Where do you get one? There are actually quite a few old uranium mines in my area, so I might have a more interesting time with one.
Also, spmewhere on the usgs website is a map of pretty much every hole dug for comercial mineral purposes, might help you find interedting places to play with your geiger counter.
I definitely visited the grand canyon inbrtween those dates, but don’t remember if I visited that particular museum. Oh well, something else to add to the list of things that are contributing to my eventual demise.
"If my kid is not allowed to bring a peanut butter sandwich to school, your kid should not be allowed to bring an easily preventable disease to school."
You do realize ‘The Jungle’ was written with the intent of showing how dangerous the work conditions were for the workers, and showing the foid safety horror show was ancillary to that goal? The author was pretty upset that his main point was ignored (suffering workers) from what I’ve read about it.
It's also possible this bacterium could jump between species
Also a good point. To answer that we'd need to know how much interaction there is between various species of mosquito, which is information I don't readily have. One would hope that the people who are doing this experiment would at least have considered these aspects, being 'experts'.
If the number of survivors is low enough, the population still might collapse into extinction for that particular species of mosquito. There are over 3500 known species of mosquito, so even with immune survivors, it is possible for the depleted species to be out competed in the ecosystem by un-treated species.
There are 3500 known species of mosquito, and only around 100 of those are disease vectors for humans. We'll never avoid being itchy, but we can probably avoid the mosquito diseases.
Given that there are around 3500 species of mosquito, of which 100 are vectors for human diseases, and Google/Alphabet is (presumably) focusing on those 100 species, and probably only tooling on 1 species of mosquito at a time, I suspect that the other 3400 species of mosquito will probably grow slightly in population to fill the vacated niche.
Yeah, I think this guy is excited in the wrong direction, (big silent electric aircraft) but he even mentions the right direction in the article. He mentions that this tech scales *down* really well. So here's your propulsion system for things like robotic bees, and other extra tiny flying devices.
I recently looked up the sizes of most of the airline carriers economy seats, and then did some quick measurements of a few products at the store near me for comparison.
the following product: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
is a childs folding chair. its seat is approximately 15 inches by 15 inches.
That seat is only 1 inch narrower than the economy seats on American airlines. (at 16 inches)
southwest is giving us 17 inches, American and Delta between 16.5 and 19, the data is a little vague.
and they want to make them smaller.
So what's next, 15 inch seats? actually match that child size play chair? Cram adults into the things for hours at a time? Road trips are starting to look a lot more pleasant.
Your comment reminds me of all the times i've read/been told that roman soldiers were payed in salt, thereby explaining the saying of someone "being worth their salt". And all I ever think about is how incredibly inconvenient it would be to get payed in raw commodity.
Yep, here's this months pay, a 120 kilo block of salt. (based on quick google searches of roman pay)
Now you gotta haul this heavy damn block to the local market, find someone who is buying salt,(because probably the local tailor is not accepting raw salt as currency) get a fair deal for your salt, (better hurry, before the other soldiers get there and flood the market with salt). and then, finally, go about purchasing your needed goods.
I suspect it was all dealt with via some form of official IOU, but on the surface, the idea seems hilariously inconvenient.
And I reiterate, for the purposes of this model, zero is sufficient. There is no point wasting cycles dealing with the viscosity of water in a hold that can cary 10,000 tons of cargo, as the viscosity of water is irrelevant in relation to the other forces involved when things start going wrong at those scales.
Because, "When the friction goes to zero" refers to the friction between the pieces of granular cargo. So if the particles of granular cargo are suddenly not touching each other, due to water in between them, the friction between those particles of granular cargo is, of course, zero.
Because really, when considering how water moves in a container such as a ship, calculating the friction *within* the actual water itself *technically* would make the simulation more accurate, but on such a unbelievably small scale that it literally makes zero difference to the outcome of the simulation.
Essentially, its like saying the angle of repose for water is close enough to zero, that calling it zero is sufficient for the tolerances and scope of this piece of engineering. Sure, there is such a thing as surface tension, and a droplet of water can essentially have an angle of repose of 90 degrees (i know angle of repose is applied wrongly here, but i't makes my point). it matters in a test tube, but not in a swimming pool.
I... I 've never even imagined doing something like this. I've seen plenty of people run OLDER operating systems in virtual machines, but not once have i ever considered the possibility of running a newer OS in a VM. I actually laughed out loud to myself at the idea, because it surprised me so much. Now I want to do it, just for grins.
My main problem with GIMP is mainly that if you know how to use photoshop 'instinctively'.ie. you know Photoshop well enough to be familiar with most of the keyboard shortcuts and whatnot, and have a particular expectation for how the tools behave, that skillset does not translate across to GIMP worth a damn. In the few times i've tried using GIMP, it ends up being an exercise in frustration, as I instinctively hit various keys, expecting particular results, and all it does is spastically reconfigure the workspace, open several unrelated menus, and resize the document to the dimensions of a european postage stamp. (i exaggerate slightly for effect).
I assume the lack of correlation between the controls is deliberate on the part of the GIMP team, to avoid getting into legal tiffs with Adobe over copying their software directly, but god damn it makes their software frustrating to use.
I had not heard they found a way to eliminate the rare earth metals, seems like that would have been included in the bi-weekly/. "amazing new battery tech" posts.
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No. Not only no, but Hell No.
98% from Hydro, geothermal, and wind, 2% from fossil fuels.
When your aircraft design precludes the option to turn off the auto pilot and fly the damn plane, you’ve got a bad aircraft design.
Good. Leave it that way.
Oh God Please No. How does that help anything?
