I know you're being sarcastic and funny, but you point out a very important difference between the colloquial notion of a "theory" and the scientific notion of a "theory." In the colloquial idea, a theory is just that, an idea. It doesn't need any sort of proof or any other support. In science, however, such a notion is called a "hypothesis," and after it has gone through a rigorous proving process (either under a current mathematical framework like quantum mechanics or through a series of experiments if it is itself a new framework) it earns the word "theory."
So in this case the scientists have proven this hypothesis with the mathematics and ideas of quantum mechanics, thus it is a theory. Peanuts in your arse is still just hypothesis.
Fearing terrorists will try to build and use deadly weapons, called collectively "sharp objects", the American president has issued a executive order classifying the knowledge of building sharp objects. The ATF has already arrested over 10,000 American children in a attempt to enforce this law.... Experts at the FBI suspect these children where not acting alone, but are part of a nation wide effort of children to overthrow the government by use of sharp objects.
I think you just made all of the terrorism-panicked "think of the children!" shouters' heads explode.
Plants are more efficient than solar cells. The energy output will never exceed the input. Therefore, this is a dumb idea. Actually, all things considered, plants grown for human consumption are on average only 1%-2% efficient, with the highest being sugarcane at 8% efficiency, whereas current commercially available solar cells are 14%-16% efficient with highest proven efficiency at about 40.7%, though this is in lab conditions that tend to be far from normal conditions.
So in reality solar cells are much more efficient than plants, and since in this vertical greenhouse we have complete control over the light shining on the plants, we can choose the wavelengths best absorbed, and artificially at least double the efficiency of the plants.
Also let's not ignore the People who actually elect the members of Congress. Which *gasp* brings us full-circle to the education problem! Imagine that, a positive feedback loop. Nothing can go wrong here...
Thank you very much. My apologies if I came off harsh, I just know that fanatics like to throw that back in the faces of their detractors, so I try to catch it before they do whenever possible.
Please, please, please don't reference a quote without citing its source. You give who said it, but not where or in what. We always need context. The last thing we need is the side against scientology looking as pseudo-scientific as scientology itself. So can someone please reply with the source of this quote?
Ah, yes, you're right, thank you, I was having a brain fart. For completeness I'd like to point out they would radiate gravitational waves, but that wouldn't bleed off enough momentum and energy to make them collapse in any reasonable time.
Actually, if all of the dark matter were Dyson Spheres around stars, or star systems, they'd still give off black body radiation, which we can easily detect. This is because black body radiation is independent of everything except temperature, which will be above ambient interstellar temperature (thus producing the radiation) in every case, unless this civilization has found a way to reverse entropy.
Further, recent observations of a pair of colliding galaxies conclusively shows that dark matter absolutely cannot be normal matter, since normal matter interacts with the EM force (which is producing drag on the colliding gas clouds), but dark matter does not (in the collision the dark matter clouds are just sliding past each other). Thus Dyson Sphere-covered stars, or star systems, dark matter is not.
What makes normal matter collapse is the "friction" or "interaction" between the charged particles. Er, correct me if I'm wrong, but the interaction between charged particles has nothing to do with gravitational collapse into black holes. The "weak" force of gravity is all that is necessary to form a black hole.
There will always be the option to move the site out of the US, and if that option is lost (by whatever means, like the Great Firewall of China) then the US will have much more major problems than internet hosting restrictions.
If that's true, then how do we "already know" that the standard model and GR are broken? How do we know the Standard Model and GR are broken? Two words: quantum gravity.
The Chinese or Indians (or both in concert) landing a man on the moon.
I fully suspect that is what it's going to take. Really? I think it will take more than that. The US panicked after Sputnik because the Soviets did something we hadn't gotten around to doing yet, and we were scared of them. We've landed on the moon. We're not scared of India other than that they're "takin' ar jobs," and the US at large doesn't take China seriously enough yet to consider them a threat.
To wake the US up I think it will take someone we can firmly identify as an enemy very visibly besting us in technological innovation. And terrorists getting nukes isn't cutting it, so I can't imagine one. Anyone have any ideas?
And, to be clear, dear Americans, this isn't "the politicians" talking, this is America talking...you vote for them, you let them run your country, they are your voice as surely and purely as anything you say yourselves. As an American, and at least in my case, I do get to say it's "the politicians" talking, because I didn't vote for a single one of them! This last election was the first one I got to vote in, and though I'm a naive 20-year-old, ever since learning about our political system I've hated it. We have a winner-take-all system, so if 62,499,999 of us vote for one party (namely one candidate), and 62,500,001 vote for the other guy, the first group gets the shaft as the second candidate gets to "represent" all 125,000,000 voters.
On top of that, the vast majority of my fellow Americans (which excludes an appreciable chunk of the/. crowd, of course) don't vote based on platforms of candidates and political histories of candidates, or really any kind of intelligent research about the candidates. They vote for the guy who's spent the most money on campaigning (money he receives from Big Business(TM)), or has God on his side, or looks prettier, etc. So my vote, which I spend a lot of time formulating, gets lost in the sea of votes from slack-jawed yockels who live around me and who vote with their faith (I live in Texas) instead of their brains.
