Except people tend to share this sort of thing. He could take it somewhere that others are exposed without the benefit of having had the chance to see what it is and make a smart decision. Worst case, and this has happened, he removes the radioactive warning stamp, or mixes it in with other metals so that one doesn't see it and sells it to a recycler. Then it gets melted and becomes part of some product you go buy in a store.
Wow. As much as I might dislike Dick Cheney i'll leave looking at that particular image to you. I really don't want the details of what you would do with an radioactive rod. some fantasies are best kept private.
Now if you can just get that computer-brain interface perfected you could have smart dust that makes one see things when inhaled. Oh.. wait.. I see what you are really after here!
Maybe that is ok right now but given the time it would take to design and market the chip, tool the factories and actually get production going... by then you will expect more from your devices.
The cold war had the potential to destroy all complex life on the planet.
The war on terrorism has the potential to destroy all complex intelligence on the planet.
Which is worse???
"Opus covers basically the entire audio-coding application space"
Maybe I didn't look hard enough but I didn't see anything about how well it handles getting some of it's data corrupted. I only see comparisons of how it works at different bitrates. This is important for radio applications as there will always be interference and some percentage of the received bits will be wrong. That is why for example we don't see Amateur Radio operators using Speex. If this truly covers everything then we don't need codec2 http://codec2.org/ but from what I see it just sounds like a new ogg vorbis which is useful through a wider range of bitrates.
I'd say the bar on heavy lift is Apollo. Why? Because only Apollo ever took a human being to another world. If it can be done with less then I will call that heavy lift just as soon as somebody proves it by doing it. Until then all this news about suborbital and orbital flight is getting boring.
What would be the point of a robotic space station anyway? Some earth observing satellites I get. Probes and rovers to other worlds as well as space telescopes all have their place but what is the point of a space station if not to give people a place to go? A robot can just orbit without a station, we call them satellites. Don't get me wrong by the first part... I do wish we were sending humans to other worlds too...
Yes but why would a robot no matter how well it learns ever have a toothbrush on hand in the first place? For that matter, just think what would happen if a robot maintained space station required a fix using toilet paper!
Why are people so obsessed with the bulk of their phones? I'd get it if this were 1990 or earlier when they really were a lot bigger. Certainly there is an upper size limit beyond which phones become less practical but I think pretty much all phones shrunk down smaller than that years ago. I keep my phone in a little holster clipped to my belt and can easily forget it's even there.
Is it something about pocket size? I can keep my phone, even my bigger ones from a few years ago in a front pocket but I don't like doing that because I walk too much. Things I keep in pockets are subject to too much movement and wear out sooner, especially if they share the pocket with keys. Even if you could make my phone somehow better for fitting in my pocket (which it does fine already) I wouldn't want it there. Are people keeping them in back pockets? Sitting on them? That's just stupid.
Is it about fitting in purses? Most girls' purses I have seen you would want a little bulk on the phone. Otherwise you might never find it again in the mess!
Why give up a feature, even one you might not use often just to make it even smaller? All I see in these tiny thin phones is something that breaks too easily and a microphone which is too far from the user's mouth. Drop the microphone part and I think the same about some of the newer tablets and laptops.
I think the thin and small craze is just a marketing thing. A marketing thing that the public has unfortunately continued to eat up long after it should have ceased to be relevant. I really hope it goes away soon.
Vaccination greatly reduces the odds one will get sick. Given significant exposure to pathogens it does not 100% prevent it. A bunch of dumb people's children running around spreading diseases increases everyone's exposure to those diseases increasing the chances that even the vaccinated will catch it.
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Except people tend to share this sort of thing. He could take it somewhere that others are exposed without the benefit of having had the chance to see what it is and make a smart decision. Worst case, and this has happened, he removes the radioactive warning stamp, or mixes it in with other metals so that one doesn't see it and sells it to a recycler. Then it gets melted and becomes part of some product you go buy in a store.
Wow. As much as I might dislike Dick Cheney i'll leave looking at that particular image to you. I really don't want the details of what you would do with an radioactive rod. some fantasies are best kept private.
And those people didn't have sperm banks which could be used to store genetic diversity through another period of population bottleneck.
" Ham radio has all but gone the way of the dodo in the past 2 decades..."
