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Comment Re: anit-life green cult (Score 1) 49

It's VOIP. Many operators do a fallback to old generation when a call is made, if they don't support VOIP. Thus you no longer have 5G during the call.

I'm guessing these sattelites would be 5G only. But even so, they could just restrict this to VOIP and not allow any other traffic. So for the end user, all they can do is make a phone call.

Comment Re: A weaker health system? (Score 2) 141

I'm a frequent visitor to China. I have experienced the health system multiple times. It's really good with almost no waiting time. You can decide if you want a very experienced doctor or one just graduated. You pay 2-20 USD, more experienced cost more and might give you an hour wait.

And the quality of treatment has surpassed my expectations, compared to my home country. Way more advanced and agile.

Have you ever been to a Chinese hospital?

Comment Re:21 day incubation period... (Score 1) 487

A little perspective? Ok.

Last I checked, every person infected infects 1.7 more.
But lets say 2 for worst case, then it's easier to grasp for geeks.

October 5, 8,011 cases, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

2^1-12 = exponential
2^13 = 8192, October
2^14 = 16384, November
2^15, 32768, December
2^16, 65536, January 2015
2^17, 131072, February 2015
2^18, 262144, March 2015
2^19, 524288, April 2015
2^20, 1M, May 2015
2^21, 2M, June 2015
2^22, 4M, July 2015
2^23, 8M, August 2015
2^24, 16M, September 2015
2^25, 32M,
2^26, 64M,
2^27, 128M,
2^28, 256M,
2^29, 512M
2^30, 1B
2^31, 2B
2^32, 4B
2^33, 8B
2^34, 16B, July 2016

All data so far indicates exponential growth.

Next time you're at a hospital might be.. July 2016? Probably no waiting time then.

Comment I think I saw that in Austin Powers... (Score 0) 201

Johnson:Colonel, you better take a look at this radar.
Colonel: What is it, son?
Johnson: I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant--
Jet Pilot: Dick!
Dick: Yeah?
Pilot: Take a look outta starboard.
Dick: Oh, my God! It looks like a huge--
Bird-Watching Woman: Pecker!
Bird-Watching Man: Oh, where?
Bird-Watching Woman: Wait! that's not a woodpecker. It looks like someone's--
Army Sergeant: PRIVATES! We have reports of an unidentified flying object! It is a long, smooth shaft, complete with--
Umpire: 2 balls! What is that? That looks just like an enormous--
Teacher: Wang! Pay attention!
Wang: I was distracted by that enormous flying--
Musician: Willie.
Willie: Yeah?
Musician: What's that?
Willie: Well, it looks like a giant--
Colonel: Johnson!
Johnson: Yes, sir!
Colonel: Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this!

Science

The Universe As Hologram 532

Several readers sent in news of theoretical work bolstering the proposition that the universe may be a hologram. The story begins at the German experiment GEO600, a laser inteferometer looking for gravity waves. For years, researchers there have been locating and eliminating sources of interference and noise from the experiment (they have not yet seen a gravity wave). For months they have been puzzling over a source of noise they could not explain. Then Craig Hogan, a Fermilab physicist, approached them with a possible answer: that GEO600 may have stumbled upon a fundamental limit where space-time stops behaving like a smooth continuum and instead dissolves into "grains." The "holographic principle" suggests that the universe at small scales would be "blurry," its smallest features far larger than Planck scale, and possibly accessible to current technology such as the GEO600. The holographic principle, if borne out, could help distinguish among competing theories of quantum gravity, but "We think it's at least a year too early to get excited," the lead GEO600 scientist said.

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