I suppose it has to do with the relative stability of the nuclei, i.e. when you whack two carbon nuclei together, if it is much more likely to get a neon than to get a fluorine and a proton, then you will have more neon than fluorine. Notice the even atomic-numbered elements are more prevalent than odd-atomic numbered.
I thought of another way NASA could have spun this info: take whatever result the Drake equation gives you, and multiply it by 1.001. Not so exciting now, is it?
OTOH, what is the relative abundance of P and As in the universe? According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SolarSystemAbundances.png P is about 1000x more abundant than As. i.e. life isn't limited by P availability in a way that As availability helps. So, this discovery is not much of a game-changer, IMO.
So there are three ways to go. (1) Add more legislation/increase gov't (our current path), (2) do nothing (maintain status quo as you said) or (3) undo legislation/reduce gov't. Since it seems virtually impossible to do (3), some people would prefer (2) to (1), since (1) keeps making things worse.
A D90 is not a pro DSLR. Would 2TB be too much for a lot of shooting of RAW images with a 95 Mpixel medium format back? I'm sure it's more than enough, but too much?
So I'm forced to use hardware and software I don't want to use and not allowed to use hardware and software and fonts I do want just so I can avoid being tracked? BS.
Hopefully not by a woman who drove across the country wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to pee. (OK, she didn't really wear diapers but it made for some fun jokes at the time)
It's fun to read all these detailed technical discussions about rifles and ammo here on/. It's like being on a completely different site.
I qualified as Expert on both pistol (M1911A1.45) and rifle (I think it was an M14) in the Navy, but I'm sure it wasn't that demanding of an evaluation. I don't have a ton of shooting experience.
I've thought about picking up a rifle to keep at home and to teach my son about shooting, but I would like to have something more than a.22 (i.e. useful for something other than squirrels), yet not expensive. Any suggestions?
If it's causing cell death, then it's clearly gone past the point where it's causing cancer or mutation. By definition, if it's cancer or a mutation, it's still alive. I'm not sure that radiation intensity has no bearing on carcinogenicity or mutagenicity. I think I'd rather have 1 rem of low energy gamma than one rem of Co-60 gamma radiation. Your point is correct though: if it's 10 microrem, it's nothing to worry about. I simply object to the intrusiveness and lack of effectiveness of the whole thing.
I believe the increased radiation you receive during air travel is mainly cosmic rays, and that is certainly higher energy radiation than what is generated by these scanners. Nevertheless I am opposed to the intrusiveness and the fact that the whole scheme is aimed at the wrong group of people.
Second, the nervous system, including the brain, is actually the most resistant to radiation damage in the whole body, while ova and sperm are the most sensitive.
Third, magnitude means quantity, while I think you are arguing that the scanner radiation is different in kind (quality), so you seem to contradict yourself.
Well, I figured my joke might be too opaque. I was riffing on "$700 dollar" and had to use some repeated units with symbols and words. Inches or feet seemed the most relevant. Thus, '72" inches'.
Never thought about it in relation to Twitter, but I suppose you can say a lot more with 160 Chinese characters than with 160 Roman (Or ASCII) characters. Does Twitter allow CJK characters? I would guess so.
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I suppose it has to do with the relative stability of the nuclei, i.e. when you whack two carbon nuclei together, if it is much more likely to get a neon than to get a fluorine and a proton, then you will have more neon than fluorine. Notice the even atomic-numbered elements are more prevalent than odd-atomic numbered.
I thought of another way NASA could have spun this info: take whatever result the Drake equation gives you, and multiply it by 1.001. Not so exciting now, is it?
But also presumably there is still more P than As in Mono Lake, even though it contains higher levels of As than most places on Earth.
"annusing"
Hmm. That could be a useful portmanteau: a cross between annoying and amusing.
I can see why you chose not to spell it as "anusing". Takes one to a completely different place.
OTOH, what is the relative abundance of P and As in the universe?
According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SolarSystemAbundances.png P is about 1000x more abundant than As. i.e. life isn't limited by P availability in a way that As availability helps.
So, this discovery is not much of a game-changer, IMO.
So there are three ways to go. (1) Add more legislation/increase gov't (our current path), (2) do nothing (maintain status quo as you said) or (3) undo legislation /reduce gov't. Since it seems virtually impossible to do (3), some people would prefer (2) to (1), since (1) keeps making things worse.
A D90 is not a pro DSLR.
Would 2TB be too much for a lot of shooting of RAW images with a 95 Mpixel medium format back? I'm sure it's more than enough, but too much?
Stop using bad car analogies?
C'mon - that's practically a tradition here!
So I'm forced to use hardware and software I don't want to use and not allowed to use hardware and software and fonts I do want just so I can avoid being tracked? BS.
Isn't almost *any* novel (by anyone other than Whitley Strieber) about non-fake non-ET?
Maybe it's a type of bacterium that causes dental cavities (caries), and lives in near-boiling salt water and metabolizes sulfur and iron.
Hopefully not by a woman who drove across the country wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to pee. (OK, she didn't really wear diapers but it made for some fun jokes at the time)
Wait, wouldn't he have been googling "too common"?
Google Street View != Google Earth
and these are approximate trees, not where actual trees actually are.
It's fun to read all these detailed technical discussions about rifles and ammo here on /. It's like being on a completely different site.
I qualified as Expert on both pistol (M1911A1 .45) and rifle (I think it was an M14) in the Navy, but I'm sure it wasn't that demanding of an evaluation. I don't have a ton of shooting experience.
I've thought about picking up a rifle to keep at home and to teach my son about shooting, but I would like to have something more than a .22 (i.e. useful for something other than squirrels), yet not expensive. Any suggestions?
I think the idea is to laugh at the joke, not correct it.
Yellowcake, also known as Twinkies.
I'm sure they'd make Oliver Sacks nostalgic and happy.
If it's causing cell death, then it's clearly gone past the point where it's causing cancer or mutation. By definition, if it's cancer or a mutation, it's still alive.
I'm not sure that radiation intensity has no bearing on carcinogenicity or mutagenicity. I think I'd rather have 1 rem of low energy gamma than one rem of Co-60 gamma radiation.
Your point is correct though: if it's 10 microrem, it's nothing to worry about.
I simply object to the intrusiveness and lack of effectiveness of the whole thing.
I believe the increased radiation you receive during air travel is mainly cosmic rays, and that is certainly higher energy radiation than what is generated by these scanners. Nevertheless I am opposed to the intrusiveness and the fact that the whole scheme is aimed at the wrong group of people.
Second, the nervous system, including the brain, is actually the most resistant to radiation damage in the whole body, while ova and sperm are the most sensitive.
Third, magnitude means quantity, while I think you are arguing that the scanner radiation is different in kind (quality), so you seem to contradict yourself.
Well, I figured my joke might be too opaque. I was riffing on "$700 dollar" and had to use some repeated units with symbols and words. Inches or feet seemed the most relevant. Thus, '72" inches'.
I like expensive cables, but only when they are at least 72" inches long.
Never thought about it in relation to Twitter, but I suppose you can say a lot more with 160 Chinese characters than with 160 Roman (Or ASCII) characters. Does Twitter allow CJK characters? I would guess so.
Well, Israel is in the Middle East but it's not ALL desert. It is right on the Mediterranean.
So *that's* why we didn't need seat belts and child car seats back when I was a kid.
Yeah, I'm that old.
Legal limit for blood cell-phone concentration: 0.08%? /sarcasm/
Minimum age to buy a cell phone: 21?
No, I guess I don't see which road.