The ship still has to go back and the additional cost of carrying containers is probably quite small. A bit of extra handling and air resistance I suppose. Maybe the ships could be recyclable and the crew could fly back on planes?
You could be right but one possibility I can see is that Aboriginals are culturally and biologically biased towards consumption. Their system assumes that the environment will limit consumption so they are at risk of over consumption when exposed to western society.
I think thats what we are trying now, but the interface between the two is too traumatic. Lets say that infant mortality in normal aboriginal culture is much higher than in western culture. Should we tolerate that in the name of respecting their differences?
In every one of these supposedly "inferior geographies" that somehow stunted their native populations Europeans and Asians (including the middle east) have thrived.
But only for a few hundred years, and sustained in the last hundred years by using fossil fuels.
At a cultural and biological level it is a failure to merge. Europeans and Aborigines diverged too far and they can't be merged back without overwriting one with the other. The sad, simple fact is that Aborigines are stone age people very different from Europeans.
If so, then we would expect evidence for similar behavioral complexity- cave paintings, Neolithic-quality stone tools- in Africa prior to 70,000 years. My guess is that it almost certainly exists, but we just haven't looked in the right places (because it's a lot easier to do fieldwork in Europe than in Africa) or we've found it but haven't recognized it for what it is because the artifacts haven't been dated yet.
Makes me wonder if the stress resulting from migration out of Africa prompted humans to develop new ways of communicating their condition. Painting may have been invented along the way because populations which had been confined to a small area in Africa now found themselves spread across the world. In a similar way modern humans who have migrated away from their home countries use the Internet to communicate with people with whom they share their condition.
Android consists of a kernel based on the Linux kernel, with middleware, libraries and APIs written in C and application software running on an application framework which includes Java-compatible libraries based on Apache Harmony. Android uses the Dalvik virtual machine with just-in-time compilation to run compiled Java code.[17] Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. Developers write primarily in a customized version of Java.[18] There are currently more than 250,000 apps available for Android.[19][20] Apps can be downloaded from third-party sites or through online stores such as Android Market, the app store run by Google.
Android as you describe would be a desktop environment.
My fork of the Inferno OS, tweaked to run on Android
and more
The Hellaphone runs Inferno directly on top of the basic Linux layer provided by Android. We do not even allow the Java system to start. Instead, emu draws directly to the Linux framebuffer (thanks, Andrey, for the initial code!) and treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse. Because the Java environment doesn't start, it only takes about 10 seconds to go from power off to a fully-booted Inferno environment.
The progress payload doesn't have a heat shield so an abort at 325 seconds makes it burn up. The manned launcher does have a heat shield so it makes a normal landing down range.
If the hole was not pointed at a satellite, the communications link would fail.
Okay but the plasma sheath is basically a reflective tunnel, effectively a conical wave-guide. It would be widest at the far end, because the plasma spreads and disperses, so a signal transmitted back, along the path of the vehicle should bounce along the tunnel and spread by diffraction once the plasma peters out. I don't think the satellite would have to be perfectly aligned with the tunnel, though having it within 30 degrees or so would be an advantage.
The crew had gyroscopic attitude information and speed information from GPS. The preliminary report on the crash shows that the crew pulled the nose up to the point of stall and held it there. Nobody tried pushing the nose down. The only instrument they lost was IAS from the pitot tubes. Pitots have been freezing up since they were invented. If there was no way to fly out of that scenario we definitely shouldn't be flying aircraft into conditions like that.
Paid on street parking now uses a detector embedded in the road to sense a vehicle. In a one hour spot it will send a message for a parking inspector after an hour. Maybe the same sort of sensor detects occupied spaces.
The internal topology of Westfield Doncaster is such a mess that I couldn't demonstrate that it conforms to assumptions made about other parts of our universe. A navigation system would be a great boon. Incidentally a friend of mine does iphone development for a company which sells software to westfield.
Westfield Doncaster only has paid parking. Maybe the argument is that you become a customer when you take a ticket to enter the car park, and tracking you from then on is the same as tracking you at the cash register. And then you validate your parking ticket at the cash register and now your registration number is connected to your credit card number...
More to the point is it legal to cover your plate while on private Westfield property? If I make a device to do this can I be booked for potentially covering my plate while on public roads?
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The new image of Mercury in the National Geographic article looks eerily like the growing virus
Apart from a small difference in scale.
if you're loaded up with lethal levels of alcohol...
That would never happen in Ireland.
The ship still has to go back and the additional cost of carrying containers is probably quite small. A bit of extra handling and air resistance I suppose. Maybe the ships could be recyclable and the crew could fly back on planes?
