Please re-read my post, I wasn't denying that that is how astronomy does things, I was merely saying that it reeks of bad science, fitting the theory to available data, instead of hypothesizing a theory and checking that it fits the data.
The problem with trusting our theoretical models is that we have only 9 datapoints, which is far too low to have something like a 90% confidence margin givin there are trillions of planets of various types.
A theoretical model that isn't based on statistics is basically worthless, as you need *sufficient* evidence to prove it. Until enough evidence is gathered, it's not a theory, it's a conjecture. Science is based on the two sides of theoretical and experimental adding onto each other, with the theoreticians predicting something and experimentalists confriming it, or experimentalists finding some weird result and theoreticians explaining it.
With all the screwups by the popular media, ala in this article bigger = size instead of mass, do you think that enough scientists/people misquoted by the media will just stop talking to them, forcing them to have higher standards? Or will it be that the charletons and fools fake being scientists and everyone has even less correct information? Or is it something like choice 3, cowboyneal?
Dammit man, it is imperative that we learn about ants sorting tiny screws in weightlessness. If we do not have this technology, then the terrorists have already won!
Scientist: People, we're in danger of losing our funding. America isn't interested in space exploration any more. Assistant: Maybe we should finally tell them the big secret: that all the chimps we sent into space came back super-intelligent. Chimp: No, I don't think we'll be telling them _that_.
You might want to be aware of the fact that planning to commit a crime counts as conspiricy.
Also, try to work on your trolling. Sure, you've got +2 insightful as I write this, but the guy who posted that the CIA trained bin laden is at +5 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147726 &cid=12380833. Some important points:
Usually speak in generalities, and don't provide links.
When you do provide facts, make them difficult to verify, i.e. claim to have some position where you're in a position to hear privlidged information, or refer to their availablity though something that would take time and effort to verify, like the FOIA
Always make it clear that what you say is 100% true, using words like verified, undisputed, etc..., and be sure to use at least 3 of them each time you do.
If trolling against america, make it clear that you don't hate america, don't support terrorism, then go own to blame america for wearing a short skirt.
At the end, make ad homiem attacks. This is sometimes quite tricky, so make sure that you've used enough emotional rhetoric that you could advocate that babies are tastey and be modded +5 if you choose to do this.
I'd apperciate anyone who is more experienced with Trollology to expand on this.
FOOLS! YOU ALL WORSHIP FALSE GODS. THE ONE TRUE LANGUAGE IS BASIC!
This text is just here to make the lameness filter make it think that I'm not using so many caps. Really, who came up with the stupid idea that all caps is like yelling. Who de doo, I'm offendend by capitalization. So would the corollary be that typing in all lowercase is like whispering. Well, I'm gonna try this now and see if it works.
I don't know what crap CS program you;re familier with, but at UIUC you need to take a ECE transistor/circuit course, a CS basic logic elements and making adders and such, a intermediate CS where you learn the design of a simple MIPS processor, and an advance course that as of last year went into many aspects of recent systems like the P4. If the your curriculum doesn't include all this, learn it on your own from MIT opencoursewhatever or books, or find a new school.
Going briefly over the available documents on this
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Nuclear Fusion Discovered
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· Score: 2, Informative
Going briefly over the available documents on this, it appears that this technique consumes orders of magnitude more energy than it produces. This would preclude energy generation as one of the potential applications, which is usually regarded as the most promising potential application of cold fusion. Most of the other potential applications mentioned in the articles use this as a neutron generator, but there are other well known ways of achieving that...
1. Water is 1/6000 Deuterium, or.016%.
1. and 2. This produces a minescule amount of neutrons compared to buying radioactive elements off ebay and such, it's useful because it provides a neutron source that can be precisely controlled, to get any signifigant quantity of fissible uranium still requires fancy eqkuipment.
3. As for use as a trigger, I think once you've built an atomic bomb, building the trigger is not gonna be rocket surgery.
It'd be bad enough if the guy was humorless. But he's also a moron, as he is apparenly unaware that we've developed techniques to handle and protect ourselves hazardous substances like poisons and radioactive elements.
