I know what you mean. I only drive cars that have been hand-assembled by individuals working out of their backyards. Similarly, I wouldn't dream of visiting a doctor who didn't make all his own tools or who sent me to an apothecarist who wasn't personally assembling all his medicine from locally-sourced ingredients.
You're being snarky, but with the new Rally Fighter you CAN drive an open-source/crowd-sourced car.
For the record, I do realise that using a off-the-shelf components isn't open-source, but a true open-source car would make a model-T look like a supercar, be perpetually v0.5.467.88a with a bug list longer than Toyota has at the moment, and most people would still go and buy a corolla because that's what they're used to.
From the heat, the water was probably seriously low in dissolved oxygen. That's not going to help anything much.
As for food, I'd suggest somewhere near-traditional. I've had some fantastic seafood when working in traditional villages in Fiji - so traditional the fish were caught with a floating platform and spear, and no refrigeration to speak of. So, if we ate fish, it was caught the night before or that morning. The other option would be deep-sea fishing, I'd suppose - but probably not near major river deltas or cities. If we ate chicken, there was one less getting under our feet. Simple life, but I can see the attraction.
And yes, we're all going to die of something. If you'll forgive me:
Be careful though, I was out with a group testing for heavy metal contaminations. There were some pretty notable traces of a few in the outlet. Probably safe to swim in, but not exactly safe to drink. So much for the idea of "clean" energy. Clean out of the smoke stacks, dirty out of the warm water outlets. It's kinda hard for the casual observer to test for contamination in the steam outlets, but I'd suspect it exists too.
But hey, whatcha going to do?
It was owned by FPL when I was there, but it's now owned by Progress Energy. It's one of those locations that folks don't like to visit from out of town. "Fly into the nearest large airport. Drive 80 miles. Continue 10 miles out of the last resemblance of civilization, and take a left. If you cross an abandon Corps of Engineers project, you've gone too far. Continue down what looks like a road to nowhere, and eventually you'll get to a guard shack. Show your ID, and then hang a left, and follow the road around to the reactor":) Oh, the memories. It reminds me of why I left there.
Sounds like my kind of place. No, seriously. There's a reason I'm a geologist.
No, the moon has virtually no atmosphere unlike Mars which has a thin wind, causing erosive effects. The moon is like a museum until something hits it.
At which point it continues to be a museum, just with a hole in it.
As a resident of Kampala, Uganda I can say that this is a huge development here. East Africa is one of the last densely populated places on the planet that is entirely dependent on satellite for all data and voice communications. I currently pay about $50 a month for a connection that can burst up to 160kbps, averages at about 40kbps, and doesn't work about 30% of the time.
As a resident of Australia, the land of searing droughts, flooding rains and high-cost capped DSL, can I be the first to say... Ouch!
This presents an interesting situation without an easy, clear cut answer. As a tax payer, I'm not sure what makes more sense. Do I want the government spending my money with a private company like Microsoft or Google, or do I want them spending my money developing their own infrastructure.
As a taxpayer, I'm entirely unsure that the government cares what you think.
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There is probably less energy remaining from uranium than from natural gas so the soon-it-will-all-be-gone problem is worse for uranium.
Care to back that up with references? And yes, IAAGeologist.
./Rockwolf
Some may suggest women instead, but human milk tastes like crap and human meat can be toxic
Out of morbid curiosity: [citation needed]
Seven digits?! What do you kids *do* with all those extra numbers?
One more and I'll be able to order pizza.
You are so lazy you don't want an easy +5 funny?
It doesn't give Karma, so why bother logging in?
I know which one I trust.
I know what you mean. I only drive cars that have been hand-assembled by individuals working out of their backyards. Similarly, I wouldn't dream of visiting a doctor who didn't make all his own tools or who sent me to an apothecarist who wasn't personally assembling all his medicine from locally-sourced ingredients.
You're being snarky, but with the new Rally Fighter you CAN drive an open-source/crowd-sourced car.
For the record, I do realise that using a off-the-shelf components isn't open-source, but a true open-source car would make a model-T look like a supercar, be perpetually v0.5.467.88a with a bug list longer than Toyota has at the moment, and most people would still go and buy a corolla because that's what they're used to.