Where do you get one? There are actually quite a few old uranium mines in my area, so I might have a more interesting time with one.
Also, spmewhere on the usgs website is a map of pretty much every hole dug for comercial mineral purposes, might help you find interedting places to play with your geiger counter.
Edit: found the map
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/
I definitely visited the grand canyon inbrtween those dates, but don’t remember if I visited that particular museum. Oh well, something else to add to the list of things that are contributing to my eventual demise.
I saw a comment, probably from twitter that said:
"If my kid is not allowed to bring a peanut butter sandwich to school, your kid should not be allowed to bring an easily preventable disease to school."
That pretty much covers it.
You do realize ‘The Jungle’ was written with the intent of showing how dangerous the work conditions were for the workers, and showing the foid safety horror show was ancillary to that goal? The author was pretty upset that his main point was ignored (suffering workers) from what I’ve read about it.
It's also possible this bacterium could jump between species
Also a good point. To answer that we'd need to know how much interaction there is between various species of mosquito, which is information I don't readily have. One would hope that the people who are doing this experiment would at least have considered these aspects, being 'experts'.
If the number of survivors is low enough, the population still might collapse into extinction for that particular species of mosquito. There are over 3500 known species of mosquito, so even with immune survivors, it is possible for the depleted species to be out competed in the ecosystem by un-treated species.
There are 3500 known species of mosquito, and only around 100 of those are disease vectors for humans. We'll never avoid being itchy, but we can probably avoid the mosquito diseases.
Given that there are around 3500 species of mosquito, of which 100 are vectors for human diseases, and Google/Alphabet is (presumably) focusing on those 100 species, and probably only tooling on 1 species of mosquito at a time, I suspect that the other 3400 species of mosquito will probably grow slightly in population to fill the vacated niche.
Yeah, I think this guy is excited in the wrong direction, (big silent electric aircraft) but he even mentions the right direction in the article. He mentions that this tech scales *down* really well. So here's your propulsion system for things like robotic bees, and other extra tiny flying devices.
I recently looked up the sizes of most of the airline carriers economy seats, and then did some quick measurements of a few products at the store near me for comparison.
the following product:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
is a childs folding chair. its seat is approximately 15 inches by 15 inches.
That seat is only 1 inch narrower than the economy seats on American airlines. (at 16 inches)
southwest is giving us 17 inches, American and Delta between 16.5 and 19, the data is a little vague.
and they want to make them smaller.
So what's next, 15 inch seats? actually match that child size play chair? Cram adults into the things for hours at a time? Road trips are starting to look a lot more pleasant.
Don't go bringing the actual article in here, we're having a fine time arguing about suppositions made based on reading the summary.
Your comment reminds me of all the times i've read/been told that roman soldiers were payed in salt, thereby explaining the saying of someone "being worth their salt". And all I ever think about is how incredibly inconvenient it would be to get payed in raw commodity.
Yep, here's this months pay, a 120 kilo block of salt. (based on quick google searches of roman pay)
Now you gotta haul this heavy damn block to the local market, find someone who is buying salt,(because probably the local tailor is not accepting raw salt as currency) get a fair deal for your salt, (better hurry, before the other soldiers get there and flood the market with salt). and then, finally, go about purchasing your needed goods.
I suspect it was all dealt with via some form of official IOU, but on the surface, the idea seems hilariously inconvenient.
And I reiterate, for the purposes of this model, zero is sufficient. There is no point wasting cycles dealing with the viscosity of water in a hold that can cary 10,000 tons of cargo, as the viscosity of water is irrelevant in relation to the other forces involved when things start going wrong at those scales.
Because, "When the friction goes to zero" refers to the friction between the pieces of granular cargo. So if the particles of granular cargo are suddenly not touching each other, due to water in between them, the friction between those particles of granular cargo is, of course, zero.
Because really, when considering how water moves in a container such as a ship, calculating the friction *within* the actual water itself *technically* would make the simulation more accurate, but on such a unbelievably small scale that it literally makes zero difference to the outcome of the simulation.
Essentially, its like saying the angle of repose for water is close enough to zero, that calling it zero is sufficient for the tolerances and scope of this piece of engineering. Sure, there is such a thing as surface tension, and a droplet of water can essentially have an angle of repose of 90 degrees (i know angle of repose is applied wrongly here, but i't makes my point). it matters in a test tube, but not in a swimming pool.
Laughs and points at France, which has 12 time zones, and is smaller than some US states.
I... I 've never even imagined doing something like this. I've seen plenty of people run OLDER operating systems in virtual machines, but not once have i ever considered the possibility of running a newer OS in a VM. I actually laughed out loud to myself at the idea, because it surprised me so much. Now I want to do it, just for grins.
My main problem with GIMP is mainly that if you know how to use photoshop 'instinctively' .ie. you know Photoshop well enough to be familiar with most of the keyboard shortcuts and whatnot, and have a particular expectation for how the tools behave, that skillset does not translate across to GIMP worth a damn. In the few times i've tried using GIMP, it ends up being an exercise in frustration, as I instinctively hit various keys, expecting particular results, and all it does is spastically reconfigure the workspace, open several unrelated menus, and resize the document to the dimensions of a european postage stamp. (i exaggerate slightly for effect).
I assume the lack of correlation between the controls is deliberate on the part of the GIMP team, to avoid getting into legal tiffs with Adobe over copying their software directly, but god damn it makes their software frustrating to use.
I had not heard they found a way to eliminate the rare earth metals, seems like that would have been included in the bi-weekly /. "amazing new battery tech" posts.
Is that $100/kWh for just the battery, or for the battery, plus the grid control and infrastructure?
"Got all these resources, might as well use em!"