I was there too. I tried to see the eclipse back In 1999 (or was it 2000?) in southern England. It was cloudy the whole time except for a short glimpse of partial.
This mornings display was amazing. The clods cleared about 5 mins prior to totality and stayed away. defiantly worth the effort to see if only once!
Solar eclipsed viewed. Gain XP 50000. Advance one geek level. Gain power of hidden sun!!!
A self-driving car doesn't have to pay much attention to the fragility of the human form when it doesn't have any on board.
Accelerate at 50g? no problem just add extra bracing.
I have actually.
I've had a hydrogen balloon explode about maybe a meter from my head. No harm done! Sure it's a loud bang, but it's not actually that dangerous.
If you mix the balloon with air (oxygen) the explosion is more dramatic, I'd probably plan on standing a couple of meters back from that one!
completely safe and ridiculously easy to program
1. Program to kill
2. Program 1 conflicts with first law of robotics
3. Robot explodes, killing anyhow
4. Goto 2
1. The major forms of transmission for hepatitis b are anal sex and iv drug use.
Incorrect, the most common form of transmission worldwide is vertical transmission, from mother to child at birth. Vaccines prevent this. Furthermore the vertical transmission of hep-b causes the worst damage, with the highest likleyhood of ending up in cirrhosis, and early death from liver cancer. So while the incidence near birth is low in the west, the consequences are higher making vaccination more worthwhile.
Secondly, there will reach a point where your son could experiment with IV drugs or even homosexual encounters, don't you want him to be protected in that instance?
If you are alergic to bakers yeast then you will likely be alergic to the hepatitis b vaccine.
You cannot have an allergy at birth to anything. It takes at least one contact with the allergen to build up an immune response.
Why should I stress my son's immune system out
Your son's immune system is 'stressed out' by the new contact with the world outside the womb. Adding any number of vaccines is a tiny drop in the ocean compared to all those new antigens.
More importantly, what's the conversion between Blurays and Blue Whales?
I also went back to (med) school six years ago. My experience is pretty similar to the above, although I do have some more to add:
At first in med school I used to take my laptop, and annotate the (provided) powerpoint slides in onenote. Over time this dropped off, I still attended every lecture, but by the end of the first two years I wasn't taking any notes at all. I found that note taking wasn't really required for me to learn things, so I switched to just reading the textbook prior to lectures, and then attending the lectures and letting it soak in.
I did find onenote quite a good program when I was taking notes. My laptop was an early tablet with pen input, which I thought would be useful when I got it but in the end I just switched back to typing because I can do that without looking at my hands or the screen.
In fact, go for the whole Asian thing, that it, nice and FAR AWAY with lots of exotic girls. Certainly better than seeing your dad dating waitresses young enough to be your sister.
If you do that, please, safe sex.
As a doctor I've seen it all go horribly wrong more than once.
Not only that but this is the Pharma companies wet dream! They already have direct selling to consumers in the US, now they can sell all of these medicaitons to anyone, regardless of need or not.
What's more, the consumers won't have anyone to sue when the s**t inevitably hits the fan, since they were prescribing it to themselves essentially off label. They didn't read the fine print on the TV ad with young people bouncing along the beach with their boobs out, that says this class of blood pressure med is contraindicated in anyone with heart failure, or over a particular age as it causes them to die faster. Tough s**t! Consumer not using as directed.
Blood pressure medications have nasty side effects. Sure doctors sometimes stuff up and make mistakes, which costs lives, but at least they have some chance of learning from the experience. Direct to the consumer? They stuff up, then they don't get the benifit of learning from mistakes.
There is no evaporation in modern desalanation and no heat involved. It's done with reverse osmosis - membranes permiable to water not salt and high pressure to push against the osmotic draw.
Teachers are there to keep our sanity. Humans need social interaction. Physical interaction. Playing, meeting with other kids outside their neighborhood. Something a screen can't do. Regardless of anecdotic comments of random, anonymous slashdotters.
Ever seen a dog that's spent the period of 8wks to one year without contact with other dogs?
When they do see another dog they don't know how to react, for the rest of their lives. It's quite sad. I hope noone's kids ever suffer the same fate.
In the west you sink money into mining investments, in russia money in mining investments sink YOU!
My understanding that MACHO (ie: brown dwarf and small planet) object dark matter has been pretty much ruled out by microlensing experiments. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACHO. Essentially if you stare at a distant star for long enough, you should see lots of gravitational microlensing (peaks in brightness) as all the small planets pass in front of the star.
Any hypothesised large amounts of dark matter would have to be fine tuned carefully to get around this data.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
