My Dad (General Contractor Builds houses and such) has a problem with tools "walking off the jobsite" particularly shovels. So he painted one shovel a realy sissy color of pink, and it has been around for years.
What happens a few years around the road when a little corosion sets in, and the little motor attached to the screw can no longer back it out. If you took advantage of the fact that it does not need access how do you remove it when the mechanism fails? I work on my vehicles, and often have to use a cheater bar to gain leverage on stubborn bolt.
You would have to throw away the whole car, Starting to sound like "Brave New World"
Reminds me of "A Mote in God's Eye" The "moties" are trapped in a cycle of civ building leading to inevedable civ destruction. They build huge, armored museums and information repositories to carry info/culture between civ-generations. Backing this stuff is a good idea, but numerous dead-tree encyclopeidas already exist that would serve that purpose already. (Just dig up a landfill, they should be preserved quite well in there)
Don't Laugh, The British taxed sunlight on the Irish Parliment. Their solution was to brick up the windows (They are still bricked today, but the building is a bank now I believe)
for transmitting from millions of miles away and some HAMs are using 10 kilowatts upwards just for transmitting earth-to-earth!
Some, but it is considered very bad form to use more power than necessary. Transmitting across the ground is very different than transmitting through the space. Line of sight drastically reduces the ammount of power you need, as well as using directional antenas.
There's a reason fish don't breed with strawberries in the natural world. It might not be a good idea to discover exactly what that reason is until we know a whole lot more about the way DNA works.
I agree with part of this, we need to know more about how DNA works. One of the best ways to *really* understand how things work is by experimentation. And that involves doing GM research, and making GM plants and animals. Anything else is just theory.
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Glob Gun is what i usually call it
My Dad (General Contractor Builds houses and such) has a problem with tools "walking off the jobsite" particularly shovels. So he painted one shovel a realy sissy color of pink, and it has been around for years.
What happens a few years around the road when a little corosion sets in, and the little motor attached to the screw can no longer back it out. If you took advantage of the fact that it does not need access how do you remove it when the mechanism fails? I work on my vehicles, and often have to use a cheater bar to gain leverage on stubborn bolt. You would have to throw away the whole car, Starting to sound like "Brave New World"
Reminds me of "A Mote in God's Eye" The "moties" are trapped in a cycle of civ building leading to inevedable civ destruction. They build huge, armored museums and information repositories to carry info/culture between civ-generations. Backing this stuff is a good idea, but numerous dead-tree encyclopeidas already exist that would serve that purpose already. (Just dig up a landfill, they should be preserved quite well in there)
When PBS used to show real science shows NOVA, etc.
Hey, when's the oxygen tax coming out?
Don't Laugh, The British taxed sunlight on the Irish Parliment. Their solution was to brick up the windows (They are still bricked today, but the building is a bank now I believe)
for transmitting from millions of miles away and some HAMs are using 10 kilowatts upwards just for transmitting earth-to-earth!
Some, but it is considered very bad form to use more power than necessary. Transmitting across the ground is very different than transmitting through the space. Line of sight drastically reduces the ammount of power you need, as well as using directional antenas.
There's a reason fish don't breed with strawberries in the natural world. It might not be a good idea to discover exactly what that reason is until we know a whole lot more about the way DNA works.
I agree with part of this, we need to know more about how DNA works. One of the best ways to *really* understand how things work is by experimentation. And that involves doing GM research, and making GM plants and animals. Anything else is just theory.
Is that a metric weensy or a Imperial weensy?