1. The flight there will weed out conflict-seekers and anyone who doesn't get along with others in confined spaces. Great.
2. Mars is dead. Great. So we don't have to worry about indigenous pathogens or conserving the Martian ecosystem.
3. Mars is cold. Great. Technically, heating is easier than cooling. Also, heat engines may be more efficient than on Earth due to the lower heat sink temperature.
4. It is not known whether living things ever evolved on Mars. Great. We can investigate this question while we're there.
5. No breathable air. Oh well. We know how to build airtight containers.
6. No oxygen. Well, not entirely. There's plenty of oxygen in the soil, just no O2 in the atmosphere.
7. No liquid water. But there's frozen water. And see 5.
8. No sources of food. Well, none besides the ones we bring/build.
9. No conditions favorable to producing any - unless we create them.
Coffee doesn't even taste better when brewed super-hot,
Yes it does. Optimum brewing temperature for filtered coffee is 90 degrees Celsius +/- 4K. Below that, you'll get nasty, sour-tasting sludge.
However, after brewing the coffee should under no circumstances be kept at this temperature, because this will cause many of the compounds responsible for its flavor to evaporate - in addition to causing third degree burns.
Any civilization that can travel between star systems will be so advanced that it will not need to plunder whoever is at their destination.
And a civilization capable of this feat would have very little reason to enter deeply into the gravity well of a star in the first place.
they need nothing from us.
Very true. In fact, dealing with alien (to them) microbiology might be risky for them, and making us deal with their microbiology is probably deadly for us. So, one a purely rational base, they'd stay away from Earth.
On the other hand, they might have noneconomical/nonrational reasons for seeking contact. Entertainment, religion, curiosity. Though, they probably have better forms of entertainment, have ditched religion a while ago, and maybe Earth is just one planet of a million similar ones and therefore not really interesting.
It doesn't matter that the master key is compromised. A lock to which a third party has a master key is merely an additional safety against accidental opening, not security against unwanted intentional opening by another party.
It just means that even more people can rummage through my clothes. If I'm feeling generous, I'll have only fresh clothes in my suitcase.
Dude nailed it back when "God" (the Jewish god) wasn't even a blip on the radar!
It's called "laissez-faire" omnipotence. A hands/tentacles/noodly-appendages-mostly-off approach to godhood.
The people in the other universe (where everything was controlled down to the subatomic level to make even the faintest trace of evil impossible) probably went crazy once they found out. Matrix got that right.
I'd answer prayers from 10-11am every day, have some lunch and then play Playstation 4 for the rest of the day until beer-thirty and then maybe call up some hot chicks and tell them to bring snacks.
Doing that for eternity is probably what hell is really about. Heaven has to be even better.
I am curious though -- why isn't this drug able to effectively shut down the virus in infected patients?
Because keeping a virus from infecting a cell is one thing, and removing all viral DNA from millions of alread infected cells in the body is another thing entirely.
It's like the difference between preventing malware from installing a root kit on your computer, and getting rid of an already running rootkit (without rebooting the computer or reinstalling everything).
Chalk up another in the 'win' column for science, technology, and reason.
The process of evolution will create a more successful disease, somewhere, sometime. In a competition between a life form with a generation period of 30 years and one in the order of hours, bets should be firmly on the latter.
While it is certainly possible to move a wind turbine to a new location, I can't imagine that the cost of doing so is trivial.
The service life of wind turbines is finite. If a location proves to become less windy (which won't happen overnight) and moving the turbine isn't an option, you just take the whole thing down once it breaks for good.
Climate change will make most places more windy, though, due to more energy being stored in the atmosphere.
Wind turbine power output is proportional to the third power of wind velocity. It only takes small changes in average wind velocity to effect large changes in turbine power output.
... going from "the parchment this Koran is on is older than the prophet" to "the Koran pre-dates the prophet" is literally jumping lightyears to a conclusion.
In order to make the comparison fair, the A10 will be fuelled with paraffin wax and weedkiller, have a large number of anvils bolted to it, and will be dragging a large boat anchor.
Without a proper evaluation of how the aircraft take to having a few holes in them (and some bits missing), the performance at close air support can't be evaluated.
IAF 655 was misidentified and shot down due to technical limitations at the time.
Actually, the technology on board the AEGIS cruiser worked just fine, reporting that the plane was climbing, and squawking in civilian mode. It was the crew that decided that the plane needed shooting anyway.
No country has built any of these things for several decades, and the last examples were retired from service in the 1990s, because they're expensive and their military value was reduced to almost zero by anti-ship missiles and modern aircraft. They'd only be of use if your enemy has neither of these two, but has targets valuable enough to deserve a pounding with 16-inch shells.