Really? Who have I been talking to on my radio then?
Why would they bother? Do they even have to pretend they tried to follow the law any more when it comes to surveillance?
Now if you can just get that computer-brain interface perfected you could have smart dust that makes one see things when inhaled. Oh.. wait.. I see what you are really after here!
No way, you are much better off just doing that directly with the natural gas that somebody would have used to produce the electricity.
Maybe that is ok right now but given the time it would take to design and market the chip, tool the factories and actually get production going... by then you will expect more from your devices.
Yes and all the things that the 'grown ups' of the world have ever decided were good have been so?
The cold war had the potential to destroy all complex life on the planet.
The war on terrorism has the potential to destroy all complex intelligence on the planet.
Which is worse???
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Other than that, there's nothing the US should do unless it turns out that the governments were actually behind the attacks.
Yup.. that's the philosophy in the US... exactly that...
And as long as more of your own guys die than the population you attack it is ok?
And now I will have Adam Sandler in my head the rest of the day...
"Opus covers basically the entire audio-coding application space"
Maybe I didn't look hard enough but I didn't see anything about how well it handles getting some of it's data corrupted. I only see comparisons of how it works at different bitrates. This is important for radio applications as there will always be interference and some percentage of the received bits will be wrong. That is why for example we don't see Amateur Radio operators using Speex. If this truly covers everything then we don't need codec2 http://codec2.org/ but from what I see it just sounds like a new ogg vorbis which is useful through a wider range of bitrates.
No, this is the legal system. Old laws like perjury don't apply because you need a new law with 'using a computer' appended to the end of it.
I'd say the bar on heavy lift is Apollo. Why? Because only Apollo ever took a human being to another world. If it can be done with less then I will call that heavy lift just as soon as somebody proves it by doing it. Until then all this news about suborbital and orbital flight is getting boring.
My condolences to those who have no experience with milk bags.
Now, cows milk sold in plastic bags however... that's just weird.
" Frankly I find the chaos of Mexico's highways more appealing"
Drive whatever speed you want until the Zetas stop you, take ransom from your family and then behead you?
Oh, great advice... now we get a bunch of inbred kids with single parents! Next time tell them not to make babies with their family members.
What would be the point of a robotic space station anyway? Some earth observing satellites I get. Probes and rovers to other worlds as well as space telescopes all have their place but what is the point of a space station if not to give people a place to go? A robot can just orbit without a station, we call them satellites. Don't get me wrong by the first part... I do wish we were sending humans to other worlds too...
Yes but why would a robot no matter how well it learns ever have a toothbrush on hand in the first place? For that matter, just think what would happen if a robot maintained space station required a fix using toilet paper!
Why are people so obsessed with the bulk of their phones? I'd get it if this were 1990 or earlier when they really were a lot bigger. Certainly there is an upper size limit beyond which phones become less practical but I think pretty much all phones shrunk down smaller than that years ago. I keep my phone in a little holster clipped to my belt and can easily forget it's even there.
Is it something about pocket size? I can keep my phone, even my bigger ones from a few years ago in a front pocket but I don't like doing that because I walk too much. Things I keep in pockets are subject to too much movement and wear out sooner, especially if they share the pocket with keys. Even if you could make my phone somehow better for fitting in my pocket (which it does fine already) I wouldn't want it there. Are people keeping them in back pockets? Sitting on them? That's just stupid.
Is it about fitting in purses? Most girls' purses I have seen you would want a little bulk on the phone. Otherwise you might never find it again in the mess!
Why give up a feature, even one you might not use often just to make it even smaller? All I see in these tiny thin phones is something that breaks too easily and a microphone which is too far from the user's mouth. Drop the microphone part and I think the same about some of the newer tablets and laptops.
I think the thin and small craze is just a marketing thing. A marketing thing that the public has unfortunately continued to eat up long after it should have ceased to be relevant. I really hope it goes away soon.
unfortunately non-antibacterial soap isn't so common anymore
Vaccination greatly reduces the odds one will get sick. Given significant exposure to pathogens it does not 100% prevent it. A bunch of dumb people's children running around spreading diseases increases everyone's exposure to those diseases increasing the chances that even the vaccinated will catch it.