It's sad the commercial skip feature is not widely available. One thing I never understood was, why should I get the same amount of my time wasted by commercials on cable TV, which I pay a subscription fee for, as the guy down the street who just gets broadcast TV for free?
You might be too quick to assume that anti-matter cars will never exist, trivial as this speculation is.
Imagine someone in the railroad era of the 1800s thinking, "Surely there will never exist horseless carriages powered by fossil fuels. It is not practical." While today it is certainly prohibitively expensive, if not impossible, to practically store antimatter in the equivalent of a gas tank of a vehicle, this speaks nothing of the possibility of future practicality.
Don't your calculations require the assumption of Newtonian physics? If I follow your math correctly, if you travel 10.5 ly in 4.9 years, you are exceeding the speed of light.
They were talking about this on the radio this morning, and it is important to note that apparently the eye is not connected to her brain or anything; she is not getting direct sensory input from it like what one might expect from a "cyber eye." It is basically just a wireless camera that sits in her eye socket and transmits live to an outside source. Definitely loses coolness points, but still interesting.
If I were her, I would get some kind of smartphone to use with it to see infrared, crosshairs, (insert vision-related sci fi wetdreams here)...
Why is it when we ask people to read through a 2-page user policy, they skip through and don't even bother reading to just sign it, yet those same people will sit down and pour through 3 inches of legal documents for 4 hours when buying a home?
overdose Noun
a larger dose of a drug than is safe: she tried to kill herself with an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Verb
[-dosing, -dosed]
to take more of a drug than is safe, either accidentally or deliberately: this drug is rarely prescribed because it is easy to overdose fatally on it.
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It's sad the commercial skip feature is not widely available. One thing I never understood was, why should I get the same amount of my time wasted by commercials on cable TV, which I pay a subscription fee for, as the guy down the street who just gets broadcast TV for free?
You might be too quick to assume that anti-matter cars will never exist, trivial as this speculation is.
Imagine someone in the railroad era of the 1800s thinking, "Surely there will never exist horseless carriages powered by fossil fuels. It is not practical." While today it is certainly prohibitively expensive, if not impossible, to practically store antimatter in the equivalent of a gas tank of a vehicle, this speaks nothing of the possibility of future practicality.
Don't your calculations require the assumption of Newtonian physics? If I follow your math correctly, if you travel 10.5 ly in 4.9 years, you are exceeding the speed of light.
They were talking about this on the radio this morning, and it is important to note that apparently the eye is not connected to her brain or anything; she is not getting direct sensory input from it like what one might expect from a "cyber eye." It is basically just a wireless camera that sits in her eye socket and transmits live to an outside source. Definitely loses coolness points, but still interesting.
If I were her, I would get some kind of smartphone to use with it to see infrared, crosshairs, (insert vision-related sci fi wetdreams here)...
The same kids might break a window in your house. Do you think you should have a backup window included in the price of your original installation?
data costs nothing to duplicate, unlike physical objects such as windows.
Why is it when we ask people to read through a 2-page user policy, they skip through and don't even bother reading to just sign it, yet those same people will sit down and pour through 3 inches of legal documents for 4 hours when buying a home?
How often do you buy a home?
(No, I didn't RTFO.)
You spelled Article (Orticle) wrong.
Your concept of overdose is wholly incorrect. From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/overdose :
overdose
Noun
a larger dose of a drug than is safe: she tried to kill herself with an overdose of alcohol and drugs.
Verb
[-dosing, -dosed]
to take more of a drug than is safe, either accidentally or deliberately: this drug is rarely prescribed because it is easy to overdose fatally on it.