I can take a soil sample in front of my apartment without showing large concentrations of any metals. They didn't look at very large areas of the moon... and while a lot smaller than the Earth, it's still a pretty big place. This gives them a chance to cover much larger areas.
n.b: this is all contingent on the belief that the Lunar landings weren't a conspiracy.
5000 square kilometers is 5 billion square meters, not 5 million, so you'd need a lot more houses or much bigger plots per house.
Though if there's anywhere solar should work, it's Australia. They certainly have the most hot, uninhabited desert per capita of the industrialized nations.
Is this a joke I didn't get? Tides don't change the total amount of water in the ocean, which is what affects the average sea level. They just move it around. Melting iceburgs won't have any affect on the sea level one way or another, because the melt water they produce will occupy exactly the space they are currently displacing. Melting continental ice will have an affect on sea levels. And the moon is moving away (napkin arithmetic based on numbers I might not remember right:) something like.00000001% of its orbital distance per year, so it'll take a little while before we notice much of an affect on the tides.
What, so killing another member of our species so its mate will raise our cubs instead of its cubs doesn't count? Or killing another member of our species for food? We certainly don't have a monopoly on intra-species killing. And while we may be capable of wiping ourselves out, it would actually take a concerted effort. Killing 95% of the population doesn't count, they'll still be able to breed back up, and humans are resourseful survivalists.
What is the real difference between a Computer Engineering degree and a degree in Computer Science? I graduated in '05 with a degree in Comp Eng, and the only real difference I noted is the availability of the FE/PE exams, which none of my prospective employers showed any interest in for this discipline. Our Comp Sci graduates also got degrees through the Engineering college, rather than Arts and Sciences, and with the exception of digital logic and basic circuitry took at least as difficult of classes (and more math). If he's primarily interested in programming, he may never benefit from analog & digital circuits anyway.
The Daily Show does fairly legitimate interviews, in general. I am surprised that The Colbert Report keeps getting guests, though his are typically much lower profile.
I dug up a story in the San Francisco Chronicle [I know nothing of California newspapers, so I don't know if it's a good source or not] about what I presume to be the riots in question. Here's a link . It appears there was some degree of violence in both directions, a police officer was pretty seriously injured. I have trouble considering violent riots "civil disobedience". I don't know what actually occured at the 2005 G8, so I can't judge whether it qualifies as our government doing something beyond remit.
I could be brainfarting, but wasn't it "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself", by FDR? Though I suppose the younger Roosevelt could have gotten it from the older.
I would assume we can't at this point simulate a human that well with a computer. We're only starting to figure out how the brain even works, so I don't know if we could simulate its reactions. Although, I have no actual experience with this sort of thing so if someone could tell me I'm wrong it would make for some interesting reading.:)
Can you get rid of your tinfoil hat already? This has *everything* to do with personal responsibility. Fast food isn't even that cheap. A combo meal is $5-6, the same price as a sandwich at a deli or (God I hate to say this) Subway, and a hell of a lot more expensive than cooking myself a porkchop and a potato, or some 4 minute pasta and marinara sauce if I'm in a hurry. (The pasta and sauce runs me about $1.00 per meal, if you're counting)
Why is it that all the personal responsibility dorks are always rich white boys who never did a thing to get where they are today? I worked my ass off to get to where I am so don't preach any personal responsibility shit to me assholes.
Why is it that you insist on stereotyping a bunch of people who you have never met over the internet? I know plenty of people who worked nasty jobs through college [myself included, night shift in a warehouse freezer is good pay for unskilled labor, and it keeps you in shape, too] who aren't fat because they aren't lazy and aren't willing to feed themselves garbage. The lawsuit culture in America that allows even the suggestion that people should sue because McDonalds made them fat is a disgrace.
Do you have a link to 30mpg? The only fuel efficiency listed in the article you linked to translates to 15mpg city and 21mpg highway, which is unabashedly terrible, and EPA estimates tend to be higher than what people get anyway because of the way EPA tests are done. For the small percentage of SUV owners who actually use the seating capacity on a regular basis, it may be justified. Otherwise, SUVs will remain an unnecessarily large vehicle that brakes and turns poorly and is a danger to everyone else on the road. They're bad for other driver's roadway vision, too, because they're big, high, and, with tinted windows, opaque.
If I make a comparison between the average SUV and my station wagon, I have better braking and handling, much better fuel efficiency, better traction in the snow (unless it's more than 12-15 inches deep, then I lose out due to less ground clearance), and roof racks that I can actually use because I don't need a ladder to reach them. The only piece of furniture in my apartment that didn't get there in or on my station wagon is a full sized couch, and I wager you'd have a hard time fitting one of them in a Yukon anyway. While I may not get 33mpg like an Accord or 45 like a Civic, station wagons are a true utility vehicle while still getting 30mpg on the highway.
Maybe all cars on the road can be identical, humongous boxes that all look like Yukons!
As transport becomes more expensive, the suburbs will wither and die.
We can only hope. But going from $1/gallon to $3/gallon has only gotten people to bitch more without changing any of their other habits. Maybe $5/gallon will make a difference?
If you don't mind something the size of an automobile that makes a few hundred watts, you can get as low of an effeciency as you want. If you want it to recoup the investment costs in a reasonable length of time and not take an incredible amount of space, the efficiency is still relevent. And you need a heat sink, though you can use the ground. This increases initial costs as well.
And I'd hope that the boiling and condensation points are close. That'd be one mighty strange substance if they weren't.
I don't know where in Pennsylvania you live. I grew up in the middle of the state (out in a podunk town past Gettysburg, if it makes any difference), and for the 21 years I was there, 100 degrees happened an average of maybe twice a year, and 0 degrees less often than that. Granted, 0 is a lot more common in say, the Allegheny forest, but 100 isn't. In terms of temperature change, the Mid-Atlantic is far less extreme than the plains states.
