It shouldn't. Anymore than "we are all going to die" when it comes to climate change. End of the world predictions have always been popular. My reasoning on why is that people don't want to believe that they are just another person at just another date in history. If your around for the "end times" you were at least alive during something really important, and that makes them feel important.
Really? And how long will your stash last? Most food these days won't last you the few years minimum you will need. Guessing you don't have that much fresh water and probable don't have a toilet that will work. How are your medical supplies? Or even better your medical abilities....
Fact is that we are very dependent on each other in the form of infrastructure support. Most movies think that being prepared would mean a few boxes of food and some antibiotics. If such a disaster happened you would need far more than that. Especially in a city.
However something bad like Yellowstone or a large asteroid will not wipe out infrastructure and though it would change life as we know it. It would not even get close to wiping us out.
I can see the titles now. "Heart attack", "Return of the Heat attack". There is of course a lot of movies about heart attacks, cancer etc. Its those silly movies where people think its good if they cried for the whole movie.
WTF? Zombie movies are not that bloody serious. And the ones that think they are, are crap. Its entertainment, not enlightenment.
If that is what you think zombie movies are then what do you think Vampire movies are about? Or Werewolf movies, or even worse giant transforming alien robot movies?
Clearly you have never worked with whale scientists. I have and know plenty of people from the oil industry back home. I think its an even toss up on who to listen to here.
And how do you see in "bad lighting conditions"? Last time i checked we use a fairly narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum with highy directional senseors that are in no way superior to the mechanical equivalent.
The best way to get protein is from the plants and bacteria that produce it. Most insects do not in fact produce protein from cellulose. There are a few exceptions, but IIRC they lava don't in these insects either. Most animals get their proteins they need directly from what they eat, with some conversion between proteins.
Cows are not for meat, but for milk. They produce a lot of protein and butter fat per day even. Its quite sustainable as well since we can't eat grass, so cows where grass grows turns into something we can eat.
It makes more sense to go vegetarian from a sustainability perspective. All animals, insect or otherwise are made up of what they eat. And most of what they eat is used to keep them alive. So its a very inefficient way to get what we need. Just eating the stuff we feed them is far more efficient.
Consider how much a ear of corn costs. Now consider how many ears of corn are used to feed a piglet up to slaughtering size and how much meat you get out of it. Meat right now is artificially cheap. Insects may be a little better from a food in food out ratio, but not much. Animals spend most of their resources in staying alive, not building muscle.
Yea, the other day i was using MS word. Used like massive amounts of ram, was slow, sluggish response times and just all round awful. If they didn't write it in java it would be awesome. Oh wait.
For some reason everyone thinks java programmers are perfect. Because the only reason java code is slow and bloaty is because of the language and not the programmer. While everyone seems to agree that slow C or C++ or whatever is because of the programmer.
Fact is most crap programs are written like crap in whatever language they are in. C/C++/Java/D/Fortran/Cobal whatever. However i would perhaps suggest that writing fast efficient pure C++ is harder than most langs. And that 99.9% of java code out there is really poorly written.
You can always not click on such stories and not post on them either. Seriously why do you have to click on every/. story? Your brain broken or something?
One class of weak curves means you can map the DL problem over curve onto Z_p and use the powerful methods we have for that case. That is the strength comes from the fact that we do not know how to apply the current methods over a elliptic curve. Note that we do not have a general proof that there are trap door functions at all. It may in fact be easy to do DL problems generally and factorize easily. No one really believes this to be the case however.
Interesting. I would have thought it would be much less labor since everything is closer and in a more controlled environment. That could even lend itself to more automation. Why is it more labor? After all you can't really just "spread seed" for tomatoes in general, at least in my limited experience.
I would be more interested in terrestrial applications. Removing pressure on habitats or even letting current farmland revert back to natural habitats would have a large impact on the plasticity of many ecosystems. In short making them more robust to changes in climate for example.
Something also left out is nucleosynthesis. Basically where does anything heaver than lithium come from. We have a pretty good idea on these processes. The upshot is that if you have silicon you are going to have carbon and other easier materials to deal with. Bottom line is that carbon is just really awesome and forming lots of different stable compounds and polymers and water is an amazing solvent.
Also we tend to forget that life as we know it already uses most of the periodic table.
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It shouldn't. Anymore than "we are all going to die" when it comes to climate change. End of the world predictions have always been popular. My reasoning on why is that people don't want to believe that they are just another person at just another date in history. If your around for the "end times" you were at least alive during something really important, and that makes them feel important.
My link didn't work... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic
The Marauder is my wife's first choice. check out 2:24 and 4 min in the video.
