Yon organic matter needn't survive, reproduce and grow - it only needs to introduce the kind of complex organic molecules (amino acids, protiens, etc.) which form the foundation of evolutionary life on this planet. Hell, all the microbes in question (be there one or one million) can die on impact as long as their protiens/nucleic acids etc. remain (even partially) intact. Planetery physics will take care of the rest.
Just don't expect anything familiar to evolve out there.
First - while quantum computing may well make certain forms of encryption less trustworthy, it will also introduce new forms of encryption which are at least as trustworthy as the preceding.
Second - quantum computing is only just now barely becoming a tantalizing possibility under laboratory conditions which are unlikely to ever translate well to consumer/commodity hardware or mass production. In fact, it seems likely to remain the domain of "three-letter agencies" (and universities and large enterprises and the independantly wealthy) for some time to come. Unfortunately, this renders my first point somewhat academic, as most consumers will have to either use vulnerable forms of encryption or find forms which quantum computing does not significantly weaken.
Just remember - if I brought 60Hz 110V electrical delivery to our government for approval as a new technology, I doubt very seriously that anybody on Earth would ever see so much as an electric socket or light switch installed within the next twenty years (if ever). I mean, that stuff's dangerous. What guarantee is there that it won't leak out of the walls and start electrocuting elephants?
Don't even get me started on aspirin. Herr Bayer wouldn't even have a starter on his hands there.
I work in an enterprise with a CentOS/RHEL infrastructure, with the obligatory MicroSoft back-office technologies thrown in, of course. Chrome won't install or run correctly within our Linux infrastructure. From my perspective, it's good to see Google working hard to ensure that CentOS/RHEL users and Windows users enjoy the same end-user experience!
Too bad. Google Chrome showed such great promise once . . .
Uh, if that astronaut was travelling from here to that black hole 1600ly distant at a significant fraction of c, he might well arrive before he gets hungry for breakfast in the morning. Granted, his family will all have long since died but the astronaut will still be in great shape (if hungry).
Yeah - never mind the risk that company assets might foreseeably be damaged or destroyed by illicit after-hours use which does nothing to benefit the company. It's not okay for the (presumably fatigued) driver to use the company truck for anything which he doesn't feel like explaining in full to his employer . . . period!
So, was yon driver enjoying a little drinkiepoo whilst he engaged in his midnight tryst? Even sober, I have to wonder just how much attention he was paying to the "rules of the road" (since UPS's rules obviously didn't matter to him). Y'know, UPS would feel really bad having to pay for, say, a vechicular manslaughter case or even a liability suit because some driver couldn't keep it in his pants or hold his liquor.
Um, not quite. If I'm paying you to use my pliers, I'm okay if you use them for your own purposes as well . . . but I get to know what those purposes are. You don't want me to know what you're building in your off-hours? Heaven forbid you should be doing something contrary to my interests with my own pliers, aftera ll. If you don't want me to know about what you're doing, go buy and use your own pliers, somewhere private and out of my sight!!
As a fellow technician (who worked in TV/video around that period in history) . ..
The one factor which killed Sony Betamax was the existence of a previous, well-established standard for video tape - the Vertical Helical Scan, or VHS system. Been in use on 1/2" reel-to-reel units since the mid nineteen-fifties, I think. Maybe longer. Tweaking the head azimuth and multiplexing the data on the tape resulted in technical superiority for Betamax, but VHS was still firmly established as the de facto standard du joure.
So - you want a standard (Otto-type) internal combustion engine, or would you rather have a rotary (Wankel-type) engine? In the end, virtually ALL gasoline-fired automobile engines in the USA are of the Otto type, because that's what we've been using here for decades, not because of any technical superiority to Wankel's design. Sony didn't even give up until nearly a decade after the writing was on the wall.
Philosophers, theologians, men of great intellect and depth have spent lifetimes failing to completely define what exactly "free will" even is, and these guys think they have a test for whether it's present or not? Oi!
