You missed superscript 110, which states clearly that neither AT&T nor its shareholders, subsidiaries, or partners, are to be held responsible in the event of mass armed uprisings.
People may hate Bush, and with good reason, but there's simply no excuse for exaggerating with lies, and to do so weakens the anti-Bush side of the camp. For people like me who have yet to fully formulate their opinion on Bush, it's hard to forget something like the parent's post, and makes me lean strongly away from "the side that has to lie to gain followers", even though I know deep down that only the extremist minority believe such things.
Zimbabwe's economy isn't collapsing, but rather is undergoing slight* inflation necessitating the printing of slightly* larger notes.
*For extremely, massively large values of slight. I mean, you may think it's a slight way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to Zimbabwe.
Using simple, non-relativistic math, you would surpass the speed of light by accelerating at a constant 9.8m/sec in just under a year. That means you get to live on your spaceship with simulated earth gravity due to your constant acceleration. That means we don't need to turn the inside of our spaceships into pink goo to accelerate to relativistic speeds within a reasonable amount of time.
The only problem is fuel. How do you power a ship at 9.8m/s^2, or any other 'sizable' acceleration? for that long? And don't forget you also have to slow down, or you won't enter orbit around your target--although in the case of New Horizons, it's designed to blow by Pluto because it's not feasible to conduct a mission that *eventually* puts a probe into orbit around the minor pluplanetoid.
This is a quote from Contact, and maybe something else. What is it supposed to mean? Although the sentence is easy to understand, it doesn't really make sense to me.
I was curious what a "rollable water container" was, so I went out and found this youtube video. It seems it's a kind of water drum that you pull behind you, and it rolls so you don't have to carry it on your back or something. It's for third-world countries that have to travel somewhere and bring back their potable water.
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation is the idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative-pressure vacuum energy density.
Also read Wikipedia's article on the Big Bang, since it's directly related. Both pages above are easy to read for amateurs with no serious physics background.
Why are you atheist and KNOW there is no God due to some incredible evidence only you have, instead of proclaim agnosticism and be ambivalent due simply to lack of evidence? Actual atheism appears almost paradoxically to involve just as hard of a belief as any major religion, such as Christianity or Islam. I simply don't understand how somebody would choose atheism over agnosticism.
The Viet Nam "police action" following on the heels of the Korean "police action" certainly show that this nation is far from the PR we feed our citizens.
If anyone wishes to know more about what the parent is talking about, I've collected some required reading below. May it enlighten you wholly:
Genesis
Chapter One
In the beginning, the universe was cold and barren and empty. Suddenly a massive explosion occurred made up of particles and strings. In time many strings came together and his Noodleness was born. But the Flying Spaghetti Monster was not yet complete and he commanded, 'give me two balls in which to increase my mass so that I may travel' and the balls were created and gently lodged into his mass. When the Flying Spaghetti Monster felt it become part of him he felt that it was good. Then he commanded, 'Give me eyes for which to see that which needs to be done' and the Flying Spaghetti Monster took his first look at the early universe and said, 'Boy, do I have a lot of work to do.' Thus ended the first day.
He then with his mighty noodles organized the mess and created galaxies, nebulas and stars. After he looked at what he had done he saw that is was good. Thus ended the second day.
He amused himself by sitting on a black hole spinning to such speed that his Noodleness was flown away from the hole at a great speed. A galatic 'WHeeeeeeee' was usually present at the point of release. In one particular galaxy, the ride was so great and gave him so much pleasure that he released a galactic fart, the shock wave so great that it collapsed a nearby nebula. He watched as the cloud grew into a planetary system complete with a different kind of star then he had created and he saw that it was good.
He was so pleased that he returned to every galaxy he had made, and to every nebula large and small he turned and produced the same galactic fart and he did this throughout the universe. Thus ended the third day.
On the fourth day a particular planet caught the Flying Spaghetti Monster's eye. A small blue planet, in a good neighborhood. He commanded 'Let the land rise from this little gem and fire burn within to bring forth mountains.' And he saw that it was good. 'And let there be plants and foliage on the land, because blue green is so slick' and trees were seen on the mountains and he rejoiced at what he had done.
It was at this point that the Flying Spaghetti Monster realized that he was alone. 'In all of my travels I have met no one like me, nothing that.' And the Flying Spaghetti Monster sat atop the highest mountain and sobbed and his tears created the world's first rivers. Thus ended the fifth day.
On the morning of the sixth day, the Flying Spaghetti Monster wiped his eyes and combined several minerals together from the earth and added water and stirred the mixture with his noodles into the form of a midget and blew the breath of life into him saying 'Here is one I may talk with, walk with, nurture and be friends with.' The midget opened his eyes looked at the Flying Spaghetti Monster and smiled (although it could have been gas) and said 'Googa wawaa poopoo'. The Flying Spaghetti Monster sighed. Thus ended the sixth day.
On the seventh day the Flying Spaghetti Monster said 'Fuck it, I'm going to the beach.'
So I buy a phone outright for $599/$699, or I buy a phone for $199/$299 with a 2 year plan ($36 activation fee) then cancel the contract immediately for $175...net cost $410/$510. Hmmmm.....
They're tricking you into thinking you're winning... and you fell for it.
Can somebody please explain what's wrong with GPP's post? It seems nothing but hypocritical to bring down the heavy hand against selling one's vote in an election, yet at the same time legally allowing lobbying.
I visited Japan and Korea each several times, and it's really cool to visit their temples and castles. I also visited one of the national museums in Seoul. However, all of those experiences were overall disappointments, as almost every single one of the buildings I visited had been destroyed several times in its history, and almost always rebuilt within the last 120 years. Even the national museum that I visited in Korea, which was filled with items of serious value to the entire Korean race, had only replicas on display.
I really expected to visit sites and see buildings, castles, walkways, royal jewels, actual artifacts, and so on built by actual native craftsman over the last 450 years, but it is nothing but a serious letdown to see only buildings built and rebuilt post-1890s. Even the house I lived in until I was 18 is 130 years old, so I'm not impressed. I certainly wouldn't be impressed with seeing a Roman Colosseum that had been destroyed and rebuilt in recent times.
Why not use a radio transmitter in the tennis ball (or soccer ball or whatever) to record its exact position? I am certain this has been discussed and I wouldn't be surprised if it's already in use. The article's "Hawkeye" just works by optical analysis.
Did anyone else watching the (very impressive and representative) gameplay video think to yourselves, "Pick up the chipped star topaz. Pick it up. WHERE ARE YOU GO--PICK IT UP!!"?
Well, I'm not an astrophysicist, so I'm well aware my argument is flawed before I begin...
...however, supposing as the "black hole doomsday theory" does that Hawking radiation does not exist, how can they tell that what they are looking at is a neutron star, and not a black hole with the eaten mass of a neutron star?
Cool, except peak oil has already happened in the United States in the 1970s when national production peaked. This was correctly predicted by Hubbert way back in 1956, using what we call "Hubbert peak theory". Now we're waiting on global production to peak, with nearly every estimate and quote being 2015. I don't want to believe it because it is a very bad thing, but that doesn't stop facts from being facts.:(
You can find most of the above information and way more on the Peak oil page itself.
Stolen from a webpage (http://chrisdamato.blogspot.com/2007/03/ask-calvins-dad.html) from someone who stole them from someone who stole them from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
Illustrating the value of a good explanation in science education!
Calvin: Why does the sun set? Dad: It's because hot air rises. The sun's hot in the middle of the day, so it rises high in the sky. In the evening then, it cools down and sets. Calvin: Why does it go from east to west? Dad: Solar wind.
Calvin: Why does the sky turn red as the sun sets? Dad: That's all the oxygen in the atmosphere catching fire. Calvin: Where does the sun go when it sets? Dad: The sun sets in the west. In Arizona actually, near Flagstaff. That's why the rocks there are so red. Calvin: Don't the people get burned up? Dad: No, the sun goes out as it sets. That's why it's dark at night. Calvin: Doesn't the sun crush the whole state as it lands? Dad: Ha ha, of course not. Hold a quarter up. See, the sun's just about the same size. Calvin: I thought I read that the sun was really big. Dad: You can't believe everything you read, I'm afraid.
