I once worked in the field. I have published more than him, i have more citations than him. Turns out if you want to be respected in science you need to do more than good PR, many of us don't like this guy, but understand the PR angle, and why you can't really fire him.
I suggest you Google him, and note the lack of contributions.
I do have to pay for serious bandwidth. A hell of a lot more than 1Mbps too. Now sort out the licences...... have fun with that. End of the day, you won't save a dam thing. Unless you have your lawyers on retainer and they don't already have something to do.
Yet every other scientist has to do far more work just to keep a job than him. So unless intelligent is code for "not do much for 20 years", he is not nearly as intelligent as you claim. Unless you want to reference some evidence to the contrary.
Whats wrong, you can't even work the internet? Most of this research is not behind a pay wall. If you wanted to read it or know about it, you would. But you don't. Just another person who is willfully ignorant on the internet.
It is true that its not conclusive, but there is evidence that it happened or probably happened. If it did happen however then other things are also probably happened.
And by probably i mean at the level of confidence of any AGW prediction model. ie a bit. Yet every man and his dog knows that scientist having everything correct with AGW and your a coal/oil denier shill if you disagree. Yet every armchair scientist that hasn't even bothered to read the wiki about $TOPIC know why everyone working in the field is so clearly wrong.
Couldn't agree more. And these claims of 2x better are just not supported by the data *once* you move past absolute shit low end tiny bitrate crap where your comparing shit with crap. Once your at the quality end of movie/images the differences between compression schemes is small.
For most people its not even close to an issue. For niche use sure, in fact i have wanted more range before resolution, but how many monitors support it? Most people think facebook photos are high quality and that you can have a 700MB bluray rip:'(
Thing is that no one cares about the image size anymore. We have more bandwidth, larger harddrives and well my image collection is a tiny part of my storage and bandwidth requirements. Then there is a patent bullshit that will inevitably go with this. H2?? whatever it is based off is not free.
WTF are you talking about? This is not a FEL, and 2 FELs don't have plasma but high energy electron beams, and 3 if the FEL produces visible wavelengths normal mirrors work fine. I think your getting confused with some comic book super villain with a touch of star trek technobabble.
Its only 30KW. It won't be all that disastrous at all. It really isn't all that powerful. Even a dirty mirror will significantly increase the dwell time required. Add an ablative layer. You could take seconds to do anything. The if they fired 2 at the same time?
So this shot something moving a few 10s of miles an hour on absolutely flat water and you think that look reasonable destructive?
This looks a lot more destructive. And they only have to fire a few at once. Also point defense is nothing new. Antiship missiles are designed with them in mind.
You know we have thought of that. If you run the numbers, the atmosphere stays hot enough for long enough that much if not all escapes into space. The impact created the moon, it was really really hot for a while.
Quite a few countries are and have been more or less cashless for some time. In NZ for example almost no one uses cash, its all cards and has been that way for a long time. Online transactions are mostly direct transfers. We have not had a government no privacy zombie Apocalypse yet. Also cash is not as anonymous as you think.
This is *not* ultra radioactive. It is a tiny amount of activity. We have stupid low recommended limits to Cover Ass, not based on science. There are a lot of people living in places where they will receive more than a recommended amount all the time. And don't display any adverse health effects.
Err, no. If its not critical then is just decay heat. You get a little spontaneous neutrons, but really really low levels of it. Think about it this way, if it produces anything like enough stuff to be a concern how could it do that for thousands of years? You can't make something from nothing. The total mass of the result is approximately the same.
So either its high activity and will be over in short order, or very low activity that is a little hot for a long time. You can't have both.
If you want to worry about something, worry about the fact that this type of reactor is still in service around the former USSR.
Don't get him started on how much wind energy Germany uses. Germany would have to be in a permanent hurricane. Oh and he also doesn't think there are any running costs associated with wind turbines. And well just say the word nuclear and he will gone on and on about the thousands, 10s of thousands of people killed by nuclear accidents... that are somehow hidden from everyone.
Children are only at particular risk when there is lots of radioactive iodine around *and* a lack of iodine tables. But its short half life means it is no longer around. The fairly low trace amounts of stuff in the soil only puts you in a "high background" environment, and is hardly a big issue.
Unless you are just always scared of the word nuclear.
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I once worked in the field. I have published more than him, i have more citations than him. Turns out if you want to be respected in science you need to do more than good PR, many of us don't like this guy, but understand the PR angle, and why you can't really fire him.
I suggest you Google him, and note the lack of contributions.
