summarily sentenced to relax in New Caledonia for several years, or until one of them became pregnant forcing them both to return to France.
I've always found the Tuatara and interesting example of a transition species. It has a simple third eye, which is an outswelling of the brain. From my understanding the theory of Intelligent Design rests on the assumption that there is no evidence of transitional evolutionary structures in organs as complex as the eye.
Why not leave it up to the individual to decide? According to your argument any cell capable of growing into an autonomous human being is designated as a seperate life. How do you differentiate this from lost blood from a cut finger, I'm sure that each of these cells could be used to create a new life (albeit a cloned life). Why does the DNA Sequence necessarily have to be different in order to qualify a cell as a seperate life?
This whole area elicits so much controversy, I really doubt it will ever be possible to find a a solution that will keep everyone happy.
Personally I feel that as an adult and a responsible individual the choices I make regarding my bio-chemistry should be mine and mine alone. It should be my decision as to what I do with my Biology and the Biology of any potentially autonomous lifeforms I may be responsible for, and when there is a decision concerning a second person, then a consensus should be reached with this person.
The key to this type of decision making for individuals lies in education and rationalism. These are the types of choices that need to be taught in schools. If people want to make a moral choice for themselves based on these viewpoints, that's fine. But their ideas should not be forced upon others.
Dear Slashdot Reader,
I've just stopped drinking coffee after being on about 10 cups a day freshly ground, and didn't really notice any effects/withdrawal symptoms at all.
I do however have trouble stopping smoking. I wonder if the same scientists have thought about an addiction study for tobacco, could be I'm doing myself more harm than good!
I assume you are a Physician who is against TB vaccination because it makes your job more difficult?!?.
And we're wondering why TB is becoming a problem again.
Anyone who refuses to get vaccinated for these diseases should not be allowed to live in the same community as me and my children. As far as I'm concerned they are guilty of the equivalent of criminal negligence.
I'm not really up on the subject of TB resistance but I remember everyone in my year at school receiving a TB Vaccination. Are TB Vaccinations still helpful in producing resistance to the mutated strains of TB? If so surely we should be looking at implementing wider scale vaccination programs, in order to combat the spread of these strains.
I think the most interesting thing about this signal is as follows:
...What is more, if telescopes are observing a signal that is drifting in frequency, then each time they look for it they should most likely encounter it at a slightly different frequency. But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting. "It just boggles my mind," Korpela... says. New Scientist
I'm not sure how the act of first observing this signal is able to determine the starting frequency of the observed signal, unless (as already stated somewhere above) there is some kind of artifact resulting from the observation equipment. The article states however that the signal has been observed several different times (and I would assume using different detectors). If this is the case then my tiny mouse like brain can only think of 4 other possible explanations:
(1) Some type of faster than light communication between transmitter and reciever (I think Unlikely) (2) Elaborate Practical joke (those crazy SETI folk) (3) Seperate observations starting at the same point in the frequency drift (again unlikely given an oscillation at 37 hertz per second) (4) Alien Magicological techniques.
I think that this fact coupled with the fact that the signal is at one of the main frequencies that Hydrogen readily absorbs and emits energy, makes this signal particularly interesting.
I won't be travelling to the US anytime soon, I have heard horror stories from a friend of mine who has just returned home. She was kept detained for days while travelling with her 4 year old Daughter, she was repeatedly threatened with having her daughter removed from her custody because she was travelling on a NZ passport (possibly her purple dreaklocks were not appreciated) while her daughter was travelling under a US Passport, it took several interventions from NZ before she was allowed to return home with her daughter.
Its seems that there has been a real fundamentalist swing in Policy within the US, which I, personally, feel more threatened by than any potential terror attacks, at least in my neck of the woods.
I've worked in a number of different IT environments and am highly impressed by the company I am presently working for, mainly because of the owner/managements committment to charity work. The office has several display areas with updates on a number of child sponsorship projects, similarly a number of local charities are well supported. I feel much happier about working extra hours etc when I can see that there is a high level of social responsibility being displayed by the management.
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...In my books is a worse crime than bombing buildings and/or killing families. priorities people.
I didn't see the Douglas Adams on the end and assumed it was Stanislaw Lem. Never made that similarity connection before. Hmmm move along...
The Civil Union Act took effect yesterday in New Zealand. I'd like to congratulate all those who 'tied the knot'.
I'm quite proud that we managed to get this though despite the expected fundamentalist fist waving.
Taumata-whaka-tangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-turi-puk aka-pikimaunga-horonuku-pokai-whenua-kitana-tahu,
which means 'The hilltop where Tamatea with big knees, conqueror of mountains, eater of land, traveller over land and sea, played his koauau to his beloved.'
I believe if he had normal sized knees then the Welsh would probably have won out.
This has been a problem for the last 40 years and, as far as I know, hasn't suddenly become any worse.
Anyway all objects > 10cm are currently being tracked and catalogued by USSPACECOM radar. I guess eventually we'll reach a point where blasting these debris out of orbit with an Earth or space based laser will become a necessity.
I have in fact been in simulator training for just this job for the last 10 years, and as an added bonus I am also able to accurately hit those bloody annoying UFOS that make the woo woo woo noise.
I think he may have been pointing out that a black tube full of water is in effect a solar cell that works in the infrared.
I would tend to agree with you and even take things a step further, even if there is life on Mars I doubt the knowledge we'd gain from studying it would outway the benefits of starting terraforming as early as possible.
Why stop there though, why not start seeding the clouds on Venus with Extremophiles to start converting the CO2? I would have thought that given an environment lacking any competition, that the growth curve of a decently enginerred organism would approach exponential.