Dear sir, I would like to travel to your world. There, I could learn about how most of Europe doesn't require mandatory military service. You see, in my world, the US does not require military service and the US does, while your world seems to be the opposite. I think we could both learn greatly from each other to make both our worlds more peaceful.
eighth most common metal "eighth most common metal" "first second... tenth most common metal" 10 most common metals 10 most common metals uranium most common elements most common elements tungsten tin (since www.uic.gov said that uranium was about as common as them, about 2 ppm) uranium most common metal common metals uranium most common metals most common metals in the curst abundance of tin abundance of uranium eight most common metals most common metals most common metals uranium most common metals uranium tungsten tin most common metals uranium tungsten tin earth's crust
Finally, abundance of elements.
So it was over an hour of work, and finding out that aluminum is the most common metal in the crust, how the various rankings change based on in the universe, solar system, earth, and earth's crust, and that thinking for a second (re: production of elements by fusion and supernova) would save much time. In the interest of providing this info for future reference, I followed the webelements on wiki, and present you this:
For the first time, on the internet, a list of the most common elements, with their abundance in ppm by weight. http://slashdot.org/~coopex/journal/
This typing is just extraneous, to circumvent the gayass lameness filter. I shall now just be typing conversations I hear in the computer lab, to make the average of characters per line greater than it is currently at 11.5. You know alot more about it than we do. It'll be like a white stripe. See what I'm thinking, Check this out. Then I flatten it out, I flatten the hose out. But the problem is, getting those, getting that texture to lay on the ground. Mitchell is somewhat busy right now. What am I doing? My question is does that sound like a good idea? But apparently... people want. You know just avaoid the whole hose. Now it is at 15.2 characters, So I shall entertain you with a reading. Ahem, The Walrus and the Carpenter. The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might, doing his very best to make the billows smooth and bright, and this was odd because it was the middle of the night. The moon was shining sulkily because she thought the sun, had got no business to be there after the day was dune, it's very rude of him she said, to come and spoil the fun. The spelling nazis must remake about my correct use, I verily did use it's and not its did I use, and furthermore grammar did I spell not with e or u. The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand, they wept like anything to see such quantities of sand. If this were only swept away, they said it would be grand. If seven maids with seven mops, swept it for half a year, do you suppose the walrus said, that they could get it clear, I doubt it said the carpenter, and shed a bitter tear. etc etc, they trick a bunch of oysters to come with them, the mother oyster warns them they the walrus and the carpenter are up to no good, and the walrus and the carpenter eat all the baby oysters. Dammit, its still only 20.5 characters per line. WTF is with this lameness filter, considering our "beloved" leader has said the most lame comment ever, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Yep, the firehouse should not need a clip anymore. I'm just trying to figure out why you can't. Yeah I see what you mean it looks like it's just teleporting. Oh I know why. Why? Go to... Oh scott, can I submit to this version in here. Ok, I'm gonna download... Just download torque SVM, yeah, I'd check it out to the local machine. And now some unauthorized retyping of the dailyillini. Garbage plan won't charge UI students. By Eric Chima, Staff writer A new Champaign law would charge landowners for leaving trash on their property during move-out week, but area landloards say students living in the city have no need to fear suprise fines being passed on to them. The Law, which unanimously passed a Council poll April 12, and will come up for a f
From the chart it appears that Uranium is about the 50th most commen element. So crypto is full of shit and should be modded into oblivion, and ckaminski should be modded informative. This should be obvious, as ckaminski points out by how heavier elements are created.
Let's review some basic economics. When there is a greater supply of some good, ceteris paribus, the price is lower. Uranium has a large supply, being the 8th most common metal, so its price is correspondingly much lower than gold. Learn to use your brain dumbass.
Slashdot Mirror
"A lot of people talk about the areas of circles, but I'm doing something about it." - Dilbert
I want +1 funny! Here's my link http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147954 &cid=12396925
Please re-read my post, I wasn't denying that that is how astronomy does things, I was merely saying that it reeks of bad science, fitting the theory to available data, instead of hypothesizing a theory and checking that it fits the data.
The problem with trusting our theoretical models is that we have only 9 datapoints, which is far too low to have something like a 90% confidence margin givin there are trillions of planets of various types.
