It is actually wonderfully smart;;last christmas it was nigh impossible to obtain a new XBox. What, 3 years after release?
By making this statement, Microsoft will lighten the demand for the new console, if only slightly. Since the chances of them being able to prep for the true demand are only slightly better than Windows making your morning coffee tomorrow, any decrease in initial demand can be seen as a bonus.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but MS KNOWS that they well sell out no matter HOW many consoles they put to market in the first few weeks. To delay long enough to have the inventory to cover the max potential demand would be foolish indeed. But if you have TOO many people that don't get the console when the 'herd mentality' is present (as well as a gajillion dollars in adverts, to be sure) then those buyers may disappear forever. But the ones that say 'oh, that will be worth it when it has HD-DVD' put off buying the console, the only put it off... they WILL become future buyers (or at least a higher percentage of them then those who walk into a store and hear about a 3 month waiting list).
Besides, they will certainly add an 'upgrade' option at some time. And they stand a chance of actually turning a profit on the upgrade; console sales are a massive loss, esp. at launch.
You only need to match the rotation of the Earth to be perfectly divisible by the length of the year. Personally, I think 360 days per year would be grand.
So, we need to bring the moon a bit closer. The rotation rate of the Earth will increase proportionally and everything will work out GREAT!
Get back to me when you're done.
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In direct sunlight the air temperature would be irrelevent:~)
Not so much that I'm too lazy to check on stuff -- although that weighs heavily -- but also that no amount of checking I could do would confirm or deny any of the proposals we've made:~)
I didn't attribute anything significant to the concentric marks. Hmm.
Anyway, fun stuff:~)
Cheers,
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Personally I took it as a turn of phrase. Really, I know this is slashdot, but it is ok to assume that not everyone is an idiot.
Any significant impact can easily exceed a nuclear explosion in terms of energy released. Very easily, actually; the largest single warhead that can be created is around 20 megatonnes. The release from a significant impact can dwarf that.... just look at Olympus Mons -- possibly created thanks to a massive impact at the antipode (hold a globe of Mars, you'll see what I mean). Try and do THAT with a couple of nukes.
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Maybe. I am serious though. Also have a degree in orbital mechanics, so I can at least say that I am familiar with the energy involved.
Very little atmosphere to break the comet up before impact. Could easily leave a bajilion little peices of itself buried all over the impact site. A few hundred thousand years of warming and cooling would cause the majority of the ice to sublimate, bounce around the 'hot' areas of the crater (those that get hit by sunlight) then, eventually, hit a cold, cold rock. And stick. Eventually all the ice in the crater would be located in one small area, minus that sublimated vapor which managed to escape over the top of the crater wall (the vast majority, I'm guessing).
Your arguments are certainly valid. *shrug* I will toss out my strongest counter argument though: if you are correct, then *almost every single crater* should have an ice deposit. At the very least craters in that general area (if it is water table coming up from the impact), or at that general latitude and above (if it is simply water deposition into well shaded areas from a once-wet mars).
Not saying that most craters don't -- not sure we have that data? Could be buried under a few feet of regolith I guess.
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Two impact craters are not enough to give any meaningful info on the age of the ice. Crater aging requires a large enough area that random events are 'averaged out'.
Two impacts could easily have come in at the same time, from the same source --- etc.
But yeah, I'm going to wager that the sibling to this is correct; the ice probably got there by being the cause of the crater. If we land it would be easy to tell for sure, and also to tell how old the crater is (I'm guessing rather young, in the grand scheme).
Black holes decay. They lose energy via at least a couple of pathways, including gravitational radiation; they spin, warping gravity. That causes stuff near it to accelerate which in turn steals energy from the black hole, which loses mass (via E = mc^2) although near this strong a gravity source I'm sure you need to use more complex equations to describe what the heck is going on:~)
Yeah, this was done to me when I was in kindergarten. I didn't realize it was a scam until I was in about 5th grade when something reminded me of it -- I'd totally forgotten about the police coming into the classroom with the jackass in some kind of costume.
