Silicon is a strong contender Unlikely. Carbon oxidizes into a gas over the range of temperatures we are talking about, whereas Silicon oxidizes into a solid. The former has the advantage of removing carbon from the system - allowing for energy to be gained without a separate process for waste removal.
That is just one example. I'm not saying it is impossible, but there are reasons life is carbon based. It isn't arbitrary.
It's more of the fact that it has a website at all that makes it seem less credible. However, when government organizations focus on funding 5 decade old technology (tokamak), it becomes necessary to explore alternate routes for funding.
The sad thing is that those multibillion dollar projects (ITER, I'm looking at you) have no chance of producing economic fusion. The technology is just too expensive.
More fringe possibilities should get funding. Nothing huge, though. Just enough to decide if it is feasible.
I'm unaware if the DOE has any such program to evaluate cheaper alternatives. If it doesn't, it should.
The idea is more that special closed systems will be available for digital distribution, and once they are available, distributors will only distribute to these closed systems.
PC's will still be open platforms, except for maybe with the dell's and apple's of the world, whose customers care more about convenience than cost.
It seems like arcing shouldn't be a huge problem in a vacuum. The charge would have to be isolated from electronics, because transistors wouldn't work very well if they had a high initial base charge.
However, isolating the transistors might be harder than it seems at face value because transistors must be used to control the mechanics of the satellite. If you tried to isolate the charge to the metallic chassis, it might be able to pass through control lines into the electronics. The resulting electric field could either keep transistors from depleting, or even worse, blow the dielectric.
It seems to me that an isolated piece of metal would have to be incorporated specifically to hold the charge. In order to isolate it you would need a dielectric with a very high breakdown voltage. However, even then the isolated charge would cause electric fields to appear across the rest of the satellite.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure sacrificing your own children, Incest, are Genocide are not in the New Testament.
Most (sane) Christians would say that there are several parts of the old testament that are no longer a part of the religion, and are basically just left in because it's easier than actually changing the bible.
I don't know where you got this idea of Hollywood being some source of intelligent art, but it never was. Sure, every once in a while one of the movie studios will re-release a thoughtful, meaningful, entertaining, and relevant indi film that everyone loved, but it wasn't made in hollywood.
Hollywood is, and always has been, nothing but a place for people to profit off movies.
One of these and 2 or 3 people can effectively fight a government of thousands. In fact there is no reason for any citizen NOT to use these to quell their government and keep them goose stepping in line... except for a lack of morals.
in recent years we're seeing numerous instances of people who have worked in high-ranking positions in the government who are whistle-blowing (FAA Chief Callahan, Astronaut Cooper, Blue Book Dir. Ruppelt, Astronaut Aldrin, Blue Book Scientific adviser Hynek, Lt. Col. Daniel Mcgovern, Gov. Fife Symington, etc) & they're being ignored even though many of them have publicly stated they're willing to testify under oath before congress. Did any of these people NOT believe in UFOs before the incedent?
If they believed in them before, they are much more likely to misinterpret an easily explainable phenomenon as a UFO sighting.
or extremely discredited to the extent that they would need to move and hide ^Exactly.
But really - there have been multiple people who have admitted to voluntarily faking UFO sightings. Remember when people thought crop circles where signs from aliens?
If we have proof that a large number of UFO sightings are fake, isn't it more likely that the rest are also fake, rather than that we just haven't proved any of them real yet?
These memristors seem fairly related to PRAM, or phase change memory. However, it seems that these memristors will be much easier to implement.
Currently they are sputtering on the TiO2.
However, there are currently methods for solution deposition of TiO2. If such a process could be used to create memristors, we could create memory at a tiny fraction of the cost we are right now.
Also, as mentioned in the article, these memristors work similarly to synapses, so it might be possible to model a brain with them.
This is really exciting news. I will definitely have to read the papers.
Given, I haven't actually tried, but it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement.
If you can just break your code into several hundred or thousand blocks of nonthreatening code, then all you need is a way to randomize their placement in the binary. It doesn't seem THAT difficult. You could even have it relink itself into a new binary every time it is run.
