Sure, but if all the effort of creating another Earth would actually be put to keep this one livable we would live in a paradise. Still that would be the consequence of wasting the first one. The best outcome would of course be that there would be many planets to live on. I have a slight hope that with the next one at least we would have learnt from the mistakes with the first one. The base should be covered though.
0.7 degrees is a lot in terms of extra energy. Think about it this way: how much energy does it take to heat the total atmosphere by 0.7 degrees. On top of that the energy is stored in oceans too.
Besides 0.7 is the average of -1 and +2.4 as well as -10 and +11.4... It's also not a fluctuation really but a trend.
But the planet has been both warmer and cooler than it is now during it's long history.
Yes that's true, but never in the planet's history has one species dominated in such sudden and strong force.
Each time it's damped out cycles of extreme warming and extreme cooling all by itself.
Precisely, because the changes have been relatively slow and there has been plenty of time for the feedbacks to occur. At the moment humanity is acting like a once per 100 000 years super volcano in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Every year. On top of that we are sustaining a ridiculously big cattle population, which wouldn't be able to sustain itself while cutting trees down (and thus one negative feedback loop).
If an alien species started to pour greenhouse gases to atmosphere, inserts billion strong alien cattle population and cuts rain forests down etc I guess you would be fucking furious. So why aren't you now?
Isn't it easier to just have someone by the driver's seat as a watch?
If conditions would be perfect you could implement variable rate high accuracy stroboscopic lights which are synced to built-in cameras. Everybody else would record only partial or blurry images. On top of that the party would totally be sick.
With complementing waveforms and multiple cameras side by side, synced to different rates, the flickering may not be so problematic for the passengers.
Or maybe have visitors install an app which would be location aware and block cameras from operating. An app could at least report back if a photo has been taken at the position of the bus etc.
ClamXav on OS X reported a virus infection in one of the files in the archive: ASUSGATE/FTP-dirlist/75.183.112.181.dirlist: JAVA.Exploit.CVE_2012_1723 FOUND
I don't know exactly what to make of that, but be careful.
It's a great thing he did, and I hope he can make it something usable for the blind also. There exists screen reader type of braille machines like ones from Seika, which I've installed for one natively blind person. These can go for thousands of dollars because the mass market doesn't exist. The person I know also utilizes OCR scanners and speech synthesis. The books and newspapers are provided in audio by an organization for the blind.
I'd guess there isn't much need for paper as the medium, but everything helps. Cheap method to produce printed braille would be of great help for event organizers who need to cater blind participants.
So how does it help when this east-west / us-them -construction is constantly strengthened and the separation thus deepened. The current paradigm needs to be changed. Adoring the ones that are selfish enough to gain power will only leave crumbles for the followers. In the end the ones that actually want to gain transparency are put into jails and opaqued - regardless of the culture and the political system, because the highest sphere shares the same view. The tribal power structure is build deep into the human psyche, but it's not the only way. There's an avenue of growth too.
What's that huge block of text doing there? Even the long summaries without paragraphs looked better on the classic site.
The site is transforming from iconic to mediocre. A 90s design paradigm in a modern responsive framework. New entry for the producers' CV: updated the website, killed the community.
The new commenting system is seriously flawed. It feels like the actual soul of the site - the comments and the users - is being pushed aside and fenced in. This doesn't feel nice, this is not an improvement. I don't see myself to comment much on the beta (the new slashdot) articles. The comment section is not inviting anymore. It doesn't inspire.
Snowfall needs moist air. Warmer air holds more moisture. Increased snowfall is well in the scope of what's been thought to happen. There really doesn't need to be any alarmist campaign; simple scientific observation of the amplified greenhouse effect is enough.
Think about this: if you'd leap to a position 15 billion light years from here, you'd still see the expanding bubble around you. Or take another leap of 15 billion light years from there to a new point. Still the cosmic background radiation would be all around you in the same way as it is now from our vantage point at Earth. The number of atoms in the universe is larger than what we can perceive, or can ever perceive. In that way you could say we live in a finite space.
Because of the expansion it's impossible for us to perceive the light outside of our cone. In other words the light cones of other possible bubbles or objects may never intersect with ours. The light simply can't reach us because the universe itself expands and makes the travel impossible. This actually is the mainstream explanation for the paradox, in the link you submitted.
You stated the number of atoms in the observable universe. The universe is most likely infinite. It's also possible that the natural constants change at the ultra large scales. You also imply that the universe has some kind a purpose, because it needs to keep track of all of the states. There necessarily is no purpose and no need to track the states. It can be a freely oscillating system, although the vibrations are mostly subdued because the universe is almost totally frozen by now in it's current(?) rendition.
It's a bit difficult to compare the speeds of evolution, when the evolution doesn't have a fixed point of reference. It's a natural phenomenon and not a law. Usually the smaller the scale the faster the rate of change though. Besides if we design capabilities to ourselves which wouldn't happen by natural selection then we are the speed. The nature cannot be escaped; it's not a confined feature of space.
