Still not a bad idea, it means that you only have to cart in one small bomb, rather than setting incendiaries on every weapon individually to ensure complete termination. Plus there's a whole 'dismantling large-scale weapons permanently requires a few thousand dollars apiece and a guy with ten years of training' thing. Click-boom > 40 hours toa solid week of work.
Yeah, because the oil-for-weapons program suuure turned out well. Just when we thought US corporations had everybody beat on corruption, the UN political machines had to go and prove us wrong...
No, those crying 'racist' often just want whoever they're talking to to shut the hell up and leave them alone. You're thinking of 'affirmative action'.
Non-electric solar water purifier? You mean a magnifying glass , a pile of tinder, a pot, and a couple of good burning logs?
If you mean 'involving a solar cell' when you say 'solar', then it isn't non-electric, unless you can grind up solar cells into a powder and use it to disinfect water or something.
In a region where the heat capacity is roughly constant, yeah, the reduction of temperature * volume of cold air produced = increase in temperature * volume of hot air produced. Then, the effective starting temperature will be increased slightly by work done by the machinery on the gas (and yes, a simple pipe does work on a fluid passing through it) and there may be issues with condensation that could raise the temperature of the cooled air.
But yeah, if you theoretically divided a gas with a constant heat capacity into hot and cold regions without doing any work on it or causing any change in enthalpy or chemical potential, you get the simple equivalence defined in the first sentence above. I'm lazy and havent RTFA, though, so I won't venture to guess how much other factors would affect this thing, and what the overall efficiency would be as a result.
Woo, I used my expensive 2/3 of a Chem E degree for something! I feel accomplished... except not really. chop, chop, back to work.
Meh, your "lies blaming state and local government" statement is somewhat misleading, as, though the lies included blaming state and local government, those assignments of blame are pretty well warranted. The actual 'lying' part was the bit where they claimed that the feds hadn't screwed up, too.
There were a lot of really entertaining books on astronomy published fairly regularly over the last century that were also decently informative. Not so much for, say, organic chemistry or nuclear magnetic resonance. So it's a lot more likely that a layman might know the odds of a giant comet crashing into the earth (basically nil, for those of you that don't:-P) than, say, that mitochondria have their own reproductive cycle and are inherited only from the mother (yesterday's mis-titled/. story).
The short answer: They do the minimum work required to write a sellable story. An erroneus climatology or biology article is less likely to be caught, and thus more likely to sell, when viewed by an untrained individual.
Ok, enough of this message-board nonsense, back to writing "The Slightly Less Than Elegant, Rather Expensive Universe: NMR basics for the english major".
They intend to move it around, I think. A lot of power is dissipated by wire transmission, just moving the reactor to the city that doesn't have its own plants online yet is a lot more efficient than stringing a thousand miles of energy-dissipating wire from the nearest station, probably over three mountains and around twenty or thirty lakes and rivers.
Is 'a billion years' the new version of '40 days and 40 nights' or something? It's not that hard to find the actual numbers, man. Just use Google. Besides, we'd just dump it into a destructive tectonic plat border if we really cared. We keep high-level waste around because it's useful, and we keep the low-level waste around because if we dumped it in landfills the way we do everything else without waiting a couple of years, some bum would end up wearing a contaminated lab coat and setting off all of the geiger-counter wielding nukies in Berkeley.
What risk exactly are we trying to mitigate here? Based on past performance, you have approximately a 0.000000000000000000000000% chance of being harmed by an american-designed nuclear reactor. Well, unless you've invested heavily in coal-burning plant futures or something. Really, a 0% risk is rather difficult to reduce.
Uh... the ovum from which the nuclear genetic material came was fertilized by a male as usual, for reasons which are obvious to those that RTFA. Headline is basically completely wrong, as usual.
Actually not even that complicated. Mitochondria have their own packaging and reproductive cycle, they're basically symbiotic organisms that live in cell plasma. So all this experiment is doing is swapping the mitochondria in a sick and healthy embryo and seeing if it works. No splicing of DNA necessary at all.
That's not quite what's going on. It's a mitochondrial transplant, basically, nothing to do with nuclear DNA at all. The nucleus was produced the normal way (egg fertilized by sperm). the kind of thing you describe is, well, way the hell in the future if it will ever be done at all.
This would be true if the experiment hadn't required the two ova to be fertilized first. You learn a lot of things by, you know, reading the article/supporting documentation.
