Either you're a part of the ongoing circle of life, or you're not, and if you're not, you'll be treated differently from those that are, and that's a good thing.
Ah, right. So, how's that working out for the 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 billions of the narcissistic bits of pond scum that have been busily doing that?
This is always my biggest indictment of religion. It stopped human progress for 1000 years. Infuriating.
1. The "Dark Ages" were not entirely due to religious issues. There were secular issues such as pestilence and famine that played strongly into the dissolution of society in what is now mostly Europe.
2. Although the various plagues did affect areas outside Europe, the rest of humanity was puttering along quite nicely while the good Christians were stoning witches and wearing hair shirts.
3. And the rest of the planet likely wishes that it could stop (or at least slow down) what passes for human progress for another 1000 years.
They're using a well filled with kerosene and freon to keep bacterial contamination away. Also, they're using sterilized parts without grease to minimize places where bacteria could hide.
OK, so some diesel fuel and refrigerant is supposed to stop some million year old monster?
Just because it's "green" doesn't mean it's safe to let just any yahoo install an electric generator on his hut. Methinks it might be wise to let the village electrician do the installing.
Waiting for the Electrician, or someone like him?
Do you call the electrician when you have to replace the batteries in your flashlight?
Planet or planetesimal, it's just tremendously sad that
'This is a chance for us all to celebrate what American space exploration can achieve though hard work, technical excellence, the spirit of scientific inquiry and the uniquely human drive to explore...'
If the air gun pulses can measure tension, perhaps some other method could be used to cause the plates to slip while there is little tension. Would that not be similar to avalanche control on mountains? Avalanche control entails causing smaller slides in areas that are troublesome. Perhaps in the same way the air gun measurements and intentional blasts could be used to help manage plate tension below a certain level of tension. Many smaller tremors, instead of "the big one" all at once.
This type of management would require measuring other faults and surrounding plates, as a small slip here may have a larger effect elsewhere. I'll admit that this is getting into an area where we really don't know what the long or even short term affects of this type of management would cause, if it would work at all.
Given the relative energies, it would be more like attempting to control avalanches by shooting spitwads at the slopes.
Engineer 1: Man, this is boring. Engineer 2: Yep, nothing happening. Engineer 1: How many of those guns do we have around here anyway? Engineer 2: Dunno, couple dozen. Home office just dropped off a bunch last week. Engineer 1: How many of these things can we tie together anyway? Engineer 2: Dunno, probably all of them, they just hook up with that cable. Engineer 1: Think those guys at the Earthquake Monitoring Program are awake yet? Engineer 2: Dunno, we could find out, I suppose.
But you have to admit, the one clause of the Constitution the US government has never wavered from supporting is "The Right To Bear Arms."
If that were really true, then I could have my very own Aegis missile cruiser. Hell, I can't even get a little bitty machine gun without an Imperial shitload of paperwork.
I'm no physicist, but it occurs to me: Do stars even do energy-positive fusion? I mean, there's no one shooting energy into stars, obviously, but they are being acted on by gravity in a pretty significant way. Could it just be that gravity is providing the energy for fusion, with the heat/light total being less than that "input" by gravity?
No, the problem is that the drug companies have NOT been producing 'useful' drugs. They have mostly (of course, there are a few exceptions) been producing 'me too' drugs. Yet another acid blocker for your tummy ache, yet another ACE inhibitor for your blood pressure, yet another minimally modified anti depressant for everything else.
So when you don't have biology to tout, you bang on the advertising table. Put up pretty graphs about how much better your drug is than the existing drug and hope nobody notices that the scale is set to show a miniscule, clinically irrelevant difference. Put up shiny TV advertisements to a general public that will go for any drug / supplement / vitamin / device / religion that will make your life (or sexual experience) better / stronger / faster / closer to nirvana.
They're desperate. I'm sure they'd love to have a couple of 'blockbuster' drugs in the pipe, but it turns out to be damned hard to do.
I've come a long way from the anti-tax Republican I used to be, but come on buddy, you aren't doing ANYTHING to dispel the "tax-every-problem-away-Democrat" cliche.
When the only tool you know how to use is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
I'm pretty sure you cannot enact laws that are regulated by a private organization.
Sure you can. The feds do it all the time. The Joint Commission (sorry folks, not that kind of joint) is a private organization that has no oversight, no legal standing, no peer review and generally, the common sense of a rabid hamster, but is charged with 'accrediting' hospitals. The accreditation status is baked into a number of laws, rules and regulations.
The physics of shock diamonds is well understood. If you can model the physics, you can show it on a computer screen. Turns out it's fairly easy and doesn't require a lot of computer horsepower.
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What? Another rover on a whole planet is redundant? You could launch a fleet of them and barely (ahem) scratch the surface.
Either you're a part of the ongoing circle of life, or you're not, and if you're not, you'll be treated differently from those that are, and that's a good thing.
Ah, right. So, how's that working out for the 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 billions of the narcissistic bits of pond scum that have been busily doing that?
This is always my biggest indictment of religion. It stopped human progress for 1000 years. Infuriating.
1. The "Dark Ages" were not entirely due to religious issues. There were secular issues such as pestilence and famine that played strongly into the dissolution of society in what is now mostly Europe.
2. Although the various plagues did affect areas outside Europe, the rest of humanity was puttering along quite nicely while the good Christians were stoning witches and wearing hair shirts.
3. And the rest of the planet likely wishes that it could stop (or at least slow down) what passes for human progress for another 1000 years.
