I own a very big building with many floors, and over 100 apartments on it, and I think a small nuclear plant is just what I need. I will place it just below the roof of the building, on the highest floor. It gets flooded every now and then because I sincerely don't have enough time to repair it, but I think this nuke should stand this and much more. I will just place it there, plug it in and just forget that I have it.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
I completely agree with you. Why only a mile of concrete? Let's make it 100 miles. Wait, even better, let's build a 1,083,210,000,000 km3 solid rock roughly round sphere, then fill it with air and a little water. If you place an iron core inside it, it will rotate and will generate a nice shield that will protect you from all those cosmic rays and solar flares. You can even make it orbit the sun so that you can get some bonus energy to power it all...
So a guy without any previous criminal behaviour, that has been declared a CIA enemy, is suddenly charged with 2 rapes on the same week?
I TOTALLY believe it...
It can be done. Just check how Spain manages to cope with a 41% wind energy electricity production:
https://demanda.ree.es/demanda.html
Check January 14th, 2010 (January = Enero).
I completely agree with you, I have read about many ways to create and replace organs that are being studied, and a lot of them do not involve stem cells.
The Great Leap Forward famine had a lot more to do with other things, apart from inefficiency. Specifically to very bad government policy and agricultural science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
Also, you might not want to be there when the door has to be unlocked (you might be at work). If you set up some automatic software to open it up for you at the desired time of the day, you won't run into trouble when you have to attend some unexpected late evening meeting and your kids can't access their computers due to this.
I'm afraid UK banking system is now where spanish banking system was 15 years ago... US banking system is what spanish banking system was 50 years ago... I think my parents don't remember how to write a cheque... I only had to write a cheque when I spent one year on the US.
I think if I were an advanced civilisation I would use neutrinos to communicate, at the very least (or possibly some other thing we haven't discovered yet). Very easy to get these light particles across a galaxy without them being stopped by other matter or energy.
In Spain, and in many other the european countries, they are now including armed personnel on fishing boats. Some countries allow military soldiers to go with them, some others just allow private security with heavy weapons.
I have to agree with this. I tried to switch to some Linux and Open Office distribution a few years ago, and the kind of things I had to learn to do to get that machine running, and then to fix several driver problems, were a bit too much for anybody without a lot of technical expertise.
I have several friends that are in love with Linux and Open Office, but they all happen to be software engineers, and when I complain about something not being user-friendly, they tell me that it's really very easy, you just have to "mount this drive and then...." do you really think users are going to consider introducing linux commands, ever?
If you believe users should know this stuff, then you just don't live in the real world.
I can't log into the account management section of their website with my battle.net username, now. It seems the battle.net server login servers are now.
I hope this never happens with the game login.
First, it was blue eyes.
But I didn't care, since I could afford blue eyes for my son, and it wasn't that important, anyway.
Then, it was higher people.
But I didn't care, since I was tall and my daughter would probably be tall, too.
Then, it was higher IQ.
At that time, it was too late and expensive for my niece. He would belong to the "untouchable" caste and his offspring too...
(note: I believe this future is unavoidable)
Please google and research "peak oil" a bit. You will discover this crisis is a lot worse than they have told you. US is doomed. Europe is doomed. Sell your apartments. Buy a small house with a VERY big garden, on a small comunity (but not too small, 5.000 is ok). Learn all about your neighbours, try to establish tight friendly relations with them. Learn how to grow your own food. Install a small wind/solar farm and batteries in your home. Buy all the medicines you can that won't spoil in 5 years. Buy dry food that won't spoil in 2 years.
Or else, tell me I'm crazy and just do business as usual. If you work for any private transportation company, however (airplanes, freight trucks) , I would try to find another job.