Cloning can be done, and is still technically reproduction. We'll just be wiped out by changing environmental pressures when we lose our ability to adapt. But if you're going to wipe out half of humanity, you might as well hit both halves.
If you're female and have a mitochondrial disease, your children are stuck with it, no matter who you hook up with. mitochondria have their own reproductive cycle, and aren't carried by sperm.
A refusal to supply the resources to set up a radio station is in no way illegal, as local authorities are not responsible for handing you equipment every time you want to do something. I'm licensed to carry a concealed firearm, but that doesn't mean I can file a complaint when the local sherrif's office doesn't provide me with ammunition. If the radio folks set up in, say, a van on their own property, with their own equipment, there wouldn't be a problem.
Aye that's what happened. "What? A radio station? Bugger off, we're trying to keep people fed here. No, I'm not going to let you fuck with the electrical system, go cook some soup or something if you need something to do." If they provided their own equipment in entirety, they could set up in a van in the parking lot and no one would care.
Unless they were broadcasting "let's rise up and kill all of teh bureaucrats, and burn down any remaining structures with their owners locked inside" i doubt FEMA would care much. This seemed more of a "we're not going to waste any more resources on you, we have people to feed, bugger off" deal than a "you're a dangerous man that needs to be silenced" deal. Refusal to provide resources is not the same thing as actively inhibiting a project.
Because control is necessary to survive in hard times. In times of abundance, you can hand people all the freedom you want. Republicanism (not the party, the political system that the US has) is tweaked to, among other things, a particular set of resource distributions. Control-heavy styles are twinked toward another.
That said, the bureaucrats involved were most likely just as stupidly bureaucratic before last week. That's why they were in a position that wasn't at all urgent at the time-- it wasn't a problem.
Right, because it's not like relying on federal funds for city infrastructure is idotic in the first place or anything. The Feds are responsible for the roads in and out of the cities. Cities themselves and state governments are supposed to be responsible for local infrastructure... sigh. Damned political drift.../shake fist at Hoover and his like
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Still not a bad idea, it means that you only have to cart in one small bomb, rather than setting incendiaries on every weapon individually to ensure complete termination. Plus there's a whole 'dismantling large-scale weapons permanently requires a few thousand dollars apiece and a guy with ten years of training' thing. Click-boom > 40 hours toa solid week of work.
Yeah, because the oil-for-weapons program suuure turned out well. Just when we thought US corporations had everybody beat on corruption, the UN political machines had to go and prove us wrong...
No, those crying 'racist' often just want whoever they're talking to to shut the hell up and leave them alone. You're thinking of 'affirmative action'.
Non-electric solar water purifier? You mean a magnifying glass , a pile of tinder, a pot, and a couple of good burning logs?
If you mean 'involving a solar cell' when you say 'solar', then it isn't non-electric, unless you can grind up solar cells into a powder and use it to disinfect water or something.
In a region where the heat capacity is roughly constant, yeah, the reduction of temperature * volume of cold air produced = increase in temperature * volume of hot air produced. Then, the effective starting temperature will be increased slightly by work done by the machinery on the gas (and yes, a simple pipe does work on a fluid passing through it) and there may be issues with condensation that could raise the temperature of the cooled air.
But yeah, if you theoretically divided a gas with a constant heat capacity into hot and cold regions without doing any work on it or causing any change in enthalpy or chemical potential, you get the simple equivalence defined in the first sentence above. I'm lazy and havent RTFA, though, so I won't venture to guess how much other factors would affect this thing, and what the overall efficiency would be as a result.
Woo, I used my expensive 2/3 of a Chem E degree for something! I feel accomplished... except not really. chop, chop, back to work.
Meh, your "lies blaming state and local government" statement is somewhat misleading, as, though the lies included blaming state and local government, those assignments of blame are pretty well warranted. The actual 'lying' part was the bit where they claimed that the feds hadn't screwed up, too.
There were a lot of really entertaining books on astronomy published fairly regularly over the last century that were also decently informative. Not so much for, say, organic chemistry or nuclear magnetic resonance. So it's a lot more likely that a layman might know the odds of a giant comet crashing into the earth (basically nil, for those of you that don't :-P) than, say, that mitochondria have their own reproductive cycle and are inherited only from the mother (yesterday's mis-titled /. story).
The short answer: They do the minimum work required to write a sellable story. An erroneus climatology or biology article is less likely to be caught, and thus more likely to sell, when viewed by an untrained individual.
