check out one of the decmber 2004 issues of new scientist. cold fusion is real, its just still n lab deveolpment and my not be scalable for large scale use....
Cold fusion is sufficiently real to the powers-that-be that the principal expert in the field was mysteriously murdered by a mugger in rural New Hampshire. Lot of violent muggings up there, let me tell you. Then the man accused of murdering him was murdered.
...I don't know many people that will tell you it's safe to take a drug/pill thats been in a bottle for 4 years.
Well, a few years back, I happened to find a joint stashed among my old baseball cards (???) while visiting my parents, and let me tell you, the date of expiration had zero deterrent effect.
I can vouch for your choice of printer manufacturer. I bought the cheapest i320 inkjet I could find a few years ago, and have been getting the tanks refilled at the refill shop ever since. Six bucks for black ink--I love it. And I like companies who don't try to enslave me to their parasitic proprietary systems.
If a 175-pound man fell into one end , he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water.
Awesome. When I die, I want my carcass fed into one of these machines. Seriously. Let something useful be done with the remains, instead of hogging real estate with a cemetary plot.
For the radiation: User-installable water based rad shields? Lets just hope we dont "forget" to install them, hmm ?
No problem, have robots put it all together in orbit and then look it over to make sure it isn't malfunctioning. Robots don't get cancer or radiation sickness, though their circuits can get fried.
I can deal with that because FastLane is an optional convenience. If California's transmitters become mandatory and they do track people's speeds (which seems likely), I see that as a serious invasion of privacy.
Since the California is desperately short of funds and disinclined to cut spending, you can bet that they will at least attempt to use the GPS devices for highway safety/revenue purposes. The system appeals to three influential classes of people: state regulators, who are always looking for new ways to feel important and expand the scope of their burocratic enterprises; politicians, who want more money to buy votes with and will mostly welcome the implementation of the system, regardless of the vociferousness of their public denunciations of it; and social engineers, who delight in any new technology or legislation that continues their retrograde push towards technological feudalism.
This third category is most important, as they will seek to implement California's GPS road-tax system elsewhere; in this country, California comes first, in things good and bad.
If you want to help world hunger (and simultaneously end terrorism), support spreading freedom - whether it's Bush, Blair, Howard, or Iranian student protesters.
I beg your pardon, but Bush unconditionally supports psychopaths like Rashid Dostum of Afghanistan and the truly horrendous Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan. And if you hate having your fingernails pulled out or your genitals electrocuted for political dissent, then by all means stay away from U.S. client states like Egypt and Jordan.
While I laud your belief in promoting political freedom worldwide, I question your choosing statist politicians as feedom's champions, particularly in light of the repressive legislation that they sponsor over the wishes, or best interests, of their subjects. Or the blind eye they turn to the crimes of evil (but compliant) regimes like the ones I mentioned.
I suggest that a better model for political change is the last of your four examples, the Iranian student protesters, whose movement is widely popular among their people. Applying the mendacious, violent Bushian model of "spreading freedom" to a place like Iran, where the forms and ideas of representative government are gradually and inexorably being adopted by popular will, guarantees that the reform movement will be gravely set back as the mullahs capitalize upon the fear created a foreign aggressor. This is why dictators always promote the notion of a looming threat like "terrorists" or "Communists" from outside, or from within, to facilitate control of the population, i.e., with the ludicrously-named PATRIOT Act, the Sedition Act, etc.
*Fun Fact: The U.S. State Department authorized the export of advanced ball-bearing manufacturing equipment in the early 1970s to the Soviet Union, knowing it was the only way the Soviets would be able to manufacture ICBMs with MIRV warheads. Why the hell would they do that, you wonder? To keep the Commies in the game. To keep the herd frightened of the "Soviet Menace." We fed them, too, when they were too incompetent to feed themselves. Again, to keep the threat alive--certain people (not you or I) profit from such thinking.
In 1948, the U.K. shipped their latest Rolls-Royce jet engines with accompanying schematics to the Soviets as "goodwill gesture." The Soviets refined the design and it became the basis for all following Soviet jet engine technology. Otherwise, they would have remained at a significant strategic disadvantage for decades with greatly inferior jet aircraft. Why did the British-American ruling class do this? To ensure that a powerful foreign enemy existed, to justify retaining a large, and for some people, lucrative, post-war military and to facilitate social control through fear.
