Because we did the experiment here, and these are the results we got. Feel free to doubt, but unless you are willing to create an experiment to falsify their findings, your claim has as much validity as young earth creationist.
How in the world do you take even ONE grad class and never hear of sigma or standard deviation? This is like the intro to the intro to statistics class and everything builds on it. You would have seen sigma dozens of times in each class...
Got a link? The lightest materials I can find are about 50% more dense than air. I am really curious about stuff like this, so wold like to read more...
The AC beat me to it. I was going to post that this stuff should float in a normal Earth atmosphere. If true, this would be an amazing breakthrough, but my skeptic's glasses are on right now.
You may not like it, but it has happened countless times to many countries over the past couple centuires. As long as the US denominates its debt in its own currency, it always has this option.
I was the AC to whom you replied (too lazy to log in).
Good question. I don't know exactly when it will happen. If you look at a country with a large trade imbalance and large external debts, you will see the currency decline in value. This brings the trade imbalance back in line and eventually the currency finds its proper value. Quite beautiful mathematically.
So why is the dollar not declining? It is used as the reseve currency for many, many nations. In fact, it represents about 60-70% of the world's reserves. The dollar is viewed as the most stable world currency and its markets are freer than most others. I am struggling to find a world-wide reserve amount, but China is said to have $3 Trillion by itself.
So what does this mean? It means that there is a huge external demand for the dollar that causes its value to be higher than it would otherwise. The downward pressure of our deficits is being (mostly) counteracted by increasing foreign dollar reserves.
Three scenarios are theoretically possible 1) Everything continues as it is now. Countries continue to grow and continue to use the dollar for their reserves and those reserves increase. Good news for Joe American consumer.. he can spend like a pig and never feel the consequences of rising prices. 2) Countries flatten out their demand for dollars. This could happen if countries just stop growing quickly (China, India) but don't change their reserve mix. Or countries continue to grow but rely on the Euro or other currencies. Joe American would see increased prices over a long period. Softer landing, but definitely a reduction in buying power. 3) Countries dump the dollar as their reserve. There are a lot of countries that would love to do this, but what really holds them back is that it would hurt them in the process as well. You dump trillions of currency at once, and the value of what you are dropping... well... drops. Joe American would suddenly see dollars worth 30-50 cents before the dump. Call this one the crash landing.
As far as I know, the Pirate Party does NOT support the end of copyright. They support reducing it substantially. So if you cannot support a party that supports copyright, this isn't the party for you.
If you get to the results page, you failed the test. No one sits through a painfully slow survey that requires a complete page reload (including new ads) every time you answer a question. I got to 2 questions before I bailed, so I figure I am middle of the pack. If you didn't click the link in the first place, you are a genius. 3-5 questions and you are slow but employable. 6-10 and you should probably stick with help desk duties. 11-19 and you should seek professional help. Go all the way, you should post out for the management opening.
On February 19, 2008, Yahoo! Inc. launched what it claimed was the world's largest Hadoop production application. The Yahoo! Search Webmap is a Hadoop application that runs on more than 10,000 core Linux cluster and produces data that is now used in every Yahoo! Web search query.[23]
Maybe another question is: can police conduct surveillance of any kind without a warrant? I am ignorant on this, and would appreciate some definitive answers...
A serious question, one that I hope folks take seriously because I truly cannot answer this:
If you were in front of the US Supreme Court and they asked you how this is fundamentally different than tracking your car through traditional police surveillance, how would you answer?
I struggle for an answer myself. It feels wrong, but as far as I can tell that isn't a valid legal argument.
Because we live in a freaking corner of a small room of a really small house in the middle of a ginormous world. We've been space faring for less than a century and there are only a handful of human beings who have been past LEO. We are woefully ignorant of the universe at this point. It is a starting point. I only ask that we imagine that what we think of as constants may not be constants.
I am not a theoetical physicist, I don't play one on TV and I didn't stay at a Holiday Express last night.
But I've always wondered how we know that the speed of light is the same regardless, that the gravitational constant is constant throughout space and time. Yes, I understand that you have to assume consistency until proven otherwise. Frankly, I am not convinved that the last two "discoveries" will pan out and that we've found non-constant constants. But it confirms to me that this is not a resolved question like so many others have claimed when I have asked the question.
All of it makes me wonder what the mechanism is that determines c or the gravitational constant, the electro weak force and a myriad of other variables that determine the way the universe exists. The only thing that is clear to me is that we understand so freaking little compared to the way the universe must truly be.
Second, when combined with the fact that he is claiming cold fusion to be real makes me incredibly sketical. Could I be wrong? of course. But any anonymous twit can claim to be anything they want on the internet. And speaking as the 12th President of the United States, you should take my opinion very seriously.
Excellent point. Thank you. My gut told me it can't be as easy as the numbers were making it seem. You bring out an excellent point that I had not thought of.
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Because we did the experiment here, and these are the results we got. Feel free to doubt, but unless you are willing to create an experiment to falsify their findings, your claim has as much validity as young earth creationist.
How in the world do you take even ONE grad class and never hear of sigma or standard deviation? This is like the intro to the intro to statistics class and everything builds on it. You would have seen sigma dozens of times in each class...
At least you were smart enough to stay AC. Weight and mass are irrelevant to this conversation. Thanks for playing though.
Thanks. I am now more confused as aerogel is lighter than than sans air. But I appreciate the link.
