Wouldn't that shield some of us? How about the attenuation of gammas in water? I heard once that the 1/10th thickness of water for gammas is 24". Two feet. Anything 10 feet deep or more wouldn't notice a thing.
It's a miniature black hole. Think someone in China caught it on film too? The flash is where it entered the water, just happened to be in-line with the light pole.
I was listening to Coast to Coast the other night when George Noory talked about this. Some good points were brought up:
1. What are the odds of surviving past a certain age without getting killed in an accident? Ans: According to some study, after 700 years the average person has a 99% chance of dying from some stupid accident.
2. What new diseases or conditions might crop up later in "life"? (e.g. Alzhimer's disease wasn't really discovered until people started to live long enough for it to be a factor.)
3. What new functions might be developed? Cited here was that humans reach puberty around 12 years of age. Suppose at 250 we start to develop some telepathic skills, or unleash the medulla?
I thought those were some interesting points.
Back in 1990 as an Astronomy-Physics student at the University of Wisconsin...
The Hubble Space Telescope was touted as the "Next Big Thing" since Galileo trained his telescope upon the Sun and Jupiter.
"If that mirror was as big as the United States," one of my professors claimed, "it would deviate from a perfect parabola by 1 cm." This kind of resolution would lead to a revolution in Astronomy near the magnitude of Galileo's discoveries (e.g. heavenly bodies revolving around something *other than* the Earth, sun spots)
It's a sad day for me personally to see this paragon of discovery and wonder being talked about like yet another busload of space trash.
Sigh.
Interestingly enough, the Air Force base I work at is moving away from Sun as fast as possible. Their contracts have the Solaris admin jobs priced out at around $45-50k/yr, which isn't enough to maintain a decent admin (at least one who isn't drawing a military retirement.)
Alas. Good for Sun and the Chinese.
Even tough Sun might be *extremely* late in their response to the market, this move certainly seems like a good one.
Let's just hope they can write their device drivers quickly to be in the same league as Linux.
Heh, glad I still remember how to configure uucp. I'll just teach my mom and close friends how to use it and we'll have spam-free email courtesy of Ma Bell!/flex
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Wouldn't that shield some of us? How about the attenuation of gammas in water? I heard once that the 1/10th thickness of water for gammas is 24". Two feet. Anything 10 feet deep or more wouldn't notice a thing.
As we learned in the Navy, brittle fracture requires all three of these to happen:
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1. Pre-existing flaw
2. Susceptible material
3. Tensile stress
If I were in charge, and I had an opportunity to knock out one of the causes of BF, I'd do it. Check this out:
http://www.fiu.edu/~thompsop/liberty/photos/schen
It's a miniature black hole. Think someone in China caught it on film too? The flash is where it entered the water, just happened to be in-line with the light pole.
I was listening to Coast to Coast the other night when George Noory talked about this. Some good points were brought up: 1. What are the odds of surviving past a certain age without getting killed in an accident? Ans: According to some study, after 700 years the average person has a 99% chance of dying from some stupid accident. 2. What new diseases or conditions might crop up later in "life"? (e.g. Alzhimer's disease wasn't really discovered until people started to live long enough for it to be a factor.) 3. What new functions might be developed? Cited here was that humans reach puberty around 12 years of age. Suppose at 250 we start to develop some telepathic skills, or unleash the medulla? I thought those were some interesting points.
LART!!!
Back in 1990 as an Astronomy-Physics student at the University of Wisconsin... The Hubble Space Telescope was touted as the "Next Big Thing" since Galileo trained his telescope upon the Sun and Jupiter. "If that mirror was as big as the United States," one of my professors claimed, "it would deviate from a perfect parabola by 1 cm." This kind of resolution would lead to a revolution in Astronomy near the magnitude of Galileo's discoveries (e.g. heavenly bodies revolving around something *other than* the Earth, sun spots) It's a sad day for me personally to see this paragon of discovery and wonder being talked about like yet another busload of space trash. Sigh.
Interestingly enough, the Air Force base I work at is moving away from Sun as fast as possible. Their contracts have the Solaris admin jobs priced out at around $45-50k/yr, which isn't enough to maintain a decent admin (at least one who isn't drawing a military retirement.) Alas. Good for Sun and the Chinese.
Even tough Sun might be *extremely* late in their response to the market, this move certainly seems like a good one. Let's just hope they can write their device drivers quickly to be in the same league as Linux.
Reduces the ads to just about none (bunch of 404's) Yah, ok - I may be missing out on some things, but honestly, disable DNS and *poof*
Heh, glad I still remember how to configure uucp. I'll just teach my mom and close friends how to use it and we'll have spam-free email courtesy of Ma Bell! /flex