I would (and occasionally do) push for a change in our system, but that would take pretty hefty amendments to our constitution, which require either unbelievable unity among the common man in favor of them, or strong support from the people who benefit from the way things are now. Either way, at this point all my words are are annoying complaints.
Oh yeah, we could also have some sort of coup, but let's be reasonable, those never turn out well.
Okay, so I've just paid to have some unique content created for me and someone comes along with a copy tool and duplicates it and gives it to all their friends, and puts it in a freebie store for everyone to share. I've paid for something that exists elsewhere, same as before, but I've paid (say) $50 instead of $1.
If the object has lost value to you simply because someone else has it, then why did you want it in the first place? All your arguement means is that the market of people wanting something new soley because it's new will die out. Everyone else who wanted something new for other reasons will still be there, wanting the new content and being willing to pay for it. Like others have said, this means simply a paradigm shift, not a total collapse. A hard, gruelling shift, which will cause the local collapse of those who can't cope, but people will adapt and the virtual economy will recover.
Sure it has! That's what killed the SSC! If it hadn't, we all could have been sucked up by that black hole long ago instead of treading water for 14 years.
Dark matter is the 21st century's ether in one, very specific sense: it permeates all of space.
After that, the two differ greatly. The ether was the transmission medium for light; dark matter (obviously) isn't. The ether provided an absolute inertial frame of reference; dark matter doesn't. The ether was almost perfectly uniform throughout space; dark matter very much isn't. I could go on, but you get the point.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that statement seems true at first glance, but don't think it's that simple.
>> 3) "I'm not PROMOTING that we get out of the Middle East" Like your neighbor arbitrarily blowing up your car much? Hmmmm which came first? the chicken hawk or the exploding egg? oh right! the chicken hawk.
Actually your "exploding egg" came first, unless your memory is that short.
You misunderstand, I'm not PROMOTING that we get out of the Middle East, I'm simply saying there's a better way for them to get what they want. I'm NOT saying what they want is right. I know they want to reinstate the Caliphate and they want world domination and all that jazz.
So YOU'VE got to be kidding when you lump me in a stereotype like that. Try reading the lines I post and don't try to read the ones I don't.
All I'm saying, is that with evil goals like theirs ("oh no, I'm using the word evil"), they need a little subtlety if they ever expect to gain holdable ground.
You're forgetting the historical context in which the amendment was passed. The grandparent post mentioned that the 16th amendment is an artifact from "populist reform" but (s)he did so without explanation.
The Populists arose because they saw the rising control of the two major parties by corporate influences (my historical-repetition sense is tingling). The "state"-appointed Senators were being appointed by corporate-sanctioned state officials, making the Senate literally open to the highest bidder. Because both the House and the Senate are required for a bill to pass into law, any bill that came to the Senate that even hinted at hindering any business in any way was slapped down. Therefore, the 16th amendment was passed in the spirit of giving the power back to the educated masses who had minds of their own.
Unfortunately, the masses are now neither "educated" nor in possesion of minds of their own, thanks mostly to the same big business the amendment was trying to hinder. It was very much a boon at the time, but big business moves faster than the government can keep up with.
There are more avenues to getting unwanted guests out of your lands than attacking their unrelated civilian industries. Most of the West (if not all, I don't keep up with the construction of other nations' governments) is democratic, meaning if the people behind the terrorists make the general public aware of their desires, they stand a better chance of stuff getting done in their favor.
If you work with the system, you stand a better chance of getting them out of your country in the short term, and a much better chance in the long term.
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I know you're being sarcastic and funny, but you point out a very important difference between the colloquial notion of a "theory" and the scientific notion of a "theory." In the colloquial idea, a theory is just that, an idea. It doesn't need any sort of proof or any other support. In science, however, such a notion is called a "hypothesis," and after it has gone through a rigorous proving process (either under a current mathematical framework like quantum mechanics or through a series of experiments if it is itself a new framework) it earns the word "theory."
So in this case the scientists have proven this hypothesis with the mathematics and ideas of quantum mechanics, thus it is a theory. Peanuts in your arse is still just hypothesis.
I think you just made all of the terrorism-panicked "think of the children!" shouters' heads explode.
So in reality solar cells are much more efficient than plants, and since in this vertical greenhouse we have complete control over the light shining on the plants, we can choose the wavelengths best absorbed, and artificially at least double the efficiency of the plants.
Thank you very much. My apologies if I came off harsh, I just know that fanatics like to throw that back in the faces of their detractors, so I try to catch it before they do whenever possible.
Please, please, please don't reference a quote without citing its source. You give who said it, but not where or in what. We always need context. The last thing we need is the side against scientology looking as pseudo-scientific as scientology itself. So can someone please reply with the source of this quote?
Ah, yes, you're right, thank you, I was having a brain fart. For completeness I'd like to point out they would radiate gravitational waves, but that wouldn't bleed off enough momentum and energy to make them collapse in any reasonable time.
