Thank Mr. Murphy, who taught us that this is, indeed, possible.
On the way to a Venus type planetary atmosphere, in fact, it's an interim level.
Let's hope we don't get to the complete loss of the tundra and permafrost and eruption of the methane hydrates in large volumes, plus say an episode of vulcanism like those that made the Siberian Traps or areas of India.
A mere doubling would be bad for Homo sapiens, but is hardly the worst case for the planet.
Later, the blur-this application was inserted into other tools, after which any recognizable pattern could be altered whenever it was copied, or transmitted, or stored digitally.
Meanwhile, printing operations turned out large volumes of paper copies of the misinformation, so that within a decade, the originals and few remaining accurate copies of the targets were lost in the vast volume of altered copies.
It was not necessary to fool all of the people, all of the time. Fooling 50.01 percent of the few who still were willing to vote, for the few days leading up to the election, sufficed.
Input target: 1) U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment....
Lawyers can in good faith (so called) patent things that are quite familiar to anyone who has had to live by knowing how to make things work, understanding how they function.
The whole patent system is run by people for whom money is the only tool they've had experience enough to rely on -- rich kids of rich parents who went to expensive schools and make money because they can.
www.realclimate.org Actual scientists writing for your edification. "... 14 Jan 2005 The global cooling myth
Every now and again, the myth that "we shouldn't believe global warming predictions now, because in the 1970's they were predicting an ice age and/or cooling" surfaces.... the egregious Crichton manages to say "in the 1970's all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming"..... it's not an argument used by respectable and knowledgeable skeptics, because it crumbles under analysis. That doesn't stop it repeatedly cropping up in newsgroups though...." ------ END QUOTE
Next the sunglasses will be able to listen to your cell phone calls, give you a heads-up closed captioning or translation maybe, perhaps allow advertising to be popped up too.
Plus they can be signaled to go completely opaque if the Homeland Security Network realizes you're in the vicinity of something you ought not see, or if a tactical nuclear device is about to go off within your line of sight.
Say then an ecology not damaged beyond its capacity to recover within a reasonable period of time.
Right whales, before they were reduced to below a viable breeding population, were the 'right' whale to go after. Til there weren't enough to find.
Salmon, in Europe and North America, when they were so plentiful that they were free food, apparently inexhaustible.
Or codfish. Buffalo. Sardines. Passenger pigeons.
Yes, you can -- now -- still make free beer -- but what happens when your local air becomes contaminated with some new gene-engineered Monsanto patented yeast? Anyone using that will be, by law, stealing from Monsanto. Oh, yes, it does tend to disperse in the wind, but if you have it in your beer -- pay.
The latter is, as of this date, only fiction. Were you planting your own seed corn or soybeans, saved from the surplus you created the previous year, however, you'd be at risk now, because the gene-engineered pollen does spread in the wind.
Each case, a "free" -- as in freely available, commonly available -- thing. Overused, and no longer free.
Each case one where nature provided a free surplus, within reason, and people intervened.
But we're back at Genesis and the word translated by some as "dominion" and by others as "responsibility" -- our relationship to the world.
Business can dominate nature. Business can't be responsible for nature -- except where people are getting smarter. Finland indeed seems a possibility for intelligent life on earth.
Yep. It was some five or six years ago that the incoming pollution from Asia reached significant levels on the North American West Coast -- I recall the calculation at the time that all the "clean air' steps then planned would be about enough to break even, given the level of pollution coming in from Asia.
That's a lot of dirty shirt.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/n sf c-nsd121404.php
Ask a biologist what happens over time -- the diversity of life tends to increase, despite catastrophes. And even beyond this one planet, barring choking ourselves to death before we do.
Ask an economist what happens over time -- "In the long run we are all dead." John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist.
An ecology is a set of 'transactions' that benefits the participants. An economy is not necessarily mutually beneficial.
The confusion is that it's a free ecology -- not a free market -- that's the source of wealth.
And an ecology grows only at a certain speed -- roughly three percent per year, say. Any 'economy' that claims to be growing faster is doing so by burning its wealth, liquidating the source of future growth.