Really? And how long will your stash last? Most food these days won't last you the few years minimum you will need. Guessing you don't have that much fresh water and probable don't have a toilet that will work. How are your medical supplies? Or even better your medical abilities....
Fact is that we are very dependent on each other in the form of infrastructure support. Most movies think that being prepared would mean a few boxes of food and some antibiotics. If such a disaster happened you would need far more than that. Especially in a city.
However something bad like Yellowstone or a large asteroid will not wipe out infrastructure and though it would change life as we know it. It would not even get close to wiping us out.
Zombie movies have been around a lot longer than that movie. It was just an ok movie into the zombie genre. 28 weeks later was just crap.
I can see the titles now. "Heart attack", "Return of the Heat attack". There is of course a lot of movies about heart attacks, cancer etc. Its those silly movies where people think its good if they cried for the whole movie.
WTF? Zombie movies are not that bloody serious. And the ones that think they are, are crap. Its entertainment, not enlightenment.
If that is what you think zombie movies are then what do you think Vampire movies are about? Or Werewolf movies, or even worse giant transforming alien robot movies?
Lasers would blind the whales.
Clearly you have never worked with whale scientists. I have and know plenty of people from the oil industry back home. I think its an even toss up on who to listen to here.
Wait a minute, no its not. They are both LYING.
What makes you think we bad in comparison to the rest of the universe? We certainly are not bad compared to the rest of the animal kingdom.
If I expose you to infrasonic tones, something proven to cause anxiety and stress in people...
You won't have any issues providing a citation then.
...and some of those were with the pilots fully aware of what was going on and trying to stop it.
Citation required.
And how do you see in "bad lighting conditions"? Last time i checked we use a fairly narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum with highy directional senseors that are in no way superior to the mechanical equivalent.
And where are you going to find this responsible human?
The best way to get protein is from the plants and bacteria that produce it. Most insects do not in fact produce protein from cellulose. There are a few exceptions, but IIRC they lava don't in these insects either. Most animals get their proteins they need directly from what they eat, with some conversion between proteins.
Cows are not for meat, but for milk. They produce a lot of protein and butter fat per day even. Its quite sustainable as well since we can't eat grass, so cows where grass grows turns into something we can eat.
It makes more sense to go vegetarian from a sustainability perspective. All animals, insect or otherwise are made up of what they eat. And most of what they eat is used to keep them alive. So its a very inefficient way to get what we need. Just eating the stuff we feed them is far more efficient.
Consider how much a ear of corn costs. Now consider how many ears of corn are used to feed a piglet up to slaughtering size and how much meat you get out of it. Meat right now is artificially cheap. Insects may be a little better from a food in food out ratio, but not much. Animals spend most of their resources in staying alive, not building muscle.
Yea, the other day i was using MS word. Used like massive amounts of ram, was slow, sluggish response times and just all round awful. If they didn't write it in java it would be awesome. Oh wait.
For some reason everyone thinks java programmers are perfect. Because the only reason java code is slow and bloaty is because of the language and not the programmer. While everyone seems to agree that slow C or C++ or whatever is because of the programmer.
Fact is most crap programs are written like crap in whatever language they are in. C/C++/Java/D/Fortran/Cobal whatever. However i would perhaps suggest that writing fast efficient pure C++ is harder than most langs. And that 99.9% of java code out there is really poorly written.
And thank god perl is finally dying.
You can always not click on such stories and not post on them either. Seriously why do you have to click on every /. story? Your brain broken or something?
Once you have a free one, that can be replicated indefinitely at zero cost, why would you need another?
Where i came from, it was all Forrest and bush. We have chopped down and burnt a lot of trees.
One class of weak curves means you can map the DL problem over curve onto Z_p and use the powerful methods we have for that case. That is the strength comes from the fact that we do not know how to apply the current methods over a elliptic curve. Note that we do not have a general proof that there are trap door functions at all. It may in fact be easy to do DL problems generally and factorize easily. No one really believes this to be the case however.
Interesting. I would have thought it would be much less labor since everything is closer and in a more controlled environment. That could even lend itself to more automation. Why is it more labor? After all you can't really just "spread seed" for tomatoes in general, at least in my limited experience.
I would be more interested in terrestrial applications. Removing pressure on habitats or even letting current farmland revert back to natural habitats would have a large impact on the plasticity of many ecosystems. In short making them more robust to changes in climate for example.
Something also left out is nucleosynthesis. Basically where does anything heaver than lithium come from. We have a pretty good idea on these processes. The upshot is that if you have silicon you are going to have carbon and other easier materials to deal with. Bottom line is that carbon is just really awesome and forming lots of different stable compounds and polymers and water is an amazing solvent.
Also we tend to forget that life as we know it already uses most of the periodic table.