A theoretical model that isn't based on statistics is basically worthless, as you need *sufficient* evidence to prove it. Until enough evidence is gathered, it's not a theory, it's a conjecture. Science is based on the two sides of theoretical and experimental adding onto each other, with the theoreticians predicting something and experimentalists confriming it, or experimentalists finding some weird result and theoreticians explaining it.
With all the screwups by the popular media, ala in this article bigger = size instead of mass, do you think that enough scientists/people misquoted by the media will just stop talking to them, forcing them to have higher standards? Or will it be that the charletons and fools fake being scientists and everyone has even less correct information? Or is it something like choice 3, cowboyneal?
Dammit man, it is imperative that we learn about ants sorting tiny screws in weightlessness. If we do not have this technology, then the terrorists have already won!
Scientist: People, we're in danger of losing our funding. America isn't interested in space exploration any more.
Assistant: Maybe we should finally tell them the big secret: that all the chimps we sent into space came back super-intelligent.
Chimp: No, I don't think we'll be telling them _that_.
You might want to be aware of the fact that planning to commit a crime counts as conspiricy.
6 &cid=12380833. Some important points:
Also, try to work on your trolling. Sure, you've got +2 insightful as I write this, but the guy who posted that the CIA trained bin laden is at +5 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14772
Usually speak in generalities, and don't provide links.
When you do provide facts, make them difficult to verify, i.e. claim to have some position where you're in a position to hear privlidged information, or refer to their availablity though something that would take time and effort to verify, like the FOIA
Always make it clear that what you say is 100% true, using words like verified, undisputed, etc..., and be sure to use at least 3 of them each time you do.
If trolling against america, make it clear that you don't hate america, don't support terrorism, then go own to blame america for wearing a short skirt.
At the end, make ad homiem attacks. This is sometimes quite tricky, so make sure that you've used enough emotional rhetoric that you could advocate that babies are tastey and be modded +5 if you choose to do this.
I'd apperciate anyone who is more experienced with Trollology to expand on this.
FOOLS! YOU ALL WORSHIP FALSE GODS. THE ONE TRUE LANGUAGE IS BASIC! This text is just here to make the lameness filter make it think that I'm not using so many caps. Really, who came up with the stupid idea that all caps is like yelling. Who de doo, I'm offendend by capitalization. So would the corollary be that typing in all lowercase is like whispering. Well, I'm gonna try this now and see if it works.
Doesn't count if you buy her mail-order from Russia.
I don't know what crap CS program you;re familier with, but at UIUC you need to take a ECE transistor/circuit course, a CS basic logic elements and making adders and such, a intermediate CS where you learn the design of a simple MIPS processor, and an advance course that as of last year went into many aspects of recent systems like the P4. If the your curriculum doesn't include all this, learn it on your own from MIT opencoursewhatever or books, or find a new school.
Going briefly over the available documents on this, it appears that this technique consumes orders of magnitude more energy than it produces. This would preclude energy generation as one of the potential applications, which is usually regarded as the most promising potential application of cold fusion. Most of the other potential applications mentioned in the articles use this as a neutron generator, but there are other well known ways of achieving that...
Fear not.
.016%.
1. Water is 1/6000 Deuterium, or
1. and 2. This produces a minescule amount of neutrons compared to buying radioactive elements off ebay and such, it's useful because it provides a neutron source that can be precisely controlled, to get any signifigant quantity of fissible uranium still requires fancy eqkuipment.
3. As for use as a trigger, I think once you've built an atomic bomb, building the trigger is not gonna be rocket surgery.
Hey, I'm UIUC, any chance I get borrow some of your "equipment" to pla^H^H^N^Hstudy San Andreas.
Go right ahead, just put "Organized by Joe Cooper from webelements.com"
"I've tried to make the same case with my cow orkers"
Now that there's your problem, you should be trying to make the case with co-workers, not your cow orchestra.
*orker = orchestra in danish
Yeah, they may be useless for saving lives in a crash, but they're fun to steal and inflate on half asleep drunks.
Damn, and I chose (7)CowboynealJets.
It'd be bad enough if the guy was humorless. But he's also a moron, as he is apparenly unaware that we've developed techniques to handle and protect ourselves hazardous substances like poisons and radioactive elements.
