Yea, I think donning a breathing apparatus and flushing the atmosphere with something inert would be better. It would also give you more of a chance of recovering what was still viable in that atmosphere.
You'd have to make sure it was a closed breather though, else the exhaust would just serve to provide oxidizer.
I think killing off the species that likes to feed from humans would be wiser. This wouldn't put such a downward pressure on them, so it would be more likely to survive and become pervasive.
Meaning, that instead of a massive reduction in mosquitoes followed by a gradual (or not so gradual) resurgence, we would simply notice the mosquitoes stopped bothering us.
Different frequencies are absorbed by the 'air' to different amounts - I do realize this. I also realize that ionization of the air changes this. This is why sky-wave propagation changes throughout the day/night cycle.
I don't know the relationship between frequency and absorption though. I imagine there's a handy graph showing it at some normal density, humidity, and temperature, though?
A handful of people noisily whinging on internet forums are not usually representative of the general population. People don't usually feel the urge to rant about how content or satisfied they are.
Your lamp, even if you block sight of it with your hand, you can still see the light it gives off, no? And if it was modulated (eg switched on and off) you would still see this, even though you have no line of sight? EM works the same way.
And the range is not only a handful of centimeters. The air doesn't absorb it THAT much...
Well, I think you could probably go through some existing data and see if hyperthermia (eg heat stroke) victims have a higher incidence of cancer. You should go the other way and check hypothermia as well to be thorough.
Since both of those are caused by "wrong" core temperatures, what you see there should apply to intracellular heating/cooling as well. But in this case, we are assuming the radio waves doing the heating could penetrate much much further into the body than they can.
I dunno, knowing exactly what code was built can be handy in finding those hacks to get a simple root prompt and such. Knowing they used busybox tells you nowhere as much as having the exact source that was built.
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Yea, I think donning a breathing apparatus and flushing the atmosphere with something inert would be better. It would also give you more of a chance of recovering what was still viable in that atmosphere.
You'd have to make sure it was a closed breather though, else the exhaust would just serve to provide oxidizer.
Not enough to allow mosquitoes to continue existing...
Yea, but at least they have the grace to look awesome.
Because you're a human and not a sociopath? Oh, wait....
I think killing off the species that likes to feed from humans would be wiser. This wouldn't put such a downward pressure on them, so it would be more likely to survive and become pervasive.
Meaning, that instead of a massive reduction in mosquitoes followed by a gradual (or not so gradual) resurgence, we would simply notice the mosquitoes stopped bothering us.
Well, we are. To us.
If we were to die off, why would we care about anything else? We are not subservient to anything else.
That doesn't mean we have to be dicks about it, but being overly self-sacrificing is just doing ourselves a disservice.
They didn't. "Cows" are domesticated, and are a far cry from the animals that were around before we were...
Keep in mind we are not talking water buffalo here.
Different frequencies are absorbed by the 'air' to different amounts - I do realize this. I also realize that ionization of the air changes this. This is why sky-wave propagation changes throughout the day/night cycle.
I don't know the relationship between frequency and absorption though. I imagine there's a handy graph showing it at some normal density, humidity, and temperature, though?
Well. You learn something 'new' every day.
Thanks for correcting me, I had no idea!
Already released.
It's called the Real World. ... watch out, I hear getting banned sucks something serious!
Totally the kind of game I hate to play, so that's entirely subjective.
Same with me for the Frozen Synapse bundle though... though I went and paid for them again just for all the linux versions.
A handful of people noisily whinging on internet forums are not usually representative of the general population. People don't usually feel the urge to rant about how content or satisfied they are.
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Well lets put it this way.
Your lamp, even if you block sight of it with your hand, you can still see the light it gives off, no? And if it was modulated (eg switched on and off) you would still see this, even though you have no line of sight? EM works the same way.
And the range is not only a handful of centimeters. The air doesn't absorb it THAT much...
It was a joke. There was no hook, save the one you imagined there to be.
Well, I think you could probably go through some existing data and see if hyperthermia (eg heat stroke) victims have a higher incidence of cancer. You should go the other way and check hypothermia as well to be thorough.
Since both of those are caused by "wrong" core temperatures, what you see there should apply to intracellular heating/cooling as well. But in this case, we are assuming the radio waves doing the heating could penetrate much much further into the body than they can.
... only random if you are measuring whether Excel crashes or not when you do it.
I dunno, knowing exactly what code was built can be handy in finding those hacks to get a simple root prompt and such. Knowing they used busybox tells you nowhere as much as having the exact source that was built.
Because it's the only reader with a letter size e-ink display of decent resolution?
Not necessarily. It gives you the versions and specific source for the binaries included.
Meaning, if you can identify a flaw in any of that code, you can execute it on the Kindle.
Speaking of this, how does one exactly break into this hobby?
Anonymous Coward is Coward, and should go back to 4chan.
Old meme is old?
will probably forget to buy eggnog too.
... and nothing of value was lost?
Sorry, didn't realize you were being satirical. I thought you were serious :P
Except for the fact we have a working physical prototype here, apparently. Most of these "in a few years" never reach that stage.