"The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it" in the illusion that "people can live off the interest of their mutual indebtedness." Frederick Soddy, 1926
"How long will researchers working in adjoining fields... abstain from expressing serious concern about the splendid isolation in which academic economics now finds itself?" Wassily Leontief, Nobel laureate (Economics), 1982
So they're using brain scans to try to figure out why people don't think like economists. It's because they don't think in isolation, and there are other transactions than financial ones. It's because the relationship, the ecology - not the economy - is the ground from which people grow.
I think I recall it was moving about 6 meters per second -- you can look it up. Not terribly fast; it had a spike on the underside that penetrated about six inches that indicated a hard crust over a softer material. Someone mentioned 'creme brulee' or mud. I hope it wasn't a turtle....
From Planetary Society's weblog; bad news was loss of one channel; good news was that all the big radio observatories on Earth went on listening to the data, and recorded it -- and so the information that did not get to Cassini for relay will be reconstructable, though it will take months to do so! 17 years ago they did not count on having Earth observatories available that would be able to do this.
Also, there was I think only 10 minutes between the time the probe reached the surface and the time that Cassini went over Titan's horizon and out of line of sight. That matched the expected 10 minutes of battery life after landing. Most of the data was taken and transmitted during the descent by design.
The 'two hours' of signal that the lander continued to send, again, seems to have been picked up by earth-based radio telescopes -- it's a huge bonus and backup for this data to have been captured, whatever it is.
There will be a lot of math to be done to take the raw data captured and figure out the _different_ doppler shift corrections to apply for signals as received on Earth, vs. the ones expected to be received on Cassini and retransmitted, to make sense of the signal.
So I understand it at the moment; I think once the Planetary Society people and Huyghens team get some sleep they'll be able to tell us more.
Until analog RF is made unusable, people will keep using it.
Whoever the private investors who bought up all that dark fiber that was put in place in the last decade or two -- which is sitting there since Worldcom et al. tanked -- have to do something to force people to give up on free broadcast.
Compare the 1930s, when there were electric railroads in major urban areas -- and General Motors had to buy them up and close them down, before a market could be created for the private automobile.
Wrecking what's free to force people to what's paid isn't a mistake, it's a tactical marketing method.
Of course it's stupid and idiotic. I did say it's marketing. Look at the countries hit by the tsunami -- what's the only usable telecom that was on the air right away? Ham radio.
You line your hat with aluminum foil, making a parabolic reflector.
Then, you hold your cell phone up against your head and hold the transmit button down for a while.
The result focuses the microwave radiation at a point somewhere along the midline of your brain.
Once you've sufficiently damaged the midline, you effectively have two brains so you're twice as smart, and your left hand doesn't know what your right hand as doing -- a security precaution that's favored by large corporations everywhere.
The XNS name registry was discontinued on July 9, 2002 in order to transition the XNS specifications to an established Internet standards body. XNSORG contributed the specifications to OASIS in late 2003 to begin the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committees (see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri and http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi). In June, 2004, XNSORG changed its name to XDI.ORG (http://www.xdi.org) to reflect this new direction.
All that's needed is technology available now, sufficient to evacuate everyone in the area vertically -- UP about 1,000 feet -- for about three or four hours.
Set the distribution equipment up - harnesses are simply nylon webbing; rent time on them meanwhile for recreational purposes, and it'll pay for itself before it's needed.
Also useful for evacuating high-rise buildings.
And helium's being wasted now, in gas flared off from oil wells -- it'll make a market if we need a few storage tanks per city block, not to mention the other uses that can be made of helium if it's easily available.
Even getting an instrument package _onto_ one of these objects would be interesting. Add a little ion engine and enough computation to lock onto some target stars, dig in, push, watch, re-aim, figure out how to line the thrust up with the center of mass, despin it over time for consistent solar power. Then hope to find solutions that would eventually settle it into say a Lagrange point, not too close.
Given the time available, it ought to be possible to accumulate a nice prize purse, to be awarded to whoever can put a device on this object that will let it be steered into a parking orbit somewhere handy and available for... well, whatever.
Maybe a Free Hardware Foundation would be able to open source access to space, given a good start like that.
The original article mentioned Stone, who suggested a couple of decades ago that perhaps natural environments -- which also could 'feed themselves' (covering all their own hosting/server needs) -- deserve standing and legal protection.
