you could look at on actual experiments that (under very controlled conditions) appear to show information transfer at greater than light speed. Clicky
isn't that the same phase velocity story that shows up on/. every six months or so? afaik it's still meaningless/P
Maybe the moon was fundamental in the process of life arising, by keeping plate tectonics active, which causes a protective magnetic field to form in the earth..
i think the whole "protection from the sun" thing is something of a red herring. i mean, you can evolve radiation-hardened extremophiles with nothing more than a superfund site and a decade or three. we're radiation weenies because we evolved in this cozy little bubble; i'm sure a planet without it could evolve people who could happily bask in the glow of a reactor core, never mind mere solar wind.
if anything, i'd expect low radiation to be the problem, and asimov's old speculation to be right--that what the moon really does for us is keep the mantle stirred up and the uranium near the surface, increasing the mutation rate and speeding up evolution.
thanks for the support btw, i wasn't really going for funny.
i once saw this basic argument used to infer the existence of workable ftl. it goes something like this:
conquering the whole galaxy (via generation ships or von neumann machines or whatever) takes only a few million years
we're unlikely to be the absolute oldest civilization in the galaxy
we do not appear to have been conquered
the only feasible way to block conquest is a federation with a prime directive
the only way to hold a federation together is ftl
therefore ftl exists. qed.
now obviously there are lots of holes in this, but i find it at least as compelling an answer to the fermi paradox as "they've all transcended"/"they're hiding in their dyson spheres".
the random letter generator called handwriting recognition
i still miss graffiti (v1). i'm probably about equally fast on my iphone, but not even close on my blackberry. is there any chance graffiti could go back to its newton roots and become an input plug-in used to fix other systems?
I'd also love it if my web browser would tag every right-click/downloaded picture with the URL it came from and maybe a few other data elements.
netscape 4 was doing that in 1997 on mac os 7.6 (it went in the "comment" metadata of the file). i'm fairly sure safari can do it right now, though it may require a plugin (=hack) or twiddling a defaults setting or something.
yeah, that's pretty much what a friend of mine said. i think his words were something along the lines of "i'm playing syria to the kirin tor's cia in an extraordinary rendition scenario".
Secondly, that orcs were not "thinking peoples", like elves/men/dwarves; rather they were intelligent beasts in man-shape, of the same theological status as wargs, the talking ravens in _The Hobbit_, as (perhaps) the great eagles, etc.
Don't get too excited. It's twice the price of anything comparable in the States, and utter crap compared to actual rendang. It's only an improvement by comparison to a plain Whopper, which really isn't saying much.
Slashdot Mirror
reverse class-action?
reminds me of the prison planet from chronicles of riddick
is this seagategate?
you could look at on actual experiments that (under very controlled conditions) appear to show information transfer at greater than light speed. Clicky
isn't that the same phase velocity story that shows up on /. every six months or so? afaik it's still meaningless/P
Maybe the moon was fundamental in the process of life arising, by keeping plate tectonics active, which causes a protective magnetic field to form in the earth..
i think the whole "protection from the sun" thing is something of a red herring. i mean, you can evolve radiation-hardened extremophiles with nothing more than a superfund site and a decade or three. we're radiation weenies because we evolved in this cozy little bubble; i'm sure a planet without it could evolve people who could happily bask in the glow of a reactor core, never mind mere solar wind.
if anything, i'd expect low radiation to be the problem, and asimov's old speculation to be right--that what the moon really does for us is keep the mantle stirred up and the uranium near the surface, increasing the mutation rate and speeding up evolution.
thanks for the support btw, i wasn't really going for funny.
i once saw this basic argument used to infer the existence of workable ftl. it goes something like this:
now obviously there are lots of holes in this, but i find it at least as compelling an answer to the fermi paradox as "they've all transcended"/"they're hiding in their dyson spheres".
MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb
But it's friends just call it "Dennis".
and what do its friends call it?
the random letter generator called handwriting recognition
i still miss graffiti (v1). i'm probably about equally fast on my iphone, but not even close on my blackberry. is there any chance graffiti could go back to its newton roots and become an input plug-in used to fix other systems?
famous eve learning curve graph
That's "Computer. Tea.. Earl Grey. Hot." Turn in your card.
Perhaps some English major is attempting a reverse Sokal hoax....
9x9 Minesweeper....
I picked up the Agathe Christie series on a whim at best buy one day and am presently surprised.
is it also responsible for your new japanese accent?
Reminds me of A Deepness in the Sky--the aliens there had such good eyesight, they found human video technology hard to work with.
I'd also love it if my web browser would tag every right-click/downloaded picture with the URL it came from and maybe a few other data elements.
netscape 4 was doing that in 1997 on mac os 7.6 (it went in the "comment" metadata of the file). i'm fairly sure safari can do it right now, though it may require a plugin (=hack) or twiddling a defaults setting or something.
yeah, that's pretty much what a friend of mine said. i think his words were something along the lines of "i'm playing syria to the kirin tor's cia in an extraordinary rendition scenario".
i felt horrible about whoring myself out to a bunch of ecoterrorists...until i got to go whale hunting for the murlocs :)
weave cower's in fear at the sight of jamie
OMG, what have I just witnessed!?
apostrophe abuse
i think we have new motto for deviantart
no interstellar bypass?
What about the offspring of one Maia (in eagle shape) and a normal (but large) eagle?
eru's down with the bestiality? kinky.
Secondly, that orcs were not "thinking peoples", like elves/men/dwarves; rather they were intelligent beasts in man-shape, of the same theological status as wargs, the talking ravens in _The Hobbit_, as (perhaps) the great eagles, etc.
I thought the eagles were Maiar.
Ah, of course. Thanks.
Don't get too excited. It's twice the price of anything comparable in the States, and utter crap compared to actual rendang. It's only an improvement by comparison to a plain Whopper, which really isn't saying much.
Burger King sells a very nice rendang (Indonesian beef curry) burger out here in Singapore.