Sci-fi is Hollywood entertainment with explosions, technobabble, and spaceships that make rumbling sounds as they travel through space. SF (speculative fiction) is something that might contain a bit of actual intelligence hidden inside.
The point is, that it's in the interest of you and me and everybody, that the politicians continue to invest in scientific research.
The reason that fusion power has been 25 years away for half a century, and continue to be, is that the politicians don't want to invest serious money in research into it.
It will harm science, if Fermilab finds the Higgs first!
Europe has invested a lot of taxpayer money in CERN. If the politicians doesn't get a feather in the hat, after this great investment. They might never want to make a big investment in science again.
The international science community should always aim to make the politicians look good in front of their taxpayers, when they invest in science. Not for the love of the politicians, but in the interest of scientific progress.
Individual vanity of scientists should take second place here. IMHO.
Nice math, but: If you're in a hurry, you don't charge your batteries. You just exchange them at the gas station. When they have the infrastructure down, this will take seconds.
It would have to nuke powered, which would make it even cooler. But I would like to see the rocket that can lift off with a 700 tonne dump truck on top, and fly it to the moon.
It's actually quite impressive. You see, after the first flight Clement worked on the plane in the hangar. And only 97 years later it was ready for the second attempt. Clement, now 146 years old, flew more than 5 times longer the second time.
one will be where you are, and one will be up or down from where you are. This is not completely accurate: It's enough to say "the other one will be up". It will be somewhere on the other side of the satellite's orbit, like a mirror of your real position on earth.
The GPS receiver do not need to pick the most likely location of the two. Because it does not really calculate positions at all. It calculates your *new* position, based on an assumed position (which it updates every time it calculates a new position). This is why a cold start of a receiver can take a long time.
Anyway. If I could just demolish all these damned surrounding buildings, I would always have more than 3 sats available when I go out the door.
All in all, the law ensures that Europeans can be pretty certain that their (online) privacy isn't invaded (as long as they surf only European websites). Provided that everybody actually knows and are following the law.
I would have modded you up, but I also want to comment.
You're no doubt right that it's extremely difficult make a space telescope like Darwin a reality. But I still think that they should give it very high priority to make it happen. There's little you can do in science or space engineering that has more potential than this. Just imagine what an impact it would have, if we found a planet 15 or 20 light years away, that showed every sign of being teeming with abundant life. Just like Earth.
It would inspire school children, politicians, Hollywood and everybody else enormously, I think. People would demand an interstellar space probe sent out. Even knowing that it would take a century or more, before the probe could begin to send back pictures. NASA would have to develop some super ion engine or something, with interstellar capabilities. They would have something really inspiring to do again.
I'd say that this part could be interpreted as "People resort to drugs against depression too lightly"
That's what I thought when I read those words at least. That's not surprising. After all GP's make money for themselves every time they write out a prescription.
Wait a minute... A double-blind study? So the patients in the control group got fake chips implanted? I didn't know brain surgery had become that routine. Well, great if it is, I guess...
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I think he would probably prefer the term SF.
Sci-fi is Hollywood entertainment with explosions, technobabble, and spaceships that make rumbling sounds as they travel through space. SF (speculative fiction) is something that might contain a bit of actual intelligence hidden inside.
The point is, that it's in the interest of you and me and everybody, that the politicians continue to invest in scientific research.
The reason that fusion power has been 25 years away for half a century, and continue to be, is that the politicians don't want to invest serious money in research into it.
It will harm science, if Fermilab finds the Higgs first!
Europe has invested a lot of taxpayer money in CERN. If the politicians doesn't get a feather in the hat, after this great investment. They might never want to make a big investment in science again.
The international science community should always aim to make the politicians look good in front of their taxpayers, when they invest in science. Not for the love of the politicians, but in the interest of scientific progress.
Individual vanity of scientists should take second place here. IMHO.
So, in other words. Electric cars will provide jobs for uneducated labour. Well more power to the 'lectric cars then.
Nice math, but:
If you're in a hurry, you don't charge your batteries. You just exchange them at the gas station. When they have the infrastructure down, this will take seconds.
A two year delay of a car delivery? What will the Martians think? Those Detroit assholes are an embarrassment to Earth.
It would have to nuke powered, which would make it even cooler. But I would like to see the rocket that can lift off with a 700 tonne dump truck on top, and fly it to the moon.
So, will Android be a Beta phone?
It's actually quite impressive. You see, after the first flight Clement worked on the plane in the hangar. And only 97 years later it was ready for the second attempt. Clement, now 146 years old, flew more than 5 times longer the second time.
The ISO press statement continues:
"... We're corrupt, and we're proud!"
Yes, and we shouldn't try to make Georgia a NATO country. I saw a headline today: "French diplomat: The Georgian president is insane!"
If Georgia want to be the new Serbia, we shouldn't be best buddies with them. If they were in NATO they could f*cking provoke the start of WW3.
Then we got really smart....and started fermenting our veggies/grains, and invented BEER!! That way we could drink it!!
And ever since, we have been killing our once smart brains with the delicious beer...
Sounds like a talented guy, but for some reason clueless outside of his field of expertise.
In other words: The guy is a nerd.
I agree. They should use furlongs and fathoms.
The GPS receiver do not need to pick the most likely location of the two. Because it does not really calculate positions at all. It calculates your *new* position, based on an assumed position (which it updates every time it calculates a new position). This is why a cold start of a receiver can take a long time.
Anyway. If I could just demolish all these damned surrounding buildings, I would always have more than 3 sats available when I go out the door.
ReiserFS. A real Killer Application. :-)
Yeah but if we don't start coding in C# the theorists win!
From an early draft of Kennedy's speech: We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is fun.
I would have modded you up, but I also want to comment.
You're no doubt right that it's extremely difficult make a space telescope like Darwin a reality. But I still think that they should give it very high priority to make it happen. There's little you can do in science or space engineering that has more potential than this. Just imagine what an impact it would have, if we found a planet 15 or 20 light years away, that showed every sign of being teeming with abundant life. Just like Earth.
It would inspire school children, politicians, Hollywood and everybody else enormously, I think. People would demand an interstellar space probe sent out. Even knowing that it would take a century or more, before the probe could begin to send back pictures. NASA would have to develop some super ion engine or something, with interstellar capabilities. They would have something really inspiring to do again.
Name it after a planet. How about Uranus Surveyor. That should be easy to remember.
Malta, Venezuela, Pakistan, Poland, Egypt, Lebanon, New Zealand, South Africa, Romania, Sri Lanka and Chile.
Wait a minute... A double-blind study? So the patients in the control group got fake chips implanted? I didn't know brain surgery had become that routine. Well, great if it is, I guess...