Comment And I believe (Score 5, Funny) 55
These are the days of lasers in the jungle.
Lasers in the jungle somewhere.
These are the days of lasers in the jungle.
Lasers in the jungle somewhere.
If it is 53 cm instead of 5 feet, then scaling from the video is off by a factor of (5 feet/53 cm)^3 = 24 and his 4 bbarrels per second becomes 15 thousand barrels per day, assuming he only made that one mistake.
This is not good, but it is closer to the mainstream media than to the Revelation-quoting Alabaman.
There's no reason to believe a brute force attack on AES128 will ever succeed.
There's no reason to believe a brute force attack on AES128 will never succeed.
Also implicated in the assassination was Prawo Jazdy.
The most ecologically sound place to put people is underground. The dead don't reproduce (though, surprisingly, their number increase every day) and they don't use energy, food, or other resources.
That doesn't mean that it's a good way to live.
Much better than that 2 trillion degree quark vichyssoise.
The energy released was mind-numbing: in one-fifth of a second, this supercharged magnetic neutron star blasted out as much energy as the Sun does in 250,000 years!"
There's no way for me to get my head around these numbers to "truly" feel it. What methods can you use to visualize such extreme numbers?
A fifth of a second is about the time it takes to blink. It's about 12 frames of a 720P HD video signal.
Fact: Every year, the temperature rose on average 0.01K or 0.0039 percent.
Fact: Temperature differences of less than 0.01 K require very sensitive equipment to be measured correctly.
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Let's imagine that out of 73000 temperature readings only 3 values were only 1 degree Celsius off. The person reading the temperature scale made an error and incorrectly reported 21 degrees when the true daily average was 20 degrees.
If we have 3 erroneous readings out of 73000, the error is 50% higher than the assumed increase in global temperature.
Fact: 3 measurements out of 73000 being 1 degree off is an error of 0.00004 degrees. This is 1 day's worth of global warming.
If we thought we were able to predict when a specific global warming event would occur, and we we were actually wrong by an entire day, then obviously global warming is a crock.
On a totally unrelated note, NASA will try launching its new ARES X-1 rocket tomorrow.
But is it wiki'd so that people can make corrections to it?
"The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the coblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd."
Charles Stross
The neutrinos from a core collapse supernova would be lethal to humans at the distance of Jupiter. Any given neutrino has very little chance of hitting interacting with normal density matter it passes through, but there are a LOT of neutrinos: about 0.05 solar masses of them.
Furthermore, they are the first things that escape from the core (apart from gravitational waves) since they move at near-lightspeed and have very little chance of interacting with the envelope of the star. The big flashy special effects are driven by the shockwave from the core reaching the surface, and that takes hours. So if you were at the distance of Jupiter, you would have time to die from neutrino effects before the blast hit you.
Admittedly, Betelgeuse is somewhat further away than Jupiter, and the only neutrino effects are likely to be a lot of very excited astrophysicists. But both Jupiter and Betelgeuse are much closer than 99.9999999999999999999% of the Universe, and much further away than everyone you've ever met, so the distance scales aren't that different.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin