Or Google Maps. This has been done a number of times. The 'interesting' spin here is that it is hooked to a Formula One car and they have rigged the streams to allow multiple people to 'point' the camera. And of course, an iOS app. Gotta have one of them.
So I'll admit my knowledge of the Cretaceous asteroid impact is the simplified version of public education combined with the History Channel. 32,000 years though? I thought it would have been a matter of decades, because the particulate matter thrown in the atmosphere reduced the incoming sunlight, which essentially reduced plant life substantially and having a cascading effect up the food chain. I would imagine that would take a couple of years to decades, but not millenia; what am I missing?
One question the TFA doesn't address is exactly what is meant by impact times. Certainly it's not the case that the event occurred one day and 32000 years later, everything is hunky dory. The volcanism events happened over hundreds to thousands of years, the asteroid impact, a couple of seconds. In the vulcanism scenario, I imagine that things changed pretty gradually, there may have been a 'tipping point' or several. In the impact scenario, the changes happen relatively rapidly with likely a long tail into the new normal.
So I would take the durations with a grain of salt and think more along the lines of geologic time frames. 32K years is just a sneeze. The Anthropocene so far is only 6000 years duration at maximum, likely the most change has occurred in the last 500 years. Not even a blip in the geologic time frame. It may be that several million years from now, the only evidence of Homo industrialis will be a thin layer of concentrated metal and assorted complex compounds sitting in some deep strata.
Don't you liberals like evolution? Why would you actively work against it?
Depends on whether or not you're one of the survivors. Hard to know which side of the fence you will fall on when the shit hits the fan. Evolution changes the biosphere, evolution doesn't care whether your DNA and the rest of your corporal assets happen to get passed along.
There are lots of losers in evolution. You just might be one of them.
Here is the issue: At present, with only mild resource constraints on the major economies, those political entities are within a couple of hair's breadths away from going after each others throats. Fast forward to a time when climate changes disrupt most of those economies. Arable lands may change (not necessarily increase or decrease). If that happens, the losing country may get mighty upset. Fisheries may change provoking resource pressures on countries. Millions of people will be under pressure to leave areas that are negatively effected. Millions of other people just might not welcome those refuges with open arms and open wallets.
Couple with the fact that the human population is scheduled to double in the next generation or two and you have the perfect storm for some serious resource competition.
<facepalm> Spiderface? The saying is "cut off your nose to spite your face". Your odd interpretation makes no sense at all. Folks, don't use sayings you don't understand.
It's probably Autocorrect. But bog knows why he has that term in his dictionary. Best not to ask.
You realize, of course, that you don't have to update. It just notifies you. I like that little feature of the Apple routers (and OS X and iOS). Given that Apple, like every other vendor on this planet at least, pushes out updates that occasionally break things (Hi Microsoft!), I don't upgrade the moment the patch is available. I wait a week or so unless there is some overwhelming reason like some nasty exploit.
Yes, it's not perfect. No, nobody is perfect. As has been mentioned on this thread and countless others, computer technology is insufficiently mature and it's a big problem giving $randomUser more computing power that existed on the entire planet a couple of decades ago.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
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Sorry, but if you're still focusing on hand-based UIs in cars, you're doin' it wrong.
Voice command is where it's at. Distracted driving is illegal in almost every state.
Auditory feedback gives you much more information than inferring something from knob position. How many clicks before I've got the radio in AUX mode? I always have to look.
I'm hard of hearing, you insensitive clod.
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Back in the perfectly prehistoric 60's we would use - wait for it - a real chalkboard. With chalk, even.
If they had put the generators behind (uphill) the main building AND put the generators in a water RESISTANT building, all would have been fine. If they had installed the hydrogen traps most of the problems (the earth shattering kaboom) would have been avoided. If they had followed their engineers advice and dumped sea water on the core, most of the bad problems would have been avoided.
All of those improbable problems would probably have been mitigated if TEPCO had competent upper management. Now, how likely is that?
What's more, the cops should figure out a way to get him at least a few menial jobs where he is paid in food so he can feed his family without having to resort to stealing.
Ah, so the police are social workers as well? They'll be glad to know that. Think about that for a moment. Yes, the police should have compassion towards people, but no, they aren't mommy, daddy, the rich uncle and everyone else in the extended family. They're police.
