One of the components they're bringing up to the ISS is a new oxygen generation system, that should be able to support the combined crews for an extended period of time.
but seriously, don't you think they've begun to seriously overextend themselves, as well as take on a sort of microsoft-borg-ish nature, assimilating anything and everything it encounters?
Apart from some of the technical stuff he mentions, check this out (From the wikipedia page):
In Solution Unsatisfactory, written in 1940, Heinlein set out the following predictions: in 1941 the US government would start a large-scale secret project, which would make nuclear weapons available for use by the end of 1944 (radioactive dust rather than a bomb - but with much the same strategic implications); the weapon would be used to destroy an Axis city in 1945; this would bring WWII to an end, but start a nuclear arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. (In Heinlein's story, it leads to a new war which the US wins, gaining domination over the whole world but becoming a military dictatorship in the process).
I have mod points right now, and shit, not only is there not an appropriate label to mod that comment, I don't even know what to say in response.
If only there was a "+7, rendered me fucking speechless" option.
It doesn't take.2 teraflops to model one atom, or even two atoms, even account for effects on the quantum level.. However, when you take into acount that each atom will more or less interact with every other atom, you have a massive amount of interactions to model. Thats what takes so much processing power.
not to mention common sense. As much of the information (other than reviews) on his site could be easily found using a search engine, I'm not really sure how collecting it on one site could be illegal. It's a lot like someone putting up a website reviewing various types of marijuana they have purchased in the area, and where they purchased it. It may be an illegal activity, but writing about doing it is hardly a crime.
Obviously the ammount of CO2 released by cars in comparison to the rest of the co2 released through other human induced combustion is very small; however the first part of my comment is somewhat facetious and is in reference to the parent's comment, which seemed to be making the point that human use of fossil fuels are having no impact.
Do cars give off a unique chemical that we can see directly makes the Earth warmer?
Errm, yes, i's called carbon dioxide, and it does wonders for making venus warmer.
Think about it this way: 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land and all that, most paleontologists will agree that the climate of earth was much warmer than it is today, and that the concentration of CO2 in the air was much higher. Now, plants, as is well known, sequester CO2 from the air in the form of glucose and other complex carbohydrates, some of which is taken up by animals, which consume them. Another well known fact is that the vast supplies of oil which humans have been combusting for the past 150 years were formed from the remains of the same plants and animals which had sequestered all this carbon. Finally, when you take into account the fact that combustion of hydrocarbons gives you water and carbon dioxide as end products, it's not exactly rocket science to figure out that burning all the oil we can drill will probably result in a trend towards the climate becoming more similar to the way it was back when the carbon in that oil existed as CO2 in the atmosphere.
It still doesn't matter...we could have 1000 bases of that (ridiculously large) size, and it would still be less than a billionth of the moon's total mass. In any case, the logistics behind moving that much mass 250,000 miles from the surface of the earth pretty much preclude that possibility anyway.
The mass of the earth is 5.97 x 10^24 kg, the mass of the moon is 7.36 x 10 ^22 kg. If a moon base construction involves moving (and I'm being ridiculously, absurdly, beyond-the-capabilities-we-have to-launch liberal here) 20 billion kilos, which is 2 x 10^9, in comparison to the mass of the moon, is still just 1/ 3.5 x 10^13th the total mass, which in words is considerably less than a trillionth the mass of the moon. It probably wouldn't even make a measurable difference in the moons orbit, not to mention the fact that there would probably be some compensatory shift of the earth-moon barycenter, further protecting against much orbital decay
First, as already mentioned below, water is an end product of human and all other aerobic respiration.
Second, of course anaerobic bacteria respire, they just by definition do not require oxygen to do so. Glycolysis is by definition anaerobic respiration.
It supports about ten computers currently shipping. That is of course in addition to a larger number closer to 100 older models that are supported just fine, and in many cases, better than the previous version of the OS (in terms of speed).
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And if true, it would be the first time that I can recall that I am actually somewhat impressed by Dell.
"But for the love of god, think of the terrorists!"
One of the components they're bringing up to the ISS is a new oxygen generation system, that should be able to support the combined crews for an extended period of time.
Bite my shiny Beowulf clustered, Linux-running, not quite Vista-capable supercomputing ass!
but seriously, don't you think they've begun to seriously overextend themselves, as well as take on a sort of microsoft-borg-ish nature, assimilating anything and everything it encounters?