Calvin: How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then? Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just that the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too. Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way? Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane. Calvin: But... But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then? Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s. Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too? Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
Calvin: Dad, will you explain the theory of relativity to me? I don't understand why time goes slower at great speed. Dad: It's because you keep changing time zones. See, if you fly to California, you gain three hours on a five-hour flight, right? So if you go at the speed of light, you gain more time, because it doesn't take as long to get there. Of course, the theory of relativity only works if you're going west.
Calvin: Why do my eyes shut when I sneeze? Dad: If your lids weren't closed, the force of the explosion would blow your eyeballs out and stretch the optic nerve, so your eyes would flop around and you'd have to point them with your hands to see anything.
Calvin: How do bank machines work? Dad: Well, let's say you want 25 dollars. You punch in the amount and behind the machine there's a guy with a printing press who makes the money and sticks it out this slot. Calvin: Sort of like the guy who lives up in our garage and opens the door? Dad: Exactly.
Calvin: What causes the wind? Dad: Trees sneezing.
Calvin: Why does ice float? Dad: Because it's cold. Ice wants to get warm, so it goes to the top of liquids to be nearer to the sun. Calvin: Is that true? Dad: Look it up and find out. Calvin: I should just look up stuff in the first place.
Calvin: How come you know so much? Dad: It's all in the book you get when you become a father.
Actually, there is some speculation that the Van Allen belts were the result of high altitude nuclear explosions in the 1950s.
Yeah, and there is some speculation that large-scale structure in the universe is actually governed by electric and magnetic influences, rather than gravity.:) But let's get a grip, the Van Allen belts are caused by natural processes. Although entirely separate from the Van Allen belts, if you read the page on the Starfish Prime nuclear test, it explains:
There have been nuclear tests in space that have caused artificial radiation belts. Starfish Prime, a high altitude nuclear test, created an artificial radiation belt that damaged or destroyed as many as one third of the satellites in low earth orbit at the time, including the first commercial communication satellite, Telstar.
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You missed superscript 110, which states clearly that neither AT&T nor its shareholders, subsidiaries, or partners, are to be held responsible in the event of mass armed uprisings.
What does the Higgs boson have to do with the singularity? Unless it gives us better computers, it does absolutely nothing for the singularity.
Yeah, that's right. I asked a question and then answered it right away.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=37;t=001039;p=0
People may hate Bush, and with good reason, but there's simply no excuse for exaggerating with lies, and to do so weakens the anti-Bush side of the camp. For people like me who have yet to fully formulate their opinion on Bush, it's hard to forget something like the parent's post, and makes me lean strongly away from "the side that has to lie to gain followers", even though I know deep down that only the extremist minority believe such things.
Zimbabwe's economy isn't collapsing, but rather is undergoing slight* inflation necessitating the printing of slightly* larger notes.
*For extremely, massively large values of slight. I mean, you may think it's a slight way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to Zimbabwe.
Yeah, it's not like the USAF, USMC, Navy, and Army are all on the same team, or something...
Using simple, non-relativistic math, you would surpass the speed of light by accelerating at a constant 9.8m/sec in just under a year. That means you get to live on your spaceship with simulated earth gravity due to your constant acceleration. That means we don't need to turn the inside of our spaceships into pink goo to accelerate to relativistic speeds within a reasonable amount of time.
The only problem is fuel. How do you power a ship at 9.8m/s^2, or any other 'sizable' acceleration? for that long? And don't forget you also have to slow down, or you won't enter orbit around your target--although in the case of New Horizons, it's designed to blow by Pluto because it's not feasible to conduct a mission that *eventually* puts a probe into orbit around the minor pluplanetoid.
This is a quote from Contact, and maybe something else. What is it supposed to mean? Although the sentence is easy to understand, it doesn't really make sense to me.
I've already bought parking up there for my cold fusion-powered Moller Skycar.
I was curious what a "rollable water container" was, so I went out and found this youtube video. It seems it's a kind of water drum that you pull behind you, and it rolls so you don't have to carry it on your back or something. It's for third-world countries that have to travel somewhere and bring back their potable water.
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation is the idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative-pressure vacuum energy density.
Also read Wikipedia's article on the Big Bang, since it's directly related. Both pages above are easy to read for amateurs with no serious physics background.