1. Wired magazine because shiny things magazine for PHDs a few years ago. 2. Someone hasn't seen MIB2
Dear sir, I would like to travel to your world. There, I could learn about how most of Europe doesn't require mandatory military service. You see, in my world, the US does not require military service and the US does, while your world seems to be the opposite. I think we could both learn greatly from each other to make both our worlds more peaceful.
http://www.answers.com/topic/conscription
In the order I see them in my history:
eighth most common metal
"eighth most common metal"
"first second... tenth most common metal"
10 most common metals
10 most common metals uranium
most common elements
most common elements tungsten tin (since www.uic.gov said that uranium was about as common as them, about 2 ppm)
uranium most common metal
common metals
uranium most common metals
most common metals in the curst
abundance of tin
abundance of uranium
eight most common metals
most common metals
most common metals uranium
most common metals uranium tungsten tin
most common metals uranium tungsten tin earth's crust
Finally, abundance of elements.
So it was over an hour of work, and finding out that aluminum is the most common metal in the crust, how the various rankings change based on in the universe, solar system, earth, and earth's crust, and that thinking for a second (re: production of elements by fusion and supernova) would save much time.
In the interest of providing this info for future reference, I followed the webelements on wiki, and present you this:
For the first time, on the internet, a list of the most common elements, with their abundance in ppm by weight.
http://slashdot.org/~coopex/journal/
This typing is just extraneous, to circumvent the gayass lameness filter. I shall now just be typing conversations I hear in the computer lab, to make the average of characters per line greater than it is currently at 11.5. You know alot more about it than we do. It'll be like a white stripe. See what I'm thinking, Check this out. Then I flatten it out, I flatten the hose out. But the problem is, getting those, getting that texture to lay on the ground. Mitchell is somewhat busy right now. What am I doing? My question is does that sound like a good idea? But apparently... people want. You know just avaoid the whole hose. Now it is at 15.2 characters, So I shall entertain you with a reading. Ahem, The Walrus and the Carpenter. The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might, doing his very best to make the billows smooth and bright, and this was odd because it was the middle of the night. The moon was shining sulkily because she thought the sun, had got no business to be there after the day was dune, it's very rude of him she said, to come and spoil the fun. The spelling nazis must remake about my correct use, I verily did use it's and not its did I use, and furthermore grammar did I spell not with e or u. The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand, they wept like anything to see such quantities of sand. If this were only swept away, they said it would be grand. If seven maids with seven mops, swept it for half a year, do you suppose the walrus said, that they could get it clear, I doubt it said the carpenter, and shed a bitter tear. etc etc, they trick a bunch of oysters to come with them, the mother oyster warns them they the walrus and the carpenter are up to no good, and the walrus and the carpenter eat all the baby oysters. Dammit, its still only 20.5 characters per line. WTF is with this lameness filter, considering our "beloved" leader has said the most lame comment ever, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Yep, the firehouse should not need a clip anymore. I'm just trying to figure out why you can't. Yeah I see what you mean it looks like it's just teleporting. Oh I know why. Why? Go to... Oh scott, can I submit to this version in here. Ok, I'm gonna download... Just download torque SVM, yeah, I'd check it out to the local machine. And now some unauthorized retyping of the dailyillini.
Garbage plan won't charge UI students.
By Eric Chima, Staff writer
A new Champaign law would charge landowners for leaving trash on their property during move-out week, but area landloards say students living in the city have no need to fear suprise fines being passed on to them. The Law, which unanimously passed a Council poll April 12, and will come up for a f
I apologize for the rude remark.
t he_chemical_elements#Abundance_of_elements_in_Eart h.27s_crust.
So, after far too much time searching, I finally came across this site: http://www.physicsdaily.com/physics/Abundance_of_
From the chart it appears that Uranium is about the 50th most commen element. So crypto is full of shit and should be modded into oblivion, and ckaminski should be modded informative. This should be obvious, as ckaminski points out by how heavier elements are created.
Good laymans description of qubits.
Let's review some basic economics. When there is a greater supply of some good, ceteris paribus, the price is lower. Uranium has a large supply, being the 8th most common metal, so its price is correspondingly much lower than gold. Learn to use your brain dumbass.