Agreed. The statement decrying all conservatives and Republicans as greedy pricks is an ignorant one. Click the link to Antiwar.com and try reading a sampling of the editorials. Conservatives outnumber liberals by a considerable margin.
Oh man, James Watt. The guy who loved God and America so much that he cut all the trees down so he could see it better (with aknowedgements to National Lampoon.)
The story sounds apocryphal, but you have a point. I have another to make:
GPS relies upon satellites in low earth orbit, protected from solar radiation by the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field is in the process of reversing poles, as it periodically does, a process of indeterminate duration. When this happens, the satellites will be naked and vulnerable to bursts of solar radiation, which means it's likely that many or most of the satellites in orbit will be disabled during the pole shift, crippling navigation and communications.
The pole shift seems to be accelerating, creating an ever-growing discrepancy between true North and magnetic North. When all is said and done, North will become South and we'll all have to buy new compasses. In the meantime, don't toss your compasses, LORAN, sextants, inertial navigation, and dead reckoning.
What ever it is, it would need to deal with huge magnetic fields. The pulsar in the crab nebula puts out about 4000 times as much energy as our sun.
Good, the planet's inhabitants can put up some big induction coils and generate electricity from the pulsar's field, correct? Pardon my ignorance of such things if the suggestion should turn out to be a dumb one.
Because some are "kinda round". Ceres, an asteroid, is roughly round (although we don't have a non-blurry look yet). If it is in-between, maybe we can call it a "plasteroid". If it is chopped in half by an impact, then call it a "hemi-roid":-)
"Plasteroid," huh? I like that. It describes the state in which I came home Friday night. Immediately thereafter, I became "vomitoid." Saturday morning, I had progressed to "hungovertoid."
Skyramp technology combined with nuclear rockets is the way forward to Mars. The technology isn't revolutionary, it just takes the money and political will to do it. A well-made nuclear rocket is a lot less dangerous than a chemical one, and immensely more powerful.
Let's establish a bigger human presence in space. We need it in order to foster international cooperation and to reestablish the concept of a true frontier in the public consciousness. To make this happen takes new technology and a willingness to abandon the socialized aerospace companies, who build their rockets not to move things into space, but to make money at public expense.
You forgot step three: take them out of the government schools that turn them into anti-intellectual vulgarians, regardless of the parents' good intentions.
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Cold fusion is sufficiently real to the powers-that-be that the principal expert in the field was mysteriously murdered by a mugger in rural New Hampshire. Lot of violent muggings up there, let me tell you. Then the man accused of murdering him was murdered.
Well, a few years back, I happened to find a joint stashed among my old baseball cards (???) while visiting my parents, and let me tell you, the date of expiration had zero deterrent effect.
Oh man, please do not encourage them.
I can vouch for your choice of printer manufacturer. I bought the cheapest i320 inkjet I could find a few years ago, and have been getting the tanks refilled at the refill shop ever since. Six bucks for black ink--I love it. And I like companies who don't try to enslave me to their parasitic proprietary systems.
Awesome. When I die, I want my carcass fed into one of these machines. Seriously. Let something useful be done with the remains, instead of hogging real estate with a cemetary plot.
Indeed it would, and the implications are frightening. Imagine steroid-enhanced cyborg chimpanzee super-soldiers high on crystal meth.
Try dangling a bunch of bananas in front of that cage.
Do Nerf darts count?
No problem, have robots put it all together in orbit and then look it over to make sure it isn't malfunctioning. Robots don't get cancer or radiation sickness, though their circuits can get fried.
Here, let this man elucidate.
Since the California is desperately short of funds and disinclined to cut spending, you can bet that they will at least attempt to use the GPS devices for highway safety/revenue purposes. The system appeals to three influential classes of people: state regulators, who are always looking for new ways to feel important and expand the scope of their burocratic enterprises; politicians, who want more money to buy votes with and will mostly welcome the implementation of the system, regardless of the vociferousness of their public denunciations of it; and social engineers, who delight in any new technology or legislation that continues their retrograde push towards technological feudalism.
This third category is most important, as they will seek to implement California's GPS road-tax system elsewhere; in this country, California comes first, in things good and bad.
