I have no idea where your 1.21 GW per person figure comes from, but for your family's safely I hope it is hyperbole, since it would take about 1,000,000 toaster overs to generate that kind of power, though far be it from me to judge how dark you like your toast.
Presumably it's to power everybody's DeLorean time machines. No worries though. By the time we reach that point, we'll all just be able to use our Mr Fusion to recharge our hoverbboards and self-drying clothes.
One of the commenters from TFA finally explained it, the problem is it's still a very bad analogy. Farmed rats !=manufactured bugs. The actual analogy is wild rats == significant bugs and farmed rats == insignificant bugs. He's not saying the "bug farmers" are manufacturing the bugs, just that they're finding new and creative ways to break the software that would in all likelihood never occur outside of a lab setting.
Once everyone is at step two, we can proceed with the clusterfuck that is world politics...
Can we all just scientifically get to step two and then we'll go from there? The climate scientists are the experts.
You may not realize it, but posts like this are a big part of the problem. We've already reached step three, hell, we had reached it over a decade ago. Remember the Kyoto Protocols? There has been a coordinated effort by conservative politicians and "think tanks" in the service of the energy industry to convince the American public that "the science isn't conclusive" and "the jury is still out" indefinitely, so that they can keep on polluting like they have been for years.
We reached step three 15 years ago, the right was just too busy fellating big business to notice.
Eh - our beer may leave something to be desired, but American whiskey is actually pretty darned good
I'm gonna say you're wrong on both counts there.
Maker's Mark is shit compared to stuff like Glenfiddich, Yamazaki, or any of the good colors of Johnny Walker.
On the other hand, There actually exists some good beers, brewed right here in America. Personally, I like just about everything that New Belgium makes, and most Dogfish Head stuff I've tried wasn't bad.
I love the 3 slides/page handout because it comes with a handy note-taking area next to each slide.
I hate those things. Unless you are a very concise note taker, there is never enough room for decent notes, and IMHO they make the slide itself way too small. Also, (and I know this is as much the presenter's fault as the format) I HATE when the slides are "made available" electronically by distributing.pdf's of them in that format.
Everyone is suitably impressed that you lost your hearing killing brown people. That doesn't change the fact that this is exactly the kind of thing you were supposed to be fighting against. Targeting US citzens? The only difference between this and what the commies were doing is that we've upgraded from secret police in the middle of the night to robots in the sky.
I imagine the first question on everyone's mind will be, "Why do we need a new web browser?" To which I imagine the truthful answer is: "We don't. At least not for technical reasons."
To take advantage of the forefront in "tabs at the top" technology, of course. I am personally very excited that science has progressed to the point where we can now have tabs above the address bar.
This was my favorite part of TFA. Guess what? I use Opera, so I can put my tabs above the adress bar right now!
However, wouldn't it make more sense to have a controlled output rather than a big blast ?
Why do you assume that the blast will be uncontrolled? By varing certan variables in the 'bombs' it's a (relatively) trivial matter to vary their output.
The most sensible way to build a so-called orion drive is to use directed bombs. You simply put your nuke in a radiation reflective casing that is open at one end, which is pointed at the spacecraft. Even if you are not using Dial-a-yeild nukes, you simply have to vary the aperature on the casing to change the amount of energy deing directed at the craft, which varies the thrust. Alternatively, you could just delay detonation, allowing the bomb to drift further from the ship, which would also, crudely, vary the thrust it recieves. This wouldn't exactly be cherry bomb under a trashcan.
Fear mongering again! Any excuse to blame on Global Warming! The planet is going through a cycle of Global Cooling! There is no Global warming! We've always been at war with Eastasia! Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad!
The private company called the Federal Reserve has been creating money on of thin air to bail out their banking buddies, and diluting your money! That's called an inflation tax. It's a perfectly legitimate (if not recommended) monetary policy.
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I have no idea where your 1.21 GW per person figure comes from, but for your family's safely I hope it is hyperbole, since it would take about 1,000,000 toaster overs to generate that kind of power, though far be it from me to judge how dark you like your toast.
Presumably it's to power everybody's DeLorean time machines. No worries though. By the time we reach that point, we'll all just be able to use our Mr Fusion to recharge our hoverbboards and self-drying clothes.
I'd ride it.
Ok, see, that's rat farming
One of the commenters from TFA finally explained it, the problem is it's still a very bad analogy. Farmed rats !=manufactured bugs. The actual analogy is wild rats == significant bugs and farmed rats == insignificant bugs. He's not saying the "bug farmers" are manufacturing the bugs, just that they're finding new and creative ways to break the software that would in all likelihood never occur outside of a lab setting.
So, like I said, a very bad analogy.
Once everyone is at step two, we can proceed with the clusterfuck that is world politics... Can we all just scientifically get to step two and then we'll go from there? The climate scientists are the experts.
You may not realize it, but posts like this are a big part of the problem. We've already reached step three, hell, we had reached it over a decade ago. Remember the Kyoto Protocols? There has been a coordinated effort by conservative politicians and "think tanks" in the service of the energy industry to convince the American public that "the science isn't conclusive" and "the jury is still out" indefinitely, so that they can keep on polluting like they have been for years.
We reached step three 15 years ago, the right was just too busy fellating big business to notice.
Eh - our beer may leave something to be desired, but American whiskey is actually pretty darned good
I'm gonna say you're wrong on both counts there. Maker's Mark is shit compared to stuff like Glenfiddich, Yamazaki, or any of the good colors of Johnny Walker. On the other hand, There actually exists some good beers, brewed right here in America. Personally, I like just about everything that New Belgium makes, and most Dogfish Head stuff I've tried wasn't bad.
I love the 3 slides/page handout because it comes with a handy note-taking area next to each slide.
I hate those things. Unless you are a very concise note taker, there is never enough room for decent notes, and IMHO they make the slide itself way too small. Also, (and I know this is as much the presenter's fault as the format) I HATE when the slides are "made available" electronically by distributing .pdf's of them in that format.
Everyone is suitably impressed that you lost your hearing killing brown people. That doesn't change the fact that this is exactly the kind of thing you were supposed to be fighting against. Targeting US citzens? The only difference between this and what the commies were doing is that we've upgraded from secret police in the middle of the night to robots in the sky.
This was my favorite part of TFA. Guess what? I use Opera, so I can put my tabs above the adress bar right now!
Why do you assume that the blast will be uncontrolled? By varing certan variables in the 'bombs' it's a (relatively) trivial matter to vary their output. The most sensible way to build a so-called orion drive is to use directed bombs. You simply put your nuke in a radiation reflective casing that is open at one end, which is pointed at the spacecraft. Even if you are not using Dial-a-yeild nukes, you simply have to vary the aperature on the casing to change the amount of energy deing directed at the craft, which varies the thrust. Alternatively, you could just delay detonation, allowing the bomb to drift further from the ship, which would also, crudely, vary the thrust it recieves. This wouldn't exactly be cherry bomb under a trashcan.