We'll like fire lasers at them and it'll be like *Kapow* and they'll all be screaming and running *Aaaahhh* and then we'll go have pancakes and I'll be like *Mnhrf, Mnommfn Mnhrf, Mnommfn*
Precisely.
Facts:
1. Physicists are mammals
2. Physicists do calculations ALL the time
3. The purpose of the physicist is to flip out and kill people who use bad physics.
Yeah, and if any invading armies come to our shores, it's the coastal citizens's duties to fight them. They knew this when they moved to the coast.
Turns out one of the main duties of the state is to protect it's citizens.
I love the idea of superheated nuclear waste reentering the earth 50 years from now, mainly because it's hot, has loads of kinetic energy, and chemically toxic for the most part. It makes global warming seem so trivial.
the principles of faraday cages tell us that you can't send signals out of or into a mathematically closed surface of conductors. The box isn't fully closed and isn't made of a perfect conductor, but it should kill 90+% of the signal I'd guess.
Where are you getting pure hydrocarbons from? And how are you able to ensure they don't combust all at the same time?
Diesel, Gasoline, Kerosene, etc are quite far from pure hyrdrocarbons.
Make some friends. I caught a friend of mine before she turned her old 20 GB iPod for a new one. I paid $100 not just for a good iPod, but one chock-full of new music for me to keep or delete.
This looks a whole lot like a polygraph test, which has been considered in court an unnecessary breach of privacy. You can't use them for evidence and you can't use them for interviews (unless you're the FBI). So what gives us the legal precedent to use them on travelers?
I'm pretty sure CleanFlicks was out of Fair Use was because they were selling material that they didn't have distribution rights to. If they didn't make a cent off of distributing other people's works it might have been a bit more of a legal debate.
I love the card game Magic, and most of my expenditures on it are quite reasonable. Paying $13 to draft is about 3 hours of entertainment and you get to keep the cards for later, and that's if you don't win anything. I've made some great friends because of it, and I still play it when I can.
Yeah, but speaking as an Oregonian, this means that the funkiest laws get passed inside the state. We also have the batshit-looniest people running for Governor every year. Remember the guy that wanted to secede from the union? Or the guy running this year that wants to go back to a gold/silver economy?
I think half the reason the anti-gay bill was passed in Oregon was because the people in bumblefuck Prineville and Co. could send in their ballots instead of having to drive into town to vote.
Real life has a maximum speed at which bodies can fall: it's call air resistance. Very easily you can just have someone accelerate at 1g until they hit ~130 mph, which is the terminal velocity of a human. This is realistic and should prove harmful to a character if he hits a stationary object at this speed. Programmers could then just set a cap on falling damage (the height you have to fall to get to terminal velocity is about 500 feet, so it shouldn't be a problem in anything other than infi loop problems).
The mac mini comment is so valid I know a startup company lobotomizing Mac Mini's into gentoo boxes simply because the mac mini is by far the best small footprint machine (in cost, power consumption, and size) that it's worth it for them to do it.
There are many more benefits of the large scale experiments that engineers can't see.
Who does the experiments? College Professors, for the most part, or people aiming to be college professors
In my experience getting a BS in Physics, the good teachers were the professors who were teaching one or two classes a quarter and working on this type of research. The lecturers with masters in the field and never did big research projects have always been horrible teachers.
So universities and governments need to fund these professors to do what they want to do, whether prove GR works or Standard Model works, and in return they not only give us the results of these studies, but they teach the next generation of scientists, engineers, and even liberal art majors. It's why developed countries have great universities, because what good professor wants to teach in a university that wants him to teach four classes and in a country that won't fund his project?
There are very few non-academics that work on a research project, and if they are they are usually the technicians or engineers who keep the experiment running by building/refining gadgets.
I'm glad the philosophers have weighed in on this heady issue. Determinism of large classical bodies is as close to verifiable as you're going to get. That's why we can send satellites through 5 gravitational slingshots and have them still have 20 minutes of flyby time with a comet.
Were any of you Mac gamers when Warcraft 2 came out? I remember emailing Blizzard asking for a Mac release of Warcraft 2 and their reply was 'We'll release one if Warcraft 1 for Mac sells well' (which came out like 6 months before War 2 was released for PC). My thoughts then were that Mac users were screwed, as who would want to buy the first gen of a game when the new sexy version was the one played at lan parties?
Later they did restore my faith. No game has the multiplayer capabilities of Starcraft. Hands down.
Strangely enough, the Sony Mini-Disc player that came out in 99-2000 is one of the best cheap recording devices with a 1/8" line-in. Since it's dead technology still religously supported by Sony, you can get the player and discs pretty cheap for it.
It's really sad that Portland can't get their act together and get a better research university to support the Beaverton area. I know Reed's there, but nobody from Reed gets hired in Oregon.
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Why would we need a dictionary with Hoppy Beer in it?
We'll like fire lasers at them and it'll be like *Kapow* and they'll all be screaming and running *Aaaahhh* and then we'll go have pancakes and I'll be like *Mnhrf, Mnommfn Mnhrf, Mnommfn* Precisely.