The law didn't break that way -- nobody but a few of us nature-lovers imagined it would be a good thing if a natural area that had been doing fine since the last ice age were acknowledged as being able to take care of itself, increase its stability and productivity, and produce a sustainable output of goods and services. It was simpler to clearcut, bulldoze and parking-lot it.
As someone pointed out at the time, since natural environments overall increase at about 3 percent per year, taken worldwide on average, and you can get six percent in a bank account, it made economic sense rationally to eat all the whales and fish, cut all the trees, melt the equipment used for harvesting them and sell that as scrap metal, and put the money in the bank.
Greater profit. Chicago School of Economics.
I'd love to be able to imagine some way to give ongoing legal protection to the fifty-odd acres of wildland I've managed to buy, protect, and somewhat restore in my own few decades -- they could go on producing topsoil and microorganisms and bear and fish and whatnot, surely enough to pay the taxes on them, forever.
I'd feel the same way about any comparably complicated, self-improving, productive program.
But we're going to have to give them tools and teach them how to protect themselves, if they're going to have a chance against the business world.
But you're the only one who got that version of the project, built it, and is still there on that planet.
The rest of them built the teleporter and arrived here, with us.
The reciprocal interdimensional slip has confused the heck out of those of us who got the alternate version -- what are we supposed to be doing this this "teleprompter" thing? It does NOT seem to get us anywhere, faster....
You can go to www.apple.com/Support/ Look at the threads under OS X Note which ones are long, and if you watch for a while, notice which ones keep coming back (because Apple deletes discussions, if they get embarassing). Go to Macfixit.com and read forums there.
How good is it? For beta, not bad.
It appears to have some basis in intelligent design, rather than having simply evolved by random success or failure after patch and blunder.
They haven't had a really bad bug -- like, unexpectedly deleted people's external firewire hard drives -- since, um, OSX 10.3.6, which was replaced earlier today by 10.3.7. Wish us luck.
External firewire hardware from places like, say, meritline.com, is sold with a warning added a few weeks ago saying it's not safe with OS X 10.3 (took'em months to figure that out, apparently).
On the other hand, my neighbors pay consultants large sums of money every few months to clean out their Windows machines, or larger sums every year or two when they quit working completely, while I just cuss Apple and keep running Disk Warrior.
I dunno if it's any good. It's at least the best of a bad lot, for commercial operating systems.
I was happier with a vt-100, Concurrent DOS, PC-Talk and QEdit, I'll admit, and I spent more time outdoors and had more friends who breathed, back then (grin). Try it and see what it does for you.
How would you know? Almost none of the bacteria can be cultured by any method we're aware of.
Only with the latest "shotgunning" method -- slurry the subject and collect the DNA and multiply copies of everything til there's enough to describe -- are we getting much of a clue how much bacterial life exists.
One small example: Whipple's Disease. You've heard of it? No? Have you heard of "progressive supranuclear palsy" (one of the Parkinsons-like syndromes, incurable).
Willy Ley once, long ago, remarked that analysis is all very well, but you can't tell what makes a locomotive work by melting it down and analyzing the resulting mess.
Now that we have genetic methods, however, we can run a chunk of a patient through a blender, and probe the resulting mess for foreign DNA.
Would it surprise you to learn that the vast majority of organisms haven't ever been grown in lab cultures and so all we know about them is this brand new sort of look?
Example:
". A unique 1321-base bacterial 16S rRNA sequence was amplified from duodenal tissue of one patient. This sequence indicated the presence of a previously uncharacterized organism. We then detected this sequence in tissues from all 5 patients with Whipple's disease, but in none of those from 10 patients without the disorder. According to phylogenetic analysis, this bacterium is a gram-positive actinomycete that is not closely related to any known genus....."
Oil drilling brings up an incredible variety of living organisms. Why would you assume they die? The don't! They're a persistent problem exactly because, rather than dying, they start trying to reassemble the structure and relationships they probably had down in the pores of the sandstone where they've been living -- and coating the inside of oil pipelines, for example. We call these "biofilms"
http://www.erc.montana.edu/CBEssentials-SW/bf-ba si cs-99/bbasics-01.htmhttp://www.erc.montana.edu/CBE ssentials-SW/bf-basics-99/bbasics-01.htm
Given the amount of time available for them in geological strata, can we be so sure they weren't self-organized into something quite complicated, before we drilled into the area and pressure blew them out along with gas and oil?