I am still pissed about it. Not so much on the identity issue; I still haven't fully developed my opinion on a national ID -- I hate the idea of our current government having it, but honestly see that something better than what we have is needed (I don't believe we can continue to pretend we are a federation of sovereign states for much longer). No. What I hate is that our government lies to its people. Not 'once in a while', not 'sometimes'. MOST of the time. Most laws are passed under false pretenses. The bastards who printed me lied about why it was being done. The FAA lies about why we can't use cell phones and 'electronic devices' at take-off and landing. Lies lies lies! Lies when there isn't even a need to lie! And then the politicos wonder why 'we the people' don't trust 'the government' to implement a national ID system. Hmmmmm.
As to taking prints as a baby, I'm totally guessing here, but the print probably changes too much between newborn and adult. Thus the delay.
If anything America is more religious now than it was in the 80s.
There are thousands of well qualified people that would jump at the chance to ride the shuttle.
There are tens of thousands behind them that would sacrifice a huge amount to go if the odds of dying were better than 1/10000 (current ~ 1/60).
Religion has little or nothing to do with it. I've actually found those who aren't religious are less afraid of death than those who are (athiest are religious too; agnostics are the only true group 'without a church' -- without a solid, defined set of beliefs).
There are methods of storing photonic energy (is that a real term?) as chemical energy. It is called glow paint;~) But yeah, I think that falls under 'convert to electrons', or close.
Seriously though, there is no possible way to do what you want using mirrors, because there is no perfect mirror. And saying 'fiber' just means using mirrors (fiber reflects light down its length). What you want would be a lossless (or really damned close to lossless) method of focusing light: that method is gravity. One could conceive of (probably not implement though) a system where you had a perfect gravitational loop (e.g. by moving stars around to suit your purpose) and one could add light into this loop by aiming a laser properly, or a deft us of mirrors (you would only use the mirror for one reflection, gravity does the rest).
The reason this wouldn't REALLY work is that while light (photons) doesn't/don't have mass, it has momentum. So changing the direction of a whole boat load of photons would in fact wreak havoc on the perfect circle of a gravity well you created (the stars would be moved). I think. That, and good luck moving stars around;~)
So, short answer to second paragraph: Won't ever work. Cool thought though.
Short answer to first paragraph: It's called a black hole:~) And you CAN get the energy back. But probably not in the same frequency of light that went in.
But then, if we have a stable black hole to play with, we certainly would have no need of storing photons:~) Toss in a bit of matter, catch the high-energy radiation as it gets ripped to shreds, convert to as much energy as you could possibly desire. More efficient than matter-antimatter, and far more efficient than a fusion reaction. I have about a 60% certainty level on the matter-antimatter part of that statement; verification would be wonderful. I can't remember where I read it, if in fact I really did:~)
What reason could you possibly have for using GPS to track the damned sun?
Three or four photosensors and a PIC 12 could do the same thing at a cost of about a dollar. Hell, you could skip the micro and do it all in hardware for probably 50 cents. If you must assume the person installing it is too bloody stupid to adjust the angle of the device to allow for one-axis tracking (see Equatorial Mount), then it would be more like 9 or 16 sensors in a dome pattern. STILL about a hundred times cheaper than the cheapest GPS-on-a-chip system (plus the code one would have to write to make it work).
Personally, I avoid buying things that make me seriously question the sanity of those who are selling it.
And: WHY THE HELL WAS THIS POSTED!? Come on, this is so not new anything.
I looked at the 50s chart, before and again just now to be sure; I really can't say that I see a lot of info in it.
However, without the ability to easily read the chart, it is hard to say for certain. Personally I think the new one that I slammed so hard will likely be able to contain more information, as it seperates the rings into 'arms' which can have seperate properties.
