"People like to ride horses too but you don't see many of those around these days do you? For most people cars are an expensive tool and little more."
Childish and irrelevant.
"Not really following the logic of this. Yeah people like cars but there are plenty of ways to be social that do not involve cars."
Just another way of saying you don't understand the point.
" How about tens of thousands of auto fatalities per year"
You are either incapable of perspective with regard to numbers, or you are a hyperliberal who demands that all rights and freedoms of the mass recede before the needs of the individual. Are you one of those who believe that "if one life can be saved..." all rights have to be destroyed? Do you know that the national death rate of all americans is over 2 million per year? In ten years that is over twenty million dead - a real holocaust except it is not. It is life. The Fraction of motor vehicle deaths relative to total population is close to 0.0001. Miniscule. See this for some adult perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
"Quite a few planes are already highly automated. Big airliners aren't far from being able to handle the entire flight without a pilot actually being technically necessary for routine flights. Autopilot and navigation has been routine for a long time now and a lot of the technology for drones is easily transferable to manned flight. Heck the space shuttle and most space flight is essentially fully automated - the "pilot" is mostly just a backup system."
I'm well aware of this. We need to allow something that has been doable for decades.
For example: http://nuclearweaponarchive.or...
With regard to "thermal equilibrium" we have from the above, Quote: "[Note: Many descriptions in the open literature exist dating back to the late seventies claiming that energetic X-rays from the primary are absorbed by the radiation casing (or plastic foam), and are re-emitted at a lower energy - implying that some sort of energy down-shifting mechanism (like X- ray fluorescence) is at work. This is a misconception. The lining of the casing is in local thermal equilibrium with the energy flux impinging on it, and re-radiates X-rays with the same spectrum. The X-ray spectrum softens simply because the photon gas cools as it expands to fill the entire radiation channel.] In physics a closed container of radiation, like the radiation case, is called a "hohlraum". This German word for "cavity" (which has the obvious English cognates "hole" and "room") has been attached to the study of the thermodynamics of radiation since the last century in connection with blackbody radiation. German physicists early in this century used it as a theoretical model for deriving the blackbody radiation laws from quantum mechanics. Energy in a hohlraum necessarily comes into thermal equilibrium and assumes a blackbody spectrum. This is important for obtaining the necessary symmetry for an efficient implosion. Regardless of how uneven the initial energy distribution within the casing is, the radiation field will quickly establish thermal equilibrium throughout the casing - heating all parts to the same temperature."
Hans Bethe said they made complicated bombs in those days. Hmmmm...
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