The year is 2005. We should be using ray guns on the moon by now!!
Interesting Article that seems fairly relevant, it apparently appears only in the international, and not the domestic, edition of Newsweek magazine:
Dream on America
" Did you know?: The entire population of New Zealand was employed in making the Lord of the Rings films" - Where's My Cheque then?
I feel old. My pile of magicological manuals is starting to gain value!
Just a point in fact, the first powered flight was made by Richard Pearse in Timaru, New Zealand.
...Also not to be outdone, the Kea is reputed to be the worlds smartest bird.
You are missing some crucial facts concerning the theory of natural selection.
It is not the individual as a whole that is important when determining heritability, but rather the collection of their genes.
Given that each sibling of the same parents carries a very similar set of genes, it has been shown that when parents produce a number of offspring it is more likely that the later offspring will be homosexual, this is advantageous, in certain circumstances, for the heritability of the parents genes if the homosexual offspring then help in someway towards the survival of their siblings offspring.
To summarise, if you have alot of brothers and sisters its useful if some of them are homosexual to help out with your offspring, who in effect carry the same proportion of genes, as the homosexual sibling themselves would pass to their own children.
I'm not sure about "heard it first here".
Geothermal power has been generated from this plant since the 1950's. Geothermal generation comes with its own set of environmental problems and associated costs.
Not only that but two French Agents were caught blowing up the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" in New Zealand, resulting in the death of a Norwegian foreign National. Don't worry though because these two French Terrorists were summarily sentenced to relax in New Caledonia for several years, or until one of them became pregnant forcing them both to return to France.
..don't sweat it I've got at least 50,000 of those cartons being smoked here.
I've always found the Tuatara and interesting example of a transition species. It has a simple third eye, which is an outswelling of the brain.
From my understanding the theory of Intelligent Design rests on the assumption that there is no evidence of transitional evolutionary structures in organs as complex as the eye.
Why not leave it up to the individual to decide? According to your argument any cell capable of growing into an autonomous human being is designated as a seperate life. How do you differentiate this from lost blood from a cut finger, I'm sure that each of these cells could be used to create a new life (albeit a cloned life). Why does the DNA Sequence necessarily have to be different in order to qualify a cell as a seperate life?
This whole area elicits so much controversy, I really doubt it will ever be possible to find a a solution that will keep everyone happy.
Personally I feel that as an adult and a responsible individual the choices I make regarding my bio-chemistry should be mine and mine alone. It should be my decision as to what I do with my Biology and the Biology of any potentially autonomous lifeforms I may be responsible for, and when there is a decision concerning a second person, then a consensus should be reached with this person.
The key to this type of decision making for individuals lies in education and rationalism. These are the types of choices that need to be taught in schools. If people want to make a moral choice for themselves based on these viewpoints, that's fine. But their ideas should not be forced upon others.
Dear Slashdot Reader,
I've just stopped drinking coffee after being on about 10 cups a day freshly ground, and didn't really notice any effects/withdrawal symptoms at all.
I do however have trouble stopping smoking. I wonder if the same scientists have thought about an addiction study for tobacco, could be I'm doing myself more harm than good!
Are you serious?
I assume you are a Physician who is against TB vaccination because it makes your job more difficult?!?.
And we're wondering why TB is becoming a problem again.
Anyone who refuses to get vaccinated for these diseases should not be allowed to live in the same community as me and my children. As far as I'm concerned they are guilty of the equivalent of criminal negligence.
I'm not really up on the subject of TB resistance but I remember everyone in my year at school receiving a TB Vaccination. Are TB Vaccinations still helpful in producing resistance to the mutated strains of TB? If so surely we should be looking at implementing wider scale vaccination programs, in order to combat the spread of these strains.
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I think the most interesting thing about this signal is as follows:
...What is more, if telescopes are observing a signal that is drifting in frequency, then each time they look for it they should most likely encounter it at a slightly different frequency. But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting. "It just boggles my mind," Korpela... says.
New Scientist
I'm not sure how the act of first observing this signal is able to determine the starting frequency of the observed signal, unless (as already stated somewhere above) there is some kind of artifact resulting from the observation equipment. The article states however that the signal has been observed several different times (and I would assume using different detectors). If this is the case then my tiny mouse like brain can only think of 4 other possible explanations:
(1) Some type of faster than light communication between transmitter and reciever (I think Unlikely)
(2) Elaborate Practical joke (those crazy SETI folk)
(3) Seperate observations starting at the same point in the frequency drift (again unlikely given an oscillation at 37 hertz per second)
(4) Alien Magicological techniques.
I think that this fact coupled with the fact that the signal is at one of the main frequencies that Hydrogen readily absorbs and emits energy, makes this signal particularly interesting.
I won't be travelling to the US anytime soon, I have heard horror stories from a friend of mine who has just returned home. She was kept detained for days while travelling with her 4 year old Daughter, she was repeatedly threatened with having her daughter removed from her custody because she was travelling on a NZ passport (possibly her purple dreaklocks were not appreciated) while her daughter was travelling under a US Passport, it took several interventions from NZ before she was allowed to return home with her daughter.
Its seems that there has been a real fundamentalist swing in Policy within the US, which I, personally, feel more threatened by than any potential terror attacks, at least in my neck of the woods.
I've worked in a number of different IT environments and am highly impressed by the company I am presently working for, mainly because of the owner/managements committment to charity work.
The office has several display areas with updates on a number of child sponsorship projects, similarly a number of local charities are well supported.
I feel much happier about working extra hours etc when I can see that there is a high level of social responsibility being displayed by the management.
I'd give the Kudos to Newton and a good dollop to Einstein before anyone else