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I could see safety reasons as being a cause to include an emergency/backup source. How most of our own oceangoing vessels are designed. Would also need to consider a ship engaged in maneuvering(docking, entering atmosphere, etc). My simulated creatures frequently discovered sources of free energy. Their population reached astounding heights, then the program crashed... Let us assume it does not exist in our Universe and fervently hope that this is so.

Several forms of body modification are along those lines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_modification#Applying_long-term_force Hard to say what would happen exactly. My guess would be simple deformation if the site were kept clean. Foot binding and neck rings are probably the closest to what you are describing. Amniotic band constriction may also be worth a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniotic_band_constriction

Da. You can use ferrite cores to help limit the problem, though in a Science class seems like it could be useful for demonstration.

This: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/39127/why-do-my-speakers-make-a-noise-when-my-cell-phone-gets-a-call probably has the information you desire. I'll see if I can find more info in the morning. Spell Check is your friend(and mine ).

That my third wish is the last wish ever made. Personal happiness. Pass the lamp to someone else.

The strange thing is that the creature is actually in the open ocean and yet is surrounded by a tank filled with humanoid creatures capable of crude vocalizations. We must monitor this situation carefully to see if it is keeping the humanoid creatures as pets or if they are being used in animal testing.

Yes. http://mathbits.com/MathBits/Java/DataBasics/Namingrules.htm

This appears to be memory location addressing, possibly coupled with a finite state machine. Appears at least similar to some Assembly languages. You may want to look up "race condition", likely source of the bugs.

Should be fine. Most of the danger comes from the expansion/phase change extracting heat as it goes. Some can convert into hazardous gasses, but only at relatively high temperatures.

I guess I am just depressed as it shouldn't matter whether law enforcement comes out full battle rattle or with nothing more than a uniform and a smile.

@Acme: She has an eye condition, which causes most of said restrictions. No birds hurt, no gardens pooped in. Close in terms to what the OP was asking about. Hunting restricted to earth bound critters, even assisting us in locating indoor pests and returning them outside still living.

She's practicing catch and release. If it is good enough for us 2-leggeds... She's never outside that long nor does she stray from our yard. Only 5-10 minutes while her canine protector does his thing. Weird instincts for a cat.

My present cat's instincts are off. She hunts but doesn't know what to do with the animal after catching it. Doesn't much like going outside either, only at night with easy access to the door. Strangely effectively at alerting us to indoor pests. She's like a bird dog. She finds one and then meows for us to take care of it.

You would need to add a counter and possibly a loop. pseudocode: for (i = 1; i < 100; i++) { PRESS i @ 3789; } Otherwise you can instead create one script with each change hard coded. ie. PRESS 1 @ 3789 WAIT(or equivalent only if necessary) PRESS 2 @ 3789 WAIT ... May be an idea to look at different scripting programs.

It would still be in a gravity well though. We are not short on space in Space. Imagine a Colony in the Sky instead of one tethered to the ground. You would need to extract and process lunar ice and even then there is only a finite amount of it. Fuel, drinking, oxygen production and building materials. People like to talk about using lunar water to do all these things and there's only so much of it. Something is going to give. Some sort of automated base might be worth it(extracting components of minerals), but there is little there that warrants setting up a human colony. May as well leave the radiation and dust problems where they are. Biggest gains we'll see will come from better recycling of what we already bring up. Carbon Dioxide is ironically a prime candidate.

This might be of some help to better understand what happens as you approach c(and in turn the issue with taking measurements at c). http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/muon.html#c3

It is moral to enforce rules another has freely agreed to. It doesn't even matter what the moderators themselves think on the rule, they are merely asked to enforce it. When ideas conflict in a discussion you look at the logic behind what they are saying. If it is valid you update your own thinking, acknowledge the fact and proceed accordingly. If it is not you point out the way in which it is not valid. If you try to "win" a discussion you are only going to "lose" when the other parties end up dismissing your views as having value. I copy-pasted points I was responding to. I didn't want to post the whole post and risk the thread devolving.

You don't need to define yourself in anyone's terms but your own. Throw off the shackles of society's opinion and all that jazz. If it is genetic, maybe it did/does have some benefit which resulted in it being passed along or maybe it is just an option that will bear fruit in the future as tech-assisted reproduction becomes more common place. Who's to say? Don't try to outguess the human genome keeping its options open. Nothing is good/bad, it is only judged based on how it contributes to fitness.

Did you ask for clarification? We're not on a Debate forum. We are on a Discussion forum. A discussion is about sharing knowledge and views. You aren't trying to "win" you are trying to exchange ideas.

You can have children biologically speaking. Generally people manage to conform with society's expectations as far as reproduction goes. It is also possible that it is indirect acting. Increasing the well-being of an opposite-sexed couple's children. With more modern day means you could reasonably purchase an egg, have it artificially inseminated and then have it implanted in a birth mother. Likewise sperm donation is an option. Some stuff down the line would allow Lego Genetics(male eggs, female sperm). You and a partner certainly contain all the necessary chromosomes, just a matter of switching cell characteristics around. Artificial means of growing the embryo are likewise being looked into.

1) Can't travel at c and have mass, even getting close is costly. 2) Anything you hit going fast, is the equivalent of something very fast hitting you. Something the size of a pebble could do massive damage. Most realistic thing I've read about would be a self repairing vessel, with "crew" functionally "backed up". 3) We don't know anything exact about conditions on other planets outside our own solar system. 4) The two galaxies will collide. What this means for Earth and the solar system in general is uncertain. Will likely be climatic to some degree though. The Sun in contrast is simply going to expand as it enters into its red giant phase. It lacks the energy to actually explode. Realistically we just need to get enough distance from it and we'll be fine, though Earth itself is likely to be swallowed by the Sun or the closest planet to the Sun. 5) Indefinitely. The whole planet is "in space". Radiation in space is the biggest threat. Second is simply the lack of resources and/or the need to recreate the environmental conditions we generally take for granted on Earth. Generally much of the planet contributes a huge amount to our daily needs. Consider manufacturing everything from the air you breathe, to the food you eat, to the water you drink. Now consider doing this with only the most basic resources. If you are talking about general problems then main one is that the muscles weaken. A problem as the heart is one such muscle and many humans eventually want to return to a higher gravity location. You may want to look at the Mars Society site. That one has quite a bit of accessible knowledge.

Speaking for only myself, I tend to value the coarseness more than any other factor. I'm sure if I made saltwater out of them, I might not be able to tell. As I typically consume salt though, I've always observed an enjoyable difference.

Well they aren't all bad. Gas giants and their moons are our best bets.

It is the texture, additives and trace elements that define the differences between the two. Personally I prefer sea salt, but to each their own.

You are thinking of the popular misconception for the Big Bang Theory. The misconception is akin to pointing at a toddler and claiming that is the moment of birth. That is literally not what the actual Theory is saying at all. It is simply saying if we look back through time we can see the Universe was once a toddler(hot, dense state) that has since then grown up(expanded). It doesn't say, because there simply isn't any evidence for it, how the Universe got to be in that toddler state.