And this is totally trivial, but it's a peeve of mine: 90 degrees and 80% relative humidity is an 83 degree dewpoint, which never happens in this area of the country. Maybe the Amazon basin. The hyperbole scales badly from there.
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This isn't insightful, it's stupid.
How would damming a river ever reduce surface area? The length of the river remains the same, and it gets wider.
5000 square kilometers is 5 billion square meters, not 5 million, so you'd need a lot more houses or much bigger plots per house.
Though if there's anywhere solar should work, it's Australia. They certainly have the most hot, uninhabited desert per capita of the industrialized nations.
Is this a joke I didn't get? Tides don't change the total amount of water in the ocean, which is what affects the average sea level. They just move it around. Melting iceburgs won't have any affect on the sea level one way or another, because the melt water they produce will occupy exactly the space they are currently displacing. Melting continental ice will have an affect on sea levels. And the moon is moving away (napkin arithmetic based on numbers I might not remember right :) something like .00000001% of its orbital distance per year, so it'll take a little while before we notice much of an affect on the tides.
What, so killing another member of our species so its mate will raise our cubs instead of its cubs doesn't count? Or killing another member of our species for food? We certainly don't have a monopoly on intra-species killing. And while we may be capable of wiping ourselves out, it would actually take a concerted effort. Killing 95% of the population doesn't count, they'll still be able to breed back up, and humans are resourseful survivalists.
What is the real difference between a Computer Engineering degree and a degree in Computer Science? I graduated in '05 with a degree in Comp Eng, and the only real difference I noted is the availability of the FE/PE exams, which none of my prospective employers showed any interest in for this discipline. Our Comp Sci graduates also got degrees through the Engineering college, rather than Arts and Sciences, and with the exception of digital logic and basic circuitry took at least as difficult of classes (and more math). If he's primarily interested in programming, he may never benefit from analog & digital circuits anyway.
The Daily Show does fairly legitimate interviews, in general. I am surprised that The Colbert Report keeps getting guests, though his are typically much lower profile.
Don't annoy the tinfoil hatters! They'll run you out of Slashdot.
Please unmod this insightful, because it is wrong.
I dug up a story in the San Francisco Chronicle [I know nothing of California newspapers, so I don't know if it's a good source or not] about what I presume to be the riots in question. Here's a link . It appears there was some degree of violence in both directions, a police officer was pretty seriously injured. I have trouble considering violent riots "civil disobedience". I don't know what actually occured at the 2005 G8, so I can't judge whether it qualifies as our government doing something beyond remit.
So you approve of mobs burning police cars?
Do you pay taxes?
I could be brainfarting, but wasn't it "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself", by FDR? Though I suppose the younger Roosevelt could have gotten it from the older.
Well, except for the triple double.
Are you saying that you would view Newton as "merely insightful" rather than a "genius"? History will remember Einstein as the genius he was.
Andrew Johnson. And no, certainly not in the last 50 years.
That will make you a lot of friends on Slashdot, but it's still too early for me to guess how it will turn out in the real world.
Yeah, but you aren't the one who's going to keep me from getting arrested.
I would assume we can't at this point simulate a human that well with a computer. We're only starting to figure out how the brain even works, so I don't know if we could simulate its reactions. Although, I have no actual experience with this sort of thing so if someone could tell me I'm wrong it would make for some interesting reading. :)
Why is it that you insist on stereotyping a bunch of people who you have never met over the internet? I know plenty of people who worked nasty jobs through college [myself included, night shift in a warehouse freezer is good pay for unskilled labor, and it keeps you in shape, too] who aren't fat because they aren't lazy and aren't willing to feed themselves garbage. The lawsuit culture in America that allows even the suggestion that people should sue because McDonalds made them fat is a disgrace.
Then it's probably time for you to be moving along, because whatever you're doing now seems to have zapped your sense of humor.
Speak for yourself, buddy. Not all of us fit the bill.
If I make a comparison between the average SUV and my station wagon, I have better braking and handling, much better fuel efficiency, better traction in the snow (unless it's more than 12-15 inches deep, then I lose out due to less ground clearance), and roof racks that I can actually use because I don't need a ladder to reach them. The only piece of furniture in my apartment that didn't get there in or on my station wagon is a full sized couch, and I wager you'd have a hard time fitting one of them in a Yukon anyway. While I may not get 33mpg like an Accord or 45 like a Civic, station wagons are a true utility vehicle while still getting 30mpg on the highway.
You see what I did there?
As transport becomes more expensive, the suburbs will wither and die.
We can only hope. But going from $1/gallon to $3/gallon has only gotten people to bitch more without changing any of their other habits. Maybe $5/gallon will make a difference?
If you don't mind something the size of an automobile that makes a few hundred watts, you can get as low of an effeciency as you want. If you want it to recoup the investment costs in a reasonable length of time and not take an incredible amount of space, the efficiency is still relevent. And you need a heat sink, though you can use the ground. This increases initial costs as well.
And I'd hope that the boiling and condensation points are close. That'd be one mighty strange substance if they weren't.
I don't know where in Pennsylvania you live. I grew up in the middle of the state (out in a podunk town past Gettysburg, if it makes any difference), and for the 21 years I was there, 100 degrees happened an average of maybe twice a year, and 0 degrees less often than that. Granted, 0 is a lot more common in say, the Allegheny forest, but 100 isn't. In terms of temperature change, the Mid-Atlantic is far less extreme than the plains states.
And this is totally trivial, but it's a peeve of mine: 90 degrees and 80% relative humidity is an 83 degree dewpoint, which never happens in this area of the country. Maybe the Amazon basin. The hyperbole scales badly from there.