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They should add RedPower mod to the curriculum. It has logic gates, movable frames to computers. http://www.eloraam.com/
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It's still a population II star, we have yet to find a genuine pop III (formed entirely of hydrogen and helium). Surely there would have been some small pop I stars from that early on. Or is it that stars may have been 'polluted' with heavi
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One thing that's not mentioned a lot, it's frighteningly easy to drag a whole country into a war, especially if regarded as a defensive one. The media are obedient and sensationalist, they will drum up the public for it. Once the train star
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Do as the Icelanders do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
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The trick is growing the debt slower or at the same rate than the economy. But political incentives accelerate debt acquisition when the consequences are not going to hit for a couple of mandates. It's surprising that governments have not b
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Sorry for taking you slightly out of context: "The US is not comparable to any EZ country. We have our own currency" Qualitatively, I would see no difference between the US monetizing debt (and devaluing the value thereof) or something like
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Taking in more debt to pay for old debt is not sustainable. I suspect this crisis will be deflated by some measures of default (refusing to pay back debt) and inflation. In no way can western states sustain the entirety of their assumed obl
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Would it work to institute a fixed maximum limit in the number of words/characters in a criminal indictment, as well as restrictions on plea bargains?
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The tech that just made LCD obsolete (EWD) (electrowetting)(youtube.com)
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"While space is full of radiation, the earth's magnetic field generally protects the planet and people in low earth orbit from these particles." The magnetic field protects only against charged particles (usually coming from the Sun). Galac
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What would you say about the criticism that people like Tata, Mittal or Ambani can get ahead by virtue of being powerful enough to evade the crippling permit and protectionism imposed by the Indian state. Such people have an interest not to
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In short, at the risk of trivializing the argument: The ability to gleam private details about people is having some power over them. The entire modern theory of government rests on limiting and dividing up the power of those in power. With
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For symmetric cryptosystems search difficulty is halved (a 256 bit AES key under a quantum bruteforce becomes as 'hard' as a 128 bit key under conventional bruteforce). For asymmetric systems, search is reduced to polynomial (if using the d
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Using elliptic-curve cryptosystems you may be able to reduce PK key sizes to near symmetric crypto lengths (within a factor of 2-4). http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml But remember that before we build our Dyson sph
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Not all your brain would be the same distance from the singularity. So when trying to send a signal from a nearer part to a farther part, you are prevented. The brain cannot function.
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Well, given that you can't travel backward once you've crossed the event horizon, can neural signals travel in a direction opposite the center of the singularity? Meaning, once neural and sensory activity stops then you are dead, even if yo
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Also under a lot of debt. Dubai had to be bailed out by Abu Dhabi. Sheik Mohammed doesn't call the shots in his city anymore. Remember the fallacy of the unseen. It's easy to marvel at what has been built (albeit at a net loss) and forget t
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It may be useful as fuel for a mars vehicle or for rockets (electric vehicles will take you not very far and it's hard to strap the nuclear reactor to it). CO is easier to store than hydrogen. Of course, if you have a steady supply of ice y
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If you have a nuclear reactor or extensive solar panels, you may just as well use it to split CO2 into O2 and CO (monoxide gas can also burned as fuel). Plant photosynthesis is rather inefficient if your goal is a breathable atmosphere. If
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"Nuclear power is limited, there is just not endless amount of uranium on the planet." A finite quantity can be quite large. Uranium is not that scarce even with a ramp up of nuclear activity. And even then, there is thorium, a more abundan
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Skylon would basically use the cryogenic fuel as a giant internal heat sink. A more fanciful application of the concept: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StealthInSpace
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Remember that these people will get rigorous medical screenings throughout their lives following the mission. Even if they do develop cancer later on, it would be found early enough to be treatable in most cases. With the added screenings,
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There must be a mistake there somewhere. In a Mars-direct style of mission (the current nasa reference mission), a crew would spend 6 months in space each way and 18 months on the surface. http://www.marssociety.org/home/about/faq The dan
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Speaking of gravitational lenses, our very own sun can be used as one: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=22321 Key facts: can work with existing technology $5bn cost long travel time, a century or so to the primary observation point (500-
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MTV Explains why they don't play music videos anymore(youtube.com)
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It's not the generic 'Chinese' who are at fault, but their government. Economic sanctions, like always, will just hurt the people while strengthening the government's power base.
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All hanging by a thread, since random buildings can be bombed or demolished as 'retaliation'.
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This is an opportunity for Minnesota residents to learn about geoIP and how to circumvent it. I sense a fresh new Coursera course.
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Without public availability of the source code and an auditable trail from source to build, there is really no way to trust it. Also, this: it reserves the right to shut off that person’s service and will do so "in seven seconds."

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