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I own a very big building with many floors, and over 100 apartments on it, and I think a small nuclear plant is just what I need. I will place it just below the roof of the building, on the highest floor. It gets flooded every now and then because I sincerely don't have enough time to repair it, but I think this nuke should stand this and much more. I will just place it there, plug it in and just forget that I have it. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
I completely agree with you. Why only a mile of concrete? Let's make it 100 miles. Wait, even better, let's build a 1,083,210,000,000 km3 solid rock roughly round sphere, then fill it with air and a little water. If you place an iron core inside it, it will rotate and will generate a nice shield that will protect you from all those cosmic rays and solar flares. You can even make it orbit the sun so that you can get some bonus energy to power it all...
http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html
We just need to increase a few anti-cancer genes quantity and/or effects. It's already been done on mice: https://www.cnio.es/es/grupos/plantillas/presentacion.asp?pag=35
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24203/
Use neutrinos.
Nothing to see here, move along.
So a guy without any previous criminal behaviour, that has been declared a CIA enemy, is suddenly charged with 2 rapes on the same week? I TOTALLY believe it...
It can be done. Just check how Spain manages to cope with a 41% wind energy electricity production: https://demanda.ree.es/demanda.html Check January 14th, 2010 (January = Enero).
I completely agree with you, I have read about many ways to create and replace organs that are being studied, and a lot of them do not involve stem cells.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6444#more
The Great Leap Forward famine had a lot more to do with other things, apart from inefficiency. Specifically to very bad government policy and agricultural science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
Also, you might not want to be there when the door has to be unlocked (you might be at work). If you set up some automatic software to open it up for you at the desired time of the day, you won't run into trouble when you have to attend some unexpected late evening meeting and your kids can't access their computers due to this.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2504499.html
Last time I picked a Western Union, they required me to show my ID-card.
I'm afraid UK banking system is now where spanish banking system was 15 years ago... US banking system is what spanish banking system was 50 years ago... I think my parents don't remember how to write a cheque... I only had to write a cheque when I spent one year on the US.
I think if I were an advanced civilisation I would use neutrinos to communicate, at the very least (or possibly some other thing we haven't discovered yet). Very easy to get these light particles across a galaxy without them being stopped by other matter or energy.
Cause they don't want to admit that they only produced a few petabytes of stripper motion captures.
In Spain, and in many other the european countries, they are now including armed personnel on fishing boats. Some countries allow military soldiers to go with them, some others just allow private security with heavy weapons.
I have to agree with this. I tried to switch to some Linux and Open Office distribution a few years ago, and the kind of things I had to learn to do to get that machine running, and then to fix several driver problems, were a bit too much for anybody without a lot of technical expertise. I have several friends that are in love with Linux and Open Office, but they all happen to be software engineers, and when I complain about something not being user-friendly, they tell me that it's really very easy, you just have to "mount this drive and then ...." do you really think users are going to consider introducing linux commands, ever?
If you believe users should know this stuff, then you just don't live in the real world.
I can't log into the account management section of their website with my battle.net username, now. It seems the battle.net server login servers are now. I hope this never happens with the game login.
First, it was blue eyes. But I didn't care, since I could afford blue eyes for my son, and it wasn't that important, anyway. Then, it was higher people. But I didn't care, since I was tall and my daughter would probably be tall, too. Then, it was higher IQ. At that time, it was too late and expensive for my niece. He would belong to the "untouchable" caste and his offspring too... (note: I believe this future is unavoidable)
Please google and research "peak oil" a bit. You will discover this crisis is a lot worse than they have told you. US is doomed. Europe is doomed. Sell your apartments. Buy a small house with a VERY big garden, on a small comunity (but not too small, 5.000 is ok). Learn all about your neighbours, try to establish tight friendly relations with them. Learn how to grow your own food. Install a small wind/solar farm and batteries in your home. Buy all the medicines you can that won't spoil in 5 years. Buy dry food that won't spoil in 2 years. Or else, tell me I'm crazy and just do business as usual. If you work for any private transportation company, however (airplanes, freight trucks) , I would try to find another job.
I would include doctors and lawyers.