Im sorry but the technology is still to expensive and still to impractical without someone intervening. Take solar energy for example. The government provides incentives for people to install it because you would die before you would ever actually see any savings.
There are basicly two Americas now: the red states (rednecks) and the blue states (blue noses). This isn't a state division so much as it is an urban vs. rural/suburban division. Its roots go back to the division between the original settlers of the USA who came two-three hundred years ago and the people whose ancestors immigrated here a hundred years ago.
Im from New York. Turst me when I say that a lot of people there drive SUVs. Trust me when I say that most people drive SUVs and shop at Wal-Mart.
Teflon: Teflon was invented by DuPont in 1938, well before the space program existed. NASA makes no claim to ever inventing teflon and anyone who tells you other wise is an idiot. What they do claim to have spun off is a material that contains teflon. Two completely differnt concepts.
One cannot properly repeat experiments if one does not have the basic knowledge necessary to comprehend what the experiment is about. It may be the case that the Mythbusters do not have the necessary background to truly understand the experiments they are performing.
Neither did the people at MIT as odd as that sounds. They forgot the one variable that if taken out probably ensured the myth would have worked and that is water. They forgot to cover the ship was to ensure that it was moist. You try setting fire to something that is slightly wet.
Where do you work? I would imagine it's a job involving technology, where the people tend to have some scientific/technical/engineering background. I would hope that they would see through the bullshit facade that Mythbusters puts up!
Nah.... They use common sense which is sorely laking in this whole discussion. The problem is with the time. Even MIT proved that the time it takes for them to get the device working is far too long for it to be practical. I could sit on the ship and chuck rocks at the death ray and screw them up all day long. Even if the mirrors didn't break Im gaurenteed that they the mirror was now knocked out of focus. If I truely wanted to be mean I'd kill them with a bow and arrow and ensuring that the death ray would never work because no one would be there to focus it.
and one for a sinus infection that I know is fungal in nature.
Ooo god..... I really hope not. People with fungal sinus infections are really sick. There is a fifty percent death rate for people who catch this type of disease unless you mean something else because sinus infections caused by fungi are rare for healthy people.
I stopped going to my doctor when he prescribed me Arithromycin(sp?) for a fungal ear and sinus infection.
Wow... That is odd. Experience shows me that doctors are usually careful about prescribing medication for diseases that have dual causes (ie. Viral, bacterial, or fungal). Also it's a good thing you did stop going to that doctor because I have never had anything prescribed to me that was topical for a sinus infection.
Thats what I just said - the Bush administration (and the Clinton one before him, to a lesser degree) are business oriented and support commercial and military research (to stupidly ridiculou degrees, if you ask me - public money funds research that private companies get to hold patents on), but are less interested in pure science, which gives only long term commercial results if any at all. NASA is a partial exception, although it might be worth considering the new push for the weaponization of space is affecting the willingess to fund space exploration.
Yeah but living next this http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/RHIC_complex.htm tends to skew your opinion.:) As far as I can tell this device is nothing but 1.1 billion dollars worth of physics that has no practical use except for maybe destroying the universe. (Im not kidding about the last part. The major contraversy is that we destroy the whole entire solar system in one accident with RHIC.)
Actually, given how we treat our Earth, this is more appropriate. Savage heat is searing Global warming has begun Mother Earth is reeling No protection from the sun Forest fires are raging While the rivers turn to ice Foolish man creating Mother Nature's cruel demise Hailstorms, tornadoes Cold spells, untimely frosts Heat waves and blizzards Global death's the cost Face the end of time As we plunge headlong towards the day Can't deny the signs When the sun burns red The earth will turn From blue to gray Winter turns to summer Then the seasons disappear No one needs a prophet To explain what's all too clear Oceans overflowing Islands drowning everywhere Leaders wouldn't admit it Now they're crying in despair Hailstorms, tornadoes Cold spells, untimely frosts Heat waves and blizzards Global death's the cost Face the end of time As we plunge headlong towards the day Can't deny the signs When the sun burns red The earth will turn From blue to gray Now rain shall wash away sad remains of man Cities once so proud will crumble into sand Buildings all collapse when all is done and said The guilty ones will die with the innocent... When the sun burns red
I have never had anyone try and sell me anything I didn't want or get annoyed at me. In fact on two seperate occasions I have had people try and stop me from trading in used games for a dollar becaus it wasn't worth it. Twice I have had people deal with my incessant,"No I want this. Nah. I changed my mind. Ill take this. No. Maybe this." All the workers said were,"Buying a video game system is a major investment so take your time."
