I don't know that the aircraft carrier is in itself the best place. As another commenter has already pointed out, there are space issues here. I can see, however, sending some support ships in the carrier group, minimizing resupply issues.
yeah, but the guy who gets up doesn't have to deal with the ungodly amount of noise that thing produces. not to mention the fact that the machine only throws cans. no bottles (good beer).
Well, it has happened before and it might happen now, that we find out that nature's way of doing things is not so bad for us. Nature stores it's hydrogen in all kinds of sugar. Pretty harmless and pretty efficient way of transporting hydrogen through a large system. We'll find out.
The problem is that nature doesn't even get particularly great usage out of sugar. in fact, eukaryotes only get ~32% of whats available in glucose [my bio textbook]. if you take into acount the energy that goes into making glucose, then there is a lot less efficiency.
Despite this, i think that you may have a good idea in some respects. if we can harvest the energy stored in say, cellulose, from otherwise discarded/burned*, then we should have another source of energy that takes waste and makes energy, and thus reducing what we need from coal/solar/nuclear/wind/etc. Another great idea comes from what i have heard (although not researched) that there are some forms of algae that can get 90% efficiency from photosynthesis. this would be a great improvement over current solar methods.
* I really do not know what farmers do, but it seems like they must have an efficient method for handling the uneaten parts of all the various crops. if there are any farmers, or anyone who knows what happens, i would like to know. thanks.
Please, pardon the rambling, but its late for me at the end of finals week.
Three of his proposals took a good pounding: that mixtures of guiacol and benzaldehyde take on a vanilla odor not found in either compound alone, that straight-chain aldehydes with an odd number of carbons smell different from even-numbered ones, and that deuterated acetophenone smells different from the parent compound.
Although the article implies that a group took him apart on this idea, i suspect that this may be what Turin was referring to.
I was hoping they'd be talking about cow-derived materials, unless they are interested in genetically engineering photosynthetic human beings?
It doesn't really matter what species the protein comes from. no that they about the gene, it should be possible to genetically engineer bacteria (E. Coli) to generate the protein. this is already done for human insulin.
So, some good samaritans started the push to adopt e-voting machines as a way to protect people from their own stupidity. Yet, these samaritans lacked the technical good sense to understand the need for a paper trail.
I think that you are blaming the wrong people here. the samaritans are not the ones to blame here. the problem is that people had a good idea, and some other people at the government/contractor level implemented the idea poorly.
I suppose the cops should have just backed down and left the library, when confronted with the force of spoiled adolescent anger. Boo hoo, the cops won't let the college kids riot. Here's a really scary thought: some day this group of "oppressed" kids are going to be applying for jobs at major corporations.
where was the kid a danger to anyone? after he is on the ground, the worst that can be said of the guy is that he used passive resistance and abusive language when tased. this hardly justifies the use of a taser. I am not (and i dont think that anyone in the board is either) suggesting that the cops leave, i am suggesting that they should act like civilized people. escort the man out, and let him yell. there is no harm in someone yelling things. once the guy in is on the floor, there is definitely no need for further use of the taser. simply drag him out.
Less Supply = Higher Price
Higher Price = Less Demand
Less Demand = Fish Population Increases
If a can of tuna went for $300 dollars because of a tuna shortage, I bet a lot of people would start cutting back on their tuna consumption.
You're looking at things from the wrong side of the supply-demand rule. Higher price = more profitable = more desirable = More Fished.
However, the question is this - is it more efficient to burn the gasoline/fuel to create the electricity to use the electricity to run the cars, or to just continue refining internal combustion engines. It might be the case that the current state of electrical engines are just not as powerful as the gasoline ones, and to get an equivalent amount of work from the electrical engine requires more gas to be burned at the plant level for generation, thus negating environmental or fuel supply benefits.
internal combustion engines are thermodynamically inefficient compared to generation from powerplants. IIRC, the thermodynamic efficiencies (work out/energy in) of car engines compared to coal power plants are about 20% and 40 % respectively. electric moters can achieve as much as 90%.
Riiiight. So when 500 or more assignments (per semester!) get made for: write a 2-3 page paper, using these sources, on x topic thats been written about to death; none of them are going to be similar?
I just turned in two such assignments. To this point, the only places that turnitin found simularities is in the qorks cited, and in quotes. This semester is the first time that the origionaloty reports have been made available to me, the two is a small sample size, but so far, it looks like the fears are largely unfounded. you should also keep in mind the fact that the teacher gets to see where you supposidly cheated, and compare your work to the source.
dont take this for a defence for the system. the students do have a point about automatically adding the system.