You would probably need to separate the original programming from the randomization for debugging reasons. In other words you would probably need some sort of metacode that can be compiled into a standard binary and into a randomized binary.
Such a program would probably need to be simulated in order for a AV to detect that it is malicious.
How would you suggest I measure an object in its rest frame?
This may seem like a nitpicking question, but it brings us to the point that I really want to make:
Mathematics is interesting because there are no ambiguities in a well described mathematical problem. There are many problems that have a finite set of solutions. However, every mathematical model we develop to describe our surroundings is only an approximation of our observations. With time, we can create more and more accurate models, but there will always be something about that model that is derived experimentally, and is therefor imperfect.
This does, in fact, tell us something about the underlying nature of the universe. Either it was created with some arbitrary parameters, or it exists in a way such that there is no way to perfectly describe it. Or maybe there are other possibilities I have not considered. What philosophical meaning you derive from all this is up to your own reasoning.
I think the point he later tried to make is that it will never happen, because no atheist feels the need to press his or her views upon others.
To an atheist, the true injustices are more due to a lack of objectivity in the application of the law. For instance, when a school teacher decides to teach ID instead of evolution, or when a Chief Justice places the ten commandments outside of a courthouse.
Luckily, there are enough people out there in positions of power that actually see the injustice in such actions, and do try their best to rectify them.
Piracy is stealing. It also commonly includes kidnapping and murder.
What that has to do with the internet is far beyond me, though. Unless you were referring to downloading copyrighted material. But you wouldn't compare copyright infringement to murder.... would you?
I don't know about you but if I am looking to research painless ways to commit suicide (for whatever reason) and I search for "pain-free suicide" and the majority of the results returned are not about that topic but about trying to discourage people from doing it, well the search engine was ineffective and I would be annoyed. How annoyed? Annoyed enough to... commit suicide?
Weapons of this size actually have very significant fallout. The reason it is only 10 tons is because of a lack of efficiency. Most of the nuclear material is not fissioned, and so it stays in the air.
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That is just one example. I'm not saying it is impossible, but there are reasons life is carbon based. It isn't arbitrary.
It's more of the fact that it has a website at all that makes it seem less credible. However, when government organizations focus on funding 5 decade old technology (tokamak), it becomes necessary to explore alternate routes for funding.
The sad thing is that those multibillion dollar projects (ITER, I'm looking at you) have no chance of producing economic fusion. The technology is just too expensive.
More fringe possibilities should get funding. Nothing huge, though. Just enough to decide if it is feasible.
I'm unaware if the DOE has any such program to evaluate cheaper alternatives. If it doesn't, it should.
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The idea is more that special closed systems will be available for digital distribution, and once they are available, distributors will only distribute to these closed systems.
PC's will still be open platforms, except for maybe with the dell's and apple's of the world, whose customers care more about convenience than cost.
It seems like arcing shouldn't be a huge problem in a vacuum. The charge would have to be isolated from electronics, because transistors wouldn't work very well if they had a high initial base charge.
However, isolating the transistors might be harder than it seems at face value because transistors must be used to control the mechanics of the satellite. If you tried to isolate the charge to the metallic chassis, it might be able to pass through control lines into the electronics. The resulting electric field could either keep transistors from depleting, or even worse, blow the dielectric.
It seems to me that an isolated piece of metal would have to be incorporated specifically to hold the charge. In order to isolate it you would need a dielectric with a very high breakdown voltage. However, even then the isolated charge would cause electric fields to appear across the rest of the satellite.
Hmm... That is not an easy problem at all.
I can just imagine sending an asteroid into Jupiter only for it to come out the other side and smack right into us.
It is a gas giant after all.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure sacrificing your own children, Incest, are Genocide are not in the New Testament.
Most (sane) Christians would say that there are several parts of the old testament that are no longer a part of the religion, and are basically just left in because it's easier than actually changing the bible.