Fact: There is a long-standing and fundamental disconnect between religion and science, and while it can be and has been crossed many times, it is very present. At the core, religion teaches you to venerate the unknown, and treat it as unknowable, while science teaches you to investigate it.
Actually, I believe that your concept is wrong. Science and religion usually have gotten along wonderfully at least in the eyes of the scientist. Remember Newton was a bible thumping nut:). (No. Seriously. Most of his works were not scientific.) I also remember Henry was religious. (The guy named after the unit of inductance.) Faraday was a deeply relisious person according to wikipedia.
A n adminstration hostile to pure science (as opposed to military or readily commercially exploitable science) is another.
Actually, most military hardware does find it's way into the consumer market. Also, are you telling me that traveling to the moon/mars/whatever is commercially exploitable.
I think he's referring to Rodney Brooks. Along with much of the robotics community, Tilden was heavily influenced by Brooks in the late 80s (see this article). Brooks preached an approach of building and evolving robot designs, starting with simple "insects" first. Tilden has taken the simple-only approach a bit further than anyone else though, and remains pretty controversial in his ideas.
W. Grey Walters/Braitenberg begot Brooks which begot Tilden. W. Grey Walters built his robots out of vacuum tubes in order to conduct experiments into the human mind. Braitenberg had a series of thought experiments involving robots and how they can respond using complex stimuli (essentialy some of his ideas are now BEAM robots). Eventually, all of his designs were built and tested by MIT where they worked.
I have always been fascinated by the programs that can boot off a flash drive because I don't own a computer yet. These programs are quite useful and so far I know of three. (Open Office, Mozilla, and an HTML editor) Does anyone else know what programs can be booted off such a drive?
The real solution would be to find the parents that don't..well..parent, turn the kids over to child protecive services and then a loving adoptive family, and castrate the parents. (Hopefully if you catch the parents while the child is young enough, it won't be too traumatic.) And then monitor the child in case the bad parenting is genetic.
Yeah then well no one in my neighborhood would still their children. There is a petition in my neighborhood trying to bar a sexual predator from living there. The problem is that most if not all of the kids in the neighborhood wander around without parental supervision thus they avoided the main problem that needs to be resolved.
what mess are we in? are we still assuming that violent video games lead to violent behaviour in real-life? we've been over this argument a dozen times.
No. I was refering to the fact that everyone's definition of what is too violence is different.
Let the parents decide what is too violent and what isn't and be done with the whole thing. If parents cared then we would not be in this whole entire mess.
I realized the only person idiotic enough to test the thing would be me. Imagine the conversation:
Doctor:How did you break both your legs?
Me:I was testing my exoskeleton.
Doctor:Your what?
Me:A suit that I am developing that can help increaase my strength.
Doctor:Oooo. So what happened?
Me:Let's just say I should have added mechanical stops and not used the most powerful motor I could find first.
Doctor:Ooo...
Me:Yeah. Im lucky my limbs are still attached.
Just look at iRobot. The ironic thing is that when I got the dvd for irobot the movie has the creator of irobot talking about irobot the book. Wow I just used irobot too many times in one sentence.
I'm glad your mother and grandfather find this a generally less painful and safer way to handle doors. However, you need to understand that if a storm comes, and knocks out the power and they can't get out to flag down help, or to exit the home in case of flooding, etc then they MAY die where a more "old fashioned" system is ultimately more reliable.
Fortunately, my mom can open the door. I didn't say that she was entirely feeble. I just said that she can't handle small objects easily because of her arthritis. As for my grandpa, well he is screwed anyway if disaster strikes. He can't drive and he can't even walk very well.
I know just that at the moment the US is powerfull because of high-tech weapons but exactly where are the parts for these weapons made nowadays?
I would have to say in the United States. At least I can tell you with 90% assurance that a lot of the military technology has been designed by Americans. It seems that a prerequisite for getting a job with a company that works with the DOD is being an American.
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When Coca-cola does this people call it a trade secret. When the United States government does this it infringes on someone's rights???
How about the whole entire slashdot community donates a dollar and buys the company?