But whatever. Who knows, who knows. If kinds find it 10 times easier to use, hell, by all means use it. Maybe being pretty will inspire someone who woulnd't otherwise have been. I dunno.
Any time you create a heat gradient you are creating useful energy. Now, if you only consider tossing an antimatter baseball at the moon, sure, it could be argued that you can't get energy out of that. But if you direct the energy into a pool of liquid, then use the gasses/high pressure steam created to spin a turbine.....
he might be able to break the patent, but he wouldn't be able to get his own. Been in use for over a year, it can't be patented.... I think... not totally positive on that.
The more you learn about chemistry the more the current form makes sense. This piece of crap is just more visual trash will inhibit real learning in school.
Although, perhaps I could tear this 'new version' to peices even better if there were a version I could actually SEE posted somewhere on the net. There are fuzzy low-res versions all over the place, but not a one that I can really study.
There are DOZENs if not HUNDREDS of different table formats. I doubt that this one is even moderatly new, excepting perhaps the irrelevant backdrop. The layout depends on what is of interest; a astrophysics professor might have one that accentuates the electron energy states, whereas a chemical engineer might have a chart which accentuates the prevailence of an element in nature.
The current form is incredibly logical. Purly logical. Proton count increases from top-left to bottom right. Happens to correspond to about a half dozen different patterns. God, I can't even think of all the variables that our simple, standard table shows. There is SO much information packed into it. Even if you stripped out everything but the symbol the current table would convey a staggering amount of information. This new table? Mmmm.... not so much.
As for your last comment: It *IS* worse. Because eventually it will have to be discarded and students will have to learn to use the 'normal' periodic table. Sure it will be easier than if they had never heard of elements and protons etc before, but they won't be familiar with it. They will be slower with its use, and more easily frustrated. And public schools are famous for leaving out details that a teacher 'doesn't feel is important'. I tutored college chemistry: anything which adds to confusion without benifit is very bad. There is just too much new information to convey in a short time to have to add yet something else.
All of that said, I read the article hoping to find something which IS better and more intuitive. I believe one could be made which would be better suited to 'general use'; e.g. the casual chemist: the engineer type that looks to a table once in a while to calculate combustion energies, or for the student of general inorganic chemistry. Was bummed to see that POS.
But he, through his character, probably influenced more children (now adults) into careers in engineering than any other single human alive. I don't believe it is a slam on Apollo at all.
Cell phone. Even if you don't have a plan, if the cell phone has power it is supposed to be able to call 911 (provided it isn't totally obsolete!). Find a cell phone from a provider that you know works in your area, buy a car-charging unit (12 volt adaptor) for it and you are almost certain to be able to call 911 in all situations where 911 is likely to be able to help you.
Make sure to test everything first. I've never had a 911 operator complain when I called in and said 'Just verifying my line, thank you.' (Make sure to wait for them to acknowledge before hanging up).
Orrrr... maybe it is because I can go on the web for free and diagnose myself, gather a tonne of relevent information, and learn what my options are. And the side effects of those options -- in much greater detail than the little drug pamhplets you get from the pharmacy.
I get pretty f*ing pissed everytime I have to go fork over 50 bucks for a prescription for antibiotics when I have a sinus infection. Not the drugs themselves mind you! For the 'permission' to GET the drugs. Or worse, when I have to go refill my allergy prescriptions each spring. And I just LOVE being talked down to by some guy that probably learned what drug to prescribe for me while staring at the tits of the drug rep.
I lost all faith when a doctor gave me a narcotic to help me sleep when I had a high fever.
I am *FINALLY* in a position where I can shop around for a doctor that I like. I won't be moving for a while at least, which is new for me.
Less whining from me, and aiming more to your point: I think the problem is that the drug industry has been training people to think they know what they need. And people, as a group, are actually very poor at judging what is good info and what is bad; because they have been trained since grade-school to just accept whatever they are told. 'After all, why would anyone lie about 'x''? Goes the thought process. Doctors are generally too rushed to make any kind of impression on a patient. Especially one that spent 6 hours finding some insane 'homeopathic cure' to their condition. You think many doctors are going to take more than 5 minutes to try to explain why the patient is wrong? Maybe if the patient seems like he is really interested. Even then I'd be shocked.
So, instead of washing of the pesticides and herbicides, use the soap to wash of the organic manure fertilizer.
You should always at least rinse your produce. You don't know where it was grown; what if it was near a highway or train tracks? How much tire-dust do you want to consume? And it wasn't long ago that you litterally had to worry about lead poisoning from your road-side grown food.
On the other hand, I love carrots fresh out of the ground, with a tiny bit of that dirt flavor left on them. But only when I know exactly what was used to grow them! (I use dirt and water. Works pretty good). For those who don't know, it isn't actual dirt on the carrot... its like the micro roots or something. Anyway, very tasty.
As to shaking person #1s hand after whatching him type vs shaking some other person #2s hand after he just finished grabbing himself.... I'm going to have to lean towards case #1.;~)
But you're likely right. That whole visual just won't let me admit it;~)
Also, do use the anti-bacterial soap when you ARE sick, it will work better if you didn't use it before you were sick.
You do not EVER need antibacterial anything (preventative, that is). For one thing, it doesn't work worth crap. I know, I've cultured Strep and Staph strains in 4 different brand names of antibacterial soap. For reference, Dial was the only one that actually killed everything in the cultures -- but only on the highest concentration of soap. Yes, I know, I don't have my methodology to give you. I wish I did.
It won't work any better or any worse then it ever does if you use it before during or after being sick.
If you honestly have a part of your body that is septic, you need to talk to a doctor. They will likely have you use something like Hibicleans or an iodine solution. If they know what is causing the condition is treatable with rubbing alcohol, they might have you use that. Wounds that are suceptible to infection (e.g. cat scratches) should be covered with a triple anit-biotic ointment after being scrubbed -- and I mean SCRUBBED with whatever you have on hand. Normal Lye-based soap is great for this.
Were I in position to do so, I would form a class action suit against Lysol for their highly misleading advertisements regarding 'making life safer' for kids by forcing them to live a sterile life. There is an overwhelming body of evidence that points to about a half dozen chronic conditions which are contributed to by leading such a childhood. So far as I know, there isn't a lick of legitimate evidence that shows that being crazy-clean makes you less likely to get sick, and plenty that goes the other way.
Sorry:~/ pet peeve of mine. Don't even think about getting me started about 90% of our antibiotics production going to livestock....
A few billion, at 1MW a peice. And you would have to isolate the energy which you obtained from the turbines into something -- for instance, using the energy from the turbines to pump many many cubic kilometers of ocean water into high mountain basins.
Why? Because when you use energy from wind turbines for 'everyday applications' (running A/C, powering a car, drying clothes etc) you dump the energy right back into the atmosphere as heat. Heat will re-create the winds, although probably in a different (and most likely less desireable) pattern. The cycle won't be perfect of course; my guess is that the losses would come into play in more chaotic weather -- e.g. you could never close the system perfectly, but heat WILL create wind/weather patterns -- therefor the new wind and weather patterns would have to be more chaotic so that it would be impossible to collect the same amount of energy from said winds a second time.
Although I suppose if you routed the energy to where you WANTED more heat -- hmmm. Fun idea. I'd feel sorry for all avian life on earth though;~)
Sadly there is nowhere on the planet where MORE heat is desireable, what with our current rate of planetary warming. So isolation would be key. Once we HAVE a stable energy flux, THEN we can talk about shifting energy around on a planetary scale to modify local weather patterns:~)
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It is actually wonderfully smart; ;last christmas it was nigh impossible to obtain a new XBox. What, 3 years after release?
By making this statement, Microsoft will lighten the demand for the new console, if only slightly. Since the chances of them being able to prep for the true demand are only slightly better than Windows making your morning coffee tomorrow, any decrease in initial demand can be seen as a bonus.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but MS KNOWS that they well sell out no matter HOW many consoles they put to market in the first few weeks. To delay long enough to have the inventory to cover the max potential demand would be foolish indeed. But if you have TOO many people that don't get the console when the 'herd mentality' is present (as well as a gajillion dollars in adverts, to be sure) then those buyers may disappear forever. But the ones that say 'oh, that will be worth it when it has HD-DVD' put off buying the console, the only put it off... they WILL become future buyers (or at least a higher percentage of them then those who walk into a store and hear about a 3 month waiting list).
Besides, they will certainly add an 'upgrade' option at some time. And they stand a chance of actually turning a profit on the upgrade; console sales are a massive loss, esp. at launch.
We can do it just by moving mass around on Earth. 'Member the earthquake which just did it for us?
And... A &^%#@ tonne. Significantly larger than a metric arseload.
You only need to match the rotation of the Earth to be perfectly divisible by the length of the year. Personally, I think 360 days per year would be grand.
So, we need to bring the moon a bit closer. The rotation rate of the Earth will increase proportionally and everything will work out GREAT!
Get back to me when you're done.
In direct sunlight the air temperature would be irrelevent :~)
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Not so much that I'm too lazy to check on stuff -- although that weighs heavily -- but also that no amount of checking I could do would confirm or deny any of the proposals we've made
I didn't attribute anything significant to the concentric marks. Hmm.
Anyway, fun stuff
Cheers,
Personally I took it as a turn of phrase. Really, I know this is slashdot, but it is ok to assume that not everyone is an idiot.
Any significant impact can easily exceed a nuclear explosion in terms of energy released. Very easily, actually; the largest single warhead that can be created is around 20 megatonnes. The release from a significant impact can dwarf that.... just look at Olympus Mons -- possibly created thanks to a massive impact at the antipode (hold a globe of Mars, you'll see what I mean). Try and do THAT with a couple of nukes.
Maybe. I am serious though. Also have a degree in orbital mechanics, so I can at least say that I am familiar with the energy involved.
Very little atmosphere to break the comet up before impact. Could easily leave a bajilion little peices of itself buried all over the impact site. A few hundred thousand years of warming and cooling would cause the majority of the ice to sublimate, bounce around the 'hot' areas of the crater (those that get hit by sunlight) then, eventually, hit a cold, cold rock. And stick. Eventually all the ice in the crater would be located in one small area, minus that sublimated vapor which managed to escape over the top of the crater wall (the vast majority, I'm guessing).
Your arguments are certainly valid. *shrug* I will toss out my strongest counter argument though: if you are correct, then *almost every single crater* should have an ice deposit. At the very least craters in that general area (if it is water table coming up from the impact), or at that general latitude and above (if it is simply water deposition into well shaded areas from a once-wet mars).
Not saying that most craters don't -- not sure we have that data? Could be buried under a few feet of regolith I guess.
cheers,
Two impact craters are not enough to give any meaningful info on the age of the ice. Crater aging requires a large enough area that random events are 'averaged out'.
Two impacts could easily have come in at the same time, from the same source --- etc.
But yeah, I'm going to wager that the sibling to this is correct; the ice probably got there by being the cause of the crater. If we land it would be easy to tell for sure, and also to tell how old the crater is (I'm guessing rather young, in the grand scheme).
Information requires energy, IIRC.
:~)
Black holes decay. They lose energy via at least a couple of pathways, including gravitational radiation; they spin, warping gravity. That causes stuff near it to accelerate which in turn steals energy from the black hole, which loses mass (via E = mc^2) although near this strong a gravity source I'm sure you need to use more complex equations to describe what the heck is going on
There is reflection; I didn't say it was mirrored, I said it amounted to the same thing: there is loss.
Cheers.
Yeah, this was done to me when I was in kindergarten. I didn't realize it was a scam until I was in about 5th grade when something reminded me of it -- I'd totally forgotten about the police coming into the classroom with the jackass in some kind of costume.
I am still pissed about it. Not so much on the identity issue; I still haven't fully developed my opinion on a national ID -- I hate the idea of our current government having it, but honestly see that something better than what we have is needed (I don't believe we can continue to pretend we are a federation of sovereign states for much longer). No. What I hate is that our government lies to its people. Not 'once in a while', not 'sometimes'. MOST of the time. Most laws are passed under false pretenses. The bastards who printed me lied about why it was being done. The FAA lies about why we can't use cell phones and 'electronic devices' at take-off and landing. Lies lies lies! Lies when there isn't even a need to lie! And then the politicos wonder why 'we the people' don't trust 'the government' to implement a national ID system. Hmmmmm.
As to taking prints as a baby, I'm totally guessing here, but the print probably changes too much between newborn and adult. Thus the delay.
If anything America is more religious now than it was in the 80s.
There are thousands of well qualified people that would jump at the chance to ride the shuttle.
There are tens of thousands behind them that would sacrifice a huge amount to go if the odds of dying were better than 1/10000 (current ~ 1/60).
Religion has little or nothing to do with it. I've actually found those who aren't religious are less afraid of death than those who are (athiest are religious too; agnostics are the only true group 'without a church' -- without a solid, defined set of beliefs).
cheers
There are methods of storing photonic energy (is that a real term?) as chemical energy. It is called glow paint ;~) But yeah, I think that falls under 'convert to electrons', or close.
;~)
:~) And you CAN get the energy back. But probably not in the same frequency of light that went in.
:~) Toss in a bit of matter, catch the high-energy radiation as it gets ripped to shreds, convert to as much energy as you could possibly desire. More efficient than matter-antimatter, and far more efficient than a fusion reaction. I have about a 60% certainty level on the matter-antimatter part of that statement; verification would be wonderful. I can't remember where I read it, if in fact I really did :~)
Seriously though, there is no possible way to do what you want using mirrors, because there is no perfect mirror. And saying 'fiber' just means using mirrors (fiber reflects light down its length). What you want would be a lossless (or really damned close to lossless) method of focusing light: that method is gravity. One could conceive of (probably not implement though) a system where you had a perfect gravitational loop (e.g. by moving stars around to suit your purpose) and one could add light into this loop by aiming a laser properly, or a deft us of mirrors (you would only use the mirror for one reflection, gravity does the rest).
The reason this wouldn't REALLY work is that while light (photons) doesn't/don't have mass, it has momentum. So changing the direction of a whole boat load of photons would in fact wreak havoc on the perfect circle of a gravity well you created (the stars would be moved). I think. That, and good luck moving stars around
So, short answer to second paragraph: Won't ever work. Cool thought though.
Short answer to first paragraph: It's called a black hole
But then, if we have a stable black hole to play with, we certainly would have no need of storing photons
Cheers
What reason could you possibly have for using GPS to track the damned sun?
Three or four photosensors and a PIC 12 could do the same thing at a cost of about a dollar. Hell, you could skip the micro and do it all in hardware for probably 50 cents. If you must assume the person installing it is too bloody stupid to adjust the angle of the device to allow for one-axis tracking (see Equatorial Mount), then it would be more like 9 or 16 sensors in a dome pattern. STILL about a hundred times cheaper than the cheapest GPS-on-a-chip system (plus the code one would have to write to make it work).
Personally, I avoid buying things that make me seriously question the sanity of those who are selling it.
And: WHY THE HELL WAS THIS POSTED!? Come on, this is so not new anything.
I looked at the 50s chart, before and again just now to be sure; I really can't say that I see a lot of info in it.
However, without the ability to easily read the chart, it is hard to say for certain. Personally I think the new one that I slammed so hard will likely be able to contain more information, as it seperates the rings into 'arms' which can have seperate properties.
But whatever. Who knows, who knows. If kinds find it 10 times easier to use, hell, by all means use it. Maybe being pretty will inspire someone who woulnd't otherwise have been. I dunno.
cheers.
...well... almost everyone.
... 10am to 2pm is my standard lunch hour......
Any time you create a heat gradient you are creating useful energy. Now, if you only consider tossing an antimatter baseball at the moon, sure, it could be argued that you can't get energy out of that. But if you direct the energy into a pool of liquid, then use the gasses/high pressure steam created to spin a turbine.....
etc etc.
Cheers,
he might be able to break the patent, but he wouldn't be able to get his own. Been in use for over a year, it can't be patented.... I think... not totally positive on that.
The more you learn about chemistry the more the current form makes sense. This piece of crap is just more visual trash will inhibit real learning in school.
Although, perhaps I could tear this 'new version' to peices even better if there were a version I could actually SEE posted somewhere on the net. There are fuzzy low-res versions all over the place, but not a one that I can really study.
There are DOZENs if not HUNDREDS of different table formats. I doubt that this one is even moderatly new, excepting perhaps the irrelevant backdrop. The layout depends on what is of interest; a astrophysics professor might have one that accentuates the electron energy states, whereas a chemical engineer might have a chart which accentuates the prevailence of an element in nature.
The current form is incredibly logical. Purly logical. Proton count increases from top-left to bottom right. Happens to correspond to about a half dozen different patterns. God, I can't even think of all the variables that our simple, standard table shows. There is SO much information packed into it. Even if you stripped out everything but the symbol the current table would convey a staggering amount of information. This new table? Mmmm.... not so much.
As for your last comment: It *IS* worse. Because eventually it will have to be discarded and students will have to learn to use the 'normal' periodic table. Sure it will be easier than if they had never heard of elements and protons etc before, but they won't be familiar with it. They will be slower with its use, and more easily frustrated. And public schools are famous for leaving out details that a teacher 'doesn't feel is important'. I tutored college chemistry: anything which adds to confusion without benifit is very bad. There is just too much new information to convey in a short time to have to add yet something else.
All of that said, I read the article hoping to find something which IS better and more intuitive. I believe one could be made which would be better suited to 'general use'; e.g. the casual chemist: the engineer type that looks to a table once in a while to calculate combustion energies, or for the student of general inorganic chemistry. Was bummed to see that POS.
But he, through his character, probably influenced more children (now adults) into careers in engineering than any other single human alive. I don't believe it is a slam on Apollo at all.
Cell phone. Even if you don't have a plan, if the cell phone has power it is supposed to be able to call 911 (provided it isn't totally obsolete!). Find a cell phone from a provider that you know works in your area, buy a car-charging unit (12 volt adaptor) for it and you are almost certain to be able to call 911 in all situations where 911 is likely to be able to help you.
Make sure to test everything first. I've never had a 911 operator complain when I called in and said 'Just verifying my line, thank you.' (Make sure to wait for them to acknowledge before hanging up).
Orrrr... maybe it is because I can go on the web for free and diagnose myself, gather a tonne of relevent information, and learn what my options are. And the side effects of those options -- in much greater detail than the little drug pamhplets you get from the pharmacy.
I get pretty f*ing pissed everytime I have to go fork over 50 bucks for a prescription for antibiotics when I have a sinus infection. Not the drugs themselves mind you! For the 'permission' to GET the drugs. Or worse, when I have to go refill my allergy prescriptions each spring. And I just LOVE being talked down to by some guy that probably learned what drug to prescribe for me while staring at the tits of the drug rep.
I lost all faith when a doctor gave me a narcotic to help me sleep when I had a high fever.
I am *FINALLY* in a position where I can shop around for a doctor that I like. I won't be moving for a while at least, which is new for me.
Less whining from me, and aiming more to your point:
I think the problem is that the drug industry has been training people to think they know what they need. And people, as a group, are actually very poor at judging what is good info and what is bad; because they have been trained since grade-school to just accept whatever they are told. 'After all, why would anyone lie about 'x''? Goes the thought process. Doctors are generally too rushed to make any kind of impression on a patient. Especially one that spent 6 hours finding some insane 'homeopathic cure' to their condition. You think many doctors are going to take more than 5 minutes to try to explain why the patient is wrong? Maybe if the patient seems like he is really interested. Even then I'd be shocked.
Cheers,
So, instead of washing of the pesticides and herbicides, use the soap to wash of the organic manure fertilizer.
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You should always at least rinse your produce. You don't know where it was grown; what if it was near a highway or train tracks? How much tire-dust do you want to consume? And it wasn't long ago that you litterally had to worry about lead poisoning from your road-side grown food.
On the other hand, I love carrots fresh out of the ground, with a tiny bit of that dirt flavor left on them. But only when I know exactly what was used to grow them! (I use dirt and water. Works pretty good). For those who don't know, it isn't actual dirt on the carrot... its like the micro roots or something. Anyway, very tasty.
As to shaking person #1s hand after whatching him type vs shaking some other person #2s hand after he just finished grabbing himself.... I'm going to have to lean towards case #1.
But you're likely right. That whole visual just won't let me admit it
Cheers.
Also, do use the anti-bacterial soap when you ARE sick, it will work better if you didn't use it before you were sick.
:~/ pet peeve of mine. Don't even think about getting me started about 90% of our antibiotics production going to livestock....
You do not EVER need antibacterial anything (preventative, that is). For one thing, it doesn't work worth crap. I know, I've cultured Strep and Staph strains in 4 different brand names of antibacterial soap. For reference, Dial was the only one that actually killed everything in the cultures -- but only on the highest concentration of soap. Yes, I know, I don't have my methodology to give you. I wish I did.
It won't work any better or any worse then it ever does if you use it before during or after being sick.
If you honestly have a part of your body that is septic, you need to talk to a doctor. They will likely have you use something like Hibicleans or an iodine solution. If they know what is causing the condition is treatable with rubbing alcohol, they might have you use that. Wounds that are suceptible to infection (e.g. cat scratches) should be covered with a triple anit-biotic ointment after being scrubbed -- and I mean SCRUBBED with whatever you have on hand. Normal Lye-based soap is great for this.
Were I in position to do so, I would form a class action suit against Lysol for their highly misleading advertisements regarding 'making life safer' for kids by forcing them to live a sterile life. There is an overwhelming body of evidence that points to about a half dozen chronic conditions which are contributed to by leading such a childhood. So far as I know, there isn't a lick of legitimate evidence that shows that being crazy-clean makes you less likely to get sick, and plenty that goes the other way.
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A few billion, at 1MW a peice. And you would have to isolate the energy which you obtained from the turbines into something -- for instance, using the energy from the turbines to pump many many cubic kilometers of ocean water into high mountain basins.
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Why? Because when you use energy from wind turbines for 'everyday applications' (running A/C, powering a car, drying clothes etc) you dump the energy right back into the atmosphere as heat. Heat will re-create the winds, although probably in a different (and most likely less desireable) pattern. The cycle won't be perfect of course; my guess is that the losses would come into play in more chaotic weather -- e.g. you could never close the system perfectly, but heat WILL create wind/weather patterns -- therefor the new wind and weather patterns would have to be more chaotic so that it would be impossible to collect the same amount of energy from said winds a second time.
Although I suppose if you routed the energy to where you WANTED more heat -- hmmm. Fun idea. I'd feel sorry for all avian life on earth though
Sadly there is nowhere on the planet where MORE heat is desireable, what with our current rate of planetary warming. So isolation would be key. Once we HAVE a stable energy flux, THEN we can talk about shifting energy around on a planetary scale to modify local weather patterns