Sort of like the Glasgow Conscoiusness Scale (GCS) - from what I can undersand, your average block of wood rates around a 3-4.
Hey, if that's all they have to work with (given that current imaging technology is not up to the standard found aboard a Federation starship) - unless you'd rather your surgeon used a divining rod? A surgeon should be aware of the difference between a raw and an enhanced image, and I'm pretty sure that some data is better than none.
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Yup. Doomed to fail. It aired on FOX.
Just don't expect anything familiar to evolve out there.
Second - quantum computing is only just now barely becoming a tantalizing possibility under laboratory conditions which are unlikely to ever translate well to consumer/commodity hardware or mass production. In fact, it seems likely to remain the domain of "three-letter agencies" (and universities and large enterprises and the independantly wealthy) for some time to come. Unfortunately, this renders my first point somewhat academic, as most consumers will have to either use vulnerable forms of encryption or find forms which quantum computing does not significantly weaken.
Third - never mind, I only had two.
AAA and the NRA, OTOH...
Sure - but I'll bet their lawyers can beat up her lawyer. Welcome to America, land of the free (unless you can afford something better)!
Don't even get me started on aspirin. Herr Bayer wouldn't even have a starter on his hands there.
Have you ever tried herding them (or programmers)?
Too bad. Google Chrome showed such great promise once . . .
Is the health cost worth the benefit?
Just do as you're told. We'll take good care of you.
We take the "sense" out of "sensational".
I'm sorry - my brain parsed that as "the Minority Report"...
Uh, if that astronaut was travelling from here to that black hole 1600ly distant at a significant fraction of c , he might well arrive before he gets hungry for breakfast in the morning. Granted, his family will all have long since died but the astronaut will still be in great shape (if hungry).
You mean besides being the registered owner of the truck, or as we like to call it here, "Exhibit: A"?
So, was yon driver enjoying a little drinkiepoo whilst he engaged in his midnight tryst? Even sober, I have to wonder just how much attention he was paying to the "rules of the road" (since UPS's rules obviously didn't matter to him). Y'know, UPS would feel really bad having to pay for, say, a vechicular manslaughter case or even a liability suit because some driver couldn't keep it in his pants or hold his liquor.
Not that I see how this has anything to do with the main thread, but . . . GODWIN!
What part of this do you really believe the U.S. Government can make better?
Um, not quite. If I'm paying you to use my pliers, I'm okay if you use them for your own purposes as well . . . but I get to know what those purposes are. You don't want me to know what you're building in your off-hours? Heaven forbid you should be doing something contrary to my interests with my own pliers, aftera ll. If you don't want me to know about what you're doing, go buy and use your own pliers, somewhere private and out of my sight!!
Just sayin'.
The one factor which killed Sony Betamax was the existence of a previous, well-established standard for video tape - the Vertical Helical Scan, or VHS system. Been in use on 1/2" reel-to-reel units since the mid nineteen-fifties, I think. Maybe longer. Tweaking the head azimuth and multiplexing the data on the tape resulted in technical superiority for Betamax, but VHS was still firmly established as the de facto standard du joure.
So - you want a standard (Otto-type) internal combustion engine, or would you rather have a rotary (Wankel-type) engine? In the end, virtually ALL gasoline-fired automobile engines in the USA are of the Otto type, because that's what we've been using here for decades, not because of any technical superiority to Wankel's design. Sony didn't even give up until nearly a decade after the writing was on the wall.
I'll wait for tomorrow's.
Sort of like the Glasgow Conscoiusness Scale (GCS) - from what I can undersand, your average block of wood rates around a 3-4.
Hey, if that's all they have to work with (given that current imaging technology is not up to the standard found aboard a Federation starship) - unless you'd rather your surgeon used a divining rod? A surgeon should be aware of the difference between a raw and an enhanced image, and I'm pretty sure that some data is better than none.
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You hit the sidewalk below and almost instantly accelerate (in the other direction) to 0 m/s. It takes some few milliseconds. That's electromagnetism.