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All of these talk about NPP (net production). On the NASA image, it the relative picture is misleading since there is not that much NPP in the tundra or deserts!
Anyway, the 50% is not made up. 50% of all land plant growth equievelence seems close to being accurate. The oceans are quite baren now (and the volume of the Pacific is equal to the volume of the Moon). Now that China is getting fat, we can only see the NPP skyrocket (meat calorie production requires about 9x plant calorie input).
As someone said, "People are not pigs. People will eat anything".
Or the intellectuals who said that the world couldn't support more than 2 billion people.
And you are saying it can at the level the western world is accustomed to? It is falling apart already and standard of living in China and India is not even close to that in the US.
Some trivia fact: humans consume (eat,use,burn,whatever), directly or indirectly, over 50% of all plant life that grows on land each year.
No. It would be good. Nuclear decay (also known as fission) produces energy. "Accelerate" that energy release rate enough and you can use it to generate power.
There would be hell of a lot less nuclear "waste" if they only reprocessed it. I think only 1% or so of uranium is "burned" (decays) in nuclear reactor. A nuclear reactor only generates a few pounds of actual waste per year.
Kyoto is a long term strategy. The agreement spans more than the next four decades. That's over 40 years. Remember if someone told you 40 years ago that by 2005 everyone in their homes would have a computer?
Hydrogen is not ready for prime time, *now*. With research, it will in the next decade. Iceland will be deploying hydrogen in the next decade.
But then, in your understanding, things like the space race during the cold war was designed to reign in the US? I mean, the US "wasted" so much money and effort on research with no immediate benefits.
Just because you cannot comprehend the benefits (both technological and sociological) of agreements like Kyoto for the western nations, it doesn't mean that you will not benefit from them 30 or 50 years down the line. Spending money and effort on research (hydrogen, fusion, wind/solar power) does nothing but gives back dividends ten-fold.
Kyoto is designed to save the western economies from themselves (yeah, they are NOT sustainable over the long term). If we continue to have a C-based economy, Kyoto or not, it will tank.
Kyoto puts CO2 emission reduction targets on developed countries. Yes. This does not mean wealth redistribution. Well, unless these countries are composed of morons that will just slash-and-burn their economies to reach the target.
What Kyoto is about is switching the economy from C-based to H-based. It means innovation. It means research into renewable energy and nuclear energy.
A country can reduce their C02 emissions to almost zero if they switch their economy to be H-based (yes, including cars) and use reneweable/nuclear (like fusion) energy sources to fuel the economy.
Oil will run out soon enough at which point the developing countries that get their ecomies in order will get screwed by lack of oil (ie. high oil prices). At that point they will *need* to switch to H-based economy. And guess what? The developed world would have the tech. to *sell* it to them.
Wealth redistribution to the poor nations? LOL. Kyoto will keep the money in the developed world.
A nation like US is screwing itself by not signing the treaty and spending money on research. What you will end up having is US buying tech. and research from Europe.
Cold War->Innovation which fueled US to be an economic superpower (ie. space race->computers, etc..). Kyoto is designed to take place of the Cold War in driving research/innovation.
Gah. I'm a first-year Chem major, and this is puzzling the hell out of me.
Don't worry. I got a physics degree and don't know how it works either:P.
You can't just count electrons here to see what is going on here. You'll have to do some quamtum mechanics. What they claim to do is to have a cluster of atoms bind to form a molecule that has a wavefunction equivelent (or close enough) to a different element. They call it "superatom" just because it is physically larger.
If they actually produced something that has a similar wavefunction as other elements, then this is very exciting. It would allow mutation of things like nobel gas (13 Al, as in article) to reactive (14 Al) and back. This is very excting from materials point of view. It would be like a new class of chemistry (ie. change one "atom" to another with a chemical reaction).
Linux is not, it was never designed as a gaming platform and probably never will be as long as video card manufacturers refuse to open source their drivers.
WTF are you talking about? nVidia supports their cards on Linux and these cards work perfectly.
While none of us have experience in checking out other solar systems, I'll be willing to hypothesize that, in this galaxy, there are very few planet/satellite combinations that are very comparable in mass/size (as the Earth/Moon combo is).
Like the Pluto/Chiron?. Closer ration than Earth/Moon.. So there is a closer ratio example in *our* system.
Hypothesis are suppose to educated guesses based on *current* knowledge. Thus, you are not hypothesizing, but just guessing.
GM stuff isn't playing God? Putting genes from a fungus into a fish is not plaing God?
There was a story on shashdot a few months ago (can't find it..) indicating that some researchers created a virus or a bacteria from non-living components.
I think this story is more about creating life for a purpose that we do not find natually. Other than that, it is already here.
I'd think the more likely reasons would have to do, for starters, with consumers not wanting or being able to afford a computer that requires constant cooling with liquid nitrogen (or even worse, liquid helium) to work.
You can now have even room temperature super-conductors, but these are (I think) not 3D superconductors, but 2D supercuducors (surface superconducing). They do not work for any application with any power demands (eg. magnets or power distribution), but then the purpose of a CPU is not to trasfer or translate power.
Yes. *But* there are a lot less lawsuits in Canada and a lot less software patents. The later probably because the market is small. The former probably because you pay for defence of one you sue if you lose. Oh, and the judges tend to throw stuff out that is just frivolous (ie. judges are not elected here, they are appointed so they don't need money from corps. to help them get their jobs:P
On the other hand, an MD5 sum is usually a file stored somewhere which is a hash of the file. However, an MD5 sum is no more secure than the original file
Generally in open source you have MD5 hash posted on the project's homepage. You download the files from mirrors. There are multiple locations to crack at the same time. It is easier said than done.
