how do you get the data back to Earth so people can learn something from it? Relay via a station at a Lagrange point, which you also have to construct and place?
I don't believe it was singular thou and plural you. It was formal you and familiar thou, like Japanese has. I base on that on my recollection from reading a book about the history of the English language. Either way, it was a loss. Another interesting tidbit I got from that book: "Ye Olde Shoppe" is pronounced basically the same as "The Old Shop". The first letter is not a "y" but a letter that looks like a "y" called a thatch, IIRC, that is pronounced as "th".
Well, if you decide to call amino acids "bits", then I could do you one better and call atoms or functional groups "bits", and replace a methyl with a cyano (or three hydrogens with a nitrogen), and that would be quick death. I know viruses reproduce and cyanide does not, so it's not a matter of changing literally one molecule, but from an information perspective (e.g. there's cookbook for humans that includes a recipe for hemoglobin that I could change) it makes some sense.
you sure can't be too happy without certain things, like food, water, shelter.
True, but additional stuff beyond those basic necessities doesn't always make one happier. I've seen happy people in places where that's all they have (like Ethiopia), and unhappy people driving nice cars and owning big houses full of stuff. Relationships, good health, meaningful work, a clear conscience - these things contribute more to happiness than possessions do.
It's offtopic, but I know what you mean: I didn't keep track like you did, but I had mod points many times in the last month, and whenever I get them, I feel compelled to use them up, and of course, I can't comment in the threads where I've moderated.
Another theory: material wealth does not lead to happiness of the sort that would discourage suicide (not that this guy killed himself because he was unhappy).
A neighbor of mine has one of those though he said he was going to sell it. He rides it around during a festival we have here in town every summer. He's really into bicycles.
Well, we were talking about "cordless phones", or phones you'd use with a landline, since that's what the story is about (the decline of the landline), not cell phones. Of course cell phones keep adding features and I get a new one every time Verizon says it's time for a new one (at no additional cost). "Faster and more features" does not apply to phones on landlines, because those are just telephones, not mp3player/camera/e-mail/web/GPS/accelerometer/etc. devices.
It's funny that *having* to replace phones every few years is seen as progress when 30 years ago a phone could last twenty years and work right every time. I still have a twenty-year old phone that I keep around for when the electricity goes out at home.
Without doing the math, I'd hazard a guess if it's only a monolayer of oil several feet wide, it wouldn't take a large volume to give a three-mile long streak...maybe only a few tens of gallons. Even if it were 1000 gallons, that's only about 37MW-hr, based on the energy density of diesel oil. A very small power plant (37 MW) would consume that much in one hour.
You might "have a publisher" if you are a really well known author. Most authors aren't going to be able to go to a publisher and say, "Hey, I've got a really great idea for a book. Will you publish it for me?" They won't even hear the beginning of the second sentence.
It was probably either the extraneous dollar sign (modded by anti-anti-Microsoft moderator) or the greengrocer's apostrophe (modded by vicious grammar nazi) that got the Troll mod.
So the connotations of "consumer" lead you to shun its denotation. I can understand that. Alas, as with so many words, once it develops distasteful connotations, resistance is futile.
They're basically the same thing. A Venn diagram would show the set of consumers almost entirely within the set of persons and a small subset of the person set would be outside the consumer set - or they'd be equivalent sets - depending on your definition of "Consumer".
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It's a math joke. Read the wikipedia entry on aleph numbers or something if you're interested.
how do you get the data back to Earth so people can learn something from it? Relay via a station at a Lagrange point, which you also have to construct and place?
Looks like it would be a high priority to protect the area due to all the radio and TV transmitters up there, in addition to the observatory.
I don't believe it was singular thou and plural you. It was formal you and familiar thou, like Japanese has. I base on that on my recollection from reading a book about the history of the English language. Either way, it was a loss.