Im sorry but the technology is still to expensive and still to impractical without someone intervening. Take solar energy for example. The government provides incentives for people to install it because you would die before you would ever actually see any savings.
Ooo wait. They all ready have. I can get my home installed with solar cells and New York State will pick up the tab.
Obligatory slashdot argument about which countries have the best freedoms.
One cannot properly repeat experiments if one does not have the basic knowledge necessary to comprehend what the experiment is about. It may be the case that the Mythbusters do not have the necessary background to truly understand the experiments they are performing. Neither did the people at MIT as odd as that sounds. They forgot the one variable that if taken out probably ensured the myth would have worked and that is water. They forgot to cover the ship was to ensure that it was moist. You try setting fire to something that is slightly wet.
Nah.... They use common sense which is sorely laking in this whole discussion. The problem is with the time. Even MIT proved that the time it takes for them to get the device working is far too long for it to be practical. I could sit on the ship and chuck rocks at the death ray and screw them up all day long. Even if the mirrors didn't break Im gaurenteed that they the mirror was now knocked out of focus. If I truely wanted to be mean I'd kill them with a bow and arrow and ensuring that the death ray would never work because no one would be there to focus it.
Ooo god..... I really hope not. People with fungal sinus infections are really sick. There is a fifty percent death rate for people who catch this type of disease unless you mean something else because sinus infections caused by fungi are rare for healthy people.
Wow... That is odd. Experience shows me that doctors are usually careful about prescribing medication for diseases that have dual causes (ie. Viral, bacterial, or fungal). Also it's a good thing you did stop going to that doctor because I have never had anything prescribed to me that was topical for a sinus infection.
I have never had anyone try and sell me anything I didn't want or get annoyed at me. In fact on two seperate occasions I have had people try and stop me from trading in used games for a dollar becaus it wasn't worth it. Twice I have had people deal with my incessant,"No I want this. Nah. I changed my mind. Ill take this. No. Maybe this." All the workers said were,"Buying a video game system is a major investment so take your time."
Actually, I believe that your concept is wrong. Science and religion usually have gotten along wonderfully at least in the eyes of the scientist. Remember Newton was a bible thumping nut
Actually, most military hardware does find it's way into the consumer market. Also, are you telling me that traveling to the moon/mars/whatever is commercially exploitable.
W. Grey Walters/Braitenberg begot Brooks which begot Tilden. W. Grey Walters built his robots out of vacuum tubes in order to conduct experiments into the human mind. Braitenberg had a series of thought experiments involving robots and how they can respond using complex stimuli (essentialy some of his ideas are now BEAM robots). Eventually, all of his designs were built and tested by MIT where they worked.
Let's just hope google doesn't destroy the universe when it's done collecting all of it's information like the giant brains.
I have always been fascinated by the programs that can boot off a flash drive because I don't own a computer yet. These programs are quite useful and so far I know of three. (Open Office, Mozilla, and an HTML editor) Does anyone else know what programs can be booted off such a drive?
Let the parents decide what is too violent and what isn't and be done with the whole thing. If parents cared then we would not be in this whole entire mess.
I realized the only person idiotic enough to test the thing would be me. Imagine the conversation: Doctor:How did you break both your legs? Me:I was testing my exoskeleton. Doctor:Your what? Me:A suit that I am developing that can help increaase my strength. Doctor:Oooo. So what happened? Me:Let's just say I should have added mechanical stops and not used the most powerful motor I could find first. Doctor:Ooo... Me:Yeah. Im lucky my limbs are still attached.
Here is a link to the new scientist article that someone mentioned. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg186249 45.800
Here is a link to a guy who is an actual cyborg. This person lost both of his arms and now he can robotic arms just by thinking about it. Not necessairly related but it shows it's possible.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/generaltec hnology/c83d87fd92c26010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.h tml
Also here is the article:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/6123dc8a2507 6010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
So yeah. Basically science is quickly approaching the realm of Iron Man.
Just look at iRobot. The ironic thing is that when I got the dvd for irobot the movie has the creator of irobot talking about irobot the book. Wow I just used irobot too many times in one sentence.
I would have to say in the United States. At least I can tell you with 90% assurance that a lot of the military technology has been designed by Americans. It seems that a prerequisite for getting a job with a company that works with the DOD is being an American.