From what I've read, any debate with Rossler quickly leads to him promoting his own pet theories, rather than any rational examination of the risks.
No, no, you don't understand. Nutcases like this know that a thorough understanding of their enlightened pseudoscience is fundamental to any rational examination of the risks. They're trying to help you. Really.
You should remember that Slashdot is an international community. Some of our English speaking members come from island nations where interpersonal relations of an ovine or porcine nature are not always frowned on save by the Kirk.
The fact that someone thinks their girlfriend is pretty when others don't is a matter to live and let live. Creationists are actively trying to destroy science education in the United States and convert the government into a Christian Fundamentalist theocracy. Those are matters to be actively resisted, not tolerated.
Trying to save a few bucks on this is not cost effective. You will eat it up in staff time and equipment breakage in short order. You don't want your servers running with 3% free space on the drives and CPU loads at 95%, and you don't want an AC unit in the server room that you have to think about. It's 105 F outside right now, and the server room is nice and cool. Your $600 plus labor is a cheap solution. Expect to pay about $3,000.00 to do it right.
I think that the anthropic principle is a null statement, and I agree with you that one should tread lightly if you get near it. I don't think it needs to be invoked in this case. I am more concerned about extrapolation from a single datum. The evidence seems to show that prokaryotic life arose quickly on Earth. There was then a really long period before the evolution of eukaryotic life, but that isn't germane here. If the evidence showed that there was a long sterile period before the appearance of prokaryotes, we could argue that life spontaneously arising is an unlikely event. You can still make the argument that the early appearance of prokaryotes just means that we got lucky, and it still is an unlikely event. However, that one data point we have shows that it can and did happen quickly.
>the assembly of complex self-reproducers from simpler compounds doesn't seem like any everyday occurrence.
The evidence seems to show that the appearance of cellular life occurred quickly after the Earth developed a stable surface cool enough for widespread liquid water. That would argue that "life arising spontaneously" is not particularly unlikely. That might change which variable you assign as A and B in Bayes' Theorem.
Dealing with a vibration problem by adding nearly a ton of lead bouncy weights is not a great solution; especially when your mission is climbing out of a deep gravity well. They need to be looking for and fixing the source of the vibration.
Fortunately, they are. From Wired: "In the long term, Gary Lyles, associate director for technical management at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, said they are planning cold flow testing to learn more about the source of the vibration within the motor design itself. The next step would be sub-scale hot flow tests with solid rocket motors. If the tests prove conclusive, NASA will be able to look at doing a block upgrade to the motor and adding design changes to the full scale motor that will result in less vibration being produced. This would solve the problem without adding on extra weight to compensate for the problem."
I was interested in the stabilization effect this has on the enzymes doped onto the silk substrate. According to TFA, they wind up with a room-temperature self life of a year or so compared to hours otherwise. This could make all kinds of tests and indicators way cheaper. how about E. coli sensitive wrappers for meat products?
>Am I to expect my digestive bacteria to be holding psychedelic rave parties in my intestines?
Yes, they already are. Now with the correct wireless interface to the optical sensors, you can have live, streaming video of the interior of your GI tract on your website. Follow the exciting path of Thursday's Tequila shooters and tacos with extra Habanero salsa.
>"n flight they can reach a speed of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h)."
Fairly quickly at an acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2. Less than three seconds.
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>Could this conceivably be used to power locomotivators (more commonly known as "iron horses") across large distances on metal rails? This could help solve that whole oil problem!
An attorney we use is fond of saying that words and punctuation have to mean something, or else there is no point in writing things down in laws and contracts.
>I think screenshot with the pseudo graffiti font that reads, "wow gayness" pretty much reflects the stupidity and immaturity motivating these guys. I guess in their minds everything needs to be "hardcore".
These are the folks with the brown on black web pages blaring lo-fi "heavy" metal.
>He also needs to come to Slashdot, because if somebody here says something's the law, and it gets moderated to +5, then it's the law. Maybe lawyers don't know it, and Congress doesn't know it, and the judges don't know it, but sooner or later, I'm sure they'll come around.
But how damn little it takes to buy them that shocks me. FTFA, it seems you can buy an Alaska State Senator for about $2,000 and lunch. The Speaker of the House will cost you less than $10,000. And this is to do favors worth millions if not billions to those doing the bribing. Definitely low-rent sleazeballs.
Where I live there is a big push to have Mandarin taught in public schools. Much of the support for this is coming from the Hispanic, particularly the Mexican, community. The reason for this is that there are a lot of Chinese companies moving manufacturing operations to northern Mexico, and the Hispanic community sees opportunity for their children who can speak Spanish, English and Mandarin.
is that orthodox noodliness, or new age noodliness?
The GP seems to be some sort of ecumenical pastafarian, but some of the others appear to be schismatics belonging to either the Reformed FSM or possibly the Alfredist heresy. It's time for the Auto da Fe, I say.
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From what I've read, any debate with Rossler quickly leads to him promoting his own pet theories, rather than any rational examination of the risks.
No, no, you don't understand. Nutcases like this know that a thorough understanding of their enlightened pseudoscience is fundamental to any rational examination of the risks. They're trying to help you. Really.
This is almost exactly how Microsoft Bob came to be.
Is there any before and after relationship between Microsoft Bob and Smiling Bob?
"hey, you really shouldn't be dating a pig!"
You should remember that Slashdot is an international community. Some of our English speaking members come from island nations where interpersonal relations of an ovine or porcine nature are not always frowned on save by the Kirk.
