Well actually there is vancomycin resistance out there already... VRE is not normally a problem, but has been shown i am pretty sure to transfer its resistance to MRSA in the lab (ie your VRSA), but it hasnt been seen in the wild (thank $Deity) yet.
and as with most things in nature, if it can, it will... (or someone will do it for it...)
I too thought tritium was a dangerous fuel, but the wiki (thanks kobun) and this say otherwise.
There is a small issue with bioaccumulation (not real accumulation as such) in that gaseous tritium *can* be converted into water and organic compounds, but little of it does in pratice. Tritium in water (THO) is easily absorbed, but also eliminated basically by making you pass lots of water. Plants can turn THO into organic compounds but only a small percentage of *that* in practice is converted. Equaling not much of not much is not much of a worry...
As tritium dissipates quickly and has a short half life (being basically nonexistant after 100-odd years) and is only weakly radioactive it really isnt that bad... Who would have thought it? it is nukalar after all...
2. All projects, at least, in software, are 90% done. If someone asks you the status, the answer is "90%". Does anyone know what it it is for physics, or engineering in general?
...and you only keep it for 28 days; I don't have a citation for this, and I think this would effectively outlaw the use of DVD+R media for TV recording, but you can still buy one-time-write media so make of that what you will}.
Unless they start making DVD+-Rs that only last 28 days...
oh wait, im pretty sure i bought a spindle of those last month...
Where can you buy -archival- quality these days? - down under...
Our (human) pyramids are only 6000 years old, and their outer surface is gone - another 100k years, they'll just be piles of rubble
I believe that their nice shiny white outer surface was actually stolen/reused... in the nice shiny white buildings around Cairo. People cant resist shiny stuff... so maybe that actually proves your point that they wont be around for ever, but it wasnt environmental factors that have removed their brilliant coverings...
a ref that says so... i have read it elsewhere too...
If you are suicidally intent on releasing bioweapons (and lets face it, there probably are people...) Then your only problem is getting your hands on the disease.
Production difficulties??? Infect yourself, a couple of dozen of your followers and stay well enough to get to your delivery point. There was a mock-documentary about smallpox where patient zero was some infected suicidal nutter who just took a trip on the subway (london).
Containment??? why bother...
The ONLY reason we havent seen ebola in the west is that it just kills too damn quickly so it cant be transported... You dont have to be afraid of ebola until it becomes LESS lethal or has a longer incubation time, hence the article's comment on putting ebola into another pathogen and then have it triggered later (like by antibiotics)-which of course is hard.../conspiracy/ if you were going to test ebola weapons, where else better than deep dark africa where an outbreak isnt out of the ordinary...
so why havnnt we see more/any bioweapons attacts then??? Thank $DEITY indeed
Of course, if you're talking about books you get for college classes, that's a whole different matter. In that case, they rape you just because they can.
A course i did a while back had a 200 page half size soft back (ie short novel sized) text that was $70... 99% text with a few line art drawings. Authored by the professor none-the-less. The photocopiers ran hot for a week (about $10 a copy 2-up double sided) and the prof wondered why the campus bookshop was reporting only a dozen sales to an enrolment of over a hundred students.
Do i feel guilty, not a bit, it was a crap text anyway. And the $500 other dollars i spent over several other hardback A4 size colour serious reference material texts was more than enough.
One Electro-Magnetic Pulse will wipe out all their Off-The-Shelf network equipment making the grand armada worthless.
Although i doubt that they will be using off the shelf equipment... having 2000-4000 people on a ship does wonders when the shit really hits the fan and you find that all electronics are wiped out by EMPs, most of your civilians are killed from nukes, biologicals etc, your C&C centers are nuked or compromised... and you still want to keep fighting.
Humans are reasonably resiliant/self replicating/autonomous machines with a great hive and survial instinct. Having a few hundred extra around is great for carrying stuff, fixing things low tech when it requires them all to use sledge hammers, duct tape, bondo and WD40, and of course the general mayhem they can do when they reach land (whether at war or not!)
I doubt that telli-commuting officer can do any of that...
Where i work (university) email revocation is automatic, such as at the end of a contract, but activation takes 14-21 days, like when your contract rolls over and re-starts the next day, but you dont have 'official' email for 3 weeks (thank google for gmail...)
a deadlock in the front door about one foot off the ground
another good reason to do this is if the door is alarmed. Seriously trying to kick/push/etc the door in will flex the door in the frame and trip a sensor in the top of the door/frame, thus setting the alarm off on the first break in *attempt* and not *after* they have already opened the door. Much better than touchy proximity etc sensors that trip false alarms all the time (hey if the top of the door has moved a 1/2 inch then someone *must* be trying to break in... no insect, bird or pet that i want to meet will do that)
The sad thing is it is probably (or will be) true. You can bet that most major figure heads, celbs, politicians already have obituaries written and file tape stored away just waiting for the day when something goes bad... someone once said that "bad news is good news"
but seriously, you misunderstand what i am saying...
It could have been one of the most important achievements of mankind but since we stopped doing it, we are finding it real hard to do it again. It was sucessfull in putting a man on the moon... so what? yeah its a dream to do it, but if you arnt going to do anything more than that it is a real waste. The Apollo program may been the catalyst for other benefits, but none that i know of that actually *required* going to the moon.
Its the pessimists, detractors, misanthropists, and the flag planters who need to be kept the hell away this time so something good and long term (as in the rest of humanity...) comes out of it.
Going back to the moon just so we can say "we still got it" or to Mars because the moon is passe, is just wrong. We dont want a "twin sister" of Apollo, we want a distant more evolved relative that sticks around for more than just a few years.
what exactly (is my) ideal moon mission?: We still arnt even sure what exactly is up there, so that would be top of the list, find out what we can get out of being there.
Just confirms it.. they arnt going to do anything new are they? Despite what they say. A few flags up, a few rocks down some media air time and lost interest...
I dont want to be a synic on this, but their (NASA/US) track record on almost everything follows this. Except maybe for oil, oil keeps them interested for a while... mmm oil...
OK this is beyond me, but suppose that the cosmonaut is a *really* good shot and shoots it in *exactly* the same orbit as the ISS. At 250 MPH how long does it take before he hits a back window on the ISS with a 250 MPH golf ball???
When I'm watching the Olympic games, I should never hear a commentator say "he got sick air on that phat run".
I think one of the Australian commentators was taking the piss when he remarked that they were changing the (winter) olympic motto to "higher, faster, longer, sicker"
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Well actually there is vancomycin resistance out there already... VRE is not normally a problem, but has been shown i am pretty sure to transfer its resistance to MRSA in the lab (ie your VRSA), but it hasnt been seen in the wild (thank $Deity) yet.
and as with most things in nature, if it can, it will... (or someone will do it for it...)
Too bad the translation is so horrible!
My favourite...
"The surface of titanium is so capricious that it is not obedient to
our intention."
and wraps up with..
" I will continue the challenge for titanium to get the citizenship in daily
life."
The real problem with 3kph (kittens per hour) is that we dont clean, and thats gona be whole lota stink...
and just wait till the 50kph model comes out...
I too thought tritium was a dangerous fuel, but the wiki (thanks kobun) and this say otherwise.
There is a small issue with bioaccumulation (not real accumulation as such) in that gaseous tritium *can* be converted into water and organic compounds, but little of it does in pratice. Tritium in water (THO) is easily absorbed, but also eliminated basically by making you pass lots of water. Plants can turn THO into organic compounds but only a small percentage of *that* in practice is converted. Equaling not much of not much is not much of a worry...
As tritium dissipates quickly and has a short half life (being basically nonexistant after 100-odd years) and is only weakly radioactive it really isnt that bad... Who would have thought it? it is nukalar after all...
2. All projects, at least, in software, are 90% done.
If someone asks you the status, the answer is "90%".
Does anyone know what it it is for physics, or engineering in general?
I'm 90% certain its the same...
Thats funny... but i had to research it...
Couldn't resist....
...and you only keep it for 28 days; I don't have a citation for this, and I think this would effectively outlaw the use of DVD+R media for TV recording, but you can still buy one-time-write media so make of that what you will}.
Unless they start making DVD+-Rs that only last 28 days...
oh wait, im pretty sure i bought a spindle of those last month...
Where can you buy -archival- quality these days? - down under...
i believe it is on for filenames but not directories... or vice-versa.
And yes TweakUI will let you set it to both easily.
just had to look it up... http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bones.htm
midi tune included....
Our (human) pyramids are only 6000 years old, and their outer surface is gone - another 100k years, they'll just be piles of rubble
I believe that their nice shiny white outer surface was actually stolen/reused... in the nice shiny white buildings around Cairo. People cant resist shiny stuff... so maybe that actually proves your point that they wont be around for ever, but it wasnt environmental factors that have removed their brilliant coverings...
a ref that says so... i have read it elsewhere too...
botulotoxin !!!
Quick, lets declare Beverly Hills an axis of evil
If you are suicidally intent on releasing bioweapons (and lets face it, there probably are people...) Then your only problem is getting your hands on the disease.
/conspiracy/ if you were going to test ebola weapons, where else better than deep dark africa where an outbreak isnt out of the ordinary...
Production difficulties??? Infect yourself, a couple of dozen of your followers and stay well enough to get to your delivery point. There was a mock-documentary about smallpox where patient zero was some infected suicidal nutter who just took a trip on the subway (london).
