Comment Worked on my base tan in Seattle (Score 1) 397
It's hotter than Florida.
What snow? We have maybe half the snowpack we usually get, which means California won't be getting any power this year they don't create themselves with solar or wind.
It's hotter than Florida.
What snow? We have maybe half the snowpack we usually get, which means California won't be getting any power this year they don't create themselves with solar or wind.
It means Hack The Auto in Deutsch.
Test tracks rarely allow for what happens in the real world when snow, rain, and fog combine with small kids and pets playing.
How many billions in lawsuits for their lifetime (a kid lives 100 years, and becomes a CEO that means $40 billion each kid) will these Steel Death Automatons rack up before they are outlawed except in retirement communities without kids or pets?
Next thing you know, you'll tell me that the modern smartphone has more processing power and data storage than all the spacecraft we've sent to other planets combined, and all the computers we built up to the year 2000.
And the international Data Treaties the Senate confirmed with the EU and Canada that make such actions illegal and unconstitutional.
Get a warrant! A specific individual warrant!
The defining feature of a technological civilization is the capacity to intensively “harvest” energy. But the basic physics of energy, heat and work known as thermodynamics tell us that waste, or what we physicists call entropy, must be generated and dumped back into the environment in the process. Human civilization currently harvests around 100 billion megawatt hours of energy each year and dumps 36 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the planetary system, which is why the atmosphere is holding more heat and the oceans are acidifying.
All forms of intensive energy-harvesting will have feedbacks, even if some are more powerful than others. A study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, found that extracting energy from wind power on a huge scale can cause its own global climate consequences. When it comes to building world-girdling civilizations, there are no planetary free lunches.
By studying these nearby planets, we’ve discovered general rules for both climate and climate change (PDF). These rules, based in physics and chemistry, must apply to any species, anywhere, taking up energy-harvesting and civilization-building in a big way. For example, any species climbing up the technological ladder by harvesting energy through combustion must alter the chemical makeup of its atmosphere to some degree. Combustion always produces chemical byproducts, and those byproducts can’t just disappear
It's just a matter of time now until we will be able to teleport to Alpha Centauri.
The good news is you arrive on Alpha Centauri.
The bad news is that you die screaming as the teleporter destroys your body on Earth.
I ask because we thought that light traveled faster one way than the other once, and it turned out to be a measurement error in the circuitry.
Could the low temp also slow down the reporting devices? Things behave strangely when the temperature drops too much.
Luckily I hacked the data stream and printed cheap knockoffs from my secret lab in Antarctica
It's illegal to gather information on Canadian citizens no matter where they live, without their express consent, and boilerplate click text does not suffice, and this carries over via Data Treaties signed with the US and the EU as well.
But he's right about the Internet 2. Lots of IPv6 room, but more structured. And running with 100 Gbps and 40 Gbps ports.
Note to self: build noise-seeking self-immolating drones.
Profit!
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
