physics. Our progression in the last 100 years is more than 1000 fold all previous years combined
You think!? In 1914 we already had quantum mechanics and relativity (which limited speed to 'c' ).
Since then
Now the greatest minds of our generation bang their heads against the brick wall of string theory.
You could kind-of build your own architecture on a breadboard using bit-slice chips.
Each chip does 4 bits of ALU. Put your own microcode in EEPROM, some high speed registers, lots of glue,
Not quite the same as discrete logic, but more achievable at home.
That said it was a wise choice. Kept the Russian rocket scientists out of Arab employment.
Which Arabs would that be? Iraq was already contained. What other Arabs could have developed a long-range missile program?
Unless you mean the Pakistani or Iranian "Arabs".
The first is that if something goes wrong on takeoff you risk what is effectively a 'dirty bomb' going off somewhere in the Earth's atmosphere which is not good.
Its not nearly as bad as you think. The biggest impact of a dirty bomb in a city would be psychological.
In the atmosphere, less important.
had better make sure that the craft does not return for Earth for a few billion years otherwise, again, it is like a dirty bomb going off in the atmosphere.
Uh, nuh. Pu238 half-life is 88 years. Here is the most basic clue about radioactivity: radiation intensity is inversely related to halflife. If it has a billion-year half-life, it is barely radioactive at all. A dirty bomb needs something with lots of radiation, and so a short half-life.
market cap is 25Billion, and has some 50000 employees.
Nokia wasn't just a phone company you know?
Wow! I had no idea the rubber boot business was so lucrative.
I think the only target audience is the Russian public, most of whom believe everything that Putin's propaganda machine feeds them.
They don't even have to believe it. Disinformation works even it it only serves to create confusion and cast doubt on the facts.
Even bigger difference: the white woman is in Australia and the black woman is in the US.
Yes, its much less of an issue here. Very rare for anyone to object to public breastfeeding, even if they don't like it.
I read that while almost all Australian mothers breastfeed (though some not for long), the majority of black American mothers do not.
Why is that?
Here here.
Where, where?
Resumes with "black" sounding names didn't get called back for an interview.
Those names say much more than race. They indicate lower-class parents - less educated and intelligent.
Smart middle-class parents, black or white, generally do not give their kids made-up or deliberately mis-spelled names.
It may not be fair to visit the sins of the fathers on the job applicant, but neither is it evidence of racism.
Its a shame that the Chaos Theory has completely destroyed the basic premise of the foundation series.
Psychohistory looks a bit silly now.
That Al-Quaida gets its name from these books?
Yes. As a Russian American Jew, Asimov represented everything that Bin Laden loved.
PV and air-con is fine for reducing your carbon emissions, but it ain't a reliable backup system.
As far as solar goes,
OP is asking about Central Europe during winter. Solar is not an option - certainly not for backup.
Wind turbines are not economical on a small scale, and not reliable enough as a backup.
Backup power and heating is a common problem with well-know solutions:
generator, oil or LPG heater with stored fuel, improved insulation.
Heat needs may be reduced temporarily by covering windows, closing off unused rooms, taping gaps, lowering thermostat.
The government really should be building nuclear plants, and gas ones that can switch to pulverised coal or oil if needed, with large stockpiles near the site.
I'll have you know that in Oz,... I'm a bit pissed,
I'm going to call you out as a fake Aussie. "Pissed" means drunk here (we say "pissed off"), and we never call the British "Brits".
Selling sand to an Arab!! Hah, now I've heard it all.
What's next? Selling snow to an Eskimo?
No. But Australia exports camels to the Arabs for racing stock.
https://www.google.com.au/#q=a...
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse
