The question is does it detect active ingredients instead of metabolites? For example cannabis can test positive even several days (or weeks) after consumption.
I myself have been greatly inspired by these great fiction and non-fiction books by scientists:
Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot and Contact (fiction, but the book and the movie are entertaining and based on good science)
From the curious character Richard Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
A good science fiction book that takes place in the near future is Accelerando by Charles Stross. I believe it is also available free online.
Slavery, apartheid, imprisoning and executing unwanted people. These have all been public policy at one time or another. If we base our decisions on "public policy" instead of freedom of expression and liberty we are on the way to totalitarianism.
All of this could be avoided by lining the wallet pocket with aluminium foil. Not only would you get all the same benefits, but you could still use your rfid-based buss-pass without having to dig it out of the wallet.
Normal bird-man flight does not use jet engines. The suit has kind of "wings" or "fins" that allow the sky diver to glide long distances during the free fall.
Jet powered bird-man flight seems to give the ability to cover distance without losing altitude, but the jets are not powerful enough to climb.
There has been significant progress in reducing the emissions of diesel engines. For example Toyota just released a high power diesel car that they claim to have world's lowest combined oxides of nitrogen (NOX) and particulate emissions.
Venom is the bastardization of the symbiote suit Spiderman got from Battleworld. They will have to explain the birth story of the character again. Hell, even Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four had his part in the "creation" of Venom.
Do notice that bypassing the copy protection by recording the analogue signal is still bypassing the copy protection to make a copy of the song, and thus forbidden by (the proposed) law.
If there is a copy protection, then it does not matter how it is bypassed, if it is anyway complicated or if the consumer doesn't even notice any copy protection. Everything is illegal.
If I understood the article correctly, the chip basically collects the C-CPU and all the components (radio etc.) on one chip thus greatly simplifying the design and reducing size, component and silicon requirements.
You still need something to handle the user interface on the phone, but this chip could be used from handphones to PDAs to cars to alarm systems that would all benefit for a simple communication chip.
I find it extremely hard to believe that the thing that has kept remote detonated terrorist bombs from becoming common is the price of the cell phones. After all, if you can get your hands on a load of explosives, a cell phone should not be too hard to find. They can be stolen or old second hand models anyway.
"...the only obvious side-effect is a slight warbling of the vocal cords. If anything, my boy thinks it's cool that he's now a cyborg and shows off to his friends."
Not only is he a cyborg but sounds like one too? Cool!:)
The increased strength makes it possible to use less of it to build structures of similar strength. You need 40% less of the fiber concrete to get the same strength as the traditional concrete.
If you want to know if it will be worth it, download 'Serenity', the first episode, and watch it. Might want to start the second downloading while the first is coming in.
Due to the extremely different conditions on mars compared to earth, the amount of methane released by the equivalent of three earth cows may be significant.
One has to consider the harsh conditions of freezing temperatures and thin atmosphere when considering about the possible metabolic rate of any life on that planet. All possible life would almost certainly have to hibernate most of the year waiting for that short time of martian year when the conditions are hospitable enough to grow/reproduce.
And as far as I understand, even one cow can produce a significant amount of methane down here. That we can detect such amount in the martian atmosphere is amazing in itself.
This could be the storage media for delivering HDTV content with extreme bitrates. Maybe not quite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition _VideoUHDV quality but hell of a lot better than even the largest blu-ray discs.
Maybe digital movie theaters could use this to transfer and/or store the movies?
Getting mice with any kind of genetic disorder would not be too difficult, since mice are grown for laboratory purposes all over and if a suitable bacch is not found then the scientists could relatively easily introduce the genetic defect to the mice. It's been done before.
Dogs are a bit trickier, but as lab animals they are probably not that different from the mice.
Scientists don't just go to pet shops to buy the lab animals. They are usually bred especially for the purpose of lab experiments.
I'm sure this technology could be marketable to some night clubs. Imagine a larger version of this where the patterns change smoothly or can even play commercials or music videos. The floor is like a giant LCD screen.
Of course to withstand the stress of night clubbing the floor would have to be tested thoroughly. Spilt drinks would not do much good to all those hand soldered leds. Some kind of coating or modular easily exchangeable sealed floor tiles maybe.
Electric motors have very good torque on low speeds. Seems to me using the air is rather redundant and just adds considerable risk of exploding pressure tank.
The development of the SpaceShip One cost much more than the $1M received from the Ansari X-prize.
The prize is just a little extra carrot to speed up the research and making people compete on who can find working solutions first.
There has to be dozens of research projects already underway to find solutions to these problems. A bit of competition would help to speed up the process.
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The question is does it detect active ingredients instead of metabolites? For example cannabis can test positive even several days (or weeks) after consumption.
He keeps telling everybody that
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Each of our cells are huge nanoscale factories that use water as lubricant. What these scientists are doing is reinventing the wheel.
