I guess there is no conspiracy at all, just different weights in the ordering algorithm... but hey, it is a cool experiment... unless maybe they are also colluding with CocaCola
one data point (Earth) isn't a very good sample. If it started in a similar fashion, we learn more about Earth, and if it started in a different way, we get a ton of new information we likely would never come across on Earth.
Exactly right. If we can find life on a moon around a gas giant that is not in the "Goldilocks Zone" then this vastly increases the chances of life existing elsewhere in the universe.
Also, assuming for a moment that life DOES exist in places other than earth, if the life found on Enceladus it is from a different biological origin to us, then this would increase the chances of us being able to study other life forms that we discover, as earth-based biology is also only a single data point.
I am a biologist.
Any bacteria which had that much DNA would pretty much use most of it for fuel, as it would be much to costly to replicate when the cell divides.
Bacteria are able to take on DNA from the external environment so a better idea would be to seed the planet with vesicles filled with random sections of DNA taken from other bacteria that utilise other energy sources.
This may assist in speeding up evolution, IF the genes are stable enough to last long enough for them to be useful.
However, the original researchers will be long dead by then, so it is a very long pilot study.
Same reason why ITER isn't an acronym anymore.
It was previously known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and is know known only as Iter, which means 'journey' in Latin (even though it's in France).
Seems that some people aren't to crash hot about something with experimental and nuclear in the same sentence.
We have a Wii at my work, and it is very easy to have a quick game against someone in a 10 min break.
Its just set up with a LCD TV set off to the side of the lunch room, and is very non-intrusive.
There is not such a thing as "spare CPU cycles" since when you run a *@home program, CPU power consumption pikes.
In a laptop, when running any CPU intensive distributed program, battery level is stuck since all the power goes to the CPU instead of charging the battery.
Or you could just tick the box that says "Pause work while battery power is being used (for laptops)" in the F@H menu.
Its not that hard.
Building rockets etc on earth is horrendously complex and expensive as well.
We are going to have to start building things in space sooner or later, as it is much cheaper to get all our raw materials up there from NEAs than build it here and blast it all into space from earth. Not to mention that welds are much stronger when done in space, due to the micro-gravity and (partial) vacuum.
Its not like they are planning on launching this year or anything, its a maybe for 2020.
Yeah, except we Australians have the lowest population density of any other country (excluding Gibraltar IIRC) so we always look bad in internet stuff coz it costs so much for everything to be linked up here due to the distance between everything.
Grey goo? Seriously, you're a human. We replicate out of control consuming any natural resources we can get our hands on. We're just not really efficient grey goo. All that means is that we are going to get taken over by a more efficient grey goo.
However, that doesn't explain the lack of lag. I'm too lazy to run the calculations, but if you had two people at opposite ends of the globe, what's the minimum latency you can have? That might be prohibitive. Lag could be explained by the fact that most people don't interact in real time with many other people at once, especially those in other countries.
Also, who's to say that the program itself doesn't slow peoples perception of time, I mean the protagonists seemed to be able to slow it down from their point of view.
Seeing as though "Shed" can mean loose (eg shedding hair) then technically you can shed as much light on a black hole as you want, as you will loose it all...
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I guess there is no conspiracy at all, just different weights in the ordering algorithm... but hey, it is a cool experiment... unless maybe they are also colluding with CocaCola
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What about Sanctuary?
All IONISING radiation has the same effect on cellular components, regardless of whether its alpha, beta or gamma. They all cause oxidative damage.
Would you be willing to buy my product?
Yes and no...
one data point (Earth) isn't a very good sample. If it started in a similar fashion, we learn more about Earth, and if it started in a different way, we get a ton of new information we likely would never come across on Earth.
Exactly right. If we can find life on a moon around a gas giant that is not in the "Goldilocks Zone" then this vastly increases the chances of life existing elsewhere in the universe. Also, assuming for a moment that life DOES exist in places other than earth, if the life found on Enceladus it is from a different biological origin to us, then this would increase the chances of us being able to study other life forms that we discover, as earth-based biology is also only a single data point.
I am a biologist. Any bacteria which had that much DNA would pretty much use most of it for fuel, as it would be much to costly to replicate when the cell divides. Bacteria are able to take on DNA from the external environment so a better idea would be to seed the planet with vesicles filled with random sections of DNA taken from other bacteria that utilise other energy sources. This may assist in speeding up evolution, IF the genes are stable enough to last long enough for them to be useful. However, the original researchers will be long dead by then, so it is a very long pilot study.
So, generally just write in Greek letters then, but spelling out English words.
As a researcher in genetics and bioinformatics, if the cloud gets a hold of my data there really could be trouble...
Same reason why ITER isn't an acronym anymore. It was previously known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and is know known only as Iter, which means 'journey' in Latin (even though it's in France). Seems that some people aren't to crash hot about something with experimental and nuclear in the same sentence.
We have a Wii at my work, and it is very easy to have a quick game against someone in a 10 min break. Its just set up with a LCD TV set off to the side of the lunch room, and is very non-intrusive.
Yeah, it was.
There is not such a thing as "spare CPU cycles" since when you run a *@home program, CPU power consumption pikes. In a laptop, when running any CPU intensive distributed program, battery level is stuck since all the power goes to the CPU instead of charging the battery.
Or you could just tick the box that says "Pause work while battery power is being used (for laptops)" in the F@H menu. Its not that hard.
Setting Suns. Not moons.
Building rockets etc on earth is horrendously complex and expensive as well.
We are going to have to start building things in space sooner or later, as it is much cheaper to get all our raw materials up there from NEAs than build it here and blast it all into space from earth. Not to mention that welds are much stronger when done in space, due to the micro-gravity and (partial) vacuum.
Its not like they are planning on launching this year or anything, its a maybe for 2020.
Yeah, except we Australians have the lowest population density of any other country (excluding Gibraltar IIRC) so we always look bad in internet stuff coz it costs so much for everything to be linked up here due to the distance between everything.
If by "levitate" you mean "turn into carbon dioxide and disperse according to Brownian Motion" then yes it can.
All we need now is for these self-assembling block robots http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624997.100 to meet up with this self-replicating printer and then we've got a problem...
Also, who's to say that the program itself doesn't slow peoples perception of time, I mean the protagonists seemed to be able to slow it down from their point of view.
An engineer, obviously...
Seeing as though "Shed" can mean loose (eg shedding hair) then technically you can shed as much light on a black hole as you want, as you will loose it all...
Three words: "First to File"
Here is the link to the full-text journal article in "Science" http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5869/1506
None of that messing about in newspaper sites.
You're forgetting the fact that we orbit around the central black holes in the galaxy as well.
"We're forty thousand light-years from galactic central point, we go round every two hundred million years".
Shouldn't that be: 1) those that cannot infer and extrapolate from incomplete data?