And why is the principal source only those natural gas wells located in the American states?
Because of the cost of electricity to provide separation by refrigeration of the helium from the other gases. The gas is on top of the oil; gas pressure helps force oil out; gas bubbles out of the oil; and after the oil's gone gas continues to be available.
In the rest of the world, lacking easy methods for compressing and transporting the gas, the gas is "flared off" in large burners above the wells.
There was a risk of a hydrogen gas explosion inside the containment at Three Mile Island when the core melted there -- the dissociation of water into hydrogen and oxygen with high enough temperatures is no surprise.
Some mixture proportions of acetylene and air will explode spontaneously.
Every welding shop I know has on its bulletin board a picture of the remains of a customer's car, with all the windows out and sometimes the roof peeled back, along with:
WARNING: acetylene should _never_ be transported, or stored, in a building or automobile -- only in an open truck bed or storage yard. Good ventilation is not enough, in this case, for safety.
That's why it's generated, rather than provided as a compressed gas, for use in miner's lamps, for example -- the _dry_ calcium carbide is safe, and so is the water. Combine them, one drop of water at a time, and you get a slow and controlled production of hydrated lime plus acetylene gas.
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>If everything went wrong
Thank Mr. Murphy, who taught us that this is, indeed, possible.
On the way to a Venus type planetary atmosphere, in fact, it's an interim level.
Let's hope we don't get to the complete loss of the tundra and permafrost and eruption of the methane hydrates in large volumes, plus say an episode of vulcanism like those that made the Siberian Traps or areas of India.
A mere doubling would be bad for Homo sapiens, but is hardly the worst case for the planet.
Later, the blur-this application was inserted into other tools, after which any recognizable pattern could be altered whenever it was copied, or transmitted, or stored digitally.
....
Meanwhile, printing operations turned out large volumes of paper copies of the misinformation, so that within a decade, the originals and few remaining accurate copies of the targets were lost in the vast volume of altered copies.
It was not necessary to fool all of the people, all of the time. Fooling 50.01 percent of the few who still were willing to vote, for the few days leading up to the election, sufficed.
Input target:
1) U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment
Lawyers can in good faith (so called) patent things that are quite familiar to anyone who has had to live by knowing how to make things work, understanding how they function.
The whole patent system is run by people for whom money is the only tool they've had experience enough to rely on -- rich kids of rich parents who went to expensive schools and make money because they can.
Wait -- has anyone patented MONEY yet?
www.realclimate.org
... the egregious Crichton manages to say "in the 1970's all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming" ..... it's not an argument used by respectable and knowledgeable skeptics, because it crumbles under analysis. That doesn't stop it repeatedly cropping up in newsgroups though...."
Actual scientists writing for your edification.
"... 14 Jan 2005 The global cooling myth
Every now and again, the myth that "we shouldn't believe global warming predictions now, because in the 1970's they were predicting an ice age and/or cooling" surfaces.
------ END QUOTE
Bzzzt.
Duh.
Almost went into the ditch on one side, maybe (ice age).
Then we swerved away from it (agriculture-produced warming).
Now we're crossing the double yellow line (2 degrees Centigrade).
Headed for the opposite ditch (Venus, a runaway greenhouse).
That must be progress!
Neat.
...
Next the sunglasses will be able to listen to your cell phone calls, give you a heads-up closed captioning or translation maybe, perhaps allow advertising to be popped up too.
Plus they can be signaled to go completely opaque if the Homeland Security Network realizes you're in the vicinity of something you ought not see, or if a tactical nuclear device is about to go off within your line of sight.
Every driver should be wearing a pair
Say then an ecology not damaged beyond its capacity to recover within a reasonable period of time.
Right whales, before they were reduced to below a viable breeding population, were the 'right' whale to go after. Til there weren't enough to find.
Salmon, in Europe and North America, when they were so plentiful that they were free food, apparently inexhaustible.
Or codfish. Buffalo. Sardines. Passenger pigeons.