Another interesting tidbit I got from that book: "Ye Olde Shoppe" is pronounced basically the same as "The Old Shop". The first letter is not a "y" but a letter that looks like a "y" called a thatch, IIRC, that is pronounced as "th".
Well, if you decide to call amino acids "bits", then I could do you one better and call atoms or functional groups "bits", and replace a methyl with a cyano (or three hydrogens with a nitrogen), and that would be quick death.
I know viruses reproduce and cyanide does not, so it's not a matter of changing literally one molecule, but from an information perspective (e.g. there's cookbook for humans that includes a recipe for hemoglobin that I could change) it makes some sense.
you sure can't be too happy without certain things, like food, water, shelter.
True, but additional stuff beyond those basic necessities doesn't always make one happier. I've seen happy people in places where that's all they have (like Ethiopia), and unhappy people driving nice cars and owning big houses full of stuff. Relationships, good health, meaningful work, a clear conscience - these things contribute more to happiness than possessions do.
It's offtopic, but I know what you mean: I didn't keep track like you did, but I had mod points many times in the last month, and whenever I get them, I feel compelled to use them up, and of course, I can't comment in the threads where I've moderated.
Another theory: material wealth does not lead to happiness of the sort that would discourage suicide (not that this guy killed himself because he was unhappy).
A neighbor of mine has one of those though he said he was going to sell it. He rides it around during a festival we have here in town every summer. He's really into bicycles.
No. It is not the case that healthy weight is X, and X + 1 g is overweight, X - 1 g is underweight. More like:
| |
underweight | healthy | overweight -->
10% 26% 64%
(numbers are for example not "real" data)
I tried to put in an ASCII gaussian curve but it would not let me.
Filter error: Please use less whitespace. Drat.
Given the choice between this getting modded funny and getting modded insightful, I guess I'll be thankful it was modded funny.
Yeah, but the fact that it was only 2.5% of the total kind of fits their thesis.
WTF?
Well, we were talking about "cordless phones", or phones you'd use with a landline, since that's what the story is about (the decline of the landline), not cell phones. Of course cell phones keep adding features and I get a new one every time Verizon says it's time for a new one (at no additional cost). "Faster and more features" does not apply to phones on landlines, because those are just telephones, not mp3player/camera/e-mail/web/GPS/accelerometer/etc. devices.
It's funny that *having* to replace phones every few years is seen as progress when 30 years ago a phone could last twenty years and work right every time. I still have a twenty-year old phone that I keep around for when the electricity goes out at home.
Next big motorsport: NADSCAR - National Association for Diesel Stock Car Auto Racing!
Without doing the math, I'd hazard a guess if it's only a monolayer of oil several feet wide, it wouldn't take a large volume to give a three-mile long streak...maybe only a few tens of gallons. Even if it were 1000 gallons, that's only about 37MW-hr, based on the energy density of diesel oil. A very small power plant (37 MW) would consume that much in one hour.
You might "have a publisher" if you are a really well known author. Most authors aren't going to be able to go to a publisher and say, "Hey, I've got a really great idea for a book. Will you publish it for me?" They won't even hear the beginning of the second sentence.
Yeah, not even Peter Singer would argue that a teenager is not a human being. Way to go.
My guess would be Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
If Portland, OR is on the route, you gotta go to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry).
I like planetariums (planetaria?) too.
It was probably either the extraneous dollar sign (modded by anti-anti-Microsoft moderator) or the greengrocer's apostrophe (modded by vicious grammar nazi) that got the Troll mod.
Oooh, ooh! Ions in solution with relatively high molar conductivity, or something like that!? What do I win?
So the connotations of "consumer" lead you to shun its denotation. I can understand that. Alas, as with so many words, once it develops distasteful connotations, resistance is futile.
J. Willard Gibbs, is that you?
They're basically the same thing. A Venn diagram would show the set of consumers almost entirely within the set of persons and a small subset of the person set would be outside the consumer set - or they'd be equivalent sets - depending on your definition of "Consumer".