I do have to pay for serious bandwidth. A hell of a lot more than 1Mbps too. Now sort out the licences...... have fun with that. End of the day, you won't save a dam thing. Unless you have your lawyers on retainer and they don't already have something to do.
I would have thought a few .50cals would be cheaper.
Yet every other scientist has to do far more work just to keep a job than him. So unless intelligent is code for "not do much for 20 years", he is not nearly as intelligent as you claim. Unless you want to reference some evidence to the contrary.
I am well aware of the literature. You probably should read his other post in this exchange.
Whats wrong, you can't even work the internet? Most of this research is not behind a pay wall. If you wanted to read it or know about it, you would. But you don't. Just another person who is willfully ignorant on the internet.
It is true that its not conclusive, but there is evidence that it happened or probably happened. If it did happen however then other things are also probably happened.
And by probably i mean at the level of confidence of any AGW prediction model. ie a bit. Yet every man and his dog knows that scientist having everything correct with AGW and your a coal/oil denier shill if you disagree. Yet every armchair scientist that hasn't even bothered to read the wiki about $TOPIC know why everyone working in the field is so clearly wrong.
Couldn't agree more. And these claims of 2x better are just not supported by the data *once* you move past absolute shit low end tiny bitrate crap where your comparing shit with crap. Once your at the quality end of movie/images the differences between compression schemes is small.
For most people its not even close to an issue. For niche use sure, in fact i have wanted more range before resolution, but how many monitors support it? Most people think facebook photos are high quality and that you can have a 700MB bluray rip :'(
Thing is that no one cares about the image size anymore. We have more bandwidth, larger harddrives and well my image collection is a tiny part of my storage and bandwidth requirements. Then there is a patent bullshit that will inevitably go with this. H2?? whatever it is based off is not free.
Hawking is not smart. If he wasn't a cripple he would have been let go a long time ago.
Run the numbers. Oh you just make stuff up? Well perhaps you should publish your enlightened treatment of planet formation.
WTF are you talking about? This is not a FEL, and 2 FELs don't have plasma but high energy electron beams, and 3 if the FEL produces visible wavelengths normal mirrors work fine. I think your getting confused with some comic book super villain with a touch of star trek technobabble.
Its only 30KW. It won't be all that disastrous at all. It really isn't all that powerful. Even a dirty mirror will significantly increase the dwell time required. Add an ablative layer. You could take seconds to do anything. The if they fired 2 at the same time?
FEL are the size of a football field and even then are a full R&D project just to make them work. Once. You have been reading to many comic books.
Relevant. Exactly how does this increase combat effectiveness outside Somalia pirates?
So this shot something moving a few 10s of miles an hour on absolutely flat water and you think that look reasonable destructive?
This looks a lot more destructive. And they only have to fire a few at once. Also point defense is nothing new. Antiship missiles are designed with them in mind.
You know we have thought of that. If you run the numbers, the atmosphere stays hot enough for long enough that much if not all escapes into space. The impact created the moon, it was really really hot for a while.
Quite a few countries are and have been more or less cashless for some time. In NZ for example almost no one uses cash, its all cards and has been that way for a long time. Online transactions are mostly direct transfers. We have not had a government no privacy zombie Apocalypse yet. Also cash is not as anonymous as you think.
Then the problem has nothing to do with the payment method.
Or just email us. I always provide a pdf to anyone who asks
This is *not* ultra radioactive. It is a tiny amount of activity. We have stupid low recommended limits to Cover Ass, not based on science. There are a lot of people living in places where they will receive more than a recommended amount all the time. And don't display any adverse health effects.
Err, no. If its not critical then is just decay heat. You get a little spontaneous neutrons, but really really low levels of it. Think about it this way, if it produces anything like enough stuff to be a concern how could it do that for thousands of years? You can't make something from nothing. The total mass of the result is approximately the same.
So either its high activity and will be over in short order, or very low activity that is a little hot for a long time. You can't have both.
If you want to worry about something, worry about the fact that this type of reactor is still in service around the former USSR.
Don't get him started on how much wind energy Germany uses. Germany would have to be in a permanent hurricane. Oh and he also doesn't think there are any running costs associated with wind turbines. And well just say the word nuclear and he will gone on and on about the thousands, 10s of thousands of people killed by nuclear accidents... that are somehow hidden from everyone.
Children are only at particular risk when there is lots of radioactive iodine around *and* a lack of iodine tables. But its short half life means it is no longer around. The fairly low trace amounts of stuff in the soil only puts you in a "high background" environment, and is hardly a big issue.
Unless you are just always scared of the word nuclear.