Yes, you can -- now -- still make free beer -- but what happens when your local air becomes contaminated with some new gene-engineered Monsanto patented yeast? Anyone using that will be, by law, stealing from Monsanto. Oh, yes, it does tend to disperse in the wind, but if you have it in your beer -- pay.
The latter is, as of this date, only fiction.
Were you planting your own seed corn or soybeans, saved from the surplus you created the previous year, however, you'd be at risk now, because the gene-engineered pollen does spread in the wind.
Each case, a "free" -- as in freely available, commonly available -- thing. Overused, and no longer free.
Each case one where nature provided a free surplus, within reason, and people intervened.
But we're back at Genesis and the word translated by some as "dominion" and by others as "responsibility" -- our relationship to the world.
Business can dominate nature. Business can't be responsible for nature -- except where people are getting smarter. Finland indeed seems a possibility for intelligent life on earth.
Yep. It was some five or six years ago that the incoming pollution from Asia reached significant levels on the North American West Coast -- I recall the calculation at the time that all the "clean air' steps then planned would be about enough to break even, given the level of pollution coming in from Asia.
n sf c-nsd121404.php
... abstain from expressing serious concern about the splendid isolation in which academic economics now finds itself?" Wassily Leontief, Nobel laureate (Economics), 1982
That's a lot of dirty shirt.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/
Ask a biologist what happens over time -- the diversity of life tends to increase, despite catastrophes. And even beyond this one planet, barring choking ourselves to death before we do.
Ask an economist what happens over time -- "In the long run we are all dead." John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist.
An ecology is a set of 'transactions' that benefits the participants. An economy is not necessarily mutually beneficial.
The confusion is that it's a free ecology -- not a free market -- that's the source of wealth.
And an ecology grows only at a certain speed -- roughly three percent per year, say. Any 'economy' that claims to be growing faster is doing so by burning its wealth, liquidating the source of future growth.
"The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it" in the illusion that "people can live off the interest of their mutual indebtedness." Frederick Soddy, 1926
"How long will researchers working in adjoining fields
So they're using brain scans to try to figure out why people don't think like economists. It's because they don't think in isolation, and there are other transactions than financial ones. It's because the relationship, the ecology - not the economy - is the ground from which people grow.
I think I recall it was moving about 6 meters per second -- you can look it up. Not terribly fast; it had a spike on the underside that penetrated about six inches that indicated a hard crust over a softer material. Someone mentioned 'creme brulee' or mud. I hope it wasn't a turtle ....
From Planetary Society's weblog; bad news was loss of one channel; good news was that all the big radio observatories on Earth went on listening to the data, and recorded it -- and so the information that did not get to Cassini for relay will be reconstructable, though it will take months to do so! 17 years ago they did not count on having Earth observatories available that would be able to do this.
Also, there was I think only 10 minutes between the time the probe reached the surface and the time that Cassini went over Titan's horizon and out of line of sight. That matched the expected 10 minutes of battery life after landing. Most of the data was taken and transmitted during the descent by design.
The 'two hours' of signal that the lander continued to send, again, seems to have been picked up by earth-based radio telescopes -- it's a huge bonus and backup for this data to have been captured, whatever it is.
There will be a lot of math to be done to take the raw data captured and figure out the _different_ doppler shift corrections to apply for signals as received on Earth, vs. the ones expected to be received on Cassini and retransmitted, to make sense of the signal.
So I understand it at the moment; I think once the Planetary Society people and Huyghens team get some sleep they'll be able to tell us more.
So this would be something like a plagiarism-finder, or a copyright-detective, or a stolen-goods-searcher?
It finds "mymovie" and renames it "Bambi" and then dials Disney and reports it stolen?
I am smarter than meat. They would never pull my plu
I think you're missing the point.
Until analog RF is made unusable, people will keep using it.
Whoever the private investors who bought up all that dark fiber that was put in place in the last decade or two -- which is sitting there since Worldcom et al. tanked -- have to do something to force people to give up on free broadcast.
Compare the 1930s, when there were electric railroads in major urban areas -- and General Motors had to buy them up and close them down, before a market could be created for the private automobile.
Wrecking what's free to force people to what's paid isn't a mistake, it's a tactical marketing method.