Got a link? The lightest materials I can find are about 50% more dense than air. I am really curious about stuff like this, so wold like to read more...
If that is the case, then aerogel wins
aerogel is 1.9mg/cm^3 in a normal atmosphere, only 0.7mg above the weight of the air.
Can someone settle the discrepency beside speculating like we are?
The AC beat me to it. I was going to post that this stuff should float in a normal Earth atmosphere. If true, this would be an amazing breakthrough, but my skeptic's glasses are on right now.
You may not like it, but it has happened countless times to many countries over the past couple centuires. As long as the US denominates its debt in its own currency, it always has this option.
And, BTW, I hate the way Slashdot renders the messages. You apparently did NOT reply to my AC comment. (sigh)
I was the AC to whom you replied (too lazy to log in).
Good question. I don't know exactly when it will happen. If you look at a country with a large trade imbalance and large external debts, you will see the currency decline in value. This brings the trade imbalance back in line and eventually the currency finds its proper value. Quite beautiful mathematically.
So why is the dollar not declining? It is used as the reseve currency for many, many nations. In fact, it represents about 60-70% of the world's reserves. The dollar is viewed as the most stable world currency and its markets are freer than most others. I am struggling to find a world-wide reserve amount, but China is said to have $3 Trillion by itself.
So what does this mean? It means that there is a huge external demand for the dollar that causes its value to be higher than it would otherwise. The downward pressure of our deficits is being (mostly) counteracted by increasing foreign dollar reserves.
Three scenarios are theoretically possible
1) Everything continues as it is now. Countries continue to grow and continue to use the dollar for their reserves and those reserves increase. Good news for Joe American consumer.. he can spend like a pig and never feel the consequences of rising prices.
2) Countries flatten out their demand for dollars. This could happen if countries just stop growing quickly (China, India) but don't change their reserve mix. Or countries continue to grow but rely on the Euro or other currencies. Joe American would see increased prices over a long period. Softer landing, but definitely a reduction in buying power.
3) Countries dump the dollar as their reserve. There are a lot of countries that would love to do this, but what really holds them back is that it would hurt them in the process as well. You dump trillions of currency at once, and the value of what you are dropping... well... drops. Joe American would suddenly see dollars worth 30-50 cents before the dump. Call this one the crash landing.
Hope that helps!
As far as I know, the Pirate Party does NOT support the end of copyright. They support reducing it substantially. So if you cannot support a party that supports copyright, this isn't the party for you.
If you get to the results page, you failed the test. No one sits through a painfully slow survey that requires a complete page reload (including new ads) every time you answer a question. I got to 2 questions before I bailed, so I figure I am middle of the pack. If you didn't click the link in the first place, you are a genius. 3-5 questions and you are slow but employable. 6-10 and you should probably stick with help desk duties. 11-19 and you should seek professional help. Go all the way, you should post out for the management opening.
This might explain it a little better:
link
Also from wikipedia:
On February 19, 2008, Yahoo! Inc. launched what it claimed was the world's largest Hadoop production application. The Yahoo! Search Webmap is a Hadoop application that runs on more than 10,000 core Linux cluster and produces data that is now used in every Yahoo! Web search query.[23]
go figure that out...
Maybe another question is: can police conduct surveillance of any kind without a warrant? I am ignorant on this, and would appreciate some definitive answers...
A serious question, one that I hope folks take seriously because I truly cannot answer this:
If you were in front of the US Supreme Court and they asked you how this is fundamentally different than tracking your car through traditional police surveillance, how would you answer?
I struggle for an answer myself. It feels wrong, but as far as I can tell that isn't a valid legal argument.
I didn't even know AOL was still in business...
And before you downmod, read the page and comments of the OP's referenced page...
To have so much fucking free time....
Are you unemployed?
Because we live in a freaking corner of a small room of a really small house in the middle of a ginormous world. We've been space faring for less than a century and there are only a handful of human beings who have been past LEO. We are woefully ignorant of the universe at this point. It is a starting point. I only ask that we imagine that what we think of as constants may not be constants.
You don't do well with analogies, do you?
I am not a theoetical physicist, I don't play one on TV and I didn't stay at a Holiday Express last night.
But I've always wondered how we know that the speed of light is the same regardless, that the gravitational constant is constant throughout space and time. Yes, I understand that you have to assume consistency until proven otherwise. Frankly, I am not convinved that the last two "discoveries" will pan out and that we've found non-constant constants. But it confirms to me that this is not a resolved question like so many others have claimed when I have asked the question.
All of it makes me wonder what the mechanism is that determines c or the gravitational constant, the electro weak force and a myriad of other variables that determine the way the universe exists. The only thing that is clear to me is that we understand so freaking little compared to the way the universe must truly be.
That isn't the context of what he was saying....
Second, when combined with the fact that he is claiming cold fusion to be real makes me incredibly sketical. Could I be wrong? of course. But any anonymous twit can claim to be anything they want on the internet. And speaking as the 12th President of the United States, you should take my opinion very seriously.
Excellent point. Thank you. My gut told me it can't be as easy as the numbers were making it seem. You bring out an excellent point that I had not thought of.
>> I work at a physics lab, and I can assure you that the cold fusion effect is very real, but nobody can explain yet why it works, ...sometimes
I doubt this. You don't even realize that 1 MW is not a measure of energy.