Another large factor is that emissions standards can be enacted immediately on power plants, as can new emission-reducing technology.
you never have anything witty to say Fermi...
Gentlemen, I have taken nature's most dangerous killing machine, and needlessly made it a robot.
I'm glad your solution to people not listening to you is to scream louder.
Facts: 1. Physicists are mammals 2. Physicists do calculations ALL the time 3. The purpose of the physicist is to flip out and kill people who use bad physics.
Yeah, and if any invading armies come to our shores, it's the coastal citizens's duties to fight them. They knew this when they moved to the coast. Turns out one of the main duties of the state is to protect it's citizens.
I love the idea of superheated nuclear waste reentering the earth 50 years from now, mainly because it's hot, has loads of kinetic energy, and chemically toxic for the most part. It makes global warming seem so trivial.
the principles of faraday cages tell us that you can't send signals out of or into a mathematically closed surface of conductors. The box isn't fully closed and isn't made of a perfect conductor, but it should kill 90+% of the signal I'd guess.
Where are you getting pure hydrocarbons from? And how are you able to ensure they don't combust all at the same time? Diesel, Gasoline, Kerosene, etc are quite far from pure hyrdrocarbons.
Make some friends. I caught a friend of mine before she turned her old 20 GB iPod for a new one. I paid $100 not just for a good iPod, but one chock-full of new music for me to keep or delete.
This looks a whole lot like a polygraph test, which has been considered in court an unnecessary breach of privacy. You can't use them for evidence and you can't use them for interviews (unless you're the FBI). So what gives us the legal precedent to use them on travelers?
I'm pretty sure CleanFlicks was out of Fair Use was because they were selling material that they didn't have distribution rights to. If they didn't make a cent off of distributing other people's works it might have been a bit more of a legal debate.
I love the card game Magic, and most of my expenditures on it are quite reasonable. Paying $13 to draft is about 3 hours of entertainment and you get to keep the cards for later, and that's if you don't win anything. I've made some great friends because of it, and I still play it when I can.
Yeah, but speaking as an Oregonian, this means that the funkiest laws get passed inside the state. We also have the batshit-looniest people running for Governor every year. Remember the guy that wanted to secede from the union? Or the guy running this year that wants to go back to a gold/silver economy? I think half the reason the anti-gay bill was passed in Oregon was because the people in bumblefuck Prineville and Co. could send in their ballots instead of having to drive into town to vote.
Real life has a maximum speed at which bodies can fall: it's call air resistance. Very easily you can just have someone accelerate at 1g until they hit ~130 mph, which is the terminal velocity of a human. This is realistic and should prove harmful to a character if he hits a stationary object at this speed. Programmers could then just set a cap on falling damage (the height you have to fall to get to terminal velocity is about 500 feet, so it shouldn't be a problem in anything other than infi loop problems).
The mac mini comment is so valid I know a startup company lobotomizing Mac Mini's into gentoo boxes simply because the mac mini is by far the best small footprint machine (in cost, power consumption, and size) that it's worth it for them to do it.
This is exactly why we need to build overhead gas lines.
Come on, feel the noise... girls, rock your boys!
There are many more benefits of the large scale experiments that engineers can't see. Who does the experiments? College Professors, for the most part, or people aiming to be college professors In my experience getting a BS in Physics, the good teachers were the professors who were teaching one or two classes a quarter and working on this type of research. The lecturers with masters in the field and never did big research projects have always been horrible teachers. So universities and governments need to fund these professors to do what they want to do, whether prove GR works or Standard Model works, and in return they not only give us the results of these studies, but they teach the next generation of scientists, engineers, and even liberal art majors. It's why developed countries have great universities, because what good professor wants to teach in a university that wants him to teach four classes and in a country that won't fund his project? There are very few non-academics that work on a research project, and if they are they are usually the technicians or engineers who keep the experiment running by building/refining gadgets.
I'm glad the philosophers have weighed in on this heady issue. Determinism of large classical bodies is as close to verifiable as you're going to get. That's why we can send satellites through 5 gravitational slingshots and have them still have 20 minutes of flyby time with a comet.
Were any of you Mac gamers when Warcraft 2 came out? I remember emailing Blizzard asking for a Mac release of Warcraft 2 and their reply was 'We'll release one if Warcraft 1 for Mac sells well' (which came out like 6 months before War 2 was released for PC). My thoughts then were that Mac users were screwed, as who would want to buy the first gen of a game when the new sexy version was the one played at lan parties? Later they did restore my faith. No game has the multiplayer capabilities of Starcraft. Hands down.
Strangely enough, the Sony Mini-Disc player that came out in 99-2000 is one of the best cheap recording devices with a 1/8" line-in. Since it's dead technology still religously supported by Sony, you can get the player and discs pretty cheap for it.
It's really sad that Portland can't get their act together and get a better research university to support the Beaverton area. I know Reed's there, but nobody from Reed gets hired in Oregon.