From my limited experience being around people using THC to mimic the natural effect I would conjecture that it does so without the learning of new things with global ramifications. I vote for not sharing out electron with those people.
Well, maybe. If my grasp on quantum mechanics is as good as I think it is (which it probably isn't), there's a good chance the nuclei might not pass close enough to fuse. Of course you could increase the chances by throwing more matter at yourself and risk making a bigger boom. Also, if you only fuse two atoms, that's still not a lot of energy. Finally, one detail you forgot is you probably won't have a stable nucleus, so it would decay and release a little more energy. Then you'll have pissed off greenpeace and they'll lay down in front of you car so you can't irradiate the neighborhood.
I hate the anthropic principal! Well, not really, but it does bug me that it's both one of the best and one of the worst sounding answers to a tough question that I've ever heard. I have to admit though, the implications of any of those constants being much different than what they are is a awesome concept to ponder.
The way you phrased your serious response to a total joke, you scared me into thinking I'd found the world's ultimate smart moron.
I like the first reply's suggestion of moving the solar system out of the way. Besides, at that speed, by the time you saw it, wouldn't it be about to hit you? Or would it be the other way around.
When he builds version 2 with a mechanical ringer he's going to have to get creative to find a way to power the ringer. They were designed to work on a 90-110 volt potential, which is the standard on POTS.
This is all just stuff you learn working in telecom for a University. We actually still use a lot of those old beige phones you see in movies from the 70's (not rotary, but with mechanical ringers). They still work just fine, and on the rare occasions when they are abused to the point of breaking, we can cannibalize and fix most of them.
Good to hear. So they are taking this goal realistically.
After I posted my first comment, I found out that their first customer for their Falcon 5 launch vehicle is none other than Bigelow Aerospace, with one of their inflatable spacehab modules. Way cool.
I scanned through the Spacex website and didn't see any mention of a crew vehicle or their plans of putting 5 people into orbit by 2010. While I'm sure they are somewhat serious about this plan, and there is probably a news update or two that I missed, it definitely appears that Spacex is (sensibly) focusing much more heavily on making their rockets a commercially viable lift vehicle.
I have seen no discussion at all of a crew vehicle, so it seems logical to assume that they have not addressed that detail yet. There is still a lot of work to be done, then.
You mean companies that operate for profit like Boeing or Lockheed? The real difference is this company doesn't have a reliability record yet. I'm sure they satellite didn't cost much and isn't terribly important, but it's good to see a young company getting it's foot in the door.
I'm not a granny (IANAG), but I do use a text editor (notepad or vim, depending on my mood and location). Frankly, it gives you more control over your code than the WYSIWIG approach, although last time I developed for pay, I used Frontpage because it was so easy to switch back and forth between the code view and the preview panes and I wasn't doing any scripting for most of the project.
HTML 4 isn't crap at all. It cooperates very well with CSS to make pages with easy to control layout and reasonable seperation of content from layout, which makes broad changes to a site's style far easier than sorting through dozens of individual pages changing 'td width="120"' to 'td width="121"', when you find that your.gif borders don't line up properly. I won't deny, as some do, that learning the W3C specs is a little more complicated than just typing out old school HTML 3.2, but there's no good reason for an advanced developer not to teach themselves the latest tools.
On the other hand, if we spread the life around right away, we lose the opportunity to determine what it was like before there was life there. So even if we decide we do want to pass terrestrial life on to Mars, which is unlikely, it seems like a good idea to delay it until we've learned more about it as it is now. There's no rush, a few years of exploration is nothing compared to 4.5 billion of evolution or even the 6000 years estimated to have passed since the Biblical account of creation. In any event, I don't know how we can have human exploration without bringing a lot of bacteria with us.
I guess they've got 3 more years until they need to have that data if they're going to use it, assuming they can upload final landing data at whenever the last chance is for the lander to determine it's LZ. I have looked at the mission profile, so I don't know if it calls for it to enter orbit, then land, or just come straight in. I imagine the Mars Express team probably wants to get as much other science done as possible before they risk putting it into an uncontrollable spin or whatever the concern is, so I wouldn't be surprised if they delay it further.
As an interesting aside, one of my profs had a story about how one mission (I think it was Mars Global Surveyer), the engineers spent hundreds of hours trying to determine the best way to minimize shock from the spring loaded solar panels hitting their stops when they deployed. They finally decided to do a test to see what would happen if their shock-reducing system failed completely. Nothing. They launched the mission without the system and it worked fine. Much ado about nothing.
Very amusing. It sounds like one of the Onion's inspirations must have been the first scientist guy from Timeline who shows up wandering around the desert with lots of transcription errors. Knows a lot, but can't say anything coherent.
Is aluminum and copper in the soil actually a bad thing? I thought those metals just passed right through us. After all, we do use aluminum foil on our food and we move drinking water through copper pipes. Aluminum is fairly reactive and easily forms aluminum oxide, which, if I remember correctly, is a noteworthy portion of ordinary clay. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of these points.
I know they're looking to improve convenience, but I think someone should say one more time for the late arrivals: If you're really worried about network security, don't use wireless.
Every risk deserves attention. *SNIP* Ethically, we literally need to promote the review of these serious (albeit tiny) risks.
100% Agreed with the quoted part. These people weren't interested in the risks being properly addressed, however. They wanted the mission stopped. For the most part, they knew very little about nuclear power. I doubt even a majority of them could tell you what a half life is. Someone posted a link to pictures of the protest. One showed a bunch of white-haired ladies carrying a sign that said "Grandmothers for Peace." I don't expect any of these grandmothers could explain why they're more worried about plutonium (being used in a design that has shown it can safely withstand catostrophic failure) than about the government putting dihydrogen monoxide in our drinking water. They can only associate plutonium with nuclear bombs and cancer, and it's no surprise. It's easy for the extremists out there to rally people to their cause with memorable buzzwords like mutation and mass murder, but hard for them to get attention from those who don't know any technical details by talking rationally about risks and when it becomes unacceptable.
A little more on the original topic though. I want to say the radiothermal generators used by probes like Cassini are fascinating and it's a feather in humanity's cap to be able to apply them to mission's like this. I can't wait for the pictures and data analysis to be published.
How dazzlingly creative. Someone else decides to twist an 80's classic (Battlestar Galactica) into cheap, 15 year old D&D addict eye candy, so now Disney feels envious and does the same. We're not talking about making the MCP throw the frisbee first here, like the typical George Lucas devilry. We're talking about having Ben Affleck play Flynn. I never thought Tron was a great movie, and the stupid nerd humor is annoying, but there's no chance at all that Disney can fix the past by letting some new screenwriter whose experience with computers includes Word and Outlook re-write the movie. Have you people forgotten already what happened to Planet of the Apes?
I think you're asking the wrong question. The way I read that sentence, the 767 is the subject and the mosquito is the object. I'm wondering how big of a crater the 767 will punch in the surface of the mosquito.
I went to your link and started reading a bit. I never knew any specifics about their beliefs except the part about how there was a UFO behind Hale-Bopp. The site was talking about how "Do" came to earth 2000 years ago with his female companion "Ti," whom he called "heavenly father." I couldn't help but think of the nerds from Dude, Where's my Car (long live Zoltran!). It's like they took a bunch of elements of Christianity and added their own weird twist on it, then threw in a few sci-fi-ish names. I could imagine them running around the bubble-wrap suits when they all went out to have turkey pot pie (rumored) the night before their big suicide party.
Neither are you going to build a house with just a hammer, but it helps. There is a prudent level, and I would argue that we're at it, or have slightly exceeded it.
Ok, his resume doesn't showcase anything special, and most likely he was able to get into T-mobile because they've neglected updating their Cisco firmware for a decade or something dumb like that, but at least he's actually doing something that sounds impressive. Writing a virus that looks for Outlook email lists and clogs a bunch of LAN's while trying to spread doesn't impress anybody, even your dumb anarchist friends. It just pisses people off. Accessing a communications company's servers and stealing SS emails and digging up dirt on celebrities makes a much better story when you and all your pale-skinned, neon-haired friends are sitting around the campfire holding hands and singing "Du Hast Mich."
It's really sad how right you are. The next question, then, is why do people accept it. The media can't afford us to feed us trash like that unless people buy it. I don't get how there can be so many people out there actually interested in someone as freaky as Paris Hilton. Is it simply for the spectacle, the perverse interest in seeing people more messed up than one's own self, or something else? It sounds like every day of her life is a new episode of the Jerry Springer Show.
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Thank you! Now it remains to be seen if the viruses on our campus will quit hogging internal bandwidth long enough for me to get a good external connection.
I don't like to compare computer modeled art to handmade, but the one that held my attention the most was Titan Sunset, which showed the sun behind Saturn's rings look out over a Titan shoreline. Totally unrealistic I know, but imagine if it actually were possible to look up in the morning and see Saturn hanging overhead with it's rings shining in the sunbeam's.
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From my limited experience being around people using THC to mimic the natural effect I would conjecture that it does so without the learning of new things with global ramifications. I vote for not sharing out electron with those people.
