Comment Re:Front Door (Score 1) 41
More like: The FBI can photograph your front door, but they can't try the doorknob to see if it's locked.
And that is coolness: apart from nuclear, this is the one other source of power which is not ultimately solar driven in some way (oil? essentially stored solar energy from the day of the dinosaurs).
What about geothermal? No sun involved there.
The death rate (deaths per day) will increase if you open early. But if you do it right there will be no difference in total deaths by the time this is all over with.
As you flatten the curve, the area under the curve remains the same. That is, flattening the curve lowers its height (number of people infected at any given time), but extends it in time (the virus outbreak lasts longer). The area under the curve (total number of people who catch the virus) remains the same.
So if you compare the death projection through August 4 if we don't reopoen, to August 4 if we do reopen, of course the latter will have more accumulated deaths by August 4. But if you compare the projected deaths up until when the virus drops off the radar, then the cumulative number of deaths for both scenarios will be the same. As long as you don't let the peak rise high enough to overwhelm your hospital capacity, the number of deaths by the time this is all over will not change. That's the only part you need to get right when flattening the curve - don't let your hospitals get overwhelmed.
This ignores the possibility of a treatment that significantly reduces the mortality rate. If it's discovered that some previously untested drug *cough* nicotine *cough* keeps most people alive, it's best if we've kept the curve flat until that discovery. A vaccine isn't the only possible medical solution to this pandemic.
Agreed, but the efficiency/flight endurance problems don't exist in a vacuum.
That's because efficiency drops to zero.
There's a joke in Trump-supporting circles that if Trump came out in favor of oxygen then half the country would self-asphyxiate. The more examples you've given me, the less I think it's a joke.
And suppose he came out against oxygen? Same result.
you do recall Trump running beauty pageants with 15 year old contestants, no?
The beauty pageants about which he boasted that he would walk into the dressing rooms of half-clothed underage girls? I remember that.
I know it is speculative, but, to my mind, the question is going to be whether anything more interesting than a slime or flat worm is to be found on other planets. I am thinking simple life is common.
If we find a flatworm, we've found complex life (and probably a whole ecosystem of it). Simple (as in unicellular and slimes) life seems likely - it appeared on Earth almost as soon as we had oceans. Multicellular life took an extra 2.5 billion years to pop up.
From an Arduino person's standpoint, the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins are crap.
Connect an Arduino to your Pi and get the best of both worlds.
You pathetic low iq racist loser.
Isn't using "low iq" as a pejorative a bit racist too? In the sense that races (or whatever word you prefer) vary dramatically in average IQ (e.g. Einstein's people very high), so calling low iq bad implies they are inferior.
That's the best racist eupemism I've seen in years!
The rare thing on the moon is nitrogen.
Hydrogen and carbon are also in short supply. In some distant future, an industrialized moon is importing liquid hydrocarbons. Cue middle-eastern political intrigue.
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