In this case, they did the absolute minimum needed. They arrested her, then let her go. She will probably end up with a small fine and a slap on the wrist - as befits the crime of stealing a VHS tape. Life goes on.
Apparently, however, there is little life left in Slashdot. Is this newsworthy at all? It's basically click bait. Come on guys, there are better articles in this in the Firehose.
p>If you were the unfortunate troop to find 'beef stew' in you ration pack WITHOUT a p-38 to defend your life, it turned gruesome quickly!(p-38's were only included in one out of five ration packs, and were highly coveted items.)
OK Mr. Do-it-yourself. Grab a copy of Blender and see how far you get attempting to create a broadcast quality 30 second CGI clip. By yourself. All of those 'Producers' and 'Assistants' don't make all that much money. The screen credits are to pad your resume and stroke your ego.
Sure, you can save money and there are a couple of low budget / high quality movies out there (Monsters), but it's much more expensive than you think to create a 30 minute show with a dozen or so people in it.
I'm not sure I like the idea of $random_driver towing anything. Your typical Freeway Fool is a danger to himself and others with just the vehicle. With a short coupled trailer - especially trying to park or backup - hilarity ensues.
That said, my next pickup truck is going to be a diesel electric.
The first thing that I thought of when I heard about this program was 'oh, now NASA has reason to put humans back in space again'.
I really don't see the advantage of doing this with humans. The asteroid will be close enough that communications time lag won't be too big a problem. It's not like the Orion capsule can house a real laboratory - although there is some room compared to an Apollo Command Module, it's not all that large. The Orion isn't designed to dock with anything other than the ISS - it can't hold much of a robotic arm. Yes, you could 'spacewalk' over to the asteroid and boy would that be a blast, but in terms of scientific results vs. dollars expended, robots are the way to go.
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Or Google Maps. This has been done a number of times. The 'interesting' spin here is that it is hooked to a Formula One car and they have rigged the streams to allow multiple people to 'point' the camera. And of course, an iOS app. Gotta have one of them.
So I'll admit my knowledge of the Cretaceous asteroid impact is the simplified version of public education combined with the History Channel. 32,000 years though? I thought it would have been a matter of decades, because the particulate matter thrown in the atmosphere reduced the incoming sunlight, which essentially reduced plant life substantially and having a cascading effect up the food chain. I would imagine that would take a couple of years to decades, but not millenia; what am I missing?
One question the TFA doesn't address is exactly what is meant by impact times. Certainly it's not the case that the event occurred one day and 32000 years later, everything is hunky dory. The volcanism events happened over hundreds to thousands of years, the asteroid impact, a couple of seconds. In the vulcanism scenario, I imagine that things changed pretty gradually, there may have been a 'tipping point' or several. In the impact scenario, the changes happen relatively rapidly with likely a long tail into the new normal.
So I would take the durations with a grain of salt and think more along the lines of geologic time frames. 32K years is just a sneeze. The Anthropocene so far is only 6000 years duration at maximum, likely the most change has occurred in the last 500 years. Not even a blip in the geologic time frame. It may be that several million years from now, the only evidence of Homo industrialis will be a thin layer of concentrated metal and assorted complex compounds sitting in some deep strata.
Are you that determined to reject climatology that most of the science that goes on in the world is disposable?
It does make for an easy to swallow, mindless approach to a complicated and scary world. For many people, this is reason enough to go that route.
Don't go getting Randall all worked up again.
Don't you liberals like evolution? Why would you actively work against it?
Depends on whether or not you're one of the survivors. Hard to know which side of the fence you will fall on when the shit hits the fan. Evolution changes the biosphere, evolution doesn't care whether your DNA and the rest of your corporal assets happen to get passed along.
There are lots of losers in evolution. You just might be one of them.
Here is the issue: At present, with only mild resource constraints on the major economies, those political entities are within a couple of hair's breadths away from going after each others throats. Fast forward to a time when climate changes disrupt most of those economies. Arable lands may change (not necessarily increase or decrease). If that happens, the losing country may get mighty upset. Fisheries may change provoking resource pressures on countries. Millions of people will be under pressure to leave areas that are negatively effected. Millions of other people just might not welcome those refuges with open arms and open wallets.
Couple with the fact that the human population is scheduled to double in the next generation or two and you have the perfect storm for some serious resource competition.
All wars are resource wars.
OK, we've got one and two. When does number 3 happen?
