On the upside, if man ever develops the technology to travel at the speed of light while remaining shielded from cosmic radiation, he could effectively travel into the future. "A five year trip at light speed could push an astronaut forward by 1000 earth years," says Freese, "If he wanted to see if any humans were still around by then."
"The nearest star [to Earth] is Proxima Centauri which is 4.2 light years away," says University of Michigan astrophysicist Katherine Freese, "That means that, if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time, it would take 4.2 years to get there."
Wrong. It would take no time at all.
Dr Freese - you have failed your special relativity course.
Which idiots thought it would be a cool idea to make email and instant messaging into an immersive experience? Some of us actually want to be away from the keyboard ACTUALLY HAVING SEX (which makes me a tiny minority on/. ) rather than sending deep thoughts like OMG! WTF! BBQ! FTW! to other morons.
I don't need a more immersive experience with my computer.The only ones who do are those not getting laid. Ever.
Interestingly, global warming does cause colder winters. The cause of those colder winters is the melting of the ice caps.
Interestingly the ice caps are not melting. One is in a decline (the Arctic) and one is growing (Antarctic). Result? No change in total ice cover in the last 30 years.
More heat in the atmosphere means more energy, which causes stronger winds and quicker circulation. Cold air from the north pole travel faster to Europe and therefore has less time to warm in the way.
That's amazing. Totally wrong, but its amazing to watch someone create a theory based on no science whatsoever.
Those colder winters are more than balanced by hotter summers, we are spending away our ice reserves. It's like when you spend more than you earn. Your having more money to spend does not mean you're getting richer.
In general, scientists are happy to share their data (after they've finished analyzing it and have published) with other scientists who they believe might have some competence in understanding it.
That isn't the case where the data supports a controversial proposal, then you'll find that even fellow scientists have difficulty getting the original data. Keeping hold of data and claiming it as your personal property is rife in the sciences.
For example, I've tried to get hold of several pieces of data which support a supposedly scientifically significant result, and each time the data have remained hidden by the scientists. Next will come the FOIA.
None of the people who asked for the data were amateurs. But more importantly, the data that Jones was trying to hide had already been lost - by Jones.
More importantly for the Guardian readers and everyone else trying to put a line under the ClimateGate affair, the Russell inquiry failed to ever ask whether the emails requested under FOIA had in fact been deleted as Jones had demanded.
Still there are a lot of people desperately trying to sweep inconvenient truths under the rug - but its only going to get worse, not better.
The answer is that Labour are too scared of campaigning with the measure on their manifesto that they're kicking it into the light rough and will pick it back up just as soon as the election is over.
Cocaine is not addictive, its just that certain people become addicted to cocaine because they are prone to addiction?
Nope.
I suspect that wilderness courses will become more and more popular as people learn that constant social interaction leaves them with no time to think, to read books or to enjoy their own company.
I suspect that the massive growth of Internet narcissism through social media is going to produce people who show clear symptoms of psychological distress and incipient mental disturbance.
I signed up to Google Wave and then realised that the last thing I needed was email and texting to become an immersive experience.
Buddypress enables you to create an online community simply and easily with great flexibility. Its integrated into Wordpress which means blogging is simple and intuitive
Check it out at http://buddypress.org/
Twitter is a perfect example of a communications product for people who can't write sentences, punctuate or spell and for other people who can't or won't read books. Twitter is the NEWSPEAK prolefeed of the early 21st Century.
I fail to see why this is a problem. Can't he put his cartoons online somewhere? The world isn't made out of iPhones, and there exist general purpose computers for running programs...
Ah but the cartoon are built using Flash. Which means that Mark Fiore is blocked out completely from Apple's iPod/Touch/Phone/Pad walled-off universe.
And no, you don't have a right to view the result unless you're a complete fucked-up ghoul.
Unfortunately, the ghouls DO have the right to view. Nobody said free speech was always pretty.
As GP said, the real problem here is that it was police who sent the info out - abusing their positions to do so.
This wasn't about freedom of speech. That BS argument was dispensed with very well by the court. It was about the abuse of privileged information that should not have been released without a court order justifying its release.
And no, ghouls don't have some extra legal rights that trump everyone else's.
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She measured it from the perspective of the traveler. Hence its a stupid thing to say.
On the upside, if man ever develops the technology to travel at the speed of light while remaining shielded from cosmic radiation, he could effectively travel into the future. "A five year trip at light speed could push an astronaut forward by 1000 earth years," says Freese, "If he wanted to see if any humans were still around by then."
Oh dear. Wrong again.
From TFA:
"The nearest star [to Earth] is Proxima Centauri which is 4.2 light years away," says University of Michigan astrophysicist Katherine Freese, "That means that, if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time, it would take 4.2 years to get there."
Wrong. It would take no time at all.
Dr Freese - you have failed your special relativity course.
Which idiots thought it would be a cool idea to make email and instant messaging into an immersive experience? Some of us actually want to be away from the keyboard ACTUALLY HAVING SEX (which makes me a tiny minority on /. ) rather than sending deep thoughts like OMG! WTF! BBQ! FTW! to other morons.
I don't need a more immersive experience with my computer.The only ones who do are those not getting laid. Ever.
By reducing conduction and convection. Radiative transfer is so inefficient that your food doesn't respond to the outside temperature very much.
Its more like +500
Interestingly, global warming does cause colder winters. The cause of those colder winters is the melting of the ice caps.
Interestingly the ice caps are not melting. One is in a decline (the Arctic) and one is growing (Antarctic). Result? No change in total ice cover in the last 30 years.
More heat in the atmosphere means more energy, which causes stronger winds and quicker circulation. Cold air from the north pole travel faster to Europe and therefore has less time to warm in the way.
That's amazing. Totally wrong, but its amazing to watch someone create a theory based on no science whatsoever.
Those colder winters are more than balanced by hotter summers, we are spending away our ice reserves. It's like when you spend more than you earn. Your having more money to spend does not mean you're getting richer.
Yep. Its bad metaphor week.
Whoever marked the parent as informative is a moron.
Say good bye to cancer and a big helloooo to childhood retardation! Go Vegans!
In general, scientists are happy to share their data (after they've finished analyzing it and have published) with other scientists who they believe might have some competence in understanding it.
That isn't the case where the data supports a controversial proposal, then you'll find that even fellow scientists have difficulty getting the original data. Keeping hold of data and claiming it as your personal property is rife in the sciences.
For example, I've tried to get hold of several pieces of data which support a supposedly scientifically significant result, and each time the data have remained hidden by the scientists. Next will come the FOIA.
Its also human nature when you're caught in a lie, to try to defame your opponent. That's exactly what Jones and Mann did.
Any evidence that the experts had been assembled by Fox News? No.
But when you're trying to hide a lie, the best tactic is to create an even bigger one to distract.
None of the people who asked for the data were amateurs. But more importantly, the data that Jones was trying to hide had already been lost - by Jones.
More importantly for the Guardian readers and everyone else trying to put a line under the ClimateGate affair, the Russell inquiry failed to ever ask whether the emails requested under FOIA had in fact been deleted as Jones had demanded.
Still there are a lot of people desperately trying to sweep inconvenient truths under the rug - but its only going to get worse, not better.
Funnily enough, none of the people who asked for the data were funded by Exxon-Mobil. Its boring how facts get submerged by a straightforward lie.
Clearly Salman Khan is a teaching genius and his educational materials are a precious gift for the (Internet) world.
Every slashdotter should donate at least a dollar to say thank you. I have.
The answer is that Labour are too scared of campaigning with the measure on their manifesto that they're kicking it into the light rough and will pick it back up just as soon as the election is over.
Cocaine is not addictive, its just that certain people become addicted to cocaine because they are prone to addiction?
Nope.
I suspect that wilderness courses will become more and more popular as people learn that constant social interaction leaves them with no time to think, to read books or to enjoy their own company.
I suspect that the massive growth of Internet narcissism through social media is going to produce people who show clear symptoms of psychological distress and incipient mental disturbance.
I signed up to Google Wave and then realised that the last thing I needed was email and texting to become an immersive experience.
Buddypress enables you to create an online community simply and easily with great flexibility. Its integrated into Wordpress which means blogging is simple and intuitive Check it out at http://buddypress.org/
Twitter is a perfect example of a communications product for people who can't write sentences, punctuate or spell and for other people who can't or won't read books. Twitter is the NEWSPEAK prolefeed of the early 21st Century.
I fail to see why this is a problem. Can't he put his cartoons online somewhere? The world isn't made out of iPhones, and there exist general purpose computers for running programs...
Ah but the cartoon are built using Flash. Which means that Mark Fiore is blocked out completely from Apple's iPod/Touch/Phone/Pad walled-off universe.
You'd have liked life under Pol Pot, wouldn't you?
...and neither do the lefteous. It's one of those diseases that affect wings.
...and Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri and Greenpeace and....
And no, you don't have a right to view the result unless you're a complete fucked-up ghoul.
Unfortunately, the ghouls DO have the right to view. Nobody said free speech was always pretty.
As GP said, the real problem here is that it was police who sent the info out - abusing their positions to do so.
This wasn't about freedom of speech. That BS argument was dispensed with very well by the court. It was about the abuse of privileged information that should not have been released without a court order justifying its release.
And no, ghouls don't have some extra legal rights that trump everyone else's.
Werd.