MeanderingMind and Vertinox have eloquently made two points that I would like to see brought to focus in the mainstream.
When kids pick on each other, some people seem to think that it's a positive thing - "real world lessons" and such. While children do need to, at some point, come to grips with the sometimes inharmonious nature of the world, *abuse* is neither healthy nor helpful, to anyone.
I take it as a truism that no one is born evil. Some people take a lot of shit, and win through it. Some take shit and end up written off for whatever reason. Some people take a lot of shit, and then decide that the only way they can cope with existence is to unload some shit on someone else.
If you kick a dog enough times, that dog will either crumble, or it will bite back.
We owe it to future generations to make the world a better place, as did each generation before us. Why do people hurt each other? What can we do? It's not easy, but it is worth thinking about.
My good will goes out to all affected by this incident.
I wrote a brilliantly pithy reply and capped it off with self deprecating humor... and closed the wrong window.:) hahahaha
I'm not disagreeing with your explanation, I'm just being a rhetoric whore because your use of "due" gives the sense of electromagnetism being a sufficient cause for the gel wake, instead of just a necessary one.
Curses, curses!;) (this must be my karma for taking a smug tone with a scientist over a linguistic piffle.)
Saying that the wake is due to electromagnetic force is like saying that car-crash whiplash is due to seatbelts or bumpers.
The wake is due to the transfer of kinetic energy from the bullet (okay, the bullet as measured from the frame of the gel) to the gel (in it's frame). Electromagnetics is just the medium of this transfer.
A bullet sitting motionless in gel creates no wake... but the electromagnetic force is still there.
Clearly, the wake is not "due" to the electromagnetic force, it is a "product" of said force (and the kinetic energy of the speeding bullet).
I applaud your mischievous wordplay, and I await the potential wrath of your advanced physics knowledge.
iirc, only the outermost few centimeters of any incoming meteor are ever heated. If you come upon a just-crashed meteorite that is broken open, it will be cold on the inside, and the outside will be cool to the touch in (again iirc) minutes.
I always thought the furor over GTA and suchlike was foamy-mouthed zealotry from technophobic churchladies. This alters my perspective. The subject matter is enough to royally piss me off, but I'm not sure whether that's enough to make me agree with censorship. I'd like to say that freedom outweighs all other considerations. I really would. But on a personal level I have to wait to see what shakes out.
I dream of electrified highways. Batteries are heavy, and as Beryllium Sphere points out, you put in more energy than you get out. I want to get my current from the grid; now my range is limited only by it. Possibilities exist in the addition of internal combustion engines of various sizes and fuels.
If the infrastructure were built (if, if..) equipped cars could run on electricity produced by any source - hydroelectric, nookyulur, solar, even hamsters - reducing our dependence on oil.
And from the department of statistics made up on the spot, let's say 25% of commuter traffic could go without batteries and without a heavy engine. Frames and wheels could be lighter. If a quarter of the cars weigh a quarter less, that's 1/16th of however many millions of cars times the average weight of a car today, say a ton, in pounds of machinery that doesn't need to be accelerated.
>>There is no disconnect between opposing abortion and being in favor of capital punishment.
unless your basis for opposing abortion is that "god said thou shalt not kill".
It's perfectly sensible to oppose abortion and favor the death penalty - unless your reason for abortion is "thou shalt not kill", but you have microamnesia when it comes to adults.
I never said anyone had to believe anything.
>>Well hell! It's a good thing you're not painting with a really broad brush or anything!
Email me when 50% of the country doesn't consider me a "terrorist" simply because I am not a conservative. Nuance is useless today. Only big, broad ideological strokes remain. Welcome to 2005.
>>Saying that one must be against capital punishment if they're against abortion is exactly equivalent to insisting that people who dislike broccoli also dislike strawberries. It's a non-issue.
Looks like you jumped to flame me without understanding what I wrote. For good measure read the post I replied to also.
>>There are plenty of those people here; i.e., people who berate and denigrate any opposition on ethical grounds to embryonic stem cell research, but would likely find major "ethical" problems with employer genetic testing, even with consent.
Just my 2c... I disagree with "ethical" opposition to embryonic stem cell research, because 1) I disagree that an embryo is a person and 2) because I find that those who oppose ESCR because "it's murder" are just fine with killing criminals and foreign civilians.
I would say that *without* consent, genetic testing presents a privacy problem. If the person is consenting, the only problem there would be if they were coerced (do it or yer fired).
I don't think I'm a hypocrite, but then neither do the people who oppose abortion and ESCR because "it's murder", but are pro death penalty and pro bomb brown people.
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I hear the Brits developed this technology in the mid-80's, but abandoned it when they could not find a way to make it leak oil.
With apologies to britons and MG lovers everywhere.
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I hope this doesn't impede future space elevator entrepreneurs in any way.
MeanderingMind and Vertinox have eloquently made two points that I would like to see brought to focus in the mainstream.