*dies*
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
Should we cut off our nose to spiderface?
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Spiderface? The saying is "cut off your nose to spite your face". Your odd interpretation makes no sense at all. Folks, don't use sayings you don't understand.
It's probably Autocorrect. But bog knows why he has that term in his dictionary. Best not to ask.
What's wrong with hiding under the bed?
You realize, of course, that you don't have to update. It just notifies you. I like that little feature of the Apple routers (and OS X and iOS). Given that Apple, like every other vendor on this planet at least, pushes out updates that occasionally break things (Hi Microsoft!), I don't upgrade the moment the patch is available. I wait a week or so unless there is some overwhelming reason like some nasty exploit.
Yes, it's not perfect. No, nobody is perfect. As has been mentioned on this thread and countless others, computer technology is insufficiently mature and it's a big problem giving $randomUser more computing power that existed on the entire planet a couple of decades ago.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Sorry, but if you're still focusing on hand-based UIs in cars, you're doin' it wrong.
Voice command is where it's at. Distracted driving is illegal in almost every state.
Car, please add some reverb to the stereo.
I'm sorry Dave, did you say "Reverse?"
Auditory feedback gives you much more information than inferring something from knob position. How many clicks before I've got the radio in AUX mode? I always have to look.
I'm hard of hearing, you insensitive clod.
Back in the perfectly prehistoric 60's we would use - wait for it - a real chalkboard. With chalk, even.
If they had put the generators behind (uphill) the main building AND put the generators in a water RESISTANT building, all would have been fine. If they had installed the hydrogen traps most of the problems (the earth shattering kaboom) would have been avoided. If they had followed their engineers advice and dumped sea water on the core, most of the bad problems would have been avoided.
All of those improbable problems would probably have been mitigated if TEPCO had competent upper management. Now, how likely is that?
No whining yet on the misspelling of "Improbabilty", which should be Improbability?
We're talking about improbable things. Not inevitable things. Remember, this IS Slashdot.
What's more, the cops should figure out a way to get him at least a few menial jobs where he is paid in food so he can feed his family without having to resort to stealing.
Ah, so the police are social workers as well? They'll be glad to know that. Think about that for a moment. Yes, the police should have compassion towards people, but no, they aren't mommy, daddy, the rich uncle and everyone else in the extended family. They're police.
In this case, they did the absolute minimum needed. They arrested her, then let her go. She will probably end up with a small fine and a slap on the wrist - as befits the crime of stealing a VHS tape. Life goes on.
Apparently, however, there is little life left in Slashdot. Is this newsworthy at all? It's basically click bait. Come on guys, there are better articles in this in the Firehose.
p>If you were the unfortunate troop to find 'beef stew' in you ration pack WITHOUT a p-38 to defend your life, it turned gruesome quickly!(p-38's were only included in one out of five ration packs, and were highly coveted items.)
Not surprising. It has to be really hard to fit one of those things into a ration pack.
Do they stick the whole rat in the microwave or do they field dress it first?
OK Mr. Do-it-yourself. Grab a copy of Blender and see how far you get attempting to create a broadcast quality 30 second CGI clip. By yourself. All of those 'Producers' and 'Assistants' don't make all that much money. The screen credits are to pad your resume and stroke your ego.
Sure, you can save money and there are a couple of low budget / high quality movies out there (Monsters), but it's much more expensive than you think to create a 30 minute show with a dozen or so people in it.
I'm not sure I like the idea of $random_driver towing anything. Your typical Freeway Fool is a danger to himself and others with just the vehicle. With a short coupled trailer - especially trying to park or backup - hilarity ensues.
That said, my next pickup truck is going to be a diesel electric.
This could be the start of a powerful relationship.
Your post is just about as stupid as the Slashdot beta.
You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.
The first thing that I thought of when I heard about this program was 'oh, now NASA has reason to put humans back in space again'.
I really don't see the advantage of doing this with humans. The asteroid will be close enough that communications time lag won't be too big a problem. It's not like the Orion capsule can house a real laboratory - although there is some room compared to an Apollo Command Module, it's not all that large. The Orion isn't designed to dock with anything other than the ISS - it can't hold much of a robotic arm. Yes, you could 'spacewalk' over to the asteroid and boy would that be a blast, but in terms of scientific results vs. dollars expended, robots are the way to go.
If an AC whooshes in the forest, does it make a sound?