A thick(ening) CO2 blanket is a good thing. Why waste all that good heat energy by idly rebroadcasting it unused into space ?:-) Anyway, stop caring - all C underground will eventually be burned into CO2 sooner or later. If you don't, your descendants will. If you don't have any, others will. There's no way you're gonna be in control about that.
Lasting longer == running out eventually anyway. If eventually > remaining time on my investments, I don't care. My ancestors ran out of mammoths. My children will run out of other stuff. That's life.
Yet, as the available resources dwindle, I'm getting scared that I won't be able to continue leading a comfortable life when 6B+ other fuckers are competing with me. The trick is to convince the others to scale back. That's difficult, because the use of a resource always expands until it gets uncomfortable to al lusers.
My dear curmudgeon, no offense, but the very banal activities of 6 billion humans are polluting the world way more than the selfish pleasures of few rich thrill-seeking guys.
That could be due to higher chromatic aberration of short (blue...violet) wavelengths, which are more prominent in CFL and LED bulbs. In low light conditions, the pupil is fully open and more light passing through the edges of the optical path, where chromatic aberration is more severe, reaches the retina. Contact lens weares, or people who have undergone corrective laser surgery will be affected even more, as typically the performance of the contact/corrected lens will not be optimal outside a rather small center area.
We should accept the fact that colonizing other solar systems isn't going to happen. It seems like most are still in the denial to bargaining phases in dealing with the loss of our childhood dreams. We're stuck on this planet save for some haphazard expeditions, and we're going to have to adapt to what's available here.
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To help you get into the depression phase: consider that it used to be possible to travel faster than sound on a commercial airliner. Not anymore. Soon the pinnacle of human space travel, the shuttle, will be decommisioned, and you'll probably won't see a reusable spacecraft carrying humans in your lifetime again. Ultimately, one fleeting moment in time, the very last of our decendants will shut down. So be it; you won't be there to witness it anyway.
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Once we'll accept this, we'll understand that there is plenty on earth to work with: the small rather than the large. The amount of atoms to our disposal is massive, and so are the means to rearrange them into finely detailed structures. That's where our future lies.
And when you try to sell the gold (coins or bullion) you've once bought at 20% markup there'll always be an excuse why you won't get the full price. Diamonds are even worse.
For "old gold" in jewellery, even if proven 24kt, you'd be happy to fetch 60% of the spot price. A prime 1kt diamond with certificate you bought yesterday will sell for 50% today.
That said, I need to fight an atavistic preference for a few stones of gold buried in my backyard over some random digits stored in a computer, were it not for the ongoing daily expenditures that are easier to pay by bank transfer.
Yeah, easy as cake, especially the lengthy double blind human trials
to test the various strains for virulence and deadliness to humans.
Why would double-blind tests be necessary ? It's not as if the field tests would require FDA approval. Anyway, scariness is enough; deadliness is overkill.
A conspiracy theory, no matter how far fetched, will always be the most credible explanation because after all history has shown that new strains of influenza never ever just spontaneously form in nature.
As if anthrax, measle-infected blankets or pestilenced corpses have never been used as weapons either.
Replace conspiracy by a diffuse set of parties that have a largely unconnected interest in a certain outcome, and you'll see that the fud that's being spread was not all that unwelcome. To go from profiting from fud to intently infecting people is farfetched, but not impossible. The 9/11 "conspiracy" (AQ being the conspirators) also looked like a farfetched movie script before it happened.
Was H1N1 spread on purpose ? Very, very unlikely. Could it have been ? Definitely.
Well, it doesn't have to be designed from raw nucleotides. Just put a mix of a few existing strains into eggs, cultivate, check for mutations/reassortments and proceed with those. Easy as cake (made from the remaining eggs:)
Think about it: vaccine makers are already cultivating the virus. It's a very small step from there.
with all the hype surrounding this, one might be tempted to start considering the possibility that some big pharma in search of the next blockbuster could have designed the virus, the vaccine, the initial test release in a remote village and subsequent dispersal in airports, and the fud campaign together.
Have you ever seen a Canada goose that's afraid of a cat ? Actually it's the other way round. Heck, my Maine Coon already starts meowing "I can coming in plz ?" when pestered by a magpie a quarter his size.
What worked for me is the realization that hiccups are basically a cramped inhalation, driven by the same muscles you use to breathe. Once I knew this it was easy to get to control them.
Years ago I found out how to control the muscles that cause hiccups. While I still can be caught off guard by hiccups, at least I can stop them instantly.
Other stuff I found out how to do: - decide which eye to use as the dominant eye - change focus of left and right eye independently - decouple focus from convergence - rotate an eye slightly around the Z axis. - make tinnitus disappear (that's a big one)
Still working on: - moving left and right eyes independently - visualizing arbitrary mental images in total darkness
This is caused by the low 'characteristic speed'. This is a term I've coined and try to promote: the speed of an object divided by a characteristic dimension (such as the length) of said object. It's a measure for how fast it looks.
A 'characteristic speed' is a psychological measure, not a scientific one, and in fact it is not a speed at all. Its dimensions are 1/s and hence the unit is Hz.
e.g. a 75m long Galaxy C5 taking off at 75m/s has a characteristic speed of 1Hz. A 5 m long car at 25m/s has a characteristic speed of 5Hz. The latter looks five times faster, even though it's three times slower.
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So this article is about a fishscent bulb, then ?
A thick(ening) CO2 blanket is a good thing. Why waste all that good heat energy by idly rebroadcasting it unused into space ? :-) Anyway, stop caring - all C underground will eventually be burned into CO2 sooner or later. If you don't, your descendants will. If you don't have any, others will. There's no way you're gonna be in control about that.