Containment??? why bother...
The ONLY reason we havent seen ebola in the west is that it just kills too damn quickly so it cant be transported... You dont have to be afraid of ebola until it becomes LESS lethal or has a longer incubation time, hence the article's comment on putting ebola into another pathogen and then have it triggered later (like by antibiotics)-which of course is hard...
so why havnnt we see more/any bioweapons attacts then??? Thank $DEITY indeed
Of course, if you're talking about books you get for college classes, that's a whole different matter. In that case, they rape you just because they can.
A course i did a while back had a 200 page half size soft back (ie short novel sized) text that was $70... 99% text with a few line art drawings. Authored by the professor none-the-less. The photocopiers ran hot for a week (about $10 a copy 2-up double sided) and the prof wondered why the campus bookshop was reporting only a dozen sales to an enrolment of over a hundred students.
Do i feel guilty, not a bit, it was a crap text anyway. And the $500 other dollars i spent over several other hardback A4 size colour serious reference material texts was more than enough.
Somone should mod up the grandparent here...
One Electro-Magnetic Pulse will wipe out all their
Off-The-Shelf network equipment making the grand armada worthless.
Although i doubt that they will be using off the shelf equipment... having 2000-4000 people on a ship does wonders when the shit really hits the fan and you find that all electronics are wiped out by EMPs, most of your civilians are killed from nukes, biologicals etc, your C&C centers are nuked or compromised... and you still want to keep fighting.
Humans are reasonably resiliant/self replicating/autonomous machines with a great hive and survial instinct. Having a few hundred extra around is great for carrying stuff, fixing things low tech when it requires them all to use sledge hammers, duct tape, bondo and WD40, and of course the general mayhem they can do when they reach land (whether at war or not!)
I doubt that telli-commuting officer can do any of that...
Where i work (university) email revocation is automatic, such as at the end of a contract, but activation takes 14-21 days, like when your contract rolls over and re-starts the next day, but you dont have 'official' email for 3 weeks (thank google for gmail...)
Address book???
What about even *reading* and SMS, let alone realising it's *your* phone that is ringing before it rings-out (the 2nd time)..
If it doesnt have something to do with bringing home milk or calling the automobile club then its too fancy...
a deadlock in the front door about one foot off the ground
another good reason to do this is if the door is alarmed. Seriously trying to kick/push/etc the door in will flex the door in the frame and trip a sensor in the top of the door/frame, thus setting the alarm off on the first break in *attempt* and not *after* they have already opened the door. Much better than touchy proximity etc sensors that trip false alarms all the time (hey if the top of the door has moved a 1/2 inch then someone *must* be trying to break in... no insect, bird or pet that i want to meet will do that)
and it does make it harder to get in...
The sad thing is it is probably (or will be) true. You can bet that most major figure heads, celbs, politicians already have obituaries written and file tape stored away just waiting for the day when something goes bad... someone once said that "bad news is good news"
ok i cant spell...
but seriously, you misunderstand what i am saying...
It could have been one of the most important achievements of mankind but since we stopped doing it, we are finding it real hard to do it again. It was sucessfull in putting a man on the moon... so what? yeah its a dream to do it, but if you arnt going to do anything more than that it is a real waste. The Apollo program may been the catalyst for other benefits, but none that i know of that actually *required* going to the moon.
Its the pessimists, detractors, misanthropists, and the flag planters who need to be kept the hell away this time so something good and long term (as in the rest of humanity...) comes out of it.
Going back to the moon just so we can say "we still got it" or to Mars because the moon is passe, is just wrong. We dont want a "twin sister" of Apollo, we want a distant more evolved relative that sticks around for more than just a few years.
what exactly (is my) ideal moon mission?: We still arnt even sure what exactly is up there, so that would be top of the list, find out what we can get out of being there.
Just confirms it.. they arnt going to do anything new are they? Despite what they say.
A few flags up, a few rocks down some media air time and lost interest...
I dont want to be a synic on this, but their (NASA/US) track record on almost everything follows this. Except maybe for oil, oil keeps them interested for a while... mmm oil...
OK this is beyond me, but suppose that the cosmonaut is a *really* good shot and shoots it in *exactly* the same orbit as the ISS. At 250 MPH how long does it take before he hits a back window on the ISS with a 250 MPH golf ball???
hmmm we have f=1/2mv^2 or 1/2 45.9g * 46000mph^2= 9.7 MJ
or (at 4.16MJ/KG of TNT) 5 pounds of TNT
Seems small...
When I'm watching the Olympic games, I should never hear a commentator say "he got sick air on that phat run".
I think one of the Australian commentators was taking the piss when he remarked that they were changing the (winter) olympic motto to "higher, faster, longer, sicker"