Why not using an Orion-like technique? After all, it is known to be a very efficient technique, just non-practical in earth athmosphere because it would fry any non-protected electronics in several countries.
Yes, they got a nice headstart probably because of that, but lost it afterward, in particluar the day that one of their errors killed more than one hundred of their top scientists during the race to the moon.
I know I don't really^H^H^H^H^H understand quantum computer, but don't their output rely on some random effects to quickly generate statistics that would take ages with regular brute force computing? So would a quantum RAM provide the stored value only X% of the time?
I really don't want to support Stuart Privar, but didn't Professor PZ Meyers made a mistake by accepting to review that book, apparently at the request of Stuart Privar or its publisher, without the security of a contract?
Well, if the other side knows you have it, they can already try to fool it. Military history is full of very intersting examples of one side building very complex missions to make the other side believe it managed to collect valuable intelligence.
There is no need for many people to think differently, all you need is one person in situation of power. I wouldn't want to live in a country where I would vote for someone not because I think he is the least bad candidate, but because I fear to be fired or arrested if I don't. Of course, I'm not american.
Not exactly steampunk, but this reminds me of a R&D weapon in a Paranoia RPG adventure: it was a big punching glove with a few rockets around the wirst to add more punch, and a lot of explosive that the unfortunate user would discover only by using it...
No, self-motion can't be used as a definition to life because 1- many living thing don't have that ability and 2- in your example, if a cloud has a way moving scientists could not observe, it wouldn't prove that it was caused by life, simply that either the observation or the model was flawed. There might be live somewhere else, it might be very different from what we can immagine, but I bet it respects the laws of physics.
In your other example, the cristal expands because of the thermodynamic, as any other physical or chemical reaction, it increases the system entropy. Now, if you have a system that actively drain energy from the outside to reduce or maintain its own entropy, maybe you have life.
Well, considering that Bill is currently using his huge fortune to appear like a really good guy who fights agains cancer, AIDS, poverty... and has a good chance of funding a couple of team that make great accomplishments, I wouldn't bet my 2 cents on that (or he could simply have the Pope computer to phone home his IE history and blackmail him).
Actually, the film is more on topic than your post: the East India Trading Company was very successful in fighting pirates until it attacked someone silly enouth to fight back despite the odds.
1) Stupid politician strongly reduce medical program to give the money to counterterrorism. 2) Intelligent counterterrorism executive know they have far enough money for what they have to do and look for something that kills far more americans that terrorism. 3) Profit.
Of course, first generation stealth technology was very expensive and unperfect, exactly as any other technology.
The F117 was slow, not very maneuvrable and had to stay near the ground and take benefit of the geography for the stealth to be effective, and therefore, it could be heard and its path was relatively predictable, so it was vulnerable to ambushes. Now compare that to the F22. Of course, it is expensive, but it's the ultimate hunting machine up there. Now, is that the best ROI when the oponents only have old Mig & AK, maybe not.
No, giant clouds of gas become stars because their mass make them reach a density threshold (and therefore a temperature threshold ) to initiate fusion reaction. In that case: 1- There is not enough matter, it would need more than ten times the mass of that planet to reach a brown dwarf level. 2- The density of that object is far less than expected, meaning that either there is an unexplain phenomenon that resists the normal planetray gravitational collapse, that planet is in a transitory state (it has not yet finished collapsing or it is exploding (but not because of a nuclear reaction, the radiations would have been obvious)), or there is a large mistake in the measurement (that sort of thing can always happen to anyone...).
Maybe they accidentally saw that planet in an unstable state. Imagine it has just collided with another large object and somehow exploded, and later gravity would bring back what haven't reached excape velocity into the expected volume.
In many cases, as a user, I can't see why the site developper put so much complexity/bloat in his site (I understand that there are good resons for some sites). One "good" example I clearly remember was presentation site for a new car that only displayed photos and small texts (only one item at a time), but needed 20s to load on my 10Mb/s connexion + 10s to react to each click, conclusion: a real super hightech PITA.
Unfortunately, your contribution will do nothing to the diversity of mitochondrial DNA since it is only passed by the mother. BTW, can't that simply explain why that diversity is reducing (whomen either transmit their mitochondrial DNA,...or not)?
The real wet dream of any victim would be to be able to disable java or any scriting technology in his browser and still be able to surf on most respectable sites. I don't want to be a ludite, but on 9 sites times out of 10 that require those technologies, there is very little benefit for the user.
I think you miss several points here: -Switzerland is not into nonviolence, but into neutrality, that is not signing treaties that could result in declaring war to protect another country. For centuries, Switzerland has been a great provider of mercenaries and still maintain a fairly decent defense. -The violence in the article refers to interpersonnal violence inside the society, not usage of strenth by nations (it is clear that the military invasion of India, Pakistan and several other countries by the british army and the resulting exploitation had a major role in GB wealth at that time). Capitalism cannot exist if you cannot enforce contracts or protect your capital.
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Why not using an Orion-like technique? After all, it is known to be a very efficient technique, just non-practical in earth athmosphere because it would fry any non-protected electronics in several countries.
Yes, they got a nice headstart probably because of that, but lost it afterward, in particluar the day that one of their errors killed more than one hundred of their top scientists during the race to the moon.