./Rockwolf
As for food, I'd suggest somewhere near-traditional. I've had some fantastic seafood when working in traditional villages in Fiji - so traditional the fish were caught with a floating platform and spear, and no refrigeration to speak of. So, if we ate fish, it was caught the night before or that morning. The other option would be deep-sea fishing, I'd suppose - but probably not near major river deltas or cities. If we ate chicken, there was one less getting under our feet. Simple life, but I can see the attraction.
And yes, we're all going to die of something. If you'll forgive me:
You have no chance to survive make your time.
./Rockwolf
But at 4 trillion degrees Celcius, isn't it a bit hot?
It's OK, it'll cool down quickly.
Be careful though, I was out with a group testing for heavy metal contaminations. There were some pretty notable traces of a few in the outlet. Probably safe to swim in, but not exactly safe to drink. So much for the idea of "clean" energy. Clean out of the smoke stacks, dirty out of the warm water outlets. It's kinda hard for the casual observer to test for contamination in the steam outlets, but I'd suspect it exists too. But hey, whatcha going to do?
Not eat the fish. ;)
It was owned by FPL when I was there, but it's now owned by Progress Energy. It's one of those locations that folks don't like to visit from out of town. "Fly into the nearest large airport. Drive 80 miles. Continue 10 miles out of the last resemblance of civilization, and take a left. If you cross an abandon Corps of Engineers project, you've gone too far. Continue down what looks like a road to nowhere, and eventually you'll get to a guard shack. Show your ID, and then hang a left, and follow the road around to the reactor" :) Oh, the memories. It reminds me of why I left there.
Sounds like my kind of place. No, seriously. There's a reason I'm a geologist.
./Rockwolf
EFT eh? Yes I find a strong, steady dose of Electronic Funds Transfer usually fixes a broken heart.
Depends which way it's going...
./Rockwolf
They've found desks on Mars?!
There's definitely no intelligent life on Mars, then. Just paper-pushers.
Or whatever it is they use instead of paper.
actually i would say a space elevator is a funding problem.
Speaking as an aerospace engineer, I would say building a space elevator is a reality problem
Speaking as a reality engineer, I would say...
Whoa, man...
what do a bunch of dorks on slashdot know anyway?
Very little, and always less than they say they do.
But what would I know?
./Rockwolf
The only other possible explanation is that God is a dick, and I don't believe that.
The Old Testament begs to differ. Oh, and the New Testament too.
And Science should care... Why?
The Pontiac Aztec. God they were ugly.
Must've been evolution, because there sure wasn't a lot of intelligent design that went into that one...
Considering 7 isnt even officially out yet, perhaps the haters should wait for some updates.
But then they'd miss out on a prime opportunity to rant senselessly without any facts at all.
Knowing this place, they'd even get modded up.
/~Rockwolf
No, the moon has virtually no atmosphere unlike Mars which has a thin wind, causing erosive effects. The moon is like a museum until something hits it.
At which point it continues to be a museum, just with a hole in it.
/~Rockwolf
If I see the word Appalachian in this thread I'm going to stab my face with an icepick.
Appalachian.
Be a nice chap and don't make a mess.
/me offers towel
/~Rockwolf
I could call a girl a perfect ten, even if she turns out to be barren.
I'd say that one goes to 11.
/~Rockwolf
As a resident of Kampala, Uganda I can say that this is a huge development here. East Africa is one of the last densely populated places on the planet that is entirely dependent on satellite for all data and voice communications. I currently pay about $50 a month for a connection that can burst up to 160kbps, averages at about 40kbps, and doesn't work about 30% of the time.
As a resident of Australia, the land of searing droughts, flooding rains and high-cost capped DSL, can I be the first to say... Ouch!
And we thought we had it bad...
/~Rockwolf
This presents an interesting situation without an easy, clear cut answer. As a tax payer, I'm not sure what makes more sense. Do I want the government spending my money with a private company like Microsoft or Google, or do I want them spending my money developing their own infrastructure.
As a taxpayer, I'm entirely unsure that the government cares what you think.
/~Rockwolf
That being said, they absolutely should make a Decepticon option for the appropriate cars.
Mercury Marauder.
You said appropriate, not GM.
/~Rockwolf
A MOAB dropped within a block of my office is my biggest worry.
That's either a really good or really bad problem to be having.
run Arachne and surf the WEB !!!!!!!!!!!!, heheh yes you can this baby on slashdot :)
The whole slashdot?
Bending down to pick up the soap in prison probably is a mistake, too. What's your point?
Don't have a shower in prison. ~