Lets start with a simple example. We want 233 grams of 233U. That means we need 1 mole of neutrons. So 6x10^23 neutrons. Now in DD fusion from your fusor example they have 2.45MeV of energy. Lets assume we can wait a year with this thing running and that 100% of the produced neutrons are used breading. That is 7.4kW of neutrons for a whole year. If you and transmute in sane times, you are at power station levels. Fusors would take thousands of years to transmute a single mole.
Thats pretty dishonest of you. Sure most of uranium is U238, but then *none* of Th232 is U233. *Both* U238 and Th232 are fertile and are not fuel. They both need to used in a breeder reactor. Th232 with neutron breads U233 and U238 with a neutron breads Pt239. The difference is that at least U235 is out there otherwise your really screwed getting the whole thing started.
If your going to compare Uranium reserves to Thorium's, you must consider the U238.
Well you should have more to not like. Most of these tests are not proper tests and have stupid high false positive rates. For example even on Mythbusters they showed that they would fail the test for a long time after eating a poppy seed cake.
But people like the idea of people in them. Why i do not know. But we like it so much, that even in the far distant future we still think having squishy meat bags that pass out with small 9g of load is a good idea.
and that the simplest explanation, which basically works all the way from galactic scales up to cosmological scales, is that it is composed of massive, weakly-interacting particles.
So many people, especially armchair physicist's miss this simple fact.
While technology is hard to predict. However i doubt this for the simple reason that its cheaper to just mass produce some things in factories. Much Much cheaper.
Lets not forget a major part of this panic is due to old manufacturing companies starting to realize that if we can print something for 5 cents, then why would we pay $5 for it?
I highly doubt that. Fact is modern manufacturing methods are just bloody cheap. Especially in volume. These said companies have been using 3d printing for more than a decade and know dam well you can't print something they sell for $5 for even close to 2x that.
Failed breaks have killed people. Tire blowouts have killed people. Idiots doing 80mph in a 40 area have killed people. What makes your life more important than anyone eles?
Thing is most tv's even good ones are pretty shitty compared to a good monitor. I have two 1080 monitors at work, and i use a 1080 TV at home (never mind the crap overscan BS and 200ms lag!). The one at home is crap i am replacing it with a proper monitor. I want to get something better than 1080 as well.
As for broadcast shows, i never watch, but sometimes my wife does. I am appalled at just how low quality they are with clearly over compressing stream. It mite have 1080 pixel count, but its not HD unless your blind.
Mechanical failures are not new. Breaks can fail, tires can blow out etc. These things have happened and have killed people. This is really not new. And software doesn't change it, since the software is part of the car... ie ABS breaks can have software faults.
Unfortunately yes. However it won't be long before they are substantially better than the average driver. Even if by just not losing patients or getting angry or tired and not speeding.
A better question is, does it increases the risk of me becoming a quadriplegic because GP is a shitty driver? Statistically speaking GP *is* a shitty driver. Even more so if he/she is one of those drivers who "knows i am a really good driver....".
Flu vaccines don't work (but are mostly harmless). I sometimes work with people in the field. Its pretty much accepted by anyone with the data that they don't work. We even know why. There are some new methods of getting more current strains ready quicker, should have an updated report on the current trails sometime around christmas.
In god we trust. The rest of you show me the data. As you said, Risk Perception...... we suck at it. And even people who know that still don't check the data.
The club i was part of in NZ was just legal. It wasn't really that hard to do. We had to form a club and get insurance. Once that was done we find some land that is at last 5km from any dwelling and at least 50km from a built up area. That is easy in NZ perhaps not so much in Europe. Once that was all signed and done we then get permission from the local air traffic controllers. Basically they close a 20-40km radius area to all aircraft for us on launch days but we still need to run by VFR and hence need clear days for high altitude stuff. This was armature rockets not just the off the shelf ones, where some where black powder (over 400kg in one of em IIRC) and quite a few perchlorate ones where full vacuum forming was needed to avoid voids. Again all the paper work was done. I did some liquid fuel ones and only really did ground tests. That was much easier legally speaking as you don't need a bunker and its easier to transport the stuff.
Basically the rocket is far harder than the red tape. It takes a bit of time, but its easy enough to get through.
Consider that the grey goo hypothesis requires that the assemblers need to break the laws of thermodynamics and requires advanced alchemy to work as advertised.
