Have you ever actually seen a cheap (or even an expensive) milling machine in operation?
I can see what the attraction is with a printing solution rather than a cutting solution. Milling is messy, and certainly not something you'd want to do in your lounge room.
The big sales pitch was that this show would expose fringe science to the average person. I watched probably six or seven episodes of the first season and had precisely zero basis in reality. Fictional shows have a right to be fictional, except this was mismarketed.
I watched a few episodes, because it looked interesting. Then I saw a baby be born and grow to adult size in a matter of minutes without consuming any nutrients and went back to watching Lost instead. At least it didn't pretend to be anything else other than what it was.
The X-Files took a fairly simple plot idea (that the government would conspire with aliens for their benefit while possibly selling out the rest of humanity) and used that to tie together a good character drama. What really made the show work was chemistry between the characters.
This could be a real space saving measure. No need to keep a viable population of every species. Just a few breeding pairs and enough genetic stock in the freezer to ensure diversity should we ever want a population of the animal around again. And we don't need to keep every species around either, just the ones compatible enough to breed the rest.
We'll see if you still feel the same way when you've stepped in a steaming mammoth turd and it comes up to your neck, or when you come down with a nasty case of mammoth pox.
And you don't know how it will turn out. What if they swap in some of the wrong DNA and these things end up the size of gerbils?
It's more than that though. Any baby that depends on it's mother for the first days/months/years of its life will do so via a fairly complex relationship. A lamb and it's mother can pick each other out of a large flock easily. If the goat gave birth to a lamb, the chances are that the relationship just wouldn't work. I assume an elephant and a mammoth are more similar than a sheep and a goat, but it would be reasonable to assume that all the physical and chemical signals might still be not quite right.
It would be one hell of an interesting experiment though. Despite all my ramblings above there have been some well documented weird cross-species mother and adopted child relationships that have worked out fairly well...
Yeah, but it won't necessarily rot your mind in the process like prion disease does. Could be a horrific terrorist weapon, assuming the terrorists are long-sighted enough - poison a large number of the population with something that they won't even know they have for 5-20 years, then watch society crumble as half the population suffers from mindrot.
They don't even need to do the research now to see if it works or not.
Maybe that's the secret. Rapists have nasal congestion problems!
I wonder how much of it is learned too... sure our brains can 'smell' tears, but the response could still be a result of conditioning rather than anything hardwired.
I wonder if snowdon was on the team that sent the Climate Orbiter to Mars... it's not a 1:1 conversion dammit!
In addition to being 53.6km/h short, he'd also be approximately 1.21 jiggawatts short too. I'm not exactly sure what a jiggawatt is, but assuming it's a gigawatt or something bigger, whatever power the car does generate from the sun is an insignificant fraction of that.
I guess it is a matter of semantics, but if a loaded gun is stored in a cupboard, a child opens the cupboard and the gun falls over and discharges through the child, I wouldn't ever phrase that as "a person shot that child", but the phrase "the gun discharged, shooting the child" would make more sense.
Wrong. People with guns shoot people. And there are many incidents where shootings occurred due to accidents without a 'shooter' being involved. There have even been (very rare) cases where a pet or other animal disturbed the gun resulting in it being fired and shooting someone. The _only_ common factor in _all_ shooting incidents is a gun.
Their only reason is to kill people. Just ban guns already.
...or to kill animals. There are a lot of hunters in this country, who are not killing people with their guns -- and this is in spite of the fact that a typical deer hunting rifle is many times more powerful and has a much longer effective range than a handgun. The problem of gun violence in America is not a simple matter of the availability of guns, and it will not be solved by simply making guns illegal.
Different guns for different purposes. A handgun is ideal for walking into a crowded place and shooting people with. A deer hunting rifle is ideal for shooting deer. There isn't a lot of point comparing them.
But the government _did_ drop the ball. Not by picking Microsoft, but by not following the proper procedures in feigning whatever 'consider other options' requirements there were. If they haven't even bothered making up reasons why Microsoft won and Google didn't, then they have dropped the ball.
When they started rerunning the old episodes in Australia a few years back I really enjoyed them. The acting wasn't real good, the fight scenes (fist fights etc) were so bad they were funny, and the strings holding up the dalek's spaceship were visible and it rocked side to side, but I still really enjoyed them.
That's what I thought when I read the headline. An Ion Cannon to blast cars that have overstayed their allotted time would be good too. No invasion of privacy then either - you can remain anonymous while you are blasted from space!
Most meat animals have the same survival strategy. They've evolved in such a way that they continue on as a species while we eat some of them. The fact that we've had a hand in that evolution is just as valid for fruit/grain/vegetables/etc as it is for animals.
Maybe it's the rapture, and all the blackbirds ascended to heaven leaving their mortal bodies behind. We should probably find out what god they were worshiping and switch ASAP. Obviously the fish were worshiping the same god too.
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it won't see an IPv6 address 'string'. That's the whole point.
NAT has been a solved problem for over a decade. an IPv4 network NATted behind an IPv6 network is not hard.
Have you ever actually seen a cheap (or even an expensive) milling machine in operation?
I can see what the attraction is with a printing solution rather than a cutting solution. Milling is messy, and certainly not something you'd want to do in your lounge room.
The big sales pitch was that this show would expose fringe science to the average person. I watched probably six or seven episodes of the first season and had precisely zero basis in reality. Fictional shows have a right to be fictional, except this was mismarketed.