I know I don't really^H^H^H^H^H understand quantum computer, but don't their output rely on some random effects to quickly generate statistics that would take ages with regular brute force computing? So would a quantum RAM provide the stored value only X% of the time?
I guess you realize that there would be some problem to constitute a 12 person jury in that case.
I really don't want to support Stuart Privar, but didn't Professor PZ Meyers made a mistake by accepting to review that book, apparently at the request of Stuart Privar or its publisher, without the security of a contract?
Well, if the other side knows you have it, they can already try to fool it.
Military history is full of very intersting examples of one side building very complex missions to make the other side believe it managed to collect valuable intelligence.
There is no need for many people to think differently, all you need is one person in situation of power. I wouldn't want to live in a country where I would vote for someone not because I think he is the least bad candidate, but because I fear to be fired or arrested if I don't. Of course, I'm not american.
Not exactly steampunk, but this reminds me of a R&D weapon in a Paranoia RPG adventure: it was a big punching glove with a few rockets around the wirst to add more punch, and a lot of explosive that the unfortunate user would discover only by using it...
No, self-motion can't be used as a definition to life because 1- many living thing don't have that ability and 2- in your example, if a cloud has a way moving scientists could not observe, it wouldn't prove that it was caused by life, simply that either the observation or the model was flawed. There might be live somewhere else, it might be very different from what we can immagine, but I bet it respects the laws of physics.
In your other example, the cristal expands because of the thermodynamic, as any other physical or chemical reaction, it increases the system entropy. Now, if you have a system that actively drain energy from the outside to reduce or maintain its own entropy, maybe you have life.
Well, considering that Bill is currently using his huge fortune to appear like a really good guy who fights agains cancer, AIDS, poverty... and has a good chance of funding a couple of team that make great accomplishments, I wouldn't bet my 2 cents on that (or he could simply have the Pope computer to phone home his IE history and blackmail him).
Actually, the film is more on topic than your post: the East India Trading Company was very successful in fighting pirates until it attacked someone silly enouth to fight back despite the odds.
It's not that bad, all you need is the original full size image without the blurring and the prOn site address overimpression.
Let me guess...
1) Stupid politician strongly reduce medical program to give the money to counterterrorism.
2) Intelligent counterterrorism executive know they have far enough money for what they have to do and look for something that kills far more americans that terrorism.
3) Profit.
Of course, first generation stealth technology was very expensive and unperfect, exactly as any other technology.
The F117 was slow, not very maneuvrable and had to stay near the ground and take benefit of the geography for the stealth to be effective, and therefore, it could be heard and its path was relatively predictable, so it was vulnerable to ambushes.
Now compare that to the F22. Of course, it is expensive, but it's the ultimate hunting machine up there. Now, is that the best ROI when the oponents only have old Mig & AK, maybe not.
No, giant clouds of gas become stars because their mass make them reach a density threshold (and therefore a temperature threshold ) to initiate fusion reaction.
In that case:
1- There is not enough matter, it would need more than ten times the mass of that planet to reach a brown dwarf level.
2- The density of that object is far less than expected, meaning that either there is an unexplain phenomenon that resists the normal planetray gravitational collapse, that planet is in a transitory state (it has not yet finished collapsing or it is exploding (but not because of a nuclear reaction, the radiations would have been obvious)), or there is a large mistake in the measurement (that sort of thing can always happen to anyone...).
Maybe they accidentally saw that planet in an unstable state.
Imagine it has just collided with another large object and somehow exploded, and later gravity would bring back what haven't reached excape velocity into the expected volume.
Absolutely.
In many cases, as a user, I can't see why the site developper put so much complexity/bloat in his site (I understand that there are good resons for some sites). One "good" example I clearly remember was presentation site for a new car that only displayed photos and small texts (only one item at a time), but needed 20s to load on my 10Mb/s connexion + 10s to react to each click, conclusion: a real super hightech PITA.
Unfortunately, your contribution will do nothing to the diversity of mitochondrial DNA since it is only passed by the mother. BTW, can't that simply explain why that diversity is reducing (whomen either transmit their mitochondrial DNA, ...or not)?
At least, until you threaten to kill a witness.
The real wet dream of any victim would be to be able to disable java or any scriting technology in his browser and still be able to surf on most respectable sites.
I don't want to be a ludite, but on 9 sites times out of 10 that require those technologies, there is very little benefit for the user.
The particular thing about this crash is that it only use a few (perfectly innocent looking) basic HTML tags.
Trust me, while the first half is quite OK, you don't want to see the end of the movie EVER.
I think you miss several points here:
-Switzerland is not into nonviolence, but into neutrality, that is not signing treaties that could result in declaring war to protect another country. For centuries, Switzerland has been a great provider of mercenaries and still maintain a fairly decent defense.
-The violence in the article refers to interpersonnal violence inside the society, not usage of strenth by nations (it is clear that the military invasion of India, Pakistan and several other countries by the british army and the resulting exploitation had a major role in GB wealth at that time). Capitalism cannot exist if you cannot enforce contracts or protect your capital.
No, it's because the stupidest of the riches was elected twice.
sorry, had to.
No, if you understand someone, the risk is too high that you treat him as a human being.