I guess your gf wasn't joking when she was talking about "nano scale"
I myself have been greatly inspired by these great fiction and non-fiction books by scientists:
Carl Sagan:
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot and Contact (fiction, but the book and the movie are entertaining and based on good science)
From the curious character Richard Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
A good science fiction book that takes place in the near future is Accelerando by Charles Stross. I believe it is also available free online.
Slavery, apartheid, imprisoning and executing unwanted people. These have all been public policy at one time or another. If we base our decisions on "public policy" instead of freedom of expression and liberty we are on the way to totalitarianism.
You are talking about Halo, aren't you?
Ah, hangover. First you are afraid that you will die. Then you are afraid that you won't.
All of this could be avoided by lining the wallet pocket with aluminium foil. Not only would you get all the same benefits, but you could still use your rfid-based buss-pass without having to dig it out of the wallet.
Normal bird-man flight does not use jet engines. The suit has kind of "wings" or "fins" that allow the sky diver to glide long distances during the free fall.
Jet powered bird-man flight seems to give the ability to cover distance without losing altitude, but the jets are not powerful enough to climb.
There has been significant progress in reducing the emissions of diesel engines. For example Toyota just released a high power diesel car that they claim to have world's lowest combined oxides of nitrogen (NOX) and particulate emissions.
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http://www.automobilemag.com/auto_shows/paris_200
Venom is the bastardization of the symbiote suit Spiderman got from Battleworld. They will have to explain the birth story of the character again. Hell, even Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four had his part in the "creation" of Venom.
http://www.alaph.com/spiderman/enemies/venom.html
Do notice that bypassing the copy protection by recording the analogue signal is still bypassing the copy protection to make a copy of the song, and thus forbidden by (the proposed) law.
If there is a copy protection, then it does not matter how it is bypassed, if it is anyway complicated or if the consumer doesn't even notice any copy protection. Everything is illegal.
If I understood the article correctly, the chip basically collects the C-CPU and all the components (radio etc.) on one chip thus greatly simplifying the design and reducing size, component and silicon requirements.
You still need something to handle the user interface on the phone, but this chip could be used from handphones to PDAs to cars to alarm systems that would all benefit for a simple communication chip.
I find it extremely hard to believe that the thing that has kept remote detonated terrorist bombs from becoming common is the price of the cell phones. After all, if you can get your hands on a load of explosives, a cell phone should not be too hard to find. They can be stolen or old second hand models anyway.
"...the only obvious side-effect is a slight warbling of the vocal cords. If anything, my boy thinks it's cool that he's now a cyborg and shows off to his friends."
:)
Not only is he a cyborg but sounds like one too? Cool!
And nice to hear that it helps.
The increased strength makes it possible to use less of it to build structures of similar strength. You need 40% less of the fiber concrete to get the same strength as the traditional concrete.
So not even the validator can pass the acid2 test.
They should fix this in the next patch.
Or better yet, if you like it, order the DVD box.
Due to the extremely different conditions on mars compared to earth, the amount of methane released by the equivalent of three earth cows may be significant.
One has to consider the harsh conditions of freezing temperatures and thin atmosphere when considering about the possible metabolic rate of any life on that planet. All possible life would almost certainly have to hibernate most of the year waiting for that short time of martian year when the conditions are hospitable enough to grow/reproduce.
And as far as I understand, even one cow can produce a significant amount of methane down here. That we can detect such amount in the martian atmosphere is amazing in itself.
This could be the storage media for delivering HDTV content with extreme bitrates. Maybe not quite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition _VideoUHDV quality but hell of a lot better than even the largest blu-ray discs.
Maybe digital movie theaters could use this to transfer and/or store the movies?
Getting mice with any kind of genetic disorder would not be too difficult, since mice are grown for laboratory purposes all over and if a suitable bacch is not found then the scientists could relatively easily introduce the genetic defect to the mice. It's been done before.
Dogs are a bit trickier, but as lab animals they are probably not that different from the mice.
Scientists don't just go to pet shops to buy the lab animals. They are usually bred especially for the purpose of lab experiments.
I'm sure this technology could be marketable to some night clubs. Imagine a larger version of this where the patterns change smoothly or can even play commercials or music videos. The floor is like a giant LCD screen.
Of course to withstand the stress of night clubbing the floor would have to be tested thoroughly. Spilt drinks would not do much good to all those hand soldered leds. Some kind of coating or modular easily exchangeable sealed floor tiles maybe.
Electric motors have very good torque on low speeds. Seems to me using the air is rather redundant and just adds considerable risk of exploding pressure tank.
The development of the SpaceShip One cost much more than the $1M received from the Ansari X-prize.
The prize is just a little extra carrot to speed up the research and making people compete on who can find working solutions first.
There has to be dozens of research projects already underway to find solutions to these problems. A bit of competition would help to speed up the process.