Yet, as the available resources dwindle, I'm getting scared that I won't be able to continue leading a comfortable life when 6B+ other fuckers are competing with me. The trick is to convince the others to scale back. That's difficult, because the use of a resource always expands until it gets uncomfortable to al lusers.
My dear curmudgeon, no offense, but the very banal activities of 6 billion humans are polluting the world way more than the selfish pleasures of few rich thrill-seeking guys.
That could be due to higher chromatic aberration of short (blue...violet) wavelengths, which are more prominent in CFL and LED bulbs. In low light conditions, the pupil is fully open and more light passing through the edges of the optical path, where chromatic aberration is more severe, reaches the retina. Contact lens weares, or people who have undergone corrective laser surgery will be affected even more, as typically the performance of the contact/corrected lens will not be optimal outside a rather small center area.
Multiply 30KW by 5.4h, divide by 162 Vh and multiply by 220V. That's how. Now we only need to know where the 162 Vh comes from...
In the case of AF447 the vertical stabilizer was recovered intact with the rudder still properly attached.
He's not lying. Thanks to hyperinflation, soon every murkan may make a million or more.
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To help you get into the depression phase: consider that it used to be possible to travel faster than sound on a commercial airliner. Not anymore. Soon the pinnacle of human space travel, the shuttle, will be decommisioned, and you'll probably won't see a reusable spacecraft carrying humans in your lifetime again. Ultimately, one fleeting moment in time, the very last of our decendants will shut down. So be it; you won't be there to witness it anyway.
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Once we'll accept this, we'll understand that there is plenty on earth to work with: the small rather than the large. The amount of atoms to our disposal is massive, and so are the means to rearrange them into finely detailed structures. That's where our future lies.
I wouldn't worry too much. Over the past four years battery prices have already more than halved while their lifetimes have doubled.
And when you try to sell the gold (coins or bullion) you've once bought at 20% markup there'll always be an excuse why you won't get the full price. Diamonds are even worse.
For "old gold" in jewellery, even if proven 24kt, you'd be happy to fetch 60% of the spot price. A prime 1kt diamond with certificate you bought yesterday will sell for 50% today.
That said, I need to fight an atavistic preference for a few stones of gold buried in my backyard over some random digits stored in a computer, were it not for the ongoing daily expenditures that are easier to pay by bank transfer.
Yeah, easy as cake, especially the lengthy double blind human trials to test the various strains for virulence and deadliness to humans.
Why would double-blind tests be necessary ? It's not as if the field tests would require FDA approval. Anyway, scariness is enough; deadliness is overkill.
A conspiracy theory, no matter how far fetched, will always be the most credible explanation because after all history has shown that new strains of influenza never ever just spontaneously form in nature.
As if anthrax, measle-infected blankets or pestilenced corpses have never been used as weapons either.
Replace conspiracy by a diffuse set of parties that have a largely unconnected interest in a certain outcome, and you'll see that the fud that's being spread was not all that unwelcome. To go from profiting from fud to intently infecting people is farfetched, but not impossible. The 9/11 "conspiracy" (AQ being the conspirators) also looked like a farfetched movie script before it happened.
Was H1N1 spread on purpose ? Very, very unlikely. Could it have been ? Definitely.
Not profitable ? Maybe. 4% of 94B$ is just small change in today's world.
Think about it: vaccine makers are already cultivating the virus. It's a very small step from there.
with all the hype surrounding this, one might be tempted to start considering the possibility that some big pharma in search of the next blockbuster could have designed the virus, the vaccine, the initial test release in a remote village and subsequent dispersal in airports, and the fud campaign together.
Have you ever seen a Canada goose that's afraid of a cat ? Actually it's the other way round. Heck, my Maine Coon already starts meowing "I can coming in plz ?" when pestered by a magpie a quarter his size.
Gordon Brown, texture like sun ?
Hmm no, that's not him.
Flash, a-ha, Savior of the Universe ?
No, that one neither.
Ah, you mean that poor fellow that's being lambasted by the Economist every week ? I see.
Here I am, a coward by any name.
Your post was modded Redundant :)
Poor you !
What worked for me is the realization that hiccups are basically a cramped inhalation, driven by the same muscles you use to breathe. Once I knew this it was easy to get to control them.
Alas, I don't know how to teach the technique.
The French drive on the right side, the British on the wrong side.
There, FTFY.
True enough.
Years ago I found out how to control the muscles that cause hiccups. While I still can be caught off guard by hiccups, at least I can stop them instantly.
Other stuff I found out how to do:
- decide which eye to use as the dominant eye
- change focus of left and right eye independently
- decouple focus from convergence
- rotate an eye slightly around the Z axis.
- make tinnitus disappear (that's a big one)
Still working on:
- moving left and right eyes independently
- visualizing arbitrary mental images in total darkness
This is caused by the low 'characteristic speed'. This is a term I've coined and try to promote: the speed of an object divided by a characteristic dimension (such as the length) of said object. It's a measure for how fast it looks.
A 'characteristic speed' is a psychological measure, not a scientific one, and in fact it is not a speed at all. Its dimensions are 1/s and hence the unit is Hz.
e.g. a 75m long Galaxy C5 taking off at 75m/s has a characteristic speed of 1Hz. A 5 m long car at 25m/s has a characteristic speed of 5Hz. The latter looks five times faster, even though it's three times slower.
may stop the headline scraping.
FYI: having learnt so by repeatedly repeating after our teacher, we sturdy Englishmen measure velocity in acres per chain and per fortnight.