Ok, enough of this message-board nonsense, back to writing "The Slightly Less Than Elegant, Rather Expensive Universe: NMR basics for the english major".
They intend to move it around, I think. A lot of power is dissipated by wire transmission, just moving the reactor to the city that doesn't have its own plants online yet is a lot more efficient than stringing a thousand miles of energy-dissipating wire from the nearest station, probably over three mountains and around twenty or thirty lakes and rivers.
Eh, all you need is five dots in forces and four dots in tech. Instant reactor->explosive device conversion.
Is 'a billion years' the new version of '40 days and 40 nights' or something? It's not that hard to find the actual numbers, man. Just use Google. Besides, we'd just dump it into a destructive tectonic plat border if we really cared. We keep high-level waste around because it's useful, and we keep the low-level waste around because if we dumped it in landfills the way we do everything else without waiting a couple of years, some bum would end up wearing a contaminated lab coat and setting off all of the geiger-counter wielding nukies in Berkeley.
What risk exactly are we trying to mitigate here? Based on past performance, you have approximately a 0.000000000000000000000000% chance of being harmed by an american-designed nuclear reactor. Well, unless you've invested heavily in coal-burning plant futures or something. Really, a 0% risk is rather difficult to reduce.
We would, but they seem to have all done it to themselves already. Damn those missed chances...
Uh... the ovum from which the nuclear genetic material came was fertilized by a male as usual, for reasons which are obvious to those that RTFA. Headline is basically completely wrong, as usual.
Actually not even that complicated. Mitochondria have their own packaging and reproductive cycle, they're basically symbiotic organisms that live in cell plasma. So all this experiment is doing is swapping the mitochondria in a sick and healthy embryo and seeing if it works. No splicing of DNA necessary at all.
That's not quite what's going on. It's a mitochondrial transplant, basically, nothing to do with nuclear DNA at all. The nucleus was produced the normal way (egg fertilized by sperm). the kind of thing you describe is, well, way the hell in the future if it will ever be done at all.
This would be true if the experiment hadn't required the two ova to be fertilized first. You learn a lot of things by, you know, reading the article/supporting documentation.
Cloning can be done, and is still technically reproduction. We'll just be wiped out by changing environmental pressures when we lose our ability to adapt. But if you're going to wipe out half of humanity, you might as well hit both halves.
If you're female and have a mitochondrial disease, your children are stuck with it, no matter who you hook up with. mitochondria have their own reproductive cycle, and aren't carried by sperm.
A refusal to supply the resources to set up a radio station is in no way illegal, as local authorities are not responsible for handing you equipment every time you want to do something. I'm licensed to carry a concealed firearm, but that doesn't mean I can file a complaint when the local sherrif's office doesn't provide me with ammunition. If the radio folks set up in, say, a van on their own property, with their own equipment, there wouldn't be a problem.
Aye that's what happened. "What? A radio station? Bugger off, we're trying to keep people fed here. No, I'm not going to let you fuck with the electrical system, go cook some soup or something if you need something to do." If they provided their own equipment in entirety, they could set up in a van in the parking lot and no one would care.
Unless they were broadcasting "let's rise up and kill all of teh bureaucrats, and burn down any remaining structures with their owners locked inside" i doubt FEMA would care much. This seemed more of a "we're not going to waste any more resources on you, we have people to feed, bugger off" deal than a "you're a dangerous man that needs to be silenced" deal. Refusal to provide resources is not the same thing as actively inhibiting a project.
Because control is necessary to survive in hard times. In times of abundance, you can hand people all the freedom you want. Republicanism (not the party, the political system that the US has) is tweaked to, among other things, a particular set of resource distributions. Control-heavy styles are twinked toward another.
That said, the bureaucrats involved were most likely just as stupidly bureaucratic before last week. That's why they were in a position that wasn't at all urgent at the time-- it wasn't a problem.
Uh, could you scootch over a little bit? All that straw is making my neck itch.
Right, because it's not like relying on federal funds for city infrastructure is idotic in the first place or anything. The Feds are responsible for the roads in and out of the cities. Cities themselves and state governments are supposed to be responsible for local infrastructure... sigh. Damned political drift... /shake fist at Hoover and his like
We also distribute mood-altering drugs to unstable individuals with the handy side effect of killing their sex drive. Onward the selection process!