Due to budget cuts related to the long and intense war with Satan, I am canceling one of the spacial dimensions. Thus, please re-engineer your technology for 2D instead of 3D.
My apologies for any inconveniences this may cause, but we must all make sacrifices to win this difficult war.
for all the hype surrounding some of these things, there's actually significant demand behind them
It could be the typical PHB gets sucked into the hype and tosses those buzzwords into the job ad to make sure he's getting the "freshest talent". The ad is already stuffed with gazillion buzzwords, so why not gazillion + 1
I admire people who know their limits (and human limits) and are honest about them. Note that we already know what he wishes would happen, but that's not the same as a forecast. I wish to live forever, but I forecast I will die in a few decades.
If you do a cost-benefit analysis of risk, nuclear energy is less problematic than fossil fuels, believe it or not, even with occasional accidents. Fossil fuels harm and kill a good many due to air pollution, and perhaps general climate disruption due to the green-house effect.
There is something psychologically more fearful about dying from radiation than dying from lung cancer even though the second is significantly more prevalent.
Perhaps because in our movie-shaped imaginations, too much radiation creates 3-eyed mutants with lumpy heads or giant city-eating monsters; while lung cancer merely produces dead people with screwed-up lungs.
It's hard to produce a scary movie based on lung cancer. Dawn of the Coughers just doesn't have the same freak-out punch as zombie mutants or Godzilla. Hollywood needs to get more inventive.
The "space-time" intro at first made me think they discovered quantum sensors in the eyes that detect action slightly before it happens using parallel universes or the like. But they are just talking about motion-sensing pre-processing by the retina itself.
Disappointment. I wanted the ability to walk into my boss's office and say, "Before you get up to fire me, I quit!"
"Update: After a conversation with Chad Orzel, it looks like although there's no limit to the photon energy you can produce, you will at some point--above about 1 MeV in photon energy--start spontaneously producing matter-antimatter pairs of particles whenever your photon interacts with a reflective surface. So at extremely high photon energies, your laser light begins to resemble a matter-antimatter thermal bath rather than merely coherent light."
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due to all the past changes. My new password is "It's change your password day"
The Internet makes it easier to know about other choices and/or distribute other choices.
Your comment will go over like a snowball in hell.
or
Fox News: "Who gave the unpatriotic stand-down order against rescuing Ambassador Ison from the Sunhadists!"
You know what they say: easy comet, easy go
Dear Earth,
Due to budget cuts related to the long and intense war with Satan, I am canceling one of the spacial dimensions. Thus, please re-engineer your technology for 2D instead of 3D.
My apologies for any inconveniences this may cause, but we must all make sacrifices to win this difficult war.
Sincerely,
-God
It could be the typical PHB gets sucked into the hype and tosses those buzzwords into the job ad to make sure he's getting the "freshest talent". The ad is already stuffed with gazillion buzzwords, so why not gazillion + 1
It shows one can pass HR's buzz-word filters without lying and STILL be a dumbshit.
We must stop Global Humanning!
I admire people who know their limits (and human limits) and are honest about them. Note that we already know what he wishes would happen, but that's not the same as a forecast. I wish to live forever, but I forecast I will die in a few decades.
correction: "on its own".
At least it's easy to return: just make it fly back on it's own.
Yes, boss.
If you do a cost-benefit analysis of risk, nuclear energy is less problematic than fossil fuels, believe it or not, even with occasional accidents. Fossil fuels harm and kill a good many due to air pollution, and perhaps general climate disruption due to the green-house effect.
There is something psychologically more fearful about dying from radiation than dying from lung cancer even though the second is significantly more prevalent.
Perhaps because in our movie-shaped imaginations, too much radiation creates 3-eyed mutants with lumpy heads or giant city-eating monsters; while lung cancer merely produces dead people with screwed-up lungs.
It's hard to produce a scary movie based on lung cancer. Dawn of the Coughers just doesn't have the same freak-out punch as zombie mutants or Godzilla. Hollywood needs to get more inventive.
I don't know about that; I hear they are worth more as parts.
The "space-time" intro at first made me think they discovered quantum sensors in the eyes that detect action slightly before it happens using parallel universes or the like. But they are just talking about motion-sensing pre-processing by the retina itself.
Disappointment. I wanted the ability to walk into my boss's office and say, "Before you get up to fire me, I quit!"
Some things never really change.
Step 1: Sell your Toyota
I'm using a steam-powered mechanical browser. (A redirection bug once killed our cat and blinded me for a week, and goatse stained the carpet.)
Correction, the answer is "yes" in terms of "is there a limit?".
I just saw a Spiderman movie with a similar plot
"Update: After a conversation with Chad Orzel, it looks like although there's no limit to the photon energy you can produce, you will at some point--above about 1 MeV in photon energy--start spontaneously producing matter-antimatter pairs of particles whenever your photon interacts with a reflective surface. So at extremely high photon energies, your laser light begins to resemble a matter-antimatter thermal bath rather than merely coherent light."
So it would act like more Star Wars weapons?
Suck my negative mod points. A dude can't have an opinion without douches being douches.
Die Different
We'd all have Don King hair.