Well, maybe. If my grasp on quantum mechanics is as good as I think it is (which it probably isn't), there's a good chance the nuclei might not pass close enough to fuse. Of course you could increase the chances by throwing more matter at yourself and risk making a bigger boom. Also, if you only fuse two atoms, that's still not a lot of energy. Finally, one detail you forgot is you probably won't have a stable nucleus, so it would decay and release a little more energy. Then you'll have pissed off greenpeace and they'll lay down in front of you car so you can't irradiate the neighborhood.
I hate the anthropic principal! Well, not really, but it does bug me that it's both one of the best and one of the worst sounding answers to a tough question that I've ever heard. I have to admit though, the implications of any of those constants being much different than what they are is a awesome concept to ponder.
The way you phrased your serious response to a total joke, you scared me into thinking I'd found the world's ultimate smart moron.
I like the first reply's suggestion of moving the solar system out of the way. Besides, at that speed, by the time you saw it, wouldn't it be about to hit you? Or would it be the other way around.
When he builds version 2 with a mechanical ringer he's going to have to get creative to find a way to power the ringer. They were designed to work on a 90-110 volt potential, which is the standard on POTS.
This is all just stuff you learn working in telecom for a University. We actually still use a lot of those old beige phones you see in movies from the 70's (not rotary, but with mechanical ringers). They still work just fine, and on the rare occasions when they are abused to the point of breaking, we can cannibalize and fix most of them.
Good to hear. So they are taking this goal realistically.
After I posted my first comment, I found out that their first customer for their Falcon 5 launch vehicle is none other than Bigelow Aerospace, with one of their inflatable spacehab modules. Way cool.
I scanned through the Spacex website and didn't see any mention of a crew vehicle or their plans of putting 5 people into orbit by 2010. While I'm sure they are somewhat serious about this plan, and there is probably a news update or two that I missed, it definitely appears that Spacex is (sensibly) focusing much more heavily on making their rockets a commercially viable lift vehicle.
I have seen no discussion at all of a crew vehicle, so it seems logical to assume that they have not addressed that detail yet. There is still a lot of work to be done, then.
You mean companies that operate for profit like Boeing or Lockheed? The real difference is this company doesn't have a reliability record yet. I'm sure they satellite didn't cost much and isn't terribly important, but it's good to see a young company getting it's foot in the door.
I feel dumb. I got the spelling wrong, too. I had to look up googol in order to find out that it was 10^100. Duh.
I'm not a granny (IANAG), but I do use a text editor (notepad or vim, depending on my mood and location). Frankly, it gives you more control over your code than the WYSIWIG approach, although last time I developed for pay, I used Frontpage because it was so easy to switch back and forth between the code view and the preview panes and I wasn't doing any scripting for most of the project.
.gif borders don't line up properly. I won't deny, as some do, that learning the W3C specs is a little more complicated than just typing out old school HTML 3.2, but there's no good reason for an advanced developer not to teach themselves the latest tools.
HTML 4 isn't crap at all. It cooperates very well with CSS to make pages with easy to control layout and reasonable seperation of content from layout, which makes broad changes to a site's style far easier than sorting through dozens of individual pages changing 'td width="120"' to 'td width="121"', when you find that your
That's exactly what I thought when I saw it! I hate those things.
On the other hand, if we spread the life around right away, we lose the opportunity to determine what it was like before there was life there. So even if we decide we do want to pass terrestrial life on to Mars, which is unlikely, it seems like a good idea to delay it until we've learned more about it as it is now. There's no rush, a few years of exploration is nothing compared to 4.5 billion of evolution or even the 6000 years estimated to have passed since the Biblical account of creation. In any event, I don't know how we can have human exploration without bringing a lot of bacteria with us.
I guess they've got 3 more years until they need to have that data if they're going to use it, assuming they can upload final landing data at whenever the last chance is for the lander to determine it's LZ. I have looked at the mission profile, so I don't know if it calls for it to enter orbit, then land, or just come straight in. I imagine the Mars Express team probably wants to get as much other science done as possible before they risk putting it into an uncontrollable spin or whatever the concern is, so I wouldn't be surprised if they delay it further.
As an interesting aside, one of my profs had a story about how one mission (I think it was Mars Global Surveyer), the engineers spent hundreds of hours trying to determine the best way to minimize shock from the spring loaded solar panels hitting their stops when they deployed. They finally decided to do a test to see what would happen if their shock-reducing system failed completely. Nothing. They launched the mission without the system and it worked fine. Much ado about nothing.