100km is the target altitude once the operations are on going. That's actually where they already went with the previous version SpaceShipOne to win the Ansari X-Prize. They seem to be well on their track to become a trusted commercial operator.
It's always useful to deny everything first. Later when you apologize that's the image the public will remember.
For politicians denying everything is the first step. If one assumes guilt first one surely must have something hidden... As per drama the honesty only comes after a struggle and self-realization. That's more natural to sympathize with.
That's true. It still matters what kind of LED monitor the company chooses. The brightness is usually adjusted by PWM, and quite a many get headaches and eye-strain because of the flicker (and 100% PWM might be too bright). I'm currently replacing my ages old second monitor with a 2K one, and chose a flicker-free (at least for most of the brightness range) model.
Lack of software is a non-issue. With Parallels for example you are able to have as many virtual operating systems as possible. I'm a developer and use OS X as the main system, along that I have Ubuntu, Windows 8, Windows XP and Android as guest OS's. Their applications can be run in native OS X windows.
It's not about the operating system anymore. With virtualization you can choose any tool that suits you best regardless of the OS.
Yes, GMO's may be totally healthy, but the real issue is who controls the GMO market. It's definitely not healthy if only few companies control the food chain. The companies are even happy to restrict the reuse of the seeds. This is unnatural, but of course natural in terms of making profit. Also the aim to create food for only human use (GMO crops that repel everything else) will have an impact on biodiversity. Diversity is the natural mechanism to cope with the changing conditions, and the lack of diversity will polarize the eco-system, which would as a whole weaken.
Once it becomes possible to create nutrition in closed production plants the fields can be freed to be at their natural state. Artificially produced food is in the end as natural as GMO.
I bought bottles of coke from Coca-Cola vending machines with SMS more than 10 years ago already (in Finland). In the last couple of years they've been rolling out special apps to be used with vending machines; or at least for random snack kind of setups. The phone-home -functionality has most likely existed as long... Sounds like they are about to modernize things globally.
That guide actually makes the device NSA safe. It's pretty comprehensive and when applied in full should please even most paranoid and security conscious users.
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Sure, but if all the effort of creating another Earth would actually be put to keep this one livable we would live in a paradise. Still that would be the consequence of wasting the first one. The best outcome would of course be that there would be many planets to live on. I have a slight hope that with the next one at least we would have learnt from the mistakes with the first one. The base should be covered though.
0.7 degrees is a lot in terms of extra energy. Think about it this way: how much energy does it take to heat the total atmosphere by 0.7 degrees. On top of that the energy is stored in oceans too.
Besides 0.7 is the average of -1 and +2.4 as well as -10 and +11.4... It's also not a fluctuation really but a trend.
Self-inflicted extinction event from anthropogenic activities could be seen as natural negative feedback mechanism. The equilibrium is restored.
I understand the future for the humanity and multitude of ecosystems may be grim but the nature will thrive nevertheless.
There are certain boundaries and one is that there's only one Earth. We can affect our future, and it's impossible to escape the consequences.
But the planet has been both warmer and cooler than it is now during it's long history.
Yes that's true, but never in the planet's history has one species dominated in such sudden and strong force.
Each time it's damped out cycles of extreme warming and extreme cooling all by itself.
Precisely, because the changes have been relatively slow and there has been plenty of time for the feedbacks to occur. At the moment humanity is acting like a once per 100 000 years super volcano in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Every year. On top of that we are sustaining a ridiculously big cattle population, which wouldn't be able to sustain itself while cutting trees down (and thus one negative feedback loop).
If an alien species started to pour greenhouse gases to atmosphere, inserts billion strong alien cattle population and cuts rain forests down etc I guess you would be fucking furious. So why aren't you now?
Isn't it easier to just have someone by the driver's seat as a watch?
If conditions would be perfect you could implement variable rate high accuracy stroboscopic lights which are synced to built-in cameras. Everybody else would record only partial or blurry images. On top of that the party would totally be sick.
With complementing waveforms and multiple cameras side by side, synced to different rates, the flickering may not be so problematic for the passengers.
Or maybe have visitors install an app which would be location aware and block cameras from operating. An app could at least report back if a photo has been taken at the position of the bus etc.
ClamXav on OS X reported a virus infection in one of the files in the archive: ASUSGATE/FTP-dirlist/75.183.112.181.dirlist: JAVA.Exploit.CVE_2012_1723 FOUND
I don't know exactly what to make of that, but be careful.
It's a great thing he did, and I hope he can make it something usable for the blind also. There exists screen reader type of braille machines like ones from Seika, which I've installed for one natively blind person. These can go for thousands of dollars because the mass market doesn't exist. The person I know also utilizes OCR scanners and speech synthesis. The books and newspapers are provided in audio by an organization for the blind.
