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Comment Re:One non-disturbing theory (Score 1) 304

Solar/UV radiation on floating plastic degrades the polymers rather quickly.

Then the other side of the equation is critters adhere to plastic and their weight eventually causes the plastic to sink. You see wood in the ocean just covered with masses of barnacles, which would sink a small piece of plastic quickly.

Most plastics are also not very reactive in the quick digestion systems of fish, so I suspect that much of the small particles simply pass through quickly with no effect on the fish.

A lot of bogus arguements are "floating around" out there.

Comment Long Overdue Use of "free space" (Score 5, Insightful) 81

The concept of using the equivalent of ski lift pods above ground between light poles has always made a lot of sense to me.

I've wondered why downtown city planners haven't implemented this type of transit as it could potentially alleviate all sorts of congestion for relatively "long walks" people have to make in dense areas.

Comment Re: Incompetent -- Learning Archival Strategies (Score 1) 396

What is the best overview doc/book out there for covering backup-archiving options?

I want to be more conversant with the subject before starting work with a FileMaker Pro DB consultant.

I will be doing a mission critical but small database, so data storage size won't be an issue as far as existing 1-4TB HDDs go & RAID arrays. Losing a day's or even an hour's data entry is not an option.

Comment Patents are Legitimate Personal Assets YOU own (Score 1, Insightful) 139

So once people say we will limit "abusive patent litigation" what does that mean?

You worked for 5 years to solve a particular problem and found a unique way to solve it and successfully got a patent or two or three on your solution.

Should the government now come in and pass a law that says "Bud, you can't sue to get patent royalties?"

That takes away your asset value, does it not? How do you define "abusive"? Is it only when you sue a Fortune 500 company? Is it only when 20 other patent holders sue a particular company? Or is it only when those companies have lots of lawyers to lobby the US Congress?

Answer the questions!

Comment 100,000 Light years across the Milkey Way ... (Score 1) 686

So if we wanted to signal a civilization on the other side of the Milky Way (assuming we could muster the power), We would have to aim the focused radio beam on where that world would be in somewhere 50,000-100,000 years from now and they in turn would have to know the signal is coming and instantly reply to where we would be in another 50,000-100,000 years.

The whole communication thing is a total joke.

Any smart civilization would just want to make their world a nice place to live for as long as they could.

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