Furthermore, there could be an private developer machine checking the main page once every 5 minutes or so to see if the MD5 hashes on the main site are corrupted.
It is easier to buy a dummy vertificate and sign the modified file than to actually go though the trouble of changing files and MD5 hashes on multiple sites.
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All of these talk about NPP (net production). On the NASA image, it the relative picture is misleading since there is not that much NPP in the tundra or deserts!
Anyway, the 50% is not made up. 50% of all land plant growth equievelence seems close to being accurate. The oceans are quite baren now (and the volume of the Pacific is equal to the volume of the Moon). Now that China is getting fat, we can only see the NPP skyrocket (meat calorie production requires about 9x plant calorie input).
As someone said, "People are not pigs. People will eat anything".
NOTE: It is ok if you do not speak Japaneese. That would be a problem only for people that require human contact - any geek does not.
Just look at the graph of human population graphs and some more.
And you are saying it can at the level the western world is accustomed to? It is falling apart already and standard of living in China and India is not even close to that in the US.
Some trivia fact: humans consume (eat,use,burn,whatever), directly or indirectly, over 50% of all plant life that grows on land each year.
There would be hell of a lot less nuclear "waste" if they only reprocessed it. I think only 1% or so of uranium is "burned" (decays) in nuclear reactor. A nuclear reactor only generates a few pounds of actual waste per year.
Hydrogen is not ready for prime time, *now*. With research, it will in the next decade. Iceland will be deploying hydrogen in the next decade.
But then, in your understanding, things like the space race during the cold war was designed to reign in the US? I mean, the US "wasted" so much money and effort on research with no immediate benefits.
Just because you cannot comprehend the benefits (both technological and sociological) of agreements like Kyoto for the western nations, it doesn't mean that you will not benefit from them 30 or 50 years down the line. Spending money and effort on research (hydrogen, fusion, wind/solar power) does nothing but gives back dividends ten-fold.
Kyoto is designed to save the western economies from themselves (yeah, they are NOT sustainable over the long term). If we continue to have a C-based economy, Kyoto or not, it will tank.
Kyoto puts CO2 emission reduction targets on developed countries. Yes. This does not mean wealth redistribution. Well, unless these countries are composed of morons that will just slash-and-burn their economies to reach the target.
What Kyoto is about is switching the economy from C-based to H-based. It means innovation. It means research into renewable energy and nuclear energy.
A country can reduce their C02 emissions to almost zero if they switch their economy to be H-based (yes, including cars) and use reneweable/nuclear (like fusion) energy sources to fuel the economy.
Oil will run out soon enough at which point the developing countries that get their ecomies in order will get screwed by lack of oil (ie. high oil prices). At that point they will *need* to switch to H-based economy. And guess what? The developed world would have the tech. to *sell* it to them.
Wealth redistribution to the poor nations? LOL. Kyoto will keep the money in the developed world.
A nation like US is screwing itself by not signing the treaty and spending money on research. What you will end up having is US buying tech. and research from Europe.
Cold War->Innovation which fueled US to be an economic superpower (ie. space race->computers, etc..). Kyoto is designed to take place of the Cold War in driving research/innovation.
Don't worry. I got a physics degree and don't know how it works either :P.
You can't just count electrons here to see what is going on here. You'll have to do some quamtum mechanics. What they claim to do is to have a cluster of atoms bind to form a molecule that has a wavefunction equivelent (or close enough) to a different element. They call it "superatom" just because it is physically larger.
If they actually produced something that has a similar wavefunction as other elements, then this is very exciting. It would allow mutation of things like nobel gas (13 Al, as in article) to reactive (14 Al) and back. This is very excting from materials point of view. It would be like a new class of chemistry (ie. change one "atom" to another with a chemical reaction).
WTF are you talking about? nVidia supports their cards on Linux and these cards work perfectly.
Yeap. This is what happens when you dump so much nitrogen into water. No oxygen and all animals die.
Like the Pluto/Chiron?. Closer ration than Earth/Moon.. So there is a closer ratio example in *our* system.
Hypothesis are suppose to educated guesses based on *current* knowledge. Thus, you are not hypothesizing, but just guessing.
Nuclear power is also green power.
That's because N-Gage is only for old people in Korea, duh!
Just wait until Duke Nukem Forever for some more female/male steriotypes.
s/wife/mom/
There was a story on shashdot a few months ago (can't find it..) indicating that some researchers created a virus or a bacteria from non-living components.
I think this story is more about creating life for a purpose that we do not find natually. Other than that, it is already here.
On Debian, people can just use `fakeroot`
You can now have even room temperature super-conductors, but these are (I think) not 3D superconductors, but 2D supercuducors (surface superconducing). They do not work for any application with any power demands (eg. magnets or power distribution), but then the purpose of a CPU is not to trasfer or translate power.
See Google for answers. Not a lot of it, but there is water on Mars.
s/would/is/
That, my friend, we don't have to do. We can calculate where it will come down (at least which side of the planet!) :)
Heck, it can put up 32t to Lunar orbit!
Yes. *But* there are a lot less lawsuits in Canada and a lot less software patents. The later probably because the market is small. The former probably because you pay for defence of one you sue if you lose. Oh, and the judges tend to throw stuff out that is just frivolous (ie. judges are not elected here, they are appointed so they don't need money from corps. to help them get their jobs :P
Generally in open source you have MD5 hash posted on the project's homepage. You download the files from mirrors. There are multiple locations to crack at the same time. It is easier said than done.
Furthermore, there could be an private developer machine checking the main page once every 5 minutes or so to see if the MD5 hashes on the main site are corrupted.
It is easier to buy a dummy vertificate and sign the modified file than to actually go though the trouble of changing files and MD5 hashes on multiple sites.