When I was at school, good teachers would know if a parent or sibling had helped because they obversed and tended the growth of knowledge themselves, they did not leave it to a web application or 'virtual learning environment' (virtually learning=almost learning=not learning?).
Turnitin is not meant to catch people who had a sibling/parent write a paper. The website compares your paper to others on the internet. It tells the teacher if you bought your paper online, or did ye' ol' copy and paste from your source. it also tells you if you did a bad job of paraphrasing, or quoting. The system is actually helpful as a student, so long as you are allowed to see your "originality report". The report highlights the areas of your paper that resemble/are copied from other papers. If you are an honest student, the software can do a better job than a teacher who has to go through over a hundred pages of reports in a weak.
My favorite is the Email link graphic on the front page.
My favorite is the text that looks important (i don't know, because i dont have all night to read it), yet is BLINKING. whoever thought this up should be fired/ shot out of a cannon
Still, most Windows XP users haven't seen a BSOD ever. Go ahead and ask them. See, Windows XP solved that. But mysteriously, their power supply is unreliable, and "trips" on the slightest whim.
Actually, i have, a few times. unfortuntly, the screen does not stay up long enough to actually read what it says (thus the cluckey PS comment, i assume.) i had to find out from the Windows recovery disc that the filesystem was currupted (thank god for knoppix, which still read the system.)
What in the world are these "megawatts per day" people keep talking about? I think you mean just megawatts.
thats what i though when i read it. after rereading it, however, it looks like they meant to say "the plant will burn 300 tons of trash per day, generating 120 megawatts.
It seams that there are a couple of missing points in this discussion.
First, the obligatory "think of the children" remark: it could be confusing for students to deal with two definitions for the same word. sure, there are numerous times that this problem comes up, but adding one more, while pointing to the examples of others does not help - just one more thing to possibly confuse.
The second point is that judging from TFA, it does not appear that the word has even been defined a second time (yet.) that means that there is all this debate not about changing the meaning of a word, but about what word to assign to this new class of objects. Since it is out in the open now, it is as easy as finding a new name for the "plutons", and using that.
I would also like to jump in on the MSword bashing. While this is a good way to test for common use words, any freshman (or highschool student even) should know from typing their pappers that spellcheck does not reconize just about any scientific terms.
The beuity of this technology is not that it provides a complete alternative to current fuels, but that it uses waste that already exists to produce fuel. BTW, this technology is just as carbon neutural as ethanol.
Whoever gave this insightful fell asleep on the job.
From TFA:
HOUSTON -- Houston's police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers.
I was really concerned about the "...creating or implanting embryos for experiments..." part of the speach. This sounds like an attempt to ban embryonic stem cell research (or at least to stop some of it.)
If he's speaking on behalf of NASA, he should be speaking about the science, not policy. If it were a matter of something else NASA does causing the effects, fine.
From TFA: "I've heard Hansen speak many times and I've read many of his papers, starting in the late 70's. Every single time, in writing or when I've heard him speak, he's always clear that he's speaking for himself, not for NASA or the administration, whichever administration it's been."
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I don't know that the aircraft carrier is in itself the best place. As another commenter has already pointed out, there are space issues here. I can see, however, sending some support ships in the carrier group, minimizing resupply issues.
It's also used for in Coors Brewery, but i just thought that they were being extra cautious.
Unless of course it is really Red Kryptonite or Blue Kryptonite or even the Pink Kryptonite that has the power to turn Superman gay.
Then it wouldn't have to glow green.
It seems likely that it is the pink kind. from TFA:"...it will react to ultraviolet light by fluorescing a pinkish-orange"
yeah, but the guy who gets up doesn't have to deal with the ungodly amount of noise that thing produces. not to mention the fact that the machine only throws cans. no bottles (good beer).
This is a group that has figured out how cell phones, and ipods are portals to porn.
The problem is that nature doesn't even get particularly great usage out of sugar. in fact, eukaryotes only get ~32% of whats available in glucose [my bio textbook]. if you take into acount the energy that goes into making glucose, then there is a lot less efficiency.
Despite this, i think that you may have a good idea in some respects. if we can harvest the energy stored in say, cellulose, from otherwise discarded/burned*, then we should have another source of energy that takes waste and makes energy, and thus reducing what we need from coal/solar/nuclear/wind/etc. Another great idea comes from what i have heard (although not researched) that there are some forms of algae that can get 90% efficiency from photosynthesis. this would be a great improvement over current solar methods.
