That makes perfect sense. You have to be oblivious of what's going on to have children these days. I always feel bad for any kids I see today. Living to the end of this century? Holy crap.
The carbon increase in the atmosphere can a) be compared with the amount of fossil fuels burned and b) has a different isotope isotope composition because 14C has only a few thousand year half life so fossil carbon is practically devoid of 14C. Not speculative at all, falsifiable and tested.
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You'd be surprised how many software packages have a complete Perl under the hood.
Will I have to wear red/green or polarizing glasses to recognize anything on my phone? Will I have to carry spare cardboard glasses if I want to show a girl at the bar my latest photos?
Yes! There's the solution: The wormhole printer! Just add a wormhole to the print head and you can print on other planets. Why did nobody else think of that? Jeez!
Yup, you'd need some *serious* nanotechnology to be able to print functioning cells, and you'd have to know the wiring of a brain to the subcellular (probably molecular) level to make it work. Not within the next 30 years.
However you may want some backup from science if you make real world predictions (and prevent real world solutions because people are pre-occupied by la-la-land.)
You may want to look at numbers - how long it takes to build nukes, how much that needs in terms of money/resources, availability of uranium, amount of fossil fuel needed to mine uranium etc. I didn't claim that it can't fix anything but it won't save the economy when fossil fuel depletion hits in earnest.
First of all, Peak Uranium is predicted in around 20 years at current consumption with current technology. Of course you're free to invoke fairy tales about thorium or uranium from seawater. Those exist just as much as fusion exists. Secondly, even if we magically had all nuclear electric power generation tomorrow it wouldn't fix anything because you can't run trucks, ships or planes on batteries, or replace the entire stock of cars in less than about two decades.
Nuclear won't help either. Even if we started to build nukes like there's no tomorrow (not that we can afford it) it wouldn't fix anything. The energy trap has closed. 40 years ago was the time to act.
Oh noes! That would make driving more expensive! Can't have that - I'd rather wait until my McMansion in the 'burbs is way underwater and I can't afford to drive any more. Detroit, here I come! Until then, happy motoring! Oh and James Howard Kunstler doesn't exist.
"Nuke it from orbit" was my first thought too. But seriously, you'll need a lot of explosives to knock out a wildfire. Unless you detect it right after it ignited, it'll be at least acres in size and everything will be ready to re-ignite so you have to blow it out all at once.
Bravo. I wish I had mod points. Running an OS off a USB stick is not exactly novel - it's been done for years. I can remember my first experiments with Knoppix and a persistent home directory, maybe 5 or 6 years ago. The one thing that's novel is exploting this idea to make money.
Oh no! Neither MS nor Apple? What has the world come to? How are the students going to be good software consumers? They might even begin to write their own programs! Heavens, they'll al become evil hackers!
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That makes perfect sense. You have to be oblivious of what's going on to have children these days. I always feel bad for any kids I see today. Living to the end of this century? Holy crap.
People are irrational. Beliefs trump facts most of the time.
If they knew how much they (and the entire economy) had to cut back to do anything substantial about AGW they'd be climate change deniers.
So we know which ISPs to avoid or if we should switch.
The carbon increase in the atmosphere can a) be compared with the amount of fossil fuels burned and b) has a different isotope isotope composition because 14C has only a few thousand year half life so fossil carbon is practically devoid of 14C. Not speculative at all, falsifiable and tested.
You'd be surprised how many software packages have a complete Perl under the hood.
Will I have to wear red/green or polarizing glasses to recognize anything on my phone? Will I have to carry spare cardboard glasses if I want to show a girl at the bar my latest photos?
> Try looking up albedo
Sorry that's too sciency. Don't you have anything at the hurr-durr level?
If you read the article you should have noticed that melting and refreezing makes larger ice grains which have a lower albedo than snow.
Yes! There's the solution: The wormhole printer! Just add a wormhole to the print head and you can print on other planets. Why did nobody else think of that? Jeez!
Yup, you'd need some *serious* nanotechnology to be able to print functioning cells, and you'd have to know the wiring of a brain to the subcellular (probably molecular) level to make it work. Not within the next 30 years.
However you may want some backup from science if you make real world predictions (and prevent real world solutions because people are pre-occupied by la-la-land.)
Make that 2030 and you're on the right track.
You may want to look at numbers - how long it takes to build nukes, how much that needs in terms of money/resources, availability of uranium, amount of fossil fuel needed to mine uranium etc.
I didn't claim that it can't fix anything but it won't save the economy when fossil fuel depletion hits in earnest.
You may want to watch the movie "Dirty Wars." It's very questionable who terrorizes whom.
So one niche product by one supplier that isn't exactly loved means recreating the market now?
First of all, Peak Uranium is predicted in around 20 years at current consumption with current technology. Of course you're free to invoke fairy tales about thorium or uranium from seawater. Those exist just as much as fusion exists.
Secondly, even if we magically had all nuclear electric power generation tomorrow it wouldn't fix anything because you can't run trucks, ships or planes on batteries, or replace the entire stock of cars in less than about two decades.
Mod parent up. Same here - the immigrants' English is better than the natives'. Oh and math and Science too.
Nuclear won't help either. Even if we started to build nukes like there's no tomorrow (not that we can afford it) it wouldn't fix anything. The energy trap has closed. 40 years ago was the time to act.
Oh noes! That would make driving more expensive! Can't have that - I'd rather wait until my McMansion in the 'burbs is way underwater and I can't afford to drive any more. Detroit, here I come! Until then, happy motoring! Oh and James Howard Kunstler doesn't exist.
"Nuke it from orbit" was my first thought too.
But seriously, you'll need a lot of explosives to knock out a wildfire. Unless you detect it right after it ignited, it'll be at least acres in size and everything will be ready to re-ignite so you have to blow it out all at once.
That would be good since Intel's CPUs are only getting 10% faster each generation.
Bravo. I wish I had mod points. Running an OS off a USB stick is not exactly novel - it's been done for years. I can remember my first experiments with Knoppix and a persistent home directory, maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
The one thing that's novel is exploting this idea to make money.
Nonsense. Code does routing and floor planning, it doesn't design two-core modules.
Oh and in the current designs the automatic layout saved significant real estate and power compared to hand layouts.
The article you refer to is utter bullshit.
Oh no! Neither MS nor Apple? What has the world come to? How are the students going to be good software consumers? They might even begin to write their own programs! Heavens, they'll al become evil hackers!