Ecoli has a volume of about.6 micro meters cubed. Or 6x10^-19 m3. In optimal conditions its replicated every 20mins. Lets say 30mins. So 48 replication cycles per day. After one day of uninhibited replication we now have about 168ml of ecoli. After 2 days we have about 47 cubic kilometers. After 3 days its 1.3x10^25 m3, compare to the volume of earth of just 6x10^20 m3. The same effects that prevent ecoli from unrestricted replication, apply to anything else that can replicate.
The grey goo disaster happened 3 billion years ago. Earth as we know it is the result.
I taught my daughter how to delete the browser history and things as well... I wanted her to understand privacy on computers and online. Of course that didn't stop the "Your in trouble for doing $THING_PROMISED_NOT_TO", "No i didn't..", "You have photos of you doing that on Facebook". When she was 16. She is much better at managing that stuff now.
This is something that is different. Its not just that the internet doesn't forget. Lots of things are like that, such as news papers, court proceeding etc. The difference now, is that its publicly indexed and searchable. However the current generation, at least my Daughter and many of her friends anyway, are adapting to this well. Most for example use there main facebook account as the "professional" and have another one for party photos etc. Many are getting it into their heads that privacy settings are less useful than just not posting/uploading the picture in the first place.
The problem on a farm is that there is a large set of accidents that are quite survivable in the city because you get fast medical attention, where on a farm you are dead. We were always aware that even with a cell phone, help was 40 min or longer away from where we lived. And good medical help far longer.
But you also missed some extra context to this "Oh my god people die on farms" GP post. I had a blast. I would far prefer to live my life before i die, than wait around to be old and sour and die anyway. I mean cars are bloody lethal. Yet we drive. In fact almost anyone in the west is mostly likely going to get a heart attack or cancer as your ticket out of life. Not some quad bike accident. Thou i did have a few of those.
I was riding bikes at that age too on the farm. They are not full sized bikes, motor cross bikes have always come in small because you typically do start young. Just because you didn't do jack at 5 is not the same as no one else did or can.
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Lets start with a simple example. We want 233 grams of 233U. That means we need 1 mole of neutrons. So 6x10^23 neutrons. Now in DD fusion from your fusor example they have 2.45MeV of energy. Lets assume we can wait a year with this thing running and that 100% of the produced neutrons are used breading. That is 7.4kW of neutrons for a whole year. If you and transmute in sane times, you are at power station levels. Fusors would take thousands of years to transmute a single mole.
Hack? Seriously... Don't use a drone. Use the same software that they use in simulators. Sober fighter pilots know their days are numbered.
Thats pretty dishonest of you. Sure most of uranium is U238, but then *none* of Th232 is U233. *Both* U238 and Th232 are fertile and are not fuel. They both need to used in a breeder reactor. Th232 with neutron breads U233 and U238 with a neutron breads Pt239. The difference is that at least U235 is out there otherwise your really screwed getting the whole thing started.
If your going to compare Uranium reserves to Thorium's, you must consider the U238.
Well turning up to work drunk can and should get you fired.
Well you should have more to not like. Most of these tests are not proper tests and have stupid high false positive rates. For example even on Mythbusters they showed that they would fail the test for a long time after eating a poppy seed cake.
But people like the idea of people in them. Why i do not know. But we like it so much, that even in the far distant future we still think having squishy meat bags that pass out with small 9g of load is a good idea.
So, this dark matter, what is it? Because it seems to me that it hasn't been defined properly
Ignorance of the definition is the same as the absence of a definition.
and that the simplest explanation, which basically works all the way from galactic scales up to cosmological scales, is that it is composed of massive, weakly-interacting particles.
So many people, especially armchair physicist's miss this simple fact.
Which doesn't explain anything at all.
While technology is hard to predict. However i doubt this for the simple reason that its cheaper to just mass produce some things in factories. Much Much cheaper.
Lets not forget a major part of this panic is due to old manufacturing companies starting to realize that if we can print something for 5 cents, then why would we pay $5 for it?
I highly doubt that. Fact is modern manufacturing methods are just bloody cheap. Especially in volume. These said companies have been using 3d printing for more than a decade and know dam well you can't print something they sell for $5 for even close to 2x that.
Exactly how is this different from number plate cameras, which already are a "nightmare for liberty".
Failed breaks have killed people. Tire blowouts have killed people. Idiots doing 80mph in a 40 area have killed people. What makes your life more important than anyone eles?
