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by mchouza 16y ago
The Earth is not attracted to where the Sun is "now", it is attracted to where the Sun was approx. 8 minutes ago That's not entirely true as there are higher order effects in GR canceling this lag "to second order". http://math.ucr.edu/h
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by mchouza 16y ago
I believed that Alien was inspired by The Voyage of the Space Beagle , but Dan O'Bannon (the screenplay writer) denied it: "I didn't steal Alien from anybody. I stole it from everybody!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)#Origins
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by mchouza 16y ago
Downvoting is downvoting, it's not censorship.
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by mchouza 16y ago
One interesting study about this area, done by the JASON group for the DoD, is "Reducing DoD Fossil-Fuel Dependence, JSR-06-135": http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/fossil.pdf
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by mchouza 16y ago
I uploaded a screenshot here: http://twitpic.com/2mshks
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Massive traffic jam in China lasts for ten days(theglobeandmail.com)
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by mchouza 16y ago
He is speaking about Drexler's PhD Thesis, that was the draft of Nanosystems , and it's freely available: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/27999 But I also want my (120) seconds back.
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by mchouza 16y ago
David Brin made a similar forecast more than ten years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
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by mchouza 16y ago
It's not very difficult: the Tallboy Bomb was free-falling and exceeded Mach 3 at impact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallboy_bomb
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by mchouza 16y ago
I've found interesting this response to "The Emperor's New Mind" by Hans Moravec: http://www.cni.org/pub/LITA/Think/Moravec2.html
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by mchouza 16y ago
I believe it's known as Campbell's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Law