Actually, if all of the dark matter were Dyson Spheres around stars, or star systems, they'd still give off black body radiation, which we can easily detect. This is because black body radiation is independent of everything except temperature, which will be above ambient interstellar temperature (thus producing the radiation) in every case, unless this civilization has found a way to reverse entropy.
Further, recent observations of a pair of colliding galaxies conclusively shows that dark matter absolutely cannot be normal matter, since normal matter interacts with the EM force (which is producing drag on the colliding gas clouds), but dark matter does not (in the collision the dark matter clouds are just sliding past each other). Thus Dyson Sphere-covered stars, or star systems, dark matter is not.
There will always be the option to move the site out of the US, and if that option is lost (by whatever means, like the Great Firewall of China) then the US will have much more major problems than internet hosting restrictions.
IANAL, so maybe Congress is using some trick to get around this, but officially ex post facto laws are prohibited by the Constitution of the US.
The Chinese or Indians (or both in concert) landing a man on the moon.
I fully suspect that is what it's going to take. Really? I think it will take more than that. The US panicked after Sputnik because the Soviets did something we hadn't gotten around to doing yet, and we were scared of them. We've landed on the moon. We're not scared of India other than that they're "takin' ar jobs," and the US at large doesn't take China seriously enough yet to consider them a threat.
To wake the US up I think it will take someone we can firmly identify as an enemy very visibly besting us in technological innovation. And terrorists getting nukes isn't cutting it, so I can't imagine one. Anyone have any ideas?
On top of that, the vast majority of my fellow Americans (which excludes an appreciable chunk of the
I would (and occasionally do) push for a change in our system, but that would take pretty hefty amendments to our constitution, which require either unbelievable unity among the common man in favor of them, or strong support from the people who benefit from the way things are now. Either way, at this point all my words are are annoying complaints.
Oh yeah, we could also have some sort of coup, but let's be reasonable, those never turn out well.
Okay, so I've just paid to have some unique content created for me and someone comes along with a copy tool and duplicates it and gives it to all their friends, and puts it in a freebie store for everyone to share. I've paid for something that exists elsewhere, same as before, but I've paid (say) $50 instead of $1.
If the object has lost value to you simply because someone else has it, then why did you want it in the first place? All your arguement means is that the market of people wanting something new soley because it's new will die out. Everyone else who wanted something new for other reasons will still be there, wanting the new content and being willing to pay for it. Like others have said, this means simply a paradigm shift, not a total collapse. A hard, gruelling shift, which will cause the local collapse of those who can't cope, but people will adapt and the virtual economy will recover.
Sure it has! That's what killed the SSC! If it hadn't, we all could have been sucked up by that black hole long ago instead of treading water for 14 years.
After that, the two differ greatly. The ether was the transmission medium for light; dark matter (obviously) isn't. The ether provided an absolute inertial frame of reference; dark matter doesn't. The ether was almost perfectly uniform throughout space; dark matter very much isn't. I could go on, but you get the point.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that statement seems true at first glance, but don't think it's that simple.
Caliphate, look it up before poasting next time. The information is out there and very easy to find on, say, Google.
Like your neighbor arbitrarily blowing up your car much?
Surely this is the last step in making a fully function quantum computer!
We should have one in only a year or two!
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You misunderstand, I'm not PROMOTING that we get out of the Middle East, I'm simply saying there's a better way for them to get what they want. I'm NOT saying what they want is right. I know they want to reinstate the Caliphate and they want world domination and all that jazz.
So YOU'VE got to be kidding when you lump me in a stereotype like that. Try reading the lines I post and don't try to read the ones I don't.
All I'm saying, is that with evil goals like theirs ("oh no, I'm using the word evil"), they need a little subtlety if they ever expect to gain holdable ground.
You're forgetting the historical context in which the amendment was passed. The grandparent post mentioned that the 16th amendment is an artifact from "populist reform" but (s)he did so without explanation.
The Populists arose because they saw the rising control of the two major parties by corporate influences (my historical-repetition sense is tingling). The "state"-appointed Senators were being appointed by corporate-sanctioned state officials, making the Senate literally open to the highest bidder. Because both the House and the Senate are required for a bill to pass into law, any bill that came to the Senate that even hinted at hindering any business in any way was slapped down. Therefore, the 16th amendment was passed in the spirit of giving the power back to the educated masses who had minds of their own.
Unfortunately, the masses are now neither "educated" nor in possesion of minds of their own, thanks mostly to the same big business the amendment was trying to hinder. It was very much a boon at the time, but big business moves faster than the government can keep up with.
There are more avenues to getting unwanted guests out of your lands than attacking their unrelated civilian industries. Most of the West (if not all, I don't keep up with the construction of other nations' governments) is democratic, meaning if the people behind the terrorists make the general public aware of their desires, they stand a better chance of stuff getting done in their favor.
If you work with the system, you stand a better chance of getting them out of your country in the short term, and a much better chance in the long term.