* I really do not know what farmers do, but it seems like they must have an efficient method for handling the uneaten parts of all the various crops. if there are any farmers, or anyone who knows what happens, i would like to know. thanks.
Please, pardon the rambling, but its late for me at the end of finals week.
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Although the article implies that a group took him apart on this idea, i suspect that this may be what Turin was referring to.
It doesn't really matter what species the protein comes from. no that they about the gene, it should be possible to genetically engineer bacteria (E. Coli) to generate the protein. this is already done for human insulin.
I think that you are blaming the wrong people here. the samaritans are not the ones to blame here. the problem is that people had a good idea, and some other people at the government/contractor level implemented the idea poorly.
where was the kid a danger to anyone? after he is on the ground, the worst that can be said of the guy is that he used passive resistance and abusive language when tased. this hardly justifies the use of a taser. I am not (and i dont think that anyone in the board is either) suggesting that the cops leave, i am suggesting that they should act like civilized people. escort the man out, and let him yell. there is no harm in someone yelling things. once the guy in is on the floor, there is definitely no need for further use of the taser. simply drag him out.
You forgot hatred of gays.
the same accusations can be made against republicans and their hatred for liberals. Republicans even seem to use the word as if it is dirty.
You're looking at things from the wrong side of the supply-demand rule. Higher price = more profitable = more desirable = More Fished.
if you really RTFA, then you would have also noticed the figure about $30 a gallon to supply troops in Iraq and the middle east.
internal combustion engines are thermodynamically inefficient compared to generation from powerplants. IIRC, the thermodynamic efficiencies (work out/energy in) of car engines compared to coal power plants are about 20% and 40 % respectively. electric moters can achieve as much as 90%.
I just turned in two such assignments. To this point, the only places that turnitin found simularities is in the qorks cited, and in quotes. This semester is the first time that the origionaloty reports have been made available to me, the two is a small sample size, but so far, it looks like the fears are largely unfounded. you should also keep in mind the fact that the teacher gets to see where you supposidly cheated, and compare your work to the source.
dont take this for a defence for the system. the students do have a point about automatically adding the system.
Turnitin is not meant to catch people who had a sibling/parent write a paper. The website compares your paper to others on the internet. It tells the teacher if you bought your paper online, or did ye' ol' copy and paste from your source. it also tells you if you did a bad job of paraphrasing, or quoting. The system is actually helpful as a student, so long as you are allowed to see your "originality report". The report highlights the areas of your paper that resemble/are copied from other papers. If you are an honest student, the software can do a better job than a teacher who has to go through over a hundred pages of reports in a weak.
My favorite is the text that looks important (i don't know, because i dont have all night to read it), yet is BLINKING. whoever thought this up should be fired/ shot out of a cannon
Actually, i have, a few times. unfortuntly, the screen does not stay up long enough to actually read what it says (thus the cluckey PS comment, i assume.) i had to find out from the Windows recovery disc that the filesystem was currupted (thank god for knoppix, which still read the system.)
thats what i though when i read it. after rereading it, however, it looks like they meant to say "the plant will burn 300 tons of trash per day, generating 120 megawatts.
First, the obligatory "think of the children" remark: it could be confusing for students to deal with two definitions for the same word. sure, there are numerous times that this problem comes up, but adding one more, while pointing to the examples of others does not help - just one more thing to possibly confuse.
The second point is that judging from TFA, it does not appear that the word has even been defined a second time (yet.) that means that there is all this debate not about changing the meaning of a word, but about what word to assign to this new class of objects. Since it is out in the open now, it is as easy as finding a new name for the "plutons", and using that.
I would also like to jump in on the MSword bashing. While this is a good way to test for common use words, any freshman (or highschool student even) should know from typing their pappers that spellcheck does not reconize just about any scientific terms.
Funny thing about this list: ALL of them were helped by the USA. thats pretty damn close to the army turned against the government.
The beuity of this technology is not that it provides a complete alternative to current fuels, but that it uses waste that already exists to produce fuel. BTW, this technology is just as carbon neutural as ethanol.
Whoever gave this insightful fell asleep on the job.
From TFA:
HOUSTON -- Houston's police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers.
I was really concerned about the "...creating or implanting embryos for experiments..." part of the speach. This sounds like an attempt to ban embryonic stem cell research (or at least to stop some of it.)
From TFA:
"I've heard Hansen speak many times and I've read many of his papers, starting in the late 70's. Every single time, in writing or when I've heard him speak, he's always clear that he's speaking for himself, not for NASA or the administration, whichever administration it's been."