You could be right but one possibility I can see is that Aboriginals are culturally and biologically biased towards consumption. Their system assumes that the environment will limit consumption so they are at risk of over consumption when exposed to western society.
could we just respect each others differences ?
I think thats what we are trying now, but the interface between the two is too traumatic. Lets say that infant mortality in normal aboriginal culture is much higher than in western culture. Should we tolerate that in the name of respecting their differences?
In every one of these supposedly "inferior geographies" that somehow stunted their native populations Europeans and Asians (including the middle east) have thrived.
But only for a few hundred years, and sustained in the last hundred years by using fossil fuels.
At a cultural and biological level it is a failure to merge. Europeans and Aborigines diverged too far and they can't be merged back without overwriting one with the other. The sad, simple fact is that Aborigines are stone age people very different from Europeans.
If so, then we would expect evidence for similar behavioral complexity- cave paintings, Neolithic-quality stone tools- in Africa prior to 70,000 years. My guess is that it almost certainly exists, but we just haven't looked in the right places (because it's a lot easier to do fieldwork in Europe than in Africa) or we've found it but haven't recognized it for what it is because the artifacts haven't been dated yet.
Makes me wonder if the stress resulting from migration out of Africa prompted humans to develop new ways of communicating their condition. Painting may have been invented along the way because populations which had been confined to a small area in Africa now found themselves spread across the world. In a similar way modern humans who have migrated away from their home countries use the Internet to communicate with people with whom they share their condition.
Are iPads legal in the EU?
Maybe future versions will come from the app store, like with macos.
Many of these extrasolar gas giants are in extremely small orbits very close to a star. So how could Earth and Mars have lost huge atmospheres?
From the wiki:
Android consists of a kernel based on the Linux kernel, with middleware, libraries and APIs written in C and application software running on an application framework which includes Java-compatible libraries based on Apache Harmony. Android uses the Dalvik virtual machine with just-in-time compilation to run compiled Java code.[17] Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. Developers write primarily in a customized version of Java.[18] There are currently more than 250,000 apps available for Android.[19][20] Apps can be downloaded from third-party sites or through online stores such as Android Market, the app store run by Google.
Android as you describe would be a desktop environment.
My fork of the Inferno OS, tweaked to run on Android
and more
The Hellaphone runs Inferno directly on top of the basic Linux layer provided by Android. We do not even allow the Java system to start. Instead, emu draws directly to the Linux framebuffer (thanks, Andrey, for the initial code!) and treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse. Because the Java environment doesn't start, it only takes about 10 seconds to go from power off to a fully-booted Inferno environment.
I don't really have a problem with them flying somewhere but flying that close to people on the ground is very stupid.
The progress payload doesn't have a heat shield so an abort at 325 seconds makes it burn up. The manned launcher does have a heat shield so it makes a normal landing down range.
Space-Plane == Horseless-carriage
If the hole was not pointed at a satellite, the communications link would fail.
Okay but the plasma sheath is basically a reflective tunnel, effectively a conical wave-guide. It would be widest at the far end, because the plasma spreads and disperses, so a signal transmitted back, along the path of the vehicle should bounce along the tunnel and spread by diffraction once the plasma peters out. I don't think the satellite would have to be perfectly aligned with the tunnel, though having it within 30 degrees or so would be an advantage.
Wait, you're telling me that plunging through super-heated plasma at mach 17 for several minutes can cause communication problems? HOLY CRAP! :\
That hasn't been a problem for decades.
don't people want any privacy?
No.
The crew had gyroscopic attitude information and speed information from GPS. The preliminary report on the crash shows that the crew pulled the nose up to the point of stall and held it there. Nobody tried pushing the nose down. The only instrument they lost was IAS from the pitot tubes. Pitots have been freezing up since they were invented. If there was no way to fly out of that scenario we definitely shouldn't be flying aircraft into conditions like that.
Our car is in a garage with a roller door. The house looks much the same when we are out. It makes the house much more secure.
Paid on street parking now uses a detector embedded in the road to sense a vehicle. In a one hour spot it will send a message for a parking inspector after an hour. Maybe the same sort of sensor detects occupied spaces.
The internal topology of Westfield Doncaster is such a mess that I couldn't demonstrate that it conforms to assumptions made about other parts of our universe. A navigation system would be a great boon. Incidentally a friend of mine does iphone development for a company which sells software to westfield.
Westfield Doncaster only has paid parking. Maybe the argument is that you become a customer when you take a ticket to enter the car park, and tracking you from then on is the same as tracking you at the cash register. And then you validate your parking ticket at the cash register and now your registration number is connected to your credit card number...
More to the point is it legal to cover your plate while on private Westfield property? If I make a device to do this can I be booked for potentially covering my plate while on public roads?