This is the "AEGIS cruiser" involved in the incident, and at the time it was one of the most sophisticated pieces of ocean-going electronics.
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If the other side already has everything they need to prove their case, an admission of wrongdoing will, at best, not improve your situation.
2. Mars is dead. Great. So we don't have to worry about indigenous pathogens or conserving the Martian ecosystem.
3. Mars is cold. Great. Technically, heating is easier than cooling. Also, heat engines may be more efficient than on Earth due to the lower heat sink temperature.
4. It is not known whether living things ever evolved on Mars. Great. We can investigate this question while we're there.
5. No breathable air. Oh well. We know how to build airtight containers.
6. No oxygen. Well, not entirely. There's plenty of oxygen in the soil, just no O2 in the atmosphere.
7. No liquid water. But there's frozen water. And see 5.
8. No sources of food. Well, none besides the ones we bring/build.
9. No conditions favorable to producing any - unless we create them.
Don't they have corporate lawyers?
Well, VW can obviously make a clean diesel, but marketing believed that a dirtier, more powerful diesel would sell better.
Huh? Since when did the customer that bought the car become the major recipient of the fumes it produces?
Skin impedance changes quite significantly with frequency. I assume this is what the OP is referring to.
Yes it does. Optimum brewing temperature for filtered coffee is 90 degrees Celsius +/- 4K. Below that, you'll get nasty, sour-tasting sludge.
However, after brewing the coffee should under no circumstances be kept at this temperature, because this will cause many of the compounds responsible for its flavor to evaporate - in addition to causing third degree burns.
Actually, it's completely Greek. Not even one of those Latin-Greek hybrid abominations that engineers like to create, but purely Greek.
Why would the UK want anything to do with that?
And a civilization capable of this feat would have very little reason to enter deeply into the gravity well of a star in the first place.
they need nothing from us.
Very true. In fact, dealing with alien (to them) microbiology might be risky for them, and making us deal with their microbiology is probably deadly for us. So, one a purely rational base, they'd stay away from Earth.
On the other hand, they might have noneconomical/nonrational reasons for seeking contact. Entertainment, religion, curiosity. Though, they probably have better forms of entertainment, have ditched religion a while ago, and maybe Earth is just one planet of a million similar ones and therefore not really interesting.
It just means that even more people can rummage through my clothes. If I'm feeling generous, I'll have only fresh clothes in my suitcase.
They should bundle every bottle with a rock that keeps tigers away. Just in case.
Did any of the Star Trek feature films convey a detailed picture of the politics of the Star Trek universe? I don't think so.
It's called "laissez-faire" omnipotence. A hands/tentacles/noodly-appendages-mostly-off approach to godhood.
The people in the other universe (where everything was controlled down to the subatomic level to make even the faintest trace of evil impossible) probably went crazy once they found out. Matrix got that right.
Doing that for eternity is probably what hell is really about. Heaven has to be even better.
Because keeping a virus from infecting a cell is one thing, and removing all viral DNA from millions of alread infected cells in the body is another thing entirely.
It's like the difference between preventing malware from installing a root kit on your computer, and getting rid of an already running rootkit (without rebooting the computer or reinstalling everything).
The process of evolution will create a more successful disease, somewhere, sometime. In a competition between a life form with a generation period of 30 years and one in the order of hours, bets should be firmly on the latter.
The service life of wind turbines is finite. If a location proves to become less windy (which won't happen overnight) and moving the turbine isn't an option, you just take the whole thing down once it breaks for good.
Climate change will make most places more windy, though, due to more energy being stored in the atmosphere.
More CO2 in the atmosphere also increases the density of air, giving wind more power even if its velocity stays the same.
What could go wrong? Let's do it.
Wind turbine power output is proportional to the third power of wind velocity. It only takes small changes in average wind velocity to effect large changes in turbine power output.
... going from "the parchment this Koran is on is older than the prophet" to "the Koran pre-dates the prophet" is literally jumping lightyears to a conclusion.
Wile E. Coyote approves.
Without a proper evaluation of how the aircraft take to having a few holes in them (and some bits missing), the performance at close air support can't be evaluated.
Actually, the technology on board the AEGIS cruiser worked just fine, reporting that the plane was climbing, and squawking in civilian mode. It was the crew that decided that the plane needed shooting anyway.
Ok.
This is a battleship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No country has built any of these things for several decades, and the last examples were retired from service in the 1990s, because they're expensive and their military value was reduced to almost zero by anti-ship missiles and modern aircraft. They'd only be of use if your enemy has neither of these two, but has targets valuable enough to deserve a pounding with 16-inch shells.
This is the "AEGIS cruiser" involved in the incident, and at the time it was one of the most sophisticated pieces of ocean-going electronics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...