I don't think humans will be leaving this galaxy any time soon. There are enough interesting stars here to keep us busy for at least a million years.
Hopefully by that time finding fuel will be less of a problem than it is now.
I don't know where you got this idea of Hollywood being some source of intelligent art, but it never was. Sure, every once in a while one of the movie studios will re-release a thoughtful, meaningful, entertaining, and relevant indi film that everyone loved, but it wasn't made in hollywood.
Hollywood is, and always has been, nothing but a place for people to profit off movies.
One of these and 2 or 3 people can effectively fight a government of thousands. In fact there is no reason for any citizen NOT to use these to quell their government and keep them goose stepping in line... except for a lack of morals.
If they believed in them before, they are much more likely to misinterpret an easily explainable phenomenon as a UFO sighting.
Are you trying to say unicorns don't exist?!?!
Have you never heard of a narwhal? What did you think happened when a narwhal and a horse mate?!?!
But really - there have been multiple people who have admitted to voluntarily faking UFO sightings. Remember when people thought crop circles where signs from aliens?
If we have proof that a large number of UFO sightings are fake, isn't it more likely that the rest are also fake, rather than that we just haven't proved any of them real yet?
That is an interesting idea, but then you are involving book publishers as well.
We all know that if there is one thing students wish they could break copyright on, it is textbooks.
I know I've spent several thousand dollars on textbooks over the last few years.
These memristors seem fairly related to PRAM, or phase change memory. However, it seems that these memristors will be much easier to implement.
Currently they are sputtering on the TiO2.
However, there are currently methods for solution deposition of TiO2. If such a process could be used to create memristors, we could create memory at a tiny fraction of the cost we are right now.
Also, as mentioned in the article, these memristors work similarly to synapses, so it might be possible to model a brain with them.
This is really exciting news. I will definitely have to read the papers.
Given, I haven't actually tried, but it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement.
If you can just break your code into several hundred or thousand blocks of nonthreatening code, then all you need is a way to randomize their placement in the binary. It doesn't seem THAT difficult. You could even have it relink itself into a new binary every time it is run.
You would probably need to separate the original programming from the randomization for debugging reasons. In other words you would probably need some sort of metacode that can be compiled into a standard binary and into a randomized binary.
Such a program would probably need to be simulated in order for a AV to detect that it is malicious.
How would you suggest I measure an object in its rest frame?
This may seem like a nitpicking question, but it brings us to the point that I really want to make:
Mathematics is interesting because there are no ambiguities in a well described mathematical problem. There are many problems that have a finite set of solutions. However, every mathematical model we develop to describe our surroundings is only an approximation of our observations. With time, we can create more and more accurate models, but there will always be something about that model that is derived experimentally, and is therefor imperfect.
This does, in fact, tell us something about the underlying nature of the universe. Either it was created with some arbitrary parameters, or it exists in a way such that there is no way to perfectly describe it. Or maybe there are other possibilities I have not considered. What philosophical meaning you derive from all this is up to your own reasoning.
I think the point he later tried to make is that it will never happen, because no atheist feels the need to press his or her views upon others.
To an atheist, the true injustices are more due to a lack of objectivity in the application of the law. For instance, when a school teacher decides to teach ID instead of evolution, or when a Chief Justice places the ten commandments outside of a courthouse.
Luckily, there are enough people out there in positions of power that actually see the injustice in such actions, and do try their best to rectify them.
John Paul II is dead.
Piracy is stealing. It also commonly includes kidnapping and murder.
What that has to do with the internet is far beyond me, though. Unless you were referring to downloading copyrighted material. But you wouldn't compare copyright infringement to murder.... would you?
Weapons of this size actually have very significant fallout. The reason it is only 10 tons is because of a lack of efficiency. Most of the nuclear material is not fissioned, and so it stays in the air.
Fine!
Whats your account number, social security, and birth date? I'll transfer it into your account.
It's going to be tough running a 3 threaded game on more than 3 cores.
And of course there is the issue that I can't even play pac-man on my phone because the controls suck so much.