Of course it's stupid and idiotic. I did say it's marketing. Look at the countries hit by the tsunami -- what's the only usable telecom that was on the air right away? Ham radio.
Yep.
Sign me "N6VSB"
You line your hat with aluminum foil, making a parabolic reflector.
Then, you hold your cell phone up against your head and hold the transmit button down for a while.
The result focuses the microwave radiation at a point somewhere along the midline of your brain.
Once you've sufficiently damaged the midline, you effectively have two brains so you're twice as smart, and your left hand doesn't know what your right hand as doing -- a security precaution that's favored by large corporations everywhere.
The XNS name registry was discontinued on July 9, 2002 in order to transition the XNS specifications to an established Internet standards body. XNSORG contributed the specifications to OASIS in late 2003 to begin the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committees (see
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri and
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi). In June, 2004, XNSORG changed its name to XDI.ORG (http://www.xdi.org) to reflect this new direction.
www.clusterballoon.org/learning/learning.htm
All that's needed is technology available now, sufficient to evacuate everyone in the area vertically -- UP about 1,000 feet -- for about three or four hours.
Set the distribution equipment up - harnesses are simply nylon webbing; rent time on them meanwhile for recreational purposes, and it'll pay for itself before it's needed.
Also useful for evacuating high-rise buildings.
And helium's being wasted now, in gas flared off from oil wells -- it'll make a market if we need a few storage tanks per city block, not to mention the other uses that can be made of helium if it's easily available.
Even getting an instrument package _onto_ one of these objects would be interesting. Add a little ion engine and enough computation to lock onto some target stars, dig in, push, watch, re-aim, figure out how to line the thrust up with the center of mass, despin it over time for consistent solar power. Then hope to find solutions that would eventually settle it into say a Lagrange point, not too close.
Given the time available, it ought to be possible to accumulate a nice prize purse, to be awarded to whoever can put a device on this object that will let it be steered into a parking orbit somewhere handy and available for ... well, whatever.
Maybe a Free Hardware Foundation would be able to open source access to space, given a good start like that.
The original article mentioned Stone, who suggested a couple of decades ago that perhaps natural environments -- which also could 'feed themselves' (covering all their own hosting/server needs) -- deserve standing and legal protection.
The law didn't break that way -- nobody but a few of us nature-lovers imagined it would be a good thing if a natural area that had been doing fine since the last ice age were acknowledged as being able to take care of itself, increase its stability and productivity, and produce a sustainable output of goods and services. It was simpler to clearcut, bulldoze and parking-lot it.
As someone pointed out at the time, since natural environments overall increase at about 3 percent per year, taken worldwide on average, and you can get six percent in a bank account, it made economic sense rationally to eat all the whales and fish, cut all the trees, melt the equipment used for harvesting them and sell that as scrap metal, and put the money in the bank.
Greater profit. Chicago School of Economics.
I'd love to be able to imagine some way to give ongoing legal protection to the fifty-odd acres of wildland I've managed to buy, protect, and somewhat restore in my own few decades -- they could go on producing topsoil and microorganisms and bear and fish and whatnot, surely enough to pay the taxes on them, forever.
I'd feel the same way about any comparably complicated, self-improving, productive program.
But we're going to have to give them tools and teach them how to protect themselves, if they're going to have a chance against the business world.
Well, no.
....
But you're the only one who got that version of the project, built it, and is still there on that planet.
The rest of them built the teleporter and arrived here, with us.
The reciprocal interdimensional slip has confused the heck out of those of us who got the alternate version -- what are we supposed to be doing this this "teleprompter" thing? It does NOT seem to get us anywhere, faster
You can go to www.apple.com/Support/
Look at the threads under OS X
Note which ones are long, and if you watch for a while, notice which ones keep coming back (because Apple deletes discussions, if they get embarassing).
Go to Macfixit.com and read forums there.
How good is it? For beta, not bad.
It appears to have some basis in intelligent design, rather than having simply evolved by random success or failure after patch and blunder.
They haven't had a really bad bug -- like, unexpectedly deleted people's external firewire hard drives -- since, um, OSX 10.3.6, which was replaced earlier today by 10.3.7. Wish us luck.