Thing is most tv's even good ones are pretty shitty compared to a good monitor. I have two 1080 monitors at work, and i use a 1080 TV at home (never mind the crap overscan BS and 200ms lag!). The one at home is crap i am replacing it with a proper monitor. I want to get something better than 1080 as well.
As for broadcast shows, i never watch, but sometimes my wife does. I am appalled at just how low quality they are with clearly over compressing stream. It mite have 1080 pixel count, but its not HD unless your blind.
Mechanical failures are not new. Breaks can fail, tires can blow out etc. These things have happened and have killed people. This is really not new. And software doesn't change it, since the software is part of the car... ie ABS breaks can have software faults.
Unfortunately yes. However it won't be long before they are substantially better than the average driver. Even if by just not losing patients or getting angry or tired and not speeding.
A better question is, does it increases the risk of me becoming a quadriplegic because GP is a shitty driver? Statistically speaking GP *is* a shitty driver. Even more so if he/she is one of those drivers who "knows i am a really good driver....".
Flu vaccines don't work (but are mostly harmless). I sometimes work with people in the field. Its pretty much accepted by anyone with the data that they don't work. We even know why. There are some new methods of getting more current strains ready quicker, should have an updated report on the current trails sometime around christmas.
In god we trust. The rest of you show me the data. As you said, Risk Perception...... we suck at it. And even people who know that still don't check the data.
The club i was part of in NZ was just legal. It wasn't really that hard to do. We had to form a club and get insurance. Once that was done we find some land that is at last 5km from any dwelling and at least 50km from a built up area. That is easy in NZ perhaps not so much in Europe. Once that was all signed and done we then get permission from the local air traffic controllers. Basically they close a 20-40km radius area to all aircraft for us on launch days but we still need to run by VFR and hence need clear days for high altitude stuff. This was armature rockets not just the off the shelf ones, where some where black powder (over 400kg in one of em IIRC) and quite a few perchlorate ones where full vacuum forming was needed to avoid voids. Again all the paper work was done. I did some liquid fuel ones and only really did ground tests. That was much easier legally speaking as you don't need a bunker and its easier to transport the stuff.
Basically the rocket is far harder than the red tape. It takes a bit of time, but its easy enough to get through.
Yes ecoil does gene swapping.. or more accurately plasmid swapping, that then can get incorporated into its genome.
All life *is* the result of run-amuck assemblers.
.6 micro meters cubed. Or 6x10^-19 m3. In optimal conditions its replicated every 20mins. Lets say 30mins. So 48 replication cycles per day. After one day of uninhibited replication we now have about 168ml of ecoli. After 2 days we have about 47 cubic kilometers. After 3 days its 1.3x10^25 m3, compare to the volume of earth of just 6x10^20 m3. The same effects that prevent ecoli from unrestricted replication, apply to anything else that can replicate.
Consider that the grey goo hypothesis requires that the assemblers need to break the laws of thermodynamics and requires advanced alchemy to work as advertised.
Ecoli has a volume of about
The grey goo disaster happened 3 billion years ago. Earth as we know it is the result.
Who are you to judge?
I taught my daughter how to delete the browser history and things as well... I wanted her to understand privacy on computers and online. Of course that didn't stop the "Your in trouble for doing $THING_PROMISED_NOT_TO", "No i didn't..", "You have photos of you doing that on Facebook". When she was 16. She is much better at managing that stuff now.
This is something that is different. Its not just that the internet doesn't forget. Lots of things are like that, such as news papers, court proceeding etc. The difference now, is that its publicly indexed and searchable. However the current generation, at least my Daughter and many of her friends anyway, are adapting to this well. Most for example use there main facebook account as the "professional" and have another one for party photos etc. Many are getting it into their heads that privacy settings are less useful than just not posting/uploading the picture in the first place.
The problem on a farm is that there is a large set of accidents that are quite survivable in the city because you get fast medical attention, where on a farm you are dead. We were always aware that even with a cell phone, help was 40 min or longer away from where we lived. And good medical help far longer.
But you also missed some extra context to this "Oh my god people die on farms" GP post. I had a blast. I would far prefer to live my life before i die, than wait around to be old and sour and die anyway. I mean cars are bloody lethal. Yet we drive. In fact almost anyone in the west is mostly likely going to get a heart attack or cancer as your ticket out of life. Not some quad bike accident. Thou i did have a few of those.
I was riding bikes at that age too on the farm. They are not full sized bikes, motor cross bikes have always come in small because you typically do start young. Just because you didn't do jack at 5 is not the same as no one else did or can.