I'd guess there isn't much need for paper as the medium, but everything helps. Cheap method to produce printed braille would be of great help for event organizers who need to cater blind participants.
So how does it help when this east-west / us-them -construction is constantly strengthened and the separation thus deepened. The current paradigm needs to be changed. Adoring the ones that are selfish enough to gain power will only leave crumbles for the followers. In the end the ones that actually want to gain transparency are put into jails and opaqued - regardless of the culture and the political system, because the highest sphere shares the same view. The tribal power structure is build deep into the human psyche, but it's not the only way. There's an avenue of growth too.
Another spectacular and original thing filthied by the machination of the humanity.
What's that huge block of text doing there? Even the long summaries without paragraphs looked better on the classic site.
The site is transforming from iconic to mediocre. A 90s design paradigm in a modern responsive framework. New entry for the producers' CV: updated the website, killed the community.
The new commenting system is seriously flawed. It feels like the actual soul of the site - the comments and the users - is being pushed aside and fenced in. This doesn't feel nice, this is not an improvement. I don't see myself to comment much on the beta (the new slashdot) articles. The comment section is not inviting anymore. It doesn't inspire.
Snowfall needs moist air. Warmer air holds more moisture. Increased snowfall is well in the scope of what's been thought to happen. There really doesn't need to be any alarmist campaign; simple scientific observation of the amplified greenhouse effect is enough.
Think about this: if you'd leap to a position 15 billion light years from here, you'd still see the expanding bubble around you. Or take another leap of 15 billion light years from there to a new point. Still the cosmic background radiation would be all around you in the same way as it is now from our vantage point at Earth. The number of atoms in the universe is larger than what we can perceive, or can ever perceive. In that way you could say we live in a finite space.
Because of the expansion it's impossible for us to perceive the light outside of our cone. In other words the light cones of other possible bubbles or objects may never intersect with ours. The light simply can't reach us because the universe itself expands and makes the travel impossible. This actually is the mainstream explanation for the paradox, in the link you submitted.
You stated the number of atoms in the observable universe. The universe is most likely infinite. It's also possible that the natural constants change at the ultra large scales. You also imply that the universe has some kind a purpose, because it needs to keep track of all of the states. There necessarily is no purpose and no need to track the states. It can be a freely oscillating system, although the vibrations are mostly subdued because the universe is almost totally frozen by now in it's current(?) rendition.
It's a bit difficult to compare the speeds of evolution, when the evolution doesn't have a fixed point of reference. It's a natural phenomenon and not a law. Usually the smaller the scale the faster the rate of change though. Besides if we design capabilities to ourselves which wouldn't happen by natural selection then we are the speed. The nature cannot be escaped; it's not a confined feature of space.
Maybe he also sold on the black market. The data and its structure itself may be interesting.
100km is the target altitude once the operations are on going. That's actually where they already went with the previous version SpaceShipOne to win the Ansari X-Prize. They seem to be well on their track to become a trusted commercial operator.
It's always useful to deny everything first. Later when you apologize that's the image the public will remember.
For politicians denying everything is the first step. If one assumes guilt first one surely must have something hidden... As per drama the honesty only comes after a struggle and self-realization. That's more natural to sympathize with.
That's true. It still matters what kind of LED monitor the company chooses. The brightness is usually adjusted by PWM, and quite a many get headaches and eye-strain because of the flicker (and 100% PWM might be too bright). I'm currently replacing my ages old second monitor with a 2K one, and chose a flicker-free (at least for most of the brightness range) model.
Lack of software is a non-issue. With Parallels for example you are able to have as many virtual operating systems as possible. I'm a developer and use OS X as the main system, along that I have Ubuntu, Windows 8, Windows XP and Android as guest OS's. Their applications can be run in native OS X windows.
It's not about the operating system anymore. With virtualization you can choose any tool that suits you best regardless of the OS.
Yes, GMO's may be totally healthy, but the real issue is who controls the GMO market. It's definitely not healthy if only few companies control the food chain. The companies are even happy to restrict the reuse of the seeds. This is unnatural, but of course natural in terms of making profit. Also the aim to create food for only human use (GMO crops that repel everything else) will have an impact on biodiversity. Diversity is the natural mechanism to cope with the changing conditions, and the lack of diversity will polarize the eco-system, which would as a whole weaken.
Once it becomes possible to create nutrition in closed production plants the fields can be freed to be at their natural state. Artificially produced food is in the end as natural as GMO.
I bought bottles of coke from Coca-Cola vending machines with SMS more than 10 years ago already (in Finland). In the last couple of years they've been rolling out special apps to be used with vending machines; or at least for random snack kind of setups. The phone-home -functionality has most likely existed as long... Sounds like they are about to modernize things globally.
Aren't all remotely driven cars basically big R/C cars? Besides I think correct translation for flaky would be Russian.
That guide actually makes the device NSA safe. It's pretty comprehensive and when applied in full should please even most paranoid and security conscious users.