Apart from some of the technical stuff he mentions, check this out (From the wikipedia page): In Solution Unsatisfactory, written in 1940, Heinlein set out the following predictions: in 1941 the US government would start a large-scale secret project, which would make nuclear weapons available for use by the end of 1944 (radioactive dust rather than a bomb - but with much the same strategic implications); the weapon would be used to destroy an Axis city in 1945; this would bring WWII to an end, but start a nuclear arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. (In Heinlein's story, it leads to a new war which the US wins, gaining domination over the whole world but becoming a military dictatorship in the process).
I have mod points right now, and shit, not only is there not an appropriate label to mod that comment, I don't even know what to say in response. If only there was a "+7, rendered me fucking speechless" option.
It doesn't take .2 teraflops to model one atom, or even two atoms, even account for effects on the quantum level.. However, when you take into acount that each atom will more or less interact with every other atom, you have a massive amount of interactions to model. Thats what takes so much processing power.
when are we going to get Nigeria to crack down on those "wonderful opportunitys[sic]" involving "23 millions[sic] dollars"?
The vast majority of my spam comes from US, or at least english speaking countries. When can we make some serious headway on fighting that?
you're right, of course, in this instance it is a "real" giga, meaning a billion cycles per second.
not to mention common sense. As much of the information (other than reviews) on his site could be easily found using a search engine, I'm not really sure how collecting it on one site could be illegal. It's a lot like someone putting up a website reviewing various types of marijuana they have purchased in the area, and where they purchased it. It may be an illegal activity, but writing about doing it is hardly a crime.
In Soviet Amerika, data mines you!
Obviously the ammount of CO2 released by cars in comparison to the rest of the co2 released through other human induced combustion is very small; however the first part of my comment is somewhat facetious and is in reference to the parent's comment, which seemed to be making the point that human use of fossil fuels are having no impact.
Do cars give off a unique chemical that we can see directly makes the Earth warmer?
Errm, yes, i's called carbon dioxide, and it does wonders for making venus warmer.
Think about it this way: 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land and all that, most paleontologists will agree that the climate of earth was much warmer than it is today, and that the concentration of CO2 in the air was much higher. Now, plants, as is well known, sequester CO2 from the air in the form of glucose and other complex carbohydrates, some of which is taken up by animals, which consume them. Another well known fact is that the vast supplies of oil which humans have been combusting for the past 150 years were formed from the remains of the same plants and animals which had sequestered all this carbon. Finally, when you take into account the fact that combustion of hydrocarbons gives you water and carbon dioxide as end products, it's not exactly rocket science to figure out that burning all the oil we can drill will probably result in a trend towards the climate becoming more similar to the way it was back when the carbon in that oil existed as CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yeah, but only for the "anti-social clinical alcoholic" crowd
You come across a comment that seems to be mysteriously both grammatically correct and adds additional information to the discussion
If you mod the comment +1, insightful, turn to page 15
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It still doesn't matter...we could have 1000 bases of that (ridiculously large) size, and it would still be less than a billionth of the moon's total mass. In any case, the logistics behind moving that much mass 250,000 miles from the surface of the earth pretty much preclude that possibility anyway.
until someone gets hit with a power supply.
The mass of the earth is 5.97 x 10^24 kg, the mass of the moon is 7.36 x 10 ^22 kg. If a moon base construction involves moving (and I'm being ridiculously, absurdly, beyond-the-capabilities-we-have to-launch liberal here) 20 billion kilos, which is 2 x 10^9, in comparison to the mass of the moon, is still just 1/ 3.5 x 10^13th the total mass, which in words is considerably less than a trillionth the mass of the moon. It probably wouldn't even make a measurable difference in the moons orbit, not to mention the fact that there would probably be some compensatory shift of the earth-moon barycenter, further protecting against much orbital decay
First, as already mentioned below, water is an end product of human and all other aerobic respiration.
Second, of course anaerobic bacteria respire, they just by definition do not require oxygen to do so. Glycolysis is by definition anaerobic respiration.
1) Depends on the makeup and density of the material it accretes
2) See 1
3) See 1
It supports about ten computers currently shipping. That is of course in addition to a larger number closer to 100 older models that are supported just fine, and in many cases, better than the previous version of the OS (in terms of speed).
Come on guys, this isn't even close to believable.
Or, god forbid, what to eat
And given china's current censorship policies, what makes you think they'll have a choice?