If you presume another vessel to be sufficiently hostile to unleash a swarm of robot boats armed with, among other things,
".50-caliber machine gun and a microwave direct energy weapon or heat ray."
on it, then you might as well give it a warning shot and, if it doesn't react, shoot it with a real gun.
I asked the resident baked goods engineer at home, and she does indeed use the more correct version shown in the link.
Scooping ingredients directly from the container only works with fairly incompressible things like (white) or salt.
Let's see:
An exhaustive search is the only way to exclude the possibility of having overlooked something.
Of course, there are other sufficient conditions, like receiving the signal you mentioned.
We will have certainty about the existence or nonexistence of non-Earth-originated life a few million years after we build a working von-Neumann-probe.
Angels fail at least one of the criteria necessary for "life", and possibly all of them.
1 cup of flour is trivially measured by volume: Just grab the "1 cup" cup from your set of measuring cups, scoop up flour from your storage container, level. You're done. If you're using measuring cups, you can make a batch of cookie dough without using a scale or having to look at the actual measurement.
US recipes usually don't use "cups" of butter, they use "sticks" of butter. If you live where butter isn't sold in US sticks (113.4 grams), you're screwed.
Only if you're European. If you're from the US, 1 cup is a very exact volume.
I never looked at it this way, but the argument is astonishingly convincing.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