When kids pick on each other, some people seem to think that it's a positive thing - "real world lessons" and such. While children do need to, at some point, come to grips with the sometimes inharmonious nature of the world, *abuse* is neither healthy nor helpful, to anyone.
I take it as a truism that no one is born evil. Some people take a lot of shit, and win through it. Some take shit and end up written off for whatever reason. Some people take a lot of shit, and then decide that the only way they can cope with existence is to unload some shit on someone else.
If you kick a dog enough times, that dog will either crumble, or it will bite back.
We owe it to future generations to make the world a better place, as did each generation before us. Why do people hurt each other? What can we do? It's not easy, but it is worth thinking about.
My good will goes out to all affected by this incident.
anyone?
Stan Lee comes to mind.
Excellent...
:) hahahaha
;) (this must be my karma for taking a smug tone with a scientist over a linguistic piffle.)
I wrote a brilliantly pithy reply and capped it off with self deprecating humor... and closed the wrong window.
I'm not disagreeing with your explanation, I'm just being a rhetoric whore because your use of "due" gives the sense of electromagnetism being a sufficient cause for the gel wake, instead of just a necessary one.
Curses, curses!
Saying that the wake is due to electromagnetic force is like saying that car-crash whiplash is due to seatbelts or bumpers.
The wake is due to the transfer of kinetic energy from the bullet (okay, the bullet as measured from the frame of the gel) to the gel (in it's frame). Electromagnetics is just the medium of this transfer.
A bullet sitting motionless in gel creates no wake... but the electromagnetic force is still there.
Clearly, the wake is not "due" to the electromagnetic force, it is a "product" of said force (and the kinetic energy of the speeding bullet).
I applaud your mischievous wordplay, and I await the potential wrath of your advanced physics knowledge.
iirc, only the outermost few centimeters of any incoming meteor are ever heated. If you come upon a just-crashed meteorite that is broken open, it will be cold on the inside, and the outside will be cool to the touch in (again iirc) minutes.
I always thought the furor over GTA and suchlike was foamy-mouthed zealotry from technophobic churchladies. This alters my perspective. The subject matter is enough to royally piss me off, but I'm not sure whether that's enough to make me agree with censorship. I'd like to say that freedom outweighs all other considerations. I really would. But on a personal level I have to wait to see what shakes out.
Yeah, but you just *know* he'll locate them outside of the force fields they generate.
Bill Murray is great in everything, but I always liked Egon more
just my 0.006666... gallons of 87 octane.
I dream of electrified highways. Batteries are heavy, and as Beryllium Sphere points out, you put in more energy than you get out. I want to get my current from the grid; now my range is limited only by it. Possibilities exist in the addition of internal combustion engines of various sizes and fuels.
If the infrastructure were built (if, if..) equipped cars could run on electricity produced by any source - hydroelectric, nookyulur, solar, even hamsters - reducing our dependence on oil.
And from the department of statistics made up on the spot, let's say 25% of commuter traffic could go without batteries and without a heavy engine. Frames and wheels could be lighter. If a quarter of the cars weigh a quarter less, that's 1/16th of however many millions of cars times the average weight of a car today, say a ton, in pounds of machinery that doesn't need to be accelerated.
(Score:-1, Redundant)
someday we'll hear from the department of redundancy department. someday.
lol
NASA created a catalytic converter system using frikkin' lasers that works at cooler temperatures.
someday we'll hear from the department of redundancy department. someday.
I take it Hilsch had the patent?
Well, my comment should have been better phrased.
:)
+1, -1, and I can see why.
See ya 'round
>>There is no disconnect between opposing abortion and being in favor of capital punishment.
unless your basis for opposing abortion is that "god said thou shalt not kill".
It's perfectly sensible to oppose abortion and favor the death penalty - unless your reason for abortion is "thou shalt not kill", but you have microamnesia when it comes to adults.
I never said anyone had to believe anything.
>>Well hell! It's a good thing you're not painting with a really broad brush or anything!
Email me when 50% of the country doesn't consider me a "terrorist" simply because I am not a conservative. Nuance is useless today. Only big, broad ideological strokes remain. Welcome to 2005.
>>Saying that one must be against capital punishment if they're against abortion is exactly equivalent to insisting that people who dislike broccoli also dislike strawberries. It's a non-issue.
Looks like you jumped to flame me without understanding what I wrote. For good measure read the post I replied to also.
Have a nice day.
>>There are plenty of those people here; i.e., people who berate and denigrate any opposition on ethical grounds to embryonic stem cell research, but would likely find major "ethical" problems with employer genetic testing, even with consent.
Just my 2c...
I disagree with "ethical" opposition to embryonic stem cell research, because 1) I disagree that an embryo is a person and 2) because I find that those who oppose ESCR because "it's murder" are just fine with killing criminals and foreign civilians.
I would say that *without* consent, genetic testing presents a privacy problem. If the person is consenting, the only problem there would be if they were coerced (do it or yer fired).
I don't think I'm a hypocrite, but then neither do the people who oppose abortion and ESCR because "it's murder", but are pro death penalty and pro bomb brown people.
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