Why are you atheist and KNOW there is no God due to some incredible evidence only you have, instead of proclaim agnosticism and be ambivalent due simply to lack of evidence? Actual atheism appears almost paradoxically to involve just as hard of a belief as any major religion, such as Christianity or Islam. I simply don't understand how somebody would choose atheism over agnosticism.
The Viet Nam "police action" following on the heels of the Korean "police action" certainly show that this nation is far from the PR we feed our citizens.
You need to restudy your history, bud...
If anyone wishes to know more about what the parent is talking about, I've collected some required reading below. May it enlighten you wholly:
Genesis
Chapter One
In the beginning, the universe was cold and barren and empty. Suddenly a massive explosion occurred made up of particles and strings. In time many strings came together and his Noodleness was born. But the Flying Spaghetti Monster was not yet complete and he commanded, 'give me two balls in which to increase my mass so that I may travel' and the balls were created and gently lodged into his mass. When the Flying Spaghetti Monster felt it become part of him he felt that it was good. Then he commanded, 'Give me eyes for which to see that which needs to be done' and the Flying Spaghetti Monster took his first look at the early universe and said, 'Boy, do I have a lot of work to do.' Thus ended the first day.
He then with his mighty noodles organized the mess and created galaxies, nebulas and stars. After he looked at what he had done he saw that is was good. Thus ended the second day.
He amused himself by sitting on a black hole spinning to such speed that his Noodleness was flown away from the hole at a great speed. A galatic 'WHeeeeeeee' was usually present at the point of release. In one particular galaxy, the ride was so great and gave him so much pleasure that he released a galactic fart, the shock wave so great that it collapsed a nearby nebula. He watched as the cloud grew into a planetary system complete with a different kind of star then he had created and he saw that it was good.
He was so pleased that he returned to every galaxy he had made, and to every nebula large and small he turned and produced the same galactic fart and he did this throughout the universe. Thus ended the third day.
On the fourth day a particular planet caught the Flying Spaghetti Monster's eye. A small blue planet, in a good neighborhood. He commanded 'Let the land rise from this little gem and fire burn within to bring forth mountains.' And he saw that it was good. 'And let there be plants and foliage on the land, because blue green is so slick' and trees were seen on the mountains and he rejoiced at what he had done.
It was at this point that the Flying Spaghetti Monster realized that he was alone. 'In all of my travels I have met no one like me, nothing that.' And the Flying Spaghetti Monster sat atop the highest mountain and sobbed and his tears created the world's first rivers. Thus ended the fifth day.
On the morning of the sixth day, the Flying Spaghetti Monster wiped his eyes and combined several minerals together from the earth and added water and stirred the mixture with his noodles into the form of a midget and blew the breath of life into him saying 'Here is one I may talk with, walk with, nurture and be friends with.' The midget opened his eyes looked at the Flying Spaghetti Monster and smiled (although it could have been gas) and said 'Googa wawaa poopoo'. The Flying Spaghetti Monster sighed. Thus ended the sixth day.
On the seventh day the Flying Spaghetti Monster said 'Fuck it, I'm going to the beach.'
So I buy a phone outright for $599/$699, or I buy a phone for $199/$299 with a 2 year plan ($36 activation fee) then cancel the contract immediately for $175...net cost $410/$510. Hmmmm.....
They're tricking you into thinking you're winning... and you fell for it.
Can somebody please explain what's wrong with GPP's post? It seems nothing but hypocritical to bring down the heavy hand against selling one's vote in an election, yet at the same time legally allowing lobbying.
I visited Japan and Korea each several times, and it's really cool to visit their temples and castles. I also visited one of the national museums in Seoul. However, all of those experiences were overall disappointments, as almost every single one of the buildings I visited had been destroyed several times in its history, and almost always rebuilt within the last 120 years. Even the national museum that I visited in Korea, which was filled with items of serious value to the entire Korean race, had only replicas on display.
I really expected to visit sites and see buildings, castles, walkways, royal jewels, actual artifacts, and so on built by actual native craftsman over the last 450 years, but it is nothing but a serious letdown to see only buildings built and rebuilt post-1890s. Even the house I lived in until I was 18 is 130 years old, so I'm not impressed. I certainly wouldn't be impressed with seeing a Roman Colosseum that had been destroyed and rebuilt in recent times.
