Stund hamsters is about the only one of these you can actually play, as they were designed for a hacked-up PS2 controller. Most of the games, you can't even start them or move about.
the X prize has done spectacular things in 1/10 of the time and 1/1000 of the budget of NASA; why not offer lucrative (by petty civilian standards; peanuts to NASA) prizes for getting a working telescope of such-and-such specs into space as part of an array?
Uuh, occams razor is not a valid scientific theory, it's a selection mechanism, and a wobbly one at that.
Aaaaannnnyyyyway, no matter if one or two people go "preists built it" the world is still going to go "woah." Heh, getting preists, workers, and lumber up a mountain is spectacular enough, given that the story of noah and the ark physically cannot be less than 3,000 years old
No, scientific principles demand no such thing. There is no law of nature to be proven or disproven. No fundemental theorem to examine. Nothing scientific at all.
Bollocks. Scientific methodology can be applied to the task of proving anything, not just a law of nature.
There isn't a theory at stake here.
Theory: The ark is there.
It's interesting that you only adress the consequences of sucess. Your only comment on possible failure is "well, they'll just try again".
Absense of proof is proof of absense. Anyway, if you don't like what they're doing or think it's a dumb idea, don't vote for them, or don't buy thier merchandise, or whatever.
For the record, no not all expeditions of the 20th century met with such fates. There were several before WWII, and several more in the 19th century. None yielded and definitive results.
Ok, fair enough.
Besides, if they do find an ark, that revolutionises the entire way we think about the universe and ourselves.
Ahem. Say what you want, Bill gates does, has, and will continue to, give vast quantites of money to charities and schools. Try reading his will sometime.
BT and vodaphone are down, Sporadic towns as far out as chapel-en-le-frith are out, internet is out, 50 firemen were in the tunnel at one point, and I think a 6kv line was involved. Fortunately my Aunt lives far enough out to still have a phone:D
Umm... So you're saying that the vastly expensive equipment required to get the damn stuff to fuse in the first place is totally irrelevant?
Like other posters said, if the containment totally failed you might get some small scorch-marks on the inside of the chamber, since the containment is required for the reaction to "go" at all. Too much fuel in there? that quenches the fusion. This is totally different to a petrol engine in a car.
Also, consider this. The produced energy has to get out somehow, and I'm guessing (correct me if I'm wrong) that it's in the form of fast-moving particles that are absorbed by a system outside the reaction vessel. The vessel itself might be at a hundred billion dollar^Wdegrees, but because that's an attenuated gas, it's only enough energy to what, boil a pot of coffee? Not quite enough to instigate a runaway fusion reaction in room temperature gas that isn't compressed with big giant fuckoff magnets or zapped with big giant fuckoff lasers.
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also a product of a deranged imagination.
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The spikes are grown directly on the surface of the metal.
Stund hamsters is about the only one of these you can actually play, as they were designed for a hacked-up PS2 controller. Most of the games, you can't even start them or move about.
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the X prize has done spectacular things in 1/10 of the time and 1/1000 of the budget of NASA; why not offer lucrative (by petty civilian standards; peanuts to NASA) prizes for getting a working telescope of such-and-such specs into space as part of an array?
Yes, on paper. It's not like you can apt-get install gsmcracker on your local router.
*cough* GSM?
Sony Connect Online? What an unfortunate acronym. What are they going to do, sue iTMS for selling music, the concept which they apparently own?
2 below-threshold comments and it's down ... come on people, you're like the hand of a vengeful god of websites!
LOL
sorry, I meant "absense of proof isn't proof of absence"
and yeah, abusing the words "theory" and "proof" is not something I should be doing, damnnit!
Uuh, occams razor is not a valid scientific theory, it's a selection mechanism, and a wobbly one at that.
Aaaaannnnyyyyway, no matter if one or two people go "preists built it" the world is still going to go "woah." Heh, getting preists, workers, and lumber up a mountain is spectacular enough, given that the story of noah and the ark physically cannot be less than 3,000 years old
I mean, you'd have to be some kind of God to create that much ra - oh, never mind.
Theory: The ark is there.
Absense of proof is proof of absense. Anyway, if you don't like what they're doing or think it's a dumb idea, don't vote for them, or don't buy thier merchandise, or whatever.
Ok, fair enough.
Besides, if they do find an ark, that revolutionises the entire way we think about the universe and ourselves.
You mean making a movie out of one of those "star wars" games?
Time schime, I read about it in a newspaper a while ago. I know such interesting unbiased information might take a long time to find on the internet.
Ahem. Say what you want, Bill gates does, has, and will continue to, give vast quantites of money to charities and schools. Try reading his will sometime.
Ahem. Paranoid Android.
NASA spent millions on a zero-gravity pen.
In Solviet Russia, they used a pencil.
Several days at least.
BT and vodaphone are down, Sporadic towns as far out as chapel-en-le-frith are out, internet is out, 50 firemen were in the tunnel at one point, and I think a 6kv line was involved. Fortunately my Aunt lives far enough out to still have a phone :D
Umm... So you're saying that the vastly expensive equipment required to get the damn stuff to fuse in the first place is totally irrelevant?
Like other posters said, if the containment totally failed you might get some small scorch-marks on the inside of the chamber, since the containment is required for the reaction to "go" at all. Too much fuel in there? that quenches the fusion. This is totally different to a petrol engine in a car.
Also, consider this. The produced energy has to get out somehow, and I'm guessing (correct me if I'm wrong) that it's in the form of fast-moving particles that are absorbed by a system outside the reaction vessel. The vessel itself might be at a hundred billion dollar^Wdegrees, but because that's an attenuated gas, it's only enough energy to what, boil a pot of coffee? Not quite enough to instigate a runaway fusion reaction in room temperature gas that isn't compressed with big giant fuckoff magnets or zapped with big giant fuckoff lasers.
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In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also a product of a deranged imagination.
I been trying that with women for years.