The hard part of moving it to Mars, is not the propulsion system. Rockets work well.
The issue is moving it without structural damage. You have to make sure that each module gets JUST the RIGHT amount of thrust relative to the others, so that the whole thing wants to move at the same delta. If one part's delta is off to much... crack!
Pendantics... yes. The O2 comes from the oxidation while it burns.
That said, the plants take the actual CO2 from the air, use the O2 in their metabolism, and use the C for structure. They also use the H from the H2O, but that gets rebonded with the O2 and released, they don't keep it.
Because the CO2 was pulled out of the air to grow the trees. We aren't creating MORE CO2 in the atmosphere, we're just moving whats already there.
Using petroleum (that's drilled for, not created from carbon... which we CAN do, it's just expensive) pulls CO2 out of the ground, and leaves it out. This raises the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere relatively permanently.
The CO2 that comes from plastic, was pulled from the ground. Without us, it would have stayed there, for possibly an extremely long time.
The CO2 that comes from trees, was already in the air, and only was temporarily pulled out into the tree. On the tree's death, the CO2 would have released (as it rotted, or burned, depending).
So, while looking at the small picture, it's no better. But, zooming out to the big picture, it's a world better.
Hrm, the only issue I have is that, on completion, the black-bars at the top and bottom are two pixels short of the edge of the screen (so you see more than you should). Nothing extra cut off.
I guess it depends on what resolution you set it to.
OT: Please don't manually place your sig when you have the system set to do it for you:
Maybe not so simple. Ever smelled a building with dead animal carcasses in the wall? OMG, it smells like something died in there... oh wait...
-Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. -- "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
THere's no vomit to choke on - the first stomach valve is a one-way, and they have a looped muscle that closes the tube when flexed (unlike ours, which actually pumps stuff out).
It SHOULD make them feel ill though, and unlikely to touch the cabling again.
Um, while his first post was offtopic crap, this one isn't.
Please fix this, mods.
I'll quote the important part to make it easy for you:
But I see the discussion goes on who owns the meta-data for an app, I would have to say the security policy owns it. I shut your fucking port off, you no longer deliver your app. The rest doesn't matter. You don't like the provider, get lost.
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The hard part of moving it to Mars, is not the propulsion system. Rockets work well.
The issue is moving it without structural damage. You have to make sure that each module gets JUST the RIGHT amount of thrust relative to the others, so that the whole thing wants to move at the same delta. If one part's delta is off to much... crack!
Oh wow, a classic crime, but they use a COMPUTER!
Quick, fire up the spin-machine!
Pendantics... yes. The O2 comes from the oxidation while it burns.
That said, the plants take the actual CO2 from the air, use the O2 in their metabolism, and use the C for structure. They also use the H from the H2O, but that gets rebonded with the O2 and released, they don't keep it.
Because the CO2 was pulled out of the air to grow the trees. We aren't creating MORE CO2 in the atmosphere, we're just moving whats already there.
Using petroleum (that's drilled for, not created from carbon... which we CAN do, it's just expensive) pulls CO2 out of the ground, and leaves it out. This raises the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere relatively permanently.
I'm kind of hoping that we will have removed ourselves from the area before that happens. I like to hope, you know.
This weekend was a tentative release date, jackass.
The CO2 that comes from plastic, was pulled from the ground. Without us, it would have stayed there, for possibly an extremely long time.
The CO2 that comes from trees, was already in the air, and only was temporarily pulled out into the tree. On the tree's death, the CO2 would have released (as it rotted, or burned, depending).
So, while looking at the small picture, it's no better. But, zooming out to the big picture, it's a world better.
Hrm, the only issue I have is that, on completion, the black-bars at the top and bottom are two pixels short of the edge of the screen (so you see more than you should). Nothing extra cut off.
I guess it depends on what resolution you set it to.
They seem to scale with a filter, or truly are vector. No pixelation for me.
Edit the preferences file. There is a disclaimer in it that states playing with the resolution might cause your computer to explode.
I haven't seen it happen yet.
Meanwhile, I enjoy my World of Goo in glorious 1680x1050.
They're more like artwork, and I am quite willing to pay for good art.
Amen to that!
This is the first time I've thought of that view... and thanks to you it sticks.
This is how games should be viewed - as art - not as product. Major publishers, take notice (pretty pretty please)
Kyle did all the music.
http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/
This has nothing to do with your firefox user profile.
OT: Please don't manually place your sig when you have the system set to do it for you:
Maybe not so simple. Ever smelled a building with dead animal carcasses in the wall? OMG, it smells like something died in there... oh wait...
-Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
--
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
THere's no vomit to choke on - the first stomach valve is a one-way, and they have a looped muscle that closes the tube when flexed (unlike ours, which actually pumps stuff out).
It SHOULD make them feel ill though, and unlikely to touch the cabling again.
Just about ANYTHING will beat the pants off of a Celeron - Celerons are useless.
"Starting now, there's going to be a lot less talking and a lot more killing."
"Less smack, more thwack"
I could come up with more ways to say it, but you get the point.
Exactly. The 'official' linux client was an old version of what any linux user could toss together themselves.
Looks more like he's staring away from the coffee cup. Either that, or the coffee cup just got a "HEAD SHOT!"
Um, while his first post was offtopic crap, this one isn't.
Please fix this, mods.
I'll quote the important part to make it easy for you:
But I see the discussion goes on who owns the meta-data for an app, I would have to say the security policy owns it. I shut your fucking port off, you no longer deliver your app. The rest doesn't matter. You don't like the provider, get lost.
In the same manner that you give another entity access to all your NTP syncs.
OpenDNS is basically the same thing as the NTP pool.
Put the tinfoil down, and back away slowly...
You are an idiot.
This is no more shadowy than the NTP pool.
I've had good luck with Rosewill. Not terribly expensive either.
Or are you implying that every office in the world has their own fab plant and I didn't know about it?
Yes. You didn't get yours? It should have arrived last month.
The problem with FF8, is it makes almost no sense.
That said, it was damn fun.