I watched a few episodes, because it looked interesting. Then I saw a baby be born and grow to adult size in a matter of minutes without consuming any nutrients and went back to watching Lost instead. At least it didn't pretend to be anything else other than what it was.
The X-Files took a fairly simple plot idea (that the government would conspire with aliens for their benefit while possibly selling out the rest of humanity) and used that to tie together a good character drama. What really made the show work was chemistry between the characters.
Hell yes!
This could be a real space saving measure. No need to keep a viable population of every species. Just a few breeding pairs and enough genetic stock in the freezer to ensure diversity should we ever want a population of the animal around again. And we don't need to keep every species around either, just the ones compatible enough to breed the rest.
I think the dangers here are non-existent.
We'll see if you still feel the same way when you've stepped in a steaming mammoth turd and it comes up to your neck, or when you come down with a nasty case of mammoth pox.
And you don't know how it will turn out. What if they swap in some of the wrong DNA and these things end up the size of gerbils?
It's more than that though. Any baby that depends on it's mother for the first days/months/years of its life will do so via a fairly complex relationship. A lamb and it's mother can pick each other out of a large flock easily. If the goat gave birth to a lamb, the chances are that the relationship just wouldn't work. I assume an elephant and a mammoth are more similar than a sheep and a goat, but it would be reasonable to assume that all the physical and chemical signals might still be not quite right.
It would be one hell of an interesting experiment though. Despite all my ramblings above there have been some well documented weird cross-species mother and adopted child relationships that have worked out fairly well...
Yeah, but it won't necessarily rot your mind in the process like prion disease does. Could be a horrific terrorist weapon, assuming the terrorists are long-sighted enough - poison a large number of the population with something that they won't even know they have for 5-20 years, then watch society crumble as half the population suffers from mindrot.
They don't even need to do the research now to see if it works or not.
No the species would need a bit of help. Simply kill all the babies that weren't green with antennae and you'd have martian's in no time.
when I hear "app store", I think of Apple
I actually thought that they might just have been having a bit of a play on words, with "app" also being the first 3 letters of "apple".
MySpace has developers? What do they do?!
Spend all day keeping their facebook statuses up to date.
Maybe that's the secret. Rapists have nasal congestion problems!
I wonder how much of it is learned too... sure our brains can 'smell' tears, but the response could still be a result of conditioning rather than anything hardwired.
all relationships end up sexless!!
Yes, because we all die in the end. If it happens sooner then you're doing it wrong.
> If only Doc Brown had used the metric system!
You'd be 53.6km/h short.
I wonder if snowdon was on the team that sent the Climate Orbiter to Mars... it's not a 1:1 conversion dammit!
In addition to being 53.6km/h short, he'd also be approximately 1.21 jiggawatts short too. I'm not exactly sure what a jiggawatt is, but assuming it's a gigawatt or something bigger, whatever power the car does generate from the sun is an insignificant fraction of that.
Communism is working great for China.
As long as you don't count the happiness of the people living in the country...
I guess it is a matter of semantics, but if a loaded gun is stored in a cupboard, a child opens the cupboard and the gun falls over and discharges through the child, I wouldn't ever phrase that as "a person shot that child", but the phrase "the gun discharged, shooting the child" would make more sense.
Guns don't shoot people, people shoot people
Wrong. People with guns shoot people. And there are many incidents where shootings occurred due to accidents without a 'shooter' being involved. There have even been (very rare) cases where a pet or other animal disturbed the gun resulting in it being fired and shooting someone. The _only_ common factor in _all_ shooting incidents is a gun.
Their only reason is to kill people. Just ban guns already.
Different guns for different purposes. A handgun is ideal for walking into a crowded place and shooting people with. A deer hunting rifle is ideal for shooting deer. There isn't a lot of point comparing them.
I think it's time to really consider leaving the US before this sort to stupid political strife becomes a full blown civil war...
Yeah. Try one of the African nations. Nobody ever gets shot there and they haven't had a civil war in days.
But the government _did_ drop the ball. Not by picking Microsoft, but by not following the proper procedures in feigning whatever 'consider other options' requirements there were. If they haven't even bothered making up reasons why Microsoft won and Google didn't, then they have dropped the ball.
When they started rerunning the old episodes in Australia a few years back I really enjoyed them. The acting wasn't real good, the fight scenes (fist fights etc) were so bad they were funny, and the strings holding up the dalek's spaceship were visible and it rocked side to side, but I still really enjoyed them.
That's what I thought when I read the headline. An Ion Cannon to blast cars that have overstayed their allotted time would be good too. No invasion of privacy then either - you can remain anonymous while you are blasted from space!
So the plan is to explore Venus by burying sensors around the planet and detecting when something parks on top of them?
At least the pioneers will be able to locate a parking spot quickly!
PJ should start up an underground vigilante group, administering justice wherever she see's fit. She has the followers to do it.
There's no justice like angry mob justice!
Most meat animals have the same survival strategy. They've evolved in such a way that they continue on as a species while we eat some of them. The fact that we've had a hand in that evolution is just as valid for fruit/grain/vegetables/etc as it is for animals.
Maybe it's the rapture, and all the blackbirds ascended to heaven leaving their mortal bodies behind. We should probably find out what god they were worshiping and switch ASAP. Obviously the fish were worshiping the same god too.