I sometimes ask homosexuals why evolution stops them dead in their tracks in one generation. Is that not "mother nature" telling them they are wrong? They don't like that argument.
"Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers."
The printers themselves may be inexpensive but you can bet your last dollar the printer cartridge cost will need a NASA style budget!
"Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins."
Bury the alien bodies rather than keep them preserved for scientific examination? I suppose they took the spaceship down to the local scrap metal dealer too? I don't think so.
It's ironic that movies like that made use of wireframe images and the ubiquitous green grid perspective plane to look really hi tech, and now that we have enough computing power that we don't need to do those kind of things, natural looking objects look low tech!
If you actually read the Book rather than listening to churchgoing lamebrains who constantly misrepresent it, you will read that 1/ The earth was made. 2/ Then it sat around for an undisclosed period of time (billions of years?)in a raw, unfinished state. 3/ After that the six creative "days" were for the preparation of it for life on it. Those six "days" have =nothing= to do with the initial creation of the earth or the rest of the universe for that matter.
If it has eight degrees of freedom or whatever, it'd be neat if it had a USB port so while you were asleep you could rent it out to do CNC work, have it do your homework, feed the cat, tidy your room etc. Step right up folks. See the human XY plotter. Dang you could carve good statues! Eventually if they become common enough we might see them available on eBay "second hand". Who's that sponsoring the development? The "army"?
I speak Australian English so an American accent sounds foreign to me. I listened to the recording all the way through but when I realised that he sounded to me just like Ray Romano I found it hard to take him seriously:-)
OK. I'm happy now. Part of my motivation for the original post was the irritation of seeing projects with real worth being refused funding, and at the same time someone in the Arts being given a buttload of money by the same government so they can work out some new dance steps or whatever.
...but why do these people persist in blowing so much time and effort and money on stuff like this when there are far more deserving and serious problems to be solved right here and now on good old earth. Hell, we can't even tame hydrogen --> helium let alone oxygen --> iron or whatever it is. Good, solid science for sure, but the priorities seem to be way, way wrong if you ask me.
Has anyone ever done a weighted comparison of how many people have been killed in coal mine accidents over the years in comparison to nuclear industry accidents? While nuclear energy, like large airliners, has great potential to kill, it is not a foregone conclusion that it will. Many people that are afraid to get on a plane drive a car each day without a second thought. If nuclear power killed as many people as cars you could understand it being banned.
Why is it that Superman is able to pick up, and even fly with an entire house, and yet the weight of the house is only supported by the surface area of his hands? Must be a helluva strong building!
I once read about this fellow that had written a piece of software that, once he had scanned a visual image of a conventional phonograph record, enabled him to extract the sounds of the recording via the image of the grooves. It produced a recognizable result. It would be interesting to see if this visual cleanup software could be applied to phono record images to effectively smooth the vinyl or shellac surface, therefore reducing or eliminating the surface noise of an old recording. Of course there is software available that works purely on the sound signal, but perhaps something like this might be a useful adjunct?
Deuteronomy 21:18-20 --> In case a man happens to have a son who is stubborn and rebellious, he not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they have corrected him but he will not listen to them, 19 his father and his mother must also take hold of him and bring him out to the older men of his city and to the gate of his place, 20 and they must say to the older men of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he is not listening to our voice, being a glutton and a drunkard.' 21 Then all the men of his city must pelt him with stones, and he must die. So you must clear away what is bad from your midst, and all Israel will hear and indeed become afraid.
Good CFLs take a moment to come on because they preheat the filaments before striking. Cheap junk CFLs come on instantly but the price you pay is short tube life because the coating on the filaments gradually gets ripped off by electrostatic forces (courtesy of the extreme starting voltage because the cold filaments are reluctant to emit electrons) and deposited as a black coating inside the tube ends. I always use a felt tipped pen to write the installation date on my CFLs and the best one (takes ~500ms to strike) is a 15 watt Philips that was installed 15th August 1995 (old as Win95) and is still going ok. Junk ones last 18 months to 2 years and invariably start instantly and gradually go black at the ends as stated. FWIW, I like the cold white ones.
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Wine 1.0 needs a working fusion reactor to operate it, hence it will always be 6 months away.
Why do they call that country the UNITED States of America?
I sometimes ask homosexuals why evolution stops them dead in their tracks in one generation. Is that not "mother nature" telling them they are wrong? They don't like that argument.
"Kerbside shopping" expeditions and dumpster dives will be great just a few short years from now :-)
A browser without favourites is no fun to come back to for another session.
"Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers." The printers themselves may be inexpensive but you can bet your last dollar the printer cartridge cost will need a NASA style budget!
From the article:
"Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins."
Bury the alien bodies rather than keep them preserved for scientific examination? I suppose they took the spaceship down to the local scrap metal dealer too? I don't think so.
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It's ironic that movies like that made use of wireframe images and the ubiquitous green grid perspective plane to look really hi tech, and now that we have enough computing power that we don't need to do those kind of things, natural looking objects look low tech!
If you actually read the Book rather than listening to churchgoing lamebrains who constantly misrepresent it, you will read that 1/ The earth was made. 2/ Then it sat around for an undisclosed period of time (billions of years?)in a raw, unfinished state. 3/ After that the six creative "days" were for the preparation of it for life on it. Those six "days" have =nothing= to do with the initial creation of the earth or the rest of the universe for that matter.
It'll be interesting to read the entry under "Women". Does anyone really understand anything about them?
I wonder if the owners of that park would complain if you paid your entry fee with counterfeit Chinese money?
If it has eight degrees of freedom or whatever, it'd be neat if it had a USB port so while you were asleep you could rent it out to do CNC work, have it do your homework, feed the cat, tidy your room etc. Step right up folks. See the human XY plotter. Dang you could carve good statues! Eventually if they become common enough we might see them available on eBay "second hand". Who's that sponsoring the development? The "army"?
So, it would seem we have been LED up the garden path...
I speak Australian English so an American accent sounds foreign to me. I listened to the recording all the way through but when I realised that he sounded to me just like Ray Romano I found it hard to take him seriously :-)
OK. I'm happy now. Part of my motivation for the original post was the irritation of seeing projects with real worth being refused funding, and at the same time someone in the Arts being given a buttload of money by the same government so they can work out some new dance steps or whatever.
...but why do these people persist in blowing so much time and effort and money on stuff like this when there are far more deserving and serious problems to be solved right here and now on good old earth. Hell, we can't even tame hydrogen --> helium let alone oxygen --> iron or whatever it is. Good, solid science for sure, but the priorities seem to be way, way wrong if you ask me.
Has anyone ever done a weighted comparison of how many people have been killed in coal mine accidents over the years in comparison to nuclear industry accidents? While nuclear energy, like large airliners, has great potential to kill, it is not a foregone conclusion that it will. Many people that are afraid to get on a plane drive a car each day without a second thought. If nuclear power killed as many people as cars you could understand it being banned.
Why is it that Superman is able to pick up, and even fly with an entire house, and yet the weight of the house is only supported by the surface area of his hands? Must be a helluva strong building!
I once read about this fellow that had written a piece of software that, once he had scanned a visual image of a conventional phonograph record, enabled him to extract the sounds of the recording via the image of the grooves. It produced a recognizable result. It would be interesting to see if this visual cleanup software could be applied to phono record images to effectively smooth the vinyl or shellac surface, therefore reducing or eliminating the surface noise of an old recording. Of course there is software available that works purely on the sound signal, but perhaps something like this might be a useful adjunct?
Deuteronomy 21:18-20 --> In case a man happens to have a son who is stubborn and rebellious, he not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they have corrected him but he will not listen to them, 19 his father and his mother must also take hold of him and bring him out to the older men of his city and to the gate of his place, 20 and they must say to the older men of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he is not listening to our voice, being a glutton and a drunkard.' 21 Then all the men of his city must pelt him with stones, and he must die. So you must clear away what is bad from your midst, and all Israel will hear and indeed become afraid.
Good CFLs take a moment to come on because they preheat the filaments before striking. Cheap junk CFLs come on instantly but the price you pay is short tube life because the coating on the filaments gradually gets ripped off by electrostatic forces (courtesy of the extreme starting voltage because the cold filaments are reluctant to emit electrons) and deposited as a black coating inside the tube ends. I always use a felt tipped pen to write the installation date on my CFLs and the best one (takes ~500ms to strike) is a 15 watt Philips that was installed 15th August 1995 (old as Win95) and is still going ok. Junk ones last 18 months to 2 years and invariably start instantly and gradually go black at the ends as stated. FWIW, I like the cold white ones.
As long as the experiment is verified by an odd, rather than even, number of scientists...
"I hear purple is faster."
So... 2.6.20 induces synaesthesia?
http://www.uksynaesthesia.com/
If "Tottie" is in the next movie, I'm getting it for sure. What a doll ;-)
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