Showing bacteria and virii evolving to resist certain drugs is proof of evolution
Nope. God did that.
You lose.
" a glimpse into a RADICALLY different version of the present."
No, that's Las Vegas.
They're using a well filled with kerosene and freon to keep bacterial contamination away. Also, they're using sterilized parts without grease to minimize places where bacteria could hide.
OK, so some diesel fuel and refrigerant is supposed to stop some million year old monster?
Don't those people have script writers?
I think we just broke Netflix. Hadn't seen that movie in ages, so I tried to put it in my queue - "An Error Occurred".
Either that or....
Shit. Maybe the Russians....
Just because it's "green" doesn't mean it's safe to let just any yahoo install an electric generator on his hut. Methinks it might be wise to let the village electrician do the installing.
Waiting for the Electrician, or someone like him?
Do you call the electrician when you have to replace the batteries in your flashlight?
Planet or planetesimal, it's just tremendously sad that
'This is a chance for us all to celebrate what American space exploration can achieve though hard work, technical excellence, the spirit of scientific inquiry and the uniquely human drive to explore ...'
The "chance" happens to be a frigging stamp.
Somehow, I had hoped for a bit more.
You know, I really hate rational people sometimes....
If the air gun pulses can measure tension, perhaps some other method could be used to cause the plates to slip while there is little tension. Would that not be similar to avalanche control on mountains? Avalanche control entails causing smaller slides in areas that are troublesome. Perhaps in the same way the air gun measurements and intentional blasts could be used to help manage plate tension below a certain level of tension. Many smaller tremors, instead of "the big one" all at once.
This type of management would require measuring other faults and surrounding plates, as a small slip here may have a larger effect elsewhere. I'll admit that this is getting into an area where we really don't know what the long or even short term affects of this type of management would cause, if it would work at all.
Given the relative energies, it would be more like attempting to control avalanches by shooting spitwads at the slopes.
Line breaks, motherfucker, do you understand them?
The smell of lobbiests in the morning.
But the combination of napalm and lobbyists. A guy could get used to that.
No, flamebait because of the typos. This is Slashdot, we hate typos.
(And grammar mistakes, man, those really frost us).
And you probably typed it from an iPhone (we can tell, you know). We hate iPhones.
According to the explanation picture in TFA, the address for the contact page of fbi.gov is 987.654.321. Is that IPv5?
That's their phone number, you idiot. The FBI doesn't use computers yet.
Do you have to practice being this obnoxious, or does it come naturally?
OTOH, Just imagine this conversation:
Engineer 1: Man, this is boring.
Engineer 2: Yep, nothing happening.
Engineer 1: How many of those guns do we have around here anyway?
Engineer 2: Dunno, couple dozen. Home office just dropped off a bunch last week.
Engineer 1: How many of these things can we tie together anyway?
Engineer 2: Dunno, probably all of them, they just hook up with that cable.
Engineer 1: Think those guys at the Earthquake Monitoring Program are awake yet?
Engineer 2: Dunno, we could find out, I suppose.
But you have to admit, the one clause of the Constitution the US government has never wavered from supporting is "The Right To Bear Arms."
If that were really true, then I could have my very own Aegis missile cruiser. Hell, I can't even get a little bitty machine gun without an Imperial shitload of paperwork.
Could this finally be the realization of the long held dream of write-once, run-anywhere malware?
You mean Java?
mcgrew, hate to bust your bubble but -
from what you've posted over the past couple of years here, it's pretty clear that you aren't in anyone's purchasing demographic.
Tech is no place for old men.
Nurse! My pills!
I'm no physicist, but it occurs to me: Do stars even do energy-positive fusion? I mean, there's no one shooting energy into stars, obviously, but they are being acted on by gravity in a pretty significant way. Could it just be that gravity is providing the energy for fusion, with the heat/light total being less than that "input" by gravity?
Let me Bing that for you.
Now, don't do that again. If you can't figure out how to use the Internet, go back to Facebook where you belong.
No, the problem is that the drug companies have NOT been producing 'useful' drugs. They have mostly (of course, there are a few exceptions) been producing 'me too' drugs. Yet another acid blocker for your tummy ache, yet another ACE inhibitor for your blood pressure, yet another minimally modified anti depressant for everything else.
So when you don't have biology to tout, you bang on the advertising table. Put up pretty graphs about how much better your drug is than the existing drug and hope nobody notices that the scale is set to show a miniscule, clinically irrelevant difference. Put up shiny TV advertisements to a general public that will go for any drug / supplement / vitamin / device / religion that will make your life (or sexual experience) better / stronger / faster / closer to nirvana.
They're desperate. I'm sure they'd love to have a couple of 'blockbuster' drugs in the pipe, but it turns out to be damned hard to do.
I've come a long way from the anti-tax Republican I used to be, but come on buddy, you aren't doing ANYTHING to dispel the "tax-every-problem-away-Democrat" cliche.
When the only tool you know how to use is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
I'm pretty sure you cannot enact laws that are regulated by a private organization.
Sure you can. The feds do it all the time. The Joint Commission (sorry folks, not that kind of joint) is a private organization that has no oversight, no legal standing, no peer review and generally, the common sense of a rabid hamster, but is charged with 'accrediting' hospitals. The accreditation status is baked into a number of laws, rules and regulations.
I'm sure there are are other examples.
The physics of shock diamonds is well understood. If you can model the physics, you can show it on a computer screen. Turns out it's fairly easy and doesn't require a lot of computer horsepower.