Very amusing. It sounds like one of the Onion's inspirations must have been the first scientist guy from Timeline who shows up wandering around the desert with lots of transcription errors. Knows a lot, but can't say anything coherent.
Is aluminum and copper in the soil actually a bad thing? I thought those metals just passed right through us. After all, we do use aluminum foil on our food and we move drinking water through copper pipes. Aluminum is fairly reactive and easily forms aluminum oxide, which, if I remember correctly, is a noteworthy portion of ordinary clay. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of these points.
I know they're looking to improve convenience, but I think someone should say one more time for the late arrivals: If you're really worried about network security, don't use wireless.
100% Agreed with the quoted part. These people weren't interested in the risks being properly addressed, however. They wanted the mission stopped. For the most part, they knew very little about nuclear power. I doubt even a majority of them could tell you what a half life is. Someone posted a link to pictures of the protest. One showed a bunch of white-haired ladies carrying a sign that said "Grandmothers for Peace." I don't expect any of these grandmothers could explain why they're more worried about plutonium (being used in a design that has shown it can safely withstand catostrophic failure) than about the government putting dihydrogen monoxide in our drinking water. They can only associate plutonium with nuclear bombs and cancer, and it's no surprise. It's easy for the extremists out there to rally people to their cause with memorable buzzwords like mutation and mass murder, but hard for them to get attention from those who don't know any technical details by talking rationally about risks and when it becomes unacceptable.
A little more on the original topic though. I want to say the radiothermal generators used by probes like Cassini are fascinating and it's a feather in humanity's cap to be able to apply them to mission's like this. I can't wait for the pictures and data analysis to be published.
Good point. I meant I find it annoying now. I was born the year it came out, so a lot of the jokes had probably just become cliche.
How dazzlingly creative. Someone else decides to twist an 80's classic (Battlestar Galactica) into cheap, 15 year old D&D addict eye candy, so now Disney feels envious and does the same. We're not talking about making the MCP throw the frisbee first here, like the typical George Lucas devilry. We're talking about having Ben Affleck play Flynn. I never thought Tron was a great movie, and the stupid nerd humor is annoying, but there's no chance at all that Disney can fix the past by letting some new screenwriter whose experience with computers includes Word and Outlook re-write the movie. Have you people forgotten already what happened to Planet of the Apes?
I think you're asking the wrong question. The way I read that sentence, the 767 is the subject and the mosquito is the object. I'm wondering how big of a crater the 767 will punch in the surface of the mosquito.
I went to your link and started reading a bit. I never knew any specifics about their beliefs except the part about how there was a UFO behind Hale-Bopp. The site was talking about how "Do" came to earth 2000 years ago with his female companion "Ti," whom he called "heavenly father." I couldn't help but think of the nerds from Dude, Where's my Car (long live Zoltran!). It's like they took a bunch of elements of Christianity and added their own weird twist on it, then threw in a few sci-fi-ish names. I could imagine them running around the bubble-wrap suits when they all went out to have turkey pot pie (rumored) the night before their big suicide party.
Neither are you going to build a house with just a hammer, but it helps. There is a prudent level, and I would argue that we're at it, or have slightly exceeded it.
Ok, his resume doesn't showcase anything special, and most likely he was able to get into T-mobile because they've neglected updating their Cisco firmware for a decade or something dumb like that, but at least he's actually doing something that sounds impressive. Writing a virus that looks for Outlook email lists and clogs a bunch of LAN's while trying to spread doesn't impress anybody, even your dumb anarchist friends. It just pisses people off. Accessing a communications company's servers and stealing SS emails and digging up dirt on celebrities makes a much better story when you and all your pale-skinned, neon-haired friends are sitting around the campfire holding hands and singing "Du Hast Mich."
It's really sad how right you are. The next question, then, is why do people accept it. The media can't afford us to feed us trash like that unless people buy it. I don't get how there can be so many people out there actually interested in someone as freaky as Paris Hilton. Is it simply for the spectacle, the perverse interest in seeing people more messed up than one's own self, or something else? It sounds like every day of her life is a new episode of the Jerry Springer Show.
Thank you! Now it remains to be seen if the viruses on our campus will quit hogging internal bandwidth long enough for me to get a good external connection.
I don't like to compare computer modeled art to handmade, but the one that held my attention the most was Titan Sunset, which showed the sun behind Saturn's rings look out over a Titan shoreline. Totally unrealistic I know, but imagine if it actually were possible to look up in the morning and see Saturn hanging overhead with it's rings shining in the sunbeam's.