I beg your pardon, but Bush unconditionally supports psychopaths like Rashid Dostum of Afghanistan and the truly horrendous Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan. And if you hate having your fingernails pulled out or your genitals electrocuted for political dissent, then by all means stay away from U.S. client states like Egypt and Jordan.
While I laud your belief in promoting political freedom worldwide, I question your choosing statist politicians as feedom's champions, particularly in light of the repressive legislation that they sponsor over the wishes, or best interests, of their subjects. Or the blind eye they turn to the crimes of evil (but compliant) regimes like the ones I mentioned.
I suggest that a better model for political change is the last of your four examples, the Iranian student protesters, whose movement is widely popular among their people. Applying the mendacious, violent Bushian model of "spreading freedom" to a place like Iran, where the forms and ideas of representative government are gradually and inexorably being adopted by popular will, guarantees that the reform movement will be gravely set back as the mullahs capitalize upon the fear created a foreign aggressor. This is why dictators always promote the notion of a looming threat like "terrorists" or "Communists" from outside, or from within, to facilitate control of the population, i.e., with the ludicrously-named PATRIOT Act, the Sedition Act, etc.
*Fun Fact: The U.S. State Department authorized the export of advanced ball-bearing manufacturing equipment in the early 1970s to the Soviet Union, knowing it was the only way the Soviets would be able to manufacture ICBMs with MIRV warheads. Why the hell would they do that, you wonder? To keep the Commies in the game. To keep the herd frightened of the "Soviet Menace." We fed them, too, when they were too incompetent to feed themselves. Again, to keep the threat alive--certain people (not you or I) profit from such thinking.
In 1948, the U.K. shipped their latest Rolls-Royce jet engines with accompanying schematics to the Soviets as "goodwill gesture." The Soviets refined the design and it became the basis for all following Soviet jet engine technology. Otherwise, they would have remained at a significant strategic disadvantage for decades with greatly inferior jet aircraft. Why did the British-American ruling class do this? To ensure that a powerful foreign enemy existed, to justify retaining a large, and for some people, lucrative, post-war military and to facilitate social control through fear.
Shit, you don't happen to be Ted from "Red Meat," do you?
Agreed. The statement decrying all conservatives and Republicans as greedy pricks is an ignorant one. Click the link to Antiwar.com and try reading a sampling of the editorials. Conservatives outnumber liberals by a considerable margin.
Oh man, James Watt. The guy who loved God and America so much that he cut all the trees down so he could see it better (with aknowedgements to National Lampoon.)
You also have to beat up or imprision the ones who notice that the trains do not run on time.
GPS relies upon satellites in low earth orbit, protected from solar radiation by the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field is in the process of reversing poles, as it periodically does, a process of indeterminate duration. When this happens, the satellites will be naked and vulnerable to bursts of solar radiation, which means it's likely that many or most of the satellites in orbit will be disabled during the pole shift, crippling navigation and communications.
The pole shift seems to be accelerating, creating an ever-growing discrepancy between true North and magnetic North. When all is said and done, North will become South and we'll all have to buy new compasses. In the meantime, don't toss your compasses, LORAN, sextants, inertial navigation, and dead reckoning.
Good, the planet's inhabitants can put up some big induction coils and generate electricity from the pulsar's field, correct? Pardon my ignorance of such things if the suggestion should turn out to be a dumb one.
Your name wouldn't happen to be Galactus, would it?
"Plasteroid," huh? I like that. It describes the state in which I came home Friday night. Immediately thereafter, I became "vomitoid." Saturday morning, I had progressed to "hungovertoid."
Let's establish a bigger human presence in space. We need it in order to foster international cooperation and to reestablish the concept of a true frontier in the public consciousness. To make this happen takes new technology and a willingness to abandon the socialized aerospace companies, who build their rockets not to move things into space, but to make money at public expense.
(And now I hear the German Slashdotters laughing at me.)
Does the shitty theme come with bits of corn?
Oh, you must be referring to the "Dutch Oven" pedestal.
Dude, this manuscript is worse than the Christmas songs that computer did at MIT.
You forgot step three: take them out of the government schools that turn them into anti-intellectual vulgarians, regardless of the parents' good intentions.