Why not use a radio transmitter in the tennis ball (or soccer ball or whatever) to record its exact position? I am certain this has been discussed and I wouldn't be surprised if it's already in use. The article's "Hawkeye" just works by optical analysis.
Did anyone else watching the (very impressive and representative) gameplay video think to yourselves, "Pick up the chipped star topaz. Pick it up. WHERE ARE YOU GO--PICK IT UP!!"?
Ahhhh, this is the game for me. :)
It's a... oh, right.
Of course, there are other problems to be solved. What about overpopulation? Today's death rate in the United States is just shy of 0.9%.
I think the actual death rate is around 100%, give or take statistical error.
John Titor was from a different future than the one we're heading towards.
Well, I'm not an astrophysicist, so I'm well aware my argument is flawed before I begin...
...however, supposing as the "black hole doomsday theory" does that Hawking radiation does not exist, how can they tell that what they are looking at is a neutron star, and not a black hole with the eaten mass of a neutron star?
Cool, except peak oil has already happened in the United States in the 1970s when national production peaked. This was correctly predicted by Hubbert way back in 1956, using what we call "Hubbert peak theory". Now we're waiting on global production to peak, with nearly every estimate and quote being 2015. I don't want to believe it because it is a very bad thing, but that doesn't stop facts from being facts. :(
You can find most of the above information and way more on the Peak oil page itself.
Stolen from a webpage (http://chrisdamato.blogspot.com/2007/03/ask-calvins-dad.html) from someone who stole them from someone who stole them from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
Illustrating the value of a good explanation in science education!
Calvin: Why does the sun set?
Dad: It's because hot air rises. The sun's hot in the middle of the day, so it rises high in the sky. In the evening then, it cools down and sets.
Calvin: Why does it go from east to west?
Dad: Solar wind.
Calvin: Why does the sky turn red as the sun sets?
Dad: That's all the oxygen in the atmosphere catching fire.
Calvin: Where does the sun go when it sets?
Dad: The sun sets in the west. In Arizona actually, near Flagstaff. That's why the rocks there are so red.
Calvin: Don't the people get burned up?
Dad: No, the sun goes out as it sets. That's why it's dark at night.
Calvin: Doesn't the sun crush the whole state as it lands?
Dad: Ha ha, of course not. Hold a quarter up. See, the sun's just about the same size.
Calvin: I thought I read that the sun was really big.
Dad: You can't believe everything you read, I'm afraid.
Calvin: How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just that the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
Calvin: Dad, will you explain the theory of relativity to me? I don't understand why time goes slower at great speed.
Dad: It's because you keep changing time zones. See, if you fly to California, you gain three hours on a five-hour flight, right? So if you go at the speed of light, you gain more time, because it doesn't take as long to get there. Of course, the theory of relativity only works if you're going west.
Calvin: Why do my eyes shut when I sneeze?
Dad: If your lids weren't closed, the force of the explosion would blow your eyeballs out and stretch the optic nerve, so your eyes would flop around and you'd have to point them with your hands to see anything.
Calvin: How do bank machines work?
Dad: Well, let's say you want 25 dollars. You punch in the amount and behind the machine there's a guy with a printing press who makes the money and sticks it out this slot.
Calvin: Sort of like the guy who lives up in our garage and opens the door?
Dad: Exactly.
Calvin: What causes the wind?
Dad: Trees sneezing.
Calvin: Why does ice float?
Dad: Because it's cold. Ice wants to get warm, so it goes to the top of liquids to be nearer to the sun.
Calvin: Is that true?
Dad: Look it up and find out.
Calvin: I should just look up stuff in the first place.
Calvin: How come you know so much?
Dad: It's all in the book you get when you become a father.
Actually, there is some speculation that the Van Allen belts were the result of high altitude nuclear explosions in the 1950s.
:) But let's get a grip, the Van Allen belts are caused by natural processes. Although entirely separate from the Van Allen belts, if you read the page on the Starfish Prime nuclear test, it explains:
Yeah, and there is some speculation that large-scale structure in the universe is actually governed by electric and magnetic influences, rather than gravity.
There have been nuclear tests in space that have caused artificial radiation belts. Starfish Prime, a high altitude nuclear test, created an artificial radiation belt that damaged or destroyed as many as one third of the satellites in low earth orbit at the time, including the first commercial communication satellite, Telstar.