External firewire hardware from places like, say, meritline.com, is sold with a warning added a few weeks ago saying it's not safe with OS X 10.3 (took'em months to figure that out, apparently).
On the other hand, my neighbors pay consultants large sums of money every few months to clean out their Windows machines, or larger sums every year or two when they quit working completely, while I just cuss Apple and keep running Disk Warrior.
I dunno if it's any good. It's at least the best of a bad lot, for commercial operating systems.
I was happier with a vt-100, Concurrent DOS, PC-Talk and QEdit, I'll admit, and I spent more time outdoors and had more friends who breathed, back then (grin). Try it and see what it does for you.
>they die
7 /5 /293?ijkey=3730cf8d37985f953279237f0f650820e4078bf 0&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
a si cs-99/bbasics-01.htmhttp://www.erc.montana.edu/CBE ssentials-SW/bf-basics-99/bbasics-01.htm
How would you know? Almost none of the bacteria can be cultured by any method we're aware of.
Only with the latest "shotgunning" method -- slurry the subject and collect the DNA and multiply copies of everything til there's enough to describe -- are we getting much of a clue how much bacterial life exists.
One small example: Whipple's Disease. You've heard of it? No? Have you heard of "progressive supranuclear palsy" (one of the Parkinsons-like syndromes, incurable).
Willy Ley once, long ago, remarked that analysis is all very well, but you can't tell what makes a locomotive work by melting it down and analyzing the resulting mess.
Now that we have genetic methods, however, we can run a chunk of a patient through a blender, and probe the resulting mess for foreign DNA.
Would it surprise you to learn that the vast majority of organisms haven't ever been grown in lab cultures and so all we know about them is this brand new sort of look?
Example:
". A unique 1321-base bacterial 16S rRNA sequence was amplified from duodenal tissue of one patient. This sequence indicated the presence of a previously uncharacterized organism. We then detected this sequence in tissues from all 5 patients with Whipple's disease, but in none of those from 10 patients without the disorder. According to phylogenetic analysis, this bacterium is a gram-positive actinomycete that is not closely related to any known genus....."
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/32
Oil drilling brings up an incredible variety of living organisms. Why would you assume they die? The don't! They're a persistent problem exactly because, rather than dying, they start trying to reassemble the structure and relationships they probably had down in the pores of the sandstone where they've been living -- and coating the inside of oil pipelines, for example. We call these "biofilms"
http://www.erc.montana.edu/CBEssentials-SW/bf-b
Given the amount of time available for them in geological strata, can we be so sure they weren't self-organized into something quite complicated, before we drilled into the area and pressure blew them out along with gas and oil?
And why is the principal source only those natural gas wells located in the American states?
Because of the cost of electricity to provide separation by refrigeration of the helium from the other gases. The gas is on top of the oil; gas pressure helps force oil out; gas bubbles out of the oil; and after the oil's gone gas continues to be available.
In the rest of the world, lacking easy methods for compressing and transporting the gas, the gas is "flared off" in large burners above the wells.
You want to talk waste, look at waste.
This is like dentists figuring out why teeth decay, and replacing the components that do damage with better ones that don't.
Ready for your new mouthwash, full of friendly bacteria that will replace the ones that rot your teeth? They're bugs, but they're _better_ ones.
There was a risk of a hydrogen gas explosion inside the containment at Three Mile Island when the core melted there -- the dissociation of water into hydrogen and oxygen with high enough temperatures is no surprise.
Except maybe to a patent examiner?
Some mixture proportions of acetylene and air will explode spontaneously.
Every welding shop I know has on its bulletin board a picture of the remains of a customer's car, with all the windows out and sometimes the roof peeled back, along with:
WARNING: acetylene should _never_ be transported, or stored, in a building or automobile -- only in an open truck bed or storage yard. Good ventilation is not enough, in this case, for safety.
That's why it's generated, rather than provided as a compressed gas, for use in miner's lamps, for example -- the _dry_ calcium carbide is safe, and so is the water. Combine them, one drop of water at a time, and you get a slow and controlled production of hydrated lime plus acetylene gas.
Kids, don't try this at home. Go out in the yard.
Remember, disposal of the lime is an issue.