The fact that someone thinks their girlfriend is pretty when others don't is a matter to live and let live. Creationists are actively trying to destroy science education in the United States and convert the government into a Christian Fundamentalist theocracy. Those are matters to be actively resisted, not tolerated.
Trying to save a few bucks on this is not cost effective. You will eat it up in staff time and equipment breakage in short order. You don't want your servers running with 3% free space on the drives and CPU loads at 95%, and you don't want an AC unit in the server room that you have to think about. It's 105 F outside right now, and the server room is nice and cool. Your $600 plus labor is a cheap solution. Expect to pay about $3,000.00 to do it right.
I think that the anthropic principle is a null statement, and I agree with you that one should tread lightly if you get near it. I don't think it needs to be invoked in this case. I am more concerned about extrapolation from a single datum. The evidence seems to show that prokaryotic life arose quickly on Earth. There was then a really long period before the evolution of eukaryotic life, but that isn't germane here. If the evidence showed that there was a long sterile period before the appearance of prokaryotes, we could argue that life spontaneously arising is an unlikely event. You can still make the argument that the early appearance of prokaryotes just means that we got lucky, and it still is an unlikely event. However, that one data point we have shows that it can and did happen quickly.
>the assembly of complex self-reproducers from simpler compounds doesn't seem like any everyday occurrence.
The evidence seems to show that the appearance of cellular life occurred quickly after the Earth developed a stable surface cool enough for widespread liquid water. That would argue that "life arising spontaneously" is not particularly unlikely. That might change which variable you assign as A and B in Bayes' Theorem.
Dumbass, its a "Space Cube". It should be measured in the fourth dimension as 2 square inches/sec.
No, that would make it a "Time Cube", and that would be a Bad Thing.
>big, clunky, and with no regard for elegance.
Dealing with a vibration problem by adding nearly a ton of lead bouncy weights is not a great solution; especially when your mission is climbing out of a deep gravity well. They need to be looking for and fixing the source of the vibration.
Fortunately, they are. From Wired: "In the long term, Gary Lyles, associate director for technical management at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, said they are planning cold flow testing to learn more about the source of the vibration within the motor design itself. The next step would be sub-scale hot flow tests with solid rocket motors. If the tests prove conclusive, NASA will be able to look at doing a block upgrade to the motor and adding design changes to the full scale motor that will result in less vibration being produced. This would solve the problem without adding on extra weight to compensate for the problem."
It's not "in tents with porpoises?" I thought it was about cetacean hentai.
I was interested in the stabilization effect this has on the enzymes doped onto the silk substrate. According to TFA, they wind up with a room-temperature self life of a year or so compared to hours otherwise. This could make all kinds of tests and indicators way cheaper. how about E. coli sensitive wrappers for meat products?
>Am I to expect my digestive bacteria to be holding psychedelic rave parties in my intestines?
Yes, they already are. Now with the correct wireless interface to the optical sensors, you can have live, streaming video of the interior of your GI tract on your website. Follow the exciting path of Thursday's Tequila shooters and tacos with extra Habanero salsa.
>"n flight they can reach a speed of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h)."
Fairly quickly at an acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2. Less than three seconds.
>Could this conceivably be used to power locomotivators (more commonly known as "iron horses") across large distances on metal rails? This could help solve that whole oil problem!
This could help solve that whale oil problem!
There. Fixed it for you.
An attorney we use is fond of saying that words and punctuation have to mean something, or else there is no point in writing things down in laws and contracts.
>I think screenshot with the pseudo graffiti font that reads, "wow gayness" pretty much reflects the stupidity and immaturity motivating these guys. I guess in their minds everything needs to be "hardcore".
These are the folks with the brown on black web pages blaring lo-fi "heavy" metal.
>The troll moderation was for the insinuation that community colleges were for idiots who don't know history.
Right. Everyone knows that the idiots aren't going to learn any history in a community college. :-)
>He also needs to come to Slashdot, because if somebody here says something's the law, and it gets moderated to +5, then it's the law. Maybe lawyers don't know it, and Congress doesn't know it, and the judges don't know it, but sooner or later, I'm sure they'll come around.
It's not ManLaw; it's NerdLaw.
But how damn little it takes to buy them that shocks me. FTFA, it seems you can buy an Alaska State Senator for about $2,000 and lunch. The Speaker of the House will cost you less than $10,000. And this is to do favors worth millions if not billions to those doing the bribing. Definitely low-rent sleazeballs.
Where I live there is a big push to have Mandarin taught in public schools. Much of the support for this is coming from the Hispanic, particularly the Mexican, community. The reason for this is that there are a lot of Chinese companies moving manufacturing operations to northern Mexico, and the Hispanic community sees opportunity for their children who can speak Spanish, English and Mandarin.
is that orthodox noodliness, or new age noodliness?
The GP seems to be some sort of ecumenical pastafarian, but some of the others appear to be schismatics belonging to either the Reformed FSM or possibly the Alfredist heresy. It's time for the Auto da Fe, I say.
>I'll always know where I was when I twittered to tell everyone I was in the john.
I, for one, don't give a shit.
>The closer we get to all, the better.
Although I agree with you in general, I don't think working to increase the undermedicated paranoid schizophrenic vote is really a good thing. :-)
Johnson was older than Kennedy.
My neighbor has the vanity plate UH WTF. How he got that one by the morons at the DMV.... Oh, wait, morons.